Here are the slides (all one hundred and thirty-freakin'-five of them) from the keynote/"vision" talk I gave yesterday morning in Louisville, KY at NASIG 2007. I was very sorry to miss most of the rest of the conference, but was quite glad to have the chance to present this talk to a very engaged crowd (especially considering it was 8am on a Sunday) and catch up with several friends I hadn't seen in ages after the talk.
The name of this talk is -
A New Approach to Service Discovery and Resource Delivery
...and that's what it's about.
In it I reprised some slides and concepts from previous talks I've given at a NISO meeting last November and code4libcon this past March and a few more slides from an earlier Access talk. But rather than just rehash slides explaining why COinS and unAPI are useful, I tried to place their potential benefits in a critical light, and from that perspective, I tried to state a much higher standard we need to try to reach for, and not settle for less, and one obvious (to me) way to get started.
That path is through the dynamic service links we now see everywhere. In this talk you'll see a series of slides about 2/3 through that start to explain what I think we should work on next - a way to unify interfaces to those peskily incompatible service link boxes that would open up a ton of doors that would remain closed even if COinS and unAPI both really exploded.
So have a look, and, if they don't make sense on their own, rest assured that a healthy number of serials librarians (at least a good 1/3 to 1/2 out of several hundreds at one point or another) seemed to be nodding vigorously in agreement with the proposal early yesterday morning.
I'll do my best to give it a more direct blog writeup in the next week or so, but I'll be offline a lot this week for some old-fashioned Stuff To Do and Places To Go. In the meantime, enjoy the 135 slides. :P
Hi Dan, I enjoyed your
Hi Dan,
I enjoyed your presentation at NASIG! I waited around a few minutes to introduce myself to you afterward but you were in high demand and I decided to go to my next meeting. So once again (I attended your presentation at the NISO meeting in November) I missed talking to you.
If I had been able to chat, I would have asked you more details about your new job, which I hope is going well.
Funny enough, I had no idea you were from Indianapolis!
Steve
Aw, heck
Thanks, Steve! But, shoot, you've got to stop doing that. I hope we'll meet one of these days. Or at least that I'll get to hear one of *your* talks for a change, so you don't have to hear me repeat myself from the last time you heard me. :)
The new job is keeping me busy. The project I spend most of my time thinking about is pretty interesting, but there's no clear timetable for making it public-visible (almost certainly not before 2008). It's been a good intro to the working environment here, though, and I've enjoyed it so far.
Yeah, I'm 100% Hoosier, but with a bit of a Detroiter's edge and a preference for Chicago-style deep dish (via my parents and their families).
"SLAPI" ("slap happy"?): Maybe tentative, but I love the name
Hey Dan.
Sounds like a great presentation. I took a look at the slides, and I get the basic ideas. I've learned a lot about COinsS and OpenURL by following your posts, but I still have to get caught up on "microformats" and "unAPI".
Hope things are going well in D.C.
P.s. I'll be there for ALA in a few weeks.
/ Daniel
Hey Daniel.
I hadn't gotten so far as thinking about how to pronounce it other than "slappy". :)
Great to hear from you - I've owed you a lengthy update for a long while, I'm sorry not to have sent it. All's well here, and I hope we can catch up next week sometime!
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