In increasingly complex information landscapes, is it time to stop thinking in terms of the library management system (LMS) or integrated library system (ILS), or even a ‘library services platform’ – and instead start talking about an ‘ecosystem’.
Keynote presentation at the Lita Forum, Albuquerque. Research and learning practices are enacted in technology rich environments. New tools support digital workflows and the volume and variety of research and learning outputs are growing. Libraries are working to support these new environments and to connect their services to them.
Library infrastructure: value for money? Ken gave a short presentation at the Jisc Library System Programme Workshop on 15th July 2013. It looked at the value and business case for making changes to library technology infrastructure. The workshop was a chance for the projects that made up the programme to talk about the work they had done and the tools and resources they have created, and a chance for the community to discuss some of the issues and challenges that the sector currently faces. The workshop had three main strands that explored:
Collaborative Systems and Services;
Transforming workflows and practices
Tools and Techniques for Systems Change
Integrating library services more closely with the student’s learning environment has long been a goal. A recent report on course reading from a Canadian university probably sums up the attitude of most UK academic libraries. ‘The Library has long placed a strong emphasis on working directly with faculty to tailor its services and resources to academic programs and integrate them at the point of need’. For over a decade the library/learning system space has been contested by a variety of approaches. It remains imperfectly resolved.
Collection directions - towards collective collectionslisld
How the emergence of new research and learning workflows in digital environments is affecting library collecting and collections. Several trends are reviewed. In the light of diversifying competing requirements, the need to manage down print and develop shared print responses is discussed.
Presentation to OCLC Asia Pacific Regional Council meeting. 13 Oct. 2014.
Scholarly Information Practices: Implications for Library Collections and Ser...OCLC Research
Overview of findings from a report (by Carole Palmer and colleagues, commissioned by OCLC Research) on scholarly information practices with some reflections on the implications of this work for library collections and services. From a presentation to the UC Berkeley Libraries' Roundtable Meeting, 12 March 2009.
OA in the Library Collection: The Challenge of Identifying and Managing Open ...NASIG
Librarians, researchers, and the general public have largely embraced the concept of open access (OA). Yet, incorporating OA resources into existing discovery and tracking systems is often a complicated process. Open access material can be delivered through a variety of publishing or archival mechanisms, creating certain challenges, particularly for those managing e-resources. Although an increasing proportion of research output is becoming open access each year, organization and discovery of these resources remains imperfect.
The debate between the relative merits of Green and Gold OA is regularly discussed in academic circles but less attention is devoted towards Hybrid OA and the challenges inherent in this model. Most major publishers offer open access through one or more of these models, but open access metadata standards seem to be lacking among these content providers. The presenters will discuss some of these challenges identified in the literature and through other mechanisms, including data gathered by NISO and an original survey. By identifying these issues, the scholarly communication community can work together to improve discovery for end users.
Chris Bulock
Electronic Resources Librarian, SIUE Lovejoy Library
Chris is an Electronic Resources Librarian and NASIG member from the St. Louis area. His research and work are focused on improving the library user's experience. Chris is the recipient of the 2012 HARRASSOWITZ Charleston Conference Scholarship.
Nathan Hosburgh
Discovery & Systems Librarian, Rollins College
Nate Hosburgh is currently the Discovery & Systems Librarian at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida as part of a revamped Collections & Systems department that includes ILL, collection development, acquisitions, systems, and technical services. Previously, he held positions managing e-resources at Montana State University and managing interlibrary loan & document delivery at Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne
Keynote presentation at the Lita Forum, Albuquerque. Research and learning practices are enacted in technology rich environments. New tools support digital workflows and the volume and variety of research and learning outputs are growing. Libraries are working to support these new environments and to connect their services to them.
Library infrastructure: value for money? Ken gave a short presentation at the Jisc Library System Programme Workshop on 15th July 2013. It looked at the value and business case for making changes to library technology infrastructure. The workshop was a chance for the projects that made up the programme to talk about the work they had done and the tools and resources they have created, and a chance for the community to discuss some of the issues and challenges that the sector currently faces. The workshop had three main strands that explored:
Collaborative Systems and Services;
Transforming workflows and practices
Tools and Techniques for Systems Change
Integrating library services more closely with the student’s learning environment has long been a goal. A recent report on course reading from a Canadian university probably sums up the attitude of most UK academic libraries. ‘The Library has long placed a strong emphasis on working directly with faculty to tailor its services and resources to academic programs and integrate them at the point of need’. For over a decade the library/learning system space has been contested by a variety of approaches. It remains imperfectly resolved.
Collection directions - towards collective collectionslisld
How the emergence of new research and learning workflows in digital environments is affecting library collecting and collections. Several trends are reviewed. In the light of diversifying competing requirements, the need to manage down print and develop shared print responses is discussed.
Presentation to OCLC Asia Pacific Regional Council meeting. 13 Oct. 2014.
