This document analyzes Wikipedia using rhetorical concepts to understand its design and audience engagement features. It discusses Wikipedia's anonymous contributors, its goal to provide free knowledge to over 680 million yearly visitors, and how its simple, standardized design reinforces transparency, neutrality and factuality. The document also analyzes how Wikipedia invites audience participation through features like its editing capabilities, discussion tabs, and history tracking to view article revisions.
Directories are searchable databases of web pages that are reviewed, selected, and categorized by humans, while search engines use algorithms to find pages relevant to search terms and may include unreviewed pages in results.
Crowdsourcing and Cultural Heritage CollectionsOurDigitalWorld
Crowdsourcing cultural heritage collections allows institutions to meaningfully engage with communities around those collections. It contributes to building a shared public memory. Loren Fantin discusses how OurDigitalWorld partners with institutions to crowdsource annotations, metadata, transcriptions and digital objects from local communities. This enhances collections by adding community knowledge and perspectives. Guidelines discussed include using open standards and licenses, uniquely identifying objects, and establishing clear terms for user-generated content. The goal is participatory and trust-based cultural stewardship.
Open design system for Wikipedia Education ProgramDavid Peters
In the coming years, university professors around the world will adopting Wikipedia as a teaching tool — meaning students will research, write and edit Wikipedia articles as part of their course work. This graphic handbook continues an approach begun with Wikipedia 10, adopting an "open design" approach to localizing identities and communications by the diverse participants in these programs.
An Analysis Of Wikipedia Digital WritingSherri Cost
This document summarizes a research study analyzing the language used in Wikipedia articles and discussions. It finds that the language of Wikipedia articles, termed "WikiLanguage", is formal and standardized, similar to Encyclopaedia Britannica. However, the language used in Wikipedia discussions, termed "WikiSpeak", is informal and creative like an online jargon. The study analyzes features like word length, formality, and hyperlinks in Wikipedia and Britannica articles. Future research will examine WikiSpeak used in discussion pages to understand how the online community influences the encyclopedia.
Hypertext is a system of connecting documents or objects through links that allow for nonlinear navigation. It was first conceptualized by Ted Nelson in 1965 as a more flexible way to present information compared to linear print. Hypertext aims to mimic the associative nature of human thinking. It has developed in waves from early experiments to becoming an everyday part of the digital world, where any multimedia object can be linked. However, questions remain around how hypertext impacts literacy and what constitutes reading in the digital age.
Marking territory: Exerting Control over the Shape of Scientific Knowledge i...Stephanie Steinhardt
Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S) in Cleveland, OH. November 2, 2011 during the Panel on Using Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs).
The document discusses wikis as collaborative websites where anyone with permission can edit pages. It notes that wikis are designed to build online knowledge bases through group contributions over time, emphasizing ongoing knowledge accumulation. Wikis work best for collecting information about topics, rather than projects needing individual authorship attribution or final polished products. Some challenges with wikis include assessing individual student contributions, disciplinary issues, and technical support needs.
Directories are searchable databases of web pages that are reviewed, selected, and categorized by humans, while search engines use algorithms to find pages relevant to search terms and may include unreviewed pages in results.
Crowdsourcing and Cultural Heritage CollectionsOurDigitalWorld
Crowdsourcing cultural heritage collections allows institutions to meaningfully engage with communities around those collections. It contributes to building a shared public memory. Loren Fantin discusses how OurDigitalWorld partners with institutions to crowdsource annotations, metadata, transcriptions and digital objects from local communities. This enhances collections by adding community knowledge and perspectives. Guidelines discussed include using open standards and licenses, uniquely identifying objects, and establishing clear terms for user-generated content. The goal is participatory and trust-based cultural stewardship.
Open design system for Wikipedia Education ProgramDavid Peters
In the coming years, university professors around the world will adopting Wikipedia as a teaching tool — meaning students will research, write and edit Wikipedia articles as part of their course work. This graphic handbook continues an approach begun with Wikipedia 10, adopting an "open design" approach to localizing identities and communications by the diverse participants in these programs.
An Analysis Of Wikipedia Digital WritingSherri Cost
This document summarizes a research study analyzing the language used in Wikipedia articles and discussions. It finds that the language of Wikipedia articles, termed "WikiLanguage", is formal and standardized, similar to Encyclopaedia Britannica. However, the language used in Wikipedia discussions, termed "WikiSpeak", is informal and creative like an online jargon. The study analyzes features like word length, formality, and hyperlinks in Wikipedia and Britannica articles. Future research will examine WikiSpeak used in discussion pages to understand how the online community influences the encyclopedia.
Hypertext is a system of connecting documents or objects through links that allow for nonlinear navigation. It was first conceptualized by Ted Nelson in 1965 as a more flexible way to present information compared to linear print. Hypertext aims to mimic the associative nature of human thinking. It has developed in waves from early experiments to becoming an everyday part of the digital world, where any multimedia object can be linked. However, questions remain around how hypertext impacts literacy and what constitutes reading in the digital age.
Marking territory: Exerting Control over the Shape of Scientific Knowledge i...Stephanie Steinhardt
Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S) in Cleveland, OH. November 2, 2011 during the Panel on Using Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs).
