Invited lecture given at the University of Piraeus, focusing on a large scale case study of a learning technologies' application. Focused on the example of the Global Food Safety Partnership (GFSP, http://www.gfsp.org) and presented our view on backing it up with an infrastructure federating and linking different information sources/providers. These ideas have also been presented at this JALN paper: http://sloanconsortium.org/jaln/v17n2/open-and-scalable-learning-infrastructure-food-safety
The second of two talks given to the Council of the Swaziland Standards Authority (SWASA), ti introduce procedures associated with standards development, together with introductions to conformity assessment, metrology, and mutual recognition agreements
International Conference on Infrastructure Needs For a Food Control System: Roadmap For Regional Harmonization” - organised by International Life Sciences Institute - India Chapter, 9 & 10 December, 2014 in Hotel Royal Plaza, New Delhi.
The second of two talks given to the Council of the Swaziland Standards Authority (SWASA), ti introduce procedures associated with standards development, together with introductions to conformity assessment, metrology, and mutual recognition agreements
International Conference on Infrastructure Needs For a Food Control System: Roadmap For Regional Harmonization” - organised by International Life Sciences Institute - India Chapter, 9 & 10 December, 2014 in Hotel Royal Plaza, New Delhi.
The role of the Partnership for Aflatoxin Control in Africa (PACA)Francois Stepman
The role of the Partnership for Aflatoxin Control in Africa (PACA)
Amare Ayelew , Program Manager, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Roundtable of aflatoxin experts on
“Building a multi-stakeholder approach to mitigate aflatoxin contamination of food and feed”
Brussels, Monday 25th January 2016
Improving Food Safety in Africa
Brad Flett - Agricultural Research Council - Grain Crops Institute, Potchefstroom, RSA. President of the African Society of Mycotoxicology
Roundtable of aflatoxin experts on
“Building a multi-stakeholder approach to mitigate aflatoxin contamination of food and feed”
Brussels, Monday 25th January 2016
Presentation 27 June - 1 July 2016. Asaba, Nigeria. Workshop organised by the PAEPARD supported consortium: Knowledge transfer towards cost–effective poultry feeds production from processed cassava products to improve the productivity of small-scale farmers in Nigeria.
This slideshow reviews some of the features and functionalities of Qualtrics that enable its use in online trainings. This explores some important instructional design elements in online trainings, including for three main types: policy compliance, mass-scale trainings, and customized trainings. This reviews some core elements of online trainings. Finally, there are some reflections on real-world considerations when building an online training on Qualtrics.
Attention Please! A Hybrid Resource Recommender Mimicking Attention-Interpret...Elisabeth Lex
These are the slides of my presentation at the World Wide Web (WWW) conference in the Web Science track on May 20th, 2015.
http://www.www2015.it/web-science-track/
Please find a link to the freely available preprint on arxiv here:
http://arxiv.org/abs/1501.07716
Gaining Advantage in e-Learning with Semantic Adaptive TechnologyOntotext
In this presentation, we will introduce you to a solution that involves adaptive semantic technology for educational institutions and e-learning providers. You will learn how to integrate 3rd party resources, legacy assets, and other content sources to create the so-called knowledge graph of all structured and unstructured data.
[Workshop] The incremental steps towardsdynamic and embedded content deliver...Noz Urbina
[A variant of my 2013 Technical Communcations UK presentation]
Dynamic delivery is delivery of context-appropriate information that can be assembled at the time of request with the most up-to-date, relevant content appropriate for the user and interface in question.
Embedded content is where content becomes a seamless part of device interfaces. Products become “self-describing”, allowing users to work uninterrupted by the need to open help files or manuals.
Many aspire to working in this way, but few (so far) have achieved it. This workshop looks at the benefits, requirements, and barriers related to these new types of delivery.
We will look at:
Why should we bother with this type of delivery?
What type of techniques, technologies and skills are required to realise such a system?
What are the risks at each stage?
The role of the Partnership for Aflatoxin Control in Africa (PACA)Francois Stepman
The role of the Partnership for Aflatoxin Control in Africa (PACA)
Amare Ayelew , Program Manager, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Roundtable of aflatoxin experts on
“Building a multi-stakeholder approach to mitigate aflatoxin contamination of food and feed”
Brussels, Monday 25th January 2016
Improving Food Safety in Africa
Brad Flett - Agricultural Research Council - Grain Crops Institute, Potchefstroom, RSA. President of the African Society of Mycotoxicology
Roundtable of aflatoxin experts on
“Building a multi-stakeholder approach to mitigate aflatoxin contamination of food and feed”
Brussels, Monday 25th January 2016
Presentation 27 June - 1 July 2016. Asaba, Nigeria. Workshop organised by the PAEPARD supported consortium: Knowledge transfer towards cost–effective poultry feeds production from processed cassava products to improve the productivity of small-scale farmers in Nigeria.