Scholarly Information Practices: Implications for Library Collections and Ser...OCLC Research
Overview of findings from a report (by Carole Palmer and colleagues, commissioned by OCLC Research) on scholarly information practices with some reflections on the implications of this work for library collections and services. From a presentation to the UC Berkeley Libraries' Roundtable Meeting, 12 March 2009.
OA in the Library Collection: The Challenge of Identifying and Managing Open ...NASIG
Librarians, researchers, and the general public have largely embraced the concept of open access (OA). Yet, incorporating OA resources into existing discovery and tracking systems is often a complicated process. Open access material can be delivered through a variety of publishing or archival mechanisms, creating certain challenges, particularly for those managing e-resources. Although an increasing proportion of research output is becoming open access each year, organization and discovery of these resources remains imperfect.
The debate between the relative merits of Green and Gold OA is regularly discussed in academic circles but less attention is devoted towards Hybrid OA and the challenges inherent in this model. Most major publishers offer open access through one or more of these models, but open access metadata standards seem to be lacking among these content providers. The presenters will discuss some of these challenges identified in the literature and through other mechanisms, including data gathered by NISO and an original survey. By identifying these issues, the scholarly communication community can work together to improve discovery for end users.
Chris Bulock
Electronic Resources Librarian, SIUE Lovejoy Library
Chris is an Electronic Resources Librarian and NASIG member from the St. Louis area. His research and work are focused on improving the library user's experience. Chris is the recipient of the 2012 HARRASSOWITZ Charleston Conference Scholarship.
Nathan Hosburgh
Discovery & Systems Librarian, Rollins College
Nate Hosburgh is currently the Discovery & Systems Librarian at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida as part of a revamped Collections & Systems department that includes ILL, collection development, acquisitions, systems, and technical services. Previously, he held positions managing e-resources at Montana State University and managing interlibrary loan & document delivery at Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne
Library discovery: past, present and some futureslisld
A presentation at the NISO virtual conference on Webscale Discovery Services, 20 November 2013.
Considers some of the issues that have led to the adoption of these services, and some future directions.
Distinguishes between discovery (providing a library destination) and discoverability (making stuff discoverable elsewhere).
Library collections and the emerging scholarly recordlisld
A high level review of collection trends followed by a summary of recent work on the evolving scholarly record.
Presented at the OCLC Research Library Partnership meeting at the University of Melbourne, 2 December 2015.
The network reshapes the research library collectionlisld
The library collection has been central to library identity and service, however we are now seeing major changes in how libraries help discover, curate and create collections. This is a response to evolving research and learning behaviors in a network environment. This presentation considers trends which are influencing how we think about library curatorial activities and are reshaping their collections. The first direction is the ‘inside-out library’ which is a response to the reorganization of research work by the digital environment. The second is the facilitated collections, which is a response to the reorganization of the information space by the network. The presentation discusses three ways in which we are thinking differently about collections: the inside out collection, the facilitated collection, and the collective collection.
Where Do We Go From Here? Assessing the Value and Impact of Discovery Systems
Michael Levine-Clark, Professor / Associate Dean for Scholarly Communication and Collections Services, University of Denver Libraries
Jason S Price, PhD, Director of Licensing Operations, SCELC Library Consortium
This presentation was provided by Kathleen Menzies of The University of Strathclyde, and Sarah Shreeves of The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign during the NISO Webinar "From ILS to Repository and Back: Data Interoperability," held on January 13, 2010.
We used to think of the user in the life of the library. Now we think of the library in the life of the user. As behaviors change in a network environment, we have seen growing interest in ethnographic and user-centered design approaches. This presentation introduces this topic. It also explores changes in how we manage collections as an illustration of this shift towards thinking of the library in the life of the user.
The Library in the Life of the User: Two Collection Directionslisld
Our understanding of library collections is changing in a digital, network environment. This presentation focuses on two trends in this context. First, the inside-out library is a trend which sees libraries support the creation, management and discoverability of institutional materials: research data, expertise, preprints, and so on. Second, the facilitated collection is a trend which sees libraries increasingly organize resources around user interests, whether these resources are external, collaborative or locally acquired.
This presentation was given at 'The transformation of academic library collecting: a symposium inspired by Dan C. Hazen'. Harvard Library, 20/21 Oct. 2016
Keynote Speaker: Matt Goldner, Executive Director, Cooperative Collection Services, OCLC
Expanding Our Horizons: Reaching for the Limits[PowerPoint]
The future of the library OPAC as a destination information portal is shaky at best. To surface library collections in today's information environment, libraries will have to move toward exposing themselves in multiple locations and through multiple methods. Looking at some of the successful ways OCLC has been able to surface the library's full capacity can give libraries one way to consider their futures.
Open source software landscape in libraries, motivation, benefits and products. Presented at the SCONUL/JISC 'Open Edge' conference in Edinburgh in January 2011
Library discovery: past, present and some futureslisld
A presentation at the NISO virtual conference on Webscale Discovery Services, 20 November 2013.