The document discusses wikis as collaborative websites where anyone with permission can edit pages. It notes that wikis are designed to build online knowledge bases through group contributions over time, emphasizing ongoing knowledge accumulation. Wikis work best for collecting information about topics, rather than projects needing individual authorship attribution or final polished products. Some challenges with wikis include assessing individual student contributions, disciplinary issues, and technical support needs.
Sticky, Viral, Spreadable: Metaphors for Web ContentJodie Nicotra
The authors question the prevailing metaphors of "stickiness" and "virality" used to describe desirable web content. These metaphors treat audiences as passive by suggesting they are stuck or infected by content. Instead, the authors promote the metaphor of "spreadable" content, which users will actively share to influence their social networks, regardless of the creator's intentions.
Contributing to the global commons: Repositories and WikimediaNick Sheppard
There is huge potential for universities and their libraries to leverage Wikimedia in order to expose research outputs and collections. Wikimedia comprises sixteen projects in total, including Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata. At the University of Leeds, the Research Data Management Service have successfully run a project that focuses on linking research data with the Wikimedia suite of tools via a series of ‘editathons’, in order to increase the visibility of research data and enable reuse on Wikipedia and elsewhere. The project - "Manage it locally to share it globally: RDM and Wikimedia Commons" - was the winning submission to a competition launched in May 2018 and sponsored by SPARC Europe, Jisc and the University of Cambridge, called the "Data Management Engagement Award", which aimed to address cultural challenges involved in promoting effective research data practices.
The project has served as a springboard to further explore Wikimedia strategically, both at the University of Leeds and across the White Rose Consortium. For example we are collaborating on a new project looking at Wikipedia citations of research from York, Sheffield and Leeds, and the proportion of these that are open access. The long term goal might be to establish a "Wikimedian in Residence" across the consortium. In this talk, we will present the project's outputs - including a toolkit that will enable other institutions to apply the same methodology. In addition we will explore the potential of Wikidata to link up repositories and other data silos in a manner that enables reuse and increases impact.
Wikipedia as source of collaboratively created Knowledge Organization SystemsJakob .
The document discusses Wikipedia as a source of collaboratively created knowledge organization systems. It describes the structure of Wikipedia articles, categories, infoboxes, and how this structured data can be extracted and represented in semantic formats like RDF to create knowledge bases like DBpedia that link open data on the web. It also discusses some open issues around data quality, concepts and mapping when extracting and querying structured knowledge from Wikipedia.
The Essentials of Metadata and Taxonomy - Henry Stewart Event
The Next Wave: Using Wikipedia as a Controlled Vocabulary
* Leveraging an online resource for internal use
* Integrating pre-existing unique identifications numbers (UIDs)
* Inherited relations
* Capturing and cataloging
* Risks and remedies
Chris Sizemore BBC Future Technology & Media and Silver Oliver, BBC Future Technology & Media
The Wiki and the Wikipedia: A Comparative Studyangelakelsey
Ward Cunningham coined the term "wiki" in 1995 to describe easily editable web pages. Wikipedia began in 2000 as an online encyclopedia called Nupedia but grew to outnumber Nupedia when users found Wikipedia's wiki format easier to contribute to. Wikis allow more creative freedom than Wikipedia which has strict rules and structure as an encyclopedia. Both rely on public contributions which can introduce bias but also leverage collective knowledge to improve accuracy.
This webinar is about the Open Source software that is available to supplement your library system, regardless of whether you are using an Open Source Library System like Koha or Evergreen or a proprietary system like Millennium, CARL, or Horizon.
Software that dramatically extends and expands the capabilities of your library system software fall into two main categories: discovery interface and metasearch. While other products (e.g. content management systems) may integrate with your ILS to some degree, we will focus our attention on discovery and metasearch tools, how they work and who is using them.
A wiki is software that allows users to collaboratively create, edit, link, and organize content on a website. Wikis are often used to create collaborative websites and power community sites. Wikipedia, one of the largest wikis, is an online encyclopedia created and edited by thousands of users. Wikis offer benefits like easy collaboration, searchability, and low costs. They can help promote collaboration, establish institutional memory, enhance knowledge sharing, and cut down on email exchanges between coworkers. When implementing a wiki, considerations include accessibility, transparency, responsibility, and sensitivity of content.
A Web Of Words Forging Writer-Researcher Alliances In The Canadian Writing R...Arlene Smith
This summary provides the key points from the document in 3 sentences:
The document discusses a collaboration between Susan Brown and Aritha van Herk exploring how digital tools can enable new forms of collaboration in scholarship. They argue that digital media allows for greater collaboration through features like sharing drafts, open peer review, and incorporating multimedia. Their essay models this type of collaboration by merging their voices and perspectives to demonstrate both unity and individual reflection in the discussion.
This document summarizes a project to enhance scholarly publishing in the humanities and social sciences through hybrid digital/print publications. It developed websites for four traditionally published books using Semantic Web techniques on a WordPress platform. The websites included supplementary materials, links, and formalized content structures. A central database was also created to aggregate content across the individual book websites. The project aimed to illustrate this hybrid approach and facilitate networked scholarly discourse around published works.
