High-level overview of Findability Standards developed at HBS in the context of Websites, Intranet sites and software apps. This slide deck covers the following Findability components: User Research, Search Engine, Content being indexed, Creators of the content, and Management & Support. UI standards are in a separate slide deck to be uploaded soon.
Cloud web scale discovery services landscape an overviewNikesh Narayanan
Abstract
The impact of Internet and Google like search engines radically influenced the information behavior of Net Generation users. They expect same environment in library services such that all their required information make available in a single set of results through unified search across all the available resources. Libraries have been striving to respond to this challenge for years. Until recently, federated search technology of the past decade was the better attempt in this area to meet these user expectations. But federated search solution is marked by the drawbacks of its slowness as it searches each database on the fly. New Generation cloud based Library Web scale discovery technology is a promising entrant in this landscape. This Paper attempts to provide a comprehensive overview of Library Web Scale Discovery solutions by depicting various facets of Web Scale Discovery solutions such as its importance to Library field, their possible role as the starting point for research, content coverage, and finally analyses the competition at the discovery front by comparing the services of major players. The comparative analysis shows that all the major service providers are extending competitive features and services, but varies in some areas and the adoption choice depends on the concerned library’s preferences and the cost involved.
Web scale Discovery services are becoming the most sought after solution for Libraries to connect its patrons with the relevant information they seek. Many studies show that these services are getting wide acceptance from users as well as Library staff and making revolution in Library Information retrieval arena. Given such broad implications, selecting a new discovery service for libraries is an important undertaking. Library professionals should carefully evaluate options to meet their goal of finding the best potential match for their library. This Paper attempts to provide a comprehensive overview of Library Web Scale Discovery solutions by depicting various facets of Web Scale Discovery, how it differs from federated searching and highlights the important parameters to be considered for taking an informed and confident decision on selecting discovery service.
Implementing web scale discovery services: special reference to Indian Librar...Nikesh Narayanan
Web scale Discovery services arebecoming the widely adopted Information Retrieval solution in libraries across the world to connect its patrons with the relevant information they seek. In lieu with the world trend, Resources Discovery Solution implementation is gathering momentum in Indian libraries also.
Considering the Indian Libraries scenario, this paper attempts to provide an overview of Library Web Scale Discovery solutions, its need in Indian Libraries, important parameters to be considered for evaluation of Discovery Services, essential factors to be considered prior to implementation, stages of implementation and finally some thoughts on post implementation analysis for measuring the success.
High-level overview of Findability Standards developed at HBS in the context of Websites, Intranet sites and software apps. This slide deck covers the following Findability components: User Research, Search Engine, Content being indexed, Creators of the content, and Management & Support. UI standards are in a separate slide deck to be uploaded soon.
Cloud web scale discovery services landscape an overviewNikesh Narayanan
Abstract
The impact of Internet and Google like search engines radically influenced the information behavior of Net Generation users. They expect same environment in library services such that all their required information make available in a single set of results through unified search across all the available resources. Libraries have been striving to respond to this challenge for years. Until recently, federated search technology of the past decade was the better attempt in this area to meet these user expectations. But federated search solution is marked by the drawbacks of its slowness as it searches each database on the fly. New Generation cloud based Library Web scale discovery technology is a promising entrant in this landscape. This Paper attempts to provide a comprehensive overview of Library Web Scale Discovery solutions by depicting various facets of Web Scale Discovery solutions such as its importance to Library field, their possible role as the starting point for research, content coverage, and finally analyses the competition at the discovery front by comparing the services of major players. The comparative analysis shows that all the major service providers are extending competitive features and services, but varies in some areas and the adoption choice depends on the concerned library’s preferences and the cost involved.
Web scale Discovery services are becoming the most sought after solution for Libraries to connect its patrons with the relevant information they seek. Many studies show that these services are getting wide acceptance from users as well as Library staff and making revolution in Library Information retrieval arena. Given such broad implications, selecting a new discovery service for libraries is an important undertaking. Library professionals should carefully evaluate options to meet their goal of finding the best potential match for their library. This Paper attempts to provide a comprehensive overview of Library Web Scale Discovery solutions by depicting various facets of Web Scale Discovery, how it differs from federated searching and highlights the important parameters to be considered for taking an informed and confident decision on selecting discovery service.
