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Victorian Association for Library Automation Inc (VALA) 13th Biennial Conference and Exhibition, Melbourne, February 8-10 2006.(Conference Reports)
This conference provided an opportunity to catch up with developments in information technology, international projects in developing digital libraries, knowledge management projects which have achieved new data models and provide examples of constructing new information delivery and access systems, and new ideas about human/computer interaction. It has probably been a decade since a library and information conference has featured such an interesting range of developments. Developments in information-sharing spaces and tools have been relatively fast in the past two years, which has seen the maturation of storage services such as Flickr, blogs, wikis, social communities such as del.icio.us, and 'mashes' using a range of web services such as www.housingmaps.com and Chicago crime. These developments challenge libraries to move beyond looking their current collections and web pages.
The most interesting themes that echoed through the conference were:
* projects based on 'good enough' rather than 100% approaches, such as the Indian Universal Digital Library, which has produced over 900 million pages with remarkably limited resources
* relatively light and modularised applications with distributed data, such as The…
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Source: HighBeam Research, Victorian Association for Library Automation Inc (VALA) 13th Biennial...
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