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This presentation was part of a Roundtable on Scholarly Publishing and its Digital Futures, the description of which is below. For my contribution, i described four themes that govern how JSTOR Labs approaches change and thus tries to shape or at least point to the future of scholarly communication.
The digital transformation of humanistic scholarship and unprecedented access to digitized and digital sources not only impacts our methodologies for research and education, it also requires us to rethink the way critical work and scholarly resources get published and communicated. Important issues such as peer review, collaboration, multimodal textuality, embedded access to sources and dynamic visualizations, or sustainability are at the core of considerations that reshape scholarly publishing. This roundtable will offer insights into these transformations from scholarly, library, university press, and scholarly resource perspectives.
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Just as new forms of high-quality scientific data lead to new scientific discoveries, new forms of high-quality metadata lead to new methods of scholarly research. JSTOR Labs builds experimental tools for research and teaching on top of the JSTOR digital library of academic journals and books. In doing so, they leverage the scale of JSTOR’s corpus, JSTOR’s strong and consistent metadata, and natural language processing and other machine learning methods to extend this metadata in new directions. In this talk, I’ll showcase some of the award-winning research tools JSTOR Labs has built and describe the metadata foundation that enables these new forms of academic research.
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JSTOR Labs and Folger Shakespeare Library partnered to create Understanding Shakespeare (http://labs.jstor.org/shakespeare). the site is now being used regularly by Shakespeare students and scholars. In this talk, I'll dive into what powers the tool, what we have been able to do on top of it (including introducing an open and public api to its data), and where we'll go from here.
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JSTOR Labs, a team at JSTOR that build experimental tools for research and teaching, sees itself somewhat as conducting "applied digital humanities." In this talk, I describe what I mean by that term and showcase examples of how the tools and methods from the digital humanities (or DH) have informed our work. I explain why publishers and other members of the scholarly communication community should consider applying DH tools and methods in their work, and I elucidate four themes to consider as they do so.
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JSTOR has launched a new Labs team charged with
partnering with libraries and scholars to build innovative
tools for research and teaching. The JSTOR Labs team has
successfully used ‘flash builds’ – high-intensity, short-burst,
user-driven development efforts – in order to bring an idea
from conception to a working, user-delighting prototype in
as little as a week. In this talk the presenter will describe
the approach to flash builds, highlight the partnerships,
skills, tools and content that help to innovate, and suggest
ways that libraries can adopt these methods to support
innovation and the digital humanities.
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Subtitle: Convergence & Sustainability: Why Our Future Is Bright, Part 2
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On June 7, Jill Hurst-Wahl spoke at the New York Archives Conference. Her presentation was a follow-up to her plenary session for NYAC in 2011.
This PowerPoint was created for use by participants and others after her talk, and covers all of the information she provided in her session. Jill did not use PowerPoint during her session.
Presentation on UTS Library support for researchers - done at Research Week 2013. Speaker's notes are included and I've included the slide builds, so on some slides you'll need to click several times to get the full slide.
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Social media and libraries
Why social media in libraries?
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Uses of social media in libraries
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Library social media policy
Web tools for managing platforms
Social media in American libraries
So what must we do?
What if?
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JSTOR, a not-for-profit digital archive of scholarly journals, books, and other content, recently launched a new Labs team that partners with publishers, libraries and labs to develop new ways of organizing and navigating research literature in a digital environment. In this talk, Alex Humphreys, Director of JSTOR Labs, discusses the development of a new JSTOR project focused on Sustainability. The project, which incorporates scholarly and policy literature from the environmental humanities and social sciences, is being designed with guidance from scholars and subject librarians across disciplines to help students and scholars better understand and navigate the growing corpus of interdisciplinary research in this field. The talk will include a discussion of the challenges in building a library of scholarly materials on Sustainability, a demonstration of some of the functionality that has been developed for the Sustainability project in collaboration with scholars, including a semantic index and a collection of topic pages, and an overview of the research and development methodology that we use in developing new functionality for JSTOR—a process that has enabled us to develop and test new features in as little as a week’s time. The talk may be of especial interest to conference attendees who teach undergraduate students, and to graduate students and early-stage scholars who are considering alternative-academic careers in publishing or technology.
Librarians are increasingly focused on incorporating outreach, engagement, collaboration, and innovation into everyday tasks such as programming, collection development, instruction, and reference support. Many libraries are turning their attention to what is happening outside of their spaces to improve services and resources inside their spaces. Some institutions are moving away from traditional models of reference, instruction, and collection development and toward creating active mobile spaces where communities can come together to collectively produce, curate, and consume information.
The Rutgers University Art Library looks outside its walls to connect with the local campus and New Brunswick communities with the goal of providing innovative programming that engages a wide range of patrons while highlighting the library’s collections and local scholarly research.
