Skip to main content

Home/ IMT122 OUA Group/ Group items tagged worlds

Rss Feed Group items tagged

Filter: All | Bookmarks | Topics Simple Middle
Joanne S

Mobile Strategy | National Library of Australia - 0 views

www.nla.gov.au/mobile-strategy

shared by Joanne S on 03 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • 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
  • ...98 more annotations...
  • 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

Eli Pariser: Beware online "filter bubbles" | Video on TED.com - 0 views

www.ted.com/...are_online_filter_bubbles.html

IMT122 Reading List Week 04 Essential Reading video Topic 04 IMT122

shared by Joanne S on 11 Sep 12 - No Cached
    • Joanne S
      Joanne S on 04 Oct 12
       
      Mark Zuckerberg, a journalist was asking him a question about the news feed. And the journalist was asking him, "Why is this so important?" And Zuckerberg said, "A squirrel dying in your front yard may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa." And I want to talk about what a Web based on that idea of relevance might look like. So when I was growing up in a really rural area in Maine, the Internet meant something very different to me. It meant a connection to the world. It meant something that would connect us all together. And I was sure that it was going to be great for democracy and for our society. But there's this shift in how information is flowing online, and it's invisible. And if we don't pay attention to it, it could be a real problem. So I first noticed this in a place I spend a lot of time -- my Facebook page. I'm progressive, politically -- big surprise -- but I've always gone out of my way to meet conservatives. I like hearing what they're thinking about; I like seeing what they link to; I like learning a thing or two. And so I was surprised when I noticed one day that the conservatives had disappeared from my Facebook feed. And what it turned out was going on was that Facebook was looking at which links I clicked on, and it was noticing that, actually, I was clicking more on my liberal friends' links than on my conservative friends' links. And without consulting me about it, it had edited them out. They disappeared. So Facebook isn't the only place that's doing this kind of invisible, algorithmic editing of the Web. Google's doing it too. If I search for something, and you search for something, even right now at the very same time, we may get very different search results. Even if you're logged out, one engineer told me, there are 57 signals that Google looks at -- everything from what kind of computer you're on to what kind of browser you're using to where you're located -- that it uses to personally tailor you
Joanne S

Cybersmart - Hector's World Safety Button™ - 0 views

www.cybersmart.gov.au/...20world%20safety%20button.aspx

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

shared by Joanne S on 11 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • Joanne S on 11 Sep 12
     
    "We had a look at the Australian Government's "Hector's World" cybersafety site for children:"
Joanne S

Library 2.0 and User-Generated Content What can the users do for us? - 0 views

archive.ifla.org/...113-Danowski-en.pdf

IMT122 Reading List IMT122 Week 10 Topic 09 Essential Reading library2.0

shared by Joanne S on 22 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • Joanne S on 22 Oct 12
     
    Danowski, P. (2007). Library 2.0 and User-Generated Content What can the users do for us? In World Library and Information Congress: 73rd IFLA General Conference and Council. Durban, South Africa: IFLA. Retrieved from http://archive.ifla.org/IV/ifla73/papers/113-Danowski-en.pdf
Joanne S

Companies and information: The leaky corporation | The Economist - 0 views

www.economist.com/18226961

IMT122 Reading List Essential Reading Security Week 05 Topic 05 IMT122

shared by Joanne S on 11 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • the WikiLeaks threat and the persistent leaking of other supposedly confidential corporate information have brought an important issue to the fore.
  • Companies are creating an ever-growing pile of digital information, from product designs to employees' e-mails.
  • Much of this information would do little damage if it seeped into the outside world; some of it, indeed, might well do some good. But some could also be valuable to competitors—or simply embarrassing—and needs to be protected. Companies therefore have to decide what they should try to keep to themselves and how best to secure it.
  • ...10 more annotations...
  • more and more data are seeping out of companies, even of the sort that should be well protected.
  • To be able to work better with data, employees often transfer them into spreadsheets and other types of files that are easier to manipulate—but also easier to lose control of.
  • Although most leaks are not deliberate, many are.
  • “data loss prevention” (DLP).
  • software that sits at the edge of a firm's network and inspects the outgoing data traffic.
  • “bells in the dark”. False records—made-up pieces of e-mail, say—are spread around the network. Because they are false, no one should gain access to them. If somebody does, an alarm is triggered
  • In the corporate world, to limit the channels through which data can escape, some companies do not allow employees to bring their own gear to work or to use memory sticks or certain online services.
  • How then to strike the right balance between secrecy and transparency?
  • Intel, the world's largest chipmaker, issues “speeding tickets” to employees who break its rules.
  • Transparency is not just a natural inclination but a necessity, says Mitchell Baker, who chairs the foundation. If Mozilla kept its cards close to the chest, its global community of developers would not and could not help write the program. So it keeps secrets to a minimum: employees' personal information, data that business partners do not want made public and security issues in its software.
Joanne S

