Today I attended the International Conference on Elearning Futures which was hosted by MPOW. The conference opened with a keynote from Steve Wheeler (@timbuckteeth) who is well known in the elearning world. His keynote did not disappoint, managing to be inspiring and amusing at the same time. He had been asked to present on elearning [...]
Archive for November, 2011
ICELF Day One #icelf11
Posted in Conference, Digital World, Technology on November 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The Exemplar Of Stupid: Koha Vs Liblime Trademark
Posted in Rant, tagged Koha, open source on November 22, 2011 | 111 Comments »
It would be inaccurate for me to say I don’t get angry; it’s just takes a lot for me to really let rip. The following situation makes my blood boil so much that in writing this I am having to be very careful steps not to break a lot of my self imposed rules around rants. [...]
A Happy Work Outcome: New Resources for The New Zealand Electronic Text Centre
Posted in Academic publishers, Announcements, eBooks, tagged NZETC on November 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
One of the really good things of my job is when we get to push new collections onto the NZETC. So here is a little plug promoting some of our new resources. Three new collections on Elsdon Best, student media and Antarctic research We are very pleased to announce three new collections: Elsdon Best Published [...]
Do We Need an IR or a DDMS?
Posted in Academic libraries, tagged Conference, data management on November 9, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Currently I am in Melbourne at eResearch Australasia which has been really interesting. I am hearing a lot about data and data management. One of the things that I have been thinking, and please excuse the brain dump, is that rather than having an IR (Institutional repository) we should have complete DDMS (document data management [...]
LIANZA11 Days three and four
Posted in Conference, LIANZA, Musings on November 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Day three began with a great keynote from Michael Houlihan, CEO of Te Papa. I was looking forward to this one because I do love what Te Papa do with their social media presence and engaging with their public. Houlihan suggests that now Te Papa is a “spotty adolescent” there are questions that should be [...]
LIANZA11 Day Two
Posted in Conference, LIANZA, Musings on November 1, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Day two of LIANZA11 started off well with Bill MacNaught’s address (available here now). Much what he said was uplifting and it was good to hear of the plans of the National Library. Keynote speaker Aroha Mead gave a useful overview of the WAI-262 Taonga Claim, something that I knew very little about but which [...]
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