E-Lert # 288 / Cyberavis no. 288
Friday August 1, 2008 / le vendredi 1 août 2008
CARL COMMUNIQUE / COMMUNIQUÉ DE L’ABRC
The minutes ( 
members only ) of the May 12, 2008, CARL Board meeting are available on
the members’ distribution site. PDF
/
accès réservé aux membres ) de la réunion du 12
mai 2008 du Conseil d’administration de l’ABRC est disponible sur le site de distribution des membres. PDF
NEWS / NOUVELLES
DSpace Foundation and Fedora Commons Form Working Collaboration
July 29, 2008
Today two of the largest providers of open source software for managing
and providing access to digital content, the DSpace Foundation and Fedora
Commons, announced plans to combine strengths to work on joint initiatives
that will more closely align their organizations’ goals and better
serve both open source repository communities in the coming months. This
advance comes as institutions such as universities, libraries, museums and
research laboratories worldwide are focused on utilizing open source software
solutions for the dissemination and preservation of scholarly, scientific,
and cultural heritage digital content into the future. (
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The Virtuous Competition in Cloud Computing Research
Steve Lohr
The New York Times, July 29, 2008
One more sign that we’ve entered the cloud computing era: the big
corporate players are competing with each other to rev up academic research
initiatives (partly with an eye toward wooing future computer scientists
to work for them). Yahoo, Hewlett-Packard and Intel announced a research
venture on Tuesday that spans the United States, Germany and Singapore.
The goal is to advance Internet-scale computing — the proverbial “cloud,”
in which more computing chores are delivered to personal computers and cell
phones as services, with the heavy computational lifting done remotely in
large data centers.
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/29/the-virtuous-competition-in-cloud-computing-research/index.html?ref=technology
Trois plaintes contre des fournisseurs Internet
Charles Dubé
Le Droit, 29 juillet 2008
Un centre de recherche de l'Université d'Ottawa a déposé
trois nouvelles plaintes devant le commissaire à la protection de
la vie privée contre des fournisseurs d'accès à Internet
qui vendraient des informations personnelles sur leurs clients sans leur
consentement. La Clinique d'intérêt public et de politique
d'Internet du Canada (CIPPIC) estime que ces entreprises compilent des renseignements
à l'aide d'une technologie relativement nouvelle, appelée
"inspection approfondie des paquets", pour ensuite les vendre
à des compagnies qui font de la publicité ciblée, une
pratique déjà très contestée aux États-Unis
et au Royaume-Uni.
http://www.cyberpresse.ca/article/20080729/CPACTUALITES/807290342/6790/CPDROIT
Microsoft Research Unveils Free Software Tools to Help Scholars
and Researchers Share Knowledge
July 28, 2008
At the ninth annual Microsoft Research Faculty Summit, leaders from Microsoft
Research outlined their vision for how Microsoft Corp. and academics can
collaborate on research projects to develop technological breakthroughs
that will define computing and scientific research in the years ahead. Speaking
to more than 400 faculty members from leading research institutions worldwide,
Tony Hey, corporate vice president of Microsoft’s External Research
Division, emphasized the role his group plays in supporting collaborative
research projects. In the area of scholarly communication, Hey said, “Collecting
and analyzing data, authoring, publishing, and preserving information are
all essential components of the everyday work of researchers — with
collaboration and search and discovery at the heart of the entire process.
We’re supporting that scholarly communication life cycle with free
software tools to improve interoperability with existing tools used commonly
by academics and scholars to better meet their research needs.”
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2008/jul08/07-28SoftwareToolsPR.mspx
Former Employees of Google Prepare Rival Search Engine
Miguel Helft
The New York Times, July 28, 2008
In her two years at Google,
Anna Patterson helped design and build some of the pillars of the company’s
search engine, including its large index of Web pages and some of the formulas
it uses for ranking search results. Now, along with her husband, Tom Costello,
and a few other Google alumni, she is trying to upstage her former employer.
