Survey of Attendees
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Fedora Users’ Conference 2005
Survey of Attendees |
| Date | Q1 (conference useful) | Q1 Comments | Q2 (suggestions) | Q3 (working groups) | Q4 (facilities satisfactory) | Q4 Comments | Q5 (learn about) | Q6 (name/e-mail) |
| 06/01/2005 | yes | I think the conference fostered a needed sense of community. | More information for those who are really new to Fedora and don't know its capabilities | yes | Involved with local arrangements |
Name: Ruth Bogan
E-mail: bogan@rci.rutgers.edu |
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| 06/01/2005 | yes | It was extremely useful, and high time for such a conference. | I hope that a means for sharing new developments (work flow suites, behaviors etc.) will have been established by the time of next years conference, and that presenters wishing to share such tools will have them immediately available folloowing presentations. A minor but useful conference habit is to have sessions available as .ics files that can be uploaded into calendars. This could include basic urls, etc. |
Workflow / Ingestion Services Outreach, Marketing, and Image-Enhancement |
yes | I thought the conference room, facilities etc. were good. I appreciated the wireless access, and hope UVa follows suit. It might have been helpful to have a shuttle service between the hotel and the conference. | Fedora listserv. |
Name: Andrew Rouner
E-mail: arouner@richmond.edu |
| 06/01/2005 | yes | The topics presented were diverse capturing different issues surrounding FEDORA. | Would it be too much to invite the competitor to do the pitch? |
Content Models Governance, Policy and Standardizing Vocabulary Integration (e.g., Sakai) |
yes | Institutional email |
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| 06/01/2005 | yes | I was largely unfamiliar with Fedora and was there on a fact-finding mission. Lots of material to get me started. | Maybe a basics pre-conference section to help newbies catch up. | yes | archives listserv |
Name: Richard Shrake
E-mail: rshrake@amphilsoc.org |
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| 06/01/2005 | yes | Extremely useful, both from the perspective of overarching development efforts and learning about specific portions. | If the meeting will be kept to 100 to 150 people, try to keep the same format -- single track presenters with generous breaks inbetween. If not, some sort of concurrent tracking will be needed. |
Workflow / Ingestion Services Web Services & Security (Shibboleth) Governance, Policy and Standardizing Vocabulary Integration (e.g., Sakai) |
yes | Nice job! Wireless snafu, but it sounded like it was caused by the overwhelming success in attracting attendees. | Conference call with Fedora project co-managers |
Name: Peter Murray
E-mail: peter@OhioLINK.edu |
| 06/01/2005 | yes | I enjoyed the Q and A sessions following presentations, and would encourage you to ask presenters to allow for 15-20 min or so of Q&A. |
Workflow / Ingestion Services Content Models |
yes | Other Fedora implementors. |
Name: Eric Jansson
E-mail: ejansson@colleges.org |
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| 06/01/2005 | yes |
Preservation Services Web Services & Security (Shibboleth) |
yes |
Name: Michael J. Giarlo
E-mail: leftwing@alumni.rutgers.edu |
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| 06/01/2005 | yes | I was very interested to hear about the state of the art at other institutions wrt Fedora usage. | It may be worthwhile to have slightly longer, concurrent sessions. |
Workflow / Ingestion Services Preservation Services |
yes | word of mouth |
Name: Robert Dockins
E-mail: rdocki01@tufts.edu |
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| 06/01/2005 | yes | More user solution presentations. It was extremely helpful to hear how other people are integrating Fedora into systems. |
Workflow / Ingestion Services Content Models Web Services & Security (Shibboleth) Support (Tool Registry) |
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| 06/01/2005 | yes | Make sure all presenters have tested their hardware & presentation ability before the presentation moment. Also, making a cordless mic available. |
Workflow / Ingestion Services Preservation Services Content Models Outreach, Marketing, and Image-Enhancement Web Services & Security (Shibboleth) Governance, Policy and Standardizing Vocabulary Support (Tool Registry) Integration (e.g., Sakai) |
yes | Fedora list |
Name: Angela Raymond /(Merchant)
E-mail: angela@vtls.com |
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| 06/01/2005 | yes | The topics were relevant to our work and research. The issues raised and discussions were valuable. | Schedule poster session for simultaneous and continuing ad hoc review during breaks in one location. |
Workflow / Ingestion Services Preservation Services Content Models Support (Tool Registry) |
yes | Many thanks to the Rutgers University Libraries for hosting the conference! | Fedora Users List server |
Name: Bob Downs
E-mail: rdowns@ciesin.columbia.edu |
| 06/01/2005 | yes | I've been watching Fedora's and I'm very impressed at what has developed. We will install and begin development with the release of version 2.1 |
Workflow / Ingestion Services Preservation Services Content Models |
yes | Email from Ron Jantz |
Name: Patrick Yott
E-mail: patrick_yott@brown.edu |
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| 06/01/2005 | yes | What I found most usefull, was the chance to meet and talk with people who have actually implemented Fedora. | I would like more opportunities for interactive demonstrations, where participants can ask questions. I think the conference should focus more attention getting people who are not accustomed to Fedora, accustomed. One suggestion may be to have a demonstration lab, where peple can experiment with the Fedora software hands-on. |
