Pre-conference and Post-conference event links:
- Tutorials (pre-conference) Monday, June 13, 2011 – 8:45 to 16:45
- Doctoral Consortium (pre-conference) Monday, June 13, 2011 – 8:45 to 16:45
- Workshops (post-conference) Thursday, June 16, 2011 at 13:30 to Friday June 17 at 12:15
JCDL 2011 Conference events
Tuesday, June 14th
Regular JCDL attendees will notice that this year Demonstrations accompany the LUNCH on Tuesday and Posters accompany the RECEPTION on Tuesday evening.
7:30 am – 17:30 pm Registration – DMS Lobby
8:00 am – 9:00 am Continental Breakfast
Tuesday June 14th – 9:00-10:00 Location: UCU – Alumni Auditorium Leaving the Cathedral and Entering the Bazaar: Library and Archives Canada Engages Canada’s Digital Society Drawing upon the title of the seminal book, The Cathedral and the Bazaar, which juxtaposes the cultures of commercial and open source software producers, this presentation repurposes the metaphor to explore the differences that arise when a national library like LAC transitions from an analog to a digital environment. In short, while operating in an analog world Canada’s National Library executed its mandate in a cathedral- like organizational structure, a bricks and mortar monument to knowledge, characterized by a controlled, ordered, static, mediated, and monopolistic modus operandi. However, transitioning into a digital landscape requires that Library and Archives Canada adapt its operations to the organic, dynamic, transactional, market-driven, transitory nature of cyberspace that is often represented by the notion of the bazaar. In juxtaposing these two distinct social spaces, we will also present the unique particularities of a national library and explore the different manners in which the key functions of acquisition, preservation, and resource discovery are exercised. Along the way, we ask the important question: how does a national library remain relevant when all the important determining factors in the field: business models, value propositions, intellectual property rights, user preferences, ICT, and available resources are in a state of dynamic change? As well, in looking at the way ahead, how can libraries continue to fulfill their mandate of providing free and democratic access to information resources in an environment dominated by commercial information service providers that operate in a transnational sphere of activity? |
10:00 am – 10:30 am Break
Tuesday, June 14th – 10:30-12:00 (three concurrent sessions) | ||
Session 1 | Session 2 | Session 3 |
Paper (Full) Paper (Full) Paper (Short) Paper (Short) | Paper (Full) Paper (Full) nominee Paper (Short) Paper (Short) | Paper (Full) Paper (Full) Paper (Short) Paper (Short) |
12:00 pm – 14:00 pm Lunch and Demonstrations Location: UCU
Tuesday, June 14th – 14:00-15:30 (three concurrent sessions) | ||
Session 4 | Session 5 | Panel Chair:J. Stephen Downie Location: DMS 1150 |
Paper (Full) Paper (Full) Paper (Short) Paper (Short) | Paper (Full) nominee Paper (Full) Paper (Short) Paper (Short) | Panel Moderator: Panelists: “The HathiTrust Research Center” “Structural Analysis of Large Amounts of Musical Information” “Datta-Mine-ing” |
15:30 pm – 15:45 pm Break
Session 6 | Session 7 |
Paper (Short) Paper (Short) Paper (Short) Paper (Short) | Paper (Full) nominee Paper (Full) |
17:00 pm – 20:30 pm Minute Madness, Poster sessions, Reception Location: Tabaret Hall
17:00 – Networking and mingling |
Wednesday, June 15th
8:00 am – 17:30 pm Registration – DMS Lobby
8:00 am – 9:00 am Continental Breakfast
Wednesday, June 15th – 9:00-10:00 Location: UCU – Alumni Auditorium What is a story? In a classic sense, a story has characters, events, and a progression. Now what if the story involves data? How can data visualization support telling a story? Can visualization tools help data storytellers construct narratives? Storytelling with data is a new way of thinking about data visualization designed for mass appeal, which emphasizes the communicative intent of visualization, rather than simple mass appeal. A visualization can be viewed in terms of its intended message, the characters and events within the data, and the intended progression the audience can take through the visualization. Additionally, an effective story can be understood by different audiences with varying levels of expertise with the material. My talk will discuss this concept of telling stories with data through examples of visualization research going on at IBM Research. | ||
10:00 am – 10:30 am Break
Wednesday, June 15th – 10:30-12:00 (two concurrent sessions) | |
Session 8 | Session 9 |
Paper (Full) nominee Paper (Full) Paper (Short) Paper (Short) | Paper (Full) Paper (Full) Paper (Short) Paper (Short) |
12:00 pm – 13:30 pm
Lunch (boxed) Location: DMS Lobby
Open meeting Location: DMS 1160
Wednesday, June 15th – 13:30-15:00 (two concurrent sessions) | |
Session 10 | Session 11 |
Paper (Full) Paper (Full) nominee Paper (Short) Paper (Short) | Paper (Full) nominee Paper (Full) Paper (Short) Paper (Short)
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15:00 pm – 15:30 pm Break
18:00 pm -21:00 pm Conference Dinner Location: new Ottawa Convention Centre
18:00 – Conference Dinner and Awards
