The logistics for this conference are… um, yeah.
Dad (who kindly drove me to Chapel Hill) and I had trouble finding the building the conference is in, because UNC’s signage absolutely bites. We did, however, find it, and I went in and registered, thinking I had plenty of time to get to my tutorial room, meet my co-presenter, and get set up.
I reckoned without the fifteen-minute walk between the registration site and the tutorial room. (Might have been a bit quicker had I not been hauling one bag full of laptop, one bag full of conference swag, and one box full of tutorial swag.) Not to mention that the conference schedule saith naught about what room anything is in, so I had to wander the building disconsolate as a wraith (and dripping sweat, this being June in North Carolina) until I happened upon Tim in a stairwell.
Nonetheless, I was on time, did get the tutorial swag handed out (and twelve copies turned out to be the magic number; everybody got one, Tim and I each have a copy for our files, and aside from that there are none left over!), and did control my temper enough to throw myself into matters tutorialish.
I think it went well, but I am obviously the wrong person to ask. If you missed it and wish you hadn’t, keep an eye on the DSpace wiki and MARS and IDEALS, because our slides and handouts will be showing up there after the conference.
I will say that the conference swag is pretty good. Nice bag, nice water-bottle, and an extremely spiffy LCD booklight gizmo. Geeks get the best swag!
My schedule for the conference proper looks like this (should be attending all plenaries, so won’t list them):
- Monday: Named Entities 1, Augmenting Interoperability Across Scholarly Repositories, Digital Preservation.
- Tuesday: Digital Library Curriculum, NDIIPP Preservation Network, Supporting Education
- Wednesday: Metadata in Action, Usage and Relationships
