E-Lert # 333 / Cyberavis no. 333
Friday July 10, 2009 / le vendredi
10 juillet 2009
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NEWS / NOUVELLES
Publishers demand IP Rights To Protect Journalism
Scoop World, July 10, 2009
As Commissioner Viviane Reding unveiled her strategy for a Digital
Europe during the Lisbon Council, and as the European Commission’s
consultation on the Content Online Report draws to a close, senior members
of the publishing world presented to Information Society Commissioner Viviane
Reding and Internal Market Commissioner Charlie McCreevy, a landmark declaration
adopted on intellectual property rights in the digital world in a bid to
ensure that opportunities for a diverse, free press and quality journalism
thrive online into the future.* [Note: Hamburg Declaration regarding
intellectual property rights follows text of press release.]
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0907/S00200.htm
Google attaque Microsoft et vise le coeur
Le Devoir, 9 juillet 2009
Le géant Internet Google lance son propre système d'exploitation
pour faire concurrence à Windows. La décision de Google de
lancer son propre système d'exploitation pour ordinateurs est une
attaque directe contre le géant Microsoft, visé dans son coeur
de métier, mais certains spécialistes restent sceptiques quant
à ses chances de succès.*
http://www.ledevoir.com/2009/07/09/258339.html
Ensuring Britain remains at the forefront of the digital revolution
Pat McFadden
Computing, July 9, 2009
As new trials of super fast broadband get under way, minister Pat McFadden
explains the [U.K.] government’s digital vision for the future. The
digital sectors now account for £1 of every £10 that the economy
produces yearly. But Britain cannot afford to be complacent says McFadden.
The scale and importance of digital communications to 21st century prosperity
is reflected in the focus on the digital and knowledge economies in many
parts of the world. Australia is creating a nationwide high-speed communications
network; high-speed broadband and smart grid technology are important parts
of the US administration’s recent stimulus programme. Germany, Finland
and France have all adopted national broadband or wider digital strategies.
The economic downturn has also brought into focus the need to concentrate
investment in areas that will create jobs and wealth for generations to
come.*
http://www.computing.co.uk/computing/comment/2245708/ensure-britain-remains-4746967
President Obama Announces Intent to Nominate Francis Collins as
NIH Director
July 8, 2009
President Barack Obama has announced his intent to nominate Francis S.
Collins as Director of the National Institutes of Health at the Department
of Health and Human Services. Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., a physician-geneticist
noted for his landmark discoveries of disease genes and his leadership of
the Human Genome Project, served as Director of the National Human Genome
Research Institute (NHGRI) at the National Institutes of Health from 1993-2008.
With Dr. Collins at the helm, the Human Genome Project consistently met
projected milestones ahead of schedule and under budget.*
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/President-Obama-Announces-Intent-to-Nominate-Francis-Collins-as-NIH-Director/
Canada Foundation for Innovation competition awards $666
million to support $1.3 billion in infrastructure projects
RE$EARCH MONEY, Volume 23, Number 11, July 8, 2009
Canada's institutional research infrastructure has received a $1.435-billion boost with the CFI’s latest major competitions announcement. It awarded a total of $666.1 million which will leverage an additional $768.6 million from provincial and other sources. The $512.4 million in awards were nearly evenly split between the existing projects through the Leading Edge Fund (LEF) ($247.7 million) and the new projects through the New Initiatives Fund (NIF) ($264.7 million). A further $153.7 million was awarded through the associated Infrastructure Operating Fund for a total of $666 million. The competition supports 133 projects at 41 institutions.*
Dr Peter Nicholson stepping down as president of the Council of
Canadian Academies
RE$EARCH MONEY, Volume 23, Number 11, July 8, 2009
Dr Nicholson is stepping down as president of the CCA at the end of 2009 after nearly four years at the helm. Nicholson says it's time to step away from full-time responsibilities but plans to stay engaged on a selective basis, adding that with eight expert panel assessments now complete, the timing is good for a transition to new leadership. Nicholson has enjoyed a long and diverse career at the forefront of industry, government, finance and academia.*
Google Plans a PC Operating System
Miguel Helft
The New York Times, July 8, 2009
In a direct challenge to Microsoft, Google is developing an operating
system for PCs that is tied to its Chrome Web browser. The Google Chrome
Operating System, is initially intended for use in the tiny, low-cost portable
computers known as netbooks, which have been selling quickly in spite of
plummeting demand for other types of PCs. This move by Google is likely
to sharpen its already intense competition with Microsoft, whose Windows
operating system controls the basic functions of the vast majority of personal
computers.*
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/08/technology/companies/08operate.html?_r=1
Bing, the Imitator, Often Goes Google One Better
David Pogue
The New York Times, July 8, 2009
Over the last 15 years, Microsoft’s business plan appears to have
been, “Wait until somebody else has a hit. Then copy it.” Considered
by many another me-too effort on Microsoft’s part is Bing
, the latest iteration of Microsoft’s multiyear attempt to outperform
Google. The name is supposed to evoke the sound of a winning game-show bell.