A (University Laval) presentation about WikiWork as an adjunct to BOLD and Elluminate to 2 campuses in Monterrey, Mexico in Nov. 2009. Please note that references-sources are cited in the notes under the slide in question
Wikis are collaborative document systems that emerged with Web 2.0 concepts. They allow multiple users to edit content, develop topics, link pages, and cross-reference material. Wikis maintain version history and provide varying levels of user access from public to private. They serve as workspaces and knowledge repositories when proper oversight and community involvement are established.
Web 2.0 technologies enable new forms of collaboration and sharing on the internet. These include blogs, wikis, RSS feeds, social bookmarking, social networking sites, folksonomies, podcasts, and collaborative editing tools. Many of these technologies encourage participation and user-generated content. They have transformed how people find and share information online, and also show potential to support new models of social, collaborative learning known as eLearning 2.0.
The document discusses connecting institutional assets through repositories, archives, and platforms. It emphasizes collecting and preserving a breadth of institutional assets, including research outputs, for both current and future use. Key aspects of preservation include safeguarding materials through multiple copies in various locations, file format transformation over time, and ensuring continued access through discovery and derivative files. The goal is integrating workflows to deposit, organize, preserve, and discover institutional resources.
The document discusses personal information management (PIM) tools and strategies. It describes how PIM has been an issue since information became available and outlines some common PIM tools like email, calendars, computer desktop organization, and websites. It also discusses the implications of increased digital information storage, such as challenges around saving, organizing, and retrieving personal information across multiple tools and locations.
This document defines wikis and explores their uses, both socially and educationally. It provides examples of how wikis can be used for collaborative writing and storytelling. Wikis allow for easy group collaboration on online documents and their change histories allow pages to be reverted. They are well-suited for developing 21st century skills like collaboration and communication. The document also discusses ensuring privacy and safety when using wikis.
This document discusses wikis and their use for collaboration. It defines wikis as freely editable web pages that allow for community collaboration. Some key features of wikis include their ability to edit pages, view page histories, and discuss proposed changes. Wikis provide advantages such as asynchronous collaboration and knowledge sharing, but also have disadvantages like issues ensuring content quality and reliability. Popular wiki engines include MediaWiki, MoinMoin, and PmWiki. Examples of wikis in higher education include their use for courses, research projects, and university portals.
Reshaping the world of scholarly communication by Dr. Usha MunshiAta Rehman
This document discusses open access initiatives in India including institutional repositories, open access journals, metadata harvesting services, open courseware, and digital library initiatives. It provides examples of several national-level open access repositories and notes that while many Indian journals are hybrid, no Indian journal charges authors fees for publishing papers. It also summarizes statistics on the growth of open access repositories globally and in India.
This white paper provides guidance on driving ROI from Facebook advertising. It discusses setting objectives, targeting the right audiences, creative best practices, optimizing the user experience, tracking conversions, mobile strategy, and bidding. The key recommendations include setting clear business goals and metrics, leveraging rich user data for targeting, testing different creative formats, rewarding user engagement, and using apps and competitions to build interactions.
The document provides guidance for new users of Google Ad Manager on how to get started with the platform. It outlines the key steps for defining an account and inventory, including creating ad slots, placements, and generating ad tags. It then explains how to create orders and line items to sell inventory and upload creatives. The document is intended as a reference guide for users to keep near their work area to easily set up and manage their direct sold and network-based ad inventory within Google Ad Manager.
Sticky, Viral, Spreadable: Metaphors for Web ContentJodie Nicotra
The authors question the prevailing metaphors of "stickiness" and "virality" used to describe desirable web content. These metaphors treat audiences as passive by suggesting they are stuck or infected by content. Instead, the authors promote the metaphor of "spreadable" content, which users will actively share to influence their social networks, regardless of the creator's intentions.
Contributing to the global commons: Repositories and WikimediaNick Sheppard
There is huge potential for universities and their libraries to leverage Wikimedia in order to expose research outputs and collections. Wikimedia comprises sixteen projects in total, including Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata. At the University of Leeds, the Research Data Management Service have successfully run a project that focuses on linking research data with the Wikimedia suite of tools via a series of ‘editathons’, in order to increase the visibility of research data and enable reuse on Wikipedia and elsewhere. The project - "Manage it locally to share it globally: RDM and Wikimedia Commons" - was the winning submission to a competition launched in May 2018 and sponsored by SPARC Europe, Jisc and the University of Cambridge, called the "Data Management Engagement Award", which aimed to address cultural challenges involved in promoting effective research data practices.
The project has served as a springboard to further explore Wikimedia strategically, both at the University of Leeds and across the White Rose Consortium. For example we are collaborating on a new project looking at Wikipedia citations of research from York, Sheffield and Leeds, and the proportion of these that are open access. The long term goal might be to establish a "Wikimedian in Residence" across the consortium. In this talk, we will present the project's outputs - including a toolkit that will enable other institutions to apply the same methodology. In addition we will explore the potential of Wikidata to link up repositories and other data silos in a manner that enables reuse and increases impact.
Wikipedia as source of collaboratively created Knowledge Organization SystemsJakob .
