Danish Institute for Study Abroad
Communications:
New Media and Changing Communities
Dublin Visit
Tracey P. Lauriault
NIRSA Seminar Room
National University of Ireland Maynooth
2nd April 2015
ABSTRACT:
The central argument of this dissertation is that Canadian reality is conditioned by government data and their related infrastructures. Specifically, that Canadian geographical imaginations are strongly influenced by the Atlas of Canada and the Census of Canada. Both are long standing government institutions that inform government decision-making, and are normally considered to be objective and politically neutral. It is argued that they may also not be entirely politically neutral even though they may not be influenced by partisan politics, because social, technical and scientific institutions nuance objectivity. These institutions or infrastructures recede into the background of government operations, and although invisible, they shape how Canadian geography and society are imagined. Such geographical imaginations, it is argued, are important because they have real material and social effects. In particular, this dissertation empirically examines how the Atlas of Canada and the Census of Canada, as knowledge formation objects and as government representations, affect social and material reality and also normalize subjects. It is also demonstrated that the Ian Hacking dynamic Looping Effect framework of ‘Making Up People’ is not only useful to the human sciences, but is also an effective methodology that geographers can adapt and apply to the study of ‘Making Up Spaces’ and geographical imaginations. His framework was adapted to the study of the six editions of the Atlas of Canada and the Census of Canada between 1871 and 2011. Furthermore, it is shown that the framework also helps structure the critical examination of discourse, in this case, Foucauldian gouvernementalité and the biopower of socio-techno-political systems such as a national atlas and census, which are inextricably embedded in a social, technical and scientific milieu. As objects they both reflect the dominant value system of their society and through daily actions, support the dominance of this value system. While it is people who produce these objects, the infrastructures that operate in the background have technological momentum that also influence actions. Based on the work of Bruno Latour, the Atlas and the Canadian census are proven to be inscriptions that are immutable and mobile, and as such, become actors in other settings. Therefore, the Atlas of Canada and the Census of Canada shape and are shaped by geographical imaginations.
Assessing inter-cultural patterns through ranking biographiesBiographiesPablo Aragón
Wikipedia is a huge global repository of human knowledge that can be leveraged to investigate interwinements between cultures. With this aim, we apply methods of Markov chains and Google matrix for the analysis of the hyperlink networks of 24 Wikipedia language editions, and rank all their articles by PageRank, 2DRank and CheiRank algorithms. Using automatic extraction of people names, we obtain the top 100 historical figures, for each edition and for each algorithm. We investigate their spatial, temporal, and gender distributions in dependence of their cultural origins. Our study demonstrates not only the existence of skewness with local figures, mainly recognized only in their own cultures, but also the existence of global historical figures appearing in a large number of editions. By determining the birth time and place of these persons, we perform an analysis of the evolution of such figures through 35 centuries of human history for each language, thus recovering interactions and entanglement of cultures over time. We also obtain the distributions of historical figures over world countries, highlighting geographical aspects of cross-cultural links. Considering historical figures who appear in multiple editions as interactions between cultures, we construct a network of cultures and identify the most influential cultures according to this network.
Danish Institute for Study Abroad
Communications:
New Media and Changing Communities
Dublin Visit
Tracey P. Lauriault
NIRSA Seminar Room
National University of Ireland Maynooth
2nd April 2015
ABSTRACT:
The central argument of this dissertation is that Canadian reality is conditioned by government data and their related infrastructures. Specifically, that Canadian geographical imaginations are strongly influenced by the Atlas of Canada and the Census of Canada. Both are long standing government institutions that inform government decision-making, and are normally considered to be objective and politically neutral. It is argued that they may also not be entirely politically neutral even though they may not be influenced by partisan politics, because social, technical and scientific institutions nuance objectivity. These institutions or infrastructures recede into the background of government operations, and although invisible, they shape how Canadian geography and society are imagined. Such geographical imaginations, it is argued, are important because they have real material and social effects. In particular, this dissertation empirically examines how the Atlas of Canada and the Census of Canada, as knowledge formation objects and as government representations, affect social and material reality and also normalize subjects. It is also demonstrated that the Ian Hacking dynamic Looping Effect framework of ‘Making Up People’ is not only useful to the human sciences, but is also an effective methodology that geographers can adapt and apply to the study of ‘Making Up Spaces’ and geographical imaginations. His framework was adapted to the study of the six editions of the Atlas of Canada and the Census of Canada between 1871 and 2011. Furthermore, it is shown that the framework also helps structure the critical examination of discourse, in this case, Foucauldian gouvernementalité and the biopower of socio-techno-political systems such as a national atlas and census, which are inextricably embedded in a social, technical and scientific milieu. As objects they both reflect the dominant value system of their society and through daily actions, support the dominance of this value system. While it is people who produce these objects, the infrastructures that operate in the background have technological momentum that also influence actions. Based on the work of Bruno Latour, the Atlas and the Canadian census are proven to be inscriptions that are immutable and mobile, and as such, become actors in other settings. Therefore, the Atlas of Canada and the Census of Canada shape and are shaped by geographical imaginations.
Assessing inter-cultural patterns through ranking biographiesBiographiesPablo Aragón
Wikipedia is a huge global repository of human knowledge that can be leveraged to investigate interwinements between cultures. With this aim, we apply methods of Markov chains and Google matrix for the analysis of the hyperlink networks of 24 Wikipedia language editions, and rank all their articles by PageRank, 2DRank and CheiRank algorithms. Using automatic extraction of people names, we obtain the top 100 historical figures, for each edition and for each algorithm. We investigate their spatial, temporal, and gender distributions in dependence of their cultural origins. Our study demonstrates not only the existence of skewness with local figures, mainly recognized only in their own cultures, but also the existence of global historical figures appearing in a large number of editions. By determining the birth time and place of these persons, we perform an analysis of the evolution of such figures through 35 centuries of human history for each language, thus recovering interactions and entanglement of cultures over time. We also obtain the distributions of historical figures over world countries, highlighting geographical aspects of cross-cultural links. Considering historical figures who appear in multiple editions as interactions between cultures, we construct a network of cultures and identify the most influential cultures according to this network.
