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Des responsables de Mozilla prennent leurs distances avec Google
Le Monde, 12 décembre 2009
« Oui, Bing respecte mieux votre vie privée que Google."
Le constat pourrait surprendre, surtout de la part d'Asa
Dotzler, le coordinateur de la communauté chez Mozilla, l'éditeur
du navigateur Firefox et fondateur du programme. La fondation Mozilla est
en effet liée à Google par un accord de partenariat : Google
est le moteur de recherche par défaut de Firefox, une fonctionnalité
pour laquelle la fondation reçoit de l'argent de la part de l'entreprise.
La
plus grande partie des 79
millions de dollars de chiffre d'affaires de la fondation en 2008 proviennent
de ce partenariat. Mais comme
Tristan Nitot, le responsable de Mozilla Europe, Asa Dotzler, a peu
apprécié les récentes déclarations du PDG de
Google, Eric Schmidt, sur le respect de la vie privée. »
http://www.lemonde.fr/technologies/article/2009/12/11/des-responsables-de-mozilla-prennent-leurs-distances-avec-google_1279114_651865.html#ens_id=1244271
Facebook instaure de nouveaux paramètres de confidentialité
Laurent Checola
L e Monde, 12 décembre 2009
« Sur le site de socialisation Facebook, un message, apparu
mercredi 9 décembre, invite les internautes à mettre à
jour les options de confidentialité de leur profil. Censé
simplifier la gestion de la vie privée des 350 millions d'usagers
en ligne dans le monde, le système permet de paramétrer, pour
chaque nouvel élément publié, qui en sera le destinataire
: les amis, la famille, ou bien tout le monde. "En faisant des sélections
dans le menu, les utilisateurs peuvent facilement adapter leurs publications,
à des audiences spécifiques", assure Facebook, dans un
communiqué. »
http://www.lemonde.fr/technologies/article/2009/12/10/facebook-instaure-de-nouveaux-parametres-de-confidentialite_1278690_651865.html#ens_id=1278335
Entente entre l'UQAM et BAnQ
Daniel Lemay
La Presse, 11 décembre 2009
« Mues par une «volonté commune de démocratisation»
du savoir, Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec et
l'Université du Québec à Montréal ont conclu
hier une entente de partenariat qui encadrera les collaborations futures
entre les deux voisines du Quartier latin. Claude Corbo, recteur de l'UQAM,
a dévoilé le premier projet conjoint qui débutera en
février: une série de grandes conférences sur le thème
La Révolution tranquille - 50 ans d'héritage. «Ces conférences
s'adressent au public cultivé, a dit M. Corbo. Mais nous travaillerons
aussi à des projets plus pointus basés sur les recherches
de nos professeurs.»
http://www.cyberpresse.ca/arts/livres/200912/11/01-930085-entente-entre-luqam-et-banq.php
Obama administration seeking OA for federally-funded research
Peter Suber
Open Access News, December 9, 2009
The Obama administration is calling
for public comments on ways to enhance access to federally-funded
research. Important momentum is building in Congress for FRPAA. The
question here is about separate action from the White House, and the kinds
OA policies the Obama administration should direct funding agencies to adopt.
This is the first major motion to supplement legislative action with executive
action to advance public access to publicly-funded research as
well as the first explicit sign that President Obama supports the OA policy
at the NIH and envisions something similar at other federal agencies.*
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2009/12/obama-administration-wants-oa-for.html
University of Ottawa among North American leaders as it launches
open access program
December 8, 2009
The University of Ottawa is the first Canadian university to adopt a comprehensive
open access program
that supports free and unrestricted access to scholarly research. The University’s
new program includes: a commitment to make the University’s
scholarly publications available online at no charge through the University’s
repository, uO Research;
an author
fund to help researchers defray open access fees charged by publishers;
a fund to support the creation of digital educational materials organized
as courses and available to everyone online at no charge; support for the
University of Ottawa Press’s commitment to publishing a collection
of open access books; and a research grant to support further research
on the open access movement.
