Poor communication, unclear requirements, and lack of defined acceptance criteria are common problems that lead to project challenges and failures. Better communication practices like clearly documenting requirements and acceptance criteria upfront can help address these issues and improve outcomes. Regular communication, well-defined expectations, and a willingness to clarify and adjust aspects of the project as needed are important for success.
Building an enterprise security knowledge graph to fuel better decisions, fas...Jon Hawes
A talk from BSides Las Vegas 2019, offering a field guide for how security teams can move from thinking in lists, to both thinking and operating in graphs.
Building Agile Data Warehouses with Ralph HughesKalido
Ralph Hughes, TDWI faculty member, author and 25-year veteran of DW and BI projects for Fortune 500 companies, shares his thoughts on accelerated enterprise data warehousing. More info & webinar replay can be found here http://blog.kalido.com/building-agile-data-warehouses-ralph-hughes-webinar/
An international survey of born digital legal deposit policies and practices ...Frederick Zarndt
That news publication has changed dramatically since the advent of the Internet and the Web is no news to anyone. There are many examples of established news organizations that have either stopped printing newspapers or shifted to publishing news on websites or through social media such as Facebook and Twitter. There are even more examples of new news organizations that have never printed news on paper and are digital only.
To the authors’ knowledge, every country has one or more legal deposit organizations tasked with preserving news for future generations. Legal deposit laws in some countries have been amended to include news that may never be instantiated on paper (born digital news). However, legal deposit laws are by no means universally amended and, even when such amendments have been made, their embodiment in practice varies widely.
As a follow-on to the paper Missing links: The digital news preservation discontinuity (http://www.ifla.org/node/8933) presented in August 2014 at IFLA News Media section satellite conference at the ITU Library in Geneva, Switzerland, the authors have surveyed cultural heritage organizations (libraries) around the world about their respective national born digital legal deposit policies and practices. We share the survey results and consider the ramifications of inadequate born digital news preservation policies and practice to future generations.
Building an enterprise security knowledge graph to fuel better decisions, fas...Jon Hawes
A talk from BSides Las Vegas 2019, offering a field guide for how security teams can move from thinking in lists, to both thinking and operating in graphs.
Building Agile Data Warehouses with Ralph HughesKalido
Ralph Hughes, TDWI faculty member, author and 25-year veteran of DW and BI projects for Fortune 500 companies, shares his thoughts on accelerated enterprise data warehousing. More info & webinar replay can be found here http://blog.kalido.com/building-agile-data-warehouses-ralph-hughes-webinar/
An international survey of born digital legal deposit policies and practices ...Frederick Zarndt
That news publication has changed dramatically since the advent of the Internet and the Web is no news to anyone. There are many examples of established news organizations that have either stopped printing newspapers or shifted to publishing news on websites or through social media such as Facebook and Twitter. There are even more examples of new news organizations that have never printed news on paper and are digital only.
To the authors’ knowledge, every country has one or more legal deposit organizations tasked with preserving news for future generations. Legal deposit laws in some countries have been amended to include news that may never be instantiated on paper (born digital news). However, legal deposit laws are by no means universally amended and, even when such amendments have been made, their embodiment in practice varies widely.
As a follow-on to the paper Missing links: The digital news preservation discontinuity (http://www.ifla.org/node/8933) presented in August 2014 at IFLA News Media section satellite conference at the ITU Library in Geneva, Switzerland, the authors have surveyed cultural heritage organizations (libraries) around the world about their respective national born digital legal deposit policies and practices. We share the survey results and consider the ramifications of inadequate born digital news preservation policies and practice to future generations.
Here Today, Gone within a Month: The Fleeting Life of Digital NewsFrederick Zarndt
In 1989 on the shores of Montana’s beautiful Flathead Lake, the owners of the weekly newspaper the Bigfork Eagle started TownNews.com to help community newspapers with developing technology. TownNews.com has since evolved into an integrated digital publishing and content management system used by more than 1600 newspaper, broadcast, magazine, and web-native publications in North America. TownNews.com is now headquartered on the banks of the mighty Mississippi river in Moline Illinois.
Not long ago Marc Wilson, CEO of TownNews.com, noticed that of the 220,000+ e-edition pages posted on behalf of its customers at the beginning of the month, 210,000 were deleted by month’s end.
What? The front page story about a local business being sold to an international corporation that I read online September 1 will be gone by September 30? As well as the story about my daughter’s 1st place finish in the district field and track meet?
A 2014 national survey by the Reynolds Journalism Institute (RJI) of 70 digital-only and 406 hybrid (digital and print) newspapers conclusively showed that newspaper publishers also do not maintain archives of the content they produce. RJI found a dismal 12% of the “hybrid” newspapers reported even backing up their digital news content and fully 20% of the “digital-only” newspapers reported that they are backing up none of their content. Educopia Institute’s 2012 and 2015 surveys with newspapers and libraries concur, and further demonstrate that the longstanding partner to the newspaper—the library—likewise is neither collecting nor preserving this digital content.