21:00 – Conference Dinner ends |
Thursday, June 16th
8:00 am – 17:30 pm Registration – DMS Lobby
8:00 am – 9:00 am Continental Breakfast
Session 14 | Session 15 |
Paper (Full) Paper (Full) Paper (Short) | Paper (Full) Paper (Full) Paper (Short) |
10:15 am – 10:45 am Break
Thursday, June 16th – 10:45-12:00 Location: UCU – Alumni Auditorium Innovative design, science, and data management in NEPTUNE Canada: the world’s first regional cabled ocean observatory network Christopher R. Barnes, Mairi M. R. Best, Fern R. Johnson, Lucie Pautet and Benoît Pirenne The advent of the first cabled ocean observatories, with several others being planned, demonstrates the challenges in their design, installation and operation for innovative ocean science and applications. NEPTUNE Canada (NC) is the world’s first regional cabled ocean observatory, located in the northeast Pacific Ocean, off British Columbia’s coast. Installation of the subsea infrastructure and 60 diverse instruments was completed in 2009, with 40 more added in 2010; another 30 instruments will be deployed in 2011-12. The observatory is characterized by abundant power and high bandwidth communications to allow investigation of a wide range of ocean environments as well as providing discrimination between short and long-term events, interactive experiments, real time data and imagery, and complex multidisciplinary teams interrogating a vast database over the observatory’s 25-year design life. Initial data flow started in December 2009, with over 10TB of data and video imagery archived to date. NC, within Ocean Networks Canada, has attracted $100M for installation and over $45M for operations; the facility operated with 45 core staff supporting scores of participating scientists across Canada and at international institutions. The scientific priorities established through a series of workshops defined the location of the observatory node sites. Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks (France) was the prime contractor and designed, manufactured and installed the 800km backbone cable and five nodes (stepping 10kV DC down to 400V DC). Node sites are located at the coast (Folger Passage), continental slope (ODP 889; Barkley Canyon), abyssal plain (ODP 1027), and ocean-spreading ridge (Endeavour) in water depths of 100-2660m. Principal scientific themes are: plate tectonic processes and earthquake dynamics; dynamic processes of seabed fluid fluxes and gas hydrates; regional ocean/climate dynamics and effects on marine biota; deep-sea ecosystem dynamics; and engineering and computational research. A 10Gbps network backhaul link from the Port Alberni shore station to the University of Victoria’s data centre, mostly funded through a CANARIE award. A disaster-recovery site has been arranged in Saskatoon where a complete copy of all the data from NC and VENUS are hosted and where a secondary access to many of the services is available. The Data Management and Archive System (DMAS) provides controls for the observatory network and transparent access to other data providers using interoperability techniques within a Web 2.0 environment. Users can perform data visualization and analysis on-line with either default or custom processing code, as well as simultaneously interacting with each other. Oceans 2.0 is adding tools to perform software-aided feature detection and classification of sounds in acoustic data streams. After its first year of operation, NC has over 9000 registered users representing over 130 counties. The DMAS system supports the instruments of both the VENUS coastal and NC regional networks. It has already recorded billions of individual measurements from hundreds of sensors placed on the seabed and archived them in a database management system and/or in a file server. New knowledge and scientific interpretations are addressing important science applications of the observatory: ocean/climate change, ocean acidification, recognizing and mitigating natural hazards, non-renewable and renewable natural resources. Challenges are considerable: technical innovations, enlarging the user base, management, funding, and maximizing educational/outreach activities. Socio-economic benefits are substantial: not only the transformation of ocean sciences but with many applications in sectors such as sovereignty, security, transportation, data services, and public policy. Opportunities for commercialization of technologies and data services/products are being facilitated by the Centre of Enterprise and Engagement (www.onccee.ca) within Ocean Networks Canada (www.networkscanada.ca), which manages the NC and VENUS networks (www.neptunecanada.ca; www.uvic.venus.ca). Cabled ocean observatories are transforming the ocean sciences and will result in a progressive wiring of the oceans. They are designed to be expandable in footprint, nodes and instruments, and the range of scientific questions, and to provide facilities for testing technology prototypes. They will provide a wealth of new research opportunities and socio-economic benefits. Figure 1: NEPTUNE Canada cabled ocean observatory network showing 800km backbone cable route, node locations, Port Alberni shore station, and Victoria data centre. |