On October 20th fellow SIM student Michael Groenendyk and I went to Access 2012 and presented our Killam Library 3D printing and scanning pilot project to a room of over a hundred tech-focused Information Professionals.  We’ll have a detailed report on the conference and our presentation in SIM’s upcoming issue of Inform.

You may want to check out some of these notable speakers we got the opportunity to hear:

The first talk on Friday was by Aaron Straup Cope, formerly of Flickr, now working with the Smithsonian National Design Museum. Here’s a video of another great talk he gave in New York:  Stories from the New Aesthetic

Art Rhyno was a favourite at the conference—he spoke Saturday morning on his OCR newspaper digitization project at the University of Windsor. He doesn’t often come to Access and many people were eager to meet him.

watching Art Rhyno talking about newspapers, ocr, tesseract, backblaze github.com/artunit/ossocr #AccessYUL

— Ed Summers (@edsu) October 20, 2012

Alistair Croll presented Friday and held a very memorable talk on Big Data—a great speaker worth hearing and a topic worth looking into.

We’d like to thank the Dalhousie University Libraries and SIM for this great opportunity.