Category Archives: Presentations

British Library and IIPCTech15

For a change of pace: A not too technical tale of my recent visit to England. The people behind IIPC Technical Training Workshop – London 2015 had invited yours truly as a speaker and participant in the technical training. IIPC … Continue reading

Posted in Conference, eskildsen, Performance, Presentations, Solr | 1 Comment

A few Highlights from the Digital Libraries #DL2014 conference in London

This post is written at the DL2014 conference in London in September, where it’s warm and sunny 🙂 My visit started at the Digital Preservation Sustainability on the EU Policy Level workshop on Monday. This workshop had an interesting panel … Continue reading

Posted in Conference, Presentations | Tagged | 1 Comment

SCAPE All-Staff Meeting 2014 in Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal

People in our own department at the State and University Library have complained, that we don’t talk enough, tell enough, write enough about this SCAPE project, we are working on, so here goes. I won’t tell you about the SCAPE … Continue reading

Posted in Conference, Presentations, Statsbiblioteket | Tagged | 1 Comment

ECDL 2010

ECDL Conference Digital Resources Dep. People report from ECDL2010 Have been meaning to write about our fascinating conference experience for days! This is it. The first keynote was by Susan Dumais from Microsoft Research on a study in retrieval of … Continue reading

Posted in Conference, Presentations, Statsbiblioteket | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

Experimental GUI for code4lib

For this year’s code4lib Jørn and I had prepared an demo called Kill the Search Button. The demo has an experimental GUI and boasts some of the ideas and concepts we’ve developed over the last few years when working with … Continue reading

Posted in Conference, Hacking, Presentations, Statsbiblioteket, Summa, Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , | 1 Comment

Ticer Summer School

I went to the Ticer Summer School 2009 on Friday 31st of August to to talk about Summa as part of a panel on Integrated Search alongside Jørgen Madsen (Primo), David Lindahl (eXtensible Catalog), and Benoît Pauwels (VuFind). Thomas Place … Continue reading

Posted in Conference, Presentations | Tagged , , , | 1 Comment

Faceting and Flash Disks in the Gobi Desert

As has been mentioned in many different places the code4lib 2009 videos are now online. Those that missed the finer details in Toke’s talk about complete faceting of 100 million documents can go see the video here. Lots of good, … Continue reading

Posted in Conference, Presentations | Leave a comment

Road trip to code4lib

Going to code4lib 2009, presenting the Summa faceting system and the SummaSlider. Continue reading

Posted in Presentations, Summa | 1 Comment

Helsinki

I had the pleasure to visit Helsinki this Tuesday doing a presentation about Summa. The audience was a good mix of librarians, technical people, and decision makers so I tried to strike a middle balance in the technical level of … Continue reading

Posted in kamstrup, Presentations, Statsbiblioteket, Summa | Tagged , , , , | 1 Comment

Summa@Oslo 2008-11-20

I am writing this blog post while waiting for my flight at Oslo airport. Unfortunately the airport doesn’t seem to have wifi so the actual posting will have to wait until later. I would have thought that all airports would … Continue reading

Posted in Presentations, Summa | Leave a comment