Implementing web scale discovery services: special reference to Indian Librar...Nikesh Narayanan
Web scale Discovery services arebecoming the widely adopted Information Retrieval solution in libraries across the world to connect its patrons with the relevant information they seek. In lieu with the world trend, Resources Discovery Solution implementation is gathering momentum in Indian libraries also.
Considering the Indian Libraries scenario, this paper attempts to provide an overview of Library Web Scale Discovery solutions, its need in Indian Libraries, important parameters to be considered for evaluation of Discovery Services, essential factors to be considered prior to implementation, stages of implementation and finally some thoughts on post implementation analysis for measuring the success.
Managed metadata is a hierarchical collection of centrally managed terms that you can define, and then use as attributes for items in SharePoint Server 2013.
Web-scale Discovery Services are becoming an integral part of libraries' information gathering arsenal. These services are able to use a single interface to seamlessly integrate results from a wide range of online sources, emulating the experience patrons have come to expect from Internet search engines. But despite their ability to streamline searching, discovery services provide a wide set of challenges for libraries who implement them. This virtual conference will touch on both the potential of discovery services as well as some of the issues involved.
FAIRsharing and DataCite: Data Repository Selection- Criteria That MatterSusanna-Assunta Sansone
Through a collaboration with Datacite, FAIRsharing is working with a number of journal publishers (PLOS, Springer Nature, F1000, Wiley, Taylor and Francis, Elsevier, EMBO Press, eLife, GigaScience and Cambridge University Press) to identify a common set of criteria for selecting and recommending data repositories (and associated standards) that will be implemented in FAIRsharing. Details of this work and participants at https://osf.io/m2bce
RDA Webinar - BioSharing - mapping the landscape of data standards, repositor...Peter McQuilton
A 30 minute webinar presented on behalf of the RDA/Force11 BioSharing WG, covering our work to map data standards, databases, and data policies in the life, biomedical and environmental sciences.
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Managed metadata is a hierarchical collection of centrally managed terms that you can define, and then use as attributes for items in SharePoint Server 2013.
Web-scale Discovery Services are becoming an integral part of libraries' information gathering arsenal. These services are able to use a single interface to seamlessly integrate results from a wide range of online sources, emulating the experience patrons have come to expect from Internet search engines. But despite their ability to streamline searching, discovery services provide a wide set of challenges for libraries who implement them. This virtual conference will touch on both the potential of discovery services as well as some of the issues involved.
FAIRsharing and DataCite: Data Repository Selection- Criteria That MatterSusanna-Assunta Sansone
Through a collaboration with Datacite, FAIRsharing is working with a number of journal publishers (PLOS, Springer Nature, F1000, Wiley, Taylor and Francis, Elsevier, EMBO Press, eLife, GigaScience and Cambridge University Press) to identify a common set of criteria for selecting and recommending data repositories (and associated standards) that will be implemented in FAIRsharing. Details of this work and participants at https://osf.io/m2bce
RDA Webinar - BioSharing - mapping the landscape of data standards, repositor...Peter McQuilton
A 30 minute webinar presented on behalf of the RDA/Force11 BioSharing WG, covering our work to map data standards, databases, and data policies in the life, biomedical and environmental sciences.
Zdravsvui Druh! Ya sdelal kurs "Zaryadka Every Day with Dr.Volz".
V Russia ludi delay zaryadka? America, Canada and Australia delaet "Zaryadka Every Day with Dr.Volz"! And ochen lubyat Dr. Volz. And govoryat spasibo mister Volz. My doctrine polezny especially for Russki Chelovek.
