Информационно-библиотечная инфраструктура Узбекистана: трёхуровневая модель управления

The current trends in information infrastructure and its component information library infrastructure (ILI) are analyzed. The specific characteristics of Uzbekistan ILI are: building libraries for modern technological applications and developing existing infrastructure. The main problems the ministries and library community face are revealed. The ILI organizational model based on hierarchy is discussed. The author considers the three-level system to be the most efficient for the libraries’ interdepartmental interaction. This would provide for information cooperation in building union resources (e-catalogs, databases), and library management. Taking into account the specific character of library management in the Republic of Uzbekistan, the ILI based on the corporate library networks of various departments would enable: to computerize information acquisition, accumulation and transfer at all levels for efficient management; to provide open access to union e-catalog for all libraries and users; to build libraries’ local digital resources; to increase efficiency of interaction and cooperation between the National Library and the libraries of various departments; to save money and human assets through excluded work duplication and intensive information exchange.Проанализированы современные тенденции развития информационной инфраструктуры, а также информационно-библиотечной инфраструктуры (ИБИ) как её важной составляющей. Раскрыты специфические аспекты ИБИ Республики Узбекистан: строительство библиотек, работающих с применением современных технологий; развитие существующей инфраструктуры. Определены основные проблемы, с которыми сталкиваются руководство министерств, библиотечное сообщество. Рассмотрена модель развития ИБИ, основанная на специфике организационного управления в республике и иерархической структуре. Наиболее дееспособной представляется трёхуровневая система взаимодействия библиотек разных ведомств. Это особенно важно для информационной кооперации библиотек при формировании сводных ресурсов (электронного каталога, баз данных), а также управления деятельностью библиотек. Учитывая специфику управления библиотеками в республике, создание ИБИ на базе корпоративных сетей библиотек разных ведомств позволит: автоматизировать формирование, накопление и передачу информации на разных уровнях для эффективного управления инфраструктурой; предоставить открытый онлайн-доступ к сводному электронному каталогу для всех библиотек и читателей, а библиотекам – эффективные возможности для создания собственных локальных электронных ресурсов; повысить эффективность взаимодействия и кооперации между Национальной библиотекой и другими библиотеками разных ведомств; экономить денежные средства и кадровые ресурсы за счёт устранения дублирования работ и активного обмена информацией

Information for All? The emergence of UNESCO's policy discourse on the information society (1990-2003)

The dissertation analyses the emergence of UNESCO’s policy discourse on the information society between 1990 and 2003. Taking into account the historical, political and institutional background of UNESCO and its history in the field of information and communication, the empirical analysis focuses on three different policy processes that contributed to this policy discourse: the INFOethics conference series; the creation of UNESCO’s intergovernmental Information For All Programme (IFAP); and the preparation of the Recommendation concerning the promotion and use of multilingualism and universal access to cyberspace. The empirical research is based on an analytical framework that combines Argumentative Discourse Analysis (ADA) with selected concepts and tools from Actor-Network Theory (ANT). Building on extensive archive research and interviews, these approaches are combined in such a way as to make possible a detailed account of UNESCO’s policy-making and to analyse the emergence of its policy discourse on the information society as the outcome of discursive struggles among networks of actors

Federated Identity Management for Research Collaborations

This white-paper expresses common requirements of Research Communities seeking to leverage Identity Federation for Authentication and Authorisation. Recommendations are made to Stakeholders to guide the future evolution of Federated Identity Management in a direction that better satisfies research use cases. The authors represent research communities, Research Services, Infrastructures, Identity Federations and Interfederations, with a joint motivation to ease collaboration for distributed researchers. The content has been edited collaboratively by the Federated Identity Management for Research (FIM4R) Community, with input sought at conferences and meetings in Europe, Asia and North America

Encounters beyond the interface: Data structures, material feminisms, and composition

