We're doing a quick review of the MW2008 evaluations (and watching the electronic ones come in), prior to more in-depth analysis, and are seeing an emerging issue:

If you volunteer for something, please let us know who you are.

About 50% of the forms where the 'i'd like to volunteer' box is checked, don't have a name on them. So we can't contact you, and can't take you up on your generous offer. We rely on your help to make MW work, and would love to include you!

There was quite a timely piece in C|net today about backchannels at tech-related conferences. See "How to survive the next-gen confab . It comes at a time when we're close to wrapping together a set of on-line venues for MW2008.

This will be the third year we've had an on-line space for MW while it was taking place, and afterwards. it seems that this might be the year that it takes off a bit more. If you're out and about on the Web, check out the following

While we've past the deadline for advance registration, you can still come to Museums and the Web in Montreal next week (April 9-12, 2008).

Download the On-site Registration Form [PDF], and bring it with you to the meeting.

All MW sessions take place at the

Hilton Montreal Bonaventure

Premiere Level [down the escalators from the lobby level]

900 de La Gauchetière W.
Montréal, Québec
Canada H5A 1E4

[see our google map]

The Registration Desk will be in front of you, at the bottom of the escalators.

I’m at a conference hosted by the Taiwan eLearning & Digital Archives Program (http://www.digitalarchives.tw). I’m not going to blog every session (program here) but here are some highlights from the first morning's sessions.

CaSTA (the Canadian Symposium on Text Analysis) 2008

A Joint Humanities Computing, Computer Science Conference at University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, 16-18 October 2008

from https://ocs.usask.ca/ocs/index.php/casta/casta08/schedConf/cfp 

The organizing committee also invites proposals (approx. 500-700 words) from Canadian and international scholars and practitioners working on the application of digital technology to the study of material culture up to c.1700 (computer science, archaeology, anthropology, geography, history, literature, etc.) for a pre-conference seminar on "Digitizing Early Material Culture: from Antiquity to Modernity." Final submissions should aim to be 2,500-5,000 words in length and may address digital projects, programs of research, digital tools and practices, or theory related to the digitization of material culture to the end of the seventeenth century.