WIKI post completed with conference report

I worked with Jim Galbraith and reviewed his draft for doing Wikis and posted my report of the 2007 Fall Depository on the Conferences Wiki page.

Once I got the steps down, it was a fairly easy process. It was necessary to look at the finished product to get some of the line spacing to look right. I still need to learn some more details on the editing and how to follow edits, but the whole thing does not seem difficult--once you have done it.

Now I have to begin the process of setting up a Wiki for the UC News group. That is a whole different process.

Yaka photo

Attempting to upload Yaka photo. Have been signed into both Yahoo and Flickr accounts. Not working as I would expect. May need help. Now will not pull up pages from add image icon.
URL for what I want is:
(won't cut and paste???)

Flickr African Art

Read all the suggested information about Flickr. Then went searching for photos. Found some and then read I would have to create an account. Created the Yahoo account. Takes a little while for it to register so will add the photo later.

I went searching for African Art photos. The listings that came up contained a variety of types. Some was just of architecture of museums. Some was dancing. Some was arts and crafts. But one person, sftrajan, had a variety of photos from various museums. The listing indicated a German museum but when I clicked on the actual photo shown, I was then able to click on his tag, African Art and it took me to photos from the San Francisco De Young Museum. Most were good, clear photos. Their tags were mostly art, museums, De Young, African art, masks, etc. None gave the actual tribal name, e.g., Yaka.

Testing various blog searches

I actually ended up doing 2 searches.

First I searched for blogs on African Art at universities, or just on the topic. Nothing came up readily that indicated there are any sites devoted specifically to African Art, just individual posts that included mention of African Art. If there are any, they are buried.

So I changed to government documents. That was somewhat more successful but the one blog I know exists did not show so I tried the one for libraries and finally found the one used the most, http://freegovinfo.info/about/cornwall
Danny Cornwall is at the Univ. of Alaska and has guest bloggers who are gov. docs librarians. What I would like to know more about is the algorithms used to bring up blogs.

There did appear to be a few other documents blogs. One of the best was from Oregon and had the best links to other good blogs. So again, judgement and good links helped me more than the blog searches.

Posts of other uci librarians is not readily apparent.

African art link

As an exercise, I have to add a link.
This is to the new Smithsonian African Art Museum display of the Disney-Tishman collection display.
http://africa.si.edu/exhibits/africanvision/index2.html

If you like African Art and are in the Washington, D. C. area, go see it.

Things 1 and 2

Completed thing 1 and thing 2. Obviously, since I have a blog up.

Blog post test

Just a test to see how this works.