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shirley

Publishing in the Era of Big Data - 1 views

http://www.infodocket.com/2014/10/14/new-white-paper-from-kobo-publishing-in-the-era-of-big-data/ It is said that although this report targets the publishing community many of the ideas discussed ...

Module9 publishing

started by shirley on 01 Dec 14 no follow-up yet
Francisco Reveles

Open Definition - Open Definition - Defining Open in Open Data, Open Content and Open K... - 1 views

opendefinition.org/od

opencontent open definition

shared by Francisco Reveles on 02 Sep 14 - No Cached
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  • Marieke Guy on 02 Sep 14
     
    Always useful to have a definition to work with. "A piece of data or content is open if anyone is free to use, reuse, and redistribute it - subject only, at most, to the requirement to attribute and/or share-alike."
  • Francisco Reveles on 20 Sep 14
     
    The Open definition, formerly Open knowledge definition, mentioned by Wiley in "Defining 'Open'"
  • rlamim on 29 Nov 14
     
    Great website. Everybody must read it and share it.
kristin_k

The Open Educational Resources Research Hub - 2 views

oerresearchhub.org

module7 oer

shared by kristin_k on 13 Sep 14 - No Cached
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  • Greg Walker on 13 Sep 14
     
    I chose the Open Educational Resources Research Hub (OER Research Hub) for a focus for research, designed to give answers to the overall question 'What is the impact of OER on learning and teaching practices?' and identify the particular influence of openness. As open education now reaches a stage of maturity we need evidence about what works, what doesn't and why in order that lessons learned can be shared. Filling the gap in the evidence base and sharing data and methods widely is the intention of OER Research Hub. The project combines: A targeted collaboration program with existing OER projects An international fellowship program Networking to make connections A hub for research data and OER excellence in practice
  • kristin_k on 30 Nov 14
     
    The Open Educational Resources Research Hub (OER Research Hub) provides a focus for research, designed to give answers to the overall question 'What is the impact of OER on learning and teaching practices?' and identify the particular influence of openness.
cvpido

Adobe is Spying on Users, Collecting Data on Their eBook Libraries - The Digital Reader - 7 views

the-digital-reader.com/...ollecting-data-ebook-libraries

knowledge publishing privacy module7 Adobe

shared by cvpido on 15 Oct 14 - No Cached
  • cvpido on 15 Oct 14
     
    Adobe has just given us a graphic demonstration of how not to handle security and privacy issues. A hacker acquaintance of mine has tipped me to a huge security and privacy violation on the part of Adobe. That anonymous acquaintance was examining Adobe's DRm for educational purposes when they noticed that Digital Editions 4, the newest version of ...
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  • cuptlib on 15 Oct 14
     
    Why? For what purpose? Sorry I am clueless. But any spying could have serious consequences.
  • anonymous on 16 Oct 14
     
    Privacy doesn't exist anymore. And yes it does have serious consequences. Any rouge agent can take all the information about you and do whatever they want with it because no one is watching the watchers.
  • ibudule on 17 Oct 14
     
    Something to think about.
  • Dvora Marina Brodsky on 16 Nov 14
     
    The Internet is challenging its users privacy, and privacy carries a different meaning in the Digital Age.
  • tlsohn on 16 Nov 14
     
    It seems internet users might just have to become "comfortable" with software companies now having access to large amounts of information about them…the new normal
koobredaer

Open standard, Mozilla news site about Open stuff - 0 views

openstandard.mozilla.org

publishing cc mozilla news

shared by koobredaer on 21 Oct 14 - No Cached
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  • koobredaer on 21 Oct 14
     
    published by Mozilla, covers all sorts of open news. Interesting feature: unlike most news sites the content is actually CC-by-sa. "The Open Standard provides online news coverage of open, transparent, and collaborative systems at work in technology and our daily lives. Our purpose is to showcase the positive global impact of these systems and inspire more people to seek out, support and adopt open principles of accessibility, participation and experimentation. The Open Standard is published by Mozilla, a global community of technologists, thinkers and builders working together to promote openness, innovation and opportunity online. We will disclose and be transparent if we take a position on or promote the products and services of Mozilla or a partner company."
  • koobredaer on 21 Oct 14
     
    for example, check out this article about companies collecting data on school kids, https://openstandard.mozilla.org/whos-collecting-kids-personal-data-lots-of-people/
  • c maggard on 17 Nov 14
     
    That is scary...
ilanab

Open science: resources for sharing and publishing citizen science research - CitizenSci - 3 views

blogs.plos.org/...shing-citizen-science-research

module3 Citizen Scientists

shared by ilanab on 16 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • ilanab on 16 Sep 14
     
    Useful resources for Citizen Scientists who wish to publish, so sharing valuable data which otherwise may have been lost. Of course, caution should be taken to ensure that all data recorded is done scientifically and is reliable.
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  • daniellew31 on 18 Sep 14
     
