Twitter highlights for Sunday of the 2010 LITA National Forum

Were you unable to attend the 2010 LITA National Forum in Atlanta? Find twitter streams a bit overwhelming, lacking in context, or chronologically confusing?

Here is your solution: a re-organized, select set of relevant and/or funny tweets for each of the talks given on Sunday. Please post comments if I've missed any particularly good tweets!

I'll also be posting links to the slides, when I can find them. I've also posted similar summaries for the other days of the LITA conference, including: Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.

• Omeka Archives
• Cloud Discovery
• Mobile Patrons
• Managing Staff E-Learning
• Lightning Talks
• Agile Library IT
• Keynote: Linked Library Data Cloud
• Fun memes & thoughts

Crowdsourcing the Archive, Cloudsourcing the Capture: Using Omeka for Collaborative Digital Archives and Exhibits on Campus
Gwen Evans (Bowling Green State University)

http://connect.ala.org/files/32890/crowdsourcing_archive_pdf_16207.pdf (Presentation Slides)

•  Omeka site at Bowling Green: http://bit.ly/c4oTj5 [varnum]
• Omeka story capture: When the microphone didn't work for audio capture in a loud room, used Google Voice and downloaded an MP3. [varnum]
• A post on Facebook asking students to put their stories into Omeka led to. dozens of stories -- on Facebook. [varnum]
• Gwen Evans: Would be interesting to capture students' iPod playlists [varnum]
• Very compelling tool for digital exhibits : omeka.org - great presentation by Gwen Evans [frierson]
• Gwen Evans' talk on #omeka was very timely -- I'm thinking about it for our library's online exhibits. Great information. [varnum]
• OH coming out of Gwen Evans' talk on Omeka: "now *that's* why you stay 'til Sunday!" [bmljenny]
• Also, 1st demo in 4 days where use for public libs was *immediately* apparent. My smallish publib could easy pull it off #omeka [mkny13]

Enabling Discovery via the Cloud
Marliese Thomas (Auburn University), Michael Gorrell (EBSCO Publishing)

• CIO from EBSCO talking about their discovery product. CIO? OMG. :) [rulebrit]

Mobile Patrons: Better Services on the Go
Vincci Kwong, Gary Browning (Indiana University - South Bend)

http://connect.ala.org/files/70257/mobile_patrons_ppt_18691.ppt (Presentation Slides)

• no tweets :(

E-Learning: Two Approaches to Managing Staff Learning
Pat Carterette (Georgia Public Library Service), Jay Turner (Gwinnett (GA) Public Library)

• the presenters have training from both a large level aka mult lib and single lib cool [wanderingeyre]
• pat and jay are def instructors... we have learning goals for the session! and they asked for perticipation! [wanderingeyre]
• Jay said you need synchronous learning for higher level learning. i disagree. asynch learning can be higher level [wanderingeyre]
• http://myudutu.com rapid authoring tool for learning courses [wanderingeyre ]
• Jay: "people don't learn from a damn power point slide." Amen! [wanderingeyre]
• rly enjoying the elearning session bc they r well grounded in both tech and learning theory [wanderingeyre]
• In ELearning - can develop software sim modules for practice dealing w/ screaming patrons. Show & do with screencast & sim tool. [beatricepulliam]
• On the use of crazy SFX in elearning: Save the cross fades for your mama... [beatricepulliam]
• Evaluation not end of design phase, it's the beginning. [beatricepulliam]
• Great training prep tips from the great Jay Turner (who just rocked a #litaforum presentation!) RT @alalearning http://bit.ly/9fJTt0 [pbromberg]

Lightning Talks 2

• I'm giving a lighting talk on ResearchRaven. Background http://bit.ly/asU0NG http://www.researchraven.com/ [hleman]
• Up early working on ResearchRaven. Lightning talk about it at nine. Here is sampling of today's work on it http://bit.ly/ct9dTs [hleman]
• Is "skinnability" a word? It is now :) [rulebrit]
• lightning talks 2 - topics include project management, maps, and gimp so far [shortskinylatte]

