Report of the Stanford Linked Data Workshop

The Stanford University Libraries and Academic Information Resources (SULAIR) with the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) conducted at week-long workshop on the prospects for a large scale, multi-national, multi-institutional prototype of a Linked Data environment for discovery of and navigation among the rapidly, chaotically expanding array of academic information resources. As preparation for the workshop, CLIR sponsored a survey by Jerry Persons, Chief Information Architect emeritus of SULAIR that was published originally for workshop participants as background to the workshop and is now publicly available. The original intention of the workshop was to devise a plan for such a prototype. However, such was the diversity of knowledge, experience, and views of the potential of Linked Data approaches that the workshop participants turned to two more fundamental goals: building common understanding and enthusiasm on the one hand and identifying opportunities and challenges to be confronted in the preparation of the intended prototype and its operation on the other. In pursuit of those objectives, the workshop participants produced:1. a value statement addressing the question of why a Linked Data approach is worth prototyping;2. a manifesto for Linked Libraries (and Museums and Archives and …);3. an outline of the phases in a life cycle of Linked Data approaches;4. a prioritized list of known issues in generating, harvesting & using Linked Data;5. a workflow with notes for converting library bibliographic records and other academic metadata to URIs;6. examples of potential “killer apps” using Linked Data: and7. a list of next steps and potential projects.This report includes a summary of the workshop agenda, a chart showing the use of Linked Data in cultural heritage venues, and short biographies and statements from each of the participants

Ethical Issues In Digitization Of Cultural Heritage

The growing number of case studies on the ethical issues faced in cultural heritage digitization calls for a discussion of this generally neglected dimension of digitization. The importance of the ethical dimension is also supported by implicit and explicit assumptions that well-established approaches to ethics in archives, libraries, and museums do not work with digitization. The aim of this paper is to determine what ethical issues arise in cultural heritage digitization and how they affect methods of decision-making and organizing digitization. The paper identifies and discusses several areas of concern that have caused ethical issues in digitization. They include contextual factors, such as the emergence of digital community archives that have stimulated changes in approaches to digitization in memory institutions; new ways of organizing digitization activities, such as introducing new funding models; and specific features of digital content, such as ease of sharing and manipulation of digital content and online engagement with heritage items in a global digital environment. Biases in selection and interpretation, access, privacy, online engagement with heritage content, and authenticity were identified. It is concluded that ethical issues in digitization encouraged a deeper understanding of memory institutions’ roles in higher level social processes. These changes have shifted the focus of digitization from heritage objects to people who create, own, or use them, or who are their subjects. Memory institutions increasingly realize that digital technologies can have both inclusive and exclusive effects on heritage services and practice participatory approaches to ethical decision-making. The paper recognizes the challenges in realizing the idea of participatory and empathetic institutions as well as managing digitization in terms of organization, time, and costs

Digitized Engineering Notebook

Digitized Engineering notebook (DEN) refers to the number practices used by corporations to become aware of, create, represent, and distribute understanding for reuse, cognizance and mastering across the corporation. Digitized Engineering notebook applications are normally tied to organizational goals and are intended to result in the success of specific consequences which include shared intelligence, advanced overall performance, competitive benefit or better tiers of innovation. In this given project, the aim is to develop an online intranet Digitized Engineering notebook system that is of importance to either a corporation or an academic institute. The Digitized Engineering Notebook (DEN) is primarily an Intranet based application that may be accessed for the duration of the institute or a targeted group or branch. This application may be used as knowledge or records management system for the institute. Students or personnel logging in will be able to add any sort of instructional facts. Students, Administrators, Staff or guests logging in may additionally get admission to or seek any information put up by using others. DEN will facilitate knowledge sharing from the grass root degree like project groups to departments to the whole university