Considers some of the issues that have led to the adoption of these services, and some future directions.
Distinguishes between discovery (providing a library destination) and discoverability (making stuff discoverable elsewhere).
Library collections and the emerging scholarly recordlisld
A high level review of collection trends followed by a summary of recent work on the evolving scholarly record.
Presented at the OCLC Research Library Partnership meeting at the University of Melbourne, 2 December 2015.
The network reshapes the research library collectionlisld
The library collection has been central to library identity and service, however we are now seeing major changes in how libraries help discover, curate and create collections. This is a response to evolving research and learning behaviors in a network environment. This presentation considers trends which are influencing how we think about library curatorial activities and are reshaping their collections. The first direction is the ‘inside-out library’ which is a response to the reorganization of research work by the digital environment. The second is the facilitated collections, which is a response to the reorganization of the information space by the network. The presentation discusses three ways in which we are thinking differently about collections: the inside out collection, the facilitated collection, and the collective collection.
Where Do We Go From Here? Assessing the Value and Impact of Discovery Systems
Michael Levine-Clark, Professor / Associate Dean for Scholarly Communication and Collections Services, University of Denver Libraries
Jason S Price, PhD, Director of Licensing Operations, SCELC Library Consortium
This presentation was provided by Kathleen Menzies of The University of Strathclyde, and Sarah Shreeves of The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign during the NISO Webinar "From ILS to Repository and Back: Data Interoperability," held on January 13, 2010.
We used to think of the user in the life of the library. Now we think of the library in the life of the user. As behaviors change in a network environment, we have seen growing interest in ethnographic and user-centered design approaches. This presentation introduces this topic. It also explores changes in how we manage collections as an illustration of this shift towards thinking of the library in the life of the user.
The Library in the Life of the User: Two Collection Directionslisld
Our understanding of library collections is changing in a digital, network environment. This presentation focuses on two trends in this context. First, the inside-out library is a trend which sees libraries support the creation, management and discoverability of institutional materials: research data, expertise, preprints, and so on. Second, the facilitated collection is a trend which sees libraries increasingly organize resources around user interests, whether these resources are external, collaborative or locally acquired.
This presentation was given at 'The transformation of academic library collecting: a symposium inspired by Dan C. Hazen'. Harvard Library, 20/21 Oct. 2016
Keynote Speaker: Matt Goldner, Executive Director, Cooperative Collection Services, OCLC
Expanding Our Horizons: Reaching for the Limits[PowerPoint]
The future of the library OPAC as a destination information portal is shaky at best. To surface library collections in today's information environment, libraries will have to move toward exposing themselves in multiple locations and through multiple methods. Looking at some of the successful ways OCLC has been able to surface the library's full capacity can give libraries one way to consider their futures.
Open source software landscape in libraries, motivation, benefits and products. Presented at the SCONUL/JISC 'Open Edge' conference in Edinburgh in January 2011
Perspective on resource list/reading list managemnt_cilip_update_june2010Ken Chad Consulting Ltd
How has the management of academic resource lists changed, what are library management systems vendors offering and how are resource lists being handled in a social media environment?
Published in Library & Information Update (p.39-41). CILIP June 2010
Time for strategy: Ken was the keynote speaker at the 2011 National Acquisitions Group (NAG) conference in Manchester on 7th September. Libraries in all sectors face the challenge of relentless, disruptive, technology-driven change and tough economic times. Libraries are under pressure and there is a risk that decisions are made without an appreciation of their strategic importance. This is a good time then to look at some approaches to strategy, differentiating it from ‘mission’ and looking at business models.
Re-awakening the 'Peoples University' - the learning agenda opportunity to reinvigorate public libraries. Community, informal (outside formal academic institutions) and online learning is a growing, disruptive opportunity. Learning happens best where there is a ‘community’ of support and good learning spaces. Public libraries have an opportunity to thrive if they develop the right capabilities to deliver a compelling learning offer. Presented at the CILIP "Re-imaging Learning" Executive Briefing on 13th November 2014
Presented at the 2015 Charleston Conference by Neil Block, Vice President of Discovery Innovation, Academic Libraries at EBSCO Information Services; Elizabeth Leonard, Asst. Dean for Info. Technologies and Collection Services, Seton Hall University; and Tim McGeary, Associate University Librarian for IT, Duke University.
Libraries, collections, technology: presented at Pennylvania State University...lisld
Library collections are changing in a network environment. This presentation considers how collections are being reconfigured, it looks at research support services, and it explores the shift from the purchased/licensed collection to the facilitated collection.
This presentation was provided by Marshall Breeding of Library Technology for a NISO webinar, Integrating Library Management Systems, held on June 8, 2016
Revolutionary and Evolutionary Innovation - Marshall Breeding CONUL Conference
Presented at the CONUL Conference, July 2015, Athlone, Ireland by Marshall Breeding.
