Keynotes 20040730

Nat introduces as TimO said was mindblowing. Talk at LongNow Foundation (which brings us back to CoEQ).

== David Rumsey - Open Access, Maps, etc. ==

Cultural content and preservation of it.

Rumsey sponsors imagry from his collection, museums, images of gravestones, japanese and chinese artifacts.

Capability to gather and view online various unique forms of content - aggregation of history and ideas in a place for all rather than a privileged few.  

With access to this content, can build new interpretations and civilizations ourselves.

Impacts of project in searching, open content, accessibility, etc

Enabling all participants to build collaboratively can only enhance other collections.

Some of his databases have tiered (by resolution) access.

Debated how to make available - university libraries focus on preservation rather than display.  But online resourcing allows public access (but preservation of originals).  Created davidrumsey.{com|net|org}.  Over 10K maps.  7K visitors/day - by comparison, most university archives have 5K visitors/year.

First problem was moving from analog to digital.  Rumsey scanned first 4K maps himself.  Needed a blend of softwares.  Offer multiple access tools - web based, desktop client, GIS browser, etc. Depth and resolution based selection.

Heavy client allows multiple map access, comparison between maps easily, allows annotation, linking to comparative data.  

GIS browser allows correction (georectification)   Can syncrhonously browse maps together.

Ticker allowing serendipitous discovery (flows across collection over ~8 hours).

Knitting of multiple maps into cohesive wholes.  Provide location based precooked maps. 

OpenContent also demands sharing with other organizations. Combine collections of european map with asian maps of the same area, for example.  Or overlaying location based art to maps between collections.

Some work to combine with Octavo publications.

Provides basic data to other institutes - including his GIS data aggregation.

New project is individual collections which can be integrated with existing online collections (so elending your trip images with collection images).

More collections of museum work (incl. early FL collection).  Can aggregate between collections for searching.

Images are downlaodable, but also offer printing.

Allow repuroposing of data Cartographica Extraordinaire is a book he worked on - showing changes in representation, or how railroads modified rendering of time. Etc.

Gaming of maps - flythroughs, interaction.

Considers himself a bit of a case study for how other institutions can do similar work.  As these libraries begin to do so, opportunity for OSS people to provide more open tools for these projects.

Closes with PNW maps between Spain and England.  English maps were widely shared, spanish took a propriotary view.  Naming rights thusended up with the English - open content wcan do the same thing, unleashing creativity.

== David Patrick ==

On making OSS a reality on desktop and platform

Ximian.

Trends toward acceptance of OSS in business world.  Novell having worked over time to become more of an OS company, with marketing,.

Trends toward acceptance of OSS in business world.  Novell having worked over time to become more of an OS company, with marketing. 

Testimony to change - cancelled MSFT license as of March31 of this year.  OO.org as office solution.  With introduction of Novell desktop, all employees will move to that desktop (Ximian/Suse)

Fairly standard discussion, though given with humor.  Predominantly repurposed pitch for businesses.,