The document discusses Wikipedia as a source of collaboratively created knowledge organization systems. It describes the structure of Wikipedia articles, categories, infoboxes, and how this structured data can be extracted and represented in semantic formats like RDF to create knowledge bases like DBpedia that link open data on the web. It also discusses some open issues around data quality, concepts and mapping when extracting and querying structured knowledge from Wikipedia.
The Essentials of Metadata and Taxonomy - Henry Stewart Event
The Next Wave: Using Wikipedia as a Controlled Vocabulary
* Leveraging an online resource for internal use
* Integrating pre-existing unique identifications numbers (UIDs)
* Inherited relations
* Capturing and cataloging
* Risks and remedies
Chris Sizemore BBC Future Technology & Media and Silver Oliver, BBC Future Technology & Media
The Wiki and the Wikipedia: A Comparative Studyangelakelsey
Ward Cunningham coined the term "wiki" in 1995 to describe easily editable web pages. Wikipedia began in 2000 as an online encyclopedia called Nupedia but grew to outnumber Nupedia when users found Wikipedia's wiki format easier to contribute to. Wikis allow more creative freedom than Wikipedia which has strict rules and structure as an encyclopedia. Both rely on public contributions which can introduce bias but also leverage collective knowledge to improve accuracy.
This webinar is about the Open Source software that is available to supplement your library system, regardless of whether you are using an Open Source Library System like Koha or Evergreen or a proprietary system like Millennium, CARL, or Horizon.
Software that dramatically extends and expands the capabilities of your library system software fall into two main categories: discovery interface and metasearch. While other products (e.g. content management systems) may integrate with your ILS to some degree, we will focus our attention on discovery and metasearch tools, how they work and who is using them.
A wiki is software that allows users to collaboratively create, edit, link, and organize content on a website. Wikis are often used to create collaborative websites and power community sites. Wikipedia, one of the largest wikis, is an online encyclopedia created and edited by thousands of users. Wikis offer benefits like easy collaboration, searchability, and low costs. They can help promote collaboration, establish institutional memory, enhance knowledge sharing, and cut down on email exchanges between coworkers. When implementing a wiki, considerations include accessibility, transparency, responsibility, and sensitivity of content.
A Web Of Words Forging Writer-Researcher Alliances In The Canadian Writing R...Arlene Smith
This summary provides the key points from the document in 3 sentences:
The document discusses a collaboration between Susan Brown and Aritha van Herk exploring how digital tools can enable new forms of collaboration in scholarship. They argue that digital media allows for greater collaboration through features like sharing drafts, open peer review, and incorporating multimedia. Their essay models this type of collaboration by merging their voices and perspectives to demonstrate both unity and individual reflection in the discussion.
This document summarizes a project to enhance scholarly publishing in the humanities and social sciences through hybrid digital/print publications. It developed websites for four traditionally published books using Semantic Web techniques on a WordPress platform. The websites included supplementary materials, links, and formalized content structures. A central database was also created to aggregate content across the individual book websites. The project aimed to illustrate this hybrid approach and facilitate networked scholarly discourse around published works.
A (University Laval) presentation about WikiWork as an adjunct to BOLD and Elluminate to 2 campuses in Monterrey, Mexico in Nov. 2009. Please note that references-sources are cited in the notes under the slide in question
Wikis are collaborative document systems that emerged with Web 2.0 concepts. They allow multiple users to edit content, develop topics, link pages, and cross-reference material. Wikis maintain version history and provide varying levels of user access from public to private. They serve as workspaces and knowledge repositories when proper oversight and community involvement are established.
Web 2.0 technologies enable new forms of collaboration and sharing on the internet. These include blogs, wikis, RSS feeds, social bookmarking, social networking sites, folksonomies, podcasts, and collaborative editing tools. Many of these technologies encourage participation and user-generated content. They have transformed how people find and share information online, and also show potential to support new models of social, collaborative learning known as eLearning 2.0.
The document discusses connecting institutional assets through repositories, archives, and platforms. It emphasizes collecting and preserving a breadth of institutional assets, including research outputs, for both current and future use. Key aspects of preservation include safeguarding materials through multiple copies in various locations, file format transformation over time, and ensuring continued access through discovery and derivative files. The goal is integrating workflows to deposit, organize, preserve, and discover institutional resources.
The document discusses personal information management (PIM) tools and strategies. It describes how PIM has been an issue since information became available and outlines some common PIM tools like email, calendars, computer desktop organization, and websites. It also discusses the implications of increased digital information storage, such as challenges around saving, organizing, and retrieving personal information across multiple tools and locations.
This document defines wikis and explores their uses, both socially and educationally. It provides examples of how wikis can be used for collaborative writing and storytelling. Wikis allow for easy group collaboration on online documents and their change histories allow pages to be reverted. They are well-suited for developing 21st century skills like collaboration and communication. The document also discusses ensuring privacy and safety when using wikis.
This document discusses wikis and their use for collaboration. It defines wikis as freely editable web pages that allow for community collaboration. Some key features of wikis include their ability to edit pages, view page histories, and discuss proposed changes. Wikis provide advantages such as asynchronous collaboration and knowledge sharing, but also have disadvantages like issues ensuring content quality and reliability. Popular wiki engines include MediaWiki, MoinMoin, and PmWiki. Examples of wikis in higher education include their use for courses, research projects, and university portals.