Biography
Marshall Breeding is an independent consultant, speaker, and author. He is the creator and editor of Library Technology Guides and the libraries.org online directory of libraries on the Web. His monthly column Systems Librarian appears in Computers in Libraries; he is the Editor for Smart Libraries Newsletter published by the American Library Association, and has authored the annual Library Systems Report published by Library Journal from 2002-2013 and by American Libraries since 2014. He has authored nine issues of ALA’s Library Technology Reports, and has written many other articles and book chapters. Marshall has edited or authored seven books, including Cloud Computing for Libraries published by in 2012 by Neal-Schuman, now part of ALA TechSource. He regularly teaches workshops and gives presentations at library conferences on a wide range of topics.
He has been an invited speaker for many library conferences and workshops throughout the United States and internationally. He has spoken in throughout the United States and in Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, China, Singapore, India, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Iceland, the Czech Republic, Slovenia, Israel, Austria, Germany, The Netherlands, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Spain, Ireland, the United Kingdom, Israel, Lebanon, Jordan, Colombia, Chile, Mexico, and Argentina.
Marshall Breeding held a variety of positions for the Vanderbilt University Libraries in Nashville, TN from 1985 through May 2012, including as Director for Innovative Technologies and Research as the Executive Director the Vanderbilt Television News Archive.
Breeding was the 2010 recipient of the LITA LITA/Library Hi Tech Award for Outstanding Communication for Continuing Education in Library and Information Science.
Read his Guideposts blog on Library Technology Guides at:
www.librarytechnology.org
Rethinking Library Cooperatives: Prepared for the Program for Cooperative Cat...Karen S Calhoun
In the context of current initiatives around linked data and cloud-based service frameworks, the presentation invites exploration of future directions that library cooperatives might take to significantly improve the visibility and recognition of library collections on the web.
A focus on the themes especially relevant to libraries - Data; Curation, Ethics.Collections, Research Teaching and Learning/ Student Success & Student Wellbeing
Presented at Internet Librarian International on 15th October 2019
In 2017 the Economist magazine, in a much quoted article said, ‘the world’s most valuable resource is no longer oil, but data. Smartphones and the internet have made data abundant, ubiquitous and far more valuable”. While data may be abundant, in the world of libraries, publishers and intermediaries it is typically siloed and the value and potential to improve services has barely begun to be realised. On their own, data from libraries, publishers or conventional intermediaries will not be enough to deliver the kinds of predictive analytics and Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions that emerging. Commercial companies and sector bodies like Jisc have begun to develop platforms that make use of data from a variety of sources. This will be an intensely competitive environment and it is not yet clear who the winners will be for, as Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said at the world economic
Ken spoke at the University College London (UCL) and Ciber research event ‘Digital textbooks: where are we?’ in May 2018. He outlined some of the drivers and themes that are influencing the future of e-textbooks and digital learning resources. He focused on the student as consumer, the user experience, digital platforms and the importance of data and analytics.
Ken Chad presented the keynote at the EDS (Ebsco Discovery Services) conference at Regents University, London in July 2016. He reviewed future trends for Google and enterprise search including factors such as voice (‘conversational’) search, the ‘ultimate assistant’, entities (‘things not strings’), visual search and the role of big data, context and intention. He then looked and some trends in library discovery services. There will continue to be a multiplicity of approaches open to users and Ken recommended that libraries do more to focus on the needs of users– the ‘jobs’ they were trying to do– in order to acquire and/or innovate new approaches to library discovery services.
Emerging technologies and the future of libraries (and library systems). Keyn...Ken Chad Consulting Ltd
Global technology trends and new directions in Higher Education will clearly affect the future of academic libraries and the nature of library technology. A common thread is the increasing focus on the user/consumer in an increasingly digital economy. For example a leading information technology research and advisory company, Gartner states ('Top 10 strategic predictions for 2015') that: "Renovating the customer experience is a digital priority." What should libraries and library tech companies do? Ken argues that the first step is looking again at user needs and suggests an innovative and practical methodology to help
Entrepreneurial library article_emerging_trends_conference_ken_chad_december2014Ken Chad Consulting Ltd
Writing in Library Journal in August 2010, Eric Hellman noted: “Libraries are so valuable that they attract voracious new competition with every technological advance.” The failure of libraries and library vendors to successfully create systems that meet the full range of legitimate user needs is a major concern. Ken Chad reviews the competitive and strategic imperatives that should lead libraries to a more user focussed approach. Fortunately there are some pragmatic and useful tools that libraries, working with vendors and/or developers, can use to help them develop or acquire better products services. Ken Chad briefly outlines the 'Jobs-To-Be-Done' (JTBD) method which is widely used in business and he has adapted for use in libraries
The public library and the 21st century ‘People’s University’
Back in 1938 Alvin Johnson argued that we should: “develop the public library into a permanent centre of adult education, informally a people's university” . In the 21st century new winds of change are blowing through learning. Social economic and technology factors combine to create new challenges and opportunities. Public libraries have a huge opportunity to revitalise their long standing commitment to learning and reinvigorate themselves at the heart of the process. Access to Research, CORE and others initiatives now provide public libraries with free access to millions of journal articles. The question is how, in the 21st century, public libraries will galvanise these resources and develop communities of learners.