Cynics online, however, joke that Bing is an acronym for “But It’s
Not Google.” On the other hand, Pogue suggests that in some ways Bing
is better.*
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/09/technology/personaltech/09pogue.html
How can YouTube survive?
Rhodri Marsden
The Independent, July 7, 2009
It's wildly popular - and thought to be losing hundreds of millions of
dollars a year. Now questions are being asked about the future viability
of YouTube. While its staggering popularity is without question –
some 345 million visitors worldwide descend upon the website every month
– it is hemorrhaging cash. The question of exactly how unprofitable
it is continues to be the source of fierce debate online*
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/features/how-can-youtube-survive-1734267.html
Canada joins international effort to provide access
to health research
July 6, 2009
The National Research Council's Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical
Information (NRC-CISTI), the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR),
and the US National Library of Medicine (NLM) announced a three-way partnership
to establish PubMed Central Canada (PMC Canada). PMC Canada will be a national
digital repository of peer-reviewed health and life sciences literature,
including research resulting from CIHR funding. This searchable Web-based
repository will be permanent, stable and freely accessible.
http://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/eng/news/nrc/2009/07/06/pubmed-cisti.html
World's Largest Ocean Observatory Nears Completion
Physorg.com, July 6, 2009
Canada is about to take the world on a 25-year non-stop research expedition—into
the deep ocean. Over the next two-and-a-half months, a team of scientists
and marine engineers will complete the installation off British Columbia
of NEPTUNE Canada, the world’s largest and most advanced cabled ocean
observatory.
http://www.physorg.com/news166115363.html
Historic Bible pages put online
BBC News, July 6, 2009
About 800 pages of the earliest surviving Christian Bible have been salvaged
and put on the internet. The website www.codexsinaiticus.org
displays images of more than half the 1,600-year-old Codex Sinaiticus manuscript.*
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/8135415.stm
CRTC to look at how Internet traffic is managed
The Canadian Press, July 5, 2009
How Internet service providers handle thousands of customers using their
networks will come under scrutiny during CRTC public hearings on their policies
to manage or shape the flow of user traffic. The hearings will look at several
service providers’ Internet traffic management practices. Among ISPs
testifying are Bell, Rogers Communications, Telus and Quebecor. Google
will also be making a presentation at the CRTC hearing as part of the Open
Internet Coalition, which also includes Amazon, Skype and eBay.*
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20090705/crtc_internet_090705/20090705/
Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL)
announces new geospatial data and health informatics storage and research
tools
July 3, 2009
OCUL is launching a new geospatial data and health informatics storage and research tool project that will, be shared, more cost-effective and sustainable for researchers, faculty, students and staff in Ontario Universities. The project is to be completed over the next three years. The Geospatial Data and Health Informatics Cyberinfrastructure project will expand OCUL’s Scholars Portal infrastructure with a portal to provide storage capacity for large geospatial and health informatics data, and tools for research, discovery and analysis. The portal will provide data by way of standard metadata practices and sophisticated extraction tools.* PDF
Le droit d'auteur pour censurer les opposants au droit d'auteur
Guillaume Champeau
Numerama, 3 juillet 2009
Lorsqu'une société utilise ses droits d'auteur pour obtenir
le retrait de vidéos dont elle détient les droits, en ne visant
spécifiquement que celles qui portent un discours politique particulier,
s'agit-il toujours de droits d'auteur, ou de censure ? Au Canada, où
le débat sur le degré de protection du droit d'auteur nécessaire
sur Internet est plus fort que jamais, une chaîne de télévision
a exigé le retrait sur YouTube de vidéos montrant les lobbys
du droit d'auteur en difficulté, sans demander le retrait des autres
vidéos dont elle a les droits.*
http://www.numerama.com/magazine/13358-Le-droit-d-auteur-pour-censurer-les-opposants-au-droit-d-auteur.html
The library that never closes
Bobbie Johnson
The Guardian, July 1, 2009
The internet's relationship with books has been a tumultuous one. Since
the digital revolution started changing our relationship with information,
the printed word – one of the most successful technologies in history