    I've been hoping to come across a description of journals who publish the work of "non-professional scientists." Think of all the young and old who, while not academics, pursue science and make valuable finds. Perhaps this can help their work get closer to the surface of our attention. Obviously, peer review is crucial here. Which brings up another question. Can scientists in academia objectively review the work of non-professional scientists?
  • Raúl Marcó del Pont on 18 Sep 14
     
    Very useful; thank you very much. You can find useful the list made by Prof. Andy Miah on academia and social networks: http://www.andymiah.net/2012/12/30/the-a-to-z-of-social-media-for-academics/
  • Leticia Lafuente López on 19 Oct 14
     
    Thanks for sharing both lists of resources. Very useful!
christofhar

Open Development - 2 views

www.worldbank.org/open

WORLD BANK module1 1

shared by christofhar on 03 Dec 14 - No Cached
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  • christofhar on 03 Dec 14
     
    Open development is about making information and data freely available and searchable, encouraging feedback, information-sharing, and accountability. We've opened our data, knowledge and research to foster innovation and increase transparency in development, aid flows, and finances. Learn more here.
haileyhjw

We need open models, not just open data - 1 views

radar.oreilly.com/...models-not-just-open-data.html

module 6

shared by haileyhjw on 30 Nov 14 - No Cached
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  • haileyhjw on 30 Nov 14
     
    Writing my post about AI and summoning the demon led me to re-read a number of articles on Cathy O'Neil's excellent mathbabe blog. I highlighted a point Cathy has made consistently: if you're not careful, modelling has a nasty way of enshrining prejudice with a veneer of "science" and "math."
Kevin Stranack

Frontiers | Deep impact: unintended consequences of journal rank | Frontiers in Human N... - 1 views

journal.frontiersin.org/...abstract

module9 scholarly communication impact factor

shared by Kevin Stranack on 14 Jul 14 - No Cached
  • Kevin Stranack on 14 Jul 14
     
    "the data lead us to argue that any journal rank (not only the currently-favored Impact Factor) would have this negative impact. Therefore, we suggest that abandoning journals altogether, in favor of a library-based scholarly communication system, will ultimately be necessary. This new system will use modern information technology to vastly improve the filter, sort and discovery functions of the current journal system."
  • hreodbeorht on 03 Dec 14
     
    Talk about an ambitious suggestion! As we've talked about this in class, I'm not surprised to find scientific research that impact factor is bad scientific (not to mention business) practice. I'm also very interested in this idea of alternative scholarly communication systems; and if libraries are to play a central role, I have to assume that projects like institutional repositories would play an enormous part in this new system. I wonder what this suggests about altmetrics, though? Are we just putting a band-aid on a deep wound, and treating the symptom instead of the disease?
w_kwai

Europe's next privacy war is with websites silently tracking users - 2 views

www.theguardian.com/...bsites-silently-tracking-users

privacy module2 publishing

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  • w_kwai on 04 Dec 14
     
    The pan-European data regulator group Article 29 has issued new opinion on how websites and advertisers can track users and the permissions they require. The new opinion dictates that "device fingerprinting" - a process of silently collecting information about a user - requires the same level of consent as cookies that are used to track users across the internet.
  • w_kwai on 04 Dec 14
     
    It is impossible to ban all tracking, just like if I am using Chrome, it is normal for me to think that I am tracked by Google. If I am using Safari, then it is normal for me to think I am tracked by Safari. I believe that there is not anything wrong with people collecting my "non-identifying material", since it is only data. But if it is more like personal information, it should be banned. Also, there are a lot of sites when we ban cookies, the photos or some content will not appear. So no cookies means no content. In the end would not there be no effect on how people uses the websites? If we do not accept it, we could not use the site, the only difference is we are informed about it, and we should assume every site or software once it is connected to the internet, it implies some kind of tracking.
tlsohn

Is Twitter Becoming a Research Funder? - Inside Philanthropy: Fundraising Intelligence ... - 2 views

www.insidephilanthropy.com/...ecoming-a-research-funder.html

open access knowledge mooc

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  • tlsohn on 26 Oct 14
     
    Interesting article on Twitters use outside of social interactions Twitter has been increasingly share-y with its enormous data set. Given the recent $10 million grant to MIT to analyze and put social media data to use, how grand are Twitter's research aspirations? Twitter reports about 500 million tweets are sent every day, from 271 million users (the population of the United States is 317 million) in more than 35 different languages.
ukanjilal

The Power of Open - 4 views

thepowerofopen.org

Creative Commons

shared by ukanjilal on 29 Nov 14 - No Cached
  • ukanjilal on 29 Nov 14
     
    Creative Commons began providing licenses for the open sharing of content only a decade ago. More than 400 million CC-licensed works are now available on the Internet, varying from music, photos, research findings to entire courseware. Creative Commons provides the legal and technical infrastructure that allows effective sharing of knowledge, art and data by individuals, organizations and governments. Millions of creators world over are taking advantage of that infrastructure to share work that enriches the global commons for all humanity. The book The Power of Open collects the stories of those creators, some such famous creators are like ProPublica, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative news organization or the nomadic filmmaker Vincent Moon. The breadth of uses is as great as the creativity of the individuals and organizations choosing to open their content to the rest of the world.
chacunin

video evaluation -socialnomics - 1 views

Totally agree with the term "21st century" :)

module2

started by ricbruno on 30 Sep 14 1 follow-up, last by chacunin on 01 Oct 14
eglemarija

