[foaf-dev] Fwd: [CurrentCites] Current Cites, October 2010

From the digital libraries world, ... but lots of 'social Web' themes
this month.

Dan


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                              Current Cites

                               October 2010

                          Edited by [2]Roy Tennant

       http://lists.webjunction.org/currentcites/2010/cc10.21.10.html

   Contributors: [3]Charles W. Bailey, Jr., [4]Susan Gibbons, [5]Peter
   Hirtle, [6]Leo Robert Klein, [7]Roy Tennant
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   Association of Research Libraries, , and  Stratus, Inc.. [8]The ARL
   2030 Scenarios: A User's Guide for Research Libraries  Washington, DC:
   Association of Research Libraries, October
   2010.(http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/arl-2030-scenarios-users-guide.pdf). -
   The ARL 2030 Scenario Set contains four hypothetical suggestions of the
   state of research environments in 2030. These are not predictions of
   the future, but rather very different, plausible scenarios designed "to
   make deeply held assumptions and beliefs explicit, and to test those
   beliefs and assumptions against the critical uncertainties facing"
   research libraries. The scenarios are deliberate in the absence of
   research libraries in the narrative; it falls to each of us to imagine
   what the roles of our libraries may be in these very different research
   landscapes. While scenaric thinking has a rich history that dates back
   to the 1950's, this is a relatively new strategic planning tool for
   libraries. This publication serves as a good introduction to the
   scenario methodology, even if the research environment focus falls
   outside of the primary scope of your library. (Full disclosure: I was
   one of several dozen individuals to participate in some of the meetings
   and focus groups that informed this scenario set). - [9]SG

   Boyd, Danah. "[10]Streams of Content, Limited Attention: The Flow of
   Information through Social Media"  [11]EDUCAUSE Review
   45(5)(September/October 2010): 26-36.
   (http://www.educause.edu/EDUCAUSE+Review/EDUCAUSEReviewMagazineVolume45
   /StreamsofContentLimitedAttenti/213923). - Certainly the concept of
   "flow" in social networking is not a new one. Even I have written about
   it as early as [12]four and-a-half years ago, and then again in
   [13]June 2009. Therefore, I was a tad surprised that this piece by one
   of the anointed experts on social networking seems a bit late to the
   party -- and even then she credits Dan Gillmor with inspiring her to
   talk about this. But her thoughts on flow and the issues it presents to
   society are well worth pondering. Better late, I say, then never. Her
   named challenges: democratization; stimulation; homophily; and power.
   My personal take-away quote: "We need technological innovations. For
   example, we need tools that allow people to more easily contextualize
   relevant content regardless of where they are and what they are doing,
   and we need tools that allow people to slice and dice content so as to
   not reach information overload. This is not simply about aggregating or
   curating content to create personalized destination sites. Frankly, I
   don't think this will work. Instead, the tools that consumers need are
   those that allow them to get in flow, that allow them to live inside
   information structures wherever they are and whatever they're doing.
   They need tools that allow them to easily grab what they want and to
   stay peripherally aware without feeling overwhelmed." - [14]RT

   Lewis, David W. "[15]The User-Driven Purchase Giveaway Library"
   [16]EDUCAUSE Review  45(5)(September/October 2010): 10-11.
   (http://www.educause.edu/library/ERM1057). - Lewis, the Dean of the
   IUPUI University Library, speculates on the role that libraries will
   play in a world in which most information is digital. In this "thought
   experiment," he suggests that libraries could better meet researcher's
   needs if they abandoned purchasing books for the collection. Instead a
   library would use its budget to purchase titles that were then given to
   the patrons to keep. The titles would either be loaded onto the
   patron's e-reader device or, if hard copy was required, printed on the
   library's print-on-demand printer. A library that purchased and then
   gave away digital books would, he argues, deliver more material to
   researchers at a lower price than the current model. If Lewis is right,
   then librarians today had better start demanding licenses for purchased
   e-resources that would authorize this vision of the future rather than
   blindly accepting whatever publishers elect to offer. They would also
   need to develop retrieval systems that would list not what libraries
   owned, but what they could purchase. - [17]PH