Workflow / Ingestion Services Web Services & Security (Shibboleth) |
yes | Colleague |
Name: Nick Fischio
E-mail: nicholas.fischio@case.edu |
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| 06/01/2005 | yes | Hands on where users can try to: - install fedora - make up a disseminator - get indexing with Zebra/others to work - get a viewer plugin to work etc. |
Workflow / Ingestion Services Preservation Services Content Models Integration (e.g., Sakai) |
yes | Breakfast is not necessary, or alternatively ought to be more ... |
Name: Alfred Heller
E-mail: ajh@cvt.dk |
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| 06/01/2005 | yes | Very well done. I applaud you all taking a leadership role in making in happen. |
Workflow / Ingestion Services Content Models Outreach, Marketing, and Image-Enhancement Web Services & Security (Shibboleth) Integration (e.g., Sakai) |
yes | More coffee ;-) | E-mail. We need to work on ensuring next one has more promotion... |
Name: Carl Grant
E-mail: grantc@vtls.com |
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| 06/01/2005 | yes | Two tracks: One technical, one non-technical. |
Workflow / Ingestion Services Content Models Web Services & Security (Shibboleth) Support (Tool Registry) |
yes | From Diglib mailing list. |
Name: Frederick Zarndt
E-mail: fzarndt@iarchives.com |
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| 06/01/2005 | yes | Very engaging presentations. A lot of smart people doing a lot of interesting things. | If the conference gets any bigger with more speakers, you may have to consider concurrent sessions. The sessions were great, but Friday was getting to be a long day. Maybe have tracks with various topics like ingest/workflow, architecture, preservation, etc. Maybe reports from the working groups if progress is made there. |
Preservation Services Governance, Policy and Standardizing Vocabulary |
yes | from a colleague |
Name: Eliot Wilczek
E-mail: eliot.wilczek@tufts.edu |
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| 06/01/2005 | yes | In recognition that attendance was about 50-50 between | yes | Directly from Ron, Mike, Jeffrey, et al. |
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| 06/01/2005 | yes | multiple tracks; more breaks; allowing attendees more movement. It was a very long day and a half in the lecture hall (although it's a great lecture hall!). |
Outreach, Marketing, and Image-Enhancement Governance, Policy and Standardizing Vocabulary |
yes | more choice on lunch foods would be great. | I'm a member of the development team. |
Name: Ronda Grizzle
E-mail: rag9b@virginia.edu |
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| 06/01/2005 | yes | very well organized and run. | active working groups between now and then - reports, demos, outcomes from that. Topic: How does FEDORA relate to library systems, collections, licensed content,...? Does the |
Workflow / Ingestion Services Content Models Integration (e.g., Sakai) |
yes | Thorny Staples |
Name: Bill Parod
E-mail: bill-parod@northwestern.edu |
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| 06/01/2005 | yes | yes | diglib listserv |
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| 06/01/2005 | yes | great way to learn about different applications of fedora | the improvements will come from the presenters -- more experiences to share. the format worked very well. | yes | very good | NSDL web site |
Name: Steve Gano
E-mail: gano@amnh.org |
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| 06/01/2005 | yes | Yes -- and as a small school, we were happy to see representatives from Hamilton College and ACS (Eric Jansson) represent the small-school, limited-resources, perspective. We'd like to support ways for Fedora to be presented as an option for small schools or consortia. Maybe | Many of the attendees, including me, were there to | yes | Thank you, Rutgers! | Fedora Listserv |
Name: Sue Cornacchia
E-mail: scornacc@wheatonma.edu |
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| 06/01/2005 | yes | The quality of the presentations was very uneven. | This is a technical conference, so avoid having librarians giving presentations. |
Preservation Services Content Models Support (Tool Registry) |
no | There were not enough programs. |
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| 06/01/2005 | yes | yes | In general yes. However, the catering could have been better and the conference program could have been less packed. | Email to EAD-L |
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| 06/01/2005 | yes | One of the best conferences I have attended - almost all the talks were useful and educational | the days / sessions were a bit long at times - perhaps expanding to a 3 days conference, or cutting back on operating hours? | yes | fedora website http://fedora.info |
Name: Steven McPhillips
E-mail: smcphillips@nla.gov.au |
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| 06/02/2005 | yes | Very useful to meet the people involved in use. | 1) Tutorials for new users 2) Clinics for problems/issues |
Web Services & Security (Shibboleth) Integration (e.g., Sakai) |
yes | Initial vegetarian hiccup - very quickly rectified! Wireless was a bit flaky but not to any serious extent. |
Name: Donal Lyons
E-mail: Donal.Lyons@tcd.ie |
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| 06/02/2005 | yes | One thing that came to my mind later, was that presenters should publish articles on their experiences with Fedora as much as possible. I know that some have done it, but others should be encouraged to do so. |
