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Joanne S

Mobile Strategy | National Library of Australia - 0 views

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  • must move towards a model with comprehensive mobile access to online services
  • mobile’ has come to encompass an ever-expanding field of devices, platforms and content
  • Smart (internet enabled) or dumb/cellular
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  • Supplied (on-site device distribution) or privately owned
  • Native apps
  • Mobile websites
  • In terms of content this includes:
  • Applications (software designed for specific tasks
  • Podcasts (audio and video content
  • Other downloadable content (e.g. PDFs and ebook
  • the Library may look to harness the potential of these technologies to break away from the traditional broadcast-only website presence and move towards two-way conversations between the Library and its users, or conversations between the users themselves
  • the key objectives stated in the Information Technology Strategic Plan 2012-2015 include Online Presence and supporting “the needs of our users for easy discovery of, access to, and engagement with our services, collections and other information resources in the digital environment”
  • ensure equal access to our resources and services for all Australians.
  • facilitate equal access to Library resources for everyone.
  • Putting Library resources into the hands of users in their lounge rooms reflects a deeper understanding of the need to move beyond the desire to follow our users and instead reach out to them to “take them some place new
  • mobile will only continue to grow and overtake desktop internet usage within 2-3 years
  • building both infrastructure and a culture of engagement will pave the way to more efficiently and effectively meeting that need in the future
  • 4         Strategic goals
  • Improve access to our collection and services for audiences, wherever they are, whether on-site or anywhere else in the world.
  • Equip staff to champion and drive the development of mobile services to improve access and productivity.
  • Adopt an evidence-based approach to service development and delivery
  • Modernise the Library brand to reflect relevance, accessibility and innovation.
  • Create opportunities for learning
  • Facilitate connections, conversation and overall engagement with national collection material.
  • Establish and expand the infrastructure and back-end systems required to support mobile initiatives, products and services.
  • Build, consolidate and share expertise
  • Adopt standards and best practices for interoperable mobile content and cross-platform data management.
  • A focus on strategic, audience-driven activity with a utility function.
  • Seek out and engage new technologies to achieve marketing and communications goals.
  • 6         Recommended activities
  • activities provide a means to implement and ground the strategy with specific and measurable tasks
  • 6.1      Governance and infrastructure
  • The Library’s IT Strategy Group will determine priorities
  • formalising the Web Committee’s role as an advisory body
  • Include requisite support for mobile content collection, preservation and access in the Digital Library Infrastructure Replacement Project (DLIR
  • Information Technology Division to examine ongoing resourcing of development work, administrative models, and potential for partial cost-recovery
  • Adopt emerging Commonwealth requirements and advice pertaining to managing devices and content
  • Develop and review policy in support of the use of both enterprise devices and use of personal devices for work-related purposes. Identify
  • Investigate infrastructure and resourcing requirements for digital recording and distribution
  • Collections Management Division to keep a watching brief on any developments pertaining to the extension of Legal Deposit to include digital (and mobile) content
  • developing a statement of collecting intentions for the various categories of ebook titles within the context of revising the collecting policy for Australian electronic publications in general
  • Applications
  • Podcasts (audio and video content
  • Other downloadable content (e.g. PDFs and ebooks
  • 3         Our mobile vision
  • Improve access to our collection and services for audiences, wherever they are, whether on-site or anywhere else in the world.
  • 4         Strategic goals
  • 3         Our mobile vision
  • 4         Strategic goals
  • 3         Our mobile vision
  • Improve access to our collection and services for audiences, wherever they are, whether on-site or anywhere else in the world.
  • 4         Strategic goals
  • Adopt an evidence-based approach to service development and delivery
  • Equip staff to champion and drive the development of mobile services to improve access and productivity.
  • Modernise the Library brand to reflect relevance, accessibility and innovation.
  • Adopt an evidence-based approach to service development and delivery
  • Equip staff to champion and drive the development of mobile services to improve access and productivity.
  • Create opportunities for learning
  • Facilitate connections, conversation and overall engagement with national collection material.
  • Establish and expand the infrastructure and back-end systems required to support mobile initiatives, products and services.
  • Tactics
  • Equip staff to champion and drive the development of mobile services to improve access and productivity.
  • Adopt an evidence-based approach to service development and delivery
  • Modernise the Library brand to reflect relevance, accessibility and innovation.
  • Create opportunities for learning
  • Facilitate connections, conversation and overall engagement with national collection material.
  • Tactics
  • Tactics
  • Establish and expand the infrastructure and back-end systems required to support mobile initiatives, products and services.
  • Build, consolidate and share expertise
  • Tactics
  • Establish and expand the infrastructure and back-end systems required to support mobile initiatives, products and services.
  • Build, consolidate and share expertise
  • Adopt standards and best practices for interoperable mobile content and cross-platform data management.
  • Build, consolidate and share expertise
  • Adopt standards and best practices for interoperable mobile content and cross-platform data management.
  • A focus on strategic, audience-driven activity with a utility function.
  • Adopt standards and best practices for interoperable mobile content and cross-platform data management.
  • A focus on strategic, audience-driven activity with a utility function.
  • Seek out and engage new technologies to achieve marketing and communications goals.
  • Seek out and engage new technologies to achieve marketing and communications goals.
  • Recommended
  • 6.1      Governance and infrastructure
  • Library’s IT Strategy Group will determine priorities
  • formalising the Web Committee
  • Information Technology Division to examine ongoing resourcing
  • formalising the Web Committee
  • Include requisite support for mobile content collection, preservation and access in the Digital Library Infrastructure Replacement Project (DLIR
  • Include requisite support for mobile content collection, preservation and access in the Digital Library Infrastructure Replacement Project (DLIR
  • formalising the Web Committee
  • Develop and review policy in support of the use of both enterprise devices and use of personal devices for work-related purposes
  • Investigate infrastructure and resourcing requirements for digital recording and distribution to ensure the long-term sustainability of online broadcast activity
  • Adopt emerging Commonwealth requirements and advice pertaining to managing devices and content
  • formalising the Web Committee
  • Information Technology Division to examine ongoing resourcing
  • Include requisite support for mobile content collection, preservation and access in the Digital Library Infrastructure Replacement Project (DLIR
  • Adopt emerging Commonwealth requirements and advice pertaining to managing devices and content
  • Collections Management Division to keep a watching brief on any developments pertaining to the extension of Legal Deposit to include digital (and mobile) conten
  • developing a statement of collecting intentions for the various categories of ebook titles within the context of revising the collecting policy for Australian electronic publications
  • Adopt emerging Commonwealth requirements and advice pertaining to managing devices and content
  • Develop and review policy in support of the use of both enterprise devices and use of personal devices for work-related purposes
Joanne S

