ASIST 2009

This year ASIST was in Vancouver. Vancouver is of course busy preparing for the 2010 Winter Olympics so many olympic things are spread around the city. I walked around and looked at the many new eagle statues and the olympic rings in the harbour.





I presented two posters at the conference. The first was at the SIG-CR workshop pre-conference session and the second was in the 3rd poster session of the main conference. Considering it was the last day of the conference in the afternoon there were a fair number of people who came to view the posters.

Exploring Measures of Inter-Tagger Consistency. SIG-CR Workshop Poster, Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. http://eprints.rclis.org/17218/

Searching with Tags: Do Tags Help Users Find Things? Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. http://eprints.rclis.org/17348/

And of course the view on the flight out is good too...

Canoeing on the Ottawa River

Thesis: Defended

On July 20th I defended my thesis titled "Information Organisation Practices on the Web: Tagging and the Social Organisation of Information"



I wrote the entire thesis in OpenOffice on a Linux based computer and used Calc and OpenStat to do most of the calculations. I also used CiteULike to record my references. If nothing else, this certainly proves that OpenOffice is a full blown office suite.

The thesis is based on a series of conference and journal papers, so perhaps 50 or 60% of the material has already been published or presented at conferences. I thought the method worked well for an emerging phenomenon.

Baby Rabbit in the Grass

Trip to Huntington, May 15th

My father and I drove to Huntington to look around at some historical sites. I had been to Huntington once before on the train.

Pictures from top to bottom: Heckscher Museum of Art, Heckscher Park, Huntington's September 11th memorial.

MDS Nordion 10K - Ottawa Race Weekend

This past weekend was the Ottawa Race Weekend (on Facebook). My mother and I walked the 10K again this year and managed a time a bit faster than last year's. My sister also ran the marathon.

The shorter races centre around the Rideau Canal which is a nice walk at anytime.

Fog in Eisenhower Park

Theodore Roosevelt Nature Centre at Jones Beach State Park

A few shots of the sand dunes around the Theodore Roosevelt Nature Centre at Jones Beach State Park.

Cradle of Aviation Museum, Long Island

Visited the Cradle of Aviation Museum, Garden City, LI.

American Museum of Natural History, NYC

Visited the American Museum of Natural History and the Hayden Planetarium.

20 cm of Snow on Long Island

Snow in Manhattan

A few photos from the snowfall in the NYC area on February 3rd...

Jones Beach in Winter

Snow in Eisenhower Park