Keynote 2 is complete and went well if the buzz afterwards was any indication. Feels strange to have no further bookings for presentations in the calendar. Thinking of everyone getting started at #EduTech in Brisbane today.

It was great to catch the session following mine on the Dictionary of Sydney  which was described by presenter Lisa Murray @SydneyClio as Not the Wikipedia of Sydney.

Unlike Wikipedia, the Dictionary’s articles are authored by and attributed to historians, and Dictionary of Sydney can contain multiple articles on the one subject. Lisa acknowledges the good relationship their project has with Wikipedians especially Sydney wiki folk.

Features of the Dictionary of Sydney include permanent, logical and easy to cite URLs, good metadata, and entries harvested into Trove at article level. It includes useful thematic entries such as education, children, culture and customs, and history of ethnic communities.

The new Old Irish Sydney walking tour app is sponsored by the Government of Ireland.

A cause for celebration is the recent publication of K-6 educational support resources centred around the critical and creative thinking general capability – all thanks to Sydney teacher librarian, Christina Aloisio.

The virtues of a subject thesaurus are promoted in the Dictionary of Sydney. The vocabulary is currently carefully managed by a noted librarian working in a volunteer capacity. The amount of metadata for their image and audio resources is growing.

Thanks to all the contributors to Dictionary of Sydney.

Then it is time to head to the airport and resume The Voyage. Other than stupidly throwing out my boarding passes with the conference presentation notes back at the convent, progress through checkin and passport control is easy. The WikiVoyage App comes in handy as reading material but is not really required for finding our way around Sydney or Singapore airports. Our Singapore Airlines flight to Singapore is comfortable and Grand Hotel Budapest is finally off the movie to-see list.

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