Elias Tzoc blog!

This Saturday, June 26th, I’ll be joining the first group of poster-session presenters at the 2010 ALA Annual Conference. I plan to talk/demonstrate the overall workflow for re-indexing metadata (from CONTENTdm) to generate external features for digital collection’s websites. Additionally, I’ll be ready to show others how to use the web-forms I’ve created to help them create their own search/browse/share features; I understand this work is somehow limited to CONTENTdm users, but with a little bit of tweak any of the scripts can be adapted to another Digital Management System.

Below is a small version of my actual poster, it’s a huge file (82X34 inches); it does seem a little too big for something like this -but who knows- I’ll wait and see how things go, I hope to get some interesting questions and feedback.

There is definitely a lot going on there this weekend, so I look forward to attending some other (interesting) sessions -especially those with a focus on: digital libraries/collections, open source technology, scholarly communication, digital repositories, libraries in latin america, diversity, new leadership, etc.  Last but not least, since this is just my second time at an ALA Annual, I found this page “ALA Conference Survival Tips” quite useful :)  …and of course I also plan to get a live update from South Africa -especially on Saturday & Sunday at 2:30pm.

Saludos!