Reshaping the world of scholarly communication by Dr. Usha MunshiAta Rehman
This document discusses open access initiatives in India including institutional repositories, open access journals, metadata harvesting services, open courseware, and digital library initiatives. It provides examples of several national-level open access repositories and notes that while many Indian journals are hybrid, no Indian journal charges authors fees for publishing papers. It also summarizes statistics on the growth of open access repositories globally and in India.
This white paper provides guidance on driving ROI from Facebook advertising. It discusses setting objectives, targeting the right audiences, creative best practices, optimizing the user experience, tracking conversions, mobile strategy, and bidding. The key recommendations include setting clear business goals and metrics, leveraging rich user data for targeting, testing different creative formats, rewarding user engagement, and using apps and competitions to build interactions.
The document provides guidance for new users of Google Ad Manager on how to get started with the platform. It outlines the key steps for defining an account and inventory, including creating ad slots, placements, and generating ad tags. It then explains how to create orders and line items to sell inventory and upload creatives. The document is intended as a reference guide for users to keep near their work area to easily set up and manage their direct sold and network-based ad inventory within Google Ad Manager.
The document discusses best practices for successful pay per click marketing. It is from ClickThrough, a company that specializes in various online marketing services including SEO, pay per click marketing, website conversion enhancement, and more. The document recommends downloading free white papers on search engine optimization and pay per click marketing from ClickThrough's website.
The document describes and provides links to various gold jewelry products sold by PC Jeweler, including gold rings, bangles, necklaces, and kadas. It highlights simple yet elegant designs made of 22k gold and some set with diamonds. The pieces are presented as gifts for women and suitable for weddings, engagements and expressing love. Links provided lead to individual product pages on the company's website for further details.
The document provides guidance on link building strategies for 2013. It recommends setting up author profiles on platforms like Google+, Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. It also recommends creating video profiles on YouTube, Dailymotion, and Vimeo. Additionally, it suggests writing unique, newsworthy content focused on main and long tail keywords, and using that content across web 2.0 sites, article directories, social bookmarking sites, and guest posts to build natural backlinks. The goal is to build a diverse link profile with different anchor text to rank well in search engines.
This document provides a guide to using Google Analytics to analyze website traffic. It begins by explaining what Google Analytics can measure, such as visitor demographics, behavior, and traffic sources. It then details how to install the Google Analytics tracking code on a website. The rest of the document outlines the various sections of Google Analytics and what insights can be found in the Audience, Traffic Sources, Content, and Custom Reports sections. It provides examples of the type of visitor information and comparisons that can be viewed for analytics goals like improving site traffic and engagement.
SEO trends in 2013 focused on on-site content optimization, off-site link building, and leveraging social media. Key areas included creating high-quality, unique content; obtaining links from external, relevant sites; and engaging customers through social platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. The document discusses emerging strategies within those three main categories that search engine optimizers employed or explored that year.
Northern Engraving | Nameplate Manufacturing Process - 2024Northern Engraving
Manufacturing custom quality metal nameplates and badges involves several standard operations. Processes include sheet prep, lithography, screening, coating, punch press and inspection. All decoration is completed in the flat sheet with adhesive and tooling operations following. The possibilities for creating unique durable nameplates are endless. How will you create your brand identity? We can help!
Dandelion Hashtable: beyond billion requests per second on a commodity serverAntonios Katsarakis
This slide deck presents DLHT, a concurrent in-memory hashtable. Despite efforts to optimize hashtables, that go as far as sacrificing core functionality, state-of-the-art designs still incur multiple memory accesses per request and block request processing in three cases. First, most hashtables block while waiting for data to be retrieved from memory. Second, open-addressing designs, which represent the current state-of-the-art, either cannot free index slots on deletes or must block all requests to do so. Third, index resizes block every request until all objects are copied to the new index. Defying folklore wisdom, DLHT forgoes open-addressing and adopts a fully-featured and memory-aware closed-addressing design based on bounded cache-line-chaining. This design offers lock-free index operations and deletes that free slots instantly, (2) completes most requests with a single memory access, (3) utilizes software prefetching to hide memory latencies, and (4) employs a novel non-blocking and parallel resizing. In a commodity server and a memory-resident workload, DLHT surpasses 1.6B requests per second and provides 3.5x (12x) the throughput of the state-of-the-art closed-addressing (open-addressing) resizable hashtable on Gets (Deletes).
Main news related to the CCS TSI 2023 (2023/1695)Jakub Marek
An English 🇬🇧 translation of a presentation to the speech I gave about the main changes brought by CCS TSI 2023 at the biggest Czech conference on Communications and signalling systems on Railways, which was held in Clarion Hotel Olomouc from 7th to 9th November 2023 (konferenceszt.cz). Attended by around 500 participants and 200 on-line followers.
The original Czech 🇨🇿 version of the presentation can be found here: https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/hlavni-novinky-souvisejici-s-ccs-tsi-2023-2023-1695/269688092 .