http://www.media.uottawa.ca/mediaroom/news-details_1824.html
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L’Université d’Ottawa parmi les leaders nord-américains
du libre accès grâce au lancement d’un nouveau programme
8 décembre 2009
L’Université d’Ottawa est la première université
canadienne à adopter un programme
complet de mesures appuyant l’accès libre et gratuit à
la recherche. Le nouveau programme comprend : un engagement à
fournir un accès en ligne libre et gratuit aux publications savantes
de l’Université par l’entremise du dépôt
institutionnel Recherche uO;
un fonds
d’auteur pour aider les chercheurs à assumer les frais
exigés par les éditeurs pour publier en libre accès;
un fonds pour appuyer la création de matériel pédagogique
numérique organisé sous forme de cours et accessible gratuitement
au public en ligne; un appui au projet de publication d’une
collection en libre accès des Presses de l’Université
d’Ottawa; du financement pour appuyer la recherche sur le mouvement
du libre accès.
http://www.medias.uottawa.ca/salledesmedias/nouvelles-details_1824.html
NEPTUNE Canada Ocean Observatory Goes Live
Canada views, December 8, 2009
The NEPTUNE Canada cabled ocean observatory—the largest and most
advanced facility of its kind in the world—officially turned on the
data flow from hundreds of scientific instruments and sensors installed
on the seafloor of the Pacific Ocean. Led by the University of Victoria,
NEPTUNE Canada pioneers a new generation of ocean observation systems that
use innovative engineering and the Internet to provide continuous, long-term
monitoring of ocean processes and events, as they happen.
http://www.canadaviews.ca/2009/12/08/neptune-canada-ocean-observatory-goes-live/
Déclaration de l'IABD sur les œuvres orphelines
8 décembre 2009
« Depuis plusieurs années, la question des œuvres
orphelines fait l’objet de travaux au niveau européen. En France,
cette réflexion a été relayée par le rapport
du Conseil supérieur de la propriété littéraire
et artistique, publié en avril 2008.Depuis, le contexte a été
radicalement modifié par les retombées de l’affaire
Google Livres, qui a révélé à quel point il
était urgent de trouver une solution au problème posé
par les œuvres orphelines, sous peine de voir se creuser, dans l’accès
à la connaissance, un fossé sans précédent entre
l’Europe et les États-Unis. »
http://www.iabd.fr/spip.php?article91
New Publishing Opportunity at the University of California
December 8, 2009
University of California Press and the California Digital Library announced
the launch of a collaborative publishing venture, UC Publishing Services
(UCPubS), offering a suite of open access digital and print publication
services to University of California centers, institutes, and departments
that produce scholarly books. By coordinating the publishing efforts of
UC Press, the California Digital Library’s eScholarship program, and
publishing partners throughout the UC system, UCPubS provides a sustainable
publishing model that extends the University’s capacity to disseminate
its scholarship to the world.*
http://www.ucpress.edu/press/pr/UCPubS_pressrelease.pdf
Web Giants Unite to Oppose UK Copyright Proposal
Jeremy Kirk
PC World, December 7, 2009
Several Internet giants including Google are lobbying the U.K. government
to drop a proposal that would allow the secretary of state to introduce
new changes to copyright law. The proposal is part of Britain's Digital
Economy bill, a comprehensive package of legislation that contains some
controversial measures, such as a requirement for ISPs to track illegal
file sharing and possibly suspend repeat offenders’ accounts.*
http://www.pcworld.com/article/183867/web_giants_unite_to_oppose_uk_copyright_proposal.html
'Climategate' May Hold Lessons on Openness for Researchers Under
Pressure
Jeffrey R. Young
The Chronicle of Higher Education, December 6, 2009
Most scientists don't have a band of bloggers and hobbyists watching their
every move or demanding their raw data, their personal e-mail messages,
and even their bank records, but some climate researchers have recently
faced the kind of scrutiny usually reserved for celebrities. Hackers recently
dug through the digital trash of scientists and published
the researchers' personal notes, stealing over 1,000
e-mail messages from a University of East Anglia [U.K.] climate-research
group. The messages have raised serious questions about whether the scientists
worked to hide inconvenient data and suppress information that didn't fit
a neat pattern of man-made global warming.*
http://chronicle.com/article/Climategate-May-Hold-Lessons/49367/?sid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en
Google and UNESCO announce alliance to provide virtual visits of
several World Heritage sites
December 4, 2009
Thanks to an alliance signed by UNESCO and Google, sites inscribed on the
World Heritage List such as the Palace of Versailles in France, the historic
centre of Prague in the Czech Republic and the old town of Cáceres
in Spain can now be explored online. The agreement allows Internet users
to visit 19 of the 890 World Heritage properties via Google’s Street
View interface. All the other sites on the List will be shown on the Google
Earth and Google Maps interfaces.*
http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=29347&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
A 'New Digital Class' Digs Into Data
Jennifer Howard
The Chronicle of Higher Education, December 4, 2009
This year the Digging
Into Data Challenge invited research teams to submit proposals for big-scale,
computer-enabled "cyberscholarship" or "data-driven inquiry."
