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NEWS / NOUVELLES
Google allows users to view, delete personal information
Sarah Schmidt
Calgary Herald, November 6, 2009
Google Inc. launched new privacy controls that allow users to see the reams
of personal information the Internet giant is storing about them and insist
the data are deleted if they wish. People using any of Google's consumer
services, such as Gmail, Blogger, YouTube and Picasa, can use the service
called Google Dashboard, where they can log into a console and view all
the personal data Google stores about them.*
http://www.calgaryherald.com/business/Google+allows+users+view+delete+personal+information/2189260/story.html
Canada in talks over copyright laws with bite
Vito Pilieci
Calgary Herald, November 5, 2009
Canadian officials are participating in negotiations for a top-secret copyright
treaty that could see families barred from the Internet for a year if
a household member is suspected of illegal downloads. Under the worldwide
rules of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), Internet service
providers such as Bell and Rogers in Canada would be required to play the
part of copyright police filtering out pirated material from their networks,
handing over the identities of alleged copyright-infringing customers, and
restricting the use of identity-blocking software.*
http://www.calgaryherald.com/business/Canada+talks+over+copyright+laws+with+bite/2189494/story.html
Google Uses Educause Meeting as Focus Group for Wave
Jeff Young
The Chronicle of Higher Education, November 5, 2009
A panel of Google programmers promoted the company's newest product –
Wave. The new tool essentially combines several existing services in one
interface - chat, e-mail, word processing, video and photo sharing, and
more. Google Inc. hopes to make the service more useful to the education
community.*
http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Google-Uses-Educause-Meeting/8731/?sid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en
Toronto’s OpenTO data initiative off to
quick start
Jeffery Smith
CivSource, November 3, 2009
Toronto unveiled an open data initiative that enables citizens to augment,
use and distribute data to promote government accountability and innovation.
Toronto.ca/open,
or OpenTO, is the city’s official data set catalog and within the
first two hours of the recent Toronto Innovation Showcase, both the benefits
and obstacles facing government open data projects were highlighted.*
http://civsourceonline.com/2009/11/03/torontos-opento-data-initiative-off-to-quick-start/
Des ordinateurs plus minces et plus légers
Le Devoir, 3 novembre 2009
« Même avec toute la popularité de l'iPhone d'Apple
ou du Kindle d'Amazon, l'ordinateur personnel demeure au coeur même
de la vie technologique de la plupart des gens. Voici un aperçu de
quelques-unes des transformations qui l'attendent au cours de la prochaine
année. »
http://www.ledevoir.com/2009/11/03/275190.html
Internet : un lissage dans le non-sens du poil
Fabien Deglise
Le Devoir, 31 octobre 2009
« Le pire n'est jamais certain, c'est bien connu. Mais en matière
d'Internet, il ne semble pas non plus avoir de limite. Un doute? Dans les
derniers mois, une succession d'études internationales ont confirmé
la lenteur du réseau Internet canadien -- par rapport à ceux
de l'Asie, de l'Europe de l'Est et même des États-Unis --,
tout comme la somme démesurée d'argent que le consommateur
doit débourser pour y accéder. Cette obsolescence a même
été largement dénoncée par des experts de la
chose numérique qui voient là, avec raison, un frein au développement
économique, culturel et électronique du pays. Mais le cri
n'a visiblement pas été entendu »
http://www.ledevoir.com/2009/10/31/274506.html
$1.2M project speeds research data processing
Paul Mayne
Western News, October 29, 2009
A new high-speed network for handling large blocks of research data flowing
at high rates - up to 10 terabytes per day - from synchrotrons in Canada
and the U.S. is the latest project at Western’s SHARCNET (Shared Hierarchical
Academic Research Computing Network). The project, ANISE (Active Network
for Information for Synchrotron Experiments), is led by researchers Mike
Bauer and Stewart McIntrye.*
http://communications.uwo.ca/com/western_news/stories/$1.2m_project_speeds_research_data_processing_20091029445092/
$1.55 Million Funds Data Preservation And Bringing Ocean Research
To The Public
October 20, 2009
Two projects that will give members of the community the opportunity to
participate in the groundbreaking research being conducted at the University
of Victoria are part of $10.5 million in funding announced recently by CANARIE.