– has been on the back foot. Among technology companies, such as Amazon
and Google, there is a feeling of technological inevitability: that the
printed book is a stepping stone in the evolution of information, and now
lies ready to be devoured by its hi-tech successors. Not everybody agrees,
however, including George Oates, the newly installed project leader of the
Open Library –
a project with an audacious goal to bring the web and books closer together
by creating a web page for every book.*
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/jul/01/internet-open-library
Free music, movies for all? Copyright-fighting Pirate Party comes
to Canada
Steve Lambert
The Canadian Press, June 30, 2009
After a surprise electoral win in Sweden and gaining high-profile support
in Germany, The Pirate Party's next port of call may be Canada where they
are currently a handful of loosely-organized individuals spread across the
country. They want to become an official federal political party within
a few years and get enough support to persuade Parliament to relax proposed
copyright laws they say are heavy-handed and a violation of personal privacy.*
http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5jWUvBM5C13QP1GPNoo8DchgsAufw
Les libraires et les bibliothécaires créent un groupe
de travail commun sur les bases bibliographiques
22 juin 2006
Les libraires et les bibliothécaires représentés par le Syndicat de la librairie française (SLF), l'Association des librairies informatisées et utilisatrices de réseaux électroniques (ALIRE), l'Association des bibliothécaires de France (ABF), et d’autres organismes ont annoncé la création d'un groupe de travail commun sur l'accès des professionnels et la mise à disposition auprès du public des outils d'information et de recherche bibliographiques. Ce groupe, destiné à s'ouvrir à toute organisation professionnelle concernée et aux fournisseurs de données, souhaite élaborer des propositions concrètes sur l'évolution des outils bibliographiques afin qu'ils répondent mieux aux besoins et aux contraintes des auteurs, éditeurs, bibliothécaires et libraires, ainsi qu'aux attentes du public.* HTML
ARTICLES
Search Engine Wars Redux
Ellyssa Kroski
Library Journal, July 9, 2009
As Web content continually grows, we are seeing search engines and other
similar services competing to serve our retrieval needs. These search tools
use structured and linked data, real-time search, personalization, and more
focused filtering techniques to access the vast content stores of the read/write
Web. One might say we’ve entered Web 3.0, a new era that is motivated
by the need to more effectively organize, filter, and access information
online.*
http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6669698.html?nid=2673&source=link&rid=490036441
Review: “Free: The Future of a Radical Price” by Chris
Anderson
Jessica Roy
Nieman Journalism Lab, July 9, 2009
Wired editor-in-chief Chris Anderson’s latest book, Free: The Future
of a Radical Price, has generated much pre-publication discussion about
the future of the digital economy. Journalists and business-minded readers
have received it in polarizing ways. According to Anderson “free”
is indeed the ultimate destiny of our economy. “Sooner or later every
company is going to have to figure out how to use Free or compete with Free,
one way or another,” he writes. This assertion is depressingly familiar
to journalists who’ve watched their traditional business models fall
apart in the wild west of the web, where “free” is the gold
standard. The book is free online.*
http://www.niemanlab.org/2009/07/review-free-the-future-of-a-radical-price-by-chris-anderson/
Digital Textbooks Call for New Business Models
David Wiley
The Chronicle of Higher Education, July 8, 2009
As far as curriculum materials like textbooks, practice exercises, instructional
videos, and online simulations go, universities ask students to pay for
them again and again, year after year. Although this may have made sense
in the days before the advent of the Internet, when students had to compete
for access to educational materials, the competitive nature of educational
materials has disappeared in the online era.*
http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/3870/david-wiley-digital-textbooks-call-for-new-business-models?utm_source=at&utm_medium=en
Canada's innovation gap
Konrad Yakabuski
Globe and Mail, July 4, 2009
Canada is falling behind in the innovation game, but policy makers seem
strangely unmoved even as Canada's productivity stagnates, its manufacturing
sector craters and its resource industries wait out the recession banking
on the next commodities boom that will elevate them - and the country -
from the dumps. Politicians seemed similarly unperturbed at the insolvency
and break-up of Nortel Networks Corp. The decline of Nortel, which began
