During lunch on Saturday will be inviting people to make lightning presentations of no more than 3 minutes. In US THATCamp parlance these are ‘dork shorts’, but the Australian translation — ‘boardies’ — doesn’t seem to quite work. Speed-os perhaps? Stubbies?
Anyway, think of them as showcase opportunities, or elevator pitches — a chance to briefly show off a project you’ve been working on or thinking about.
So start thinking now about what you’d like to present. Leave a comment and link below if you’d like to be added to the line-up.
Not a project per se – just a quick awareness raising of what services and tools are now available for archiving live web content – important if you’re using web content as raw data for research and need to know you can always reproduce it faithfully ascertaining its authenticity and integrity
I’ll probably throw in another makehackvoid.com pitch.
Just functionally, a school bell, dinger, or applause is helpful at 150 seconds. (And has sometimes been continuously necessary after 200 seconds in other 3 minute situations).
I suppose the keyboard cat is a little passé now… Suggestions welcome on suitable means of gently moving things along!
Museums are into objects, and objects are embedded with meaning. Thus, if Speedos symbolise and therefore bestow super powers of speech – by extension – then I’m happy to get up for 3 minutes waving a Thong and a Jandal and distract with some news about the Museum Exchange project about to kick off.
At some stage I can give an update on the Dictionary’s initial investigations into the semantic web.
I thought I might take the chance to introduce the History Wall.
Wow, Tim. That just gets awesomer and awesomer. Now I want it as an iPhone app too – a this day in history thing would be nice – just been browsing history apps and have found so little Australian content.
Have a project I would like to show to campers – to see if it brings any ideas to the surface…a collection of mounted string figures that I am ‘researching’…all to be revealed on the day…
News update on the Gazetteer of Australia – will be fully digital and open next year including supporting OGC WFS-G (Gazetteer profile) for machine access