What Cloud Computing Really Means
Eric Knorr, Galen Gruman
- At it's core, cloud computing is still nebulous when the term is thrown around by generalists. Sometimes the term is in reference to "virtual servers," other times it means anything beyond your immediate connection.
- It's a way to extend the reach of internet and information technologies.
- I had no idea about the range of cloud computing services. I thought of things like the gmail suite - everything is available, all the time.
-Types of Cloud Computing services: SaaS, utility computing (virtual servers), web services
- The idea of platform as service...designed by what you want and what you do.
- MSP, Service Commerce Platforms (trading)
- Internet Integration... putting a bunch of different things together.
- This article didn't make the concept of cloud computing any clearer for me. Perhaps more reading will do the trick.
Video: Explaining Cloud Computing
-"purchasing software and hardware as a utility service" and "users accessing data from anywhere"
I think these concepts seem strange to be primarily because of their embedded-ness within my day to day life.
-SaaS = software as a service is something that I use absolutely every day to do a myriad of takes, both personally, scholastically, and professionally.
- This video is great! Cloud computing totally makes sense through this presentation.
The Future of Libraries
- Once again, we are confronted with the notion that what seems best in modern moments may actually do more harm than good.
- The image of books chained to lecterns seems harsh and uninviting - perhaps antithetical to what we consider the mission of libraries. However, libraries still enforce similarly strict measure on the will of patrons through limits in what, where, when, and how they use equipment. Perhaps to many of us this seems like normal library operations, but I would suggest that to some user groups, it is as though the books are still chained to the lectern.
- Interesting trends "communication systems changing the way people access info." love the question about the ultimate form of communication. Will form continue to change with function?
- "All technology ends" seems alarmist. Dystopian, even.
- Search technology - searching for taste, smell, texture. CRAZY! Librarians should start being more worldly. Yay for diversity.
"Time Compression"
- "Transitioning to a verbal society" I think this is hilarious because a verbal society - steeped in oral tradition - is at the core of every aspect of humanity. The idea that by 2050 literacy will be dead is ludicrous - or maybe not.
- Experience based economy - definitely in the library, but maybe not as a whole for the rest of the wrodl.
A lot of what this article says seems sound - but that's also because the article was written in 2006, so much of what Frey suggests has already been adopted by many mainstream and progressive library systems and organizations. On the other hand, a lot of the article seems unnecessarily alarmist.
Thursday, April 19, 2012
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Week 14 Reading Notes
MyTurn: Protecting Privacy Rights in Libraries
- Patron records should be confidential, like in Vermont. Requiring a warrant means that information that should be confidential IS confidential unless required by law.
- Parental or guardian access to the records of juveniles is tricky. What if that parent is actually going to use the access to patron records to restrict their child's access to materials in the future?
- Freedom of access and freedom of speech is imperative. How do we ensure that all parties can appreciate and respect the rights of libraries to protect their patrons' information?
NO PLACE TO HIDE
- The idea of the "security-industrial complex" is scary. We talked a lot about our "digital dossiers" in a class last fall. That we leave an electronic footprint, an electronic record everywhere we go on the internet is scary, and sometimes makes me want to stop using it.
- Chapter 10 excerpt: Noticing the "little black cubes" of surveillance cameras. All of the different devices that track who, what, and where we are. RFID, just like the strips we put into books. He makes the point that the details about us are not ours to keep or curate...
- WHO'S JOB IS IT TO TRACK AND KEEP THIS iNFORMATION?
Electronic Privacy Information Center
- "Committee Calls for Data Mining Privacy Protections" A plus that all government agencies will be required to have permission before searching for information. This will put a damper on some crime-tv shows, though...how clunky to have to show that process!
- THis information is really interesting, especially because it was all posted after the September 11 attacks. It would be interesting to read more about how the process has changed in the past ten years. I think we have become very used to this kind of privacy invasion...we don't even think about it.
- Patron records should be confidential, like in Vermont. Requiring a warrant means that information that should be confidential IS confidential unless required by law.
- Parental or guardian access to the records of juveniles is tricky. What if that parent is actually going to use the access to patron records to restrict their child's access to materials in the future?
- Freedom of access and freedom of speech is imperative. How do we ensure that all parties can appreciate and respect the rights of libraries to protect their patrons' information?
NO PLACE TO HIDE
- The idea of the "security-industrial complex" is scary. We talked a lot about our "digital dossiers" in a class last fall. That we leave an electronic footprint, an electronic record everywhere we go on the internet is scary, and sometimes makes me want to stop using it.
- Chapter 10 excerpt: Noticing the "little black cubes" of surveillance cameras. All of the different devices that track who, what, and where we are. RFID, just like the strips we put into books. He makes the point that the details about us are not ours to keep or curate...
- WHO'S JOB IS IT TO TRACK AND KEEP THIS iNFORMATION?
Electronic Privacy Information Center
- "Committee Calls for Data Mining Privacy Protections" A plus that all government agencies will be required to have permission before searching for information. This will put a damper on some crime-tv shows, though...how clunky to have to show that process!
