E-Lert # 347 / Cyberavis no. 347

Friday October 16, 2009 / le vendredi 16 octobre 2009

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CARL COMMUNIQUÉ / COMMUNIQUÉ DE L’ABRC

National Interactive Q&A with John Wilbanks on Digital Repositories and the Digital Commons
Monday, October 19th, 1:00-2:00 Eastern Time
Presented by the Canadian Association of Research Libraries

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To kick off Open Access Week, CARL is sponsoring a free webcast and Q&A session with John Wilbanks, VP of Science at Creative Commons, on Monday October 19, 2009. The webcast was prerecorded and can be watched immediately before the Q&A session, or earlier. The live Q&A session will be held from 1:00 to 2:00pm via interactive Chat. The session will be held in English, however, participants will have the opportunity to ask their questions in English or French [with responses given in English in both cases].

John serves on the Advisory Boards of the U.S. National Library of Medicine’s PubMed Central, the Open Knowledge Foundation, the Open Knowledge Definition, the International Advisory Board of the Prix Ars Electronica’s Digital Communities awards, and on the Board of Directors of the Fedora Commons digital repository organization. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from Tulane University, studied modern letters at the Université de Paris IV (La Sorbonne), and was a research affiliate at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in the project on Mathematics and Computation.

In Locks and Gears: Digital Repositories and the Digital Commons, Wilbanks discusses research libraries’ role in scholarly communication, their roles in the emerging digital commons/repository infrastructure, sustainability of those roles, and other issues concerning the challenges of improving the dissemination and preservation of research outputs and tapping into the full potential the World Wide Web to successfully arrive at a more dynamic and open scholarly communication system.

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Watch the pre-recorded webcast of Locks and Gears: Digital Repositories and the Digital Commons at
http://scienceblogs.com/commonknowledge/2009/05/video_of_talk_online.php

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Séance nationale interactive de questions et réponses avec John Wilbanks sur les dépôts numériques et le « Digital Commons »
Le lundi 19 octobre, de 13 h à 14 h (heure de l’Est)
Présentée par l’Association des bibliothèques de recherche du Canada
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Pour lancer la Semaine du libre accès, l’ABRC commandite une webdiffusion et une séance de Q et R gratuites avec John Wilbanks, vice-président chargé des sciences, à Creative Commons, le lundi 19 octobre 2009. La webdiffusion a été préenregistrée et vous pouvez la regarder immédiatement avant la séance de Q et R ou plus tôt. La séance en direct de Q et R aura lieu de 13 h à 14 h avec clavardage interactif. La séance aura lieu en anglais, mais les participants pourront poser leurs questions en anglais ou en français [avec réponses en anglais dans les deux cas].

À titre de vice-président chargé des sciences, John Wilbanks dirige le projet Science Commons à Creative Commons. Il a été membre des conseils consultatifs du U.S. National Library of Medicine’s PubMed Central, de Open Knowledge Foundation, de Open Knowledge Definition, du Conseil consultatif international des prix des communautés numériques des Prix Ars Electronica, et du conseil d’administration du dépôt numérique de Fedora Commons. Il a un baccalauréat ès arts en philosophie de Tulane University, il a étudié les lettres modernes à l’Université de Paris IV (La Sorbonne) et il a été associé de recherche au MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory dans le projet sur les mathématiques et le calcul.

Dans Locks and Gears: Digital Repositories and the Digital Commons, Wilbanks examine le rôle des bibliothèques de recherche dans la communication savante, leur rôle dans la nouvelle infrastructure des dépôts numériques, le maintien de ces fonctions, et d’autres questions portant sur les défis d’améliorer la diffusion et la conservation des résultats de la recherche et l’exploitation de tout le potentiel du World Wide Web pour en arriver à établir un système de communication savante plus dynamique et plus ouvert.

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Observez la webdiffusion préenregistrée de Locks and Gears: Digital Repositories and the Digital Commons au
http://scienceblogs.com/commonknowledge/2009/05/video_of_talk_online.php

NEWS/NOUVELLES

Finnish Government Makes 1Mbps Broadband Legal Right
eWeek Europe, October 15, 2009

The Finnish government has set a deadline of next July to enforce the right to a 1mbps connection for all its 5 million citizens. The government has set a more ambitious target of mandating a 100Mbps connection by 2015 but the latest announcement is seen as stepping stone towards that aim.*
http://www.eweekeurope.co.uk/news/finnish-government-makes-1mbps-broadband-legal-right-2096

Copyright collective: free format and time-shifting never OK
Nate Anderson
Ars Technica, October 14, 2009

Canada's recent government-sponsored copyright consultation seeks to modernize Canadian copyright law, and it has brought out some interesting responses. Access Copyright's may be one of the most brazen, though; not content with simply beating back some of the more extreme proposals related to "fair dealing", the copyright collective actually argues that fair dealing should be restricted even further.*
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/10/copyright-collective-free-format-time-shifting-never-ok.ars

