Christina's LIS Rant
Monday, June 30, 2008
SLA2008: Physics roundtable
I think this should be it.
APS - view plus - for the visually impaired. Work with publishers to develop a cost effective way to make their content available to the visually impaired
(I said I would link to handouts - but the SLA site is down again)
Pat Viele introduced Bruce Mason who is working on COMPADRE a very cool resource for physics and astro educational resources. Things are cataloged so that you can find them - neat simulations and games and resource sites at all levels. Adopt a physicist - for your classroom so that you can send him or her questions.
Michael Fosmire talked about their institutional repository (and what is slick about this is that the department does a lot of the work - they were doing it before, too, but it's not on the shoulders of the scientists)
- opt out policy
admin adds to endnote > appropriate copy is identified (looking at Sherpa/Romeo, etc) by library assistant > physics librarian > export to xml > digital commons batch load > record even if no full text
some little details about Physics Today - you can ask some attendees what the details were
big budget cuts in the SUNY system... I'm sure other state universities are in the same boat.
APS - view plus - for the visually impaired. Work with publishers to develop a cost effective way to make their content available to the visually impaired
(I said I would link to handouts - but the SLA site is down again)
Pat Viele introduced Bruce Mason who is working on COMPADRE a very cool resource for physics and astro educational resources. Things are cataloged so that you can find them - neat simulations and games and resource sites at all levels. Adopt a physicist - for your classroom so that you can send him or her questions.
Michael Fosmire talked about their institutional repository (and what is slick about this is that the department does a lot of the work - they were doing it before, too, but it's not on the shoulders of the scientists)
- opt out policy
admin adds to endnote > appropriate copy is identified (looking at Sherpa/Romeo, etc) by library assistant > physics librarian > export to xml > digital commons batch load > record even if no full text
some little details about Physics Today - you can ask some attendees what the details were
big budget cuts in the SUNY system... I'm sure other state universities are in the same boat.
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SLA2008: Astro Roundtable
Kerry Kroffe from IOP presented on the transition of AAS journals to IOP. He's headquartered in DC.
They ported over and are cleaning up older articles (5k articles, 122 issues). The peer review system had to be customized to reflect the different way that AAS does peer review (from other IOP hosted journals - more collaborative effort with more revisions to get the best paper possible). The articles were moved over and then the access control later - with very few problems. Copy editing is being done in India (!). Acceptance to web posting time decreased 50% and they're looking to get it down to 1 month.
New features
- electronic page charges
- VO tables (sort of xml vice vizer which was machine readable ascii)
- object and dataset linking, link out to source data (now that's cool)
to come
- hosting the data behind the pictures
- data cube - but figure out the preservation -- anything that goes in the journal has to be preserved
- upswing in planetary papers (I've noticed that)
ApJ - 30k articles - 9/1 ApJ/ApJ supplements submissions
10/15 letters submissions
12 archives to IOP
Chris B. AAS Update
He's the in house journals manager for AAS.
-figure tables
-regional digital printing (lower carbon footprint - plus it just really makes sense)
- eventually - no print, print whole volume at a time, or get print each week - we'll be able to select. Users will be able to get print bundles of their articles or collections of interesting articles
Kerry? from International Planetarium Society about outreach
Donna Thompson from ADS
Crossref grant proposal (cool! more dois)
better coverage of related sciences
3.7-4.5M records in physics...
More AGU, T&F, Nature, Science (yay!)
Loaded A&A abstracts
better scans
education search - reviews and popular articles (i think she said)
new
- recommendation
- personalization
- vizualization
- citation analysis
- make a list with annotations
IYA 2009
LISAVI (in India)
They ported over and are cleaning up older articles (5k articles, 122 issues). The peer review system had to be customized to reflect the different way that AAS does peer review (from other IOP hosted journals - more collaborative effort with more revisions to get the best paper possible). The articles were moved over and then the access control later - with very few problems. Copy editing is being done in India (!). Acceptance to web posting time decreased 50% and they're looking to get it down to 1 month.
New features
- electronic page charges
- VO tables (sort of xml vice vizer which was machine readable ascii)
- object and dataset linking, link out to source data (now that's cool)
to come
- hosting the data behind the pictures
- data cube - but figure out the preservation -- anything that goes in the journal has to be preserved
- upswing in planetary papers (I've noticed that)
ApJ - 30k articles - 9/1 ApJ/ApJ supplements submissions
10/15 letters submissions
12 archives to IOP
Chris B. AAS Update
He's the in house journals manager for AAS.