Content Models Support (Tool Registry) Integration (e.g., Sakai) |
yes | Very good | Fedora users mail list |
Name: Gert Schmeltz Pedersen
E-mail: gsp@dtv.dk |
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| 06/02/2005 | yes | perhaps there will be a workshop part too, hands on... sessions focusing on/with these interest/working groups we were talking about, and which have hopefully emerged or found each other until then. |
Workflow / Ingestion Services Preservation Services Content Models Support (Tool Registry) Integration (e.g., Sakai) |
yes | mailing list |
Name: stephan drescher
E-mail: std@statsbiblioteket.dk |
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| 06/02/2005 | yes | I thought it was very useful and productive | I think some designated time for the workgroups would be good at the Users Conference 2006. Maybe expand to 2 full days to accommodate this. |
Workflow / Ingestion Services Content Models |
yes | COmment for #3. These folks would like to start a Content Model Working Group for Video. FEDORA Video Content Modeling Working Group Claire Stewart - claire-stewart@northwestern.edu Stu Baker - stubaker@northwestern.edu Jon Dunn - jwd@indiana.edu Priya Vaidya - pvaidya@indiana.edu Peter Murray - peter@OhioLINK.edu Judy Thomas - jet3h@virginia.edu | fedora devcon and user group list |
Name: Stu Baker
E-mail: stubaker@northwestern.edu |
| 06/02/2005 | yes | Very helpful to make contacts and here about how people are using the product | A mechanisim to distribute the presentations after the conference |
Support (Tool Registry) Integration (e.g., Sakai) |
yes | Great to have internet access and large conference room. Would like to have had pop available at all times in the building even if the conference cost more money | Fedora website |
Name: Nathan Lambert
E-mail: nathan.lambert@case.edu |
| 06/02/2005 | yes | I found it helpful to see what kinds of institutions use Fedora and for what types of projects. | yes | Word of mouth through colleagues. Also, Sandy Payette posted an announcement about it to the digital libs. listserv. |
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| 06/03/2005 | yes | More time spent in small discussions, perhaps baed on the working groups discussed in question #3. |
Workflow / Ingestion Services Preservation Services |
yes | Fedora List |
Name: Kevin L. Glick
E-mail: kevin.glick@yale.edu |
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| 06/05/2005 | yes | More snacks and lots of drinks (including alternatives to coffee). |
Workflow / Ingestion Services Preservation Services Content Models Web Services & Security (Shibboleth) Integration (e.g., Sakai) |
yes | From Thorny Staples. |
Name: Tim DiLauro
E-mail: timmo@jhu.edu |
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| 06/06/2005 | yes | It would be very helpful to include a tutorial session in your next conference. From the show of hands, I was not the only one who was new to Fedora. | yes | From the website. |
Name: Peter Piatko
E-mail: p.piatko@larc.nasa.gov |
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| 06/06/2005 | yes | A brilliant conference with a really good balance between the technical and non-technical presentations. It was good to know the problems and solutions other instituions have come up with. | none |
Workflow / Ingestion Services Integration (e.g., Sakai) |
yes | More vegiterian food could be provided | fedora-users list |
Name: Glen Robson
E-mail: glen.robson@llgc.org.uk |
| 06/06/2005 | yes |
Workflow / Ingestion Services Preservation Services Content Models |
yes | A coworker got a notice about it on a listserv, and my boss saw it and thought I should go. |
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| 06/07/2005 | yes | I would have liked to see all the demonstrations, rather than having to choose... |
Workflow / Ingestion Services Support (Tool Registry) |
yes | Fedora users mailing list / conference web site found on google search |
Name: Diane White
E-mail: Diane.White@asu.edu |
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| 06/08/2005 | yes | yes | From the website |
Name: G Nair
E-mail: gnair@dtic.mil |
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| 06/12/2005 | yes | It was very useful to bring together the Fedora Users so they could learn who is doing what with Fedora. | Perhaps some pre or post conference tutorial sessions on getting started, content modelling etc to help new users gain confidence in how to exploit Fedora. |
Workflow / Ingestion Services Outreach, Marketing, and Image-Enhancement |
yes | Through the Fedora Developer Consortium |
Name: Geoff Payne
E-mail: geoff.payne@lib.monash.edu.au |
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| 06/13/2005 | yes | Overall, it was a fabulous conference. | Some Bird of a Feather sessions and more demos would be nice. This would also be a good venue for working group meetings whenever that movement gets organized. |
Workflow / Ingestion Services Preservation Services Content Models Support (Tool Registry) |
yes | Fedora users e-list |
Name: Robert Chavez
E-mail: robert.chavez@tufts.edu |
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| 06/20/2005 | yes | was interesting to see different implementations | yes | fedora mailing list |
Name: Liina Enok
E-mail: liina@nlib.ee |
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| 06/23/2005 | yes | Some easy-to-understand sessions should be held first to get some folks up-to-speed instead of starting with one on problems that might arise and toucy policy issues. | Workflow / Ingestion Services | yes | Fedora list |
Name: Peter MacDonald
E-mail: pmacdona@hamilton.edu |
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