The $980,000 “Data from the Deep, Judgments from the Crowds”
project will establish a satellite observatory at Brentwood College School
on Vancouver Island and invite members of the public to review short video
clips and sound sequences collected by the offshore cabled observatory and
provide researchers with their annotations. The public will also benefit
from the $578,000 HEP Legacy Data Project that will develop technology at
UVic and at other sites in Canada and the US to enable the long-term preservation
of BaBar Project particle physics data. The aim of the BaBar Project is
to understand why the universe is made of only matter and no antimatter—both
were present at the birth of the universe. BaBar measurements were pivotal
in determining the recipients of the 2008 Nobel Prize for Physics.*
http://communications.uvic.ca/releases/release.php?display=release&id=1083
Plus de 100 000 jeunes Canadiens initiés aux sciences
9 Octobre 2009
« Une enquête récente menée par les Instituts
de recherche en santé du Canada (IRSC) révèle que les
chercheurs canadiens dans le domaine de la santé ont offert cette
année plus d'encadrement scientifique aux jeunes Canadiens au moyen
du programme Synapse - Connexion jeunesse. Créé en 2006, ce
programme de mentorat offre aux chercheurs des occasions de sensibiliser
les jeunes du Canada aux sciences et aux bienfaits de la recherche en santé
pour les Canadiens et le reste du monde. Jusqu'à aujourd'hui, plus
de 5 500 chercheurs financés par les IRSC ont manifesté de
l'intérêt pour devenir des mentors dans le cadre du programme
Synapse. Et ce nombre augmente chaque jour. »
http://nouvelles.gc.ca/web/article-fra.do?m=/index&nid=488949
ARTICLES
UTNE Reader’s second annual list of visionaries
UTNE Reader, November/December 2009
UTNE Reader lists “50 Visionaries Who Are Changing the World”
with an unwavering, inexhaustible sense of purpose they bring to their work.
Among those listed are Brewster Kahle, Internet Archive Co-Founder, and
John Wilbanks, V.P. Science, Creative Commons.*
http://www.utne.com/Politics/50-Visionaries-Changing-Your-World-Hope-2009.aspx
Relationships and Soft Skills: The Core to Effective Library Leadership
Anne Marie Madziak
ola.access, Fall 2009, Volume 15, Number 4
Harvard Business School, the source of so many of the prevailing notions
about leadership, is contemplating soft skills as key attributes for the
leaders they will graduate. For those charged with hiring and grooming the
next generation of leaders, whether in the business world, or in libraries,
this news serves to validate what experience has led many to believe. We
need leaders capable of empathy and introspection. We need leaders with
fine-tuned communication skills. And we need leaders who understand that
what we are able to achieve is entirely dependent upon the quality of our
relationships.*
http://www.accessola.com/AccessOnline/OnlineOnly/archives/fall2009/relationships.php
Policy Briefing: Communications and Intellectual Property
The Hill Times, November 2, 2009
Some of the articles in this policy briefing: Industry Minister
( Q&A by Bea Vongduangchanh) - Tony Clement says Canada’s copyright
laws must be: modern, flexible and foster innovation and economic growth
/ Introducing a copyright bill is kind of like swatting at a beehive
with a big stick (Simon Doyle) - With all the pressure for federal
action on copyright reform, the government would rather not touch it. There
are too many players pushing in too many directions. Copyright policy was
forever messy. Now it’s getting messier. / Copyright consultation
provides blueprint for reform (Michael Geist) - Canadians care
deeply about copyright and are determined to have their views reflected
in government policy. When a copyright bill is unveiled, Canadians will
be paying close attention.
http://www.thehilltimes.ca/section/pb
Call for Manuscripts: open access issue in 2010 on scholarly communication
of
New Review of Academic Librarianship
The New Review of Academic Librarianship will publish a special, open access
issue in October 2010 on the dissemination of scholarly communication and
the roles for university libraries. Dr Hazel Woodward, University Librarian
of Cranfield University, and Dr Graham Walton of Loughborough University
will edit the issue sponsored by JISC. New technologies and ideologies are
challenging the roles and future for many stakeholders in scholarly communication.
This themed issue will present the ideas, views and developments to help
inform how scholarly communication moves forward in the future. Those interested
in submitting an article are asked to send a title and an abstract of approximately
250 words directly to the guest editor, Dr Hazel Woodward,
hazel.woodward@cranfield.ac.uk
by the 18th December 2009. Successful authors will be contacted by
January 15, 2010, with a manuscript deadline of March 19, 2010.
