E-Lert # 325 / Cyberavis no. 325
Friday May 8, 2009 / le vendredi
8 mai 2009
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NEWS / NOUVELLES
A National Initiative for Social Participation
Ben Shneiderman
Science, May 8, 2009
The transformative power of the Internet is more than access to information;
it is more and more about contributing, collaborating, and participating.
As President Obama calls for civic service and personal responsibility to
rebuild America, combining these ideas could facilitate the shift from playful,
discretionary Internet usage to larger, more serious projects aligned with
national priorities such as health care, community safety, education, and
innovation.*
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/reprint/323/5920/1426.pdf?ck=nck
Guy Berthiaume succède à Lise Bissonnette à
la Grande Bibliothèque
Le Devoir, 7 mai 2009
Guy Berthiaume succédera à Lise Bissonnette à titre
de président de Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec.
Il devient du même coup membre du conseil d'administration de l'institution.
Lise Bissonnette, à qui l'on doit l'étonnant succès
de la Grande Bibliothèque ainsi qu'un réaménagement
majeur de la structure des archives au Québec, quittera son poste
le 22 juin.*
http://www.ledevoir.com/2009/05/07/249258.html
CIHR President Announces Web Consultations on Draft Strategic Plan
May 7, 2009
This draft strategic plan is designed to position Canada and CIHR as international
leaders in health research. It is intended to encourage greater innovation
and collaboration amongst Canada's health researchers and with partners
in the public and private sectors in Canada and abroad. Online consultations
will end on June 12. After the consultation phase, CIHR will post on its
website a summary report based on the feedback received.*
http://www.cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/39188.html
[Draft Strategic
Plan / Web survey]
Les «Oscar d'Internet» récompensent le Guardian
et le New York Times
Le Devoir, 6 mai 2009
Les «Oscar d'Internet», les Webbys, ont récompensé
hier les sites en ligne de grands quotidiens anglo-saxons, dont le New York
Times et le Boston Globe pour les États-Unis et le Guardian pour
la Grande-Bretagne. Les 600 membres de l'Académie internationale
des arts numériques et des sciences ont récompensé
lors de cette 13e édition le site du New York Times pour la meilleure
qualité d'écriture. Mais le titre de meilleur site de quotidien,
remporté l'an passé, lui a échappé au profit
du quotidien britannique The Guardian.*
http://www.ledevoir.com/2009/05/06/249060.html
Globe settles freelancers' lawsuit
Richard Blackwell
Globe and Mail, May 5, 2009
The Globe and Mail's parent company and two publishers agreed to pay $11-million
to settle a class action lawsuit from freelancers and other contributors
who claimed they were not properly compensated for the electronic reproduction
of their work. Thousands of contributors - whose work appeared on electronic
databases after 1979 - could share in the settlement. Author Heather Robertson
launched the suit 13 years ago.*
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090505.wsettle05art2141/BNStory/National/home
Will Canada miss the next wireless revolution?
Sara Diamond
Globe and Mail, May 4, 2009
Industry and government must move quickly to embrace a new generation of
mobile network access. Mobile and wireless devices have changed our world,
and as they lead the next revolution - beyond 3G and into the super-speeds
of 4G networks - network access will be everywhere. However, with
the exception of Research In Motion, the Vigo IP Platform, QuickPlay, Marble
Media, and a host of bright young micro companies, we don't get it. In the
world of "mobile ubiquity," Canada lags behind.*
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20090504.RAGENDADIAMOND04ART1931/TPStory/Business
BAnQ invitée à Paris
Le Devoir, 4 mai 2009
Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (BAnQ) sera
l'invitée d'honneur du Salon international du livre ancien et de
l'estampe de Paris, du 19 au 21 juin prochain. Il s'agit de la 21e édition
de cet événement, qui se tient au Grand Palais à Paris.
Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec y présentera
une exposition intitulée Mémoire du Nouveau Monde: oeuvres
choisies parmi les collections de Bibliothèque et Archives nationales
du Québec.*
http://www.ledevoir.com/2009/05/04/248766.html
Peter Suber and Christian Sandvig new fellows at the Berkman
Center for Internet & Society
May 1, 2009
Peter Suber
joins the Center for a special joint fellowship with the Harvard
Office for Scholarly Communication and the Harvard
Law School Library. Professor Suber will be focusing on Open
Access documentation efforts, and outreach around Open Access, across Harvard
and beyond. Christian
Sandvig also joins the Center in early summer. Professor Sandvig
will develop a comparative, multidisciplinary approach to understanding
Internet infrastructure and assist the University-wide center, in fostering
broad, innovative dialogue across Harvard.*
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/newsroom/Suber_Sandvig
Amazon Offers Educational Grants for 'Cloud Computing' Access
Steve Kolowich
The Chronicle of Higher Education, May 1, 2009
Online retailing giant Amazon is offering educators, researchers, and students
the chance to apply for free access to its hosted computing, or “cloud,”
services. The services can be used to work with massive amounts of data
that would jam a regular desktop computer.*
http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/3748/amazon-offers-educational-grants-for-cloud-computing-access?utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
18 milliards d'euros pour les universités et la recherche
30 avril 2009
Au cours d'une session spéciale de la Conférence scientifique
commune (GWK), les ministres de l'Etat fédéral et des Länder
en charge de la science en Allemagne ont adopté, le 22 avril 2009,
les conditions de la poursuite des trois grands programmes pour la science
: le Pacte pour l'enseignement supérieur II, l'Initiative d'excellence
et le Pacte pour la recherche et l'innovation. Au total, ces programmes
doivent bénéficier de 18 milliards d'euros d'ici 2019, portés
environ aux deux tiers par l'Etat fédéral.*
http://www.bulletins-electroniques.com/actualites/58833.htm
Google Introduces Public Data Search Feature
Information Today, April 30, 2009
Google announced a new search feature that facilitates finding and comparing
public data from various sources. The feature derives from Google's acquisition
of Trendalyzer 2 years ago. Google said it seeks to expand the scope of
public data that people can find through Google.*
http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/Digest/Google-Introduces-Public-Data-Search-Feature-53664.asp
Quand la science dépasse la fiction: l'Europe dévoile
sa stratégie pour devenir un chef de file mondial de la recherche
à haut risque sur les TIC
21 avril 2009
Une puissance de calcul illimitée, des ordinateurs imitant le cerveau
humain, des fauteuils roulants dirigés «mentalement»
et des robots compagnons bien sympathiques: autant d'inventions liées
au nouveau plan européen dévoilé aujourd'hui par la
Commission européenne en vue de stimuler la recherche prospective.
La Commission a proposé de stimuler la recherche à haut
risque sur les technologies futures en Europe en doublant les investissements
nationaux et européens en la matière d'ici à 2015.
Elle montrera l'exemple en accroissant chaque année le budget consacré
à cette recherche: de 100 millions d'euros actuellement, il
augmentera de 70 % au total d'ici à 2013.*
http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/09/608&format=HTML&aged=0&language=FR&guiLanguage=fr
CRKN a Remarkable success
Tim Mark
Ottawa Citizen, April 11, 2009
Columnist Michael Wayne refers to the Canadian Research Knowledge Network
(CRKN) as "a partnership of Canadian universities with an annual budget
of more than $50 million to expand digital content for academic institutions
in this country." All Canadians can be proud of CRKN's success. This
remarkable success story started as a consortium of more than 60 universities,
spearheaded by the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL). The
consortium delivered on its promise, licensing digital content directly
to the user's desktop, right across Canada and irrespective of the size
of the member university.*
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/News/Remarkable+success/1528075/story.html
NRC Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (NRC-CISTI)
collaborating with Google Scholar
NRC-CISTI News, Volume 24, Number 2, April 2009
Researchers from Canada and beyond now have access to millions of scientific,
technical and medical (STM) journal articles from NRC-CISTI's Discover collection
through Google Scholar, part of the world's most heavily-used search engine.