- THis information is really interesting, especially because it was all posted after the September 11 attacks. It would be interesting to read more about how the process has changed in the past ten years. I think we have become very used to this kind of privacy invasion...we don't even think about it.
Thursday, April 5, 2012
Week 13 Reading Notes
Creating the Academic Library Folksonomy by Xan Arch
- Basically, tags are a way to organize copious amounts of web based content.
- You can organize information through social media tagging sites and have access to that information anytime you have access to the internet.
-Very personalized; make your own vocabulary, understand exactly what you're writing and saying.
- In the library this can be helpful because it brings patrons/customers into the conversation. Patrons have a say in what is happening and how information is organized.
- Instantly sharable.
- Of course, questions arise about control and quality.
Chapter 2. What Makes Social Media Tick: Seven Secrets of Social Media by John Blossom
- At this point, it seems sort of silly to constantly redefine social media, although I understand that it is broader than just social networking and more specific than "user-generated content"
- The Secrets of Social Media: 1: people just want to decide their level of influence. Passive consumers? Contributors?
- Less about crazy new technologies, although that does matter, and more about offering opportunties for influence. Either other people to influence, or to be influenced by others.
- Law of the "campfire". Deciding who is going to enforce the rules or values.
- social media is valuable because of influence. It's one's best friend or worst enemy.
- The goal of social media is "mass contextualization" rather than mass production. Make the information you're sharing the most important to the most people through context.
- Social media is all about connecting people and information and about providing opportunities for content creation.
Using a Wiki to Manage a Library Instruction Program: Sharing Knowledge to Better Serve Patrons by Charles Allan.
- Wiki's are a free and easy way to facilitate the process of collaboration and knowledge sharing. Lots of free sits.
- Wiki is synonymous with Wikipedia. I LOVE the wiki-media suite and the great offerings from Creative Commons.
- I've used a wiki extensively in my internship and found that some people like it, a few people use it, and most people don' tlike it. From the administrative side, it's really easy to post content and provide options for people to contribute, but much harder to get people to buy in.
- It seems that now we're moving away from wiki's in the direction of other, just as collaborative workspaces, like PinTerest.
How a RagTag Band Created Wikipedia
- "Information wants to be free!"
- It's an amazing product and an even better process.
- I wish there was a way that Wikipedia could be more well respected for some of it's content. As long as you check your sources, it's ll good!
- The built in tools for accountability are admirable. Sometimes with other collaborative tools I worry because there isn't a concrete way to mark what is your contribution and what is from someone else. At some point ownership becomes less important, but it's still important to the process to know who is adding what!
- Basically, tags are a way to organize copious amounts of web based content.
- You can organize information through social media tagging sites and have access to that information anytime you have access to the internet.
-Very personalized; make your own vocabulary, understand exactly what you're writing and saying.
- In the library this can be helpful because it brings patrons/customers into the conversation. Patrons have a say in what is happening and how information is organized.
- Instantly sharable.
- Of course, questions arise about control and quality.
Chapter 2. What Makes Social Media Tick: Seven Secrets of Social Media by John Blossom
- At this point, it seems sort of silly to constantly redefine social media, although I understand that it is broader than just social networking and more specific than "user-generated content"
- The Secrets of Social Media: 1: people just want to decide their level of influence. Passive consumers? Contributors?
- Less about crazy new technologies, although that does matter, and more about offering opportunties for influence. Either other people to influence, or to be influenced by others.
- Law of the "campfire". Deciding who is going to enforce the rules or values.
- social media is valuable because of influence. It's one's best friend or worst enemy.
- The goal of social media is "mass contextualization" rather than mass production. Make the information you're sharing the most important to the most people through context.
- Social media is all about connecting people and information and about providing opportunities for content creation.
Using a Wiki to Manage a Library Instruction Program: Sharing Knowledge to Better Serve Patrons by Charles Allan.
- Wiki's are a free and easy way to facilitate the process of collaboration and knowledge sharing. Lots of free sits.
- Wiki is synonymous with Wikipedia. I LOVE the wiki-media suite and the great offerings from Creative Commons.
- I've used a wiki extensively in my internship and found that some people like it, a few people use it, and most people don' tlike it. From the administrative side, it's really easy to post content and provide options for people to contribute, but much harder to get people to buy in.
- It seems that now we're moving away from wiki's in the direction of other, just as collaborative workspaces, like PinTerest.
How a RagTag Band Created Wikipedia
- "Information wants to be free!"
- It's an amazing product and an even better process.
- I wish there was a way that Wikipedia could be more well respected for some of it's content. As long as you check your sources, it's ll good!
- The built in tools for accountability are admirable. Sometimes with other collaborative tools I worry because there isn't a concrete way to mark what is your contribution and what is from someone else. At some point ownership becomes less important, but it's still important to the process to know who is adding what!