This paper will look at outreach and engagement and examine how these activities affect collection development and highlight library collections. Six case studies from the Rutgers University Libraries will be used as examples: The Rutgers Art Library Exhibition Spaces (RALES), the Rutgers University Libraries Coloring initiatives, button-making, LEGO play, an Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon, and Banned Books Week.
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Innovative library services a case study of rayat shikshan sanstha’s ycis sat...अमोल खोब्रागडे
Library is considered as an important part of the college which is the major learning resource for the students and staff. As per the changing time, role of library is also being changed. Advanced technology has been utilized by the library to provide library services. The main aim of library is to avail the various reading material and learning resources to the students and work for the amusement and imbibe values in the readers by reading various autobiographies of great leaders. Students get inspirations and life-force for their future life by reading.
Library and information science (LIS) is a multi-disciplinary and dynamic field which adapts rapidly to technological and social developments, and keeps pace with emerging ideas and technologies. The willingness of library and information professionals to proactively accept changes and venture into new knowledge territories is helping the LIS discipline to stay relevant and useful in the fast changing society. Other factors that are driving innovation and creativity in LIS, are the popularity of the Web as an alternative source for information acquisition as well as competition from non-library agencies now involved in information provision.
Information and communication Technology (ICT) has been considered as the most instrumental factor for the change in the mode of delivery of library services. General and traditional services of the library have been influenced with the introduction of new innovative practices, because of application of new ICT –based products and services.
Rayat Shikshan Sanstha
Late Padmabhushan Dr. Karmaveer Bhaurao Patil founded Rayat Shikshan Sanstha in 1919 with a view to provide education to all classes of the society. “Education through self help” is our motto. Rayat Shikshan Sanstha is the biggest educational institution in Asia in a class of its own. It is spread over 14 districts of Maharashtra and 1 district of Karnataka having 674 branches which include colleges, industrial training institutes, high schools, primary and pre-primary schools and ashram shalas. At present it caters to the educational need of upto 4.5 lakh students through excellence human resource of 1800 workforce.
Karmaveer Vidhya Probodhini is the academic council of our institution involved in undertaking the projects indigenously to keep pace with the challenges in the competitive world.
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http://labs.jstor.org
Reimagining the Monograph - guest lecture at the Kluge Center of the Library ...Alex Humphreys
Monographs are increasingly making the print-to-digital shift that journals started twenty years ago, opening up new possibilities for the ways that a long-form argument can be presented and communicated. Yet a richer online environment for scholarly monographs has not come to pass, or at least not at scale. In October 2016, JSTOR Labs, an experimental platform development group at JSTOR, convened a group of scholars, librarians, and publishers to unpack the design issues around the presentation of digital monographs. The group proposed a set of principles for reimagining the presentation of monographs in order to improve the user experience and increase the value of ebooks to scholars. In this presentation, we will introduce these principles, which are outlined in a new white paper available at http://labs.jstor.org/monograph and demonstrate a prototype that the JSTOR Labs group built based on the working group’s feedback: a topic-based navigational aid for monographs called Topicgraph. We will reflect on the implications of these principles for authors, researchers, libraries and publishers. Last, we will contemplate next steps for this work and explore and seek audience input on potential future prototypes and directions. This slide deck includes the results from an activity with the audience, which they voted on potential future prototypes.
On Beyond Keyword Search: The Thinking Behind JSTOR Labs' Text Analyzer - NFA...Alex Humphreys
How Text Analyzer enables researchers, through the use of natural language processing, to upload a document and get relevant results including content, topics and subjects. JSTOR pushed the envelope of traditional searching and will share what challenges and opportunities were learned from their beta test of this new tool.
Reimagining the Monograph - AAUP 2017 Annual MeetingAlex Humphreys
Monographs are increasingly making the print-to-digital shift that journals started twenty years ago, opening up new possibilities for the ways that a long-form argument can be presented and communicated. Yet a richer online environment for scholarly monographs has not come to pass, or at least not at scale. In October 2016, JSTOR Labs, an experimental platform development group at JSTOR, convened a group of scholars, librarians, and publishers to unpack the design issues around the presentation of digital monographs. The group proposed a set of principles for reimagining the presentation of monographs in order to improve the user experience and increase the value of ebooks to scholars. In this presentation, we will introduce these principles, which are outlined in a new white paper available at http://labs.jstor.org/monograph and demonstrate a prototype that the JSTOR Labs group built based on the working group’s feedback: a topic-based navigational aid for monographs called Topicgraph. We will reflect on the implications of these principles for authors, researchers, libraries and publishers. Last, we will contemplate next steps for this work and explore and seek audience input on potential future prototypes and directions. This slide deck includes the results from an activity with the audience, which they voted on potential future prototypes.