Are you a visionary ‘early adopter’ or a laggard in terms of ‘next generation’ Library Services Platforms? Ken is presenting at the 2014 UKSG conference on 14th and 15th April. There has been much interest and some hype about a new generation of ‘Library Services Platforms’ that are replacing library management systems (LMS) (or, in US parlance, ILS). Ken looks at library systems in terms of the technology adoption life cycle described and analysed by Geoffrey Moore in his book ‘Crossing the chasm’.
Research process and research data management. Many universities are looking at how they can better serve the needs of researchers. Ken Chad Consulting worked with the University of Westminster to look the needs and attitudes of researchers and admin staff in terms of research data management (RDM). The result led the University to look first at the whole lifecycle and workflows of research administration. This in turn led to the innovative, rapid development of a system to support researchers and admin staff. Presented by Suzanne Enright (University of Westminster) and Ken Chad at the annual UKSG conference in April 2014
What are ebooks for? As libraries struggle with issues around ebook platforms, digital rights management (DRM), business models, and ebook formats it is worth stepping back and revisiting the fundamental issue of what ebooks are for. Keynote Presentation at the “Ebooks 2014: Are we nearly there yet?” Conference. University of the West of England 7 April 2014 #ebooksuwe2014
Library systems are no longer ‘stand alone’. Global technology influences are driving the market more than ever. There is a risk that the solutions libraries provide remain detached from truly meeting the real needs of many users - staff , academics, researchers and students.
Instead of library systems.or even 'next generation' library services platforms we need to think in terms of the wider library technology ‘ecosystem’. That changes how make our decisions about the products we buy and the services libraries deliver
‘Trends in, and reflections on, library discovery services’. Ken was the keynote speaker at the JIBS event: ‘New dawn: the changing resource discovery landscape’ in February 2013.
The library & teaching & learning: reading list systems. Reading lists appear to be the new 'must have' for UK academic libraries and a raft of new systems has entered the market. Ken's presentation at a seminar at the University of Staffordshire in December 2012 looked at some of the underlying trends in Higher Education and the current reading list offerings
The application of strategy methodologies to libraries. What is strategy? It's not Mission or vision. The key elements. Also a brief discussion of business models
This presentation is based on work I have been doing with libraries and some businesses in the library & information sector.I look at framework to explore business models that I believe is helpful for all kinds of organizations and businesses
Libraries anxious to improve their relevance to students have been busy, over the last couple of years, purchasing vertical search/discovery service solutions. In ‘the rise of platforms could see off the web‘ Ken Chad analyses this in the wider context of the the rise of global platforms and ‘apps’.
Models of innovation-sustaining and disruptive are discussed. How can libraries respond. How are they responding. What strategies might libraries adopt
Ifla Satelliet Florence09 Disrupting Libraries Potential For New ServicesKen Chad Consulting Ltd
Since the publication of ‘The Innovator’s Dilemma’ in the late 19901s the work of Clayton Christensen has been very influential in the business world. What is the result when we look at his analytical ‘tool-set’ in the context of libraries and especially libraries in Higher Education? This presentation uses the Christensens analysis to look at library technology and libraries themselves. It also describes some concepts and steps necessary to think about and undertake 'disruptive' innovation. But can libraries really do this?
GraphSummit Singapore | The Future of Agility: Supercharging Digital Transfor...Neo4j
Leonard Jayamohan, Partner & Generative AI Lead, Deloitte
This keynote will reveal how Deloitte leverages Neo4j’s graph power for groundbreaking digital twin solutions, achieving a staggering 100x performance boost. Discover the essential role knowledge graphs play in successful generative AI implementations. Plus, get an exclusive look at an innovative Neo4j + Generative AI solution Deloitte is developing in-house.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 6DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 6. In this session, we will cover Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI.
UiPath Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI webinar offers an in-depth exploration of leveraging cutting-edge technologies for test automation within the UiPath platform. Attendees will delve into the integration of generative AI, a test automation solution, with Open AI advanced natural language processing capabilities.
Throughout the session, participants will discover how this synergy empowers testers to automate repetitive tasks, enhance testing accuracy, and expedite the software testing life cycle. Topics covered include the seamless integration process, practical use cases, and the benefits of harnessing AI-driven automation for UiPath testing initiatives. By attending this webinar, testers, and automation professionals can gain valuable insights into harnessing the power of AI to optimize their test automation workflows within the UiPath ecosystem, ultimately driving efficiency and quality in software development processes.
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into integrating generative AI.
2. Understanding how this integration enhances test automation within the UiPath platform
3. Practical demonstrations
4. Exploration of real-world use cases illustrating the benefits of AI-driven test automation for UiPath
Topics covered:
What is generative AI
Test Automation with generative AI and Open AI.
