A demonstration of the Prow website (http://www.theprow.org.nz), which aims to celebrate, preserve and make accessible the history, culture and stories of the top of the South Island of New Zealand - Nelson, Marlborough and Tasman. The site features commissioned stories, each with an extensive reference list - lists of and links to resources for further research - and images, locally sourced where possible. The site also allows people to add their own stories, or to comment on existing stories. The Prow is a collaborative venture between Nelson Public Libraries, Tasman and Marlborough District Libraries, The Nelson Provincial Museum and Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology. The session will also cover some of the challenges faced in planning, developing and running the site.
Digital initiatives in Maori communities :: Honiana Love and Claire Hall, Te ...National Digital Forum
This document discusses the digital archiving of the Taranaki language by the Te Reo o Taranaki Charitable Trust in order to help revitalize and protect the language. The Trust has created a digital archive called Te Pūtē Routiriata o Taranaki to store audio and video recordings of native Taranaki speakers, as well as photographs and documents about the language and culture. The archive is meant to preserve Taranaki cultural heritage, give the community access and ownership over the content, and help ensure the intergenerational transmission of the Taranaki language.
Museums and mobiles: The good, the bad and the ugly :: Simon Sherrin, Museum ...National Digital Forum
Museum Victoria's Field Guide app was downloaded over 22,000 times in its first 8 months of release and has received an average rating of 4.5 out of 5 based on 130 reviews in the Australian App Store as of November 27, 2011. The app provides identification guides for plants and animals in Australia.
Museums and mobiles: The good, the bad and the ugly :: Virginia Gow, Auckland...National Digital Forum
The Aqua Trail is a scenic coastal trail located in New Zealand that allows hikers to experience stunning coastal views. The trail runs along the coastline and provides opportunities to see native wildlife like penguins, seals and seabirds. Hikers can choose between a one-day, multi-day or guided option for exploring the Aqua Trail and taking in the natural coastal beauty of New Zealand.
Museums and mobiles: The good, the bad and the ugly :: Michael Parry, ACMI, M...National Digital Forum
ACMI's 15 Second Place iPhone app won an award in Melbourne, Australia in 2011. It allows users to submit and view 15 second video clips from around Melbourne. More information about the app and ACMI can be found at their website acmi.net.au/15secondplace.
Communities working collaboratively to preserve heritage in the age of the in...National Digital Forum
Tauranga Memories is an online digital archive created to capture and share the stories, people, places and events that help define the communities in Tauranga and the Bay of Plenty region. It was set up using Kete, an open-source content management system, to provide an affordable way for the Tauranga City Library to make its collection of over 6,000 historic photographs and documents publicly accessible online. The Kete platform allows community members to easily contribute their own content, helping preserve local history and culture for future generations in a shared digital space.
Communities working collaboratively to preserve heritage in the age of the in...National Digital Forum
Kete is a digital archive and collaboration platform that allows users to share content on various topics. It offers flexibility in content organization, universal availability of information through search functions, and location-based mapping of materials. The platform also enables translation between languages to make content accessible to various audiences.
Communities working collaboratively to preserve heritage in the age of the in...National Digital Forum
This document discusses using existing online platforms to facilitate collaboration between libraries and local historical and genealogical societies. It outlines principles such as libraries serving as community facilitators and maintaining professional standards. The platform discussed allows groups like the Eastbourne Historical Society and Hutt Valley Branch of the Genealogical Society of New Zealand to make their collections accessible online at no cost, with technical support from libraries. Benefits include links to other resources, assistance from library expertise, autonomy for each group, and improved access and presentation. The document advocates for expanded regional collaboration using the platform.
Communities working collaboratively to preserve heritage in the age of the in...National Digital Forum
Communities are working together to preserve local heritage in the digital age using online platforms and mobile technologies. Kete West Coast is a digital archive that allows communities on New Zealand's West Coast to collect, share and promote their local history and culture online for all to access. The website provides tools to make local heritage materials more discoverable, supportable and navigable for interested users.