Note:
Interactivity and animation are lost when the slides are converted to PDF.
Abstract:
In a technological society such as Canada, it is suggested that a specialized kind of expert citizenship is needed (Andrew Feenberg). In the era of big data, others suggest that there is a need to learn how to read algorithms and to study its high priests and alchemists (Genevieve Bell). While, doing citizenship requires a political ethics of technology to thwart technological and quantitative fundamentalism (Darin Barney). Finally, in the midst of a data revolution we need to critically re-conceptualize data (Rob Kitchin). Quite simply, in today's Canada doing citizenship requires data literacy, technical, philosophical and political. Access to print media - books, government documents, academic journals - in libraries and archives enabled a literate society, the prerequisite of a democratic system. I argue that good governance in knowledge producing institutions, is to have technological experts, both data creators and preservers, working to store, manage, disseminate and preserve data so that we have the requisite artifacts to increase our literacy and build upon collected knowledge. Data literacy I suggest, is indispensable in the current democratic system, and that requires having access to data, data infrastructures - knowledge and technology - and dedicated skilled people and resources to sustainably care for them. I consider research data management to be our duty.
Converging cultures of open in language resources developmentAlannah Fitzgerald
Presented at the Open Educational Resources (OER16) Conference on 19 April, 2016 in Edinburgh, UK
https://oer16.oerconf.org/sessions/converging-cultures-of-open-in-language-resources-development-1156/
Thinking of Linking: A random series of ideas, concepts, Platonic ideals, a y...Martin Kalfatovic
Thinking of Linking: A random series of ideas, concepts, Platonic ideals, a yeoman's miscellany, and nonesuch guide to Linked Data, especially as it relates to libraries, archives, and museums. Martin R. Kalfatovic. American Library Association Annual Meeting. Anaheim, CA. 23 June 2012.
Abstract:
The Census is the only national public policy tool that collects data with a large enough sample size to report findings at small sub-municipal geographic scales. The loss of the long-form census may impede researchers and community based organizations from conducting neighbourhood analysis. Other surveys conducted by Statistics Canada do not have a large enough sample size to fill this gap. Canadians may be left with analyzes on a variety of public policy issues only at the city or metropolitan area scale. This would impede the ability for place based analysis and location specific action. Neighbourhood scale research using Census data will be discussed, The Cybercartographic Pilot Atlas of the Risk of Homelessness created at the Geomatics and Cartographic Research and other examples from community based research initiatives such as the Community Data Consortium will be presented. This will include maps and data about social issues in Canadian cities & metropolitan areas (e.g. Calgary, Toronto, Halton, Sault Ste. Marie, Hamilton, Ottawa, Montreal, & others) to demonstrate the importance of local analysis. The impact of the loss for evidence based decision making for communities in Canada’s will be the key element of the discussion.
First Annual Canadian Homelessness Data Sharing Initiative
Calgary Homeless Foundation and The School of Public Policy at the University of Calgary
May 4, 2016, Officer’s Mess – Fort Calgary, Calgary, Alberta
Digital Odyssey 2013: BIG DATA, Small World
Friday June 7
Bram & Bluma Appel Salon, Toronto Reference Library
789 Yonge Street (1 street north of Bloor)
Toronto ON M4W 2G8
Government Information Day
Oct. 26, Library and Archives Canada
10:45 – 12:30 Government information & data ecosystem
Data Diversity & Data Cultures = Flexible Open by Default Policy
http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/about-us/events/Pages/2017/government-information-day.aspx
NOTE: The slides have animated images which are not interactive in a ppt
Note:
Interactivity and animation are lost when the slides are converted to PDF.
Abstract:
In a technological society such as Canada, it is suggested that a specialized kind of expert citizenship is needed (Andrew Feenberg). In the era of big data, others suggest that there is a need to learn how to read algorithms and to study its high priests and alchemists (Genevieve Bell). While, doing citizenship requires a political ethics of technology to thwart technological and quantitative fundamentalism (Darin Barney). Finally, in the midst of a data revolution we need to critically re-conceptualize data (Rob Kitchin). Quite simply, in today's Canada doing citizenship requires data literacy, technical, philosophical and political. Access to print media - books, government documents, academic journals - in libraries and archives enabled a literate society, the prerequisite of a democratic system. I argue that good governance in knowledge producing institutions, is to have technological experts, both data creators and preservers, working to store, manage, disseminate and preserve data so that we have the requisite artifacts to increase our literacy and build upon collected knowledge. Data literacy I suggest, is indispensable in the current democratic system, and that requires having access to data, data infrastructures - knowledge and technology - and dedicated skilled people and resources to sustainably care for them. I consider research data management to be our duty.
Converging cultures of open in language resources developmentAlannah Fitzgerald
Presented at the Open Educational Resources (OER16) Conference on 19 April, 2016 in Edinburgh, UK
https://oer16.oerconf.org/sessions/converging-cultures-of-open-in-language-resources-development-1156/
Thinking of Linking: A random series of ideas, concepts, Platonic ideals, a y...Martin Kalfatovic
Thinking of Linking: A random series of ideas, concepts, Platonic ideals, a yeoman's miscellany, and nonesuch guide to Linked Data, especially as it relates to libraries, archives, and museums. Martin R. Kalfatovic. American Library Association Annual Meeting. Anaheim, CA. 23 June 2012.