This leaves us with a bitter irony, that today, one can find stories published prior to 1922 in the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America and other digitized, out-of-copyright newspaper collections but cannot, and never will be able to, read a story published online less than a month ago.
In this paper we look at how much news is published online that is never published in print or on more permanent media. We estimate how much online news is or will soon be forever lost because no one preserves it: not publishers, not libraries, not content management systems, and not the Internet Archive. We delve into some of the reasons why this content is not yet preserved, and we examine the persistent challenges of digital preservation and of digital curation of this content type. We then suggest a pathway forward, via some initial steps that journalists, producers, legislators, libraries, distributors, and readers may each take to begin to rectify this historical loss going forward.
20130321 Putting the world's cultural heritage online with crowdsourcing [roo...Frederick Zarndt
Brief history of crowdsourcing
Crowdsourcing at libraries around the world
Benefits of crowdsourcing
Demographics of library crowdsourcers
How to use various crowdsourcing web apps
An international survey of born digital legal deposit policies and practices ...Frederick Zarndt
That news publication has changed dramatically since the advent of the Internet and the Web is no news to anyone. There are many examples of established news organizations that have either stopped printing newspapers or shifted to publishing news on websites or through social media such as Facebook and Twitter. There are even more examples of new news organizations that have never printed news on paper and are digital only.
To the authors’ knowledge, every country has one or more legal deposit organizations tasked with preserving news for future generations. Legal deposit laws in some countries have been amended to include news that may never be instantiated on paper (born digital news). However, legal deposit laws are by no means universally amended and, even when such amendments have been made, their embodiment in practice varies widely.
As a follow-on to the paper Missing links: The digital news preservation discontinuity (http://www.ifla.org/node/8933) presented in August 2014 at IFLA News Media section satellite conference at the ITU Library in Geneva, Switzerland, the authors have surveyed cultural heritage organizations (libraries) around the world about their respective national born digital legal deposit policies and practices. We share the survey results and consider the ramifications of inadequate born digital news preservation policies and practice to future generations.
Coronado public library digital newspapers workshop [Oct 2016]Frederick Zarndt
Using digitized historical newspapers for genealogical research
Brian Geiger, California Digital Newspaper Collection
Frederick Zarndt, IFLA Governing Board
1. Introductory remarks: Who we are; focus on freely available collections and especially those that allow researchers to create accounts; numerous sites they can pay to access but we won’t spend much time on them
2. Only small percentage of surviving newspapers have been digitized
3. How newspapers are digitized. Focusing especially on OCR, if it’s not OCR’ed well it’s not discoverable
4. How Coronado newspapers were digitized. CDNC’s work with the public library, Coronado Public Library’s work with the publisher, the process of scanning the film and processing the images, etc.
5. Free vs. Pay. 2 kinds of digitized newspaper archives: 1) publicly funded and available for free, 2) commercial sites you pay to access. Dozens or even hundreds of public sites, from small institutional to national.
6. Google won’t always get you what you want
7. Basic search using Elephind: What elephind is. Search “Abraham Lincoln” and explain what they see. Described “facets”
8. CDNC advanced search
9. Collecting What You Find: Right-click features in the CDNC
10. Collecting What You Find: CDNC user accounts
11. Interacting with Content: CDNC
12. Interacting with Content: Tagging and commenting in CDNC
What did you say? mindful interculture communication [201608 icgse]Frederick Zarndt
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion it has taken place. George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright, co-founder of London School of Economics, and Nobel Prize in Literature (1925).
Projects are about communication, communication, and communication. B. Elenbass in "Staging a project: Are you setting your project up for success?"
What one says to compatriots in face-to-face conversation is often misunderstood; imagine the possibilities for misunderstandings with someone from halfway around the world, natively speaking another language, and living in a different culture! In such circumstances how can you be sure that your collocutor has understood you in face-to-face (hard), telephone (harder), and email (hardest) conversations? Without being fully present in the conversation -- mindfully aware -- whether it's face-to-face, by Skype or phone, or through email, successful communication is difficult, even more so for intercultural communication.
The ubiquity of English facilitates basic communication, but its use as a common language frequently disguises cultural differences. Furthermore, to say that English (or any other language) can be ambiguous, is an understatement. But regardless of language, clear communication is essential for success in any collaborative undertaking whether done by a small co-located group or by a globally dispersed team.
This tutorial teaches mindful communication and describes frameworks useful in understanding cultural differences and gives real-life examples of misunderstandings due to such differences. Expect to take away practical tools to understand your own cultural biases and in-class practice mindful communication with your colleagues from other cultures as well as your own. You will also learn about frameworks for understanding other cultures based on work by Geert Hofstede, Fons Trompenaars, and others as well as on the presenter's own experiences.