And posledny: "Physical Zaryadka&Spiritual Prisyadka with Dr.Volz". Etot ochen ochen horoshy! Teper vtoroe part
SPSBOS -- How your metadata strategy impacts everything you doChristian Buckley
Presentation given 4-9-2011 at SharePoint Saturday Boston on the need for sound metadata and taxonomy strategy in any SharePoint deployment (or re-architecture).
11 areas that you should have baked into your migration plans. In this vendor session at SPS San Diego, I also gave a 20 minute demo of Davinci Migrator for SharePoint 2010.
How your metadata strategy impacts everything you doChristian Buckley
"Looking Under the Hood - How Your Metadata Strategy Impacts Everything You Do" is a 101 topic for business users to help them understand the importance of metadata, taxonomy, and governance in SharePoint 2010.
Looking Under the Hood: How Your Metadata Strategy Impacts Everything You DoChristian Buckley
A SharePoint 101 presentation that outlines metadata, taxonomy, and governance - what they are, why they are important, and how they affect everything you do inside SharePoint (specifically, SP2010)
This white paper is about SharePoint Information Organizer (SIO). The SIO is a content management and classification solution which when installed runs from within the SharePoint ribbon. This assists SharePoint administrators, content owners, Site collections administrators in classifying their content according to the ever growing business needs in any organization relying on SharePoint.
Looking Under the Hood -- Australia SharePoint ConferenceChristian Buckley
"Looking Under the Hood: How Your Metadata Strategy Impacts Everything You Do" was presented on 3/9/2011 at the Australia SharePoint Conference in Sydney.
SharePoint 2013 Governance Planning - SharePoint governance is the set of policies, roles, responsibilities, and processes that guides, directs, and controls how an organization's business divisions and IT teams cooperate to achieve business goals.
11 Strategic Considerations for SharePoint Migration, presentation given by Christian Buckley at the SharePoint Best Practices Conference in August 2010, Reston VA
Iinformación sobre planeación de intranet y las consideraciones que hay que tomar para definir los fundamentos arquitectónicos que soporten el crecimiento orgánico de una intranet empresarial.
“A survey of corporate CIOs and general counsels found that, typically, 69% of the data most organizations keep can – and should – be deleted.”
Compliance, Governance and Oversight Counsel (CGOC) Summit
So what happens to the 69%? Most likely it will get migrated with no rhyme or reason. Just because it seems easier. And the organization is still left with mismanaged, useless information. That’s only one migration scenario. Migrations can be fraught with delays, budget overruns, and overall frustration. Register for this practical and informative webinar on March 25th, sponsored by Portal Solutions and Concept Searching and learn how you can eliminate migration challenges and reach the pinnacle of success.
What you will take away:
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• Understand the key challenges that need to be overcome before migration
• Obtain buy-in and build the business case on why migration adds value and does not just move content from one place to another
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Presentation to the Information & Knowledge Management Society in Singapore, March 2008, on approaches to integrating controlled and uncontrolled vocabularies.
You have adopted Microsoft SharePoint in your organization and have end users requesting tools and applications in SharePoint. Is SharePoint really the solution? Now you need the ‘SharePoint Person’! That is the person who is the solution architect, information architect, infrastructure architect, administrator, developer and support analyst all rolled into one. What technical skills will that person or team need to have to be successful in building and supporting SharePoint Solutions. You will learn the types of SharePoint requests that can be received from end users based on a decade of experience in building SharePoint solutions, and link them to the skillets that are required by your SharePoint team. You will also understand the skills required to support and maintain an effective Microsoft SharePoint environment.
Metadata Management In A Social Media World, Spsbos, 2 2010Christian Buckley
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Providing Globus Services to Users of JASMIN for Environmental Data AnalysisGlobus
JASMIN is the UK’s high-performance data analysis platform for environmental science, operated by STFC on behalf of the UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC). In addition to its role in hosting the CEDA Archive (NERC’s long-term repository for climate, atmospheric science & Earth observation data in the UK), JASMIN provides a collaborative platform to a community of around 2,000 scientists in the UK and beyond, providing nearly 400 environmental science projects with working space, compute resources and tools to facilitate their work. High-performance data transfer into and out of JASMIN has always been a key feature, with many scientists bringing model outputs from supercomputers elsewhere in the UK, to analyse against observational or other model data in the CEDA Archive. A growing number of JASMIN users are now realising the benefits of using the Globus service to provide reliable and efficient data movement and other tasks in this and other contexts. Further use cases involve long-distance (intercontinental) transfers to and from JASMIN, and collecting results from a mobile atmospheric radar system, pushing data to JASMIN via a lightweight Globus deployment. We provide details of how Globus fits into our current infrastructure, our experience of the recent migration to GCSv5.4, and of our interest in developing use of the wider ecosystem of Globus services for the benefit of our user community.
