Nancy McGovern of @MITLlibraries w "Perspective on Skills" chart #IMLSFocus

Bob Horton, @US_IMLS, w wrapup Skills panel at #IMLSFocus (@JacksonDevious & N McGovern)

@IMLSDirector Hildreth and the Use panel at #IMLSFocus

Susan Gibbons from Yale and Bernie Margolis, New York State Librarian

@RLFrick of @CLIRDLF getting Content panel ready at #IMLSFocus

Coffee break and networking at #IMLSFocus

E Shore (@arlnews)at #IMLSFocus " time to focus down and make choices"

Jim Neal pinch hitting for @AOTUS intro-ing Infrastructure panel: @dancohen @brettbobley & E Shore (@ARLNews) #IMLSFocus

Plus a shout out to the Biodiversity Heritage Library

@NYPL Prez & CEO Marx and IMLS @MauraMarx kicking off #IMLSFocus

Good morning Time Square

Good night Times Square

Good evening from above Times Square

US Airways 2184: DCA to LGA

Gate 45

The mystery door knob at China Express

Susanne Renner on historical biogeography at #SBS2014

Susanne Renner, University of Munich, Germany, "Historical biogeography and ecological biogeography - come together now."

Warren Wagner kicking off #SBS2014, " Location, location, location: new advances in the science of biogeography" Http://botany.SI.edu/SBS/

A visit to the State Department for the Diplomatic Reception Rooms annual reception

QotD: "The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness" Sirin ... Happy birthday Vladimir Nabokov (late again)

The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. Although the two are identical twins, man, as a rule, views the prenatal abyss with more calm than the one he is heading for (at some forty-five hundred heartbeats an hour.)

- Speak, Memory: A Memoir (1951)

United 133: MUC to IAD

Gate H8

The sun comes out as I say good morning and Auf Wiedersehen to Munich

The sun is out in time for a drink near the Feldhernhalle

My Vibram FiveFinger shoes are causing a sensation in Munich!

I've had odd looks and questions about my Vibram FiveFinger shoes in the past, but here in Munich, it's almost as much as in in South Korea.

@BioDivLibrary button visits the München Rathaus tower

To, a dreary morning in München, looking for some Bavarian sun!

QotD, for Good Friday: "The chill ascends from feet to knees, / The fever sings in mental wires ..." T.S. Eliot

The chill ascends from feet to knees,
The fever sings in mental wires.
If to be warmed, then I must freeze
And quake in frigid purgatorial fires
Of which the flame is roses, and the smoke is briars.

The dripping blood our only drink,
The bloody flesh our only food:
In spite of which we like to think \
That we are sound, substantial flesh and blood—
Again, in spite of that, we call this Friday good.

 T.S. Eliot, "East Coker"

(image from the Kollegienkirche; University Church; Salzburg)

Good morning to a quiet München

So long, farewell, auf wiedersein to Salzburg ...

On the train to Munich

Good morning to a foggy Salzburg on my last day here

Looking at the Festung.

@BioDivLibrary sticker visits Mozart's house in Salzburg

Whistling past Leopold Mozart's grave (and Constantia Mozart) in the St Sebastian churchyard

Good morning to a snowy morning in Salzburg

@Jim_Croft -- I'm having just one Starbucks coffee in Salzburg, promise!

@MattP -- I found the spargel, but the queen still eludes me! (memories of Wien!)

Guten morgen Salzburg, from Mirabel Gardens

Hello Salzburg, for the Trumer Stubs hotel

Palm Sunday procession to Dom St. Jakob, Innsbruck

Palm Sunday procession to Dom St. Jakob, Innsbruck. But with olive branches not palms.

Good morning on a rainy day from the Innsbruck Uni

Silvia Grstein cousin the EOD 2014 conference in Innsbruck #eod14

George Malagaris of Geneza on how Digital library maintenance is hard at @EOD14

Susanne Dobratz on how digitization is the prerequisite for asking me questions in the Digital humanities at #EOD14

Keynote presentation at the 2014 EOD conference in Innsbruck, "Building for Demand" #EOD14

I was honored to be invited to give the keynote talk at the 2014 EOD conference in Innsburck, Austria. The title of my presentation was: Building for Demand: The Growth of the Biodiversity Heritage Library as Global Digital Library.

Thanks again to the organizers and all who attended.

My presentation is below:

Building for Demand: The Growth of the Biodiversity Heritage Library from Martin Kalfatovic

JM Garcia speaking on preservation of linked data & @PRELIDA_Project at #EOD14

Authored in conjunction with Dieter Fensel

@MathieuAndro on crowdsourcing and digitization at #EOD14

Excellent overview and BnF use case of ISNI by Anila Angjeli at #EOD14

More info at www.ISNI.org

Excellent overview and BnF use case of ISNI by Anila Angjeli at #EOD14

@LiekePloeger of Open Knowledge Foundation on @OpenGLAM at #EOD14

Lone Stefansen of KB Denmark on crowdsourcing at EOD 2014

Dr. Meixner of the University of Innsbruck opening EOD 2014

Guten morgen Innsbruck!

Arch, Maria-Theresien-Strasse

Director of Libraries welcoming EOD 2014 conference participants to social dinner

Innsbruck, Austria