The National Endowment for the Humanities, one of the challenge's sponsors,
announced that the first Digging Into Data grants are being awarded to eight
international (mostly trans-Atlantic) teams. Other sponsors include the
National Science Foundation, the Joint Information Systems Committee in
Britain, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council in Canada.*
http://chronicle.com/blogPost/A-New-Digital-Class-Digs/9086/?sid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en
Google Customizes More of Its Search Results
Brad Stone
The New York Times, December 4, 2009
Google offers customized Web search results based on search history
and clicks. For example, for someone consistently favoring a particular
sports site, Google will put that site high in the results when that person
looks up sports topics in its search engine. But there has always been one
catch: one had to be signed in to a Google account to see such customization.
Google announced that it is extending these personalized search results,
and the resulting improvement in ad targeting, to people not logged into
the service. The change is already irking privacy advocates, who say that
using Google while not logging in was one way to minimize exposure to its
data-collection practices.*
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/04/google-customizes-more-of-its-search-results/?ref=technology
Update on Google Books Statement
IFLA, December 4, 2009
IFLA appeared as a friend of the court on behalf of the international library
community. An amicus brief was submitted detailing IFLA concerns with the
original settlement proposal last summer. Many of the concerns voiced then
remain under the terms of the new settlement proposal. IFLA still remains
concerned about the potential for monopolistic abuses by Google due to the
current lack of competition in the digitization and distribution of digital
books.*
http://www.ifla.org/en/news/update-on-google-books-statement
10 prévisions pour le livre électronique en 2010
Alexis J.
ebouquin, 3 décembre 2009
« Forrester
Research, entreprise indépendante qui fournit à ses
clients des études de marché sur l’impact
des technologies dans le monde des affaires, vient de dévoiler
ses prévisions sur les lecteurs de livre électronique pour
2010. Si l’année 2009 a été marquée par
une forte progression des ventes de readers et d’ebooks, l’année
prochaine s’annonce pleine de surprises. »
http://www.ebouquin.fr/2009/12/03/readers-10-previsions-pour-2010/
Nouveaux programmes du CRSNG pour favoriser l’établissement
de liens entre les milieux industriel et postsecondaire
24 novembre 2009
« Dans le cadre de sa nouvelle Stratégie
en matière de partenariats et d’innovation, le CRSNG a
lancé deux nouveaux programmes et modifié certains de ses
programmes pour favoriser l’établissement de partenariats de
recherche productifs entre les milieux industriel et postsecondaire. Le
Programme
de subventions d’engagement partenarial (SEP) appuie la création
de partenariats entre des entreprises et des universités pour entreprendre
un projet de recherche à court terme entièrement financé
afin de résoudre des problèmes propres à ces entreprises. »
http://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/Media-Media/NewsRelease-CommuniqueDePresse_fra.asp?ID=170
HathiTrust offers full-text search of millions of digitized books
and journals
November 19, 2009
A year after its launch by 25 leading U.S. research libraries, HathiTrust
Digital Library announced a service that will transform how researchers
use over 1.6 billion pages (4.6 million volumes) in its collections. The
HathiTrust partners are committed to developing the repository and its services
to meet the long-term needs of their academic communities, and offer a unique
resource on the Web for scholarship and research.*
http://www.ns.umich.edu/htdocs/releases/story.php?id=7426
ARTICLES
Second Life aura-t-il une deuxième vie?