The videorecording (in Czech) from the presentation is available here: https://youtu.be/WzjJWm4IyPk?si=SImb06tuXGb30BEH .
Must Know Postgres Extension for DBA and Developer during MigrationMydbops
Mydbops Opensource Database Meetup 16
Topic: Must-Know PostgreSQL Extensions for Developers and DBAs During Migration
Speaker: Deepak Mahto, Founder of DataCloudGaze Consulting
Date & Time: 8th June | 10 AM - 1 PM IST
Venue: Bangalore International Centre, Bangalore
Abstract: Discover how PostgreSQL extensions can be your secret weapon! This talk explores how key extensions enhance database capabilities and streamline the migration process for users moving from other relational databases like Oracle.
Key Takeaways:
* Learn about crucial extensions like oracle_fdw, pgtt, and pg_audit that ease migration complexities.
* Gain valuable strategies for implementing these extensions in PostgreSQL to achieve license freedom.
* Discover how these key extensions can empower both developers and DBAs during the migration process.
* Don't miss this chance to gain practical knowledge from an industry expert and stay updated on the latest open-source database trends.
Mydbops Managed Services specializes in taking the pain out of database management while optimizing performance. Since 2015, we have been providing top-notch support and assistance for the top three open-source databases: MySQL, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL.
Our team offers a wide range of services, including assistance, support, consulting, 24/7 operations, and expertise in all relevant technologies. We help organizations improve their database's performance, scalability, efficiency, and availability.
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"Scaling RAG Applications to serve millions of users", Kevin GoedeckeFwdays
How we managed to grow and scale a RAG application from zero to thousands of users in 7 months. Lessons from technical challenges around managing high load for LLMs, RAGs and Vector databases.
Northern Engraving | Modern Metal Trim, Nameplates and Appliance PanelsNorthern Engraving
What began over 115 years ago as a supplier of precision gauges to the automotive industry has evolved into being an industry leader in the manufacture of product branding, automotive cockpit trim and decorative appliance trim. Value-added services include in-house Design, Engineering, Program Management, Test Lab and Tool Shops.
How to Interpret Trends in the Kalyan Rajdhani Mix Chart.pdfChart Kalyan
A Mix Chart displays historical data of numbers in a graphical or tabular form. The Kalyan Rajdhani Mix Chart specifically shows the results of a sequence of numbers over different periods.
Essentials of Automations: Exploring Attributes & Automation ParametersSafe Software
Building automations in FME Flow can save time, money, and help businesses scale by eliminating data silos and providing data to stakeholders in real-time. One essential component to orchestrating complex automations is the use of attributes & automation parameters (both formerly known as “keys”). In fact, it’s unlikely you’ll ever build an Automation without using these components, but what exactly are they?
Attributes & automation parameters enable the automation author to pass data values from one automation component to the next. During this webinar, our FME Flow Specialists will cover leveraging the three types of these output attributes & parameters in FME Flow: Event, Custom, and Automation. As a bonus, they’ll also be making use of the Split-Merge Block functionality.
You’ll leave this webinar with a better understanding of how to maximize the potential of automations by making use of attributes & automation parameters, with the ultimate goal of setting your enterprise integration workflows up on autopilot.
5th LF Energy Power Grid Model Meet-up SlidesDanBrown980551
5th Power Grid Model Meet-up
It is with great pleasure that we extend to you an invitation to the 5th Power Grid Model Meet-up, scheduled for 6th June 2024. This event will adopt a hybrid format, allowing participants to join us either through an online Mircosoft Teams session or in person at TU/e located at Den Dolech 2, Eindhoven, Netherlands. The meet-up will be hosted by Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), a research university specializing in engineering science & technology.
Power Grid Model
The global energy transition is placing new and unprecedented demands on Distribution System Operators (DSOs). Alongside upgrades to grid capacity, processes such as digitization, capacity optimization, and congestion management are becoming vital for delivering reliable services.
Power Grid Model is an open source project from Linux Foundation Energy and provides a calculation engine that is increasingly essential for DSOs. It offers a standards-based foundation enabling real-time power systems analysis, simulations of electrical power grids, and sophisticated what-if analysis. In addition, it enables in-depth studies and analysis of the electrical power grid’s behavior and performance. This comprehensive model incorporates essential factors such as power generation capacity, electrical losses, voltage levels, power flows, and system stability.
Power Grid Model is currently being applied in a wide variety of use cases, including grid planning, expansion, reliability, and congestion studies. It can also help in analyzing the impact of renewable energy integration, assessing the effects of disturbances or faults, and developing strategies for grid control and optimization.
What to expect
For the upcoming meetup we are organizing, we have an exciting lineup of activities planned:
-Insightful presentations covering two practical applications of the Power Grid Model.
-An update on the latest advancements in Power Grid -Model technology during the first and second quarters of 2024.
-An interactive brainstorming session to discuss and propose new feature requests.
-An opportunity to connect with fellow Power Grid Model enthusiasts and users.
