Not including cancelled talks, 100%ofall #swib11 speakers are male with ~1/3 female participants Congrats to #gender #fail via @nichtich @nopiedra on a conference in Germany on semantic web in libraries. I don’t want to overly criticize this conference, as I don’t have more information about it than this tweet. I am not the kind of [...]
Two very exciting events being held this October in Germany: The 1st Social Data on the Web workshop (SDoW2008) co-located with the 7th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2008) aims to bring together researchers, developers and practitioners involved in semantically-enhancing social media websites, as well as academics researching more formal aspect of these interactions between the [...]
Later this month, I will be attending ALA Annual in Anaheim. Below is my preliminary schedule. As you can see, I have lots of free time so far! 26/6 Arrive, dinner with co-presenters 27/6 4:30 IRRT Orientation 5:30 LITA Happy Hour 28/6 1:30 NMRT President’s Program (speaking) 4:00 ACRL/SPARC Forum 5:30 Opening session/President’s keynote 7:00 Scholarship bash [...]