Marie-Ève Morasse
La Presse, 11 décembre 2009
« Il y a quelques années, les médias et les gens
qui s'intéressent aux nouvelles technologies n'en avaient que pour
un site web : Second Life. Ce monde virtuel en trois dimensions était
la saveur du jour et on lui prédisait un brillant avenir. Plusieurs
entreprises, dont IBM, Telus, et la BBC y ont ouvert des boutiques ou des
bureaux virtuels. Les internautes s'y créaient un alter ego de pixels
avec lequel ils pouvaient évoluer dans un univers monté de
toutes pièces. Mais dans les discussions, Second Life a depuis été
surpassé par Facebook et Twitter. »
http://technaute.cyberpresse.ca/nouvelles/internet/200912/11/01-930134-second-life-aura-t-il-une-deuxieme-vie.php
Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter
December 2009
Some items in the December newsletter: Strategy Meeting for
Preserving Geospatial Data -
Historians, government officials and data stewards convened a meeting
at the Library of Congress to discuss framing a National Preservation
and Access Strategy for Geospatial Data. / Access Through Metadata
- Resident metadata experts at the Library of Congress say perfect
metadata is NOT required, and good metadata IS useful. / dpBestflow.org
Launched During FotoWeek DC - The American Society of Media Photographers
launched dpBestflow.org during FotoWeek DC. dpBestflow
- “Digital Photography Best Practices and Workflow” - offers
a definitive new set of guidelines for digital photography best practices
and workflows to improve the process, production and preservation of
digital photography.*
http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/news/newsletter/200912.pdf
Inside OCULA
Ontario College and University Library Association, Number 39, December
2009
Some items in the December newsletter: Interview with a New
Librarian - OCULA President Nathalie Soini Interviews the
OCULA New Librarian Resident Award Winner Monica Rettig. / NRC-CISTI,
Canada’s National Science Library, Transforms, Anne Fullerton
and Kristin Hoffmann - As a result of the federal government’s budget
this past spring, CISTI has planned some significant changes including the
closure of CISTI Source, their unmediated document delivery service and
the movement of NRC Press from government to non-profit corporation status.
New partnerships are the key to their strategic focus and collaborations.
/ Pompeii Reborn: U of T Mississauga Google Earth Project Promotes
Spatial Literacy Among Students, Tracy Moniz - The U of T Mississauga
Library’s GIS and Data Librarian Andrew Nicholson has teamed up with
Classics Instructor Andrew Graham to help students bring this ancient city
to life. The Library aims to promote spatial and information literacy among
students and develop opportunities for GIS and data services and support.*
http://www.accessola.com/data/2/rec_docs/647_InsideOCULAWinter09.pdf
Library Connect Newsletter – theme: mobile access
Volume 7, Number 4, November 2009
Some items in the November Elsevier newsletter: How mobility is
challenging academic libraries - Mobility is bringing academic
libraries enormous challenges. Today’s typical mobile device has enough
storage to hold the equivalent of an entire library collection. / Academic
libraries and development of mobile services - Examining new technologies
that could help improve library services is a particular calling for Keren
Mills, the innovations officer in the Research and Innovations Team in the
Library & Learning Resources Centre of the Open University, headquartered
in Milton Keynes in the UK. / The Library in Your Pocket: Making
the library truly accessible anytime, anywhere - While libraries
have been inundated with talk of Web 2.0 technology, social media and the
Internet, we’ve failed to notice the mobile revolution taking place.
