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VALA2010: L-Plate Session 7 eBooks

Monday 8 February, 16:30 – 17:00

eBooks are becoming a standard part of many libraries. However, with a growing number of different eBook readers, and many different types of eBook purchase and licensing models, the introduction of eBooks into a library requires a bit of planning.

Presenter: Bart Rutherford

Bart Rutherford is very well known with the Victorian library community as a throughful, and very entertaining presenter, who is able to make the most obscure and technical topics fun, interesting, and easy to understand. In 2010 Bart was also the VALA President. When he is not busy with VALA activities Bart is the Online resources Manager at Wesley College in Melbourne.

This is Bart’s third series L Plate presentation, Bart’s first L Plate presentation in 2008 introduced the now famous Slinky. Bart also gave a presentation at VALA2010 on Cloud Computing.

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VALA2010: L-Plate Session 3 Semantic Web

Monday 8 February, 14:00 – 14:30

As a fundamental part of what many call Web 3.0, the Semantic Web is being seen as the next big thing to hit the Internet. This presentation provides an overview of the Semantic Web from one of the internationally recognised commentators and players in the Semantic Web space.

Presenter: Tom Tague

Thomas (“Tom”) Tague leads the Thomson Reuters OpenCalais initiative, spearheading strategy and product development. He also oversees the OpenCalais developer community at OpenCalais.com, evangelizing the Calais Web service and working closely with commercial and non-commercial developers alike. Tom brings more than 25 years of solutions experience and domain expertise to Thomson Reuters. Previous roles include Executive Vice President, Client Solutions for Darwin Partners – which he grew to $40 million in revenue in four years – and co-founder and chief operations officer of Tessera Enterprise Systems, a quantitative analysis and data warehousing company he helped grow to $30 million in five years. He also served in senior roles at database marketing pioneer, Epsilon and systems management company, Electronic Data Systems (EDS).

As an internationally recognised thinker and player in the semantic web space, VALA is particularly Tom agreed to introduce the topic to the VALA2010 L Plate Series.

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VALA2010 L-Plate Session 2 Library Mashups and APIs

Monday 8 February, 13:30 – 14:00

More and more libraries are using freely available open source APIs to add value and functionality to their existing online collections and content. An application programming interface (API) is an interface implemented by a software program to enable interaction with other software, similar to the way a user interface facilitates interaction between humans and computers.

Presenter: Paul Hagon

In his own words Paul Hagon is a web developer at the National Library of Australia. Before this he worked at the Australian War Memorial so he has acknowledged there is something he loves about working at cultural institutions. He has been playing around on the web since the days of Netscape 1.0 and has worked in the business professionally since 1999. When he’s not on the computer you can find him out running or riding. You can follow Paul’s activities here or at Flickr, Twitter or delicious..

Paul is one of the leading figures in the library mashup / API frontier in Australian. In 2010 Paul was the first Australian to be recognised by the Library Journal as a Mover and Shaker for Technical Leadership. VALA is therefore delighted Paul kindly agreed to talk to the topic of library mashups and APIs at the VALA2010 L Plate Series.

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VALA2010 L-Plate Session 1 Open Source Library Systems

Monday 8 February, 13:00 – 13:30

Integrated Library Management Systems (ILMS) that use open source software have been used for at least 10 years. However, with the rapid uptake of open source software across numerous industry sectors in recent time, more and more libraries are considering open source ILMS as an alternative to proprietary systems. This presentation looks at open source ILMS, how they differ from proprietary systems, and what libraries need to consider when looking to implement an open source ILMS.

Presenter: Kathryn Greenhill

Kathryn Greenhill is a well known and respected commentator within the Australian library community. Amoung other things, Kathryn is pasionately interested in the community building capacity of libraries (especially through new technologies), how Web2.0 will change library culture (and the best way to make this a smooth transition), emergent technology training in libraries, and open source.

Kathryn is also the VALA2008 travel scholar As a VALA Travel Scholar Kathryn travelled to the United States and Canada in order to study Alternative Discovery Layers and Open Source Library Management Systems. VALA is therefore delighted Kathryn enthusiastically agreed to introduce the topic of Open Source Library Management Systems to the VALA2010 L Plate Series.

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