The Code4Lib Journal - How Hard Can It Be? : Developing in Open Source - 0 views

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IMT122 Essential Reading Week 06 Task 06 Koha

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  • We experienced freedom to explore alternate avenues, to innovate, to take risks in ways that would have been difficult under the direct control of a district council.
  • patrons made it clear that while they appreciated that computers were a necessary part of a modern library, they did not consider them the most important part.
  • Our overall objective was to source a library system which: could be installed before Y2K complications immobilised us, was economical, in terms of both initial purchase and future license and maintenance support fees, ran effectively and fast by dial-up modem on an ordinary telephone line, used up-to-the minute technologies, looked good, and was easy for both staff and public to use, took advantage of new technology to permit members to access our catalogue and their own records from home, and let us link easily to other sources of information – other databases and the Internet. If we could achieve all of these objectives, we’d be well on the way to an excellent service.
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  • "How hard can it be" Katipo staff wondered, "to write a library system that uses Internet technology?" Well, not very, as it turned out.
  • Koha would thus be available to anyone who wanted to try it and had the technical expertise to implement it.
  • fairly confident that we already had a high level of IT competence right through the staff, a high level of understanding of what our current system did and did not do.
  • ensure the software writers did not miss any key points in their fundamental understanding of the way libraries work.
  • The programming we commissioned cost us about 40% of the purchase price of an average turn-key solution.
  • no requirement to purchase a maintenance contract, and no annual licence fees.
  • An open source project is never finished.
  • Open source projects only survive if a community builds up around the product to ensure its continual improvement. Koha is stronger than ever now, supported by active developers (programmers) and users (librarians)
  • There are a range of support options available for Koha, both free and paid, and this has contributed to the overall strength of the Koha project.
  • Vendors like Anant, Biblibre, ByWater, Calyx, Catalyst, inLibro, IndServe, Katipo, KohaAloha, LibLime, LibSoul, NCHC, OSSLabs, PakLAG, PTFS, Sabinet, Strategic Data, Tamil and Turo Technology take the code and sell support around the product, develop add-ons and enhancements for their clients and then contribute these back to the project under the terms of the GPL license.
  • FRBR [5] arrangement, although of course it wasn’t called that 10 years ago, it was just a logical way for us to arrange the catalogue. A single bibliographic record essentially described the intellectual content, then a bunch of group records were attached, each one representing a specific imprint or publication.
  • The release of Koha 3.0 in late 2008 brought Koha completely into the web 2.0 age and all that entails. We are reconciled to taking a small step back for now, but the FRBR logic is around and RDA should see us back where want to be in a year or so – but with all the very exciting features and opportunities that Koha 3 has now.
  • In the early days, the Koha list appeared to have been dominated by programmers but I have noticed a lot more librarians participating now
  • "Adopt technology that keeps data open and free, abandon[ing] technology that does not." The time is right for OSS.
  • Joanne S on 02 Oct 12
     