UiPath integration with generative AI
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
GridMate - End to end testing is a critical piece to ensure quality and avoid...ThomasParaiso2
End to end testing is a critical piece to ensure quality and avoid regressions. In this session, we share our journey building an E2E testing pipeline for GridMate components (LWC and Aura) using Cypress, JSForce, FakerJS…
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
zkStudyClub - Reef: Fast Succinct Non-Interactive Zero-Knowledge Regex ProofsAlex Pruden
This paper presents Reef, a system for generating publicly verifiable succinct non-interactive zero-knowledge proofs that a committed document matches or does not match a regular expression. We describe applications such as proving the strength of passwords, the provenance of email despite redactions, the validity of oblivious DNS queries, and the existence of mutations in DNA. Reef supports the Perl Compatible Regular Expression syntax, including wildcards, alternation, ranges, capture groups, Kleene star, negations, and lookarounds. Reef introduces a new type of automata, Skipping Alternating Finite Automata (SAFA), that skips irrelevant parts of a document when producing proofs without undermining soundness, and instantiates SAFA with a lookup argument. Our experimental evaluation confirms that Reef can generate proofs for documents with 32M characters; the proofs are small and cheap to verify (under a second).
Paper: https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1886
Generative AI Deep Dive: Advancing from Proof of Concept to ProductionAggregage
Join Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks, in this new session where he'll share a practical framework to transform Gen AI prototypes into impactful products! He'll delve into the complexities of data collection and management, model selection and optimization, and ensuring security, scalability, and responsible use.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 5DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 5. In this session, we will cover CI/CD with devops.
Topics covered:
CI/CD with in UiPath
End-to-end overview of CI/CD pipeline with Azure devops
Speaker:
Lyndsey Byblow, Test Suite Sales Engineer @ UiPath, Inc.
Essentials of Automations: The Art of Triggers and Actions in FMESafe Software
In this second installment of our Essentials of Automations webinar series, we’ll explore the landscape of triggers and actions, guiding you through the nuances of authoring and adapting workspaces for seamless automations. Gain an understanding of the full spectrum of triggers and actions available in FME, empowering you to enhance your workspaces for efficient automation.
We’ll kick things off by showcasing the most commonly used event-based triggers, introducing you to various automation workflows like manual triggers, schedules, directory watchers, and more. Plus, see how these elements play out in real scenarios.
Whether you’re tweaking your current setup or building from the ground up, this session will arm you with the tools and insights needed to transform your FME usage into a powerhouse of productivity. Join us to discover effective strategies that simplify complex processes, enhancing your productivity and transforming your data management practices with FME. Let’s turn complexity into clarity and make your workspaces work wonders!
Dr. Sean Tan, Head of Data Science, Changi Airport Group
Discover how Changi Airport Group (CAG) leverages graph technologies and generative AI to revolutionize their search capabilities. This session delves into the unique search needs of CAG’s diverse passengers and customers, showcasing how graph data structures enhance the accuracy and relevance of AI-generated search results, mitigating the risk of “hallucinations” and improving the overall customer journey.
Observability Concepts EVERY Developer Should Know -- DeveloperWeek Europe.pdfPaige Cruz
Monitoring and observability aren’t traditionally found in software curriculums and many of us cobble this knowledge together from whatever vendor or ecosystem we were first introduced to and whatever is a part of your current company’s observability stack.
While the dev and ops silo continues to crumble….many organizations still relegate monitoring & observability as the purview of ops, infra and SRE teams. This is a mistake - achieving a highly observable system requires collaboration up and down the stack.
I, a former op, would like to extend an invitation to all application developers to join the observability party will share these foundational concepts to build on:
Why You Should Replace Windows 11 with Nitrux Linux 3.5.0 for enhanced perfor...SOFTTECHHUB
The choice of an operating system plays a pivotal role in shaping our computing experience. For decades, Microsoft's Windows has dominated the market, offering a familiar and widely adopted platform for personal and professional use. However, as technological advancements continue to push the boundaries of innovation, alternative operating systems have emerged, challenging the status quo and offering users a fresh perspective on computing.
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Lms is dead_long_live_ecosystem_cilip update_sept2013
1. LIBRARY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS
The library management
system is dead –
long live the library ecosystem
In increasingly complex information landscapes, is it time to stop thinking in terms
of the library management system or integrated library system, or even a ‘library
services platform’ – and instead start talking about an ‘ecosystem’, asks Ken Chad.