Abstract:
The Census is the only national public policy tool that collects data with a large enough sample size to report findings at small sub-municipal geographic scales. The loss of the long-form census may impede researchers and community based organizations from conducting neighbourhood analysis. Other surveys conducted by Statistics Canada do not have a large enough sample size to fill this gap. Canadians may be left with analyzes on a variety of public policy issues only at the city or metropolitan area scale. This would impede the ability for place based analysis and location specific action. Neighbourhood scale research using Census data will be discussed, The Cybercartographic Pilot Atlas of the Risk of Homelessness created at the Geomatics and Cartographic Research and other examples from community based research initiatives such as the Community Data Consortium will be presented. This will include maps and data about social issues in Canadian cities & metropolitan areas (e.g. Calgary, Toronto, Halton, Sault Ste. Marie, Hamilton, Ottawa, Montreal, & others) to demonstrate the importance of local analysis. The impact of the loss for evidence based decision making for communities in Canada’s will be the key element of the discussion.
First Annual Canadian Homelessness Data Sharing Initiative
Calgary Homeless Foundation and The School of Public Policy at the University of Calgary
May 4, 2016, Officer’s Mess – Fort Calgary, Calgary, Alberta
Digital Odyssey 2013: BIG DATA, Small World
Friday June 7
Bram & Bluma Appel Salon, Toronto Reference Library
789 Yonge Street (1 street north of Bloor)
Toronto ON M4W 2G8
Government Information Day
Oct. 26, Library and Archives Canada
10:45 – 12:30 Government information & data ecosystem
Data Diversity & Data Cultures = Flexible Open by Default Policy
http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/about-us/events/Pages/2017/government-information-day.aspx
NOTE: The slides have animated images which are not interactive in a ppt
ATSILRN protocols and digital collecting Damien Webb, Manager, Indigenous Engagement, presented at Digital collecting for NSW public library staff, 27 May 2019
Integrated History / Literacy Program: 1850'sMahriAutumn
What was life like in the 1800’s ? What impact did The Gold Rush and Eureka Stockade have on the development of the colonies? How did the landscape around Albany, WA change as a result of the new British migrants?
Assessment 2 of Colonisation of AustraliaIND 150 By Adlu .docxdavezstarr61655
Assessment 2 of
Colonisation of Australia
IND 150
By: Adlu Rahman (s272352)
Charles Darwin University
1
Adlu Rahman (AR) - Hi everyone, my name is Adlu Rahman. In this presentation I am going to talk little bit about colonization of Australia which we have been doing in ou last two assignments of this unit. In this unit we have already done a summary of a text about the colonsed point of view regarding colonization. Well, from my honest point of view colonization could be considered as two major events, first it was an attemp by the British people to set up a new colony as because they were struggling with high crime rates and were full with convicts. Thus they needed a new place to set up the colony. Secondly, it was an invasion. How? well we will discuss it very shortly.
The First Fleet
The first fleet consisted of 11 ships and around 1500 people who sailed from England to New South Wales.
Adlu Rahman (AR) - The First Fleet left England on 13th May 1787 for the ‘lands beyond the seas’ – Australia. The fleet arrived at Botany Bay between 18th and 20th January 1788. However, this area was deemed to be unsuitable for settlement so they moved north arriving at Port Jackson on the Australian East coast on 26 January 1788 after deciding that Botany Bay was not suited for a Settlement due its lack of fresh water – even though it had been recomended by Captain James Cook in 1770 as a possible location for a settlement. Botany Bay had other shortcomings as well, it was open to the sea, making it unsafe for the ships and Captain Arthur Phillip, the first Governor of the new colony, considered the soil around Botany Bay was poor for crop growing.
Discovery
Later on they came to know about the existence of indigenous people.
Adlu Rahman (AR) -
Adlu Rahman (AR) - After they settled in, and started to build up their colony they came to know aboout the exiscence of the Indigenous,also known as the aboriginals living on the same land. They had no idea about other people living on the land they've chosen. For Aboriginal people and, in this instance, the clans living on the northern shores of Sydney, nothing could have been further from the truth. What the early colonists never understood, and perhaps what many Australians are only now beginning to grasp, was that the Aboriginal lifestyle was based on total kinship with the natural environment. Wisdom and skills obtained over the millennia enabled them to use their environment to the maximum. For the Aboriginal people, acts such as killing animals for food or building a shelter were steeped in ritual and spirituality, and carried out in perfect balance with their surroundings.
Adlu Rahman (AR) - 'Terra Nullius' - meaning land belongs to no one. Although, the aborifines arrives here early but accoring to British law and rules they believe that they are not making use of the land, the are just roaming anround and completely wasting the use of this land, thus they decided to take over and deny .
Série de webinaires sur le gouvernement ouvert du Canada
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@TraceyLauriault
de
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Week 13 (Apr. 8) – Assemblages, Genealogies and Dynamic Nominalism
Course description:
The emphasis is to learn to envision data genealogically, as a social and technical assemblages, as infrastructure and reframe them beyond technological conceptions. During the term we will explore data, facts and truth; the power of data both big and small; governmentality and biopolitics; risk, probability and the taming of chance; algorithmic culture, dynamic nominalism, categorization and ontologies; the translation of people, space and social phenomena into and by data and software and the role of data in the production of knowledge.
This class format is a graduate MA seminar and a collaborative workshop. We will work with Ottawa Police Services and critically examine the socio-technological data assemblage of that institution. This includes a fieldtrip to the Elgin street station; a tour of the 911 Communication Centre and we will meet with data experts.