From Cobbled To Agile: Re-Engineering Library IT
Joan A. Smith PhD (Emory University)

http://connect.ala.org/files/79973/fromcobbledtoagile_pptx_20301.pptx (Slides of Presentation)

• Create a business plan for your department. Define what you do. Determine what university does vs lib it - reduce redundancy. [mfrisque]
• Understand staff capacity so you can meet deadlines instead of continually pushing them back. [mfrisque]
• Tried to determine how much time goes into a project, how many people to start vs maintenance, cost for set up, continued support [mfrisque]
• List product requirements, divide into task, est time to complete each task, est resource needs, and org tasks into iterations [mfrisque]
• Cobbled to Agile: Track IT staff hours to calculate costs of individual projects, get comfortable with times needed for projects [ninermac]
• great ideas for corralling "side projects" brought to IT, ensuring other strategic projects aren't sidelined [ninermac]
• "don't know if it's obvious that we are using Drupal" for IT project request form-hello Black Mamba theme ;) [ninermac]
• online form for new IT projects goes to approval and must be matched to SPECIFIC part of strategic plan [ninermac]
• "developer points"= what a developer can accomplish in 2 hours [ninermac]
• The use Scrum for planning each iteration. Each project is broken down into requirements that take no more than 2 hours. [mfrisque]
• "we're a small shop of 8 software ppl" JEALOUS, we are begging provost for ONE programmer to help me :) [ninermac]
• if ppl are upset about close hour tracking or a formal process for new projects say "no blame, just gain" [ninermac]

Closing General Session: The Linked Library Data Cloud: it's time to stop thinking and start linking
Ross Singer

 http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/9976883 (Video)

• Frightened by final presenter's slide prep... [dleonard]
• Anecdotally, I'd say wikipedia's bio pages are consistently least accurate ones #linkedlibdata [mkny13]
• "silos of strings" no context for important links between metadata [mkny13]
• @rsinger focuses on limits imposed by siloed data, fragile identifiers that enable interoperability between repositories/siloes [alncornish]
  
• @rsinger "we have siloes of siloes attached together by very strings" [alncornish]
• I think we just took metadata to the fourth dimension. [julian2]
• @rsinger cites WorldCat Identities: service (with limits) that provides context in siloed environments http://tinyurl.com/24agrg6 [alncornish]
• i admit i'm a music fanatic but let's get past the fandom & on to the ideas & suggestions. [ncolyar]
• I see what would need more work - better indexing, clearer mapping, open standards, and a lot more metadata with better workflow. [julian2]
• I have a hard time believing that any solution relying on more detailed metadata has a chance in realworld (sadly) [mkny13]
• Ross is blowing my mind. [griffey] 
• Short version: fun with hyperlinks! [mkny13] 
• Iiiiinteresting example title . . . :) [mkny13]
• Once Google can fully harness linked data, all our existence are belong to Google. Currently, Google model is largely strings. [julian2]
• re:Google p0wns us--Is that good or bad? [mkny13 @julian2]
• Oh, how I <3 RDF! [adellefrank]
  
