{"id":1937,"date":"2009-09-27T10:10:34","date_gmt":"2009-09-27T17:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/palblog.fxpal.com\/?p=1937"},"modified":"2009-09-27T22:08:21","modified_gmt":"2009-09-28T05:08:21","slug":"a-tale-of-two-islands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.fxpal.net\/?p=1937","title":{"rendered":"A tale of two islands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"European Conference on Digital Libraries\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ionio.gr\/conferences\/ecdl2009\/\" target=\"_blank\">ECDL 2009<\/a> is taking place this week, and those of us who could not make it to <a title=\"EDCDL2009 Location\/Delegate Info\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ionio.gr\/conferences\/ecdl2009\/location.php\" target=\"_blank\">Corfu<\/a> will have to settle for the island experience of the Second (Life) Kind. Just as <a title=\"JCDL 2009 and Second Life | FXPAL Blog\" href=\"http:\/\/palblog.fxpal.com\/?p=887\" target=\"_blank\">JCDL 2009<\/a> did earlier this summer, the ECDL 2009 <a title=\"ECDL 2009 Poster Session | SLurl.com\" href=\"http:\/\/slurl.com\/secondlife\/Digital%20Preserve\/120\/76\/22\/\" target=\"_blank\">Poster Session<\/a> is available for viewing online through <a title=\"SecondLife\" href=\"https:\/\/join.secondlife.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">SecondLife<\/a>. The real Poster Session will take place Monday, September 28th,\u00a0 (7-9pm EET, 12:00-14:00 EST, 9-11am PDT), with a parallel session in SecondLife that will continue long after the real one ends.<\/p>\n<p>The complete list of posters is available <a title=\"ECDL 2009 Posters and Demos\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ionio.gr\/conferences\/ecdl2009\/posters-demos.php\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>; I am looking forward to &#8220;Improving annotations in digital documents,&#8221; &#8220;Searching in a book,&#8221; and &#8220;Workspace narrative exploration: overcoming interruption-caused           context loss in information seeking tasks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There are some interesting papers at ECDL as well, including<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"N. Frero (2009) Annotation Search: The FAST Way. In Proc. ECDL 2009, volume 5714 of LNCS. Springer Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg (Abstract only)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ionio.gr\/conferences\/ecdl2009\/abstracts.php#32\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Annotation search: the FAST way&#8221;<\/a> by Nicola Ferro<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"E. Toms and L. Mccay-Peet. (2009) Chance encounters in the digital library. In Proc. ECDL 2009, volume 5714 of LNCS. Springer Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg (Abstract only)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ionio.gr\/conferences\/ecdl2009\/abstracts.php#6A3\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Chance encounters in the digital library&#8221; <\/a> by Elaine Toms and Lori           Mccay-Peet<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"P. Vakkari and M. Taneli (2009) Comparing Google to Ask-a-Librarian Service for Answering Factual and Topical Questions. In Proc. ECDL 2009, volume 5714 of LNCS. Springer Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg. (Abstract only)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ionio.gr\/conferences\/ecdl2009\/abstracts.php#9B2\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Comparing Google to Ask-a-librarian service for answering factual           and topical questions&#8221; <\/a> by Pertti Vakkari and Mari Taneli<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"J. Kamps, M. Lalmas, and B. Larsen. (2009) Evaluation in context. In Proc. ECDL 2009, volume 5714 of LNCS. Springer Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg,\" href=\"http:\/\/staff.science.uva.nl\/~kamps\/publications\/2009\/kamp:eval09.pdf\">&#8220;Evaluation in context&#8221; <\/a> by Jaap Kamps, Mounia Lalmas and Birger           Larsen<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ics.forth.gr\/~tzitzik\/publications\/Tzitzikas_2009_ECDL.pdf\">&#8220;Exploratory web searching with dynamic taxonomies and results clustering&#8221; <\/a> by Panagiotis Papadakos, Stella Kopidaki, Nikos Armenatzoglou and Yannis           Tzitzikas<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ECDL 2009 is taking place this week, and those of us who could not make it to Corfu will have to settle for the island experience of the Second (Life) Kind. Just as JCDL 2009 did earlier this summer, the ECDL 2009 Poster Session is available for viewing online through SecondLife. 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