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Karen Brothers and Elizabeth Eddison co-founded Inmagic, Inc. in 1984, to carry forward the library automation software business initially developed by Warner-Eddison Associates, the consulting company Eddison and Alice Warner formed after receiving Library Science degrees from Simmons College. Brothers, who has a Mathematics degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was the chief architect of the Inmagic software product, which was originally developed to work on a variety of minicomputers before being ported to DOS and Windows. Brothers served as the new company’s CEO for the first 6 years and was a director for 24 years, including 7 years as Chairman of the Board. Brothers is currently responsible for the development of Genie, a web-based library automation product.

Inmagic Genie is a Web-based Integrated Library System (ILS) designed to meet the changing needs of information centers that must manage and provide effective access to both traditional and nontraditional library materials. It is well-suited to both single-site libraries, and multi-site libraries that want a single catalog covering multiple collections.

On September 16, 2008 Karen Brothers gave a presentation and demonstration of Genie ILS to Rong Tang’s Library Automation class at Simmons College in Boston, Massachusetts.

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InMagic Genie

Web-based Integrated Library System.

Kevin MacLeod / Accralate

Music used in this podcast.

Gary Marchionini is Cary C. Boshamer Professor in the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina where he teaches courses in human-information interaction, interface design and testing, and digital libraries. He heads the Interaction Design Laboratory at their School of Information and Library Science. On September 15, 2008 he presented a talk, sponsored by NEASIS&T, entitled “Understanding Human Information Interaction” at Simmons College in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Kevin MacLeod / Bad Ideas (clean)

Music used in this podcast.

NEASIS&T

The event sponsor's website.

Robert Wolfe is a professional librarian and information architect who has worked in the field of educational technology since 1999. He received his MLIS from the Simmons Graduate School of Library and Information Science in 2001. He is currently the Head of the Metadata Services Unit at the MIT Libraries. Metadata Services is a cost recovery consultancy that offers information organization services to the education community. These services are: /information architecture/ including data modeling, taxonomy development, and user experience design; /metadata systems design /including metadata storage, serialization, and production workflow solutions; and /project management/ including metadata production training, production management, and quality assessment. On June 12, 2008 he delivered a lecture entitled “The Semantic Library: RDF in Practice” at NEASIST’s annual Awards Dinner at MIT.

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SIMILE

Semantic Interoperability of Metadata in unLike Environments

Babel

Format Converter developed by the SIMILE Project

Longwell

A SIMILE demo by MIT Libraries.

PLEDGE

PLEDGE Project wiki

W3C Semantic Web Activity

Simple Knowledge Orgranization System

Open Archives Initiative

Object Reuse and Exchange

Kevin MacLeod / Fork and Spoon

Music used in this podcast.

Gavin Baker is a SPARC Outreach Fellow and has developed SPARC’s “The Right to Research” student outreach campaign. He is an assistant editor at the Open Access News blog, community manager of “Open Students,” a blog for students about Open Access, and a columnist in Science Progress. As a student, he co-founded University of Florida’s Students for Free Culture chapter, served on a National Students for Free Culture board, and was elected to the university’s Student Senate. In large part because of this work, University of Florida passed the first university-wide resolution supporting open access. On May 27, 2008 he presented a talk entitled “The Right to Research” in the Beatley Library at Simmons College.

SPARC Right to Research

Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition's student outreach program.

SHERPA RoMEO

Publisher copyright policies & self-archiving.

OAIster

A union catalog of digital resources.

SerialSolutions

Librarians creating solutions for librarians.

DOAJ

Directory of Open Access Journals.

Open DOAR

Directory of Open Access Repositories

ROAR

Regitrsy of Open Access Repositories

Kevin MacLeod / Porch Blues

Music used in this podcast.

Jean Borgatti is a lecturer on African and African American Art History. She is currently a Research Associate at Clark University and has served as a guest lecturer at both Simmons and Salem State College during the past 2007-2008 school year. On October 31, 2007 she presented a talk entitled ”(Re)Capturing Africa: The Art of Willie Cole” as part of the Research Colloquia Series at Simmons College.

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Jean M. Borgatti

The presenter's website.

Alexander & Bonin

The gallery who reperesents Willie Cole.

'The Elegba Principle'

YouTube Video of Willie Cole's 'The Elegba Principle'

Kevin MacLeod / Morocco Sting

Music used in this podcast.