Trafic Internet : la part du peer-to-peer diminue
Laurent Checola
Le Monde, 14 octobre 2009

« Entre 2007 et 2009, la part du peer-to-peer (P2P) est passée de près de 40 % à 18 % du trafic sur Internet, selon une étude du cabinet Arbor Networks, citée par Wired. L'analyse s'appuie sur 264 milliards de gigaoctets de données, obtenues auprès de plus de cent fournisseurs d'accès du monde entier. Parallèlement, le trafic sur le Web (http), représenterait 52 %, contre 42 % deux ans plus tôt. »
http://www.lemonde.fr/technologies/article/2009/10/14/trafic-internet-la-part-du-peer-to-peer-diminue_1253998_651865.html#ens_id=1241606

Juniper Networks and CANARIE Bolster Canada’s Ability to Conduct Big Science and Data-Driven Research
Business Wire
October 13, 2009

Juniper Networks (NASDAQ: JNPR), the leader in high-performance networking, announced that CANARIE Inc., Canada's advanced research and innovation network, has implemented Juniper Networks MX Series Ethernet Services Routers into its national network. This deployment will enable CANARIE’s 39,000 researchers at almost 200 universities in Canada, and their colleagues around the world, to exchange and analyze large volumes of information more quickly, driving innovation and important discoveries in such areas as treatments or cures for infectious diseases or pandemics, environmentally sound energy sources, new galaxies, and more effective ways to predict and respond to natural disasters.*
http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20091013005122&newsLang=en

US Library of Congress' Digital Collection Among World's Largest
Zulima Palacio
VOA News, October 9, 2009

The U.S. Library of Congress is well known for being the world's largest library in the traditional, paper format. Now, the library is on the way to becoming the largest digital collection in the world with more than 700 terabytes of data.*
http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-10-09-voa15.cfm

New digital access options for University of Michigan Press titles
October 8, 2009

The University of Michigan Press is joining with HathiTrust Digital Library to provide electronic content for free online access. U-M Press plans to make 1,000 or more titles available for full viewing by the end of 2009. HathiTrust is a digital preservation repository and research management tool for the world's great research libraries, focused on providing scholars in the digital age with the largest collection of electronic research material this side of Google Book Search and large-scale, full-text searching and archiving tools to manage it.*
http://www.ns.umich.edu/htdocs/releases/story.php?id=7354

David Barnard appointed Chair of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Research Knowledge Network
October 6, 2009

The Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN) has appointed Dr. David Barnard as Chair of its Board of Directors for a three-year term commencing October 9, 2009. Dr. Barnard is President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Manitoba. He has led a distinguished career as an academic administrator serving as President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Regina. Dr. Barnard spent 19 years at Queen's University where he served as Head of the Department of Computing and Information Science, as well as in several senior administrative positions, prior to joining the University of Regina.*
http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/October2009/06/c4440.html

Sheridan Libraries Awarded $20 Million Grant
October 2, 2009

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded the Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries $20 million to build a data research infrastructure for the management of the ever-increasing amounts of digital information created for teaching and research. The five-year award is one of two for what is being called “data curation.” The Data Conservancy project involves individuals from several institutions, with Johns Hopkins University serving as the lead and Sayeed Choudhury, Hodson Director of the Digital Research and Curation Center and associate dean of university libraries, as the principal investigator. Starting with the life, earth, and social sciences, project members will develop a framework to more fully understand data practices currently in use and arrive at a model for curation that allows ease of access both within and across disciplines. *
http://releases.jhu.edu/2009/10/02/sheridan-libraries-awarded-20-million-grant/

Viviane Reding sets stage for an ‘ambitious European Digital Agenda’
Information World Review, October 1, 2009

Vivian Reding laid down her immediate priorities for a digital economy. They include boosting digital services, overcoming market fragmentation on business models and having better coordination on copyright issues within the EU. She also emphasized having a policy framework to prevent Europe from losing out to the US with regard to book digitisation.*
http://www.iwr.co.uk/information-world-review/news/2250438/viviane-reding-sets-stage

U.S. Senator Durbin Introduces Legislation to Make College Textbooks more Affordable
September 24, 2009

Assistant Senate Majority Leader Dick Durbin (D-IL) has introduced legislation designed to help students manage costs by making textbooks available for free on an easily-accessible website. This bill, known as the Open College Textbook Act, would create a competitive grant program for institutions of higher education, professors and organizations to design textbooks that can be distrubuted online and licensed under terms that grant the public the right to access, customize and distribute the material, also known as “open textbooks”.*
http://durbin.senate.gov/showRelease.cfm?releaseId=318279

ARTICLES

Training to Climb an Everest of Digital Data
Ashlee Vance
The New York Times, October 11, 2009

It is a rare criticism of elite American university students that they do not think big enough. But that is exactly the complaint from some of the largest technology companies and the [U.S.] federal government. At the heart of this criticism is data. Researchers and workers in fields ranging from bio-technology, astronomy, to computer science will soon find themselves overwhelmed with information.*
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/12/technology/12data.html?_r=1&ref=technology

