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Brian Kelly gave a pre-recorded presentation on Linking Feral Event Data: The IWMW 2009 Case Study which was presented at a session on "Linking Feral (Uncontrolled) Data" at the DC 2009 conference which was held on 13^th October 2009 in Seoul, South Korea.

Abstract

Increasingly research conferences, such as DC 2009, will have a WiFi network which conference attendees will use to enhance their learning and engagement with ideas, as well as for supporting administrative and social needs.

Tools such as Twitter enable conference attendees to engage in discussions during talks in ways which would have been frowned upon before handheld devices and laptop computers became an essential item for many researchers.

The pre-recorded presentation will describe the approaches which were taken at UKOLN's recent IWMW 2009 (Institutional Web Management Workshop) in which Twitter (together with technologies such as Twitter, an event blog, Flickr and live video streaming) was used to enrich the quality of the event and maximise its outreach.

The presentation covers:

• The reasons for the 'event amplification'
• Tools used to aggregate information provided on a diversity of services
• Tools used to preserve the event 'tweets'
• Challenges in curating the event 'tweets'
• The dangers in attempting to manage an event's backchannel'

Materials

The following slides will be used for the talk.

Slides

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Accompanying Resources

For a list of related resources please see the del.icio.us social bookmarking Web site using the tag 'dc-2009'.