Metablogging
dsalo | October 10, 2009I will be speaking for UKSG's conference next April. They haven't given me a topic… but they want a talk title by the end of this month.
I have to write a paper alongside the talk, and I hate writing papers with every last fiber of my being, so if I have to do it, I want to make it count for something.
Anybody got any suggestions? What should I write and talk about, that the UKSG audience needs to hear? If you think you're among the intended audience, what would you want to hear or read from me?
dsalo | October 5, 2009I am back from Access and feeling wonderful… and wonderfully exhausted.
Data and its care and feeding were the dominant themes at the conference. I strongly recommend reading the session summaries at Pete Zimmerman's blog. It's hard to pick star sessions out of so very many good ones, but the Leggott, Hartman/Phillips, Turkel, and Sadler presentations assuredly will repay attention.
I hate to say it, but blogging may continue to suffer somewhat. I have a Web 2.0 talk this Friday, a Wisconsin Library Association talk on the 21st, and I'll be doing a remote presentation for Open Access Week…
dsalo | September 29, 2009A comment Chris Rusbridge left on a previous post leads me to clarify the extent to which the subject matter of this blog draws on my own position in the institution where I work, and that institution's take on matters data-curational.
In brief: It doesn't. I don't talk about my place of work here, and I have no plans to start doing so.
I have no data-curation or other cyberinfrastructure responsibilities at my workplace save those that happen to touch on my position as institutional-repository manager. The day I acquire such responsibilities, which is not wholly impossible but by no means a…
dsalo | September 3, 2009I found out from a few different sources (thanks, all!) that my post about back-of-book indexes made it into American Libraries Direct yesterday.
Welcome to any and all new readers! I hope you stick around. I'm going to tackle classification next…
dsalo | August 21, 2009Well, I've been here for about a month now, and I've quite enjoyed myself! (And I finally did send in my contract, Erin. Really. I did.)
Thanks to all who have commented. (Well, except a spammer or two, but I got rid of them posthaste.) You're a civil, engaged, and smart bunch, and I appreciate you very much—especially when you keep me honest.
Please, if you will, introduce yourselves and tell me (and Trogool's other commenters) a bit about yourself in the comments to this post. Thanks!
dsalo | August 2, 2009I cringe. I've accepted an invitation to speak somewhere, and an email comes back asking me politely for a bio. Cringe. Every single time. It's downright Pavlovian.
I loathe, despise, abominate, and abhor writing professional bios.
However. There's a point to the exercise: situating myself in context, so that folk can decide whether I'm worth listening to in the first place, evaluate my expertise and my biases, and make an educated guess about what questions to ask me that I can actually answer. So now that I'm starting to settle down here in my new ScienceBlogs digs, it's time for (dramatic…
dsalo | July 21, 2009I am reliably informed that there will be a server upgrade going on tonight, so ScienceBlogs will be down for the count until it is complete.
While I'm gone, have a look at the goings-on around Jupiter, and think about what that means in an e-research context. I'll be back with my thoughts!
dsalo | July 17, 2009I'm very pleased to welcome you all to The Book of Trogool, a brand-new blog about e-research. My name is Dorothea Salo, I'm an academic librarian, and I am fascinated with the changes that computers have wrought in the academic-research enterprise. I hope to explore those changes, and particularly library responses to them, in the company of the wonderful ScienceBlogs community. My thanks to John, Christina, and Walt for paving the way, and to Erin for welcoming me here.
I hope to tell stories about e-research projects (because narrative is how humans come to grips with novelty), pass on…