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This week ReadWriteWeb will run a series of posts detailing what we think are the five biggest, most cutting-edge Web trends to come out of 2009.
Top 5 Web Trends of 2009: Structured Data
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One of the emerging trends of the Mobile Web is using your phone to interact with the real world. We're not just talking about 'checking in' to locations, either. There's a world of more practical functionality that hasn't yet ramped up in the West - using your phone as a payment device (for example mobile ticketing ), getting special offers from retailers, downloading data from the Web via 'smart posters' on the street, and more.
NFC: Never Mind Credit Cards, Pay With Your Phone
Liikenne- ja viestintäministeriön rahoittama julkaisu “dataopas” eli ajatuksia ja käytännön ohjeita julkisen datan maksuttomasta jakamisesta on juuri ilmestynyt. Antti Poikolan, Petri Kolan ja Kari A. Hintikan kirjoittama “Julkinen data – johdatus tietovarantojen avaamiseen” löytyy osoitteesta http://julkinendata.fi/
Askel kohti avointa julkisdataa – Digitaalinen kirjasto
1 The amount of information in our digital universe is expected to double in size every 18 months, according to a recent report – so how do universities choose which of these new information bits to keep and which to discard? Increasingly, university managers and researchers are looking to justify the cost of preservation alongside other technical and legal issues. Now a new international task force funded by JISC and other organisations is highlighting examples of current practice in the UK, America and Europe to look at business cases for long term preservation and access. Neil Grindley, programme manager at JISC, said, “This report takes a clearheaded and hard look at some of the ideas surrounding preservation asking questions like ‘why are we preserving this?’ By highlighting the economic aspects of these decisions colleges and universities should be better able to prioritise which information to keep and create a more secure legacy.”
Podcast/Press Release: Making the business case for digital preservation
Tracking the Exchange of Ideas in the Enlightenment : Digitisation
Ajankohtaista julkaisuarkistoista – Digitaalinen kirjasto
DCC: A new phase, a new perspective, a new Director
As the DCC begins its third phase today, I am delighted to announce the appointment of our new Director, Kevin Ashley, who will succeed me upon my retirement in April 2010. Kevin Ashley has been Head of Digital Archives at the University of London Computer Centre (ULCC) since 1997, during which time his multi-disciplinary group has provided services related to the preservation and reusability of digital resources on behalf of other organisations, as well as conducting research, development and training. The group has operated the National Digital Archive of Datasets for The National Archives of the UK for over twelve years, delivering customised digital repository services to a range of organisations. As a member of the JISC's Infrastructure and Resources Committee, the Advisory Council for ERPANET, plus several advisory boards for data and archives projects and services, Kevin has contributed widely to the research information community.Twitter Just Passed MySpace in Number of Status Updates
Twitter made news today for announcing that it now sees an average of 50 million status messages posted each day . A sharp growth curve indicates that activity on Twitter could grow much higher in the short term future.Eighteenth century correspondence website wins JISC award
A JISC Collections-sponsored digital prize has been awarded to Electronic Enlightenment, a website that reconstructs the vital web of 18th century correspondence that marked the start of the modern world. The resource holds the most wide-ranging online collection of correspondence of the early modern period, including over 55,000 letters in a network of interconnected documents, linking people across Europe, the Americas and Asia from the early 17th to the mid 19th century. The resource holds the most wide-ranging online collection of correspondence of the early modern period, including over 55,000 letters in a network of interconnected documents, linking people across Europe, the Americas and Asia from the early 17th to the mid 19th century.The Man Who Looked Into Facebook's Soul
Youth social networking researcher danah boyd has observed that many people presume the way they use social networks is the way everyone uses them.UEF Electronic Publications - Itä-Suomen Yliopiston julkaisut verkossa « FinnOA
Itä-Suomen yliopiston avoin julkaisuarkisto on avattu osoitteessa: http://epublications.uef.fi/ Sivustolta löytyvät Itä-Suomen yliopiston julkaisujen lisäksi myös Joensuun ja Kuopion yliopistoissa julkaistuja elektronisia julkaisuja. Palvelu on rakennettu kehittäen Joensuun yliopiston kirjastossa tehtyä JoyPub-julkaisuarkistoa.Työryhmän tuli tehdä esitys siitä, miten Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskuksen nykyisin hoitamat tehtävät olisi tarkoituksenmukaisinta hoitaa ottaen huomioon toimintaympäristön muutokset. Työryhmän tuli määritellä Kotuksen ydintehtävät, tehdä ehdotus Kotuksen nykyisen toiminnan rakenteellisesta uudistamisesta siten, että kansallis- ja vähemmistökielten huolto Suomessa turvataan, sekä tehdä ehdotukset tarvittavista säädösmuutoksista, rahoitusjärjestelyistä ja henkilöstövoimavaroista. Työryhmä otti työssään huomioon sille toimeksiannossa määrätyt näkökohdat: valtionhallinnon tuottavuusohjelman, tutkimuskeskuksen arvioinnin vuodelta 2008 ja sektoritutkimuksen rakenteiden uudistamisen mukaan lukien perustutkimuksen siirron yliopistoihin. Lisäksi se otti huomioon alueellistamisnäkökohdat. Työryhmä teetti kaksi selvitystä.
OPM - Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskuksen tehtävät
Speaking writer to readers, I want to register some year-end thoughts on climate change in the realm of reading.