Researchers using Google Scholar will either be able to download articles
immediately using Discover or will be directed to other document provision
services.*
http://cisti-icist.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/eng/ibp/cisti/newsletters/cisti-news/2009april.html#a1
ARTICLES
Time for an Innovation Canada Department, a ministry of the future
David Crane
The Hill Times, May 4, 2009
Where There’s a Will There’s a Way? Survey of Academic
Librarian Attitudes about Open Access
Kristi L. Palmer et al
College & Research Libraries pre-print, May 2009
Work with institutional repositories and other open access models, academic
libraries are becoming increasingly involved scholarly communication issues.
Academic librarians are being encouraged to promote these new models, but
their opinions about open access have not been documented. Palmer et al
report on the results of a national survey conducted in the summer of 2006
of academic librarians’ attitudes toward open access principles and
related behaviors.*
http://idea.iupui.edu/dspace/handle/1805/1716
Looking to Big-Screen E-Readers to Help Save the Daily Press
Brad Stone
The New York Times, May 3, 2009
Recession-ravaged newspaper and magazine industries are holding out for
their knight in shining digital armor, in the form of portable reading devices
with big screens. Unlike tiny mobile phones and devices like the Kindle
that are made to display text from books, these new gadgets, with screens
roughly the size of a standard sheet of paper, could present much of the
editorial and advertising content of traditional periodicals in much the
same format as they appear in print. More importantly, they might be a way
to get readers to pay for those periodicals which they have been reluctant
to do on the Web.*
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/04/technology/companies/04reader.html?_r=2
Power of the printed news has a hold on our culture
Randy Boswell
Financial Post, April 29, 2009
A good portion of the nation's collective memory is stacked floor-to-ceiling
at an industrial warehouse in suburban Ottawa - over one million daily newspapers
from the dawn of Canadian history, and from all corners of the country,
to last week in our neighborhoods. A trip to Canada's ultimate newspaper
repository may not be proof that recent talk of the medium's death-by-Internet
is premature or overblown. But here, where the weight of history is both
literal and figurative, and the profound hold of the printed word on our
culture is made manifest, one can more easily appreciate the enormity of
the challenge facing the illuminated screen as it bids for 21st-century
dominance over the tangible page.*
http://www.financialpost.com/story.html?id=1544750
RESOURCES / RESSOURCES
L’évolution des bibliothèques universitaires
québécoises; un aperçu statistique : 1991-2007
6 mai 2009
Depuis près de 40 ans, le Sous-comité des bibliothèques
de la CREPUQ collige des statistiques sur les collections, les ressources
humaines et financières et les services des bibliothèques
universitaires du Québec. Ces données quantitatives, publiées
chaque année, brossent un véritable portrait des activités
et des ressources de chaque bibliothèque.*
http://www.crepuq.qc.ca/spip.php?article1075&lang=fr
State of the Nation 2008: Canada’s Science, Technology and Innovation
System
Science, Technology and Innovation Council (STIC), 2009
STIC is an advisory body that provides the Government of Canada with external
policy advice on science and technology issues, and produces regular national
reports that measure Canada's science and technology performance against
international standards of excellence. The Science, Technology and Innovation
Council has released its first public report that benchmarks Canada's science,
technology and innovation system against the world's innovating countries.*
http://www.stic-csti.ca/eic/site/stic-csti.nsf/eng/home
[Français : http://www.stic-csti.ca/eic/site/stic-csti.nsf/fra/accueil]
Managing and sharing data: a best practices guide for researchers
U.K. Data Archive (UKDA), 2009
Good data management is the foundation for good research. Properly organized,
verified and preserved research data result in high quality, efficient research
and the saving of time and resources. Researchers benefit greatly from properly
managing their research data. Data management should be planned from the
start of research, and if it becomes part of standard research practice,
it does not incur additional time or cost burdens. This document offers
practical advice for researchers in the following key areas: data documentation
and metadata; data formats and software; data storage, back-up and
security; research ethics, consent and data confidentiality; and copyright.*
http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/news/publications/managingsharing.pdf
IncReASe (Increasing Repository Content through Automation and Services)
May 1, 2009
The IncReASe (Increasing Repository Content through Automation and Services)
was an eighteen month project (subsequently extended to twenty months) to
enhance White Rose Research Online (WRRO) - a shared repository of research
outputs (primarily publications) from the Universities of Leeds, Sheffield
and York. It runs on the EPrints open source repository platform. The repository
was created in 2004 and has seen steady growth but, like many other similar
repositories, has had difficulty in achieving a “critical mass”
of content and in becoming truly embedded within researchers’ workflows.
