Sessions at SXSW Interactive 2012 about sxswLAM on Tuesday 13th March

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• Creating an Internet of Entities

  by Drew Vogel, George Oates, Pete Warden and Tyler Bell

  The Internet today consists of a morass of partial and redundant content: the ~17m businesses and POI in the US, for example, are duplicated over 1.2 billion website across over 5 million domains. This tangle of duplicate, fragmentary, and often incorrect information ensures that unequivocally identifying a person, place or thing on the Internet will always be a challenge. The members of this panel are working to fix this, and will discuss their projects in the Library, Government, and Big Data sectors to create an Internet where real-world people, places, and things can be referenced unambiguously. It focuses on pragmatic, real-world examples: the panelists from Factual, the Sunlight Foundation, Jetpac, and the Internet Archive each highlight their specific experiences in creating platforms and apps that identify and disambiguate individual entities across applications and verticals, and describe both the pitfalls and benefits of working towards an Internet of Entities.

  • Identity
  • Internet of Things
  • Libraries
  • sxswLAM
  • URLs

  At 11:00am to 12:00pm, Tuesday 13th March

  In Creekside I & II, Sheraton Austin Hotel at the Capitol

  Coverage audio clip

• Making eBooks Smarter: Responsive Page Design

  by Peter Meyers

  Some ebooks are print edition replicas, some are overstuffed mediafests. Neither fulfill one of screen publishing’s biggest promises: adapting content to meet readers’ needs. The digital page can do much more than its “dumb” static counterpart. Possibilities range from memory-coaxing character summaries embedded “beneath” the digital canvas to continuously streamed in updates. Join author Pete Meyers (“Breaking the Page”, O’Reilly) for a lively group chat. He’ll kick off with a fast-paced tour of digital document design principles and best practices. From there he’ll help attendees compare modern readers’ most pressing needs to the kinds of just-in-time services digital books can deliver. Together we’ll swipe away the notion that digital book design is just about picking fonts or adding video. It’s about shaping content on an infinite canvas so that ebook readers become ebook lovers.

  • Content
  • eBooks
  • Libraries
  • Publishing
  • Responsive Design
  • sxswLAM

  At 3:30pm to 4:30pm, Tuesday 13th March

  In Capitol View North, Sheraton Austin Hotel at the Capitol

• Radically Open Cultural Heritage Data on the Web

  by Adrian Stevenson, Jon Voss, Julie Allinson and Rachel Frick

  What happens when tens of thousands of archival photos are shared with open licenses, then mashed up with geolocation data and current photos? Or when app developers can freely utilize information and images from millions of books? On this panel, we'll explore the fundamental elements of Linked Open Data and discover how rapidly growing access to metadata within the world's libraries, archives and museums is opening exciting new possibilities for understanding our past, and may help in predicting our future. Our panelists will look into the technological underpinnings of Linked Open Data, demonstrate use cases and applications, and consider the possibilities of such data for scholarly research, preservation, commercial interests, and the future of cultural heritage data.

  • Libraries
  • Linked Data
  • Linked Open Data
  • Museums
  • Open Data
  • sxswLAM

  At 3:30pm to 4:30pm, Tuesday 13th March

  In Room 10AB, Austin Convention Center

  Coverage audio clip slide deck slide deck