Robert H. McDonald

Hi All, This week (10.1.12-10.3.12) I am at an exciting meeting that is bringing together many of the big data projects throughout the world to a meeting in Arlington, VA in hopes of building a new consortium called the Research Data Alliance. We have representation from

Very good discussion today around all issues of mass-scale storage architectures at the Library of Congress Designing Storage Architectures Meeting. This meeting in its 5 or 6 year has really changed in the coverage but that is because storage management is such an ever changing medium. lots of talk here

So today I am at the Galileo Knowledge Repository Cooperative Curation Symposium. This event is being held at the Clough Undergraduate Commons Facility at the Georgia Institute of Technology. I am on a panel this afternoon with IR regulars @tywalters1 @timdonahue @DataG and a few other old IR pals. The

Just in case you are like me and can not get enough on the Kuali Open Library Environment (OLE), please join us tomorrow Wed Jan 18, 2012 at 1pm eastern – http://net.educause.edu/LIVE1202 for a current update on the project. I will be joined by Molly Tamarkin from

So I got an email this morning from Google telling me that their Scholar Citations service is now open to everyone. If you want to see how this works please check out my profiel for Robert H. McDonald. If you want to sign-up for a profile go to this URL:

I just wanted to put a note out here about Code4Lib 2012 #C4L12. Registration opens tomorrow @12pm eastern for the upcoming event Feb 6-9 in Seattle, WA. I am very happy this year as well to announce that Indiana University (IU Libraries/IU UITS) and Kuali Open Library Environment (@kualiole)

Recently I have been working with Elsevier Labs an a novel project to generate ideas on how they can improve the apps that work with their SciVal API. Thought I would post more here so that you can vote on the ideas that you like the best (there is a

It is not too late to register for the 2011 DLF Forum which will be held on October 31–November 1, 2011, with pre- and post-conference events on October 30, November 2, and November 3. The conference will take place in Baltimore, Maryland at the Hyatt Regency. Participation is open

Early Adopters PhD Workshop at Supercomputing 2011, Seattle http://messagelab.monash.edu.au/SC11PhDWorkshop ———————————————— Submissions extended till 31st August 2011 ———————————————— We cordially invite you to submit a poster paper to the Early Adopters Ph.D. Workshop 2011: Building the Next Generation of Application Scientists. The workshop will be held at

Told some friends of mine I would put this out there: THATCamp Philly is being held on September 23 to 24, 2011 in downtown Philadelphia (exact location to be determined).  Apply now to participate in this “unconference” where YOU get to determine what is on the agenda.  This intensive, innovative,

Just a note to remind everyone that the 2nd Annual Curate Camp will kickoff Aug 15-16, 2011 on the beautiful campus of Stanford University. CURATEcamp 2011 is a two-day unconference connecting practitioners of digital curation with technologists and software developers. We still have a few registrations left – if interested you

The Digital Public Library of America announced today their Beta Sprint. I was just at a meeting with this group in Amsterdam and I am very intrigued by this type of community outreach within their planning process. I am hopeful that many of us working in Digital Library areas and

I just wanted to post something up on the ETCOM Blog about the Mobile Computing Sprint that is currently underway via the network hosted by Educause. Today’s session which kicks off again at 1pm includes one of our own members of the evolving technologies committee, Jeniffer Sparrow (@jennifersparrow). You

On Monday of this week Indiana University and the University of Illinois announced the creation of the HathiTrust Research Center. Our press release states that: The HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) will enable open access for nonprofit and educational users to published works in the public domain stored within HathiTrust, an

This is an interesting piece – http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/10/peter-thiel-were-in-a-bubble-and-its-not-the-internet-its-higher-education/– from techcrunch about Peter Thiel and his belief that we are now in a higher education bubble that is at its apex. This from a man who saw the dotcom bubble and the home mortgage bubble before either

On his blog all things distributed, Werner Vogels, is hyping more about the Mendeley Binary Battle. See – http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2011/03/mendeley_api_binary_battle.html –  He also offers free time on AWS for those interested in mining applications for the data.

I ran into my old buddy Will Gunn in San Diego this week and told him I would aim to get more publicity for their Mendeley Binary Battle. Boy, a $10K prize should be enough but their judges for this are awesome. They have O’Reilly, Vogels, and Wilbanks just

So the big news this week was the decision on the google books ammended settlement agreement. As we all know now, Judge Denny Chin made his ruling on Tuesday of this week. Here are some good sources I have been reading. Judge Chin’s ruling – http://thepublicindex.org/docs/amended_

I am in the Republic of Berkeley today at Cal in a Project Bamboo kickoff meeting. I am very excited to hear how the corpora space is thinking about engaging the digital humanities community. They are looking to use simpler visualization tools that can help form a context around smaller

So of late we have lots of activity going on here in Bloomington for those interested in working on library software development projects. Within the Kuali OLE core team we have three positions open right now – Business Analyst, Quality Assurance Manager, and Configuration Manager. Within the LTDL group at the

Please join the Kuali OLE (Open Library Environment) Team at Educause 2010 in Anaheim, CA for our session entitled – Library Startup: Building a Sustainable Software Community for Academic Libraries Through Kuali. Our session is on Friday Oct 15th, 2010 9:30 AM – 10:20 AM in the Orange County Convention

Hi All, Just putting out another note about this for all of you who are ignite presentation experts and are interested in our theme of You 3.0 and are attending Educause 2010 in Anaheim. The Educause Evolving Technologies Committee is sponsoring an ignite session and is interested in your

I am at the Bamboo Project Partners Meeting today in Chicago at the Big 10 Conference Center in Park Ridge, IL. This meeting has been a great discussion about joining efforts in humanities computing and services. I think this project will do alot for everyone in digital humanities, not just

This morning am at the IU RT Major Project Review. Very good – especially Scott McAuley’s overview of history of NSF Supercomputing Funding.

I am at the BRTF Symposium today in DC – for those who could not make it – it is being streamed live at vidizmo – http://brtf.vidizmo.com