Globus Compute wth IRI Workflows - GlobusWorld 2024Globus
As part of the DOE Integrated Research Infrastructure (IRI) program, NERSC at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and ALCF at Argonne National Lab are working closely with General Atomics on accelerating the computing requirements of the DIII-D experiment. As part of the work the team is investigating ways to speedup the time to solution for many different parts of the DIII-D workflow including how they run jobs on HPC systems. One of these routes is looking at Globus Compute as a way to replace the current method for managing tasks and we describe a brief proof of concept showing how Globus Compute could help to schedule jobs and be a tool to connect compute at different facilities.
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Navigating the Metaverse: A Journey into Virtual Evolution"Donna Lenk
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Atelier - Innover avec l’IA Générative et les graphes de connaissancesNeo4j
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Allez au-delà du battage médiatique autour de l’IA et découvrez des techniques pratiques pour utiliser l’IA de manière responsable à travers les données de votre organisation. Explorez comment utiliser les graphes de connaissances pour augmenter la précision, la transparence et la capacité d’explication dans les systèmes d’IA générative. Vous partirez avec une expérience pratique combinant les relations entre les données et les LLM pour apporter du contexte spécifique à votre domaine et améliorer votre raisonnement.
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Code reviews are vital for ensuring good code quality. They serve as one of our last lines of defense against bugs and subpar code reaching production.
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Climate Science Flows: Enabling Petabyte-Scale Climate Analysis with the Eart...Globus
The Earth System Grid Federation (ESGF) is a global network of data servers that archives and distributes the planet’s largest collection of Earth system model output for thousands of climate and environmental scientists worldwide. Many of these petabyte-scale data archives are located in proximity to large high-performance computing (HPC) or cloud computing resources, but the primary workflow for data users consists of transferring data, and applying computations on a different system. As a part of the ESGF 2.0 US project (funded by the United States Department of Energy Office of Science), we developed pre-defined data workflows, which can be run on-demand, capable of applying many data reduction and data analysis to the large ESGF data archives, transferring only the resultant analysis (ex. visualizations, smaller data files). In this talk, we will showcase a few of these workflows, highlighting how Globus Flows can be used for petabyte-scale climate analysis.
Zoom is a comprehensive platform designed to connect individuals and teams efficiently. With its user-friendly interface and powerful features, Zoom has become a go-to solution for virtual communication and collaboration. It offers a range of tools, including virtual meetings, team chat, VoIP phone systems, online whiteboards, and AI companions, to streamline workflows and enhance productivity.
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We describe the deployment and use of Globus Compute for remote computation. This content is aimed at researchers who wish to compute on remote resources using a unified programming interface, as well as system administrators who will deploy and operate Globus Compute services on their research computing infrastructure.
In the ever-evolving landscape of technology, enterprise software development is undergoing a significant transformation. Traditional coding methods are being challenged by innovative no-code solutions, which promise to streamline and democratize the software development process.
This shift is particularly impactful for enterprises, which require robust, scalable, and efficient software to manage their operations. In this article, we will explore the various facets of enterprise software development with no-code solutions, examining their benefits, challenges, and the future potential they hold.
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Deuglo follows seven steps methods for delivering their services to their customers. They called it the Software development life cycle process (SDLC).
Requirement — Collecting the Requirements is the first Phase in the SSLC process.