   Rheingold, Howard. "[18]Attention, and Other 21st-Century Social Media
   Literacies"  [19]EDUCAUSE Review  45(5)(September/October 2010): 14-24.
   (http://www.educause.edu/EDUCAUSE+Review/EDUCAUSEReviewMagazineVolume45
   /AttentionandOther21stCenturySo/213922). - This thoughtful and
   thought-provoking piece explores the following interconnected "social
   literacies": attention, participation, collaboration, network
   awareness, and critical consumption (what Hemingway called "crap
   detection," cites Rheingold) and how they play out in the classroom.
   Attention is the most important, he asserts, as it is the one that is
   fundamental to, and links together, all the others. But ultimately, he
   states, "the most important fluency is not in mastering a particular
   literacy but in being able to put all five of these literacies together
   into a way of being in digital culture." Rheingold's experiences in the
   classroom and his useful explication of these literacies can only serve
   to help other instructors and professors understand their students
   better, their network impulses, and how best to engage with and channel
   them to better learning outcomes. At least one could hope. - [20]RT

   Samuelson, Pamela. [21]The Copyright Principles Project: Directions for
   Reform  Berkeley, CA: University of California, Berkeley, School of Law
   , 2010.(http://www.law.berkeley.edu/files/bclt_CPP.pdf). - With
   lawsuits over digital information use and distribution flying left and
   right, you don't need to look very hard to conclude that the current
   copyright system is in need of reform. Noted copyright expert Pamela
   Samuelson and 19 other members of The Copyright Principles Project,
   including such luminaries as Michael W. Carroll, Brian Fitzgerald,
   Laura Gasaway, and Jessica Litman, have tackled this thorny problem and
   developed a set of 25 detailed recommendations for change in order
   "that copyright law can better be adapted to meet the challenges of the
   day in a way that is principled and balanced, and that would command
   respect from the public as well as from copyright owners." - [22]CB

   Tanner, Simon. [23]Inspiring Research, Inspiring Scholarship: The Value
   and Benefits of Digitised Resources for Learning, Teaching, Research
   and Enjoyment  Bristol, UK: JISC,
   2010.(http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/programmes/digitisation/12p
   agefinaldocumentbenefitssynthesis.pdf). - This full-color, 12-page
   brochure is designed to laud the benefits of digitization to research,
   scholarship, and the broader cultural heritage at large. Specific
   examples of British digital projects are sprinkled throughout, and
   serve to illustrate the main points of inspiring research and
   scholarship, bestowing economic benefits, connecting people and
   communities, and creating a "digital Britain". Although I would not
   normally cite what is basically a fluff piece likely designed to garner
   further funding and support for a digitization program -- or to help
   justify it -- this is a potentially useful example of what might be
   effectively employed on a smaller scale -- say, to help increase
   support for a digitization program within a particular institution. -
   [24]RT

   Wainewright, Phil. "[25]Defining the True Meaning of Cloud"  [26]ZDNet
   (30 September
   2010)(http://www.zdnet.com/blog/saas/defining-the-true-meaning-of-cloud
   /1160). - Since I've been [27]speaking [28]recently about "cloud
   computing," which can be a vague and difficult to define term, I took
   notice of this good piece that seeks to do just that. Wainewright
   states that to be true cloud computing, all four of these aspects must
   apply: 1) abstracted infrastructure (purposely made more broad than
   simply "virtualization"), 2) as-a-service infrastructure, 3)
   multi-tenancy, and 4) cloud scale (i.e., the capacity to handle usage
   spikes, etc.). Altogether, this very brief piece is one of the best
   I've seen on condensing in an understandable fashion what "cloud
   computing" means in real terms. - [29]RT

   Wilkinson, David, and Mike  Thelwall. "[30]Social Network Site Changes
   Over Time: The Case of MySpace"  [31]Journal of the American Society
   for Information Science and Technology  61(11)(November
   2010): 2311-2323.
   (http://www.interscience.wiley.com/jpages/1532-2882/). - Some social
   networks live and die; others evolve to serve in another way. It's this
   latter scenario that the authors examine, looking in particular at
   former leader-of-the-pack MySpace through the years 2007 to 2010. Along
   the way, they bring up useful ways of thinking about social networks,
   who belongs to them and why. - [32]LRK
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