True to form
I usually start running out of steam during the second afternoon of a three-day conference. I’m completely true to form on this one.
Turns out I left one thing out of yesterday’s catalogue of derelictions: I completely spaced on a meeting set up with me for CiL weeks ago. Bad me. Bad!
But I got to Lorcan Dempsey’s talk this morning, and he came down, saw my nametag, and shook hands with me, so I’m all fangirly and stuff. (I refuse to feel silly about being a Lorcan Dempsey fangirl, because Lorcan has a posse of CiL fanchildren. I don’t know if he knows it, but he does. I can give him names!) It was a good talk, too, and I’ll write about it when I’m not completely wiped.
(I’ll write about a lot of things when I’m not completely wiped. I haven’t bothered liveblogging this conference, partly because the conference wireless is one step above nonexistent, and partly because everybody is liveblogging this conference, so I’d only be carrying coals to Newcastle. I do have a couple of good rants brewing, though.)
Did find out a bit of news today that makes me happy. One of the things I complained to NARA/RLG about with regard to the whole “trusted digital repository” thing was that a lot of recommendations had to do with software platforms, so could we please just certify common platforms in use and save repository rats a metric ton of duplicate effort?
Well, so UIUC is doing exactly that with DSpace, comparing its functionality against the requirements in the checklist. I strongly approve of anything that saves me massive amounts of time and effort, so go UIUC!