On the road in Oz
I have just completed the first of a series of presentations in Cities in Australia. This first one was at the State Library of Western Australia, in Perth, where I spoke about what comes after Web 2.0 – the Semantic Web – and what this will mean for the way libraries operate and share and utilise information in the future. A copy of my presentation is available here [pdf 52Mb].
After an enjoyable trip down to Australia with a great stop over day in Dubai (see personal blog post), I was welcomed in to Perth by that well known library blogger Kathryn Greenhill and her family. If you are ever in Perth and want a tour of the area, I can recommend looking Kathryn up – her family were so welcoming.
Yesterday I met with some interesting people at Curtin University of Technology, and my all to short stay in Perth culminated in the presentation at the State Library followed by a meal in an excellent local India restaurant.
An early morning flight tomorrow takes me on to Melbourne, for a further couple of seminars, organised in association with Caval, who also were responsible for organising the one in Perth. Then Hobart, Tasmania, is my destination to meet with people from the other TALIS.
The end of my trip will be in Canberra for the National Library of Australia’s Innovative Ideas Forum, but more of that in future posts.