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High performance Serverless Java on AWS- GoTo Amsterdam 2024Vadym Kazulkin
Java is for many years one of the most popular programming languages, but it used to have hard times in the Serverless community. Java is known for its high cold start times and high memory footprint, comparing to other programming languages like Node.js and Python. In this talk I'll look at the general best practices and techniques we can use to decrease memory consumption, cold start times for Java Serverless development on AWS including GraalVM (Native Image) and AWS own offering SnapStart based on Firecracker microVM snapshot and restore and CRaC (Coordinated Restore at Checkpoint) runtime hooks. I'll also provide a lot of benchmarking on Lambda functions trying out various deployment package sizes, Lambda memory settings, Java compilation options and HTTP (a)synchronous clients and measure their impact on cold and warm start times.
In the realm of cybersecurity, offensive security practices act as a critical shield. By simulating real-world attacks in a controlled environment, these techniques expose vulnerabilities before malicious actors can exploit them. This proactive approach allows manufacturers to identify and fix weaknesses, significantly enhancing system security.
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Paper Link: https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/257
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1. Analyzing Wikipedia
This unit uses Wikipedia.com to demonstrate ways of engaging in
rhetorical analyses of visual and digital rhetoric. Some of the terms
originate from classical rhetorical analysis; others are specific to
analysis of multi-modal forms.
4. Speaker: Anonymous, collaborative writers.
Contributors are not necessarily experts in their field
Rather, the text’s ethos is constructed by the site’s policy of
openness, neutrality, and its extremely high number of viewers and
editors.
The Rhetorical Situation
Informed by Aristotle, Burke, Foss
5. Audience:
•Receives 684 million visitors/year
•Holds 10,000,000 articles in 250 languages
•Free to view
•Is ranked among the 20 most popular websites
in the world (Black 76)
The Rhetorical Situation
Informed by Aristotle, Burke, Foss
6. The purpose of Wikipedia is to
encourage ”the growth,
development and distribution of free,
multilingual content, and to providing
the full content of these wiki-based
projects to the public free of charge.”
(Wikimedia Foundation “Home”)
The Rhetorical Situation
Informed by Aristotle, Burke, Foss
7. The function of
Wikipedia changes
with the user, as
Sonja Foss tells us
(215).
For some users,
the function is to
provide an outlet
for developing
and distributing
information
But for others,
Wikipedia is
solely a place to
find information.
This user-based concept of
function perhaps explains the
conflicting relationships that
different users have with
Wikipedia.
The Rhetorical Situation
Informed by Aristotle, Burke, Foss
8. Design: “The argumentative work […] is contained more in their visual structures—their
screen and temporal arrangements, colors, typography, and use of photography—than in
their verbal” (Wysocki “Seeing the Screen” 601)
9. Design: “The argumentative work […] is contained more in their visual structures—their
screen and temporal arrangements, colors, typography, and use of photography—than in
their verbal” (Wysocki “Seeing the Screen” 601)
Arial typeface, a sans-serif spin-off
from Helvetica, denotes
modernism, transparency,
neutrality, and rationality—all
highly valued qualities of fact-
bearing resources
(Helvetica: The Documentary)
10. “What order is reinforced by a design, and what designs give us chances to re-order?”
(Wysocki “Monitoring Order”)
11. “What order is reinforced by a design, and what designs give us chances to re-order?”
(Wysocki “Monitoring Order”)
This limit over design
reinforces the transparency
of the interface.
By standardizing the visual
design, Wikipedia suggests
that form is not intrinsically
tied to content. Additionally,
the format reflects
Wikipedia’s desire for
authority.
Standardized page designs
limit the capacity for redesign
in all Wikipedia articles.
Thus, Wikipedia limits design
creation by its contributors.
Such standardization is one
of the only ways in which the
site actively limits its
contributors’ capacity for
creation.
12. Design: “The argumentative work […] is contained more in their visual structures—their
screen and temporal arrangements, colors, typography, and use of photography—than in
their verbal” (Wysocki “Seeing the Screen” 601)
Design analysis informs many of
the following slides as they work
through analytical terms, such as
hybridity and transparency
13. Audience Stance: the way the author creates an ethos inviting various kinds of audience
engagement/participation (Hocks 632); “this stance results largely from the author creating
an ethos and a connection with readers that encourages different kinds of audience
participation” (Hocks 642)
14. Not a permanent part of
Wikipedia, this call for donations
nevertheless supports the ethos
of collaborative, grassroots
research produced by and for the
everyday Internet user.
Audience Stance: the way the author creates an ethos inviting various kinds of audience
engagement/participation (Hocks 632); “this stance results largely from the author creating
an ethos and a connection with readers that encourages different kinds of audience
participation” (Hocks 642)
15. History tab allows users
to read—and return the
article to the state of—all
previous iterations of any
article.
Audience Stance: the way the author creates an ethos inviting various kinds of audience
engagement/participation (Hocks 632); “this stance results largely from the author creating
an ethos and a connection with readers that encourages different kinds of audience
participation” (Hocks 642)
16. Call for citations demonstrates
desire for reliability, a touchstone
for accuracy and credibility. This
also nods to scholarly conventions
and cultural expectations of
authorship and ownership.