According to Taiwan's Market Intelligence Center (MIC), the number of global
mobile users hit 2.3 billion in 2006 and will reach 3 billion by 2010.*
http://libraryconnect.elsevier.com/lcn/0704/lcn0704.pdf
Corporatized universities devalue education
Howard Woodhouse
Toronto Star, November 15, 2009
Governments, corporations and most university administrators regard Canadian
universities as "engines of economic growth." Their function is
no longer the search for truth, but to increase global competitiveness.
However, critical questions about this new orthodoxy are seldom raised.
Fundamentally, the goal of education is the advancement and dissemination
of shared knowledge, whereas the goal of the corporate market is the maximization
of stockholder value. The distinctive features of education are subjugated
to the demands of the market if these opposing value systems are not recognized
and reconciled. Some university presidents have expressed skepticism toward
the market model of education.*
http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/725695
RESOURCES / RESSOURCES
The Survey of Higher Education Faculty: Use of Library Reference,
Info Literacy and Subject Specialist Staff Primary Research Group, December 2009
This Survey presents data on higher education faculty’s use of the
virtual reference services, subject specialists and info literacy staff
of their academic library in the United States & Canada. It includes
specific data on the percentage of faculty that use virtual reference, how
often they use it, and similar data on awareness and use of library subject
specialists, as well as data on contact with information literacy staff
and tendency to incorporate info literacy concepts into teaching.*
http://www.primaryresearch.com/200912071-The-Survey-of-Higher-Education-Faculty.html
Nouvelle version de "L'Encyclopédie canadienne"
7 décembre 2009
« Le site de L'Encyclopédie canadienne est doté
de nouvelles fonctionnalités (moteur de recherche amélioré,
outils sociaux, etc.). Il offre l'accès gratuit à de nombreuses
ressources sur le Canada dont plus de 40 000 articles, en français
et en anglais et 6 000 cartes interactives. »
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=HomePage&Params=F1
Joining Forces in a World of Open Innovation: Guidelines for Collaborative
Research and Knowledge Transfer between Science and Industry
Responsible Partnering, October 2009
This Handbook describes a voluntary programme of Responsible Partnering
to improve strategic collaboration and knowledge exchange between companies
and publicly-funded research organizations, including universities, research
and technology organizations and other public and semi-public bodies which
engage in R&D. It addresses the organization and management of collaborative
research and knowledge exchange, and the contexts (including education)
in which these activities take place.*
http://www.responsible-partnering.org/library/handbook-11.pdf
The status of IR/CRIS in the Nordic countries
Ingegerd Rabow
Nordbib, October 2009
This report, commissioned by the Nordbib programme, is based on a web survey
of the current status of CRIS (Current Research Information Systems) and
IRs (Institutional Repositories) in the Nordic countries conducted to investigate
how Nordic higher education institutions collect and present their research
output. Perceived needs for national and Nordic coordination and support
regarding such specific issues as rights management, central search services,
educational and promotional materials were analyzed. The results are presented
against international developments in Open Access, both historical and current.