Coronado public library digital newspapers workshop local partnerships [oct 2...Frederick Zarndt
Using digitized historical newspapers for genealogical research
Brian Geiger, California Digital Newspaper Collection
Frederick Zarndt, IFLA Governing Board
1. Introductory remarks: Who we are; focus on freely available collections and especially those that allow researchers to create accounts; numerous sites they can pay to access but we won’t spend much time on them
2. Only small percentage of surviving newspapers have been digitized
3. How newspapers are digitized. Focusing especially on OCR, if it’s not OCR’ed well it’s not discoverable
4. How Coronado newspapers were digitized. CDNC’s work with the public library, Coronado Public Library’s work with the publisher, the process of scanning the film and processing the images, etc.
5. Free vs. Pay. 2 kinds of digitized newspaper archives: 1) publicly funded and available for free, 2) commercial sites you pay to access. Dozens or even hundreds of public sites, from small institutional to national.
6. Google won’t always get you what you want
7. Basic search using Elephind: What elephind is. Search “Abraham Lincoln” and explain what they see. Described “facets”
8. CDNC advanced search
9. Collecting What You Find: Right-click features in the CDNC
10. Collecting What You Find: CDNC user accounts
11. Interacting with Content: CDNC
12. Interacting with Content: Tagging and commenting in CDNC
Ctl ( contextual teaching and learning )Sary Nieman
CTL called contextual approach because the concept of learning that help teacher’s content associate between the lesson and the real world situation with the students and encourage students to make the relationship between knowledge held by the implementations in their lives as members of the community.
Frameworks2 go business insights delivered socially exponentiality & noiseles...frameworks2go.com
Exponential developments are changing the fundamental way businesses are built. In exponential change anything superfluous between idea & customer becomes noise. In this context the session explores a way of noiseless innovation by talking about some fundamental changes that are happening like open source hardware, IoT, “Zero lines of code”, shazamising, thought clouds, 3D printing etc & their coming together and what it means to commercializing innovation.
Consumerized and Social IT; XaaS "everything-as-a-service" ; New IT service acquisition and consumption models, Lean IT, cloud (bunker) models; charge-back; App Internet ; context-aware mobile devices that interact with each other and our enterprises; users are shifting ; Big Data
Here Today, Gone within a Month: The Fleeting Life of Digital NewsFrederick Zarndt
In 1989 on the shores of Montana’s beautiful Flathead Lake, the owners of the weekly newspaper the Bigfork Eagle started TownNews.com to help community newspapers with developing technology. TownNews.com has since evolved into an integrated digital publishing and content management system used by more than 1600 newspaper, broadcast, magazine, and web-native publications in North America. TownNews.com is now headquartered on the banks of the mighty Mississippi river in Moline Illinois.
Not long ago Marc Wilson, CEO of TownNews.com, noticed that of the 220,000+ e-edition pages posted on behalf of its customers at the beginning of the month, 210,000 were deleted by month’s end.
What? The front page story about a local business being sold to an international corporation that I read online September 1 will be gone by September 30? As well as the story about my daughter’s 1st place finish in the district field and track meet?
A 2014 national survey by the Reynolds Journalism Institute (RJI) of 70 digital-only and 406 hybrid (digital and print) newspapers conclusively showed that newspaper publishers also do not maintain archives of the content they produce. RJI found a dismal 12% of the “hybrid” newspapers reported even backing up their digital news content and fully 20% of the “digital-only” newspapers reported that they are backing up none of their content. Educopia Institute’s 2012 and 2015 surveys with newspapers and libraries concur, and further demonstrate that the longstanding partner to the newspaper—the library—likewise is neither collecting nor preserving this digital content.
This leaves us with a bitter irony, that today, one can find stories published prior to 1922 in the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America and other digitized, out-of-copyright newspaper collections but cannot, and never will be able to, read a story published online less than a month ago.
In this paper we look at how much news is published online that is never published in print or on more permanent media. We estimate how much online news is or will soon be forever lost because no one preserves it: not publishers, not libraries, not content management systems, and not the Internet Archive. We delve into some of the reasons why this content is not yet preserved, and we examine the persistent challenges of digital preservation and of digital curation of this content type. We then suggest a pathway forward, via some initial steps that journalists, producers, legislators, libraries, distributors, and readers may each take to begin to rectify this historical loss going forward.
20130321 Putting the world's cultural heritage online with crowdsourcing [roo...Frederick Zarndt
Brief history of crowdsourcing
Crowdsourcing at libraries around the world
Benefits of crowdsourcing
Demographics of library crowdsourcers
How to use various crowdsourcing web apps
An international survey of born digital legal deposit policies and practices ...Frederick Zarndt
That news publication has changed dramatically since the advent of the Internet and the Web is no news to anyone. There are many examples of established news organizations that have either stopped printing newspapers or shifted to publishing news on websites or through social media such as Facebook and Twitter. There are even more examples of new news organizations that have never printed news on paper and are digital only.
