The March UJUG Meeting is on Thursday, March 20, 2008 6:00PM - 9:00PM Please RSVP so we can order the right amount of food. Meeting Agenda | Time | Presenter | Topic | | 6:00 - 7:00 | Zach White | Web Accessibility - The Human Side
| | 7:00 - 7:50 | David Huntbach, Rex Hatch and Rob Edwardsf
| The FamilySearch Digital Pipeline | | 8:00 - 9:00 | Don Bogardus, Chris Hansen | Breakouts
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Plus the following breakouts: | Small Group/Mentoring/Breakout | Presenter | | Java Certification (Chapter 3) | Don Bogardus | | Alternative Languages on the JVM | Chris Hansen
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Web Accessibility - The Human Side
Presented by Zach White of Intermountain Healthcare M. Zachary White, Senior Programmer/Analyst and 9 year veteran with Intermountain Healthcare, has been serving in various roles of application, reporting, and dashboard development utilizing a variety of technologies and tools. As a member/leader in the Deaf community, Mr. White is uniquely qualified to facilitate improved patient relations for the hospital while servicing the needs of a broad range of people currently living with disabilities. For the past 3 years, Zachary White has been a member of the Intermountain Healthcare Patient Communication Committee. Intermountain Healthcare has had the opportunity to have Mr. White present and educate the hospital facilities on ADA and web accessibility laws and standards. Presented by M. Zachary White of Intermountain Healthcare: - Web Accessibility Issues (What are the issues?)
- Legal Status (How do we maintain legal standing?)
- Benefits of Accessibility (How accessibility limits company liability?)
- Assistive Technologies (What technological tools are available?)
- Tools to check our accessibility (Resources to ensure compliance)
- Q & A
The FamilySearch Digital PipelinePresented by David Huntbach, Rex Hatch and Rob Edwards of the LDS Church David Huntbach was born three days after Sputnik was launched. Being born under a new star of sorts he wanted to be an astronaut like every other Beaver Cleaver kid in the early sixties. Glasses in third grade put an end to those aspirations so from that time until he went to college David vacillated between becoming a Mississippi River barge pilot and a rock musician. One day in college he discovered what was going on in the math building where all the nerdy, myopic people hung out. They were writing FORTRAN! His destiny and passion for software started with that first “$JOB” card.
David's professional interests and experiences have been in the areas of computer aided instruction, compiler tools, embedded systems, e-mail gateways, database applications, and distributed/clustered systems.
Currently, David is making his passions for his job, family, and a handful of recreational pursuits like water sports, radio controlled airplanes, and sports cars fit within a twenty-four hour day.
David holds a 1984 B.S. in Computer Science from Brigham Young University, a US patent (#5794232), and was a Novell employee of the year in 1994. Presentation Overview The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Saints has a great interest in helping people find their ancestors. As a result, the Church has a significant world-wide effort aimed at preserving historical records. For many years this involved taking pictures and preserving them on microfilm which resulted in the Granite Mountain Records Vault (GMRV) housing 2.5 million rolls of microfilm. This provides good preservation of the information, but it is difficult to make the information available globally.
In recent years an effort has been undertaken to make this information more available to Church members and the general public. This has resulted in switching the original document capture from microfilm to digital images. Additionally, the Church is converting the microfilm in GMRV to digital format. Consequently, there is a need to store and preserve pedabytes of data. Additionally, these images must be made available to a large number of people, world-wide, who are interested in doing research on their family history.
The presentation will describe the various processes involved in capturing, processing, and distributing this massive amount of data. There will be detailed discussion on the project that is underway to transcribe the handwritten data from the images, involving over 130,000 volunteers. There will also be a presentation on the project that allows average people to quickly find textual information and associated images relating to their ancestors. Both of these projects handle large amounts of data and are being built to scale to a large number of end users.
- Summary of the our goals and the problems we are dealing with
- Overview of the pipeline architecture -- where we are, where we want to be
- Detailed look at one or two areas already deployed (e.g., ScanStone, Indexing, Record Search, tDPC, iDIS)
- Sneak peek at the DPC2 and Digital Archive projects
- Q & A
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