    For more information about Koha and how it was developed, see: Ransom, J., Cormack, C., & Blake, R. (2009). How Hard Can It Be? : Developing in Open Source. Code4Lib Journal, (7). Retrieved from http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/1638
Joanne S

Digital Armageddon for flood victims - 0 views

www.smh.com.au/...od-victims-20110112-19nfy.html

IMT122 IMT122 Reading List Week 05 Topic 05 Essential Reading

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  • Joanne S on 18 Sep 12
     
    Moses, A., & Grubb, B. (2011, January 12). Digital Armageddon for flood victims. Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved from http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/digital-armageddon-for-flood-victims-20110112-19nfy.html
Joanne S

Hastings, S. K. and Lewis, E. C. (2005) Let's get digital. In N. Courtney, (Ed.), Techn... - 0 views

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IMT122 Reading List IMT122 Week 10 Topic 09 Essential Reading Curtin Login Required Digital technology

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  • Joanne S on 22 Oct 12
     
    Hastings, S. K. and Lewis, E. C. (2005) Let's get digital. In N. Courtney, (Ed.), Technology for the rest of us (Ch.11, pp 133-153). Westport, Conn.: Libraries Unlimited. Available from Curtin's eReserve:
Joanne S

Is Internet access a human right? - Technolog on NBCNews.com - 0 views

www.nbcnews.com/...rnet-access-human-right-125440

IMT122 Reading List Week 03 Government and Internet Topic 03 IMT122

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  • when the Internet is taken away, as it has been in Egypt, people feel as though their rights have been stripped.
  • "If we can't communicate, we can't organize, if we can't organize, then we are reduced to power of a single individual,"
  • "There are certain technological advances that are such leaps forward in human evolution that they do, in fact, become human rights. Vaccines, for example. Potable water. I believe the Internet has become one as well."
  • Joanne S on 11 Sep 12
     
    "In Egypt in early 2011, during the revolution the government cut off the internet between 27 January and 2 February. These links were shared by Farah, a previous student who was in Egypt during this period."
Joanne S

When the next flood comes will you grab your life raft or keyboard? - 0 views

www.brisbanetimes.com.au/...r-keyboard-20110124-1a1uq.html

IMT122 IMT122 Reading List Week 05 Topic 05 Essential Reading

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  • Joanne S on 18 Sep 12
     
    Birmingham, J. (2011, January 24). When the next flood comes will you grab your life raft or keyboard? Brisbane Times. Retrieved from http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/technology/blogs/the-geek/when-the-next-flood-comes-will-you-grab-your-life-raft-or-keyboard-20110124-1a1uq.html
Michelle Pitman

Reinventing Society In The Wake Of Big Data | Conversation | Edge - 0 views

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imt122 Supplementary Reading society wake data conversation edge

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  • Michelle Pitman on 07 Oct 12
     