To the authors’ knowledge, every country has one or more legal deposit organizations tasked with preserving news for future generations. Legal deposit laws in some countries have been amended to include news that may never be instantiated on paper (born digital news). However, legal deposit laws are by no means universally amended and, even when such amendments have been made, their embodiment in practice varies widely.
As a follow-on to the paper Missing links: The digital news preservation discontinuity (http://www.ifla.org/node/8933) presented in August 2014 at IFLA News Media section satellite conference at the ITU Library in Geneva, Switzerland, the authors have surveyed cultural heritage organizations (libraries) around the world about their respective national born digital legal deposit policies and practices. We share the survey results and consider the ramifications of inadequate born digital news preservation policies and practice to future generations.
Coronado public library digital newspapers workshop [Oct 2016]Frederick Zarndt
Using digitized historical newspapers for genealogical research
Brian Geiger, California Digital Newspaper Collection
Frederick Zarndt, IFLA Governing Board
1. Introductory remarks: Who we are; focus on freely available collections and especially those that allow researchers to create accounts; numerous sites they can pay to access but we won’t spend much time on them
2. Only small percentage of surviving newspapers have been digitized
3. How newspapers are digitized. Focusing especially on OCR, if it’s not OCR’ed well it’s not discoverable
4. How Coronado newspapers were digitized. CDNC’s work with the public library, Coronado Public Library’s work with the publisher, the process of scanning the film and processing the images, etc.
5. Free vs. Pay. 2 kinds of digitized newspaper archives: 1) publicly funded and available for free, 2) commercial sites you pay to access. Dozens or even hundreds of public sites, from small institutional to national.
6. Google won’t always get you what you want
7. Basic search using Elephind: What elephind is. Search “Abraham Lincoln” and explain what they see. Described “facets”
8. CDNC advanced search
9. Collecting What You Find: Right-click features in the CDNC
10. Collecting What You Find: CDNC user accounts
11. Interacting with Content: CDNC
12. Interacting with Content: Tagging and commenting in CDNC
What did you say? mindful interculture communication [201608 icgse]Frederick Zarndt
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion it has taken place. George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright, co-founder of London School of Economics, and Nobel Prize in Literature (1925).
Projects are about communication, communication, and communication. B. Elenbass in "Staging a project: Are you setting your project up for success?"
What one says to compatriots in face-to-face conversation is often misunderstood; imagine the possibilities for misunderstandings with someone from halfway around the world, natively speaking another language, and living in a different culture! In such circumstances how can you be sure that your collocutor has understood you in face-to-face (hard), telephone (harder), and email (hardest) conversations? Without being fully present in the conversation -- mindfully aware -- whether it's face-to-face, by Skype or phone, or through email, successful communication is difficult, even more so for intercultural communication.
The ubiquity of English facilitates basic communication, but its use as a common language frequently disguises cultural differences. Furthermore, to say that English (or any other language) can be ambiguous, is an understatement. But regardless of language, clear communication is essential for success in any collaborative undertaking whether done by a small co-located group or by a globally dispersed team.
This tutorial teaches mindful communication and describes frameworks useful in understanding cultural differences and gives real-life examples of misunderstandings due to such differences. Expect to take away practical tools to understand your own cultural biases and in-class practice mindful communication with your colleagues from other cultures as well as your own. You will also learn about frameworks for understanding other cultures based on work by Geert Hofstede, Fons Trompenaars, and others as well as on the presenter's own experiences.
Coronado public library digital newspapers workshop local partnerships [oct 2...Frederick Zarndt
Using digitized historical newspapers for genealogical research
Brian Geiger, California Digital Newspaper Collection
Frederick Zarndt, IFLA Governing Board
1. Introductory remarks: Who we are; focus on freely available collections and especially those that allow researchers to create accounts; numerous sites they can pay to access but we won’t spend much time on them
2. Only small percentage of surviving newspapers have been digitized
3. How newspapers are digitized. Focusing especially on OCR, if it’s not OCR’ed well it’s not discoverable
4. How Coronado newspapers were digitized. CDNC’s work with the public library, Coronado Public Library’s work with the publisher, the process of scanning the film and processing the images, etc.
5. Free vs. Pay. 2 kinds of digitized newspaper archives: 1) publicly funded and available for free, 2) commercial sites you pay to access. Dozens or even hundreds of public sites, from small institutional to national.
6. Google won’t always get you what you want
7. Basic search using Elephind: What elephind is. Search “Abraham Lincoln” and explain what they see. Described “facets”
8. CDNC advanced search
9. Collecting What You Find: Right-click features in the CDNC
10. Collecting What You Find: CDNC user accounts
11. Interacting with Content: CDNC
12. Interacting with Content: Tagging and commenting in CDNC
Ctl ( contextual teaching and learning )Sary Nieman
CTL called contextual approach because the concept of learning that help teacher’s content associate between the lesson and the real world situation with the students and encourage students to make the relationship between knowledge held by the implementations in their lives as members of the community.
