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Joanne S

Academic Search Engine Spam and Google Scholar's Resilience Against it - 0 views

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IMT122 Reading List Supplementary Reading Week 04 Google Search Topic 04 IMT122 How Google works

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  • Web-based academic search engines such as CiteSeer(X), Google Scholar, Microsoft Academic Search and SciPlore have introduced a new era of search for academic articles.
  • With classic digital libraries, researchers have no influence on getting their articles indexed. They either have published in a publication indexed by a digital library, and then their article is available in that digital library, or they have not
  • citation counts obtained from Google Scholar are sometimes used to evaluate the impact of articles and their authors.
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  • ‘Academic Search Engine Optimization’ (ASEO)
  • Citation counts are commonly used to evaluate the impact and performance of researchers and their articles.
  • Nowadays, citation counts from Web-based academic search engines are also used for impact evaluations.
  • Most academic search engines offer features such as showing articles cited by an article, or showing related articles to a given article. Citation spam could bring more articles from manipulating researchers onto more of these lists.
  • It is apparent that a citation from a PowerPoint presentation or thesis proposal has less value than a citation in a peer reviewed academic article. However, Google does not distinguish on its website between these different origins of citations[8].
  • Google Scholar indexes Wikipedia articles when the article is available as PDF on a third party website.
  • That means, again, that not all citations on Google Scholar are what we call ‘full-value’ citations.
  • As long as Google Scholar applies only very rudimentary or no mechanisms to detect and prevent spam, citation counts should be used with care to evaluate articles’ and researchers’ impact.
  • However, Google Scholar is a Web-based academic search engine and as with all Web-based search engines, the linked content should not be trusted blindly.
Joanne S

Page 5. Long Live the Web: A Call for Continued Open Standards and Neutrality: Scientif... - 0 views

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IMT122 Reading List Week 03 Essential Reading Topic 03 IMT122

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  • Debate has risen again in the past year about whether government legislation is needed to protect net neutrality.
  • Accessing the information within an Internet packet is equivalent to wiretapping a phone or opening postal mail.
  • Totalitarian governments aren’t the only ones violating the network rights of their citizens.
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  • “No person or organization shall be deprived of the ability to connect to others without due process of law and the presumption of innocence.”
Joanne S

W3C Library Linked Data Incubator Group - 0 views

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IMT122 Reading List Supplementary Reading Week 03 Linked Data Topic 03 IMT122

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  • mission of the Library Linked Data incubator group is to help increase global interoperability of library data on the Web, by bringing together people involved in Semantic Web activities—focusing on Linked Data—in the library community and beyond, building on existing initiatives, and identifying collaboration tracks for the future.
  • existing building blocks of librarianship, such as metadata models, metadata schemas, standards and protocols for building interoperability and library systems and networked environments, encourage libraries to bring their content, and generally re-orient their approaches to data interoperability towards the Web, also reaching to other communities.
  • Joanne S on 10 Sep 12
     
    W3C Library Linked Data Incubator Group. (n.d.).  Retrieved  from http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/lld/ .  Browse the documents associated with this site from a group that formed mid-2010 to look at how library data can be exposed as Linked Data.
Joanne S

Berners-Lee, T., Hendler, J., & Lassila, O. (2001). The Semantic Web. (Curtin Login) - 0 views

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IMT122 Reading List Supplementary Reading Week 03 Linked Data Topic 03 IMT122 Curtin Login Required

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  • Joanne S on 10 Sep 12
     
    Berners-Lee, T., Hendler, J., & Lassila, O. (2001). The Semantic Web. Scientific American, 284(5), 34-43. doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0501-34 (logged into Curtin to find)
Joanne S

Garnter's Newest Hype Cycle: Discuss - 0 views

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IMT122 Reading List IMT122 Essential Reading Week 13 Topic 12 Developments in Information Technologies Curtin Login Required

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  • Joanne S on 12 Nov 12
     
    Kirkpatrick, M. (2010, October 14). Garnter's [sic.] Newest Hype Cycle: Discuss. Read Write Web. Retrieved October 21, 2010, from http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/garnters_newest_hype_cycle_discuss.php Although this is from 2010, please read it for the way it casts a critical eye over the conclusions to the report
Joanne S

Mobile Opportunity: The future of publishing: Why ebooks failed in 2000, and what that ... - 0 views

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IMT122 IMT122 Reading List Essential Reading Week 12 Topic 11 ebooks market future

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  • Joanne S on 12 Nov 12
     
    Mace, M. (2010). The future of publishing: Why ebooks failed in 2000, and what that means for 2010. Mobile Opportunity: At the intersection of the web, wireless, entertainment and computing. Retrieved May 9, 2011, from http://mobileopportunity.blogspot.com/2010/03/future-of-publishing-why-ebooks-failed.html
Joanne S

An Alternative to Existing Library Websites : Evaluation of Nine Start Pages using Crit... - 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
     
    WEB START PAGES AS LIBRARY HOME PAGES This is long, so just browse it to get the gist of the tools examined and the criteria used. Pigott, C. (2009). An Alternative to Existing Library Websites: Evaluation of Nine Start Pages Using Criteria Extracted from Library Literature. School of Information Management, Victoria University of Wellington. Retrieved from http://researcharchive.vuw.ac.nz//handle/10063/1276
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
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      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

Web Page Evaluation Checklist - 0 views

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IMT122 Reading List imt122 Other Resources Web Search Checklist

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  • Joanne S on 11 Sep 12
     
    Links to downloadable RTF (Word) Workshop task for Topic 4.
  • Joanne S on 11 Sep 12
     
    Links to downloadable RTF (Word) Workshop task for Topic 4.
Joanne S

Boolean Searching on the Internet - 0 views

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IMT122 Reading List Supplementary Reading Week 04 Boolean Searching on the Web Topic 04 IMT122

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  • Boolean logic consists of three logical operators: OR AND NOT
  • Combined AND and OR logic Question: I want information about the behavior of cats. Search: behavior AND (cats OR felines)
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

Towards a Typology for Portals | Ariadne: Web Magazine for Information Professionals - 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
     
    PORTALS Miller, P. (2003) "Towards a typology for portals" Ariadne Issue 37. Retrieved from http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue37/miller
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

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.
Michelle Pitman

Democrasoft - Social Collaboration & Voting Platforms for Building Online Communities - 0 views

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ncdd.org libraries resources information future collaboration socialnetworking tools social democrasoft web2.0 education elearning

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  • Michelle Pitman on 06 Sep 12
     
    Astonishing developments in online collaborative tools may not replace the real life "Town Hall" meetings, but they will further democratise difficult discussions.  Fantastic stuff!   
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