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

www.libraryjournal.com/...CA6365200.html

IMT122 IMT122 Reading List Week 09 Topic 08 Web 2.0 libraries

shared by Joanne S on 18 Oct 12 - Cached
  • 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
  • ...6 more annotations...
  • 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
Michelle Pitman

Don Tapscott: Four principles for the open world | Video on TED.com - 0 views

www.ted.com/...ples_for_the_open_world_1.html

IMT122 TED Talks internet collaboration open source Don Tapscott technology socialmedia eith:shared digital natives immigrants

shared by Michelle Pitman on 29 Aug 12 - No Cached
    • Michelle Pitman
      Michelle Pitman on 29 Aug 12
       
      This is AWESOME!  Socialmedia as SocialProduction! wow!
Joanne S

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

www.asis.org/...DecJan09_Colford.html

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

shared by Joanne S on 03 Sep 12 - Cached
  • 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.
  • ...13 more annotations...
  • 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

K. G Schneider, "The Thick of the Fray: Open Source Software in Libraries in the First ... - 0 views

www.asis.org/...DecJan09_Schneider.html

IMT122 Reading List Week 02 Essential Reading Topic 02 IMT122 Open Source Software

shared by Joanne S on 03 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • the vast majority of libraries continue to rely on legacy proprietary systems
  • iVia,
  • there are at least a dozen active OSS projects based in or with their genesis in library organizations
  • ...10 more annotations...
  • xCatalog
  • LibraryFind
  • Blackligh
  • libraries using open source integrated library systems indicates that the vast majority of libraries continue to rely on legacy proprietary systems
  • What makes OSS different from proprietary software is that it is free in every sense of the word: free as in “no cost,” free as in “unencumbered” and free as in “not locked up.”
  • questioned whether OSS is overall less expensive than its proprietary counterparts and has called for libraries to look hard at cost factors
  • OSS projects are thriving communities with leaders, followers, contributors, audiences and reputation systems.
  • Like so many things librarians hold dear – information, books and library buildings themselves – OSS is open, available and visible for all to see
  • OSS presents important opportunities for libraries
  • This is the world we want to be in again. It will not always be easy, and there will be a few spectacular failures. But there will also be spectacular successes – and this time, they will happen in the open.
Joanne S

Page 6. Long Live the Web: A Call for Continued Open Standards and Neutrality: Scientif... - 0 views

www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm

IMT122 Reading List Week 03 Essential Reading Topic 03 IMT122

shared by Joanne S on 13 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • Linking to the Future As long as the web’s basic principles are upheld, its ongoing evolution is not in the hands of any one person or organization—neither mine nor anyone else’s. If we can preserve the principles, the Web promises some fantastic future capabilities.
  • Locked within all these data is knowledge about how to cure diseases, foster business value and govern our world more effectively.
  • We should examine legal, cultural and technical options that will preserve privacy without stifling beneficial data-sharing capabilities.
  • ...1 more annotation...
  • The goal of the Web is to serve humanity. We build it now so that those who come to it later will be able to create things that we cannot ourselves imagine.
Joanne S

Page 1. Long Live the Web: A Call for Continued Open Standards and Neutrality: Scientif... - 0 views

www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm

IMT122 Reading List Essential Reading Week 03 Topic 03 IMT122

shared by Joanne S on 18 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • profound concept: that any person could share information with anyone else, anywhere.
  • Web evolved into a powerful, ubiquitous tool because it was built on egalitarian principles and because thousands of individuals, universities and companies have worked, both independently and together as part of the World Wide Web Consortium
  • Large social-networking sites are walling off information posted by their users from the rest of the Web.
  • ...3 more annotations...
  • Wireless Internet providers are being tempted to slow traffic to sites with which they have not made deals.
  • Governments—totalitarian and democratic alike—are monitoring people’s online habits, endangering important human rights.
  • eb is now more critical to free speech than any other medium
  • Joanne S on 18 Sep 12
     
    6 pages long. see other links
1 - 12 of 12
Showing 20▼ items per page