Reimagining the Digital Monograph: Improving the Discovery and Use of Scholar...Alex Humphreys
Monographs are increasingly making the print-to-digital shift that journals started twenty years ago, but many online platforms for monographs arguably do not take full advantage of the digital environment. In October 2016, JSTOR Labs, an experimental platform development group at JSTOR, convened a group of scholars, librarians, and publishers to unpack the design issues around the presentation of digital monographs. The group proposed a set of principles for reimagining the presentation of monographs in order to improve the user experience and increase the value of ebooks to scholars and students. This talk introduces these principles, which are also outlined in a white paper, and addresses discovery, evaluation, and interoperability challenges of the current scholarly ebook landscape. The presentation includes a demonstration of a new, open-source prototype that the JSTOR Labs group has designed: a topic-based navigational aid for monographs called "Topicgraph," and a deep dive into the topic modeling and natural language processing tools that power it. Last, the presentation included audience-participation voting on four potential follow-on projects. These slides show the results of that voting.
ACRL 2017: Unlocking the Value of the MonographAlex Humphreys
JSTOR Labs, an experimental platform development group, convened at Columbia University a group of scholars, librarians, and publishers in October 2016. Together, they tackled this design question: if we applied data visualization and design thinking techniques to the existing corpus of digitized monograph files, how could we improve the discovery and user experience for scholars, students, and general readers? In this presentation I share the approach we took to Reimagine the Monograph and demonstrate the working prototype created during a “flash build” at Columbia in November by JSTOR Labs. I also share four "product concepts" that we might build next, and poll the audience for feedback on these ideas. Results from audience polling are included in this slide deck.
Building Your Next Great Product by Talking to Users Each Step of the WayAlex Humphreys
A description of the stepwise process JSTOR Labs takes developing horizon-2 and horizon-3 opportunities, with emphasis on speeding up iteration cycles and using user-feedback for rapid learning.
Design Jam: Brainstorm Innovative Ideas by Focusing on the User - AAUP 2016Alex Humphreys
JSTOR Labs, which partners with publishers, libraries, and labs to build innovative tools for research and teaching (http://labs.jstor.org), uses “design jams” to come up with its creative products, designs, and tools. A design jam (also called a design studio) is a structured brainstorming technique that focuses on the user, resulting in dozens and even hundreds of new ideas in just a couple of hours. In this Collaboration Lab, we will learn how to design jam by conducting one. Come prepared to participate, to draw, to share your ideas, and to have fun.
The slides from this session include descriptions of the activities in a Design Jam, as well as templates.
In this talk, Alex Humphreys, Director of JSTOR Labs, discusses the development of a new JSTOR project focused on Sustainability. The project, which incorporates scholarly and policy literature from the environmental humanities and social sciences, is being designed with guidance from scholars and subject librarians across disciplines to help students and scholars better understand and navigate the growing corpus of interdisciplinary research in this field. The talk will include a discussion of the challenges in building a library of scholarly materials on Sustainability, a demonstration of some of the functionality that has been developed for the Sustainability project in collaboration with scholars, including a semantic index and a collection of topic pages, and an overview of the research and development methodology that we use in developing new functionality for JSTOR—a process that has enabled us to develop and test new features in as little as a week’s time. The talk may be of especial interest to conference attendees who teach undergraduate students, and to graduate students and early-stage scholars who are considering alternative-academic careers in publishing or technology.
Learning Lean: Using Flash Builds to Learn from Your UsersAlex Humphreys
The JSTOR Labs team has been using Flash Builds – high-intensity, short-burst, user-driven development efforts – in order to prototype new ideas and get to a user saying “Wow” in as little as a week. In this talk, I’ll describe how we’ve done this. I’ll use two case studies to illustrate the importance of getting user input throughout the process, highlighting what your users can tell you – and what they can’t.
To build a platform for (high, sustainable) use, we need to know what will thrill users. Finding the right concoction of technology, functionality and design to thrill and delight users takes a thousand decisions, pivots and changes. The JSTOR Labs team has been using Flash Builds – high-intensity, short-burst, user-driven development efforts – in order to prototype new ideas and get to a user saying “Wow” in as little as a week. In this talk, I’ll describe how we’ve done this, highlighting the partnerships, skills, tools and content that help us innovate.
This presentation was a partnership between Folger Shakespeare Library and JSTOR Labs, describing and presenting Understanding Shakespeare (http://labs.jstor.org/shakespeare), including the innovative "flash build" method of building it, in which the bulk of the work to complete the site was done in one week.
Bridging the Digital Gap Brad Spiegel Macon, GA Initiative.pptxBrad Spiegel Macon GA
Brad Spiegel Macon GA’s journey exemplifies the profound impact that one individual can have on their community. Through his unwavering dedication to digital inclusion, he’s not only bridging the gap in Macon but also setting an example for others to follow.