Proposal for an IMLS Collection Registry and Metadata Repository

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign proposes to design, implement, and research a collection-level registry and item-level metadata repository service that will aggregate information about digital collections and items of digital content created using funds from Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) National Leadership Grants. This work will be a collaboration by the University Library and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. All extant digital collections initiated or augmented under IMLS aegis from 1998 through September 30, 2005 will be included in the proposed collection registry. Item-level metadata will be harvested from collections making such content available using the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI PMH). As part of this work, project personnel, in cooperation with IMLS staff and grantees, will define and document appropriate metadata schemas, help create and maintain collection-level metadata records, assist in implementing OAI compliant metadata provider services for dissemination of item-level metadata records, and research potential benefits and issues associated with these activities. The immediate outcomes of this work will be the practical demonstration of technologies that have the potential to enhance the visibility of IMLS funded online exhibits and digital library collections and improve discoverability of items contained in these resources. Experience gained and research conducted during this project will make clearer both the costs and the potential benefits associated with such services. Metadata provider and harvesting service implementations will be appropriately instrumented (e.g., customized anonymous transaction logs, online questionnaires for targeted user groups, performance monitors). At the conclusion of this project we will submit a final report that discusses tasks performed and lessons learned, presents business plans for sustaining registry and repository services, enumerates and summarizes potential benefits of these services, and makes recommendations regarding future implementations of these and related intermediary and end user interoperability services by IMLS projects.unpublishednot peer reviewe

Information Outlook, February 2007

Volume 11, Issue 2https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/sla_io_2007/1001/thumbnail.jp

Information Outlook, February 2007

Volume 11, Issue 2https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/sla_io_2007/1001/thumbnail.jp

Project Management - Insights in the digital context

This position paper presents an overview of key insights pertaining to the management of projects in the digital business context, as derived from pertinent academic and practitioner literature. These insights, along with insights from subject matter experts, have informed development of IVI’s IT-CMF Project Management (PM) Critical Capability

OPORTUNIDADES E DESAFIOS DA TRANSFORMAÇÃO DIGITAL NA EDUCAÇÃO NO DESASTRE DE COVID NO VIETNÃ

Coronavirus affects the education system in the world. Schools, colleges, and universities are closed to control the spread of the coronavirus. School closure brings difficulties for students, teachers, and parents. So, online learning is a solution to continue the education system. However, the lack of network infrastructures, computers, and internet access is challenging. This paper aims to review the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the education and status of digital transformation in education in Vietnam. Verify the opportunities and challenges in the digital transformation in education and recommend some issues that need to do be concerned to promote the transformation process in education in Vietnam.O coronavírus afeta o sistema educacional no mundo. Escolas, faculdades e universidades são fechadas para controlar a disseminação do coronavírus. O fechamento de escolas traz dificuldades para alunos, professores e pais. Portanto, o aprendizado online é uma solução para dar continuidade ao sistema educacional. No entanto, a falta de infraestruturas de rede, computadores e acesso à Internet é um desafio. Este artigo tem como objetivo revisar o impacto da pandemia COVID-19 sobre a educação e a situação da transformação digital na educação no Vietnã. Verifique as oportunidades e desafios na transformação digital na educação e recomende algumas questões que precisam se preocupar para promover o processo de transformação na educação no Vietnã

Understanding Cognition Across Modalities for the Assessment of Digital Resources

Drawing from the theories of the cognitive process, this paper explores the transmission, retention and transformation of information across oral, written, and digital modes of communication and how these concepts can be used to examine the assessment of digital resource tools. The exploration of interactions across modes of communication is used to gain an understanding of the interaction between the student, digital resource and teacher. Cognitive theory is considered as a basis for the assessment of digital resource tools. Lastly, principles for the assessment of digital resource tools are presented along with how assessment can be incorporated in the educational practice to enhance learning in higher education

Communication and Digital Content in Research Network Collaboratories

In this paper, we explore Collaboratories as a space of communication for research networks between institutions whose focus is on research, development and technological innovation (PD&I). Collaboratories are used to promote communication, increase learning, encourage collaborative construction of knowledge and share information, knowledge and technologies. We also conduct a discussion about communication as a guiding process of the relationships between the participants of the research networks in the Collaboratories. Based on a model of digital content organization, which is part of a transmedia perspective, we also identify the media and the content that can be exchanged.Sociedad Argentina de Informática e Investigación Operativ