This dissertation argues that data literacy should be taught in college writing classes along with other new media literacies. Drawing from several areas of study, this dissertation establishes a definition of data literacy, introduces a feminist methodological approach to Big Data and data studies, and makes a case for teaching data literacy in first year composition and professional writing courses as a foundational writing-related literacy. Information written into and read from databases supports research activities in any number of fields from STEM to the humanities; while different disciplines approach databases and data structures from diverse perspectives, all students need foundational data literacies. Nearly all digital environments are facilitated in some way by databases. They drive a range of web applications in ways that most users do not realize. On the surface, only GUIs are visible, and sets of data could be presented in any number of ways through them in the form of visuals, texts, and sound. It is important that students learn how data structures influence what comes across in the interface. By having students rhetorically analyze databases and then create them, composition teachers can help to demystify these ubiquitous yet invisible technocultural objects. Becoming aware of data structures gives students insight into how digital compositions emerge, empowering them to be more than “users” or “subjects” that use technological “objects.” Ideally, they would gain insight into how both “sides” of this encounter arise in dependence on many contributing factors, such as the standards, classifications, and categories perpetuated by techno-cultural infrastructures. Developing a socio-ontological methodology that combines scholarship in both feminist new materialisms and feminist rhetorical methodologies, this dissertation discusses the importance of researcher positionality. The socio-ontological methodology developed here expands on social constructivist theories to view all participants in a situation, including non-human ones, as mutually existing in dependence upon each other. Within this framework, contemplative mapping helps to articulate how the researcher does not exist outside of the research situation and assists in helping to make the situation uncanny, so that we can question assumptions and think through processes. Providing a foundational understanding of why data structures have become important to our professional and personal lives, this dissertation explains the public fascination with Big Data and exposes the ways that individuals can be affected by data collection practices, examining how the data structures that enable what comes across in user interfaces can be understood and taught in the context of writing studies

Global Engagement Model for Land-Grant Universities, a Grounded Theory.

The purpose of this study is to examine how land-grant universities engage with the public in the era of globalization; to explain the institutionalization of engagement processes accounting for the global context; and, to integrate this analysis into a Global Engagement Model for Land-Grant Universities (GEM) implementing a grounded theory research methodology. GEM’s foundation is both theoretical and empirical. Applying the intensity sampling method, the universities selected for the empirical base were: The University of California, Davis, Michigan State University, and The Pennsylvania State University. Rather than an exact representation of individual universities’ engagement models, the model is the researcher’s representation of global engagement processes for land-grant universities in the twenty-first century. The model explains how land-grant universities engage with the public in the global context in response to the network society and its knowledge economy. GEM’s seminal component is Bilateral Relationships which are the basis for Quality Partnerships and subsequently Engagement Networks. GEM accounts for social processes occurring at the macro level and how they relate to local- and institutional-level processes. The model’s contextualization of the land-grant university in its socio, economic, political, and historical conditions makes it comprehensive. Moreover, the identification of seminal components and their interconnectedness with the entireness allows for explaining a complex phenomenon in simple terms. GEM model is a theoretical tool that can be instrumental in explaining change and continuity in the modern land-grant university. According to this research, the land-grant university has redefined its role over time. And, it is apparent that in the global society the land-grant university has become a scholarship node

