Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group

Mat Kelly, Justin F. Brunelle and Dr. Michael L. Nelson travel to London, UK to report on the Digital Libraries 2014 Conference.                            On September 9th through 11th, 2014, Dr. Nelson ( @phonedude_mln ), Justin ( @justinfbrunelle ), and I ( @machawk1 ) attending the Digital Libraries 2014 conference (a composite of the JCDL (see trip reports for 2013 , 2012 , 2011 ) and TPDL (see trip reports for 2013 and 2012 ) conferences this year) in London, England. Prior to the conference, Justin and I attended the DL2014 Doctoral Consortium , which occurred on September 8th. The main conference on September 9th opened with George Buchanan ( @GeorgeRBuchanan ) indicating that this year's conference was a combination of both TPDL and JCDL from previous years. With the first digital libraries conference being in 1994, this year marked the 20th year anniversary of the conference. George celebrated this by singing Happy Birthday to the conference and introduced t

Mat Kelly and Dr. Michael L. Nelson travel to Washington, DC and both report on their current research as well as be made aware of others' work in the field.                            On July 22 and 23, 2014, Dr. Michael Nelson ( @phonedude_mln ) and I ( @machawk1 ) attended Digital Preservation 2014 in Washington, DC. This was my fourth consecutive NDIIPP ( @ndiipp ) / NDSA ( @ndsa2 ) meeting (see trip reports from Digital Preservation 2011 , 2012 , 2013 ). With the largest attendance yet (300+) and compressed into two days, the schedule was jam-packed with interesting talks. Per usual, videos for most of the presentations are included inline below. Day One Micah Altman ( @drmaltman ) led the presentations with information about the NDSA and asked, regarding Amazon claiming reliability of 99.99999999999% for uptime, "What do the eleven nines mean?". "There are a number of risk that we know about [as archivists] that Amazon doesn't", he sa