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I am at the exciting and arcane code4lib 2009 conference here in Providence, Rhode Island. Right now at the pre-conference called LinkedData . on Linked Data . I had forgotten that Rhode Island and more specifically Providence, are the old stomping grounds (and location for many short stories and novels) of H.P. Lovecraft . And - this morning - I was talking to Ross Singer about this, and realised how this all made sense: when I first met Ross at an Access conference a number of years ago, the first thing I thought on meeting him was, " Chthulu "! He of course denied being one of the Elder Things and then levitated across the room from me. But I think this explains a lot of things... ;-) We will have to see what other Links I make at this conference. :-) Oh, BTW I will be giving a presentation tomorrow morning on LuSql . Feel free to drop in. :-)

Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries, ICADL 2008 , Bali, Indonesia, December 2-5, 2008 are now available: DL2Go: Editable Digital Libraries in the Pocket . Hyunyoung Kil, Wonhong Nam, Dongwon Lee. Hierarchical Classification of Web Pages Using Support Vector Machine . Yi Wang, Zhiguo Gong. The Prevalence and Use of Web 2.0 in Libraries . Alton Yeow Kuan Chua, Dion Hoe-Lian Goh, Chei Sian Lee. Usability of Digital Repository Software: A Study of DSpace Installation and Configuration . Nils Körber, Hussein Suleman. Developing a Traditional Mongolian Script Digital Library . Garmaabazar Khaltarkhuu, Akira Maeda. Weighing the Usefulness of Social Tags for Content Discovery . Khasfariyati Razikin, Dion Hoe-Lian Goh, Chei Sian Lee, Alton Yeow Kuan Chua. A User Reputation Model for DLDE Learning 2.0 Community . Fusheng Jin, Zhendong Niu, Quanxin Zhang, Haiyang Lang, Kai Qin. Query Relaxation Based on Users Unconfidences on Query Terms and Web K...

Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries 12th European Conference, ECDL 2008, Aarhus, Denmark, September 14-19, 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Volume 5173: Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. Ed. Birte Christensen-Dalsgaard, Donatella Castelli, Bolette Ammitzbøll Jurik, Joan Lippincott. Table of Contents: George Buchanan, Jennifer Pearson. Improving Placeholders in Digital Documents Ying Jiang, Hui Dong. Towards Ontology-Based Chinese E-Government Digital Archives Knowledge Management Christoph Becker, Miguel Ferreira, Michael Kraxner, Andreas Rauber, Ana Alice Baptista, José Carlos Ramalho. Distributed Preservation Services: Integrating Planning and Actions Eld Zierau, Anders Sewerin Johansen. Archive Design Based on Planets Inspired Logical Object Model Manfred Thaller, Volker Heydegger, Jan Schnasse, Sebastian Beyl, Elona Chudobkaite. Significant Characteristics to Abstract Content: Long Term Preservation of Information Khasfariyati Razi...

Access 2006: First Day v1.0 While I am here at the Access 2006 conference, I can't help that I am missing out on some great Web 2.0 discussions, knowing that I am missing out on going out with Michael Stephens et al. to the Thai restaurant at Internet Librarian International in London, which I did do last year. Richard Wallis reports in Panlibis that he has the good fortune of doing this this year. That said, I am sure that Access will not dissappoint, as it has always been a great conference for the library techie crowd...