The main purpose of the survey was to help Nordbib gather relevant information
for promoting greater visibility to Nordic research and offer a background
for creating a joint Nordic approach to further developments in Open Access.*
http://www.nordbib.net/Initiatives---Reports/Reports/CRIS-status.aspx
The Library Routes Project
Jennie Law et al
October 2009
The Library Routes project is for all types of information professionals
and library workers. The wiki exists to document and link to all those who
have blogged or written about their library roots - how they got into the
profession and what motivated them to do so in other words - and their library
routes, that is the jobs they've had and how they’ve managed their
careers.*
http://libraryroutesproject.wikkii.com/wiki/Main_Page
InWeave: Intellectual Wealth and Value
Thor Kristoffersen et al
Forskerprosjekt proposal to the VERDICT call, November 2009
The current Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) stalemate is detrimental
to society and the free internet. New modes of collaborative production
and dissemination of creative works are not fostered in the current regulatory
environment. The objective of the INWEAVE
project is to enable a sustainable ecosystem for production, reproduction
and distribution of creative works that encourages active participation
rather than passive consumption.*
http://fribit.no/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/INWEAVE-public-version.pdf
EVENTS / ÉVÉNEMENTS
Free webinar: mLearning Goes Mainstream Tuesday, December 15, 2009 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EST
This event includes two presentations: Key Findings on Mobile Learning Products and Services -Tyson Greer CEO of Ambient Insight, will discuss market trends, catalysts, and opportunities in Mobile Learning. She will review advances in development tools and platforms, and highlight two types of products: brain trainers and location-based learning products and services. / Educational Mobility - Supra Manohar, EVP Emantras, will define the meaning of Educational Mobility and introduce MOBL21 as a cost effective and unique mLearning platform.
https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/301714753
DigCCurr Public Symposium: Engaging Communities for the Curation
of Digital Products of Scholarly Endeavors
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, January 8, 2010
This one-day event will include panel discussions with experts in the morning
and interactive group sessions in the afternoon. Participants will have
the opportunity to: explore strategies for engaging creators, curators,
and users; meet other professionals working with digital collections ; and
engage in collaborative group discussions with attendees and speakers.*
http://ils.unc.edu/digccurr/symposium.html
Connections 2010
London, Ontario, May 15-16, 2010
Connections 2010 (May 15-16, 2010) is a conference for Library and Information
Science doctoral students and. It is one of the best venues for LIS doctoral
students and candidates to meet and discuss with their colleagues from the
Great Lakes region, across Canada and the United States. The conference
will feature twenty-four 20 minute presentations over the course of the
conference. Presentations may cover any Information or Library Science related
subject information seeking behavior, policy, or systems. Students and candidates
interested in presenting are required to submit a 500 word abstract for
a double-blind peer review.*
http://conferences.fims.uwo.ca/connections2010/call.html
Sciences de l’information : la synergie à travers
la diversité
Université Concordia, Montréal, Qc, Canada
2 au 4 juin 2010
Le congrès met l’accent sur la recherche innovatrice et l’évolution
du domaine des sciences de l’information, et offre aux spécialistes
de l’information un cadre pour présenter leurs recherches liées
aux quatre axes suivants: la gestion des connaissances et de l’information
(par ex., gestion des connaissances, veille à la concurrence, gestion
stratégique de l’information); les réseaux sociaux et
la participation des usagers dans la structure des connaissances (par ex.,
Web 2.0, folksonomies, ontologies); l’organisation de l’information
(par ex., catalogage et classification, infométrie, gestion des documents
administratifs, métadonnées); les interactions homme-information
(IHI) (par ex., recherche d’information, conception d’interface,
architecture de l’information, études des utilisateurs, comportements
informationnels, culture informationnelle)Les soumissions axées sur
d’autres sujets des sciences l’information et de la bibliothéconomie
ou sur tout autre aspect se rapportant aux thèmes du congrès
ou de la conférence sont également les bienvenues.
http://www.cais-acsi.ca/cfp2010_fr.htm
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Information Science: Synergy through Diversity
Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada
June 2 - 4, 2010
With focus on innovative research and on information science as an evolving
field, the conference will provide information scientists with a forum for
presentation on four areas that form the conference program theme. Submissions
are sought that address any aspects of the following: knowledge and Information
Management (e.g. Knowledge Management, Competitive Intelligence, Economic
Intelligence); social networking and user participation in knowledge structure
(e.g. Web 2.0, folksonomies, ontologies); information Organization (e.g.
cataloguing and classification, Informetrics, Records Management, metadata);
human-Information Interaction (HII) (e.g. information retrieval, interface
design, information architecture, user studies, information behaviour, information
literacy); Proposals that address other aspects of information and library
science or other aspects of the conference or congress themes are also warmly
invited.
http://www.cais-acsi.ca/cfp2010.htm
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