    Engaging discussion the concept of Big Data.  As Berners-Lee asked us for data as in Linked Data, Pentland argues that people at the micro levels will provide the information in Big Data that will change the societies we live in. His spin is positive in that he believes BD will offer opportunities for improved medicine, better financial systems and better government.  Amazing discussion. Really speaks to info management technologies. 
Joanne S

2012 Horizon Report | EDUCAUSE.edu - 0 views

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IMT122 IMT122 Reading List Week 13 Topic 12 Developments in Information Technologies Trends technology

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  • Joanne S on 12 Nov 12
     
    Please read the Key Trends and the Critical Challenges sections at the start. The rest of the report is a very easy read if you are interested. Johnson, L., Adams, S., & Cummins, M. (2012). The NMC Horizon Report: 2012 Higher Education Edition. Austin, Texas: The New Media Consortium. Retrieved from http://www.educause.edu/Resources/2012HorizonReport/246056
Joanne S

VALA2012 Session 12 Warren - VALA - 0 views

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IMT122 Week 08 Topic 07 IMT122 Reading List Portals Widgets and Remix Supplementary Reading

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  • Joanne S on 05 Oct 12
     
    NATIONAL AND STATE LIBRARIES OF AUSTRALASIA'S LIBRARY HACK PROJECT Warren, M., & Hayward, R. (2012). Hacking the nation: Libraryhack and community-created aps. VALA 2012: eM-powering eFutures. Presented at the VALA 2012: eM-powering eFutures, Melbourne Australia: VALA: Libraries, technology and the future. Retrieved from http://www.vala.org.au/vala2012-proceedings/vala2012-session-12-warren
Joanne S

Library Mashups and APIs - 0 views

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IMT122 Week 08 Topic 07 IMT122 Reading List Portals Widgets and Remix Supplementary Reading

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  • Joanne S on 05 Oct 12
     
    This "L Plate" presentation was presented at the VALA: Libraries, Technologies and the Future Conference in February 2010. The notes underneath each slide explain them very nicely. It gives you an idea of what is considered "L Plate" material at a professional conference. Hagon, P. (2010, February). Library Mashups and APIs. Presented at the VALA 2010 Conference. L Plate Session, Melbourne Australia. Retrieved from http://www.slideshare.net/paulhagon/library-mashups-and-apis
Joanne S

Is the Sky Falling on the Content Industries? by Mark Lemley :: SSRN - 0 views

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IMT122 Essential Reading Week 08 Topic 07 Portals Widgets and Remix IMT122 Reading List

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  • Joanne S on 05 Oct 12
     
    Lemley, M. A. (2011). Is the sky falling on the content industries? Journal of Telecommunications and High Technology Law, 9, 125-313. Retrieved from http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1656485##
Joanne S

Library 2.0 : service for the next generation library. - 0 views

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IMT122 IMT122 Reading List Week 09 Topic 08 Web 2.0 libraries

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  • he heart of Library 2.0 is user-centered change
  • nviting user participatio
  • It also attempts to reach new users and better serve current ones through improved customer-driven offerin
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  • Technological advances in the past several years have enabled libraries to create new services that before were not possible, such as virtual reference, personalized OPAC interfaces, or downloadable media that library customers can use in the comfort of their own homes. This increase in available technologies gives libraries the ability to offer improved, customer-driven service opportunities.
  • Libraries are in the habit of providing the same services and the same programs to the same groups
  • , Stephens believes that “Library 2.0 will be a meeting place, online or in the physical world, where [library users'] needs will be fulfilled through entertainment, information, and the ability to create [their] own stuff to contribute to the ocean of content out there.”
  • . It's never been easy to reach this group with physical services, because libraries are constrained by space and money and cannot carry every item that every user desires
  • Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief of Wired, who coined the phrase in an article of the same name in 2004, argues that the demand for movies or books that are not hits far outnumbers the demand for those that are hit
  • Going after the diverse long tail requires a combination of physical and virtual services
  • Joanne S on 22 Oct 12
     
    Casey, M. E., & Savastinuk, L. C. (2006). Library 2.0 : service for the next generation library. Library Journal, 131(4), 40-42. Retrieved from http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6365200.html
Joanne S