This slideshow reviews some of the features and functionalities of Qualtrics that enable its use in online trainings. This explores some important instructional design elements in online trainings, including for three main types: policy compliance, mass-scale trainings, and customized trainings. This reviews some core elements of online trainings. Finally, there are some reflections on real-world considerations when building an online training on Qualtrics.
Attention Please! A Hybrid Resource Recommender Mimicking Attention-Interpret...Elisabeth Lex
These are the slides of my presentation at the World Wide Web (WWW) conference in the Web Science track on May 20th, 2015.
http://www.www2015.it/web-science-track/
Please find a link to the freely available preprint on arxiv here:
http://arxiv.org/abs/1501.07716
Gaining Advantage in e-Learning with Semantic Adaptive TechnologyOntotext
In this presentation, we will introduce you to a solution that involves adaptive semantic technology for educational institutions and e-learning providers. You will learn how to integrate 3rd party resources, legacy assets, and other content sources to create the so-called knowledge graph of all structured and unstructured data.
[Workshop] The incremental steps towardsdynamic and embedded content deliver...Noz Urbina
[A variant of my 2013 Technical Communcations UK presentation]
Dynamic delivery is delivery of context-appropriate information that can be assembled at the time of request with the most up-to-date, relevant content appropriate for the user and interface in question.
Embedded content is where content becomes a seamless part of device interfaces. Products become “self-describing”, allowing users to work uninterrupted by the need to open help files or manuals.
Many aspire to working in this way, but few (so far) have achieved it. This workshop looks at the benefits, requirements, and barriers related to these new types of delivery.
We will look at:
Why should we bother with this type of delivery?
What type of techniques, technologies and skills are required to realise such a system?
What are the risks at each stage?
18 years developing educational technology at Loughborough University and beyondMelanie King
Keynote from the 20th Annual INSPIRE conference, organised in conjunction with the BCS e-Learning SG, addresses software process improvement related to teaching, training and research whilst SQM addresses issues relevant to business and industry.
The growing adoption of open educational resources (OER) has identified the need for easy-to-use authoring platforms for the development and delivery of openly licensed digital content. Please join the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER) for this free, open webinar on authoring platforms that support faculty authoring and adaption of open educational resources and institutional delivery of these resources.
Our speakers will share platforms used by faculty to develop open textbooks and deliver openly licensed digital content to faculty and students in an easy and accessible manner.
Date: Wednesday, April 8
Time: 10 am PST; 1:00 pm EST
Featured speakers:
Clint Lalonde, Open Education Manager, BCcampus
Judy Einstein, VP Business Development and Etienne Pelaprat, User Experience Director, Courseload Inc.
Domi Enders, Founder and CEO, Open Assembly
Big & heterogeneous data flows in agri-food value chainsNikos Manouselis
Slides of my talk at European Commission's Day on "Digitising agriculture and food value chains", November 17th 2017. Talking about the need to facilitate the flow of data in various value chains. Sharing our experience from a big and heterogeneous data vineyard pilot, as part of the H2020 Big Data Europe project. And describing our plans for extending this pilot to demonstrate big data flows in grapevine-powered value chains, as part of the upcoming H2020 Big Data Grapes project that we coordinate.
Slides from keynote speech at the European Commission's EIP-AGRI workshop on ‘Data Sharing: ensuring a fair sharing of digitisation benefits in agriculture’ (4-5 April 2017 in Bratislava, Slovakia).
Event page (with participants, presentations & other documents): https://ec.europa.eu/eip/agriculture/content/eip-agri-workshop-data-sharing
Catalyzing the creation of a Data Ecosystem for Agriculture & FoodNikos Manouselis
Presentation of the GODAN Data Ecosystem WG (http://www.godan.info/working-groups/data-ecosystem-working-group) at the 2nd Joint workshop of Big Data Europe & e-ROSA initiatives on European Policy Perspectives on Data-intensive Agriculture & Food.
How can we improve food production and safety through an open approach?Nikos Manouselis
Slides of my lightning talk at the ODI Summit 2016 (http://theodi.org/summit/2016). Putting emphasis on the data opportunity that I see in the sector. Including a call to arms for the community to collaborate further, in the context of the GODAN Data Ecosystem WG (https://goo.gl/O3Fk4R).
Towards a Global Data Ecosystem for Agriculture and FoodNikos Manouselis
Slides of my talk at the University of Guelph (Canada) on September 22nd, 2016. Followed by an agri-food data meetup.