-figure tables
-regional digital printing (lower carbon footprint - plus it just really makes sense)
- eventually - no print, print whole volume at a time, or get print each week - we'll be able to select. Users will be able to get print bundles of their articles or collections of interesting articles
Kerry? from International Planetarium Society about outreach
Donna Thompson from ADS
Crossref grant proposal (cool! more dois)
better coverage of related sciences
3.7-4.5M records in physics...
More AGU, T&F, Nature, Science (yay!)
Loaded A&A abstracts
better scans
education search - reviews and popular articles (i think she said)
new
- recommendation
- personalization
- vizualization
- citation analysis
- make a list with annotations
IYA 2009
LISAVI (in India)
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SLA2008: Social Tools and the Enterprise
In this session Liz Lawley flew through a bunch of cool tools - which I've mostly seen before, but it's worth a reminder.
Her talk was focused on: productivity, presence, privacy, portability, play
Her bookmarks are at: http://del.icio.us/mamamusings/sla08 (if people hadn't been mobbing her I would have mentioned that the standard tag is sla2008, but oh well)
First - she used Flickr with cc license to replace stock photos.
presence - im integrates with calendar (check - we do that at MPOW), facebook newsfeeds, twitter for close friends, IRC backchannels (seems very old school), ambient displays
privacy - selective sharing - not binary off/on, social around something, not just social for social sake
portability - grand central beta - Google tool to play different voicemail message depending who called (I'm not 100% sure, but I think I can do something like this with my Cisco VOIP phone at work - it is integrated with my e-mail, which took some getting used to but I now like), goog411, jott.com (who was I trying to tell about this - I forget)- i should use this for twitter since i don't pay for the text messing package on my phone (yes, I am *so* old school)
productive play - attent, passive multiplayer online gaming. She has some game so that students go on "missions" and get points for visiting the sites on her assignment sheets.
Her talk was focused on: productivity, presence, privacy, portability, play
Her bookmarks are at: http://del.icio.us/mamamusings/sla08 (if people hadn't been mobbing her I would have mentioned that the standard tag is sla2008, but oh well)
First - she used Flickr with cc license to replace stock photos.
presence - im integrates with calendar (check - we do that at MPOW), facebook newsfeeds, twitter for close friends, IRC backchannels (seems very old school), ambient displays
privacy - selective sharing - not binary off/on, social around something, not just social for social sake
portability - grand central beta - Google tool to play different voicemail message depending who called (I'm not 100% sure, but I think I can do something like this with my Cisco VOIP phone at work - it is integrated with my e-mail, which took some getting used to but I now like), goog411, jott.com (who was I trying to tell about this - I forget)- i should use this for twitter since i don't pay for the text messing package on my phone (yes, I am *so* old school)
productive play - attent, passive multiplayer online gaming. She has some game so that students go on "missions" and get points for visiting the sites on her assignment sheets.
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SLA2008: cyber infrastructure - building bridges
This was also on Monday at 1:30.
Lucy Nowell, Program Director, NSF Office of Cyberintrastructure presented on what her office does and what's needed -- in particular, she wanted to encourage librarians to be part of project teams who are proposing for this.
infrastructure is like power, water, transportation
research infrastructure is labs, observatories, libraries, computational infrastructure, professional societies
library infrastructure is catalogs, journals, citation indexes
computational infrastructure - internet, local networks, computers, scanners, high performance computing, virtual organizations, data
so cyberinfrastructure
virtual orgs for distributed communities
high performance computing data/visualization/interaction
training & workforce needs/opportunities
cyberinfrastructure can be top down but can also be science driven
IPY 1 data is available (all in paper) but IPY2 data is not available for use - it was digital
IPY 3 is going on right now, will we preserve and provide access to that data?
Why preserve data?
- irreversible (like earthquakes)
- for replication
- longitudinal analysis
- interdisciplinary research
- to broaden participation (citizen science but also with partners from less developed countries)
DataNet
- user centered, evolveable, multisector, sustainable, open, nimble, extensible
- longterm preservation and access to data
- technologically and economically sustainable
- empower science
- partners *will* include libraries, computer scientists, domain experts
i love this quote
Lucy Nowell, Program Director, NSF Office of Cyberintrastructure presented on what her office does and what's needed -- in particular, she wanted to encourage librarians to be part of project teams who are proposing for this.
infrastructure is like power, water, transportation
research infrastructure is labs, observatories, libraries, computational infrastructure, professional societies
library infrastructure is catalogs, journals, citation indexes
computational infrastructure - internet, local networks, computers, scanners, high performance computing, virtual organizations, data
so cyberinfrastructure
virtual orgs for distributed communities
high performance computing data/visualization/interaction
training & workforce needs/opportunities
cyberinfrastructure can be top down but can also be science driven
IPY 1 data is available (all in paper) but IPY2 data is not available for use - it was digital
IPY 3 is going on right now, will we preserve and provide access to that data?
