DailyNotes/2005/09/01

1. Notelets
2. Back to documenting the Scholar's Box
3. Lots of travel ahead
4. Today's pictures
5. Yesterday's pictures
6. Open Threads

Notelets

My thoughts and prayers go out to the many who have been displaced by Hurricane Katrina. I have found Relief Information useful in looking for ways to help, specifically places to which to donate money. FEMA: Cash Sought To Help Hurricane Victims, Volunteers Should Not Self-Dispatch is another useful list.

Back to documenting the Scholar's Box

One of my immediate goals is to document the current state of the Scholar's Box, which I’ve started to do so at ScholarsBox/EssaySeries/CurrentState.

Lots of travel ahead

I'll be traveling at lot in September and October, speaking at a number of conferences:

• NISO Metasearch and OpenURL workshop (September 19-21, 2005, Washington, DC)

  Integrating Metasearch with e-Learning

  Various strategies for integrating e-learning and metasearch systems will be described, drawing from the speaker's experiences of combining data and services from ExLibris' MetaLib X-Server, Sakai, the Firefox browser, and the Scholar's Box.

• Open Education Conference: Advancing the Effectiveness and Sustainability of Open Education Conference (Sept 28-30, Logan, UT)

  Towards remixing any content from any source with any service: lowering the barrier to use of content in open education

  As the amount of open content continues to grow, the need for tools that allow users to interact with this content will also grow. The Scholar's Box is a one such tool that enables users to gather resources from multiple digital repositories in order to create personal collections and other reusable materials that can be shared with others for teaching and research. Using the Scholar’s Box as a primary example, the talk will outline the many possibilities and challenges that face designers of tools for remixing content with services.

• LITA National Forum 2005 (October 1, 2005, San Jose, CA)

  Breaking Out of the Box: Creating Customized Metasearch Services Using an XML API (co-presented with Michael McKenna, Roy Tennant, and David Walker)

  In addition to its own standard interface, Metalib, one of the premiere federated search systems used by libraries today, provides an XML-based API known as the X-Server. Little known and rarely used, the X-Server nevertheless offers libraries the ability to create highly customized metasearch systems and portals, ultimately producing more usable and powerful research tools. This session will include a brief introduction to the X-Server and showcase implementations at the California Digital Library, the Interactive University Project at UC Berkeley, and Cal State San Marcos.

• Small Tools, Big Ideas (a conference on the discipline-specific technologies reshaping the practice of teaching art and art history) (October 7, 2005, New York City)

  Scholar's Box

  The Scholar's Box is a tool being developed at UC Berkeley that enables users to gather resources from multiple digital repositories in order to create personal collections and other reusable materials that can be shared with others for teaching and research. It is designed to connect domains that are of particular importance to educational users: digital libraries, educational technology, social software tool, desktop content authoring. The fundamental conviction behind the Scholar's Box is that teachers, artists, and researchers -- as part of their creative process -- should have easy-to-use tools that let them remix any digital content from any source with any software service. This talk will demonstrate how the Scholar's Box can be used to support the teaching of art and art history by allowing scholars to create annotated and reusable sets of images drawn from diverse sources. The sources will range from brand name institutional repositories to personal image services such Flickr to the Web at large.

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