I recently submitted this proposal to LibTechConf 2014 for a full length presentation. I already posted this on github as a gist, but thought I’d post it here. I’m considering revising this for a couple of other conference submissions that are coming up as well, so we’ll see if any of them accept it! Continue reading “Conference Proposal: We Are All Disabled! Making Web Services Accessible for Everyone”
Category: Events
including conferences and workshops
Access 2013: It’s dangerous to go alone! How about *we* do this!?
- Steve Marks, Nick Ruest, Graham Stewart & Amaz Taufique
Everyone has many of the same needs when looking at digital collections: digitization of collections, mixed types of content, preservation, etc. Continue reading “Access 2013: It’s dangerous to go alone! How about *we* do this!?”
Access 2013: Culture Clash: IT Experimentation, Innovation, and Failure in Libraries
Dale Askey, Mark Jordan, Catherine Steeves, & MJ Suhonos
What is a culture of innovation? Continue reading “Access 2013: Culture Clash: IT Experimentation, Innovation, and Failure in Libraries”
Planning a Regional Code4Lib: North 2013
As I have recently joined the code4libBC planning group, I thought I would reflect a little on how the planning happened and worked for code4lib north even though it was a while ago. Continue reading “Planning a Regional Code4Lib: North 2013”
Digital Odyssey 2013: Big Data, Small World Notes & Takeaways
Big Data
- 90% of the world’s data was created in the last 2 years
- can tell us much that other information cannot
- emphasize the need for analysis and interpretation
- your data is mined and used to make decisions for you, even more so in the future
- to prepare, know that big data will affect data management, discovery tools, new jobs, revised skills requirements, and revised infrastructures
- businesses will be made up of who has the most data and knows how to best use it Continue reading “Digital Odyssey 2013: Big Data, Small World Notes & Takeaways”