Why preserve data?
- irreversible (like earthquakes)
- for replication
- longitudinal analysis
- interdisciplinary research
- to broaden participation (citizen science but also with partners from less developed countries)
DataNet
- user centered, evolveable, multisector, sustainable, open, nimble, extensible
- longterm preservation and access to data
- technologically and economically sustainable
- empower science
- partners *will* include libraries, computer scientists, domain experts
i love this quote
" we don't want to protect data from users"
- submissions will be interdisciplinary and will deal with data through its lifecycle - will be foundational for other programs to build onLabels: cyberinfrastructure, SLA2008
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SLA2008: KM at the Core, Facilitating Knowledge Sharing
This session was Monday at 9am and featured Dave Snowden - who is entertaining to listen to, even if he trashes my whole paradigm of research (harumph, if he can't tell anecdotal "evidence" from rigorous systematic qualitative research - that's because he doesn't know better, not because there isn't a difference!)
(podcast is available, and slides - apparently the same as from Limerick)
My notes were on paper - and this is 2 weeks later so...
KM (knowledge management) - is a theory or Weltanschauung with dysfunctional technology
Social Computing (social computing technologies - SCTs) - increasingly functional technology without theory or Weltanschauung
His goal is to build theory to use SCTs for KM (if there *can* be such a thing as KM) - given knowledge is volunteered, not conscripted. Lack of sharing: it's often not a matter of "knowledge is power" but the fear of abuse - so sharing happens with people who are trustworthy. By forcing knowledge sharing you get unusable stuff and you have to go back to the author.
Knowledge is contextual - you remember when triggered by a weak signal. The way people know something in the field is different from the way they discribe something. Standard deal: know more than we can tell, can tell more than we can write down.
3 groups of knowledge:
know by doing - muscle memory, only learn by experience, successfully transferred through apprenticeship (he doesn't like the term tacit, though)
stuff we can tell - communicated by story, pre-rehersal (so going over what you're going to do in a meeting before you do it), activate patterns (?)
stuff we can write down - severely limited because highly structured so "best practice" documents are expensive.
SCTs are working to support stuff we can tell, but there's no theory.
He likes Dervin's sensemaking (don't we all?), and using a complex systems approach - make sense of the world so we can act on it.
cogsci - the two predominant models - information processing and behavioralism are not supported by newer cognitive science research; therefore, the fundamentals of business research are misguided (at best)(!)
In an ordered system
- repeated relationships between cause and effect
- manufacturing > most km
- constraints on behavior - no degrees of freedom
- no innovation - but apply these methods in an unordered system and you'll have failure
Chaotic systems
- unconstrained - use statistics and probability theory
Complex adaptive systems
- system and agents co-evolve
- hindsight does not lead to foresight
- future is inherently uncertain
- very sensitive to starting conditions
- system level effects can be emergent
Flexible, negotiable boundaries
- use attractors to encourage good behavior and disruptors to discourage bad
- weak signal detection (to disrupt early) - good surveillance
initiate a system - with safe-fail experimentation - distributed cognition vice centralized cognition which has low resilience.
the Cynfin framework (no doubt TM)
"complex acts of knowing"
(lots of really illegible notes here - gee my handwriting is terrible)
probe - sense -respond, don't allow existing experts to dictate decisions based on best practices from historical data. "bounded applicability" need to increase dissent...
Narrative picks up more signals than analytical analysis (huh?). Don't confuse innovative with creative (yes, well, Jill and I also made that point)
Internal km systems - based on ordered system, formal proccesses with large chunks
wisdom of the crowds - distributed cognition - everybody must make a decision independent of everyone else - this is *not* a prediction market where you can see what decisions everyone else is making.
