Hi everyone!

Throughout the next week I’m going to be adding workshop presentations to our Google Collection and embedding the presentations here on the blog.

Here’s the presentation for Leveraging TourML & TAP for managing and deploying Tours by Kyle Jaebker (@kjaebker), Indianapolis Museum of Art.

If you attended the workshop, please share your reflections as comments here (if you have many thoughts, consider making your own blog post and linking back to this one). If you did not attend the workshop, then feel free to look over the presentation and please share your own reflections and ask questions!

Fairly recently, METRO and NYPL sponsored a workshop on Linked Open Data, and also a lecture by Marcia Lei Zeng.  I attended the first session, which piqued my curiosity, but I need a review.  I also have some questions:

• How exactly does LOD relate to/interact with the old crosswalks of metadata standards familiar to libraries, museums and digital collections?
• There seem to be 200 implementations.  Where are they? What do they look like?
• Does LOD answer or help to the age-old question of access to all digital collections of libraries and museums in one place or one grand interface?
• Is LOD a new iteration of the web entirely?
• How is it possible to keep up with/migrate to/understand/implement new standards such as this?  I barely understand DAMS and CMS.  Now more!  What is the minimum technical knowledge required to keep current in the field and how is it possible to achieve it without spending $$$$ on a 2nd degree?

As must be obvious, I am not an expert on this.  Hopefully, someone more knowledgeable will join the session to enlighten us.  If not, we will together explore web sites and other resources explaining it.  I have a few session notes that will get us started.