Standing room only at the very last panel of the SALALM 2012 conference: Pecha Kucha! This is the third time that we have run a Pecha Kucha, where participants are allowed roughly 7 minutes to present their work. There was a wide variety of fabulous topics- thanks to presenters and participants!
Here are the presenters’ presentations and details. Enjoy!
Alison Hicks, University of Colorado, Boulder.
What Digital Collection? Issues of Collection Development, Cataloging Trends and Standards, and Ethical Considerations of Underground Music in the Caribbean and Latin America / Samuel Wicks (University of Pittsburgh)
Thanks to everyone for attending Pecha Kucha! The room was packed and the presenters were fabulous. I’ll add the presentations as I get them. See you next year!
Author: Melissa Gasparotto Published: July 26th, 2010
As usual, SALALM has me frantically jotting down ideas and resources as they get shared by colleagues on panels. Because there are so many excellent concurrent panels, I wanted to share some of these for those of you who may not have been able to attend yesterday’s first (of many, I hope!) Pecha Kucha.
Daisy Dominguez presented on her experiences with Twitter. If you tweet, use #Salalm55 to tweet about the Conference. She invites you to connect with her at @daisilla
Martha Kelehan mentioned a number of resources to help you create data visualizations: GapMinder Google Motion Charts VUE (concept mapping software)
Daniel Schoorl also mentioned a number of ways to visualize data in his presentation on the Statistical Abstract of Latin America Many Eyes GeoCommons Ushahidi Social Explorer
In Orchid Mazurkiewicz’s presentation on federated searching and Latin American Studies, she reminded us of a resource that many of us learned about at Berlin’s conference: Cibera
And Luis Gonzalez talked about two databases/resource pages that he has been maintaining and expanding over the years: Researching Brazil Researching Mexico
Pecha Kucha has just finished, and I, for one, have three pages of notes to follow up on! Owing to wifi failure, I was seen without my computer surgically attached to my fingers; I even proved that I do still know how to write. However, I still managed to learn a lot from each presentation and hope that we have started a new SALALM tradition.