Friday, March 30, 2012
Lab 11
Google:
Screen shot of initial search terms:
http://screencast.com/t/Xl7by6kMy3it
Virtual AND reference; "digital library"; published between 2008 - 2012
This search yielded 8,000+ results. I added "trends" as a search term and narrowed the field to 2,770 results.
Screenshot of results:
http://screencast.com/t/Tz6E5MRvzf
Web of Knowledge:
Final search terms:
"Digital Library" AND "Remote Reference" AND trends OR "virtual reference". Limited to 2008 - 2012. Narrowed to subject area - Information Science Library Science.
Returned 55 results.
Screenshot of results:
http://screencast.com/t/AG8BjbIXkO
Screen shot of initial search terms:
http://screencast.com/t/Xl7by6kMy3it
Virtual AND reference; "digital library"; published between 2008 - 2012
This search yielded 8,000+ results. I added "trends" as a search term and narrowed the field to 2,770 results.
Screenshot of results:
http://screencast.com/t/Tz6E5MRvzf
Web of Knowledge:
Final search terms:
"Digital Library" AND "Remote Reference" AND trends OR "virtual reference". Limited to 2008 - 2012. Narrowed to subject area - Information Science Library Science.
Returned 55 results.
Screenshot of results:
http://screencast.com/t/AG8BjbIXkO
Week 12 Reading Notes
Web Search Engines, Part 1 & 2 [David Hawking]
- The fact that in 15 years the amount of data that must be indexed by search engines has grown by so much is astonishing. The quality of responses to query's that could have so many different meanings is astonishing.
- I don't think that most people understand what happens on the "inside" when they type something into the Google search bar. The algorithm that mines data is so cool! I had no idea what happens in terms of excluded and duplicate content.
- For example, the way that I accessed the articles was done through search engine. The links provided on courseweb didn't show the full text of the article, so I entered the author name and title of the article into a search bar to come up with the article text.
The Deep Web: Surfacing Hidden Value [Michael Bergman]
- I love the comparison of the web to the deep ocean. So much information is buried deeply and we don't know it exists. I also wonder if it matters that we don't know? Is it such specialized content that we don't need to know about it, or would all of our society benefit from mining the deep web?
- On the statistics - 550 billion documents in the deep web compared with the 1 billion of the surface web? What will we do with all of that information?
- "95 percent of the deep web is publicly accessible" - what can we do with this information? If, as the article suggests, it is of a higher quality, more niche, more specific, and not subject to restrictions, shouldn't we be using it more?
- Interesting to see what some of the most trafficked deep web sites are in terms of being freely accessible. Some, like JSTOR, i use frequently.
- This article is 10 years old. I wonder how much the statistics have changed since then?
Current Developments and Future Trends for the OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting
- This article was hard for me to understand because I know very little about the Open Archives Initiative.
- Reading about the different initiatives, like the OLAC and the Sheet Music Consortium was interesting. I actually used the Sheet Music Consortium on a different project.
- Again, I am so impressed and interested in the work that these folks are doing. My brain does not work in a way that easily understands what these folks are doing and what they want to achieve. I am much more people oriented in my pursuit of librarianship. I'm glad that there are people who can pay attention to these parts of the bigger picture!
- The fact that in 15 years the amount of data that must be indexed by search engines has grown by so much is astonishing. The quality of responses to query's that could have so many different meanings is astonishing.
- I don't think that most people understand what happens on the "inside" when they type something into the Google search bar. The algorithm that mines data is so cool! I had no idea what happens in terms of excluded and duplicate content.
- For example, the way that I accessed the articles was done through search engine. The links provided on courseweb didn't show the full text of the article, so I entered the author name and title of the article into a search bar to come up with the article text.
The Deep Web: Surfacing Hidden Value [Michael Bergman]
- I love the comparison of the web to the deep ocean. So much information is buried deeply and we don't know it exists. I also wonder if it matters that we don't know? Is it such specialized content that we don't need to know about it, or would all of our society benefit from mining the deep web?
- On the statistics - 550 billion documents in the deep web compared with the 1 billion of the surface web? What will we do with all of that information?
- "95 percent of the deep web is publicly accessible" - what can we do with this information? If, as the article suggests, it is of a higher quality, more niche, more specific, and not subject to restrictions, shouldn't we be using it more?
- Interesting to see what some of the most trafficked deep web sites are in terms of being freely accessible. Some, like JSTOR, i use frequently.
- This article is 10 years old. I wonder how much the statistics have changed since then?
Current Developments and Future Trends for the OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting
- This article was hard for me to understand because I know very little about the Open Archives Initiative.
- Reading about the different initiatives, like the OLAC and the Sheet Music Consortium was interesting. I actually used the Sheet Music Consortium on a different project.
- Again, I am so impressed and interested in the work that these folks are doing. My brain does not work in a way that easily understands what these folks are doing and what they want to achieve. I am much more people oriented in my pursuit of librarianship. I'm glad that there are people who can pay attention to these parts of the bigger picture!
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