April 4, 2019, 17:30-19:30
IOG's Policy Crunch
Disruptive Innovation and Public Policy in the Digital Age event series
The Global Race in Digital Governance
https://iog.ca/events/the-global-race-in-digital-governance/
March 25, 2019, 9:30 AM
International Meeting of NAICS code Experts
Statistics Canada
Simon Goldberg Room, RH Coats building
100 Tunney’s Pasture Driveway
With research contributions by Ben Wright, Carleton University and Dustin Moores, University of Ottawa
Presented at the:
Canadian Aviation Safety Collaboration Forum
International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)
Montreal, QC
January 23, 2019
This presentation was made in real-time while attending the Forum. The objective was to observe and listen, and share some examples outside of this community that may provide insight about data sharing models with a focus on governance.
From Aspiration to Reality: Open Smart Cities
Open smart cities might become a reality for Canada. Globally there are a number of initiatives, programs, and practices that are open smart city like which means that it is possible to have an open, responsive and engaged city that is both socio-technologically enabled, but also one where there is receptivity to and a willingness to grow a critically informed type of technological citizenship (Feenberg). For an open smart city to exist, public officials, the private sector, scholars, civil society and residents and citizens require a definition and a guide to start the exercise of imagining what an open smart city might look like. There is much critical scholarship about the smart city and there are many counter smart city narratives, but there are few depictions of what engagement, participatory design and technological leadership might be. The few examples that do exist are project based and few are systemic. An open smart city definition and guide was therefore created by a group of stakeholders in such a way that it can be used as the basis for the design of an open smart city from the ground up, or to help actors shape or steer the course of emerging or ongoing data and networked urbanist forms (Kitchin) of smart cities to lead them towards being open, engaged and receptive to technological citizenship.
This talk will discuss some of the successes resulting from this Open Smart Cities work, which might also be called a form or engaged scholarship. For example the language for the call for tender of the Infrastructure Canada Smart City Challenge was modified to include as a requisite that engagement and openness be part of the submissions from communities. Also, those involved with the guide have been writing policy articles that critique either AI or the smart city while also offering examples of what is possible. These articles are being read by proponents of Sidewalk Labs in Toronto. Also, the global Open Data Conference held in Argentina in September of 2018 hosted a full workshop on Open Smart Cities and finally Open North is working toward developing key performance indicators to assess those shortlisted by Infrastructure Canada and to help those communities develop an Open Smart Cities submission. The objective of the talk is to demonstrate that it is actually possible to shift public policy on large infrastructure projects, at least, in the short term.
This week we will learn about user generated content (UGC), citizen science, crowdsourcing & volunteered geographic information (VGI). We will also discuss divergent views on data humanitarianism.
Cottbus Brandenburg University of Technology Lecture series on Smart RegionsCritically Assembling Data, Processes & Things: Toward and Open Smart CityJune 5, 2018
This lecture will critically focus on smart cities from a data based socio-technological assemblage approach. It is a theoretical and methodological framework that allows for an empirical examination of how smart cities are socially and technically constructed, and to study them as discursive regimes and as a large technological infrastructural systems.
The lecture will refer to the research outcomes of the ERC funded Programmable City Project led by Rob Kitchin at Maynooth University and will feature examples of empirical research conducted in Dublin and other Irish cities.
In addition, the lecture will discuss the research outcomes of the Canadian Open Smart Cities project funded by the Government of Canada GeoConnections Program. Examples will be drawn from five case studies namely about the cities of Edmonton, Guelph, Ottawa and Montreal, and the Ontario Smart Grid as well as number of international best practices. The recent Infrastructure Canada Canadian Smart City Challenge and the controversial Sidewalk Lab Waterfront Toronto project will also be discussed.
It will be argued that no two smart cities are alike although the technological solutionist and networked urbanist approaches dominate and it is suggested that these kind of smart cities may not live up to the promise of being better places to live.
In this lecture, the ideals of an Open Smart City are offered instead and in this kind of city residents, civil society, academics, and the private sector collaborate with public officials to mobilize data and technologies when warranted in an ethical, accountable and transparent way in order to govern the city as a fair, viable and livable commons that balances economic development, social progress and environmental responsibility. Although an Open Smart City does not yet exist, it will be argued that it is possible.
Conference of Irish Geographies 2018
The Earth as Our Home
Automating Homelessness May 12, 2018
The research for these studies is funded by a European Research Council Advanced Investigator award ERC-2012-AdG-323636-SOFTCITY.
Presentation #2:Open/Big Urban DataLessons Learned from the Programmable City ProjectMansion House, Dublin, May 9th, 201810am-2pmhttp://progcity.maynoothuniversity.ie/2018/03/lessons-for-smart-cities-from-the-programmable-city-project/
Financé par : GéoConnexions
Dirigé par : Nord Ouvert
Le noyau de l’équipe :
Rachel Bloom et Jean-Noé Landry, Nord Ouvert
Dr Tracey P. Lauriault, Carleton University
David Fewer, Clinique d’intérêt public et de politique d’Internet du Canada (CIPPIC)
Dr Mark Fox, University of Toronto
Assistant et assistante de recherche, Carleton University
Carly Livingstone
Stephen Letts
Open Smart City in Canada Project
Funded by: GeoConnections
Lead by: OpenNorth
Project core team:
Rachel Bloom & Jean-Noe Landry, Open North
Dr. Tracey P. Lauriault, Carleton University
David Fewer, LL.M., Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC)
Dr. Mark Fox, University of Toronto
Research Assistants Carleton University
Carly Livingstone
Stephen Letts
Introductory remarks
- Jean-Noe Landry, Executive Director, Open North
Webinar 2 includes:
- Summary of Webinar 1: E-Scan and Assessment of Smart -
Cities in Canada (listen at: http://bit.ly/2yp7H8k )
- Situating smart cities amongst current digital practices
- Towards guiding principles for Open Smart Cities
- Examples of international best practices from international cities
- Observations & Next Steps
Webinar Presenters:
- Rachel Bloom, Open North
- Dr Tracey P. Lauriault, School of Journalism and Communication, Carleton University
Content Contributors:
- David Fewer CIPPIC,
- Mark Fox U. of Toronto,
- Stephen Letts (RA Carleton U.)