Digital initiatives in Maori communities :: Honiana Love and Claire Hall, Te ...National Digital Forum
This document discusses the digital archiving of the Taranaki language by the Te Reo o Taranaki Charitable Trust in order to help revitalize and protect the language. The Trust has created a digital archive called Te Pūtē Routiriata o Taranaki to store audio and video recordings of native Taranaki speakers, as well as photographs and documents about the language and culture. The archive is meant to preserve Taranaki cultural heritage, give the community access and ownership over the content, and help ensure the intergenerational transmission of the Taranaki language.
Museums and mobiles: The good, the bad and the ugly :: Simon Sherrin, Museum ...National Digital Forum
Museum Victoria's Field Guide app was downloaded over 22,000 times in its first 8 months of release and has received an average rating of 4.5 out of 5 based on 130 reviews in the Australian App Store as of November 27, 2011. The app provides identification guides for plants and animals in Australia.
Museums and mobiles: The good, the bad and the ugly :: Virginia Gow, Auckland...National Digital Forum
The Aqua Trail is a scenic coastal trail located in New Zealand that allows hikers to experience stunning coastal views. The trail runs along the coastline and provides opportunities to see native wildlife like penguins, seals and seabirds. Hikers can choose between a one-day, multi-day or guided option for exploring the Aqua Trail and taking in the natural coastal beauty of New Zealand.
Museums and mobiles: The good, the bad and the ugly :: Michael Parry, ACMI, M...National Digital Forum
ACMI's 15 Second Place iPhone app won an award in Melbourne, Australia in 2011. It allows users to submit and view 15 second video clips from around Melbourne. More information about the app and ACMI can be found at their website acmi.net.au/15secondplace.
Communities working collaboratively to preserve heritage in the age of the in...National Digital Forum
Tauranga Memories is an online digital archive created to capture and share the stories, people, places and events that help define the communities in Tauranga and the Bay of Plenty region. It was set up using Kete, an open-source content management system, to provide an affordable way for the Tauranga City Library to make its collection of over 6,000 historic photographs and documents publicly accessible online. The Kete platform allows community members to easily contribute their own content, helping preserve local history and culture for future generations in a shared digital space.
Communities working collaboratively to preserve heritage in the age of the in...National Digital Forum
Kete is a digital archive and collaboration platform that allows users to share content on various topics. It offers flexibility in content organization, universal availability of information through search functions, and location-based mapping of materials. The platform also enables translation between languages to make content accessible to various audiences.
Communities working collaboratively to preserve heritage in the age of the in...National Digital Forum
This document discusses using existing online platforms to facilitate collaboration between libraries and local historical and genealogical societies. It outlines principles such as libraries serving as community facilitators and maintaining professional standards. The platform discussed allows groups like the Eastbourne Historical Society and Hutt Valley Branch of the Genealogical Society of New Zealand to make their collections accessible online at no cost, with technical support from libraries. Benefits include links to other resources, assistance from library expertise, autonomy for each group, and improved access and presentation. The document advocates for expanded regional collaboration using the platform.
Communities working collaboratively to preserve heritage in the age of the in...National Digital Forum
Communities are working together to preserve local heritage in the digital age using online platforms and mobile technologies. Kete West Coast is a digital archive that allows communities on New Zealand's West Coast to collect, share and promote their local history and culture online for all to access. The website provides tools to make local heritage materials more discoverable, supportable and navigable for interested users.
Digitisation projects: Purpose, planning, process, people :: Vye Perrone, Uni...National Digital Forum
The document discusses the British Parliamentary Papers New Zealand digitization project. It summarizes that the project digitized reports from 1837 to 1882 that provided information about New Zealand's colony. The documents were digitized to increase accessibility and usage. Scanning and OCR was outsourced, while metadata and file formatting was done in-house using the Greenstone digital library software. Challenges included structuring the collection and learning the new software during the project.
Moving image content: Challenges and choices :: Michael Parry, ACMI, MelbourneNational Digital Forum
The document announces that Michael Parry from the Australian Centre for the Moving Image will launch the Screen Worlds Exhibition in February 2012. The exhibition will explore how screens and screen-based media have shaped our understanding of the world.