(http://bulletin.ovc.uoguelph.ca/post/150653601025/lecture-and-meetup-on-open-agri-food-data)
Extended version of slides used for talk on "Scaling up (and doing business with) food safety information transparency" at the Food@Cranfield network (http://www.som.cranfield.ac.uk/som/p19207/research/research-clubs/food-cranfield-research-network), on an event dedicated to Using Big Data. Presented the concept of using AGINFRA to facilitate and scale up food safety data. Part of the Big Data Europe (http://www.big-data-europe.eu) liaison & dissemination activities.
Facilitating data discovery & sharing among agricultural scientific networksNikos Manouselis
Presentation of AKstem.com at the pre-meeting of the Interest Group on Agricultural Data (IGAD, https://rd-alliance.org/groups/agriculture-data-interest-group-igad.html) of the Research Data Alliance (RDA, https://rd-alliance.org).
Conceptual Design of TAPipedia: pre-final versionNikos Manouselis
Presentation of the pre-final version of the TAPipedia Conceptual Design Report, at the meeting of the TAP Global Task Force Meeting hosted by FAO (July 9-10, 2015). Part of the work related to the G20 initiative TAP (Tropical Agriculture Platform, http://tropagplatform.org).
Slides of the AIMS webinar on the Conceptual Design of TAPipedia, introducing initial version of the Design for public feedback & comments.
http://aims.fao.org/activity/blog/new-webinarsaims%E2%80%9Cdesigning-tapipedia-information-sharing-platform-capacity-development
Towards fair and transparent online business modelsNikos Manouselis
Slides of my talk to the Commons Fest 2015 (http://commonsfest.info) that took place in Athens during May 15-17th. The festival focused on resources that can be viewed as the "commons - public resources that we should all benefit from. I tried to reflect on how we do business using digital commons, especially when using value that other people generate. My talk was inspired by the book of Jarion Lanier "Who owns the future" (http://www.jaronlanier.com/futurewebresources.html)
Reflections on making EFSA an open science organisationNikos Manouselis
Slides of talk at the Workshop on e-Infrastructures supporting Food Safety Risk Assessment, hosted by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), Parma, May 13th, 2015.
Introduction to knowledge sharing systems: considerations for the conceptual ...Nikos Manouselis
Presentation on initial recommendations for the TAPipedia information sharing platform of the G20 Tropical Agriculture Platform (http://www.tropagplatform.org).
Agro-Know & the European agricultural research information ecosystemNikos Manouselis
Slides of my talk to members of the Agricultural Information Institute (AII) of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), on September 19th, 2014.
Can a data infrastructure become relevant to small businesses?Nikos Manouselis
Talk given to a stakeholder meeting organised by SemaGrow and agINFRA, focusing on how the agricultural data community and the data infrastructures come closer - giving the business potential and perspective (and especially the startups and SMEs).
Why are e-Infrastructures useful from a small business perspective?Nikos Manouselis
Slides of talk at seminar for the EuroRIs network (http://www.euroris-net.eu) of National Contact Points (NCPs) for EU funding programmes on Research Infrastructures.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
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.
"Impact of front-end architecture on development cost", Viktor TurskyiFwdays
I have heard many times that architecture is not important for the front-end. Also, many times I have seen how developers implement features on the front-end just following the standard rules for a framework and think that this is enough to successfully launch the project, and then the project fails. How to prevent this and what approach to choose? I have launched dozens of complex projects and during the talk we will analyze which approaches have worked for me and which have not.
