NESC Forum 2009: Gavin Reynolds

The second presentation of Day Two of the NESC Forum was delivered by Gavin Reynolds of the National Sport Information Centre.
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This is a copy of his PowerPoint presentation:

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IASI 2009 Canberra: Day 1 Welcome

Introduction

Brennon Dowrick , the Master of Ceremonies, welcomed guests and delegates to the 13th IASI World Congress.
Brennon introduced Brent Espeland, Acting CEO, Australian Sports Commission (ASC) and invited him to make the official welcome address to all congress delegates. Brent welcomed delegates on behalf of the ASC. In his address, Brent identified Sport as a [...]

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A Flicker of Flickr at the National Library of Australia

This post started its journey with an email from Chris Gould (a member of staff at the NSIC, Canberra) to the AUSPIN listserv. It has developed into an expedition into tagging and accessibility.
Chris had attended a talk by George Oates (program manager for Flickr’s Commons project and former chief designer for Flickr) at the National [...]

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Resource Description and Access

(Via Greg Blood and Chris Gould, NSIC, Canberra)
The Joint Steering Committee (JSC) for the Development of Resource Description and Access (RDA) states that RDA is the working title of the new standard that will be the successor to AACR2. (Background information is here.)
RDA will provide:

A flexible framework for describing all resources – analog and digital
Data [...]

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SIRC launches Blog and Facebook Page

Via Greg Blood (NSIC, Canberra)
The Sport Information Resource Centre (SIRC) has announced the launch of a blog and Facebook page and group.
This is the link to the blog.
Background information from the press release on 18 November 2008:
Founded in 1973, SIRC is a private, not-for-profit corporation based in Ottawa, Canada with over 6.5 million pages of [...]

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