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=jour~content=t713687299
RESOURCES / RESSOURCES
Rapport sur l’histoire et les enjeux du numérique
Constance Krebs
Observatoire du livre et de l’écrit en Ile-de-France, 19 octobre
2009
« L’auteure offre une analyse et une observation des usages
pour appréhender des développements. Après un état
de la chaîne du livre qu’on dit si malmenée – ce
sont en réalité les pratiques qui se transforment en profondeur
–, ce rapport insiste sur l’aspect transversal des usages, sur
les réseaux qui se mettent en place en étoile pour donner
au texte une valeur nouvelle, selon une économie mixte. Il évoquera
les lieux dédiés au livre et insistera sur le fait que les
liens qu’ils tissent ne peuvent pas s’écarter des réseaux
numériques, afin de conserver une chaîne sociale et économique
forte – voire une implication dans la cité10. Enfin, il montrra
l’importance des définitions (livre, lecteur, auteur...), des
apprentissages et du renouvellement des pratiques, en contribuant plutôt
qu’en concurrence. Envisager un laboratoire pour le texte avec les
écrivains et les artistes, ainsi qu’une place de marché
pour que les professionnels du livre sachent s’adapter au livrel et
à ce qu’il suppose dans notre économie. »
http://www.lemotif.fr/fichier/motif_fichier/81/fichier_fichier_c.krebs.rapport.numa.rique.24.10.pdf
Final report on the provision of usage data and manuscript deposit
procedures for publishers and repository managers
Barbara Bayer-Schur et al
Publishing and the Ecology of European Research (PEER), October 2009
PEER is a pioneering collaboration
between publishers, repositories and the research community. The project
aims to investigate the effects of the large-scale, systematic depositing
of authors’ final peer-reviewed manuscripts (Green Open Access) on
user access, author visibility, journal viability and the broader European
research environment. PEER will run until 2011, during which time over 50,000
European stage-2 (accepted) manuscripts from over 240 journals will become
available for archiving. A notable achievement of the project is an
innovative workflow devised to describe and standardize deposits from publishers
to repositories. In a core group of interoperable European repositories,
the capability of accepting material deposited from third party publishers
and authors beyond the project duration is demonstrated.*
http://www.peerproject.eu/fileadmin/media/reports/PEER__D2_2_20091028_v5.pdf
Information Economy Report 2009: Trends and Outlook in Turbulent
Times
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
Over the past few decades, information and communication technologies have
accelerated economic and social progress opening up a previously unimaginable
array of possibilities in both developed and developing countries. Thanks,
in no small part, to the mobile revolution the speed at which ICTs are diffusing
has taken many observers by surprise. As emphasized in the Information Economy
Report 2009, however, there is no room for complacency. Despite positive
developments towards narrowing the digital divide, there is a long unfinished
agenda to address in order to create a truly inclusive information society
for all.* http://www.unctad.org/en/docs/ier2009_en.pdf
DC-2009 papers and presentations published
The DC-2009
conference, held in Seoul, Korea, 12-16 October 2009, featured high quality
tutorials, keynotes, conference papers and workshop sessions. The event
was attended by around 100 participants from 18 countries and territories
who engaged in lively discussions around the theme of Semantic Interoperability
of Linked Data. The conference proceedings are available in the DCMI
Conference Paper Repository and many of the presentations are linked
from the program
page on the conference Web site.
http://dcpapers.dublincore.org/ojs/pubs/issue/view/33
New Publishing Models: Developing a common platform for
university press e-book distribution
EVENTS / ÉVÉNEMENTS
Free SPARC Web cast, Friday, November 20th, 2009, 10:00am Pacific | 1:00PM
Eastern
register at http://www.arl.org/sparc/meetings/event_registration.shtml
no later than November 18th
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation recently awarded four university presses with
a grant to support development of a collaborative university press electronic
book project. Monica McCormick, Program Officer for Digital Scholarly Publishing
at New York University, will discuss how university presses are thinking about
the transition to digital book publishing, the goals of this project and the
history behind the grant award, the scope of the initiative, what collaborators
will contribute, and how the survey for library customer input is coming together.
http://www.arl.org/sparc/meetings/event_registration.shtml
Call for Proposals – 5th Canadian Learning Commons Conference
A Journey in Progress: Been there! Done that! What’s next!
Kingston, Ontario, June 16-18, 2010
The Queen’s Learning Commons invites program proposals for the 5th Canadian Learning Commons Conference that will be held at Queen’s University. In 2003, Scott Bennett of Yale University suggested that one of the core activities of a learning commons is to support “collaborative learning by which students turn information into knowledge and sometimes into wisdom.” Seven years later, many changes have taken place: new methods of communicating; new models of discovery and research; new standards of accountability for colleges and universities including skills-based outcomes; changes in teaching methodologies such as inquiry-based learning; changes in the way course material is delivered; changes in the way students learn and think; and financial constraints. The conference will present an opportunity to consider the impact of these factors on the learning commons and what they mean for future strategic positioning. Is it still the research library’s role to support? What does it take to help the current generation of students turn information into knowledge? How will we get there? Can librarians take the lead? The organizing committee welcomes submissions that take either a broad or a specific approach to these questions. Poster or presentation proposals should be sent to CLCC5@queensu.ca by Wednesday December 9, 2009, include a title, an abstract (no more than 250 words for presentations and 100 words for posters), and biographical information of presenter(s),
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