Project Name:
- Open Smart Cities in Canada
Date:
- December 14, 2017
Canada is a data and technological society. There is no sector that is uninformed by data or unmediated by code, algorithms, software and infrastructure. Consider the Internet of Things (IoT), smart cities, and precision agriculture; or smart fisheries, forestry, and energy and of course governing. In a data based and technological society, leadership is the responsibility of all citizens, a parent, teacher, scholar, administrator, public servant, nurse and doctor, mayor and councillor, fisher, builder, business person, industrialist, MP, MLA, PM, and so on. In other words leadership is distributed and requires people power. This form of citizenship, according to Andrew Feenberg, Canada Research Chair in Philosophy of Technology, requires agency, knowledge and the capacity to act or power. In this GovMaker Keynote I will introduce the concept of technological citizenship, I will discuss what principled public interest governing might look like, and how we might go about critically applying philosophy in our daily practice. In terms of practice I will discuss innovative policy and regulation such as the right to repair movement, EU legislation such as the right to explanation, data subjects and the right to access and also data sovereignty from a globalization and an indigenous perspective.
AoIR 2017
Panel 17 Dorpat-Ewers, Tartu 9-10:30AM
Data Driven Ontology Practices
The Real world objects of Ordnance Survey Ireland
Abstract is available here: https://www.conftool.com/aoir2017/index.php?page=browseSessions&form_session=258&presentations=show
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06-04-2024 - NYC Tech Week - Discussion on Vector Databases, Unstructured Data and AI
Discussion on Vector Databases, Unstructured Data and AI
https://www.meetup.com/unstructured-data-meetup-new-york/
This meetup is for people working in unstructured data. Speakers will come present about related topics such as vector databases, LLMs, and managing data at scale. The intended audience of this group includes roles like machine learning engineers, data scientists, data engineers, software engineers, and PMs.This meetup was formerly Milvus Meetup, and is sponsored by Zilliz maintainers of Milvus.
Adjusting OpenMP PageRank : SHORT REPORT / NOTESSubhajit Sahu
For massive graphs that fit in RAM, but not in GPU memory, it is possible to take
advantage of a shared memory system with multiple CPUs, each with multiple cores, to
accelerate pagerank computation. If the NUMA architecture of the system is properly taken
into account with good vertex partitioning, the speedup can be significant. To take steps in
this direction, experiments are conducted to implement pagerank in OpenMP using two
different approaches, uniform and hybrid. The uniform approach runs all primitives required
for pagerank in OpenMP mode (with multiple threads). On the other hand, the hybrid
approach runs certain primitives in sequential mode (i.e., sumAt, multiply).
1. March 3, 2015
CGC 2016 Conference
Play / Rewind
River Building, Carleton University
WOOD QUAY VENUE, DUBLIN, 24 APRIL 2015
Dr Tracey P. Lauriault
Communication Studies
School of Journalism and
Communication
Tracey.Lauriault@carleton.ca
@TraceyLauriault
Data Based Translations /
Re-Playing Memories
3. Dr Tracey P. Lauriault, Communication Studies, Carleton University
PLACE NAMES
‘‘storytelling organization or a collective storytelling
system in which the performance of stories is a key
part of members’ sense making and a means to
allow them to supplement individual memories with
institutional memory”
“label, define, and represent places and people; ‘a
place name sometimes fills up its territory with
sense of place and homogenizes it”.
Kim, Y.-C. & Ball-Rokeach, 2006,
Civic Engagement From a Communication Infrastructure Perspective, p.180.
Mayhew, 2015,
Place Name, Oxford Dictionary of Geography.
4. Dr Tracey P. Lauriault, Communication Studies, Carleton University
INFRASTRUCTURAL SCRIPTS
“the experience of space is the experience of
multiple infrastructures – infrastructures of
naming, of movement, of interaction, etc. – and
these infrastructures emerge from and are sustained
by the embodied practices of the people who
populate and inhabit the spaces in question”.
Dourish & Bell, 2007,
The Infrastructure of Experience and the Experience of Infrastructure p. 424
5. Dr Tracey P. Lauriault, Communication Studies, Carleton University
NEW SCRIPT
“A frequent result of an old order yielding to a
new, whether painfully or painlessly, is a change of
another kind…the renaming of places” and a
“broad principle holds, that the more turbulent the
history of a country, the more numerous are its
renamings”
Room, 1993,
Place-Name Changes 1900-1991, p. vii
6. Dr Tracey P. Lauriault, Communication Studies, Carleton University
COLONIALIZATION
Special instructions, concerning the treatment of Placenames,
issued by the officer in charge of the survey Lt. Col. Thomas
Colby (1829?)
“The persons employed on the survey are to endeavour to obtain the correct
orthography of the names of places diligently consulting the best authorities within
their reach.
The name of each place is to be inserted as it is commonly spelt, in the first column
of the name book; and the various modes of spelling it used in books,
writings &c., are to be inserted in the second column, with the authority placed in
the third column opposite to each.
The situation of the place is to be recorded in a popular manner in the fourth
column of the namebook.
A short description of the place and any other remarkable circumstances relating
to it are to be inserted.