Audience Stance: the way the author creates an ethos inviting various kinds of audience
engagement/participation (Hocks 632); “this stance results largely from the author creating
an ethos and a connection with readers that encourages different kinds of audience
participation” (Hocks 642)
17. Linked contents allows quick
scanning and navigation. It also
develops an ethos of order and
control, suggesting a hierarchy of
the information’s importance and
chronology.
Audience Stance: the way the author creates an ethos inviting various kinds of audience
engagement/participation (Hocks 632); “this stance results largely from the author creating
an ethos and a connection with readers that encourages different kinds of audience
participation” (Hocks 642)
18. Hyperlinks to related
articles allows for
audience interaction
with text
Audience Stance: the way the author creates an ethos inviting various kinds of audience
engagement/participation (Hocks 632); “this stance results largely from the author creating
an ethos and a connection with readers that encourages different kinds of audience
participation” (Hocks 642)
19. Ubiquitous edit links confirm
the ethos of collaborative
knowledge building
Audience Stance: the way the author creates an ethos inviting various kinds of audience
engagement/participation (Hocks 632); “this stance results largely from the author creating
an ethos and a connection with readers that encourages different kinds of audience
participation” (Hocks 642)
20. Transparency: The “ways in which online documents relate to established conventions
like those of print, graphic design, film, and Web pages;” the more familiar, the more
transparent (Hocks 632).
21. Transparency: The “ways in which online documents relate to established conventions
like those of print, graphic design, film, and Web pages;” the more familiar, the more
transparent (Hocks 632).
These tabs—“Discussion,” “Edit this Page,” and “History”—all allow for
user interactions with the text that clash with print conventions. Hocks
would call this “defamiliarizing” the design and editorial capabilities
of Wikipedia in order to highlight the possibilities not present in print
forms (643)
22. Table of Contents
conforms with standard
book-printing practice,
allowing for manageable
and familiar browsing
Transparency: The “ways in which online documents relate to established conventions
like those of print, graphic design, film, and Web pages;” the more familiar, the more
transparent (Hocks 632).
23. Blue text perpetuates the
HTML standard for
hyperlinks, supporting an
established convention of
hypertext
Transparency: The “ways in which online documents relate to established conventions
like those of print, graphic design, film, and Web pages;” the more familiar, the more
transparent (Hocks 632).
24. Footnote citations follow a standard
academic format for research writing
in print form. (The addition of
hyperlink mixes print and new media
conventions.)
Transparency: The “ways in which online documents relate to established conventions
like those of print, graphic design, film, and Web pages;” the more familiar, the more
transparent (Hocks 632).
25. Wikipedia’s frame-within-a-
frame interface follows fairly
pervasive conventions for
many Websites, allowing
meta-site navigation at all
times.
Transparency: The “ways in which online documents relate to established conventions
like those of print, graphic design, film, and Web pages;” the more familiar, the more
transparent (Hocks 632).
26. Hybridity: Refers to the interplay between the visual and the verbal in one constructed,
heterogeneous semiotic space (Hocks 637). Hybridity “works to the audience’s advantages
by increasing the experience of pleasure through identification and multiplicity” (Hocks
643).
27. Icons pervasive to all of Wikipedia’s pages provide
site-wide cohesiveness. The site’s visual metaphor
—the globe being built by puzzle pieces—
reinforces its mission: a worldwide collaboration of
Internet users piecing together knowledge.
Hybridity: Refers to the interplay between the visual and the verbal in one constructed,
heterogeneous semiotic space (Hocks 637). Hybridity “works to the audience’s advantages
by increasing the experience of pleasure through identification and multiplicity” (Hocks
643).
28. A frugal approach to images (except for
scientific diagrams and charts)
establishes the staid, text-based
encyclopedic tone of Wikipedia.
Image rights to: Pennsylvania State University Library,
http://www.libraries.psu.edu/speccolls/rbm/images/burke.jpg
Hybridity: Refers to the interplay between the visual and the verbal in one constructed,
heterogeneous semiotic space (Hocks 637). Hybridity “works to the audience’s advantages
by increasing the experience of pleasure through identification and multiplicity” (Hocks
643).
29. Analyzing Wikipedia
A series of questions designed to help students conduct similar
analysis of Wikipedia and other digital/visual materials is included
in the CD “handout” you received for attending today’s showcase.
You’ll also find writing assignments based on such analysis.
Thank you for attending!
30. Works Cited
Black, Erik. “Wikipedia and Academic Peer Review: Wikipedia as a Recognised
Medium?”Online Information Review 32.1 (2008): 73-88.
Foss, Sonja. “A Rhetorical Schema for the Evaluation of Visual Imagery.”
Communication Studies 45 (Fall/Winter 1994): 213-24.
Helvetica, The Documentary. Dir. Gary Hustwit. Plexifilm. 2007
Hocks, Mary. “Understanding Visual Rhetoric in Digital Writing Environments.”
College Composition and Communication 54.4 (Jun. 2003): 629-56.
Voss, Jakob. “Measuring Wikipedia.” Proceedings of the 10th International
Conference of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics.
24-28 July 2005, Stockholm Sweden.
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Wysocki, Anne. “Monitoring Order: Visual Desire, the Organization of Web Pages,
and Teaching the Rules of Design.” Kairos 3.2 (1998).
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