Day 1 of the PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference
(I wrote this earlier today but only had a chance to post it now.)
I’m sitting in the lobby of Harbour Centre, looking through panorama windows at the Pacific and enjoying what must be my fourth cup of coffee today (jet lag further aggravates my already serious caffeine addiction). After arriving on Tuesday I had the chance to walk around in the sun for several hours and see lovely Vancouver. I also heard a series of very exciting talks, notably John Wilinsky of the Public Knowledge Initiative and Anurag Acharya, lead engineer for Google Scholar. I also had the opportunity to throw questions at them while they were literally gasping for air from being hounded by equally curious individuals. I’ll post a summary later, but for now I want to point to the excellent live blog coverage over at the PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference Blog (or PKPSPCB, as pros call it). If I’m lucky they might even post a summary of my talk. No rush with that though, as I’m sure they have their collective hands more than full right now.
