On the way to code4lib 2008
Well actually sat in Terminal C at Newark airport whiling away several hours until the connecting flight to Portland Oregon is ready to hurl itself in to the New Jersey skies - Sunday afternoon in Newark airport, a great life this!
Anyway it will be all worth it once the conference starts. I’m looking forward to the keynotes from Brewster Kahle, Karen Coyle and Talking with Talis interviewee Jon Udell. Brewster will be updating us on progress with the Open Library, which seems to be gaining wide interest lately. Karen will be giving an insight in to the developments around RDA, and I’m not sure what Jon has on his agenda, but this adopted code4liber is always full of interesting points of view.
Two Talisians Rob Styles and Ross Singer are also on the program. Having sat next to Rob on a plane from the UK whilst he was tweaking his presentation on Finding Relationships in Marc Data, I can testify to the fact that it is going to be well worth watching.
Ross is presenting ÖpënÜRL with Jonathan Rochkind about Ümlaut, the open source OpenURL middleware. There are two many other things on the program to mention here, but this looks like being a great conference again this year.