Ken Chad (ken@
kenchadconsulting.com,
@KenChad) is Director
of Ken Chad
Consulting Ltd.
www.kenchadconsulting.com
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THE library management system – LMS (or integrated
library system – ILS in US parlance) is, for most organi-
sations, just one part of a wider library systems infra-
structure. Indeed, for many libraries it is of diminishing
importance. Pearson College, a new Higher Education
(HE) institution, doesn’t even have one. When academic
libraries looked for e-journal solutions or public libraries
looked for solutions to manage e-books, they found the
LMS wanting. In the main they employed alternative solu-
tions to enable staff to manage and users to discover those
resources. As libraries struggle with the need to manage
a diverse and growing range of print and digital materi-
als, so the library systems environment gets increasingly
complex. Trying to deliver those resources in a conven-
ient and coherent way to users requires interdependent,
seamless systems. Lorcan Dempsey summed it up in 2007:
‘One of the main issues facing libraries as they work to cre-
ate richer user services is the complexity of their systems
environment. Reductively, we can think of three classes
of systems: 1 the classic ILS [Integrated Library System]
focused on “bought” materials; 2 the emerging systems
framework around licensed collections; and 3 potentially
several repository systems for “digital” resources’.
Best of breed
For a while it seemed as if the answer was ‘best of breed’
library system components interoperating together. For
example, new library ‘discovery systems’1 began to sup-
plant conventional Opacs and interoperate with many
different ‘back-end’ LMSs. Nearly a decade ago, Andrew
Pace was talking about ‘dismantling’ the integrated
library system:2 ‘XML, web services, OpenURL, OAI-
PMH, and the rapid development and approval of new
standards are the true hope for the ILS. Perhaps we’ll
come to call them interoperable library systems, or even
integrated library services.’ Interoperability, however,
remained a problem. In 2012, speaking about what he
calls a new generation of ‘library services platforms’,
Marshall Breeding noted that this trend might be
beginning to be reversed. ‘As the back-end modern-
ises and becomes more comprehensive itself, and has
more hooks into the remote resources, it reintroduces
the opportunity to integrate discovery and back-end
automation.’ 3 As well as the re-integration of discovery
services, these new platforms integrate back-end elec-
tronic resource management (ERM) systems, which had
been separate applications. For example, the ExLibris
Alma Library Services Platform replaces both the Aleph
library management system and the Verde ERM system.
Let’s talk about an ecosystem
What is going on? Maybe it would be better to stop
thinking in terms of the LMS/ILS, or even a ‘library
services platform’ and instead talk about an ‘ecosystem.’4
Looking at the top ten global strategic technology trends
for 2013, Gartner noted: ‘The market is undergoing
a shift to more integrated systems and ecosystems and
away from loosely coupled heterogeneous approaches’.5
The report goes on to say: ‘Driving this trend is the
user desire for lower cost, simplicity, and more assured
security. Driving the trend for vendors is the ability
to have more control of the solution stack and obtain
greater margin in the sale as well as offer a complete
solution stack in a controlled environment’. This is not
to say the vendor develops and provides all the elements
in the ecosystem. Apple is the obvious example here. It
provides a platform for the ‘community’ (including HE)
to develop content and apps which are nonetheless deliv-
ered as part of a coherent ‘ecosystem’, over which Apple
exerts considerable control.
An increasingly complex landscape
If this is a trend for technology in general, perhaps it
is no surprise to see it beginning to be reflected in the
library system environment. So what is, or might be,
encompassed by a library technology ecosystem? In the
last century, we spoke of ‘stand alone’ library manage-
ment systems and by the late 90s these systems had
become functionally rich, with many ‘modules’ to man-
age different aspects of library management. With the
advent of more digital resources, especially electronic
journals and the web, things became more complex.
The number of elements or functions covered in such
a systems environment – or ‘ecosystem’ – has grown
September 2013
2. LIBRARY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS
over the years. In addition to the familiar modules of
the library management system, the library may be
responsible for, and have separate systems to man-
age, electronic journals, e-books, reading lists, archives
and special collections, local digital collections and the
institutional repository for research outputs. If public
libraries deliver e-books to users, they do it with a sepa-
rate e-book platform such as Overdrive. Quite often this
sits alongside the LMS as a parallel system. The e-book
platform and the LMS may barely interoperate at all.
For academic libraries in particular, library responsibil-
ity has extended into areas of university activity such
as teaching and learning and research. Here they can
apply core skills such as metadata management (cata-
loguing as it used to be known). An institution’s research
outputs (scholarly articles) are often managed in an
Institutional Repository (IR) which, in many cases, is the
responsibility of the library. A new wave of reading list
systems is being implemented in UK universities, partly
with a goal to bring libraries closer to teaching and
learning. In some cases the Virtual Learning Environ-
ment (VLE) also comes under the library’s purview.
And, as primary research data gets more attention, some
libraries are developing a role in,6 and acquiring systems
for, Research Data Management (RDM).
Much of this complex landscape remains one of silos
rather than an interconnected, interoperable ‘ecosys-
tem’. This becomes very apparent when users try to
discover resources. They still have to navigate a number
of systems with different search interfaces and ways
of displaying and describing resources. Even a basic
element such as a ‘name’ may appear differently in the
library catalogue and institutional repository.
September 2013
For academic libraries in particular, library
responsibility has extended into areas of
university activity such as teaching and
learning and research.
