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Academic citation practices need to be modernized so that all references are digital an... - 1 views

blogs.lse.ac.uk/...ractices-need-to-be-modernized open access referencing references citation information retrieval
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  • Philip Sidaway on 04 Sep 14
     
    Researchers and academics spend a lot of time documenting the sources of the ideas, methods and evidence they have drawn on in their own writings. But Patrick Dunleavy writes that our existing citation and referencing practices are now woefully out of date and no longer fit for purpose.
  • Raúl Marcó del Pont on 05 Sep 14
     
    I think that LSE is doing a lot of useful work for change the way scholars work and communicate. But the structure of the whole system is solid rock (still).
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The memory of a nation in a digital world - 6 views

www.newstatesman.com/...memory-nation-digital-world open access module1 Information flux
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  • Kim Baker on 03 Sep 14
     
    "It is an irony of the digital age that at a time when we are used to having easy access to seemingly endless information and knowledge, so much of it is disappearing into a digital black hole. For 450 years the concept of legal deposit has helped to preserve the nation's intellectual record.| There is this aspect of disappearing data as well.
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  • Philip Sidaway on 04 Sep 14
     
    What form does this digital archiving take? Is it cached copies?? There is a real problem with referencing digital materials as the reference (typically including the almost meaningless date of accessing) may not be able to point to what was intended to be cited as the digital presence has been amended or deleted. Therefore the information may never be (re)retrieved in its cited form. Physical copies are of course more robust. Fascinating cultural memory issue.
  • Kim Baker on 04 Sep 14
     
    Indeed, the article raises many questions. The approach is a national one, looking at the problems of archiving digital memory for a specific country when so many of the born digital items are generated from other domains and countries beyond the control of the country (the UK in this instance). There is no global portal at this stage for archiving everything in a coordinated fashion, leading to a kind of anarchy which is not a bad thing, but which does cause problems for national (country-specific) institutions such as national archives and libraries.
  • Jacynthe Touchette on 04 Sep 14
     
    As you say, it is hard for libraries and archives services to keep up because they don't get the resources and support they need to do their work properly. Too often, we think that digital content "archives itself", that it lasts forever when, clearly, it is not the case (not to mention that keeping is not enough, content must be findable too!). I really enjoyed this reading, it touches many of my personal interests, thanks for sharing!
  • Philip Sidaway on 04 Sep 14
     
    See my bookmark post 'Academic citation practices ...' for some geeky stuff on the reference / citation issues.
  • Kim Baker on 04 Sep 14
     
    Jacynthe, you are welcome, and Phillip, many thanks!
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The Dawn of the Zettabyte Era [INFOGRAPHIC] - 1 views

blogs.cisco.com/...-the-zettabyte-era-infographic zettabyte how much data is out there data curation data access infographic
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  • mbchris on 14 Oct 14
     
    It's common knowledge that the amount of online rich media consumption is increasing exponentially on an annual basis. But how much video traffic is projected over the next five years? And what does this growth really mean for global residential, business, and mobile subscribers and the service providers that support them? I have used this infographic many times since I have found it. There are times in presentations or when trying to educate people on the size and scope of the internet that words do not do enough. The pictures and numbers and scaling provided by this infographic conveys the message quite well even if the numbers are losing their meaning because they are so large. The other important part of this infographic is that is is updated constantly. When I first found this link it was referring to the year 2014, as of this post it is now referencing 2015 and what will be available on line at that time.
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