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Brian Kelly commented on "Pimp Up Your Stuff!": How To Exploit The Social Web Note that the title "Pimp Up Your Stuff" is meant to indicate that their may be somewhat unsavoury aspects associated with marketing activities. 6 months ago
Brian Kelly commented on The Open Library, Public Domain Wiki, and other Realized Myths of Creative Commons Lore Hi Jon - my camera only take 10 minutes of video. 2 years ago
Brian Kelly commented on The Open Library, Public Domain Wiki, and other Realized Myths of Creative Commons Lore A video of the first 9 minutes of the talk is available at http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1581751353210348142 Brian Kelly (also a speaker at the NDAP 2008 conference). 2 years ago
Brian Kelly commented on Web 2.0: Opportunity Or Threat For IT Support Staff? Thanks for the comment. I gave a talk at UCISA in 2006 to 300+ senior IT managers arguing IT services departments needed to evolve. This talk not only convinced Michael Nolan, but, as I found out later, other IT directors agreed with this need for change. And an advantage with the UK HE environment is that we are small enough (nos. and distances) for us to learn from each other. Note that my previous slides are at: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/presentations and my blog is at: http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/ I’m working on the the quick elevator pitch :-) 3 years ago
Brian Kelly commented on The Repository Roadmap - are we heading in the right direction? Yes, yes, yes, ... but especially yes to the final bullet point. Thanks for this, Andy. 3 years ago
Brian Kelly commented on The Repository Roadmap - are we heading in the right direction? Agreed - and this is norhing new. We’re just adding another level of redirection -something computer scientists always do. And have we thought of talking to the Web 2.0 services about OAI support? 3 years ago
Brian Kelly commented on The Repository Roadmap - are we heading in the right direction? The social aspect of Slideshare has been very useful for me - people finding my stuff, which helps me find theirs and the other resources they use. Interestingly this approach to resource discovery doesn’t need metadata. 3 years ago
Brian Kelly commented on The Repository Roadmap - are we heading in the right direction? Very much agree with your final bullet point. The accessibility issue is very interesting. It shouldn’t just be about WCAG 1.0 (currently being replaced) more more holistic. For example see "Accessibility 2.0: People, Policies and Processes" at http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/papers/w4a-2007/. The paper is available on Scribd - which provides multiple formats, including MP3. 3 years ago
Brian Kelly commented on The Repository Roadmap - are we heading in the right direction? Yes, the Web is missing from this vision. Several computing science communities (hypertext, knowledge representation, etc.) tried to ignore the Web for several years, until they realised that it wouldn’t go away, and they needed to enage with the Web. I think the Digital Library community needs to do this too. 3 years ago
Brian Kelly commented on The Repository Roadmap - are we heading in the right direction? "Develop aggregation services ..." What if the aggregation services are already available? Why reinvent the wheel? 3 years ago
Brian Kelly commented on The Repository Roadmap - are we heading in the right direction? What if the complexity means the service is too complex for users (information providers and end users) to use? Then need for simplicity is something we need to learn from successful 3 years ago
Brian Kelly commented on The Repository Roadmap - are we heading in the right direction? Note that this font is difficult to read :-) 3 years ago
Brian Kelly commented on The Repository Roadmap - are we heading in the right direction? I (and millions of others) now have seamless access to a variety of applications and data from disparate services, through Facebook. Why aren’t we opening up our repositories (and other services) through popular environments such as Facebook? 3 years ago
Brian Kelly commented on The Repository Roadmap - are we heading in the right direction? Mandate standards and enforce them? Who will be the police? What if the standards don’t take off? What if our standards-based services aren’t as popular as commercial services such as Flickr? What if we repeat the Coloured Book fiasco? 3 years ago
Brian Kelly commented on The Repository Roadmap - are we heading in the right direction? Have we succeeded in engaging academics in the debate? Or are all the postings on this topic created by the harnard-bot :-) 3 years ago
Brian Kelly commented on The Repository Roadmap - are we heading in the right direction? This is very much a top-down approach. The EC will mandate OA, and the funders will force academics to do it via funding strings. It’s interesting that its the 4th bullet point which talks about demonstrating benefits. What if the benefits don’t live to to our expectations? 3 years ago
Brian Kelly commented on The Repository Roadmap - are we heading in the right direction? An institutional repository sounds pretty much like an institutional Content Management System to me. And haven’t CMSs failed to live up to the expectations we had in the late 1990s? Won’t institutions be wary of the claims (made later in this presentation) about institutional repositories? 3 years ago
Brian Kelly commented on Accessmonkey: Scripting Accessibility Your example showing collaborative creation of accessibility metadata is interesting. It would be interesting to apply the Stakeholder model (described in my slides - http://www.slideshare.net/lisbk/accessibility-20-people-policies-and-processes/12) to a collaborative-apporoach to accessibility. 3 years ago
Brian Kelly commented on Managing Standards - Delivering a Quality Assured Web Environment The speaker’s comments on the question: The "audience participation part" sought to gather a collection of adjectives from the audience to describe a web based service which they had used. These were then ranked collectively by the audience into terms with either a positive or negative connotation. The negatives exceeded the positives - although people agreed that the services themselves had generally workable. My contention is that people are often more critical of services than is justified - so that ensuring (and demonstrating) that web services are of a high quality is key to our survival as service managers/promoters/designers... 4 years ago
Brian Kelly commented on Managing Standards - Delivering a Quality Assured Web Environment I can’t remember! I’ll ask the person who gave the talk. Brian Kelly, UKOLN 4 years ago

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