Cognitive differences help distributed cognition. Keep partial patterns - everything is fragmented - increase fragmentation - chunking and summarizing is too slow and loses important detail...
km has to be a request system, but you have to tell people what you know so they can find who to ask for information
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(podcast is available, and slides - apparently the same as from Limerick)
My notes were on paper - and this is 2 weeks later so...
KM (knowledge management) - is a theory or Weltanschauung with dysfunctional technology
Social Computing (social computing technologies - SCTs) - increasingly functional technology without theory or Weltanschauung
His goal is to build theory to use SCTs for KM (if there *can* be such a thing as KM) - given knowledge is volunteered, not conscripted. Lack of sharing: it's often not a matter of "knowledge is power" but the fear of abuse - so sharing happens with people who are trustworthy. By forcing knowledge sharing you get unusable stuff and you have to go back to the author.
Knowledge is contextual - you remember when triggered by a weak signal. The way people know something in the field is different from the way they discribe something. Standard deal: know more than we can tell, can tell more than we can write down.
3 groups of knowledge:
know by doing - muscle memory, only learn by experience, successfully transferred through apprenticeship (he doesn't like the term tacit, though)
stuff we can tell - communicated by story, pre-rehersal (so going over what you're going to do in a meeting before you do it), activate patterns (?)
stuff we can write down - severely limited because highly structured so "best practice" documents are expensive.
SCTs are working to support stuff we can tell, but there's no theory.
He likes Dervin's sensemaking (don't we all?), and using a complex systems approach - make sense of the world so we can act on it.
cogsci - the two predominant models - information processing and behavioralism are not supported by newer cognitive science research; therefore, the fundamentals of business research are misguided (at best)(!)
In an ordered system
- repeated relationships between cause and effect
- manufacturing > most km
- constraints on behavior - no degrees of freedom
- no innovation - but apply these methods in an unordered system and you'll have failure
Chaotic systems
- unconstrained - use statistics and probability theory
Complex adaptive systems
- system and agents co-evolve
- hindsight does not lead to foresight
- future is inherently uncertain
- very sensitive to starting conditions
- system level effects can be emergent
Flexible, negotiable boundaries
- use attractors to encourage good behavior and disruptors to discourage bad
- weak signal detection (to disrupt early) - good surveillance
initiate a system - with safe-fail experimentation - distributed cognition vice centralized cognition which has low resilience.
the Cynfin framework (no doubt TM)
"complex acts of knowing"
(lots of really illegible notes here - gee my handwriting is terrible)
probe - sense -respond, don't allow existing experts to dictate decisions based on best practices from historical data. "bounded applicability" need to increase dissent...
Narrative picks up more signals than analytical analysis (huh?). Don't confuse innovative with creative (yes, well, Jill and I also made that point)
Internal km systems - based on ordered system, formal proccesses with large chunks
wisdom of the crowds - distributed cognition - everybody must make a decision independent of everyone else - this is *not* a prediction market where you can see what decisions everyone else is making.
Cognitive differences help distributed cognition. Keep partial patterns - everything is fragmented - increase fragmentation - chunking and summarizing is too slow and loses important detail...
km has to be a request system, but you have to tell people what you know so they can find who to ask for information
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Friday, June 27, 2008
SLA2008: the PAM Blog
Be sure to check out the Physics-Astronomy-Math Division blog for more notes and updates on SLA2008.
I still have notes on paper for a couple of sessions that I will try to transcribe...
I still have notes on paper for a couple of sessions that I will try to transcribe...
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Tuesday, June 17, 2008
SLA2008: CS Roundtable
Ebooks as textbooks
- Knovel and CRC books - can be used... one librarian who's been using these has had complaints from students that they can't find anything within the ebooks - need to print the whole thing.
- tried that for a chemistry class and they did not like it - they wanted print - maybe needs to be introduced lower
- maybe ebrary - so you can highlight and make notes?
- maybe if a book to read linearly instead of jumping back and forth
- synthesis lectures as course assignments? (and Springer) allow use in coursepacks - multiple users are allowed whereas systems that only allow a few users don't work for courseworks.
Federated search for ebooks?
OSU is within Ohiolink where they load things locally. -- user limit is a big deal with federated searching.
Lecture Notes in CS - online - how to publicize?
- engineering toolbar within firefox (Ohio University - see his poster session) to get to these.
- I suspect links from google aren't going to LNCS - from my experience
- SpringerLink's horrid search
my question - mushing together books and articles
- not a problem for some - categorizes things
- separate category or quick set
- worldcat local does this and it's a mess (but maybe non-libraries are ok with that)
ACM search engine improvements
- no reps, again!
