[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] egcon2013: some last minute program additions

[Tara Robertson]

Whoa! The conference is less than a month away! Here are some last minute
program additions and tweaks that we are really excited about.

Program highlights

*Evergreen: 5 years later, John van Rassel*

The Innisfil Public Library adopted Evergreen almost 5 years ago, with the
intention that this shift in direction would create a catalyst for
organizational change. All staff had a role in implementing the change,
working together and solving problems as a team, as many had roles
completely outside their comfort zones. It was an opportunity to build
staff skill levels, boost technological confidence levels and fuel team
cohesiveness.

*Works with Evergreen: Practical approaches to integration, Jeff Godin*

Evergreen implements a number of standard library protocols, as well as a
complete API which supports all of the functions available in the staff
client. Together, these points of integration allow Evergreen to
interoperate with a growing number of tools and services. This talk will
cover examples of these tools and services; outline the methods by which
they communicate with Evergreen today; and provide recommended development
strategies for creating new tools and services or modifying existing ones.

*Discoveries in Digital Humanities: how Evergreen contributes, Vyacheslav
Tykhonov*

The mission of International Institute of Social History (in Amsterdam, the
Netherlands) changed in January 2013. Now Evergreen is being used for the
development of tools for data mining, the linking of texts and visual
materials, building timelines and visualizing tools for collections and
biographies. Data stored in the IISH will be used as training sets for
development of tools for Named Entity Recognition, language identification,
text analysis, topic detection and other Natural Language Processing tools.
This presentation will be an introduction of the development of tools and
will show examples of Digital Humanities tools based on Evergreen
open-source library system.

View the whole program here: eg2013.evergreen-ils.org/schedule/

Register now
We almost at capacity. Whether you are using Evergreen or thinking about
using Evergreen, don't miss your chance to attend this conference. The
registration fee is $225, which is a really good deal:
http://eg2013.evergreen-ils.org/registration/

See you in Vancouver!
Tara
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