breaksalot.orgRoy: two click solution (attributed to Jeremy Frumkin) -- one click to search, one to get. Easier to find the book Before Taliban through Google, but only available through "snippet view". NCSU Catalog Availability Prototype. Need to be ready for people coming from Google. Need to provide better discovery of open content (even Google doesn't do such a bang-up job). OpenURL resolvers are one step -- need to go further. Why take them to a catalog screen when it's available full-text. Why show them ILL, for crying out loud! Umlaut and GUF. Google-like experience. OpenURL resolver. Aggregators -- more important as IRs grow.
(Here's an idea: a centralized service that points at freely available full-text books. Users can add sources, of course. Maybe some added eye candy to pull people to the site -- an ajaxy reader or something. But the real value is a web service that libraries, etc. can point at to provide links for full-text entries in the catalog.)
Anne Christensen -- library chatbots. http://www.sub.uni-hamburg.de/ Stella.
Annette Bailey -- LibX. Firefox extension that integrates library resources
into the browser.
Thunder talks
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Ross Singer -- Umlaut and U. Link resolvers are a closed door leading to a
room full of closed doors. Came from Communicat.
- Mark Jordan -- Drupal Hacks. http://drupalib.interoperating.info/ Content Creation Kit -- create your own fields.
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Peter Binkley -- faceted search with Solr. Bitsets.
- William Oldfield -- http://etheses.uwaterloo.ca/
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Dan Chudnov -- lots of talks. Dialtone. (todo: zeroconf)
- Grant Gelinas-Brown -- Get over it, Fanboy. Get into something, roll up your sleeves, and do it.
Nora Young, Access to information in an age of social media
How do kids use the internet? MySpace.
Cynthia Carlton, eXtensible Catalog
Rochester, Mellon Grant. http://www.extensiblecatalog.info http:///www.library.rochester.edu/access
Update 2006-11-21: The only snippet I managed to catch from Day 3 was Cliff Lynch saying, "For the University of Michigan, Google is the first backup strategy ever implemented." Audio of all of the talks, as well as links to many of the slides, and results from the hackfest, are up at the University of Ottawa Access 2006 site. Also, I've put on line the presentation I gave at Drexel.