- have a library advisory board - but haven't called on them for 2 years
- communications of the acm - relaunching - mostly staff steered in the past, but trying to get more to perspectives by experts on research instead of unsolicited manuscripts. less papers on MIS.
- for the author profiles, authors really need to add information to their profiles to make it more useful
- tell them we need to get links out from the acm guide to computing literature (open linking for link resolvers)
Errors in databases
- good experience w/IEEE, Inspec, WoS, ScienceDirect
- bad experience w/acm
- need proper contact for editorial feedback
- problems with Inspec on Ovid and resolver not working right
- international journal of high performance computing - moved to Sage - Sage photoshopped the cover image!!!!!
Parker's study of where to put CS
- Knovel and CRC books - can be used... one librarian who's been using these has had complaints from students that they can't find anything within the ebooks - need to print the whole thing.
- tried that for a chemistry class and they did not like it - they wanted print - maybe needs to be introduced lower
- maybe ebrary - so you can highlight and make notes?
- maybe if a book to read linearly instead of jumping back and forth
- synthesis lectures as course assignments? (and Springer) allow use in coursepacks - multiple users are allowed whereas systems that only allow a few users don't work for courseworks.
Federated search for ebooks?
OSU is within Ohiolink where they load things locally. -- user limit is a big deal with federated searching.
Lecture Notes in CS - online - how to publicize?
- engineering toolbar within firefox (Ohio University - see his poster session) to get to these.
- I suspect links from google aren't going to LNCS - from my experience
- SpringerLink's horrid search
my question - mushing together books and articles
- not a problem for some - categorizes things
- separate category or quick set
- worldcat local does this and it's a mess (but maybe non-libraries are ok with that)
ACM search engine improvements
- no reps, again!
- have a library advisory board - but haven't called on them for 2 years
- communications of the acm - relaunching - mostly staff steered in the past, but trying to get more to perspectives by experts on research instead of unsolicited manuscripts. less papers on MIS.
- for the author profiles, authors really need to add information to their profiles to make it more useful
- tell them we need to get links out from the acm guide to computing literature (open linking for link resolvers)
Errors in databases
- good experience w/IEEE, Inspec, WoS, ScienceDirect
- bad experience w/acm
- need proper contact for editorial feedback
- problems with Inspec on Ovid and resolver not working right
- international journal of high performance computing - moved to Sage - Sage photoshopped the cover image!!!!!
Parker's study of where to put CS
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SLA2008: Cyberinfrastructure Informatics Across the Biological Sciences
Biodiversity Informatics: Evolving in the Biological Sciences
Biodiversity Heritage Library
Cathy Noorden, Woods Hole/Marine Biological Library
tuatara - outside has stayed the same but inside has changed completely, most quickly evolving animal... so a good metaphor for librarians.
Part of the Encyclopedia of Life project. Group of 10 museums that are scanning the taxonomic literature to form the base of the EOL.
Importance of all materials. Not just one type of discovery tool, not only libraries, equal group of contributors.
Goal: core information open access on the web. Can do this because early information - first time something described - still very important to taxonomists.
Partners: internet archive, publishers as content providers, copyright holders.
Domain: 5.4M books dating back to 1469, 50% pre-1923 so out of copyright. But also non-profit society journals who can't afford to digitize agree and also get copies for their page, and some agreements with commercial publishers.
How do they differ from google? Taxonomic information - including what has changed, different languages, historic information. Other organizations need this too - PubMed doesn't have all of these names. Example: this particular salamander, many different spellings so you would not get all of the articles. Reconciliation, link to alternative names for the same organism.
uBio - Universal Biological Index and Organizer. "Taxonomic intelligence is the inclusion of taxonomic practices skills and knowledge within informatics services to manage information about organisms" Giant index with 10.8 million names and merging maps - including common names. Linkage to other data types (molecular, morphological, phenotype). Find it scientific name recognition algorithm (after scanning and OCR-ing) - fairly easy starts upper case then lower case and in italics. Training and improving algorithm.
uBioRSS taxonomically intelligent RSS feed aggregator - their lab works on 200 organisms, so they go out and search selected sources on those organisms. Also present search results for their authors' articles right on the home page.
See also poster session tonight for more details.
Q: zoo record? A: yes, Q2: images? A: yes, and others, too, but rights are slightly more difficult.
Ecological Informatics: Building Solutions for Multi-Decadal Research.