What is Cloud Computing and How will it Affect Libraries? | TechSoup for Libraries - 0 views

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IMT122 Reading List Supplementary Reading Technology for Information Managment_Hardware Cloud Computing Topic 01 IMT122

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  • If you’ve used any of the popular Web 2.0 services over the past few years (e.g. Gmail, Wikipedia, Flickr or Twitter), you already have some experience with cloud computing
  • Like water and electricity, a computing cloud is a communally-shared resource that you lease on a metered basis, paying for as little or as much as you need, when you need it
    • Joanne S
      Joanne S on 13 Sep 12
       
      Benefits-  Cost Savings, Flexibility and Innovation.
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  • As individuals and members of organizations, we’re already choosing between desktop applications and cloud applications when it comes to e-mail, RSS, file storage, word processing and other simple applications. Sooner or later we’ll have to make this choice for mission-critical enterprise applications too
  • Libraries may soon be building and managing their own data centers.
  • For more practical, technical explanations of cloud computing, check out the Wikipedia article the Anatomy of Cloud Computing the MIT Technology Review Briefing on Cloud Computing.
  • For a discussion of problems and concerns about the digital cloud, read: How Secure is Cloud Computing? Security in the Ether Industry Challenges: The Standards Question
Joanne S

Scot Colford, "Explaining free and Open Source software," - 0 views

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IMT122 Reading List Essential Reading Operating Systems Mobile Platforms & Software Week 02 Topic 02 IMT122

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  • Ten criteria must be met in order for a software distribution to be considered open source:
  • Free redistribution
  • the source code freely available to developers.
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  • The license must permit modifications
  • Integrity of the author's source code
  • No discrimination against persons or groups
  • No discrimination against fields of endeavor
  • same license must be passed on to others when the program is redistributed.
  • License must not be specific to a product
  • License must not restrict other software
  • License must be technology-neutral
  • list of the nine most widely used licenses is
  • Apache Software License 2.0 (www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html) New BSD License (www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php) GNU General Public License (GPL) (www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html) GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) (www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html) MIT License (www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php) Mozilla Public License 1.1 (MPL) (www.mozilla.org/MPL/MPL-1.1.html) Common Development and Distribution License (www.sun.com/cddl/cddl.html) Common Public License 1.0 (www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/os-cpl.html)  Eclipse Public License (www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html) [5].
  • common misconception, alluded to above, is that since the source code is freely distributed without royalty or licensing fee, open source applications are free of cost.
  • Free and open source software application users, on the other hand, must rely on development communities for support.
  • The pervasiveness of the World Wide Web guarantees that nearly every information organization is using free or open source software to perform some function.
Joanne S

BBC News - French downloaders face government grilling - 0 views

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IMT122 Reading List Other Resources Week 03 Government and Internet Topic 03 IMT122

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  • Hadopi takes its name from the 2009 legislation which permits authorities to fine copyright infringers, or to cut off their internet connection.
  • In the UK, the Digital Economy Act makes some similar provisions, although the exact nature of possible sanctions has yet to be fully explained.
  • It has sent a total of 470,000 first warnings by email, with 20,000 users receiving a second warning through the mail.
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  • If the person does not confess or does not even show up, the only evidence the agency can present before the judge is a series of numbers - a particular computer's IP address
  • Joanne S on 11 Sep 12
     
    "We looked at what it would mean if the internet was a "human right" in France, given that there is legislation that people who violate copyright can have internet access cut off for up to a month."
  • Joanne S on 11 Sep 12
     
    "We looked at what it would mean if the internet was a "human right" in France, given that there is legislation that people who violate copyright can have internet access cut off for up to a month."
Joanne S

Metz, R. (2011). Understanding the Cloud: an Introduction to the Cloud. Getting Started... - 0 views

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IMT122 Reading List Essential Reading Week 01 Topic 01 IMT122 Curtin Login Required

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  • Joanne S on 18 Sep 12
     
    Metz, R. (2011). Understanding the Cloud: an Introduction to the Cloud. Getting Started with Cloud Computing: a LITA Guide (pp. 13-28). London, England: Library and Information Technology Association. Retrieved from http://edocs.library.curtin.edu.au/eres_display.cgi?url=DC60268502.pdf [5]
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