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
Let's dive deeper into the world of ODC! Ricardo Alves (OutSystems) will join us to tell all about the new Data Fabric. After that, Sezen de Bruijn (OutSystems) will get into the details on how to best design a sturdy architecture within ODC.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
11. Multi-Donor Trust Fund (MDTF) being
established to raise at least $45,000,000 for
implementation of a Roadmap and 5-year
workplan
aim: train small food producers, around the
world, using blended approaches
17. reflecting on complexity
#3
Program Facilitation
Open & Scalable
Open & Scalable
Learning Infrastructure
Learning Infrastructure
Includes : :
Includes
- -OER data pool
OER data pool
- -Course registry
Course registry
- -Curriculum Development
Curriculum Development
-Curricula Alignment
-Curricula Alignment
18. evolving the concept
• may aim higher than a single GFSP learning
platform – cannot generalize something that
requires a focused, regional approach
• rather develop a GFSP Learning Infrastructure
including (among others)
– Educational Offerings Aggregator Services
– Curriculum Support, Registry & Alignment Services
– GFSP Learning Portal (main front end)
– GFSP Learning Widgets/apps (to be integrated in web
sites, offered through smartphones/tablets, etc)
20. Educational Offerings Aggregator
• back end technology infrastructure
– ingest, harvest, aggregate course and OER
metadata from existing or new (e.g. legacy)
learning platforms and OER collections
– tools to allow course and OER providers to
align/map their metadata & classifications to
the GFSP ones
21. Curriculum Registry & Alignment
• representation of GFSP curriculum in
interoperable format (using learning outcomes,
competences)
– tools to allow other course providers to register and
express/map their curricula to the GFSP curriculum
– tools to facilitate the generation of multilingual
versions of the curricula descriptions
– generation of transformable curricula representations
to allow users to browse using preferred curicullum
format
22. GFSP Learning Portal
• main front-end to present project and allow
users to find information in the aggregated
sources
– various modalities (visual, device, thematic,
geographical, industry, …) for search &
discovery of courses and OER
– multilingual interfaces and metadata facilitated
by automatic translation engines
23. GFSP Learning Widgets/Apps
• search/discovery interfaces and mechanisms that
can be embedded in other web sites and portals
(widget-like or search pages in sites)
• mobile apps for various operational systems (iOS,
Android, Windows 8)
• back-end engine to allow straightforward
generation of adaptable versions of both
(thematic, industry, geographical, linguistic, …)
24. important distinction
• such a learning infrastructure is heavily
dependent on the back-end layers
• it is important to be able to power existing
applications and services
• the centralised portal mainly serves as
demonstrator
• will really change something if it provides a
wealth of resources around each topic
25.
26. a case study
• regional meat producer in Paraguay
– example scenario: exploring how their company
can start selling packaged cooked ham to an
international food distribution company
• product of high quality one, made from pure
pork ham
– let us assume that they would like to find out
more about the food safety standards of cooked
ham
27.
28.
29.
30.
31. this is why
#3
Program Facilitation
Open & Scalable
Open & Scalable
Learning Infrastructure
Learning Infrastructure
Includes : :
Includes
- -OER data pool
OER data pool
- -Course registry
Course registry
- -Curriculum Development
Curriculum Development
-Curricula Alignment
-Curricula Alignment
33. CONTENT PROVIDER
WITH UNORGANISED
COLLECTION
(e.g. Listed at Web
site or in DVD-ROM)
Chooses compliant tool
Metadata export in
Ingestion in
proprietary format & compliant tool
provides mapping
CONTENT PROVIDER
WITH CMS THAT DOES
NOT SUPPORT OAIPMH (e.g. Proprietary
DB)
CONTENT PROVIDER
WITH CMS THAT
SUPPORTS OAI-PMH
(e.g. FSKN compliant,
ePrints, DSPACE,...)
DOMAIN EXPERTS
publish & evolve
vocabularies &
ontologies
37. a. authoring/creation
• metadata creation is a painful and
costly process
– automatic generation can help
– high quality/accuracy/relevance
descriptions require human intervention
37
39. b. assurance/validation
• good online services demand high
quality (or at least not poor quality)
description of content
– someone needs to take the final decision
before something is published
– especially relevant when content
development has been costly/labourous
39
41. c. values/vocabularies
• mappings and crosswalks among
values and vocabularies of different
collections are crucial
– usually manually defined and maintained
– difficult to ensure that all applications
will publish and link their vocabularies
– vocabulary bank management tend to
become too complex for the purpose
that they serve
41
43. d. multilinguality
• for multilingual contexts, everything
needs to become (and be maintained)
multilingual
– metadata values and labels
– interface labels for various systems
• automatic translation helps but usually
produces rather rough/poor
translations
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50. competencies description
• what I would like to learn is what you
need me to know…
– …but what is really needed is connecting a
job profile to the relevant course offerings!
54. expected learning outcomes
• what I am going to learn should be what I
am expected to know for my job…
– …but sometimes it’s not very clear what
this is going to be!
55. CerOrganic Curriculum description
DICLA training center
Capabilities: When completing this course you will
be able to perform basic routine operations in a
defined hydroponic context under close supervision.
56. more issues…
• old-fashioned legacy systems still used in such
traditional settings
– terms like “OER” and “MOOC” sound like science fiction
• novel technologies such as semantic stores and
ontology editing/managing environments are not
user-friendly and proven
– especially for such technology-ignorant users
• very rich semantics to be represented, handled and
exploited; but we are not there yet
58. targeted domain
• rich in data-oriented problems and
cases
• focused on “real” users
• inter-disciplinary work
• results related to societal
goals/challenges
59. increase use & reuse
• digital sources and collections
material to be used (and
potentially re-used) in several
contexts
– even different than originally
expected/thought of