Public Lab: a way to become a DIY scientist! - 2 views

publiclab.org

open access creativecommons module3 open

shared by eglemarija on 30 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • eglemarija on 30 Sep 14
     
    The Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science is an open community offering countless ideas, DIY instruction and kits for carrying out science projects from your own kitchen (literally). Even better - you can become a part of a collaborative community, which shares ideas & tips, and all data collections are available under CC!
  • Balthas Seibold on 01 Oct 14
     
    I particularly like the open source approach of the Public Lab, which ensures a collaborative building of creative solutions, which are then available under fair and open terms. Thanks for sharing the resource. Balthas
serrarouafae

مدخل نحو تحرير المعرفة - 0 views

afteegypt.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/مدخل-نحو-تحرير-المعرفة.pdf

shared by serrarouafae on 25 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • serrarouafae on 25 Sep 14
     
    The paper addresses the general concept of open knowledge and standards, and expounds terms and definitions related and contiguous with the liberalization of knowledge; such as open data, open access, free formulas, and free software licenses , In addition to listing some of the international experiences in many subjects covered by the paper
Kevin Stranack

The Public Library as a Community Hub for Connected Learning - 9 views

library.ifla.org/...167-nygren-en.pdf

module2 public libraries connected learning

shared by Kevin Stranack on 18 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • Kevin Stranack on 18 Sep 14
     
    "This paper provides a brief overview of the ideas and principles underlying the connected learning movement, highlighting examples of how libraries are boosting 21st century learning and promoting community development by partnering with a range of organisations and individuals to incorporate connected opportunities into their programmes"
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  • Raúl Marcó del Pont on 18 Sep 14
     
    Robert Darnton about the centrality of public libraries (in the distant 2008): Meanwhile, I say: shore up the library. Stock it with printed matter. Reinforce its reading rooms. But don't think of it as a warehouse or a museum. While dispensing books, most research libraries operate as nerve centers for transmitting electronic impulses. They acquire data sets, maintain digital repositories, provide access to e-journals, and orchestrate information systems that reach deep into laboratories as well as studies. Many of them are sharing their intellectual wealth with the rest of the world by permitting Google to digitize their printed collections. Therefore, I also say: long live Google, but don't count on it living long enough to replace that venerable building with the Corinthian columns. As a citadel of learning and as a platform for adventure on the Internet, the research library still deserves to stand at the center of the campus, preserving the past and accumulating energy for the future. Source: The Research Library in the Digital Age. Available: http://hul.harvard.edu/publications/Darnton_ResearchLibraryDigitalAge.pdf
  • Leticia Lafuente López on 19 Sep 14
     
    Thank you very much Kevin for this report. For me has been very ilustrative; my last experience with internet connection, collaboration and public libraries in Spain was that the person in charge of the lecture hall told me I was not allowed to plug the mobile phone charger in (as I was running out of battery with my smart phone), but that I could use the library desk computers (only for 30 minutes per day for free...) I was really disgusted and for me it is great to hear that in other countries these initiatives are taking place. Thanks!
  • aleksandraxhamo on 20 Sep 14
     
    Thanks Kevin for sharing this.
  • Raúl Marcó del Pont on 20 Sep 14
     
    El lado oscuro de las bibliotecas: "¿Quieren leer? Pues a pagar" Es un delirio: cuando tomemos prestado un libro de una biblioteca será preciso pagar un canon http://cultura.elpais.com/cultura/2014/08/27/babelia/1409137321_870906.html
Kim Baker

Neither digital or open - 7 views

Antonella Esposito (http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/3881) reflexiona sobre el papel de las prácticas y las limitantes institucionales, en este caso académicas, sobre la selecci...

open access scholarly communication publishing network research digital research

started by Raúl Marcó del Pont on 02 Sep 14 1 follow-up, last by Kim Baker on 03 Sep 14
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Kevin Stranack

The Lyon Declaration - 3 views

www.lyondeclaration.org

module11 international development access right to information

shared by Kevin Stranack on 20 Aug 14 - No Cached
  • lauren_maggio on 20 Aug 14
     
    "Increased access to information and knowledge, underpinned by universal literacy, is an essential pillar of sustainable development. Greater availability of quality information and data and the involvement of communities in its creation will provide a fuller, more transparent allocation of resources."
  • Kevin Stranack on 03 Sep 14
     
    "In this context, a right to information would be transformational. Access to information supports development by empowering people, especially marginalised people and those living in poverty, to: - Exercise their civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights. - Be economically active, productive and innovative. - Learn and apply new skills. - Enrich cultural identity and expression. - Take part in decision-making and participate in an active and engaged civil society. - Create community-based solutions to development challenges. - Ensure accountability, transparency, good governance, participation and empowerment. - Measure progress on public and private commitments on sustainable development. "
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