Dr. Bill Michener, University of New Mexico
Long Term Ecological Research (LTER), http://www.lternet.edu/
LTER is required for slow or transient processes, episodic or infrequent events, trends, multi-factor, delayed effects.
Issues: data dispersion, field stations, museums, local agencies, individual collections - data entropy - basically, scientists lose or forget details about their datasets after publication... Data integration- different syntax (format), schema (model), semantics (meaning).
ecological informatics- status: some data archives, some tools (such as morpho, meta cat, kepler - a workflow system). Vegbank- value added database, societal and NSF effort.
future: Smith, Knapp, Collins in press - the global change hockey stick applies to population, temp, environmental nitrogen...
coupled science and cyberinfrastructure, facilitate access and use (usability of preserved data). Global communities of practice. Diverse scales and scopes. Enabling the scientists, whole life cycle data management, domain agnostic solutions....
citizen science toolkit - citizenscience.org
Empty Suits
Quentin Wheeler
(ppt issue so no slides)
Creating the taxonomic content for taxonomic knowledge - lack of funding for taxonomic work based on mistaken idea that we're done or can rely on history and historical data.
We only know 10% species on earth and we might lose 25-50% of the species within this century. How can we detect invasive species or find bioterrorism if we don't have a biodiversity baseline. Major discoveries every year in biodiversity (biggest stick bug found).
Still major, heated, furious debate on what a species is - still more than 2 dozen competing definitions. Tradition of argumentation... biological challenge and process challenges - fundamental problems. Disservice to turn taxonomy into a service for other areas of science instead of as for a basic science. More money into mobilizing bad data (databases) instead of generating good data and capturing new good data as it's created.
NSF - Planetary biodiversity inventories - required communities of taxonomists work together (new idea, generally taxonomists are very independent). Example: cat fishes - 200 ichthyologists working together - now can work together. Also information access in smaller or remote institutions. Remote microscopes.
Challenges - science is not the issue (phylogenics has had a huge impact, and they have rigorous testable hypotheses)... it's more the culture of not collaborating, and the need for support through cyberinfrastructure.
Next steps: more on bugs. more on history and philosophy of science (to look at how marginalized to prevent future), sociologists to help work with rewards structure, change image of taxonomy, advertising...
saw video: Planet Bob.
Biodiversity Heritage Library
Cathy Noorden, Woods Hole/Marine Biological Library
tuatara - outside has stayed the same but inside has changed completely, most quickly evolving animal... so a good metaphor for librarians.
Part of the Encyclopedia of Life project. Group of 10 museums that are scanning the taxonomic literature to form the base of the EOL.
Importance of all materials. Not just one type of discovery tool, not only libraries, equal group of contributors.
Goal: core information open access on the web. Can do this because early information - first time something described - still very important to taxonomists.
Partners: internet archive, publishers as content providers, copyright holders.
Domain: 5.4M books dating back to 1469, 50% pre-1923 so out of copyright. But also non-profit society journals who can't afford to digitize agree and also get copies for their page, and some agreements with commercial publishers.
How do they differ from google? Taxonomic information - including what has changed, different languages, historic information. Other organizations need this too - PubMed doesn't have all of these names. Example: this particular salamander, many different spellings so you would not get all of the articles. Reconciliation, link to alternative names for the same organism.
uBio - Universal Biological Index and Organizer. "Taxonomic intelligence is the inclusion of taxonomic practices skills and knowledge within informatics services to manage information about organisms" Giant index with 10.8 million names and merging maps - including common names. Linkage to other data types (molecular, morphological, phenotype). Find it scientific name recognition algorithm (after scanning and OCR-ing) - fairly easy starts upper case then lower case and in italics. Training and improving algorithm.
uBioRSS taxonomically intelligent RSS feed aggregator - their lab works on 200 organisms, so they go out and search selected sources on those organisms. Also present search results for their authors' articles right on the home page.
See also poster session tonight for more details.
Q: zoo record? A: yes, Q2: images? A: yes, and others, too, but rights are slightly more difficult.
Ecological Informatics: Building Solutions for Multi-Decadal Research.
Dr. Bill Michener, University of New Mexico
Long Term Ecological Research (LTER), http://www.lternet.edu/
LTER is required for slow or transient processes, episodic or infrequent events, trends, multi-factor, delayed effects.
