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I am at the 2010 Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL2010) at Surfer's Paradise in Queensland, Australia. Among the many interesting papers are two papers very relevant to those interested in research data issues. [JCDL2011 will be held in Ottawa, Canada June 13-17 2011. I am the general chair for the conference] Digital Libraries for Scientific Data Discovery and Reuse: From Vision to Practical Reality Jillian Wallis, Matthew Mayernik, Christine Borgman and Alberto Pepe Abstract. Science and technology research is becoming not only more distributed and collaborative, but more highly instrumented. Digital libraries provide a means to capture, manage, and access the data deluge that results from these research enterprises. We have conducted research on data practices and participated in developing data management services for the Center for Embedded Networked Sensing since its founding in 2002 as a National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center. ...

The 2009 ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries ( JCDL ) poster session will be held both in real life and in Second Life . This is the first time that the JCDL has done this, and allows for remote participation in at least this part of the conference. More information on all of the JCDL2009 sessions . BTW, I will be chairing session #7 on Wednesday, June 17.

" Digital Preservation – the Planets way " is a Planets ( P reservation and L ong-term A ccess through NET worked S ervices) outreach and training event to be held at the Royal Library in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 22-24 June 2009.

From a letter in The Chronicle of Higher Education : Wired Campus , in response to a Tech Therapy podcast: " Episode 33: Libraries vs. IT Departments ": Our experience at Indiana University shows that librarians and IT departments cannot only coexist, and do it successfully, but also that we must become assertive partners in order to achieve the results our users now expect. It’s time to move beyond the rift that apparently separates many libraries and IT departments. None of the compelling issues facing academic libraries today can be accomplished without strong support from IT departments. Among them: establishing robust institutional repositories; supporting e-science and data curation services; providing metadata and e-text consultation; growing a virtual reference community; and developing course management systems. The list goes on.

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...

I am looking forward to getting a hold of this just announced book, Semantic Digital Libraries , Editors: Sebastian Ryszard Kruk , DERI NUI, Galway, Bill McDaniel , DERI NUI, Galway. Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg (DE) 2009, XVI, 246 p. 1 illus., Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-85433-3. The site for the book includes Tutorial on Semantic Digital Libraries , a tutorial presented at JCDL2008 , as well as a faceted searchable interface to the (extensive and useful) links described in the book. Contents Introduction Part I - Introduction to Digital Libraries and Semantic Web Digital Libraries and Knowledge Organization Semantic Web and Ontologies Social Semantic Information Spaces Part II - A Vision of Semantic Digital Libraries Goals of Semantic Digital Libraries Architecture of Semantic Digital Libraries Long-time Preservation Part III - Ontologies for Semantic Digital Libraries Bibliographic Ontology Community-aware Ontologies Part IV - Prototypes of Semantic Digital Libraries JeromeDL...

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...