Frameworks2 go business insights delivered socially exponentiality & noiseles...frameworks2go.com
Exponential developments are changing the fundamental way businesses are built. In exponential change anything superfluous between idea & customer becomes noise. In this context the session explores a way of noiseless innovation by talking about some fundamental changes that are happening like open source hardware, IoT, “Zero lines of code”, shazamising, thought clouds, 3D printing etc & their coming together and what it means to commercializing innovation.
Consumerized and Social IT; XaaS "everything-as-a-service" ; New IT service acquisition and consumption models, Lean IT, cloud (bunker) models; charge-back; App Internet ; context-aware mobile devices that interact with each other and our enterprises; users are shifting ; Big Data
Profile Of The Worlds Top Hackers Webinar Slides 063009Lumension
Data theft and breaches from cybercrime may have cost businesses as much as $1 trillion globally in lost intellectual property and expenditures for repairing damage. The current economic climate combined with new technologies such as Web 2.0 and Cloud Computing have undoubtedly created more opportunities for hackers, criminals, and industrial espionage firms who are targeting critical infrastructures and systems to steal sensitive information. This presentation from the Profile of the World's Top Hackers with Byron Acohido of USA Today, Mafiaboy, and Paul Henry provides critical insight into the inner workings of the cybercrime underground and outlines what businesses can do to protect their vital systems and information.
Naheem from Rokk3r Labs attended The Evolving Visual Consumer panel discussion held at the beautiful Design Exchange building in Toronto (January 2012). We thought we would share 10 key points from the panel. Let’s start a conversation!
How Social Networks are Delivering on the Failed Promise of Knowledge ManagementPaul Gillin
Organizations are inherently social, and when they enable people to reach out and find each other, connections are formed and discoveries are made that transcend org charts. But Intranet 2.0 isn't a zero-sum game. Open communication challenges traditional lines of authority and may be seen as a threat to those who are invested in existing structures. In fact, the biggest barriers to internal social network adoption are political, not technical. In an economy that demands innovation, resourcefulness and knowledge efficiency, do we really have any choice but to change? This presentation looks at how social networks are transforming the way businesses operate and at the bitter medicine some companies must swallow in order to realize their potential.
Defensible rim disposal leads to effective discovery responses - 2011.08.09Alfresco Software
“Defensible RIM Disposal Leads To Effective Discovery Responses” presented by Rational Retention (RR) and Randy Kahn, an internationally recognized authority on the legal, compliance and policy issues of business information, electronic records and information technology. Join us for this information packed webinar on how to expand your current use of Alfresco by leveraging newest technology in text content classification to solve your retention, records management and e-discovery challenges. Currently the IDC predicts electronic data to grow at 48 times in the next decade of which 95% is currently unstructured data. Learn effective ways to preserve the documents you need to keep, delete the documents you don’t need and move the loose documents into the proper places – all without disrupting the way your end users work.
2017 Born Digital Legal Deposit Policies and PracticesFrederick Zarndt
In 2015, three of the authors (Zarndt, McCain, Carner) surveyed the born digital content legal deposit policies and practices in 18 different countries and presented the results of the survey at the 2015 International News Media Conference hosted by the National Library of Sweden in Stockholm, Sweden, April 2015.
As a first step, the authors reviewed previous surveys about legal deposit and digital preservation. The authors updated and streamlined the 2015 survey in order to assess progress in creating or improving national policies and in implementing practices for preserving born digital content. The current survey consists of as many as 20 questions; which questions are asked depends on the respondent’s previous answers.
More than 50 countries and states in Australia, Germany and USA, participated in the survey. The survey closed at the end of November 2017. The authors expect to repeat the survey periodically in order to assess progress in developing born digital legal policy and implementing the policy in practice.
In 2015, three of the authors (Zarndt, McCain, Carner) surveyed the born digital content legal deposit policies and practices in 18 different countries and presented the results of the survey at the 2015 International News Media Conference hosted by the National Library of Sweden in Stockholm, Sweden, April 2015.
As a first step, the authors reviewed previous surveys about legal deposit and digital preservation. The authors updated and streamlined the 2015 survey in order to assess progress in creating or improving national policies and in implementing practices for preserving born digital content. The current survey consists of as many as 20 questions; which questions are asked depends on the respondent’s previous answers.
More than 50 countries and states in Australia, Germany and USA, participated in the survey. The survey closed at the end of November 2017. The authors expect to repeat the survey periodically in order to assess progress in developing born digital legal policy and implementing the policy in practice.
What did you say? interculture communication [20160308 phnom penh]Frederick Zarndt
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion it has taken place. George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright, co-founder of London School of Economics, and Nobel Prize in Literature (1925).
Projects are about communication, communication, and communication. B. Elenbass in "Staging a project: Are you setting your project up for success?"