A Library to Last Forever
Sergei Brin
The New York Times, October 8, 2009

There has been much debate about the Google Books settlement, and many groups have offered their opinions, both for and against. Brin offers to dispel some myths about the agreement and shares why he is proud of the undertaking. The agreement aims to make millions of out-of-print but in-copyright books available either for a fee or for free with ad support, with the majority of the revenue flowing back to the rights holders, be they authors or publishers.*
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/09/opinion/09brin.html

Can Google Stay on Top of the Web?
Robert D. Hof
BusinessWeek, October 1, 2009

Google's competition has recently gone from pitiful to plentiful. Microsoft's new Bing search engine picked up 1.5 percentage points of market share in August to hit 9.5% while Google's share fell from 71.4% to 70.2%. Although countless would-be Google killers have fallen on their faces over the years over a longer term, Twitter, Facebook, and related services might pose a more fundamental threat to Google: a new center of the Internet universe outside of search. Twitter, now with 55 million monthly visitors, and Facebook, with 300 million, hint at an emerging Web in which people don't merely read or watch material but communicate, collaborate, and get things done using online services. Given its investments in such services as the video sharing site YouTube, online applications, and even an operating system, Google clearly understands this emerging new Web. The company hasn't been able to generate significant revenue from anything besides search-related ads, however, raising doubts about how long it can remain the key leader of the Internet economy.*
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/09_41/b4150044749206_page_2.htm

RESOURCES/RESSOURCES

Iphone the body electric : University of Utah Iphone apps visualize human anatomy
October 8, 2009

University of Utah researchers created new iPhone programs to help scientists, students, doctors and patients study the human body, evaluate medical problems and analyze other three-dimensional images. Another iPhone app in development, named ViSUS, allows users of desktop and laptop computers - and soon iPhones - to quickly and easily analyze and edit massive image files containing hundreds of gigabytes of data.*
http://www.unews.utah.edu/p/?r=092409-2

New Nature of Innovation
Jørgen Rosted et al
OECD, September 2009

A new nature of innovation is emerging. Innovation is no longer mainly about science and technology. Organizations can innovate in other ways. Co-creation, user involvement, environmental and societal challenges increasingly drive innovation today. Collaborative, global networking and new public private partnerships are becoming critical elements to companies’ innovation process.*
http://www.newnatureofinnovation.org/full_report.pdf

Next Generation Connectivity: A review of broadband Internet transitions
and policy from around the world
Yochai Benkler et al
The Berkman Center of Internet & Society at Harvard University, October 2009

Fostering the development of a ubiquitously networked society, connected over high-capacity networks, is a widely shared goal among both developed and developing countries. High capacity networks are a strategic infrastructure, intended to contribute to high and sustainable economic growth and to core aspects of human development. Various countries have, over the past
decade and a half, deployed different strategies, and enjoyed varying results. At the Commission’s [FCC] request, this study reviews the current plans and practices pursued by other countries in the transition to the next generation of connectivity, as well as their past experience.
http://www.fcc.gov/stage/pdf/Berkman_Center_Broadband_Study_13Oct09.pdf

EVENTS/ÉVÉNEMENTS

Colloque international «Les universités nouvelles au XXe siècle»
Montréal, Québec ,22 au 24 octobre 2009

« Organisé par le CIRST, la Chaire de recherche du Canada en histoire et sociologie des sciences et la Commision internationale pour l'histoire des universités, ce colloque a pour objectif de stimuler la réflexion sur les conditions d’émergence et de développement des universités qui ont été créées sur un modèle différent de celui des universités médiévales et axées sur une plus grande accessibilité à des groupes sociaux ne fréquentant pas les universités traditionnelles. »
http://www.cirst.uqam.ca/Activit%C3%A9s/S%C3%A9minairesColloques/tabid/86/language/fr-CA/language/fr-CA/Default.aspx

Canadian Science Policy Conference / Conférence sur le Politiques Scientifiques Canadiennes
Toronto, Ontario, October 28-30, 2009 / 28-30 octobre 2009

This conference represents a measured first step towards building a robust science policy network in Canada. Such a system will be critical for producing the next generation of policy-makers who understand S&T issues, as well as scientists who understand how to integrate their research into a broader societal context for the benefit of all Canadians.
http://sciencepolicy.ca/
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Cette conférence représente un premier pas vers la création d’un réseau canadien robuste se concentrant sur les politiques scientifiques. Ce système est nécessaire pour produire la prochaine génération de décideurs qui saisissent les enjeux reliés aux sciences et technologies, ainsi que des scientifiques qui comprennent comment intégrer leur recherche dans un contexte social élargi pour le bénéfice de tous les Canadiens.
http://sciencepolicy.ca/fr/

*Text adapted from source / Texte adapté de la source