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Ebooks in Education: Realising the Vision
Get PDFThe upbeat title promises much, and this is taken up by Madeleine Atkins of HEFCE in the Foreword, although more realistically she notes that "This publication by Jisc Collections describes very lucidly the current state of ... a transition"
The Internet of Things
Get PDFThe term, Internet of Things (IoT), has been around since 1999 when brand manager Kevin Ashton at Proctor and Gamble applied RFID technology to streamline his company\u27s massive supply chain. Since then it has grown to encompass the deployment of Internet-connected sensors and trackers across a range of industries and business processes. Essentially, it is an evolution of closed, proprietary telemetry systems that go back to the 1970s. On an industrial scale it includes connected sensors to track the wear and tear of a jet engine and water quality sensors to measure the safety of drinking water. At the city level it includes initiatives such as the AirSensa project which is installing 10,000 air quality sensors around London, each of them providing accurate, street-level data in real time for third parties to analyse. Individually many of us are already contributing data to the IoT via smartphone apps or devices such as Fitbit that track our movements, exercise regimes and health status. Google\u27s Nest thermostat is a good example of how everyday household devices are being connected to allow the remote monitoring and control of domestic lighting and temperatures. Google\u27s announcement in late May of its Brillo operating system for smart devices reveals its plans to extend data gathering beyond search and Android smartphones.
As these systems are rolled out and integrated into our daily lives the biggest challenge is going to be making sense of the data thrown off the myriad of devices in our pockets, houses, workplaces and cities. Cisco estimate that the number of Internet-connected devices overtook the number of people on the planet in 2008 and that by 2020 there will be 50 billion \u27things\u27 transmitting information. By 2018, they claim, the data created by IoT devices will be 277 times higher than the amount of data generated by smartphones and PCs. With a Boeing 787 generating 40 terabytes (TB) of data per hour of flight and the mining operations of a company like Rio Tinto generating up to 2.4 TB per minute it is easy to see how the IoT presents huge opportunities for companies able to create value from it all
Cultural Heritage Information - Access & Management
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Editor’s Note
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Post-it Notes for Web Content
Get PDFIn this article, I will be introducing and describing three similar tools for linking or sharing content: Declara, Stackly and Pocket (there are others, to be sure, but these three looked the most interesting from my trawl). All three could all be described as Post-it notes for the Web: you can make notes about websites you have seen, then reorder your notes and come back and find them again. All three tools were created for academic and educational publishing. The nature of academic publishing is to share what you have discovered or created, and so tools that enable users to join A with B can provide valuable productivity benefits. Of course, discovering content of value and wanting to share it with others is universal across all sectors. All three use recommendation engines – tools that automatically suggest content that is linked in some way to pages you have selected before. Two were launched as recently as this year
Metadata: Walled Gardens No More!
No full textLara Whitelaw was presented with the UKeiG Information Manager of the Year Award 2015 at the Intranet Now Conference in London in October 2015. She is University Metadata Development Manager at The Open University.
Dion Lindsay represented UKeiG at the conference and interviewed Lara for eLucidate a few weeks later
Exploiting Google
Get PDFA lot is happening at Google and it is not just the new logo. Technologies such as artificial intelligence are being used across all of Google’s projects and that includes search. So we decided it was time to revamp and extensively update the UKeiG advanced Google workshop to include Google’s new approach to search and how it affects results. The first “New Google, New Challenges” was hosted by Manchester University Library on the 10th September. Understanding how Google works “underneath the bonnet” is just the start. You then have to work out how to use the search tools and specialist databases - many of which are well hidden - to ensure that you are getting quality results. Towards the end of the day I asked the workshop participants to compile a list of Top 10 Tips. This is what they came up with
CILIP 2015 Conference: Two Perspectives - 1
No full textCILIP Conference in Liverpool 2nd - 3rd July 2015
In this issue we also publish two complementary reports from July’s CILIP conference in Liverpool written by the successful recipients of our CILIP conference bursary ward. Lots of food for thought here. My highlight is the assertion (and potential exam question for future information professionals): ‘We shouldn’t be worrying about competition from Google, or Apple, or Amazon – they are advertising companies, not information services.’ Discuss..
CILIP 2015 Conference: Two Perspectives - 2
No full textCILIP Conference in Liverpool 2nd - 3rd July 2015
In this issue we also publish two complementary reports from July’s CILIP conference in Liverpool written by the successful recipients of our CILIP conference bursary ward. Lots of food for thought here. My highlight is the assertion (and potential exam question for future information professionals): ‘We shouldn’t be worrying about competition from Google, or Apple, or Amazon – they are advertising companies, not information services.’ Discuss..