The IncReASe project sought to assess ingestion routes into WRRO with a
view to lowering barriers to deposit.*
http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/increase/increase_finalreportv1.pdf
Scholarly Communication Program Speaker Series Videos Now Available Online
Columbia University Libraries, Library News, May 1, 2009
Complete video of Research without Borders, the ’08-‘09 speaker
series on vital topics in scholarly communication, is available from the
website of Columbia University's Scholarly Communication Program. The inaugural
year of this program featured speakers at the forefront of the open access
movement as well as experts in scholarly publishing, information policy,
and copyright law.*
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/news/libraries/2009/2009-05-01.scholcomm.html
L’innovation dans les entreprises canadiennes
Conseil des académies canadiennes, avril 2009
L’innovation est la manifestation du potentiel et de la créativité
de l’être humain, le passage de l’imagination à
la réalité. Quand on parle d’une invention, on pense
à la création d’un nouveau produit ou d’une nouvelle
idée; l’innovation, en revanche, est la mise en œuvre
concrète des inventions auxquelles elle se rapporte. L’innovation
est ce qui permet à la société de résoudre ses
problèmes et de saisir les nouvelles occasions se présentant
à elles. Mais les entreprises canadiennes ont du retard, sur le plan
de l’innovation, par rapport aux États-Unis et à d’autres
pays.*
http://www.sciencepourlepublic.ca/fr/innovation.html
[English: http://www.scienceadvice.ca/innovation.html]
Internet Typology: The Mobile Difference
John B. Horrigan
Pew Internet & American Life Project, March 25, 2009
Wireless connectivity has drawn many users more deeply into digital life.
By simply casting a glance at any coffee shop, train station or airport
boarding gate, it is easy to see the extent to which ubiquitous mobile internet
access is engrained in our society; open laptops or furrowed brows staring
at palm-sized screens are evidence of how routinely information is exchanged
on wireless networks. The role of mobile internet access in evolving digital
lifestyles is the cornerstone of the second typology of information and
communication technology (ICT) users developed by the Pew Research Center's
Internet & American Life Project.*
http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1162/internet-typology-users-mobile-communication-devices
EVENTS / ÉVÉNEMENTS
ELPUB 2009 : 13th International Conference on Electronic Publishing
: Rethinking Electronic Publishing : Innovation in Communication Paradigms
and Technologies
Milan, Italy, June 10 – 12, 2009
The ELPUB 2009 conference focuses on critical issues in e-communications,
exploring dissemination channels, business models, technologies, methods
and concepts. Three distinguishing features of this conference are: breadth
and depth of topics creating a unique atmosphere of active exchange and
learning about various aspects of scholarly communications and electronic
publishing; a combination of general and technical issues; and a condensed
procedure of submission, revision and publication of proceedings which guarantees
presentations of most recent work. ELPUB 2009 also offers a variety of activities,
such as workshops, tutorials, panel debates, poster presentations and demonstrations.*
http://conferences.aepic.it/elpub2009/
Classification at a crossroads: multiple directions to usability
The Hague, October 29-30, 2009
The "Classification at a Crossroads" conference will address
the potential of classification, UDC in particular, to support information
organization, management and resource discovery in the networked environment,
and will explore solutions for better subject access control and vocabulary
sharing services. Some specific topics the conference will cover are: classification
and semantic technologies; classification in supporting information integration;
verbal and multilingual access to classification; classification and library
systems; visual representations/interface to classification; and experiences
with classification outside the traditional library environment.*
http://www.udcc.org/seminar2009/index.htm
*Text adapted from source / Texte adapté de la source