This data was recorded in Namebooks which are now stored in the National
Archive.” http://www.osi.ie/education/third-level-and-academic/history-of-
place-names/
8. Dr Tracey P. Lauriault, Communication Studies, Carleton University
TRANSLATIONS
Set in Baile Beag, County
Donegal, in 1833
Turbulent times in the British
Colony.
The British want to map the
island and translate Gaelic
place names into ‘proper’
standardized English.
10. Dr Tracey P. Lauriault, Communication Studies, Carleton University
POST-COLONIAL RECLAIMING
The post office always resisted the new names
After the 1916 uprising scientists produced a list of toponyms
in Irish versions
As an act of independence new official authorities were
reclaiming Irishness
1946 a toponymic committee was struck to investigate how to
restore anglicized place names into Irish form
1968 the original Irish names stated to get put onto the map
1983 the Ordnance Survey policy was directed toward the
creation of bilingual maps, with original Irish place names and
if the English names did not have an Irish equivalent these were
translated Ormeling, 1983,
Minority Toponyms on Maps
11. Dr Tracey P. Lauriault, Communication Studies, Carleton University
POST-COLONIAL AUTHORITY
12. Dr Tracey P. Lauriault, Communication Studies, Carleton University
CODED TRANSLATIONS
http://apps.dri.ie/locationLODer/docs/linked
_logainm_narrative_report_en.pdf
http://apps.dri.ie/locationLODer/docs/usi
ng_linked_logainm_en.pdf
13. Dr Tracey P. Lauriault, Communication Studies, Carleton University
MAPPING
http://www.logainm.ie
14. Dr Tracey P. Lauriault, Communication Studies, Carleton University
LOCATION LODER logainm.ie
DBpedia
The data held in Wikipedia’s infoboxes are made
available as Linked Open Data via DBpedia.org.
Irish Historic Town Atlas
Established in 1981 aims to record the
topographical development of a selection of Irish
towns both large and small. This dataset tracks
changes to streets and street names in Dublin over
time, and includes bibliographic references to
original sources where present.
National Library of Ireland
Longfield map collection consists of 1,671
individual maps bound into twenty-eight volumes.
The maps represent all counties in Ireland with the
exception of Kerry.
Europeana.eu
is an internet portal which acts as a hub for digitized
cultural content across Europe. Content on
Europeana includes digitised artworks, books,
archival documents, film and audio.
http://apps.dri.ie/locationLODer/
15. Dr Tracey P. Lauriault, Communication Studies, Carleton University
JOHN O'DONOVAN, GLOSSARY, IRISH
TOPOG[RAPHICAL] DICT[IONARY]
MANUSCRIPT 1830-1832
“A glossary in alphabetical order of various Anglicised
placename elements, followed by their Irish forms and a
translation.
‘Derivation of all the names of places in
Lanigan’s Ecclesiastical History of Ireland [four volumes,
1822] as given by himself, by Vallancey and others with
remarks by J. O’Donovan. December 23, 1830’.
‘A list of Irish words that enter into the composition of
many names of places in Ireland’. The Irish words are
followed by a translation and generally by relevant examples
from placenames. Some personal names and surnames are
also included.
‘A list of saints’ names to whom Irish church[es] were
dedicated’. This short list is on the final verso page and
includes toponymic examples of the saints’ names.”
http://www.logainm.ie/en/res/179
John O'Donovan, Ordnance Survey
16. Dr Tracey P. Lauriault, Communication Studies, Carleton University
BIOGRAPHIES
National Database of Irish Biographies with publishers Cló Iar-Chonnacht. This features
more than 1,700 people since the year 1560 who have had an involvement with the Irish
language. There is an alphabetical listing as well as comprehensive cross-referencing, full-text
search for keywords and phrases, timelines, and life attributes such as works, awards and events
http://www.ainm.ie/
.
17. Dr Tracey P. Lauriault, Communication Studies, Carleton University
TERMINOLOGY
National Terminology Database with Foras na Gaeilge. This is a 200,000+ listing
of Irish-language terms in specialised and contemporary subjects.
http://www.tearma.ie/
18. Dr Tracey P. Lauriault, Communication Studies, Carleton University
FOLKLORE
The objective is to initiate the digitization of
the National Folklore Collection (NFC) so
that, by 2016:
(i) the public will have access to material from
the Collection on the public website (ii) a data
management system will be available for NFC
to which other material can be added in future.
http://www.duchas.ie/en
19. Dr Tracey P. Lauriault, Communication Studies, Carleton University
AUDIO RECORDINGS
+1,200 hours of recordings made in the 1960s and 1970s in 24 counties and placenames were
collected from more than 4,000. The audio material and its catalogue were digitized in 2009 & the
database was created in Fiontar as part of an MA Research Fellowship undertaken by Cáit Nic
Fhionnlaoich, 2010–2011, sponsored by the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht.
http://www.logainm.ie/phono/
24. Dr Tracey P. Lauriault, Communication Studies, Carleton University
25. Dr Tracey P. Lauriault, Communication Studies, Carleton University
COLLECTIVE MEMORY PROJECTS
These atlases embody the collective memories of those who
have contributed to their creation and have become a means to
records the historical, geographical, cultural and scientific facts
that have been transmitted orally for centuries.
These atlases are the first official recordings of this aurally
transmitted knowledge and elders and communities have
authoritatively endorsed each record. The communities who
have contributed to and authorized them regard these atlases
as living archives.
27. We are continuously translating.
The land and the people dynamically change, so do the socio-
technological data assemblages, from Gaelic to English in the
colonial Survey, back into Gaelic in the post-colonial Linked
Logainm Project, the territory is then translated from the
colonial cartographic maps into a post-colonial real-world
object database.
