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Anna Kenway
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I have two interests:
- We must have had millions of words spoken here at eSI over the past 10 years - most of them lost. How could we have captured more? We now have > 5000 presentations and videos on our website.
- In my 'other life' I am on the library Committees for both the College (Faculty) and the University, and have become interested in how we we can provide better learning environments for students.
Augmented Multi-party Interaction project at Edinburgh University. The key contact is Mike Lincoln.
Growing Knowledge - The evolution of research
An exhibition at the British Library from 12 October 2010 - 16 July 2011
I visited this exhibition the day before the 5th Bloomsbury Conference at UCL on e-Publishing and e-Publications. The exhibition itself largely comprises a room filled with screens where visitors can explore various projects. These are all listed on a British Library webpage and can be tried from there. The visit was timely, as a number of those applications were presented and discussed at the conference the following days - including Nature Network, Galaxy Zoo (one of the Zooniverse projects) and Mendeley.
Other displays in the exhibition included an interactive table and the Tweetometer - a physical guage version (with real dials) showing Tweet rates in various capital cities. You can see a web version at Tweet-o-Meter a UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) project.
FIFTH BLOOMSBURY CONFERENCE ON E-PUBLISHING AND E-PUBLICATIONS
30 JUNE - 1 JULY 2011
SOCIAL MEDIA AND THE ACADEMY: Enhancing and enabling scholarly communication
Twitter feed: #ucldis (not as stated on their webpage).
Presentations were collected and will appear shortly on the conference webpages.
It would be hard to give a better report on the meeting than the real time live blog of Nicola Osborne - EDINA's Social Media Officer.
I will add some comments and impressions shortly.
Interesting Links
Visualising 100 Ships
from the Old Weather Blog - Old Weather being a Zooniverse project transcribing old Royal Navy ships' logs.