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Hello! I just created a new social network for our DLF Spring Forum, May 4-6, in Raleigh NC. I would like to encourage folks to join in order to help shape the themes for the coming meeting, and to help organize the Forum and how we can structure it to benefit everyone participating, both locally and afar. I've identified our two keynotes, and I would welcome thoughts on how to integrate them into the rest of the conference. As always, we're open to new ideas, suggestions, etc., and there are a wide variety of pressing avenues for discussion this Spring. Please join up and get engaged! I've posted a brief message on the keynotes, which I'll reproduce below. Thanks! and join the Crowdvine network! http://dlf2009.crowdvine.com/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=- I am working on two keynote themes for the DLF Forum this Spring in Raleigh. 1) Cloud services. I am organizing a keynote by a scientist presently employed by Amazon AWS who will talk about digital library services and cloud services for storage and computation. The speaker is Deepak Singh (aka "mndoci" in twitter and elsewhere), and he has a scientist's frame of reference, not a product marketer's. For the Forum, I am interested in panels and discussions on network-scale applications, and analyses of their costs and implementation challenges, both technical and policy related. I am also interested in comparisons between "community-made" infrastructures (e.g., HathiTrust's) and commercial apps like Amazon's AWS and Google's App Engine. (Obviously, these are not like each other). 2) Organizational infrastructures for sustaining innovation. This is more challenging, because more elusive. This thread attempts to discuss how libraries and allied organizations might create new organizations that support sustainable community-wide initiatives that are innovative and tackle new problems. The keynote speaker is Diana Rhoten, recently at NSF's Office of CyberInfrastructure, and now back as the Director of Research for New Media at the Social Science Research Council. Diana and I have had conversations informed by similar academic backgrounds in organizational sociology, and our joint interest in a specific organization that has successfully sustained collaboration in the ecological sciences, NCEAS. She is presently working on a new MacArthur Foundation-funded project relating to new media. I would be interested in presentations from efforts in our spaces (calling out things like Hathi, DuraSpace, etc.) and analyses from existing groups like OCLC focusing on how they are working to architect next generation services. This topic is particularly deep, and fundamental to our own continued relevance. I am open to diverse explorations in policy, technical opportunities, cultural barriers, resource challenges, and so forth. Thanks!