Data Curation
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“... the more one was lost in unfamiliar quarters of distant cities, the more one understood the other cities he had crossed to arrive there.” Over the last ten months of working at a startup, I’ve noticed that it’s very easy to lose perspective. That is, it's easy to forget to stick your head up and get context for the work at which your're cranking away. This is especially true while working on front-line digital content design problems. The notion of a “new,” digital kind of book scares a lot of folks because there is such a rich fabric of romanticism, nostalgia and myth built up around the physical book.
The shape of our future book — Satellite — Craig Mod
Only connect DataCurate’s mission is to connect people with the stuff they really want by helping content providers create and maintain better data. The rapid evolution of the web-based marketplace has transformed data needs for publishers, content providers, the publisher supply chain, and libraries. We’ve all seen the tremendous growth in information about and access to content that was hidden before. We’re also experiencing an explosion of new and converted content, often available from multiple providers and in multiple formats. All players on the continuum, from content acquisition and production to discovery and use, struggle to manage information about content and to compete for user attention in this crowded landscape.
Philosophy | DataCurate
RSLN : Que représente le développement de l’open data dans la grande aventure du numérique ? Bernard Stiegler : C’est l’aboutissement d’une rupture majeure déjà largement entamée, et qui n’a rien à voir avec les précédentes. Toutes les technologies monopolisées par l’industrie de la culture, au sens large du terme, pendant un siècle, sont en train de passer entre les mains des citoyens. C’est un événement d’une ampleur comparable à l’apparition de l’alphabet qui, comme technique de publication , c’est à dire de rendu public , est au fondement de la res publica , tout comme à ce qui s’est déroulé après Gutenberg et la Réforme, généralisant l’accès à l’écriture imprimée et au savoir. À présent, toutes les activités industrielles, culturelles et scientifiques laissent désormais une trace numérique que chacun peut exploiter grâce à des outils de plus en plus accessibles. Il s’agit d’un enjeu plus que majeur : c’est un changement d’époque.
REGARDS SUR LE NUMERIQUE: Blog - Bernard Stiegler : l'open data est « un événement d’une ampleur comparable à l’apparition de l’alphabet » RSLNmag est édité par Microsoft et se consacre à l’analyse et au décryptage du monde numérique..
Digital Curation - P2P Foundation
From P2P Foundation = the process of establishing and developing long term repositories of digital assets for current and future reference by researchers, scientists, and historians, and scholars generally. "The advent of affordable global digital connectivity of unprecedented scale and scope has created opportunities not only for more effective and efficient research, but also for new, better, faster and previously impossible research. Curation and management, of research results, are seen as the active management and appraisal of digital content during the entire life-cycle of scholarly and scientific interest; and are paramount to reproducibility and re-use for periods longer than 20 years." ( http://blogs.uct.ac.za/blog/openingscholarship/2007/10/12/the-1st-african-digital-curation-conference ) Authenticity: Confirming the provenance of the item, that it was created by the person or persons claimed. That the person credited wrote the book or article.
A List Apart: Articles: Orbital Content
We are on the cusp of a complete overhaul of the way in which we interact with online content, and I think you should be a hell of a lot more excited than you currently are. Bookmarklet apps like Instapaper , Svpply , and Readability are pointing us toward a future in which content is no longer entrenched in websites, but floats in orbit around users. This transformation of our relationship with content will force us to rethink existing reputation, distribution, and monetization models—and all for the better. Content today Most online content today is stuck. It has roots firmly planted in one of the many sites and applications around the web.
Face à l'avalanche d'informations, les techniques de datamining permettent d'extraire du sens de bases de données. La confiance devient la ressource rare, créatrice de valeur. Et les médias peuvent s'en emparer. Ce post reprend les éléments d’une réflexion amorcée avec Mirko Lorenz et Geoff McGhee dans un article intitulé Media Companies Must Become Trusted Data Hubs [en] et présentée à la conférence re:publica XI . Chaque jour, nous produisons deux ou trois exaoctets [en] de données, soit 1 million de téraoctets. Dans le même temps, Facebook et ses 600 millions d’utilisateurs produisent à eux seuls 70 téraoctets, soit à peine 0.007% du total.
Le datajournalisme: vecteur de sens et de profits » OWNI, News, Augmented
affordance.info: Et si Wikileaks était une métadonnée ?
La lecture croisée de deux informations a éveillé mon intérêt et suscité les réflexions suivantes. La première est cette interview de Bernard Stiegler sur l'Open Data , sur les données "ouvertes" c'est à dire librement accessibles et consultables mais également et surtout librement "computables", donnant lieu à un potentiel gigantesque de nouvelles "computations", de nouveaux calculs. Dans cette interview, Stiegler revient également sur un de ses leitmotivs, l'importance déterminante des "métadonnées", une importance à laquelle le chercheur en sciences de l'information que je suis ne peut que souscrire : la grammatisation numérique qui est la marque du XXIème siècle est en effet très fortement encadrée et conditionnée par notre capacité à produire et à manipuler des métadonnées, une production et une manipulation qui est agissante en permanence et le plus souvent de manière presque inconsciente.
Retrieval, Analysis, and Presentation Toolkit for usage of Online Resources (RAPTOR) : JISC
Aims and objectives Understand institutional and national accounting and reporting requirements around statistics of e-resource access via Shibboleth and Ezproxy. Build a free-to-use, open source software toolkit which aims to present statistical accounting information about e-resource usage to non-technical users, and makes basic aggregated usage information available to external organisations. To implement the RAPTOR software toolkit through a process of a quickly developed initial release and subsequent regular updates during the lifetime of the project, through a group of around 8-10 pilot institutions, using their feedback regarding both bugs and desired features to inform the regular updates. Project methodology A small development team in Cardiff University and Kidderminster College will be managed by Graham Mason and lead by Rhys Smith.Gaining business intelligence from user activity data was the topic of a JISC workshop I attended this week – and a hot topic if the activity of JISC programme managers is anything to go by. I counted five, plus a large contingent of JISC service people, and of course Deputy Chair Professor David Baker who chaired this event. The ‘business intelligence’ on the agenda was wide ranging; from Amazon-style recommendations based on other users’ online behaviour; to the potential for hard-pressed senior managers to make better decisions on what services and resources to select or dispose of by mining anonymised user activity data extracted from library systems and VLEs.
Business intelligence for research data curation? | Digital Curation Centre
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