Summary:

Zotero is an information manager that, as an extension for Firefox, facilitates storing citation information, clipping, and sorting research material on the web. Funded by the United States Institute of Museum and Library Services, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Zotero is a product of the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. The public beta version of Zotero 1.0 launched on October 5, 2006, while the most recent version went live in May 2009.

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Summary:

In 2007, WorldCat, the union catalog of some 71,000 libraries that participate in the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC), implemented WorldCat Identities, which provides a summary page for every name in WorldCat. WorldCat currently includes over 30 million names of authors, filmmakers, fictional characters, actors, and other subjects of published works. The project team, led by Thomas Hickey, included Ralph LeVan, Tom Dehn, and Jenny Toves. It is currently in its Beta stage.

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Cafes & Patisseries

Renaud’s Patisserie and Bistro (baked goods, breakfast)
3315 State St.
(805) 569-2400

Fresco Café and Bakery
3987 State St., Suite B
(805) 967-6073

Coffee Cat
1201 Anacapa St. (Corner of Anacapa and W. Anapamu)
(805) 962-7164

Jitters Coffee
728 State St.
(805) 617-3313

Light Fare

Panino (Sandwiches)
834 Santa Barbara St.
(805) 963-3700

Sojourner Café (Vegetarian/Vegan)
134 E. Canon Perdido St.
(805) 965-7922

The Natural Café (Sandwiches, Vegetarian, Tex-Mex)
508 State St.
(805) 962-9494

Pacific Crepes
705 Anacapa Street
(805) 882-1123

Lunch/Dinner

Tupelo Junction Café (Southern, also serves breakfast and brunch)
1218 State St.
(805) 899-3100

Opal Restaurant and Bar
1325 State St.
(805) 966-9676

Brewhouse (Also good happy hour)
229 W. Montecito St.
(805) 884-4664

Dessert

McConnell’s Ice Cream, etc.
201 W. Mission
(805) 569-2323

Crushcakes Cupcakery
1215 Anacapa St.
(805) 963-9353

Drinks

Elsie’s Tavern
117 W. De La Guerra St., Between Chapala and De La Vina
(805) 963-4503

The Press Room (Pub)
Ortega, Between State St. and Anacapa

Dargan’s Irish Pub & Restaurant
18 E. Ortega St.
(805) 568-0702

Sites

Santa Barbara Courthouse
1100 Anacapa Street
Historic, Spanish style building that is open to the public. Free tours offered daily (except Sunday) at 2pm, at the information booth.

Santa Barbara Mission
2201 Laguna St.
Established in 1786, the SB Mission is the 10^th of 21 California Missions founded by the Spanish Franciscans, and is still in use today with services still being held weekly. Entrance and self-guided tours, 9a-5p, daily: $5, $4 for seniors, $1 for children 5-15

Casa de la Guerra
15 E. De la Guerra St. (half a block off of State St.)
Built in 1819, this is the house of one of the most wealthy and influential citizens of Santa Barbara, the fifth Presidio comandante, José de la Guerra. Central to Santa Barbara civic and social life, and now is open as a museum. Hours are Sat. and Sun. 12p-4p. Admission is $5.

Transportation

Santa Barbara Downtown Waterfront Shuttle
The Downtown Waterfront Shuttle is sponsored by the City of Santa Barbara to provide frequent bus service along the busy State Street and Waterfront area. Downtown Waterfront Shuttle buses (marked with the blue and black sailboat symbol) travel on State Street from Sola Street to Stearns Wharf. There is a 25 cent fare.

(For parking in Santa Barbara for the charrette dinners, see Where to Park in Downtown Santa Barbara.)

Graduate Student, English Dept., UC Santa Cruz
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The Transliteracies RoSE Design Charrette on February 26, 2010, will occur in Bren Hall in rooms 1424 (plenary sessions) and 1520 and 3526 (breakout sessions).

Room 1424, which seats about 65 at tables, has a podium equipped with an in-place PC that feeds dual projectors (one on each side of the room) plus a big-screen video at the back of the room (for the benefit of presenters). Also available is a video-cam overhead projector rig (for showing paper, books, transparencies) that can be fed to the digital projectors. The VGA cable can be hooked up to to laptops instead of the in-place PC (please bring your own Mac dongle, though we will try to have some available). Sound is also available. Software on the in-place PC includes Firefox and the Microsoft Office 2003 suite (so presenters will need to have PowerPoints in .ppt format, not .pptx). We have verified that the Firefox browser has plug-ins for Flash and PDF, and that Java is working on the machine.

Rooms 1520 and 3526 are seminar rooms seating between about 25 and 35. They each have a podium with an in-place PC feeding a single projector. A VGA cable can be hooked up to a laptop instead.

Bren Hall runs on its own wired as well as wireless network connection to the Internet (not the normal UCSBnet wireless on campus). We will have a special, temporary login for the wireless on the day of the event (we will make the login info available on location), so all participants should be able to be on the net. There are also plenty of power outlets distributed around the floor of Room 1424, most of which we are told are working.

(Note: Presenters at the podium should be aware that if you use a laptop instead of the in-place PC, you cannot use Ethernet for the net connection because of the special Bren network. You will need to go wireless instead.)

We have set up an Event Wiki for real-time online support for the charrette—e.g., a forum and/or a space to post photos (including photos of any whiteboarding at the breakout sessions).

Summary:

On March 9, 2007, Metaweb Technologies unveiled Freebase.com, an open database that pulls information from public sources like Wikipedia, MusicBrainz, Netflix, and the Securities and Exchange Commission. Like a wiki, Freebase also allows users to add their own content to contribute to the knowledge base of the website. However, unlike search engines that point a user toward a list of websites, Freebase connects users with clusters of information that emphasize relationships among pieces of data.

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