Conference Reports

JCDL 2009: Cultures of Participation

Second Keynote
Cultures of Participation: Opportunities and Challenges for the Future of Digital Libraries
Gerhard Fischer
Professor of Computer Science, Institute of Cognitive Science Fellow, Director of the Center for Lifelong Learning and Design (L3D) at the University of Colorado at Boulder

JCDL 2009: Papers on archiving and preserving digital information

The papers in this post describe research on archiving and preserving digital information. Most papers have multiple authors, although I've credited by name only the author(s) who presented the paper. Entire papers are available in the conference proceedings; let me know if you'd like to see one.

JCDL 2009: Papers on user interfaces

The papers in this post describe research on user interfaces. Most papers have multiple authors, although I've credited by name only the author(s) who presented the paper. Entire papers are available in the conference proceedings; let me know if you'd like to see one.

JCDL 2009: Papers on user-generated tags

The papers in this post describe research on user-generated tags. Most papers have multiple authors, although I've credited by name only the author(s) who presented the paper. Entire papers are available in the conference proceedings; let me know if you'd like to see one.

JCDL 2009: Papers on digital library applications

The paper in this post describes research on digital library applications. This paper has multiple authors, although I've credited by name only the author who presented the paper. The entire paper is available in the conference proceedings; let me know if you'd like to see it.

JCDL 2009: Papers on machine learning

Rather than post a summary of each paper or each session, I'm going to summarize the papers I saw under some broad topic categories.

The papers in this post describe research on teaching machines to do labor-intensive tasks that are currently performed by human experts. Most papers have multiple authors, although I've credited by name only the author(s) who presented the paper. Entire papers are available in the conference proceedings; let me know if you'd like to see one.

JCDL 2009: Digital Libraries: Now here, or Nowhere?

First Keynote
Digital Libraries; Now Here or Nowhere?
Christine Borgman
Professor & Presidential Chair in Information Studies
UCLA

JCDL 2009: A beginner's primer

I'm a beginner here at JCDL, so for your amusement I'll offer a few first impressions the conference has made so far.