Bringing silos together
Some libraries have managed to bring a number of
these silos together under a unified discovery service
umbrella but with only partial success. Harmonis-
ing metadata to provide a single central index across
such diverse systems and, from a vendor’s point of
view, across many institutions is not a trivial task. Jisc
recently described the problem: ‘Over the years vari-
ous metadata schemas and models have emerged, but
clarity on the best metadata strategy to adopt or how to
achieve interoperability between scholarly systems has
been a hard nut to crack.’ 7 And of course the forego-
ing assumes the metadata is available in the first place
to harmonise. Currently there are still battles going
on between content providers and discovery services
providers. Some of the former will not allow the latter
to have the metadata to index.8 So it is not yet clear
whether ‘more integrated systems and ecosystems’ or
‘loosely coupled heterogeneous approaches’ will win out
although as we have seen, Gartner suggests the former.
Knit me an ecosystem
If Gartner is right, how might a coherent ecosystem
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LIBRARY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS
develop to knit together the extended landscape of
system silos? As noted above, library resource man-
agement and discovery is becoming ‘unified’ across
both print and electronic (primarily e-journal articles)
resources. The manifestation of this is a number of
next generation ‘library services platforms’.9 Vendors
clearly have ambitions to extend the ecosystem to digital
repositories and digital archives – for example, ExLibris
positions its ‘Rosetta’ product in this way.10 However,
progress remains slow and each ‘silo’ still retains distinct
approaches to metadata and, perhaps inevitably, to
workflows. The cross-domain Europeana project has
mandated ‘semantic elements’11 (Dublin Core based) to
bring some order to the field. The problem is recog-
nised outside libraries, with Google and other search
services cooperating on a common metadata ‘schema’12
that is gaining attention in the library domain. These
do represent progress but in Jisc’s view: ‘The use of
schemas and also vocabularies associated with particular
fields (restricted set of keywords/classifications) has been
patchy at best’.
As institutions work together and share library
systems,13 the need for harmonisation of data and work-
flows increases. As technology moves to ‘the cloud’ and
as libraries begin to share common cloud-based ‘multi-
tenant’ library services platforms, the opportunity for
a more integrated library ecosystem may grow. Higher
Education is naturally wary of giving vendors ‘control
of the solution stack’ so may continue to value a ‘loosely
coupled’ approach, perhaps containing strong elements
of open source software and ‘above-campus’ community
services. But in hard economic times, if a vendor-con-
trolled integrated ecosystem can deliver ‘lower cost,
simplicity, and more assured security’, as suggested by
Gartner, it may prove very compelling. Certainly public
libraries appear to be less concerned about commercial
vendors running their assets. Seeing the potential for
economies, some have outsourced their entire library
operations.14
Some parts of this article were first published as part of
the Jisc LMS Change programme (http://bit.ly/15gi2Ny).
References
1 See the Higher Education Library Technology (HELibTech)
website ‘discovery page http://bit.ly/gMguFT
2 ‘Dismantling Integrated Library Systems’. Andrew K. Pace. Library Journal. 1
February
2004. http://bit.ly/17gAt9J
3 ‘ALA Midwinter 2012: From Consumer Electronics Through Post-ILS, Top Tech
Trends
Run the Gamut.’ David Rapp. Library Journal. 22 January 2012. http://bit.ly/w24xzJ
4 Oxford dictionaries: ‘(in general use) a complex network or interconnected system’.
http://bit.ly/1dKUhVG
5 ‘Gartner Identifies the Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2013. Analysts
Examine
Top Industry Trends at Gartner Symposium/ITxpo..’. 23 October 2012.
http://gtnr.it/UXRTiL
6 ‘Libraries and the management of research data.’ Martin Lewis in: Envisioning Future
Academic Library Services. Initiatives, ideas and challenges. Sue McKnight (ed). Facet
Publishing. 2010. http://bit.ly/h9Pyqv
7 ‘Tracking research across the fields’. Balviar Notay and Neil Jacobs. Research
Informa-
tion. 7 March 2013.
8 See for example: ‘Discovery silos vs. the open web’. Adrian Pohl. Open Bibliography
and Open Bibliographic Data [blog] 23 June 2013. http://bit.ly/1cax2AG
9 For information on library services platforms see the Higher Education Library Tech-
nology (HELibTech) website ‘next generation’ page http://bit.ly/S4sDed
10 See ExLibris website: http://bit.ly/4cm6my
11 See Europeana ‘Technical Requirements’ http://bit.ly/1ccfG8t
12 Schema.org is an initiative launched on 2 June 2011 by Bing, Google and Yahoo!
to ‘create and support a common set of schemas for structured data markup on web
pages.’ http://bit.ly/m3kNgI
13 HE institutions in both Wales and Scotland are investigating shared systems. See
the
Jisc Library Systems programme http://bit.ly/SStGhm
14 ‘List of outsourced and prospective outsourced library authorities’, Public Libraries
News. http://bit.ly/10OtFLk