in 2000, coincides with a worrying widening of the productivity gap between
Canada and the United States, a dangerous drop in business spending on research
and development, and the country's increasing dependence on natural resources
to fuel economic growth. Canada's resource sector has a poor record of innovation,
and innovation is the only sure way to create wealth. Although the link
is not always absolute, R&D spending is almost always a sine qua non
of innovation.*
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/commentary/canadas-innovation-gap/article1203108/
The Case for Regulating Google and the Proposed Book Rights Registry
Research Library Issues: A Bimonthly Report from ARL, CNI, and
SPARC, Number 264, June 2009
In large part, the settlement focuses on in-copyright books that are not
commercially available. Public-domain works fall outside of the settlement
and owners of commercially available, in-copyright books created prior to
January 5, 2009, may opt-out of the settlement or opt-in to other terms
with Google. Although this is a private settlement, the result has very
real implications for public policy and the way libraries of all types will
operate. Because of the complexity of the agreement, many librarians have
raised questions about the settlement’s potential long-term impact
on libraries (thus user interests), and the enormity of the book collection
involved.*
http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/rli-264-google.pdf
RESOURCES / RESSOURCES
Tech Therapy
Warren Arbogast and Scott Carlson
The Chronicle of Higher Education
In a series of weekly podcasts, Scott Carlson, a Chronicle reporter, and
Warren Arbogast, a technology consultant talk about the headaches, anxieties,
and general problems you might face with technology on campus. From file
sharing, security, and dealing with vendors, to figuring out how to talk
to your president, or your CIO – “it's all fair game for a therapy
session.” The podcast is interactive. Scott and Warren take questions
at techtherapy@chronicle.com.*
http://chronicle.com/techtherapy/
Publication des actes des 12e journées des pôles associés
et de la coopération : "Coopération numérique"
Bibliothèque Nationale de France, 25 et 26 juin 2009
Les actes de ces rencontres sont en ligne avec les présentations
Powerpoint des communications, enrichis d'articles et de sites en illustration.
D'autres interventions et informations viendront progressivement les compléter.
En matière de coopération quelles modifications apporte le
numérique dans les modes de partage et de mise en relation des ensembles
documentaires ainsi constitués ? Ces 12e journées ont été
l’occasion de faire un tour d’horizon des grandes orientations
et des initiatives dans le domaine du numérique concernant le monde
des bibliothèques.*
http://www.bnf.fr/pages/zNavigat/frame/infopro.htm?ancre=actualites/actualites.htm
Publication des actes sur la journée "Coopération
documentaire : réflexion sur les abonnements de périodiques
en sciences et techniques"
Bibliothèque Nationale de France, 25 mai 2009
Pour élaborer sa politique de coopération documentaire en
matière de périodiques en sciences et techniques, la Bibliothèque
nationale de France doit connaître les projets de ses partenaires
éventuels, leurs atouts et leurs difficultés afin d’évaluer
quelle pourrait être sa place dans le cadre d’une collaboration
qui allie complémentarité et diversité de l’offre.*
http://www.bnf.fr/pages/zNavigat/frame/infopro.htm?ancre=actualites/actualites.htm
L'avenir du catalogue
CREPUQ, Sous-comité des bibliothèques, 8 mai 2009
Les comptes rendus de la Journée « L'avenir du
catalogue. », activité de réflexion à l'intention
des membres du Sous-comité des bibliothèques et organisée
à Québec le 8 mai dernier, sont en ligne.
http://www.bibl.ulaval.ca/mieux/ref-bibliofusion/crepuq/crepuq_2009_05_08
EVENTS / ÉVÉNEMENTS
Institutional Repositories: Disseminating, Promoting, and Preserving
Scholarship
Salt Lake City, Utah, September 30, 2009
This free event includes a full-day program featuring a mix of speakers
from around the country (U.S.) talking about IR platforms, how to create,
manage, and market an IR, and what the future may hold for both IRs and
university digital publishing. The event is Sponsored by Utah State University,
The Berkeley Electronic Press, and the Utah Academic Library Consortium.
http://digitalcommons.usu.edu/irday/
2nd LIBER-EBLIDA Workshop on the digitization of library material
in Europe
The Hague, Netherlands, October 19-21, 2009
Topics in the programme include: public-private partnerships, new economic
models, digitization needs of research and public libraries, measuring the
impact of digitization projects, aggregation of digital content, interoperability
and metadata issues.
http://www.libereurope.eu/node/391
*Text adapted from source / Texte adapté de la source