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Globus Connect Server Deep Dive - GlobusWorld 2024Globus
We explore the Globus Connect Server (GCS) architecture and experiment with advanced configuration options and use cases. This content is targeted at system administrators who are familiar with GCS and currently operate—or are planning to operate—broader deployments at their institution.
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Cross-facility research orchestration comes with ever-changing constraints regarding the availability and suitability of various compute and data resources. In short, a flexible data and processing fabric is needed to enable the dynamic redirection of data and compute tasks throughout the lifecycle of an experiment. In this talk, we illustrate how we easily leveraged Globus services to instrument the ACE research testbed at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility with flexible data and task orchestration capabilities.
8. Adoption
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2. Truly enjoy their work with and utilization of the software
3. Gain real business value out of it
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39. Jonathan Ralton
Email jonathanr@bluemetal.com
Twitter @jonralton
Blog blog.jonralton.net
Editor's Notes
GOOD AFTERNOON
My name’s Jonathan and I’m with a company up in Boston called BlueMetal Architects, a Microsoft partner; I’ve had going on nine years of hands-on SharePoint experience
Let’s get a show of hands.
Who’s using SharePoint?
Keep them up…
Who thinks their organization knows enough about SharePoint to manage it well?
Who thinks they can find stuff easily in their system?
Who thinks their content is useful once they actually find it?
I’m going to be talking to you about what I think are some of the key aspects of governance that contribute to user adoption, and these aspects don’t have anything to do with the latest bells and whistles and using shiny objects to get your users using SharePoint effectively.
We only have a short amount of time, of course, so…
We’re going to briefly discuss what adoption is,
How classification of your content can affect it,
What SharePoint provides to you to build with,
How you might think about governing with this stuff in mind, and
What your actual approach might be.
What is adoption, to you?
Can you define adoption concisely in a way that is applicable to all organizations?
(POINT) Your definition is going to be different than your definition.
You want to think about the actual person—your user--sitting at their desk and what their problems are.
What do you want this person to do differently?
What you want that person to do differently should be something that is good if you want them to change the way they behave
To help that person do something differently, you want to consider your change management strategy
And I’m not talking about purely IT’s change management process where you open tickets and keep records of migrations
I’m talking about rolling out change to the business and helping users with that change
This involves not just turning something on and seeing what happens, although sometimes this actually may work—if you’re Apple, for example. If it’s so intuitive, then go ahead, but who thinks that SharePoint is as easy to use as their iPhone?
Part of this change management strategy will be to encourage this continued behavior
We don’t want them to do something differently once, we want that result to be sustained
And that’s the system’s responsibility because you’re not going to be there sitting with every user every time
So let’s think about this adoption thing; it’s hard to define, and this isn’t by any means a comprehensive definition
But I want us to consider what factors might accelerate this holy grail called adoption
OK, so how can we help our user out?
They’re sitting at their desk and they need stuff to do their job.
Information Architecture is the blueprint for how your content is stored and managed and how users will interact with it
It is derived ultimately from your taxonomy, which contributes to your content architecture
This is where you add processes, policies, activities…
The processes, policies, and activities around managing your content combined with the user interface and user experience is what contributes to all that and becomes your IA
Why do we talk about how we store content?--it’s not just because it’s a best practice or it’s fun.
I find it fun…
This has to do with your overall content strategy.
Why do you care about a content architecture?
You need it if you want to approach effective CM.
It’s part of a process which is going to help you achieve your content strategy and will form the foundation for content management
Why you store your content leads to
How you store your content
and a well defined CA will lubricate successful CM
Remember those circles—Information Architecture parts of the whole
The real underlying key here is your taxonomy
This is how you classify and categorize your content, or how you label and group it
In talking about these big concepts—content architecture and taxonomy--What are the common threads here?
What does taxonomy as part of content architecture look like?
It’s structuring
And organizing
How are we going to get there?
We’re grouping things
To be able to classify and categorize
Why do we work with taxonomy?
Again, findability
And usability
CONTENT
It’s also about your USERS.
If you think about how that person at their desk likes to get to stuff, it’s about half and half.