Issues: data dispersion, field stations, museums, local agencies, individual collections - data entropy - basically, scientists lose or forget details about their datasets after publication... Data integration- different syntax (format), schema (model), semantics (meaning).
ecological informatics- status: some data archives, some tools (such as morpho, meta cat, kepler - a workflow system). Vegbank- value added database, societal and NSF effort.
future: Smith, Knapp, Collins in press - the global change hockey stick applies to population, temp, environmental nitrogen...
coupled science and cyberinfrastructure, facilitate access and use (usability of preserved data). Global communities of practice. Diverse scales and scopes. Enabling the scientists, whole life cycle data management, domain agnostic solutions....
citizen science toolkit - citizenscience.org
Empty Suits
Quentin Wheeler
(ppt issue so no slides)
Creating the taxonomic content for taxonomic knowledge - lack of funding for taxonomic work based on mistaken idea that we're done or can rely on history and historical data.
We only know 10% species on earth and we might lose 25-50% of the species within this century. How can we detect invasive species or find bioterrorism if we don't have a biodiversity baseline. Major discoveries every year in biodiversity (biggest stick bug found).
Still major, heated, furious debate on what a species is - still more than 2 dozen competing definitions. Tradition of argumentation... biological challenge and process challenges - fundamental problems. Disservice to turn taxonomy into a service for other areas of science instead of as for a basic science. More money into mobilizing bad data (databases) instead of generating good data and capturing new good data as it's created.
NSF - Planetary biodiversity inventories - required communities of taxonomists work together (new idea, generally taxonomists are very independent). Example: cat fishes - 200 ichthyologists working together - now can work together. Also information access in smaller or remote institutions. Remote microscopes.
Challenges - science is not the issue (phylogenics has had a huge impact, and they have rigorous testable hypotheses)... it's more the culture of not collaborating, and the need for support through cyberinfrastructure.
Next steps: more on bugs. more on history and philosophy of science (to look at how marginalized to prevent future), sociologists to help work with rewards structure, change image of taxonomy, advertising...
saw video: Planet Bob.
Labels: biodiversity informatics, SLA2008
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Sunday, June 15, 2008
SLA2008: Charlie Rose interviews Vinton Cerf
At the opening general session. Vint Cerf is the Chief Internet Evangelist for Google
Charlie Rose starts by thanking us and saying he didn' t realize we had an association (sigh!)
... start at the beginning...
ARPA was created... late 60s... arpanet packet switching... C2 interest and mobile comms
... Gore did as a Senator get funding for NSF net... then as vice president get commercial traffic on network...
...what is the internet today...
like road system or power distribution system - wherever and as much as you need. By 2010 want to get 3billion on net ... mobile penetration is much quicker and conducive bcs no wires. Wants everyone on the planet to have access to the internet in 10 years... but the new technology doesn't supplant the old - in addition. Need broadband, too.
... what is the essence of the internet...
academic world the coin of the realm is knowledge so the design of the internet is completely open and this was during the Cold War. Over the past 30 years the openness has enabled innovation -- don't have to get permission... openness and freedom is the essence
... what is the significance of users being content providers - where are we going with social networks ...
10 hrs of video going into YouTube per minute... lots of content... when we are all sharing... the world's knowledge at your fingertips.
...digitizing of libraries...
googles have been working - at least at digitizing the imagery of books, and OCRing but we are very far from ... but things are being produced digitally now... have to stop thinking of digital objects as analogs of print. Sometimes these complex digital artifacts can't really be represented in print - increasing complexity of digital objects. deeply concerned about digital preservation - if the software is no longer available - sitting atop a pile of mouldering bits
... will google do that...
well google will do some, but other companies that own content might find that if they can no longer support the software that they can make content available on the web for others to find a way to access
... does the new president need to appoint a commission...
not the solution.. needs to be more distributed and there might be more than one solution
science data sharing - example genebank where the journals required submission to archive prior to publication of articles, was a successful example - works that way for astro and atmospheric --
"some people say that information is power - baloney - information sharing is power"
delay destruction tolerant protocols - test them on deep impact, then on ISS then open them to the world and share them to all countries sending stuff to space so then we can repurpose platforms and we can use the store and forward... like Phoenix talking to the Mars orbiters... and build a space network.
... what rules do we need internationally...
we're working with coordinating group... but there will be abuses so how will we work against that? various technological means, and then international agreement (which is complicated)...
but information security is a big deal...
