VALA day 2

To say Michael Geist, the Canada Research Chair of Internet and E-commerce Law at the University of Ottawa spoke about copyright would be true, but he also spoke about active community based lobbying about proposed changes to copyright law. He gave his vision of the future and highlighted some interesting international examples of legal and yet creative use of copyright and creative commons licensing.

VALA day 1 part 2

Also watch out for Peter Lor's paper and podcast. He took an international approach to discussing the information economy.

Other papers/podcasts to watch out for include
Joann Ransom of the Horowhenua Library Trust and their community project Kete Horowhenua and Deb Stumm and Christine Sayer of the State Library of Queensland and the Queensland stories project.

VALA - day 1

The key note speaker this morning was Andy Powell of Eduserve. Watch out for the podcast of his talk and for his paper to become available - both would be well worth hearing/reading. Powell talked about global repositories as a model instead of institutional repositories. He also reminded us to consider the architecture of the web as an model, instead of trying to reinvent what is there. Libraries could look to global repositories like technorati and flickr.