Some people like to follow a map and street signs along the way to get to where they want to go.
Others like to search for their content and expect it to come up pretty high in the result set.
What kind of person are you?
Think about your email. If you’re a filer and have tons of nested folders that you put your emails into, you’re probably a light red ‘navigation’ person.
If you’ve got all your emails in your Inbox and anytime you want to find something you type in a keyword or you group and sort by sender, you’re probably a dark red ‘search’ person.
You have to consider both approaches in building out your taxonomy.
Once you’ve located some content…
We want some qualitative data about the content to differentiate it from the sea of other documents and blog posts and images…
The goals, again, are helping users FIND their stuff and USE it effectively.
Taxonomy is part of the bigger picture; shouldn’t be examined in a vacuum.
Other parts of your content architecture will include policies, workflows, etc.
Again, we’re looking at crafting this content architecture because we want to get to effective CM
Again, you combine a CA with all the elements of the user experience to comprise your IA
Let’s get back to what we talked about around adoption for a moment.
What your content is, where it is, how it is presented… these will all affect your users’ behavior
We’re talking about findability and usability
Positive experience around these qualities are not the only things that will help, but they will definitely drive adoption
Our context here is SharePoint of course, so what does SharePoint give to us to work with to implement a good information architecture?
We have ALL these things to build with in SharePoint, and more…
How do we do it right?
We’ve got metadata, which is, in SharePoint…
Your Content Types
These are definitions of kinds of content
Who has worked with a content type in SharePoint?
“a reusable collection of:
metadata (columns),
workflow,
behavior, and other
settings
for a category of items or documents in a…list or document library”
Your Site Columns
These are containers for specific kinds of information about your content that will help differentiate it from other content
“a reusable column definition, or template, that you can assign to multiple lists across multiple SharePoint sites”
SharePoint gives us several layers to work with from the farm all the way down to individual items.
It’s important to understand what can be configured where and the scope of those decisions.
Line of demarcation
On-Premise vs. the cloud/Office 365
When you combine your taxonomy and consider it within the context of your content within SharePoint, this is really where you can start to institute governance
These are just some of the things that are really useful blades in that Swiss Army Knife known as SharePoint
They can all help you with different aspects of governance and influence adoption
OK, so it’s InfoGovCon—when’s he going to get to the ‘gov’ part?
So we are now exposed to what SharePoint can give us out of the box.
Do you want to turn all this stuff on and hope for the best?
The goal is to create Pleasantville.
But you’re going to end up in the Wild West if you don’t think carefully about the stuff we’re considering today and craft a governance plan that supports and sustains the system.
Again, CONTENT
You need to maintain it throughout its life
And you need to consider when you no longer need it, too
Crafting this plan can be a good thing or it can be a bad thing as far as adoption goes
Think about Christian’s opening keynote—do you set up a police state? Can your users self-govern?
This isn’t a one-time thing.
As the system ages,
As your organization changes,
As your processes develop further,
As your users evolve… the plan must evolve.
Form a committee and continue to meet about your governance plan.
Talk to your users
The worst IT organizations operate behind a wall
Go talk to that person at their desk
Don’t assume
Don’t prescribe
Match SharePoint to the business processes, not the reverse
It’s better to try to bend the system as much as possible rather than asking your users to change what they do because the system doesn’t work they way they do
Consider your culture
Some organizations do well with change and innovation
Some do well with strict guidelines
Plan before building
Don’t just turn SharePoint on and start clicking.
Showcase
Find some enthusiastic users and help them through solving one problem. Then market it.
Revisit
Lather, rinse, repeat
Don’t walk away after you undertake this effort to never return
This may mean time allocation and even budget
It’s not an option; you need a governance plan for SharePoint
It influences adoption
Because SharePoint has so many of those blades on the knife
Because SharePoint is so malleable
It’s a complete change from file shares and managing documents within folder structures—this is working together on content with content in a browser
Thanks so much for your interest in this and find me later on if you have some questions; I’d love to meet you and talk about what thoughts came up for you as we discussed all this.
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