...why can't we end spam...
plug the holes of the vulnerabilites in the browsers, better filtering
solar power to internet cafes and then use satellite internet - help people with the capital cost who want to set up internet cafes
2013-2014 to 75% internet penetration...
censorship?
we even censor here, but there is no country that doesn't have some access -- even Burma. In the long run necessary for development. In the long run democratizing agent - but potential hazzard bcs [content pay walls prevent access and limit democratizing effect]
...how will search change....
if we are lucky go past statistical matching of strings and get to more semantics
...voice recognition...
BLUE scoring system for VR... google broke the .5 barrier so that an expert can't fix the translation without referring to the original.
"translate out of sight out, of mind as invisible idiot"
... will US continue to lead the way...
let me remove the myth that the internet was designed completely in the U.S.
(missed a bit)
... what's the next big idea
if I knew I'd being doing it... mobile is interesting - screen size of a 1928 tv and keyboard suitable for a 3ft tall person... make it into a universal remote control.
Charlie Rose starts by thanking us and saying he didn' t realize we had an association (sigh!)
... start at the beginning...
ARPA was created... late 60s... arpanet packet switching... C2 interest and mobile comms
... Gore did as a Senator get funding for NSF net... then as vice president get commercial traffic on network...
...what is the internet today...
like road system or power distribution system - wherever and as much as you need. By 2010 want to get 3billion on net ... mobile penetration is much quicker and conducive bcs no wires. Wants everyone on the planet to have access to the internet in 10 years... but the new technology doesn't supplant the old - in addition. Need broadband, too.
... what is the essence of the internet...
academic world the coin of the realm is knowledge so the design of the internet is completely open and this was during the Cold War. Over the past 30 years the openness has enabled innovation -- don't have to get permission... openness and freedom is the essence
... what is the significance of users being content providers - where are we going with social networks ...
10 hrs of video going into YouTube per minute... lots of content... when we are all sharing... the world's knowledge at your fingertips.
...digitizing of libraries...
googles have been working - at least at digitizing the imagery of books, and OCRing but we are very far from ... but things are being produced digitally now... have to stop thinking of digital objects as analogs of print. Sometimes these complex digital artifacts can't really be represented in print - increasing complexity of digital objects. deeply concerned about digital preservation - if the software is no longer available - sitting atop a pile of mouldering bits
... will google do that...
well google will do some, but other companies that own content might find that if they can no longer support the software that they can make content available on the web for others to find a way to access
... does the new president need to appoint a commission...
not the solution.. needs to be more distributed and there might be more than one solution
science data sharing - example genebank where the journals required submission to archive prior to publication of articles, was a successful example - works that way for astro and atmospheric --
"some people say that information is power - baloney - information sharing is power"
delay destruction tolerant protocols - test them on deep impact, then on ISS then open them to the world and share them to all countries sending stuff to space so then we can repurpose platforms and we can use the store and forward... like Phoenix talking to the Mars orbiters... and build a space network.
... what rules do we need internationally...
we're working with coordinating group... but there will be abuses so how will we work against that? various technological means, and then international agreement (which is complicated)...
but information security is a big deal...
...why can't we end spam...
plug the holes of the vulnerabilites in the browsers, better filtering
solar power to internet cafes and then use satellite internet - help people with the capital cost who want to set up internet cafes
2013-2014 to 75% internet penetration...
censorship?
we even censor here, but there is no country that doesn't have some access -- even Burma. In the long run necessary for development. In the long run democratizing agent - but potential hazzard bcs [content pay walls prevent access and limit democratizing effect]
...how will search change....
if we are lucky go past statistical matching of strings and get to more semantics
...voice recognition...
BLUE scoring system for VR... google broke the .5 barrier so that an expert can't fix the translation without referring to the original.
"translate out of sight out, of mind as invisible idiot"
... will US continue to lead the way...
let me remove the myth that the internet was designed completely in the U.S.
(missed a bit)
... what's the next big idea
if I knew I'd being doing it... mobile is interesting - screen size of a 1928 tv and keyboard suitable for a 3ft tall person... make it into a universal remote control.
Labels: SLA2008
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Friday, January 11, 2008
Who cares about green, free wireless at SLA!
Yay! " supplying free wireless Internet access throughout the conference center"
(See SLA's green initiative press release: http://www.sla.org/content/SLA/pressroom/pressrelease/08pr/pr2801.cfm)
(See SLA's green initiative press release: http://www.sla.org/content/SLA/pressroom/pressrelease/08pr/pr2801.cfm)
Labels: SLA2008
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