Canadian Association for Information Science Conference 2008

The Canadian Association for Information Science Conference (CAIS) was part of the Canadian Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities in Vancouver at UBC from June 5th to June 8th. CAIS is large enough that there are always new people attending, but small enough that I can actually attend a high percentage of the talks. This is great because I can get a larger picture of the types of research other people are doing in the field of library and information science.

This year I presented additional results from a study of affective (emotional) and subjective tags used on social bookmarking tools. These are tags like @toread, cool and fun. The paper is available from the CAIS website: http://www.cais-acsi.ca/proceedings/2008/kipp_2008.pdf and the presentation is available here: http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00013789/

Here are a few pictures from the UBC campus (Library and sunset):



And a few pictures from Vancouver in general (Chinatown Night Market, Vancouver Aquarium):

Ottawa Race Weekend 2008

This year I participated in the Ottawa Race Weekend, May23-25. My mother and I walked the MDS Nordion 10K. It was a lot of fun and I'm looking forward to doing it again next year. I've also started thinking about training to walk a half marathon.