Posts Tagged ‘Kathy MacDougall’
The Library of Congress will hold the annual Digital Preservation Partners Meeting July 20 – 22, 2010 in Arlington, VA. Themes include “Collaboratives”, “Information Environment” and “Expanding the Archive”. A half day workshop will be held on Recollection, a project with the U.S. Library of Congress and the National Digital Information Infrastructure Partner Program (NDIIPP) designed to enhance discoverable access for NDIIPP collections, making them easier to find, access, and share, and especially to integrate with other digital information sources. Zepheira has worked in partnership with the Library since 2009 to design and build the Recollection platform.
Laura Campbell, Associate Librarian for Strategic Initiatives, and Eric Miller, President of Zepheira co-presented a poster session and demo at the 2009 European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL)held in Corfu, Greece from 27 September through 2 October, 2009. The project received the “Best Poster” award for the conference. Read more
Laura Campbell, Associate Librarian for Strategic Initiatives, and Eric Miller, President of Zepheira will co-present a poster session and demo at the 2009 European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL)held in Corfu, Greece from 27 September through 2 October, 2009. The general theme of this year’s conference is “Digital Societies”. Read more
Zepheira team members David Wood and Kathy MacDougall and Zepheira contractor James Leigh contributed ten of the 97 tips found in O’Reilly Media’s new book 97 Things Every Project Manager Should Know.
This is a new style of “collective wisdom” books from O’Reilly, the first of which was aimed at software architects. Read more
The American Library Association (ALA) Annual 2009 Conference is a place to learn new techniques that improve library services to in communities. Program topics include blogs, Web presence and making the most of the internet, cultural programs, training and mentoring, advocacy and fundraising, new ways to serve teens and children, cutting edge innovations in technology for library services, and outreach to underserved populations. Read more
SemTech 2009 is the premier semantic technologies event held in San Jose CA the week of June 15, 2009. SemTech 2009 is where the industry comes together for four days of tutorials, workshops and talks on the future of the Web, marketing, search and discovery. Tracks for Web developers, business managers and VCs are offered including: Data Integration and Mashups, Linked Data, Semantic Integration, and Semantic SOA.
Kathy MacDougall, Zepheira Principal and founding Product Manager for the swoRDFish Metadata Initiative, has co-authored The swoRDFish Metadata Initiative: Better, Faster, Smarter Web Content ith current swoRDFish Product Manager, Susie Cone of Sun Microsystems, Inc.. This case study outlines the way in which Sun Microsystems uses Semantic Web technologies to integrate various types of product-related information held in many systems across the company and drive dynamic delivery of this content to its external web properties. The paper was prepared for W3C’s Semantic Web Education and Outreach Interest Group, which recently launched a site—Semantic Web Education and Outreach Interest Group: Case Studies and Use Cases—to showcase how Semantic Web technologies are providing value in a variety of organizations.