The Janus Head Article - On Quality in the Documentation Process

The god Janus in Greek mythology was a two-faced god; each face had its own view of the world. Our idea behind the Janus Head article is to give you two different and maybe even contradicting views on a certain topic. In this issue the topic is quality in the documentation process. In the first half of this issue’s Janus Head Article translators from the international company Grundfos give us their view of quality and how quality is managed in the documentation process at Grundfos. In the second half of the Janus Head Article scholars from the University of Southern Denmark describe and discuss quality in the documentation process at Grundfos from a researcher’s point of view

A Linked Data Approach to Sharing Workflows and Workflow Results

A bioinformatics analysis pipeline is often highly elaborate, due to the inherent complexity of biological systems and the variety and size of datasets. A digital equivalent of the ‘Materials and Methods’ section in wet laboratory publications would be highly beneficial to bioinformatics, for evaluating evidence and examining data across related experiments, while introducing the potential to find associated resources and integrate them as data and services. We present initial steps towards preserving bioinformatics ‘materials and methods’ by exploiting the workflow paradigm for capturing the design of a data analysis pipeline, and RDF to link the workflow, its component services, run-time provenance, and a personalized biological interpretation of the results. An example shows the reproduction of the unique graph of an analysis procedure, its results, provenance, and personal interpretation of a text mining experiment. It links data from Taverna, myExperiment.org, BioCatalogue.org, and ConceptWiki.org. The approach is relatively ‘light-weight’ and unobtrusive to bioinformatics users

La difficile construction de l’identité professionnelle des professeurs-documentalistes de l’enseignement agricole public

La double composante du métier de professeurs documentalistes de l’enseignement agricole invite à interroger les processus d’élaboration de l’identité professionnelle. D’un point de vue théorique, notre analyse s’appuie sur les deux processus qui concourent à la production des identités au travers d’un mécanisme commun, la « négociation identitaire ». Sont également convoqués « Les catégories d’analyse de l’identité » et les « formes élémentaires de l’identité professionnelle » (Dubar). Le positionnement des « profs-docs » par rapport aux autres professeurs dans l’établissement est appréhendé à partir de la distinction proposée par Strauss entre les « segments » et les sous-ensembles que constituent les « cercles de confraternité ». Une recherche-action ayant pour objectif d’analyser les activités professionnelles du « prof-doc » « oubliées » dans les prescriptions permet de dégager trois éléments d’analyse de la construction de l’identité professionnelle : le CDI comme espace de transaction subjective, les « profs-docs » comme cercle de confraternité et enfin le rapport au métier comme espace de négociation identitaire. Trois figures identitaires interdépendantes, la figure tutélaire de Janus, la figure de Sisyphe en arrière-plan, et enfin la figure émergente du résistant, se positionnent entre « l’identité héritée », « l’identité attribuée » et « l’identité visée » mais en attestant clairement de la tension entre ces pôles. The double component of the librarian’s work in agricultural education invites us to question the elaboration processes of professional identity. From a theoretical point of view, our analysis leans on two processes contributing to producing professional identities through a common mechanism, the “identity bargaining”. The “categories of identity analysis” and the “elementary forms of professional identity” (Dubar) are also conveyed. The positioning of the librarians compared to other teachers in the school is understood through the distinction Strauss proposes between “segments” and subgroups constituted by “fellowship circles”. An active research , the purpose of which was to analyze professional activities of a librarian that would have been “forgotten” in prescriptions, allows us to highlight three analysis elements of the professional identity construction : the library as a subjective transaction area, the librarians as a fellowship circle and at last, the relation to the job as an “identity bargaining” area. Three interconnected identity figures (Janus as a tutelary figure, Sysiphus in the background and at last the rising figure of the resilient) stand between “inherited identity”, “attributed identity” and “pursued identity” but clearly testify the tension between those three poles

The Janus face of diversity in Australian sport

In this essay, Janus is used as a metaphor for examining the nature of cultural diversity in Australian sport. It does so by firstly presenting a historical context for sport in Australia and the relative lack of cultural diversity found in sport. Within a country dominated by the running codes of football and cricket, the position of soccer in Australia was somewhat unique as it became a bastion for many non-Anglo migrant groups. However, in the 1980s and 1990s soccer's lack of organizational success at the state and national level was negatively ascribed to the tensions between the ethnically affiliated clubs, the same clubs that were ironically the stalwarts driving the growing popularity of the sport. We examine the initiatives used to restructure the game in Australia to make football more appealing to mainstream (i.e. non-ethnically aligned) spectators. The contemporary situation is explored through secondary documentation and the results of a survey of 3,056 spectators undertaken during the first season of the new A-League are presented. The essay concludes with a discussion about the relative success of the restructure in terms of changing the face of Australian soccer. © 2009 Taylor & Francis

Building Resident Power and Capacity for Change

An "on the ground" reflection about what it takes for funders to work effective with low-income communities. This report is a set of reflections that began with conversations among fifty people who gathered in Chicago in September of 2008 for Grassroots Grantmakers first "on the ground" learning gathering, and extended over the following several months.The idea for this report came from an interest in doing more than generating proceedings or a report on a meeting.  Our interest was in promoting and supporting reflection about what it takes to work effective in the grassroots grantmaking domain, and in sharing those reflections as a spark for further conversations

Establishing a Law and Psychiatry Clinic

Psychiatry and law are interdependent to an extent exceeded by few other pairs of professions. As a result, psychiatrists and other mental health professionals (“MHPs”) can wield tremendous power in legal settings. In their Law and Psychiatry Clinic, William Mitchell College of Law and the Department of Psychiatry of the University of Minnesota School of Medicine work at the boundaries of their fields. By adopting a centralized and integrated model for interdisciplinary clinical education, the clinic allows both professions to gain professional and cross-professional competence and understanding. Given the determinative role often played by psychiatry in law, the clinic hopes that its work will lead to more transparency and mindfulness in the use of psychiatric expertise, and therefrom, to an increase in the quality of justice. We begin with a brief description of the development of the clinic, describing its functioning and the particular structure we have adopted for it. We then turn to the educational objectives of the clinic, which leads to our discussion of implementation problems. After offering some evaluative comments about the clinic, we close by discussing the ways in which it might contribute to an increase in justice

Sounds of the jungle: Re-humanizing the migrant

This article examines the cross-border tensions over migrant settlements dubbed ‘The Jungle’ in Calais. The Jungle, strongly associated with the unauthorized movement of migrants, became a physical entity enmeshed in discourses of illegality and violation of white suburbia. British mainstream media have either rendered the migrant voiceless or faceless, appropriating them into discourses of immigration policy and the violent transgression of borders. Through the case study, Calais Migrant Solidarity (CMS), we highlight how new media spaces can re-humanize the migrant, enabling them to tell their stories through narratives, images and vantage points not shown in the mainstream media. This reconstruction of the migrant is an important device in enabling proximity and reconstituting the migrant as real and human. This sharply contrasts with the distance framing techniques of mainstream media, which dehumanize and silence the migrant, locating the phenomenon of migration as a disruptive contaminant in civilized and ordered societies

Using Data to Promote Collaboration in Local School Readiness Systems

Presents findings from the National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership's community-level data analysis on services that improve physical and mental health, family stability, and neighborhood environments to foster collaboration for school readiness