Local and traditional knowledge once transmitted orally, in
song and stories, are translated into digital multimedia artefacts
accessible to youth and embedded into curricula into local
languages. These become geospatial data, maps and atlases that
become a fundamental source in our memory of the world.
They form part of our collective memory system, they help us
understand our geo-narratives, they counter colonial mappings,
are the result of scientific endeavours, represent multiple
worldviews, and they inform decisions.
28. The interconnections increase.
In each case, the translation technologically mediates places and
culture, with each iteration it remains infrastructure, one that
increasingly finds itself interconnected with others.
Databases are augmenting meaning.
Our job is to build better systems, but more critical, reflexive,
sensitive and nuanced ones, always thinking of the meaning we are
inscribing, cognitive of the material and cultural affect on the world.
Data Based Translations /
Re-Playing Memories
Editor's Notes
Translations is a three-act play by Irish playwright Brian Friel, written in 1980.
The maps with their names legibly arranged, today seem so neat and tidy. Who gets to write on the land? How do they get to write it? Whose land are they writing on? Is this only about colonization?
http://www.ahg.gov.ie/gaeltacht/the-irish-language/the-placenames-branch/
Provides authoritative Irish Language Versions of place names for official and public use, decided by order by minister of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht in consultation with the public and the Placenames Commission
Counties, baronies, civil parishes, townlands and electoral divisions along with administrative names etc.
Linked Logainm
Linked Data version of the authoritative bilingual database of Irish place names logainm.ie.
Irish place name data in a structured, computer-readable format which allows its value to be fully exploited by collaborators, web developers, computer scientists, the heritage community and information professionals.
Collaborative project:
Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI)
INSIGHT @ NUIGalway (Digital Enterprise Research Institute DERI)
Fiontar at Dublin City University
National Library of Ireland - Longfield Map Collection
Placenames Branch of the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
Fiontar – cutting edge research in the area of electronic resources for the Irish Language – place names, biographies,
National Library – collect, preserve, promote and make accessible the documentary and intellectual record of life in Ireland
Place Name Branch
http://apps.dri.ie/locationLODer/docs/linked_logainm_narrative_report_en.pdf
http://apps.dri.ie/locationLODer/docs/using_linked_logainm_en.pdf
Demonstrator Website
Book - http://www.logainm.ie/Eolas/Data/Brainse/logainm.ie-lamhscribhinn-sheain-ui-dhonnabhain.pdf
http://www.logainm.ie/en/res/179
http://www.logainm.ie/en/res/
The Placenames Branch
This manuscript is classified as ‘Glossary, Irish Topog[raphical] Dict[ionary]’ on the spine of its bound cover and also on an insertion written in ink which is pasted in one of the blank pages to the front. ‘Ordnance Survey of Ireland’ is also printed on the spine of the cover. In all probability the manuscript was written in its entirety by John O’Donovan while employed by the Ordnance Survey. O’Donovan began his employment with the Ordnance Survey on 28 October 1830. The second section of the manuscript was written less than two months later. There is one further contemporary date in the manuscript, a letter dated Jan[uar]y? 15, 1832 by Myles John O’Reilly to O’Donovan which has been attached to the back page. O’Donovan transcribed various entries from Sanas Cormaic (or Cormac’s Glossary) in the blank spaces of the letter and the same entries are included in the third section of the manuscript. There is also a further small sheet of paper attached to the back page and headed, in O’Donovan’s hand, ‘Topographical words extracted from an Irish song’The contents of the manuscript, which is unpaginated, are as follows:
A glossary in alphabetical order of various Anglicised placename elements, followed by their Irish forms and a translation.
‘Derivation of all the names of places in Lanigan’s Ecclesiastical History of Ireland [four volumes, 1822] as given by himself, by Vallancey and others with remarks by J. O’Donovan. December 23, 1830’.
‘A list of Irish words that enter into the composition of many names of places in Ireland’. The Irish words are followed by a translation and generally by relevant examples from placenames. Some personal names and surnames are also included.
‘A list of saints’ names to whom Irish church[es] were dedicated’. This short list is on the final verso page and includes toponymic examples of the saints’ names.
Project partners
National Folklore Collection, UCD
Fiontar, DCU
Department of Arts, Heritage and Gaeltacht
The Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) is involved in an advisory role with regard to standards and inter-operability in digital archiving.
The Cybercartographic Atlas of the Lake Huron Treaty Relationship Process (CALHTRP) is retelling and re-mapping the treaty process.
Archival records such as surveyor notebooks and diary entries, and numerous personal histories are geo-transcribed and aggregated into a database.
This database of stories is mapped with georeferenced photographs, signed treaties, etc..
Some historical maps were geo-rectified according to contemporary map projections and layered with the oral history of events accounted by community elders or with the geo-transcribed stories from surveyor and explorer notes.
These participatory and counter cartographies are enacting a post colonial mapping of Canada’s treaty system. Furthermore, they are providing geonarratives to the making of colonial maps, making new records from old oral traditions, and by doing so put into question the ‘authenticity’ and ‘completeness’ of the traditional archival treaty record and giving each of these records a ‘secondary provenance’, the atlases allow for the re-interpretation of original record.
. These atlases are therefore ‘remapping’ the official historical record by reflexively using western geospatial technologies, multimedia and methods in such as ways so as not to recolonize. Furthermore, they are also providing geonarratives to the making of colonial maps, making new records from old oral traditions, and by doing so put into question the ‘authenticity’ and ‘completeness’ of the traditional archival treaty record. Also, by geo-transcribing historical records, digitizing oral cultures, and re-purposing old maps in new ways, cybercartographic atlases are giving each of these records a ‘secondary provenance’, even though the provenance of the original record is provided, it becomes less important as the atlases allow for the re-interpretation of original record.
