Announcing the Open Video Conference
Open Video Conference June 19-20 in New York City
The future of online video will be explored at a two-day event taking place June 19-20 at the NYU School of Law in Manhattan. The “Open Video Conference” is sponsored by Yale Law School’s Information Society Project (ISP), the Participatory Culture Foundation, and Kaltura, in partnership with [...]
What makes a university open?
This week’s Yale ISP Speaker Series features ISP Fellow Elizabeth Stark…
Abstract:
In this interactive talk I will examine the role that universities can and should play in making knowledge available to the world. I will present the Wheeler Declaration, an effort to create a vision as to how universities can best promote knowledge creation and dissemination, [...]
Birds of a Feather
Several conference participants took the opportunity to organize BOF meetings during the lunch break. Convening groups addressed the following themes:
Privacy issues in the Library 2.0 world
PACER (Public Access to Court Electronic Records)
The Google Book Search settlement
We invite participants in these groups to report back on their meetings by commenting on this thread.
Panel 1: The future of the Library
What does Library 2.0 refer to?
Blair Kauffman, moderator: Let me use the efforts of the Yale Law Library as an example. Our web catalog, the information discovery tool at Yale Law School’s library now harnesses the power of the network, allowing users to rank resources, tag resources. We are using Internet technologies to connect the [...]
Opening Addresses
The Library 2.0 Symposium kicked off this morning with opening addresses from Jack Balkin, Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment, and Laura DeNardis, Executive Director of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School… including an appropriately 2.0 media mash-up.
Jack Balkin: This is the 12th year of the Information Society Project. How [...]
Symposia 2.0
In the theme of the Library 2.0 Symposium, we’re inviting all participants–including remote ones–to take part in blogging this event by:
commenting on these posts
sending tweets to #lib20
share photos with informationsocietyproject on flickr
Thanks for taking part!
Welcome!
The Yale ISP would like to extend a warm welcome to participants in the Library 2.0 Symposium, kicking off this Saturday April 4, in the Yale Law School auditorium.
Greening the ISP
Academic conferences can have a substantial carbon footprint. Here at the Information Society Project, we’re looking for ways to minimize our environmental impact.
One easy step we’ve taken is to minimize the distribution of printed materials. Have additional suggestions for the next Yale ISP conference? Share them by commenting below…