What one says to compatriots in face-to-face conversation is often misunderstood; imagine the possibilities for misunderstandings with someone from halfway around the world, natively speaking another language, and living in a different culture! In such circumstances how can you be sure that your collocutor has understood you in face-to-face (hard), telephone (harder), and email (hardest) conversations? Without being fully present in the conversation -- mindfully aware -- whether it's face-to-face, by Skype or phone, or through email, successful communication is difficult, even more so for intercultural communication.
The ubiquity of English facilitates basic communication, but its use as a common language frequently disguises cultural differences. Furthermore, to say that English (or any other language) can be ambiguous, is an understatement. But regardless of language, clear communication is essential for success in any collaborative undertaking whether done by a small co-located group or by a globally dispersed team.
This tutorial teaches mindful communication and describes frameworks useful in understanding cultural differences and gives real-life examples of misunderstandings due to such differences. Expect to take away practical tools to understand your own cultural biases and in-class practice mindful communication with your colleagues from other cultures as well as your own. You will also learn about frameworks for understanding other cultures based on work by Geert Hofstede, Fons Trompenaars, and others as well as on the presenter's own experiences.
Here Today, Gone within a Month: The Fleeting Life of Digital NewsFrederick Zarndt
In 1989 on the shores of Montana’s beautiful Flathead Lake, the owners of the weekly newspaper the Bigfork Eagle started TownNews.com to help community newspapers with developing technology. TownNews.com has since evolved into an integrated digital publishing and content management
system used by more than 1600 newspaper, broadcast, magazine, and webnative publications in
North America. TownNews.com is now headquartered on the banks of the mighty Mississippi river in Moline Illinois.
Not long ago Marc Wilson, CEO of TownNews.com, noticed that of the 220,000+ eedition pages posted on behalf of its customers at the beginning of the month, 210,000 were deleted by month’s end.
What? The front page story about a local business being sold to an international corporation that I read online September 1 will be gone by September 30? As well as the story about my daughter’s 1st place finish in the district field and track meet?
A 2014 national survey by the Reynolds Journalism Institute (RJI) of 70 digitalonly and 406 hybrid (digital and print) newspapers conclusively showed that newspaper publishers also do not maintain archives of the content they produce. RJI found a dismal 12% of the “hybrid” newspapers reported
even backing up their digital news content and fully 20% of the “digitalonly” newspapers reported that they are backing up none of their content. Educopia Institute’s 2012 and 2015 surveys with newspapers and libraries concur, and further demonstrate that the longstanding partner to the newspaper—the library—likewise is neither collecting nor preserving this digital content.
This leaves us with a bitter irony, that today, one can find stories published prior to 1922 in the Library of Congress’s Chronicling America and other digitized, out-of-copyright newspaper
collections but cannot, and never will be able to, read a story published online less than a month ago. In this paper we look at how much news is published online that is never published in print or on more permanent media. We estimate how much online news is or will soon be forever lost because no one preserves it: not publishers, not libraries, not content management systems, and not the Internet Archive. We delve into some of the reasons why this content is not yet preserved, and we examine the persistent challenges of digital preservation and of digital curation of this content type. We then
suggest a pathway forward, via some initial steps that journalists, producers, legislators, libraries, distributors, and readers may each take to begin to rectify this historical loss going forward.
20140628 crowdsourcing, family history, and long tails for libraries [ala ann...Frederick Zarndt
In all of its many flavors, crowdsourcing works. It works for cultural heritage organizations too. During this presentation we look at various aspects of crowdsourced OCR text correction, commenting, and tagging for digitized historical newspapers at the National Library of Australia’s Trove, the California Digital Newspaper Collection (CDNC), and at the Cambridge Public Library in Cambridge Massachusetts as well as the astounding number of historical birth, death, marriage, census, and other records transcribed by “crowd” volunteers at Family Search. Some aspects include: demographics, experiences, motivation, quality, preferred data, economics and marketing. You will see that crowd sourcing is not only feasible but also practical and desirable. You will wonder why your own cultural heritage organization hasn't begun its own crowdsourcing project!
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
Maruthi Prithivirajan, Head of ASEAN & IN Solution Architecture, Neo4j
Get an inside look at the latest Neo4j innovations that enable relationship-driven intelligence at scale. Learn more about the newest cloud integrations and product enhancements that make Neo4j an essential choice for developers building apps with interconnected data and generative AI.
In the rapidly evolving landscape of technologies, XML continues to play a vital role in structuring, storing, and transporting data across diverse systems. The recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) present new methodologies for enhancing XML development workflows, introducing efficiency, automation, and intelligent capabilities. This presentation will outline the scope and perspective of utilizing AI in XML development. The potential benefits and the possible pitfalls will be highlighted, providing a balanced view of the subject.
