Thursday, June 9, 2005

Big (professional) dreams #

On Monday, I hinted at how I'm trying to get back into the groove of "real life" after my most excellent honeymoon/vacation. I'll want to write about the early days of marriage, the biggest adjustment going on -- but right now, I want to step back to write on a high (visionary?) level about what I've been trying to accomplish in my professional work over the last five years and where I want to go in the next five. The statement Seamless Use and Reuse of Digital Content By Scholars that I wrote as my statement of current and future research plans and interests is still mostly accurate. But there have been some significant shifts over the last couple of months. Moreover, the statement is a tad abstract -- so it would be helpful to write concretely about specific pieces of current work. Let me produce an outline (CdlTalkApril2005 is a good place to start at constructing a good outline.): bibliographics: managing references for various purposes (scholarly citation, formatting citations, exchanging list of references, annotating references, putting them in a CV, purposes of promotion; standard formats; distributed references; social bookmarking reusable image collections mapping As I tried to compose a paragraph about just the bibliographic work that I've been sorting through, I realized that there are a lot of moving parts that are not so clear in my mind.   Posted by Raymond Yee on 6/9/05; 12:34:57 PM from the Interactive University dept. Discuss

a way to keep up with the new books at Moffitt Library #

a way to keep up with the new books at Moffitt Library Originally uploaded by Raymond Yee. When I was wondering how to keep up with the new books that are constantly flowing into a library, I remembered that Moffitt Library has a bulletin board with the book jackets of new books. The board is a visually inviting way to inform patrons of new books. I don't know whether there is an electronic system for giving me similar information that does not require me to walk over to Moffitt Library.   Posted by Raymond Yee on 6/9/05; 12:25:20 PM from the dept. Discuss

Small Tools, Big Ideas Conference #

On October 7, I'll be speaking at the Small Tools/Big Ideas, "a conference on the discipline-specific technologies reshaping the practice of teaching art and art history": The recent development of social software makes it possible to reconstruct such interactions, and importantly, to include our students in this community. For example, students and faculty can link images to each other, they can annotate images, and they can integrate images into blogs and eportfolios. Newly developed image annotation tools allow students to link text to sections of an image, encouraging close visual analysis and interaction. Embedding such tools into digital image libraries makes them far more powerful environments for socially constructed learning and research. I'm thrilled to be part of the conference.   Posted by Raymond Yee on 6/9/05; 11:59:28 AM from the Interactive University dept. Discuss