Their company, Cuil, unveiled a search
engine that they promise will be more comprehensive than Google’s
and that they hope will give its users more relevant results.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/28/technology/28cool.html?em&ex=1217563200&en=95ba72c8be8ddb50&ei=5087%0A
ARTICLES
Canadian Libraries on the Agenda: their accomplishments and directions
Gwynneth Evans and Réjean Savard
IFLA Journal, Volume 34, Number 2, June 2008
The authors present an analysis of Canadian libraries in the light of the
current [IFLA] president’s theme: Libraries on the Agenda. Claudia
Lux chose this theme with colleagues to emphasize the role of libraries
in the information society and to encourage them to contribute to all sectors
of society and to national development. The article is based on the review
of a number of studies and on reports and research found in and beyond library
literature. This article explains the major trends affecting all libraries
in Canada: funding, digitization of collections, consortial arrangements
for electronic collections, education, etc. The authors then review the
situation in the various types of libraries; national, academic, public,
school and special libraries. They conclude the paper with a reflection
on leadership and the observation that Canadian libraries are on the agenda
and active.
http://www.ifla.org/V/iflaj/IFLA-Journal-2-2008.pdf
Two new policies widen the path to balanced copyright management:
Developments on author rights
Karla L. Hahn
C&RL News, Volume 69, Number 7, July/August 2008
A light bulb is going off that is casting the issue of author rights management
into new relief. On January 11, 2008, the National Institutes of Health
(NIH) announced a revision of its Public Access Policy. Effective April
7, 2008, the agency requires investigators to deposit their articles stemming
from NIH funding in the NIH online archive, PubMed Central. The shift from
a request to a requirement comes at a propitious time; academic libraries
already have been building infrastructure to work with faculty on both rights
management and repository deposit. Author rights management has been the
most common focus of faculty outreach on campuses in recent years.
http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlpubs/crlnews/backissues2008/july_aug08/authorrights.cfm
Access Revolution: The Birth, Growth, and Supremacy of Electronic
Journals as an Information Medium
Norm Medeiros
in Jones, Wayne, Eds. E-Journals Access and Management, chapter 12, pp.
187-199, Routledge, 2008
The tremendous growth of e-journals in the marketplace has forced libraries
to rethink their means of providing access to these coveted resources. Over
the past 20 years, methods to connect users to e-journals have taken different
shapes, fluctuating among a plethora of theories, ideologies, and technologies.
This chapter attempts to synthesize the methods employed by academic libraries
during this period to provide seamless e-journal access to users.
http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00014331/
RESOURCES / RESSOURCES
ARL/ACRL Institute on Scholarly Communication Web Resources Updated
& Reconfigured
July 29, 2008
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has updated and reconfigured
the FAIR (Freely Available Institute Resources) Web site, where faculty
and alumni of the ARL/ACRL Institute on Scholarly Communication share outreach
and program development tools with the broader community. FAIR is a component
of the Institute on Scholarly Communication, a joint program of ARL and
ACRL that promotes the development of library-led outreach on scholarly
communication issues.
http://www.arl.org/news/pr/fair-29jul08.shtml
Molecular Biology Databases
This work is being developed under the auspices of the Science Commons
Data project and builds upon the Science Commons Open Access Data Protocol
proposing requirements for interoperability of scientific data. The objective
of this project is to assess the accessibility of databases by analyzing
their interfaces to access data and their reuse policies in order to identify
those that are in the public domain, starting with databases hosted by the
Life Science Resource Name (LSRN)
Schema registry.
http://shirleyfung.com/mbdb/
Webcast: Our World Digitized: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly
MIT World, April 10, 2008
In conversation with moderator Henry Jenkins, Peter de Florez Professor
of Humanities and Director of Comparative Media Studies Program at MIT,
panelists discussed their hopes and fears for the emergence of online democracy.
http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/575/
EVENTS / ÉVÉNEMENTS
Digital Libraries à la Carte 2008
Tilburg, The Netherlands, August 25-29, 2008
This course consists of seven modules
of one day each. Sylvia Van Peteghem, Chief Librarian at Ghent University
in Belgium, leads the course. Most modules offer lectures given by experts
in their field. Lectures are either concluded with a 30-minute discussion
session or contain an interactive component, thus guaranteeing the highly
interactive nature of the programme. Lectures can be alternated with working
group sessions. During hands-on modules participants receive practical instruction
in a computer room and develop their own skills during hands-on exercises.
http://www.tilburguniversity.nl/services/lis/ticer/08carte/index.html