We will explore the capabilities of AI in understanding XML markup languages and autonomously creating structured XML content. Additionally, we will examine the capacity of AI to enrich plain text with appropriate XML markup. Practical examples and methodological guidelines will be provided to elucidate how AI can be effectively prompted to interpret and generate accurate XML markup.
Further emphasis will be placed on the role of AI in developing XSLT, or schemas such as XSD and Schematron. We will address the techniques and strategies adopted to create prompts for generating code, explaining code, or refactoring the code, and the results achieved.
The discussion will extend to how AI can be used to transform XML content. In particular, the focus will be on the use of AI XPath extension functions in XSLT, Schematron, Schematron Quick Fixes, or for XML content refactoring.
The presentation aims to deliver a comprehensive overview of AI usage in XML development, providing attendees with the necessary knowledge to make informed decisions. Whether you’re at the early stages of adopting AI or considering integrating it in advanced XML development, this presentation will cover all levels of expertise.
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The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
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Speakers:
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Experience is the teacher of fools [liber eblida digitization workshop 201110]
1. Experience is the teacher of fools:
Project management lessons learned
Frederick Zarndt
frederick@frederickzarndt.com
Sponsored by
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2. the problem
Experience is a dear teacher but fools will learn at no other.
Benjamin Franklin
Wise men learn by other men's mistakes, fools by their own.
H. G. Wells
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the 2009 CHAOS Report (The Standish Group) reports
that of all software projects surveyed, 44% are
“challenged”, 24% failed, and only 32% succeeded
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Roger Sessions estimates that the worldwide cost of IT
failure is USD $500 billion per month
Roger Sessions: CTO of ObjectWatch. He has written seven books including Simple Architectures for Complex
Enterprises and many articles. He is a founding member of the Board of Directors of the International
Association of Software Architects.
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in a recent survey of 1230 IT professionals conducted
by Embarcadero Technologies, 2 of the 3 biggest
project challenges cited by the IT pros are “poor
planning” and “poor or no requirements”
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in a March 2007 web poll conducted by the Computing
Technology Industry Association "nearly 28 percent of the
more than 1,000 respondents singled out poor
communications as the number one cause of project
failure"
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in a white paper written for Project Perfect by Taimour al
Neimat, he lists
• poor planning
• unclear goals and objectives
• objectives changing during the project
• unrealistic time or resource estimates
• lack of executive support and user involvement
• failure to communicate and act as a team
• inappropriate skills
as primary causes for the failure of complex IT projects
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a recent tender from an (anonymous) government agency
• project to convert ~ 170,000 text images to xml
• value of project ~ USD $180,000
• 19 pages of definitions, governing law, proposal
evaluation criteria, contractual conditions, instructions
about tender response format, etc
• technical requirements description? < 1 page
• data acceptance criteria? “a high level of accuracy”
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a recent program established by a prominent national
library
• digitize more than 20 million text pages
• high level image and xml requirements
• value of work awarded? > USD $5,000,000
• after award of work, METS xml technical requirements
expand to 43+ pages from ~3 pages
• acceptance criteria? added as an afterthought and not
well defined
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acceptance criteria for a digitization program at a
prominent library
character accuracy > 80%
word accuracy > 75%
significant word accuracy > 65%
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typical tender evaluation criteria in priority order
1. understanding of requirements
2. reputation of service bureau
3. price
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In theory, there's no difference between theory and practice, but in
practice, there is.
Anonymous
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion it has
taken place.
George Bernard Shaw
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waterfall requirements
for each product release repeat
{
gather requirements
create architecture
design
implement
test
use -or- sell
}
until (company goes out of business)
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requirements
a recent tender from an (anonymous) government agency
• project to convert ~ 170,000 text images to xml
• value of project ~ USD $180,000
• 19 pages of definitions, governing law, proposal
evaluation criteria, contractual conditions, instructions
about tender response format, etc
• technical requirements description? < 1 page
• data acceptance criteria? “a high level of accuracy”
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acceptance criteria
acceptance criteria for a digitization program
character accuracy > 80%
word accuracy > 75%
significant word accuracy > 65%
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why (better) communication is necessary
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what did you say?
“...in my opinion you will be very fortunate to get this
person to work for you...”
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what do you see?
The young girl The old woman
is turning away... is very sad...
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perception
much of what you think happened or what you think you
heard is based on misperception
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humans are different
• estimated number of neurons in an adult human brain 10,000,000,000 (1011)*
• estimated number of synapses in an adult human brain:100,000,000,000,000
(1014)
• estimated number of synaptic connections for each neuron: 7,000
• number of combinations of n (1011) neurons with s (7000) synapses, C (n, s) = C
(1011, 7000) is very large (for example, the number of combinations of n (52)
cards taken 5 at a time C (52,5) is 2,598,960
* anotherestimate is 86 x 109 total neurons, 16.3 x 109 in the cerebral cortex and 69 x 109 in the
cerebellum.