Available at https://gcrc.carleton.ca/confluence/display/GCRCWEB/The+Cybercartographic+Atlas+of+the+Lake+Huron+Treaty+Relationship+Process (accessed 29 August 2012).
Stephanie Pyne coined this term during the making of the Cybercartographic Atlas of Indigenous Perspectives in, “A “living Atlas” for Geospatial Storytelling: The Cybercartographic Atlas of Indigenous Perspectives and Knowledge of the Great Lakes Region”, Cartographica (2009), vol. 44, no.2, pp.83-100.
Recently historical maps in the David Rumsey Map Collection have been geo-rectified to be viewed along in Google Map and Google Earth, available at http://rumsey.geogarage.com/gmaps.html (accessed 29 August 2012).
For a more detailed account of this process see Stephanie Pyne and D.R. Fraser Taylor, “Mapping Indigenous Perspectives in the Making of the Cybercartographic Atlas of the Lake Huron Treaty Relationships Process: A Performative Approach in a Reconciliation Context”, Cartographica, (2012), vol. 47 no.2, pp.92-104.
Lori Podolsky Nordland in “The Concept of "Secondary Provenance": Re-interpreting Ac ko mok ki's Map as Evolving Text” discusses transmedia shifts of pre-Gutenberg archival records and how these digitized records gain new life and acquire new layers of meaning. Furthermore, in the case of the Ac ko mok ki' map, it was argued that it should be reinterpreted according to the Siksika world view and their cartographic conventions thus giving it a secondary provenance, Archivaria, (2004), vol. 58, pp. 147-159.
Available at https://gcrc.carleton.ca/confluence/display/GCRCWEB/The+Cybercartographic+Atlas+of+the+Lake+Huron+Treaty+Relationship+Process (accessed 29 August 2012).
See: Cybercartographic Atlas of Indigenous Perspectives in, “A “living Atlas” for Geospatial Storytelling: The Cybercartographic Atlas of Indigenous Perspectives and Knowledge of the Great Lakes Region”, Cartographica (2009), vol. 44, no.2, pp.83-100.
David Rumsey Map Collection have been geo-rectified to be viewed along in Google Map and Google Earth, available at http://rumsey.geogarage.com/gmaps.html (accessed 29 August 2012).
See Stephanie Pyne and D.R. Fraser Taylor, “Mapping Indigenous Perspectives in the Making of the Cybercartographic Atlas of the Lake Huron Treaty Relationships Process: A Performative Approach in a Reconciliation Context”, Cartographica, (2012), vol. 47 no.2, pp.92-104.
Lori Podolsky Nordland in “The Concept of "Secondary Provenance": Re-interpreting Ac ko mok ki's Map as Evolving Text” discusses transmedia shifts of pre-Gutenberg archival records and how these digitized records gain new life and acquire new layers of meaning. Furthermore, in the case of the Ac ko mok ki' map, it was argued that it should be reinterpreted according to the Siksika world view and their cartographic conventions thus giving it a secondary provenance, Archivaria, (2004), vol. 58, pp. 147-159.
The Inuit siku (sea ice) Atlas was developed to respond to Inuit elders’ and hunters’ expressions of interest: to share their knowledge with youth; see more Inuit knowledge and northern content in the northern education system and to share their knowledge more broadly with scientists and the general public.
It was compiled and developed to reflect the knowledge, stories, maps, language, and lessons shared through years of interviews, focus groups, sea ice trips, and workshops with local sea ice experts in Cape Dorset, Igloolik, Pangnirtung, and Clyde River, Nunavut.
Interactive atlas features are used to enable students to explore and learn about various sea ice topics, maps, Inuktitut terminology, community-specific information, and project background, including audio, video, pictures, text, and maps.
The Inuit siku (sea ice) Atlas (http://sikuatlas.ca/) was developed as part of an International Polar Year project called The Inuit Sea Ice Use and Occupancy Project (ISIUOP), through the collaboration of many northern, academic, government, and private industry contributors.
It is a compilation of Inuit sea ice knowledge and use, as documented between 2004 – 2008.
The Kitikmeot Heritage Society, Inuit Heritage Trust's Traditional Name Placing Project and the Gwich'in Cultural Society approached the GCRC to help them map their place name databases with their collections of audio recordings of place names and video recordings of elders narrating the stories of those places.
These place name atlases have become important knowledge transmission tools from elder to youth, are cultural geo-linguistic heritage preservation tools, have been incorporated as part of school curricula and are land occupancy records depicting the territorial extent of a community’s land use and settlement.
Naming places is part of the infrastructure of experience and represents social relationships, kinship, historical events and shared cultural memories.
These atlases are enabling local communities to re-place their histories onto the map and others to see space from a different cultural lens.
Kitikmeot Place Name Atlas http://www.kitikmeotheritage.ca/atlas.htm,
The Arctic Bay Atlas http://arcticbayatlas.ca/index.html (accessed 27 August 2012) and
Gwich'in Goonanh'kak Goonwandak: The Places and Stories of the Gwich'in (under development).
See Paul Dourish and Geneveve Bell, “The Infrastructure of Experience and the Experience of Infrastructure: Meaning and Structure in Everyday Encounters with Space”, (2005), Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design vol. 34, pp. 414 – 430.
Tell stories - Keep context and connection to people/land
Multiple representations (maps, sounds, graphs, timelines, etc.)
Open to contributions
Devised by community
Content is discoverable
Open Standards, Open Source
Small servers with redundant storage and uninterruptible power supplies host in communities.
Communities partner with data centres and/or each other for data preservation and/or internet hosting.
Database system that supports “eventual consistency”. Excellent for slow/intermittent links.