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Features of Wireless Communication
The evolution of wireless technology has brought many advancements with its effective features.
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Wireless communication can be used for cellular telephony, wireless access to the internet, wireless home networking, and so on.
Multi-cluster Kubernetes Networking- Patterns, Projects and GuidelinesSanjeev Rampal
Talk presented at Kubernetes Community Day, New York, May 2024.
Technical summary of Multi-Cluster Kubernetes Networking architectures with focus on 4 key topics.
1) Key patterns for Multi-cluster architectures
2) Architectural comparison of several OSS/ CNCF projects to address these patterns
3) Evolution trends for the APIs of these projects
4) Some design recommendations & guidelines for adopting/ deploying these solutions.
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Discover the power of a simple 7-second brain wave ritual that can attract wealth and abundance into your life. By tapping into specific brain frequencies, this technique helps you manifest financial success effortlessly. Ready to transform your financial future? Try this powerful ritual and start attracting money today!
APNIC Foundation, presented by Ellisha Heppner at the PNG DNS Forum 2024APNIC
Ellisha Heppner, Grant Management Lead, presented an update on APNIC Foundation to the PNG DNS Forum held from 6 to 10 May, 2024 in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea.
# Internet Security: Safeguarding Your Digital World
In the contemporary digital age, the internet is a cornerstone of our daily lives. It connects us to vast amounts of information, provides platforms for communication, enables commerce, and offers endless entertainment. However, with these conveniences come significant security challenges. Internet security is essential to protect our digital identities, sensitive data, and overall online experience. This comprehensive guide explores the multifaceted world of internet security, providing insights into its importance, common threats, and effective strategies to safeguard your digital world.
## Understanding Internet Security
Internet security encompasses the measures and protocols used to protect information, devices, and networks from unauthorized access, attacks, and damage. It involves a wide range of practices designed to safeguard data confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Effective internet security is crucial for individuals, businesses, and governments alike, as cyber threats continue to evolve in complexity and scale.
### Key Components of Internet Security
1. **Confidentiality**: Ensuring that information is accessible only to those authorized to access it.
2. **Integrity**: Protecting information from being altered or tampered with by unauthorized parties.
3. **Availability**: Ensuring that authorized users have reliable access to information and resources when needed.
## Common Internet Security Threats
Cyber threats are numerous and constantly evolving. Understanding these threats is the first step in protecting against them. Some of the most common internet security threats include:
### Malware
Malware, or malicious software, is designed to harm, exploit, or otherwise compromise a device, network, or service. Common types of malware include:
- **Viruses**: Programs that attach themselves to legitimate software and replicate, spreading to other programs and files.
- **Worms**: Standalone malware that replicates itself to spread to other computers.
- **Trojan Horses**: Malicious software disguised as legitimate software.
- **Ransomware**: Malware that encrypts a user's files and demands a ransom for the decryption key.
- **Spyware**: Software that secretly monitors and collects user information.
### Phishing
Phishing is a social engineering attack that aims to steal sensitive information such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details. Attackers often masquerade as trusted entities in email or other communication channels, tricking victims into providing their information.
### Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) Attacks
MitM attacks occur when an attacker intercepts and potentially alters communication between two parties without their knowledge. This can lead to the unauthorized acquisition of sensitive information.
### Denial-of-Service (DoS) and Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) Attacks
Introduction to JSTOR Labs: What We Do & How We Do It
1. INTRODUCTION
TO JSTOR LABS
WHAT WE DO &
HOW WE DO IT
@abhumphreys
Alex Humphreys, JSTOR Labs
American Theological Library Association
April 20, 2017
2. ITHAKA is a not-for-profit organization that helps the academic
community use digital technologies to preserve the scholarly record
and to advance research and teaching in sustainable ways.
JSTOR is a not-for-profit
digital library of academic
journals, books, and
primary sources.
Ithaka S+R is a not-for-profit
research and consulting
service that helps academic,
cultural, and publishing
communities thrive in the
digital environment.
Portico is a not-for-profit
preservation service for
digital publications, including
electronic journals, books,
and historical collections.
Artstor provides 2+ million
high-quality images and
digital asset management
software to enhance
scholarship and teaching.
3. JSTOR Labs works with partner publishers, libraries and
labs to create tools for researchers, teachers and students
that are immediately useful – and a little bit magical.
6. WHITE PAPER
Currently released
as a draft for comment
Describes the
project, process & prototype
Includes 12 principles to
consider when reimagining the
monograph
labs.jstor.org/monograph
8. WORKING
RAPIDLY
Can we improve the
experience and value of
long-form scholarship?
Aug-Sep: User Research
Oct: Workshop
Nov: Build Prototype
Dec: Release Paper/Prototype