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perception
• mother and daughter
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perception
• mother and daughter
• Innocence Project
• eyewitness misidentification is the single greatest cause of wrongful
convictions, playing a role in more than 75% of convictions
overturned through DNA testing.
• exonerated 258 wrongfully convicted men (as of Aug 2010)
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perception
• mother and daughter
• Innocence Project
• eyewitness misidentification is the single greatest cause of wrongful
convictions, playing a role in more than 75% of convictions
overturned through DNA testing.
• exonerated 258 wrongfully convicted men (as of Aug 2010)
• Crab Nebula supernova
• in 1054 a star in the region of what is now know as the Crab Nebula
exploded. For several days it was the 3rd brightest object in the sky,
bright enough to be seen in daytime.
• the supernova was observed and recorded by Chinese, Japanese, and
Arab astronomers and by native Americans. There are few and very
obscure recorded European observations.
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Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a
mistake when you make it again.
F. P. Jones
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value of simplicity
“Perfection is attained, not when there is nothing left to
add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”
Antoine de St. Exupery
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value of prototypes and pilot batches
“Plan to throw one away; you will anyhow. If there is
anything new about the function of a system, the first
implementation will have to be redone completely to
achieve a satisfactory (i.e., acceptably small, fast, and
maintainable) result. It costs a lot less if you plan to have
a prototype.”
Butler Lampson
Butler Lampson was a founding member of Xerox PARC, worked for DEC, and now works at Microsoft
Research. He is an adjunct professor at MIT and an ACM Fellow.
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value of simplicity
“There are two ways of constructing a software design:
one way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no
deficiencies and the other way is to make it so complicated
that there are no obvious deficiencies.”
C.A.R. Hoare
Professor Sir Charles Anthony Richard Hoare Emeritus Professor at Oxford University, Senior Researcher at
Microsoft Research, recipient of the ACM Turing Award, author of many books on computers and software.
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good requirements
• unitary: the requirement addresses one and only one thing
• complete: the requirement is fully stated in one place with no
missing information
• consistent: the requirement does not contradict any other
requirement and is fully consistent with all authoritative
external documentation
• atomic: it does not contain conjunctions, for example, "the
code field must validate American and Canadian postal codes"
should be written as two separate requirements
• traceable: the requirement meets all or part of a business need
as stated by stakeholders and authoritatively documented
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good requirements (continued)
• current: the requirement has not been made obsolete by the
passage of time
• feasible: the requirement can be implemented within the
constraints of the project
• unambiguous: the requirement is concisely stated without
recourse to technical jargon, acronyms
• verifiable: the implementation of the requirement can be
determined through one of four possible methods: inspection,
demonstration, test, or analysis
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requirements and acceptance criteria
Wikipedia on data quality: The processes and
technologies involved in ensuring the conformance of data
values to requirements and acceptance criteria
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requirements and acceptance criteria
“article title characters in each issue must be 99.5%
accurate, that is, each issue may have no more than 5
errors in 1000 article title characters”
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waterfall requirements
for each product release repeat
{
gather requirements
create architecture
design
implement
test
use -or- sell
}
until (company goes out of business)
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agile requirements
gather general requirements
create architecture
build prototype software
test
repeat
{
use software
adjust prototype and/or add new feature
test
}
until (user says stop or runs out of money)
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agile data conversion
create requirements and acceptance criteria
repeat
{
digitize (small) pilot batch
test data against acceptance criteria
adjust requirements and acceptance criteria
}
until (no more adjustments are necessary)
digitize more data
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why (better) communication is necessary
“projects are about communication,
communication, and communication”
Elenbass, B. (2000). “Staging a Project: Are You Setting Your Project Up for Success?”. Proceedings of the
Project Management Institute Annual Seminars & Symposiums.
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simple principles for (good) communication
• be impeccable with your word
• don’t take anything personally
• don’t make assumptions
• always do your best
• be mindful
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why (better) communication is necessary
no communication ...
little communication ...
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why (better) communication is necessary
no communication ...
little communication ...
poor communication ...
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why (better) communication is necessary
no communication ...
little communication ...
poor communication ...
reduced communication ...
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why (better) communication is necessary
no communication ...
little communication ...
poor communication ...
reduced communication ...
... all result in more assumptions about intent!
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how do you communicate?
• communication is at most 30% verbal!
• remainder - 70% or more - is comprised of gestures,
facial expressions, tone of voice, posture, odors, ...
• telephone communication removes gestures, facial
expressions, posture, odors, etc. only words and tone of
voice remain
• written communication - email, requirements, etc -
removes all modes of communication save for words
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how to communicate
simple keep it simple stupid (KISS principle)
repeat say it twice in different ways
listen repeat what you hear
respect respect yourself and others
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for future projects give especial attention to
good, open communication
clear requirements
clear acceptance criteria
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We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice.
Jack Herbert
Frederick Zarndt
frederick@frederickzarndt.com
Sponsored by
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