• I love listening to people that are leagues smarter than me. [griffey]
• @rsinger hits RDF, central to his linked data presentation http://www.w3.org/RDF/ [alncornish] 
• BIBO vocabulary for describing citations, used with RDF [adellefrank]
• quotes LC reprt (http://tinyurl.com/32f4n6 ) re bib description, libs "make use of the data created by others in the supply chain" [ alncornish]
• Library of Congress has linked data for some collections. Used OAI-ORE for harvesting collections of things [adellefrank]
• ross is so smart he is making my head hurt. his talk is excellent [wanderingeyre]
• Linked data makes metadata cataloguing more distributed. [adellefrank]
• http://lccn.loc.gov/ Library of Congress permalink service. [adellefrank]
• http://dbpedia.org key player in linked data.[adellefrank]
• LC provides cool URIs for HTML biblio records (can then be harvested) [adellefrank]
• IFLA creating vocabs for FRBR, etc. Has a semantic web working group. [adellefrank]
• We've already got biblio records. What we need to do is ONLY add identifiers [adellefrank]
• could using linked data make browsing between records doable and replace shelf browsing? [wanderingeyre]
• Easy places to start adding ids = name authority files [adellefrank]
• http://www.freebase.com another player in semantic web. [adellefrank]
• Of course, doing so could only be described as "freebasing." That's unfortunate ;) [mkny13]
• Call to Action for Librarians re: Semantic web - start adding identifiers (HTTP URIs) to resources/records! [adellefrank]
• @rsinger cites dbpedia, a linked data version of wikipedia http://dbpedia.org/About [alncornish]
• It's browsing in the way it's so much fun to browse wikipedia [mkny13]
• Freebase uses games to get blank fields filled in. [adellefrank]
• Anyone have a link for the male or female Wikipedia game that Ross SInger just mentioned? [libsmatter]
• http://games.freebaseapps.com/ RT @libsmatter Anyone have a link for the Wikipedia game that Ross Singer just mentioned? [htomren]
• This does feel like wikipediazation of catalog. In a good way. Links to links to links [mkny13]
• Wishing Ross had been earlier in the conference, so much to digest [jeanphilli]
• string^context = entry point into linked data cloud? [julian2]
• OCLC & http://openlibrary.org doing a lot of work re: semantic web. [adellefrank]
• need for increasing contextualization in discovery (who a person is influenced by|who s/he influenced); identifiers are central [ alncornish]
• Concept and potential application of linked data is fascinating. Thanks Ross for awesome keynote. [vacekrae]
• Someone asked yesterday if we young turks thought it was a good time to be a librarian. This is reason why it is. [mkny13]
• http://vufind.org shout out [adellefrank]
• W3C to-do, environmental scan of vocabularies, etc. needs published. [adellefrank]
• shout out for extensible catalog (http://drupal.org/project/xc) from ross singer [adellefrank]
• Excellent closing keynote from Ross Singer. Finally think I grok linked data. [varnum]

Fun Memes & Closing Thoughts

• Here are some names just to note in Open Science: Cameron Neylon, Jean-Claude Bradley, Michael Nielsen, Jonathan Eisen. Thinkers! [hleman]
• Antony Williams' ChemSpider is an example of what started as a labor of love and has since boomed. We can make things like that! [hleman]
• Other names of note in Open Science Martin Fenner, the science librarian Dorothea Salo http://bit.ly/bhohZg Egon Willighagen [hleman]
• ScienceOnline is a key conference on the subject of Open Science. See planning wiki for overview of subject http://bit.ly/d7GV3x [hleman]
• One more morning of head in the clouds, foot on the server ... [dleonard]
• Due to popular demand, I've uploaded my paper AND poster on Web Design with Brain in Mind for #litaforum http://connect.ala.org/node/113097 [adellefrank]
• Looking for a good read on your way home? http://www.archive.org/stream/vagabondjourneya00franrich#page/n0/mode/1up  [RschDev]
• Things not seen at #litaforum : knitting in the audience [acbtanya]
• I brought knitting but knew I'd want to take notes! RT @acbtanya Things not seen at #litaforum : knitting in the audience [jenmasc]
• Things not seen at #litaforum : consistently working, widely available wifi [mkny13]
• Wow, Hilton Atlanta nor equipped for mass simultaneous two-convention checkout. Hello Ross. [rulebrit]
• Thank you LITA for an excellent forum. It's nice to spend time with your tribe. [RschDev]
• met a guybrarian from Chicago with a Detroit Techno Militia sticker on his laptop. Small world! [beatricepulliam]
• Turns out i like grits. Who knew?! [ninermac]
• @beatricepulliam from 313 nice meeting you. youll like this http://bit.ly/b3RcOD  #littlewhiteearbuds [ kj_hubbard]
• good mix for your trip home lita conf. attendees http://snd.sc/cm02tc via #soundcloud [kj_hubbard] 
•   I tried to get them to use #roysucks during my keynote at #litaforum, but nobody took me up on it. [rsinger @rtennant]
• Kudos to all the moms-to-be who braved the hotel chairs, and congrats to the new dad whose baby came during #litaforum [ninermac]