Smart cities in Arabian cultures: Dubai as a case study

This Dissertation “Smart cities in Arabian cultures: Dubai as a case study”, introduces an overview of a particular field of Civil Engineering, the urban studies. It aims to present some results about the literature review, focused on some of the main problems that are facing the cities, and how they are dealing with them by a new concept for smartness, including infrastructures, economic, social and environmental issues. It starts by considering that some of the current challenges on the global scale, trying to find solutions regarding urban societies, are based on the concept of “smart city”. Therefore, is clear that new ideas regarding the cities improvements, which are on the top of global agenda, could be found at the concept of “smart city”. This is a topic reason among the researchers, in a continuous development, in particular regarding societies, countries or regions where it is emerging, such as in the Arabian world. The case study is focused on Dubai, a city in the United Arab Emirates, which is an example where in a short period of time, after the oil discovery in the 1970s, one small and badly known urban settlement became a pioneer reference in terms of smart cities requirements. Thus, this Dissertation presents a background information about smart cities, their assets and key pillars, their smart infrastructures and features in cultural, social and environmental terms. The main goals are based on a theoretical approach, developed in order to get more details and requirements about smart cities, regarding the features of the Arabian culture. It argues around the case of Dubai, as a pioneer smart city in the Arab world. Among of the main conclusions, there is the idea that the urban transformation process in contemporary societies to secure the smartness, should apply to the use of ICT / information and communication technologies. This use will increase the efficiency concerns to the natural resources, and provide a high quality of life for citizens. The example of Dubai has shown that the decision-makers have built each sector and part of the city in a solid performance, in order to achieve the smart sustainability concept. This city is nowadays a reference on this matter, not only in the Middle East but also considering the global scale.Esta Dissertação “Cidades inteligentes em culturas Árabes: Dubai como estudo de caso”, introduz uma abordagem sobre um campo particular da Engenharia Civil, os estudos urbanos. Tem como objetivo apresentar alguns resultados sobre a revisão da literatura, focados em alguns dos principais problemas que as cidades enfrentam, e como é que elas poderão lidar com eles através do conceito de inteligência, incluindo ao nível das infraestruturas, economia, social e ambiental. Tem inicio considerando que alguns dos atuais desafios à escala global, tentando encontrar soluções considerando as sociedades urbanas, são baseados no conceito de ‘cidade inteligente’. Este é um assunto central entre os investigadores científicos, em continuo desenvolvimento, em particular tendo em consideração as sociedades, os países ou as regiões onde está a emergir, tais como o mundo Árabe. O estudo de caso é centrado no Dubai, uma cidade dos Emirados Árabes Unidos, que é um exemplo onde num curto período de tempo, depois da descoberta do petróleo na década de 1970, um pequeno e desconhecido povoado se tornou numa referência pioneira em termos de requisitos das cidades inteligentes. Assim, esta Dissertação apresenta um enquadramento da informação sobre as cidades inteligentes, os seus espólios e pilares chave, as suas infraestruturas inteligentes e caraterísticas em termos culturais, sociais e ambientais. Os principais objetivos são baseados numa abordagem teórica, desenvolvida de modo a sistematizar detalhes e requisitos sobre as cidades inteligentes, tendo em consideração as características da cultura Árabe. Argumenta acerca do estudo de caso do Dubai, como cidade inteligente pioneira no mundo Árabe. Entre as principais conclusões, surge a ideia de que os processos de transformação urbana nas sociedades contemporâneas, de modo a assegurar a inteligência do funcionamento dos lugares, pessoas e modos de vida, deve apelar ao uso de TIC / tecnologias de informação e comunicação. Este uso irá aumentar a eficiência acerca dos recursos naturais e promover uma elevada qualidade de vida dos cidadãos. O exemplo do Dubai mostrou que os decisores políticos, têm construído cada setor e parte da cidade, com um desempenho sólido, de modo a alcançar o conceito de inteligência sustentável. Esta cidade é atualmente uma referência nesta matéria, não apenas no Médio Oriente mas também à escala global

PROCEEDINGS OF THE 11TH EURASIAN ACADEMIC LIBRARIES CONFERENCE

The Conference features 23 distinguished speakers and experts across the globe (USA, Canada, Italy, Turkey, Czech Republic, the Philippines, Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan) demonstrating their experience in creating OA digital collections, repositories and implementing OA technologies in libraries. We featured three keynote presentations: the first keynote speaker, Matthew Voigts (Netherlands, Policy and Research Officer in IFLA), presented his speech with the theme, “Copyright and Publications for the Digital Future: A Global View of Laws, Access and Practice”. The second keynote speaker, Paola Corti (Italy, Open Education Community Manager of SPARC Europe), gave an online presentation on “Ready, Set, Action! ENOEL Librarians at the Crossway of Open Education”. The third keynote speaker, Raymond Uzwyshyn (USA, Director of Collections and Digital Services at Texas State University Libraries), had his speech on the topic “Open Access Data Research Repositories: From Data to Research Ecosystems to Artificial Intelligence”. We also would like to thank our speakers who presented online despite various barriers and life situations in the world. In order to support and develop open access, all presentations and Proceedings of the EALC 2022 conference are placed in the NU Repository, and a video recording of the conference is available on the YouTube channel of the NU Library