What’s ours is yours, or is it? How open is our data? – The National and Stat...National Digital Forum
The document discusses opening up libraries and their collections by empowering communities to access, share, and create content. It describes a competition held by the State Library of Queensland that invited community members to create mashups and apps using library data and digital content. The competition received many creative entries that found new ways to showcase and interact with library collections. The document advocates for libraries to go further in openly sharing their collections and content for re-use.
Europeana is a digital portal that provides access to over 20 million digitized items from museums, libraries, archives and audiovisual collections across Europe. It was launched in 2008 with 2 million items and has since expanded significantly. Europeana aims to aggregate Europe's cultural heritage online, make the materials freely available, and engage users through the portal and social media platforms.
History in the making – Creating a digital archive of the Canterbury earthqua...National Digital Forum
This document discusses creating a digital archive of photos from the 2010-2011 Canterbury earthquakes in New Zealand to capture the history through crowd-sourcing and community engagement. It provides contact information for Moira Fraser and Ross Becker, who are contributing photos to the archive and exploring new ways to work with digital collections, such as crowd-sourcing to improve archives and understanding user arrangements that support exploring content. The archive is capturing photos on Facebook and Picasa to document the earthquake events.
History in the making – Creating a digital archive of the Canterbury earthqua...National Digital Forum
The Christchurch City Libraries Earthquake Archive contains personal accounts and stories from residents about their experiences during the 2010-2011 Canterbury earthquakes. The archive includes written experiences from Liz and Miss Grace Heyward about being trapped in buildings during the February 2011 earthquake and needing assistance to evacuate due to injuries. It also includes audio recordings from residents sharing their stories at the 2011 A&P Show, as well as photos of the damaged Canterbury Public Library before it was demolished. The archive aims to collect and preserve first-hand stories about living through the earthquakes in Christchurch.
The document discusses the benefits of emulation for digital preservation. Emulation allows access to digital content by running original software in an emulated environment, preserving things like video games, digital artwork, and historic desktop environments. It also maintains authenticity and can be used as digital evidence. For some digital objects, emulation may be the only available option for long-term preservation since it can run software and file formats that are no longer supported on modern systems.
Giving cultural organisations a bite of the Apple – An introduction to Museum...National Digital Forum
The document discusses Museum Victoria's Field Guide app, which has been downloaded over 22,000 times in its first 8 months. The app provides mobile access to the museum's collection and has received positive reviews. It was created using open source code and content from the museum. The app aims to give everyone access to exploring the museum's collection and resources through their mobile device.
Steampunk DH :: Sydney Shep, Victoria University, James Smithies, University ...National Digital Forum
Digital humanities is the application of computing technology and techniques to build greater understanding of diverse social and cultural archives. It employs designing tools, formats and approaches to support new methods and findings. Digital humanities has evolved from early experiments in 1995 to become expansive through tools like mapping, text analytics and geospatial analysis. It is also innovative, connected and collaborative through partnerships and sharing of resources.
The document discusses connecting physical objects to digital information using technologies like QR codes and image recognition. It notes some issues with QR codes like needing a smartphone and scanner, and suggests image recognition may eventually bypass the need for QR codes. The document promotes using, creating, and sharing historical and geographic information through platforms like Pleiades, Google Books, Flickr, and OpenContent. It also advocates for low-tech solutions, providing an example of a low-tech adventure in Balboa Park. The overall message is about discovering places, finding connections between physical and digital content, and accessing content onsite, offline, or offsite.
I’m not there: Mobile devices in (and around) museums :: Michael Parry, ACMINational Digital Forum
The document discusses how museums are using mobile devices to enhance the visitor experience both onsite and offsite, providing examples of apps and digital experiences that expand access to collections, events, and education programs. It also examines some of the opportunities and challenges involved in adapting museum practices to new technologies and media, from guiding tours and exhibitions to co-creation with visitors and new models of engagement. The presentation concludes by noting the role of mobile devices in transforming museums and cultural institutions.
Using volunteers to add geo-tags to an art collection :: Tim Jones, Christchu...National Digital Forum
This document discusses a geo-tagging project by Gallery Friends to add location data to artworks. It provides an overview of the Friends organization and a link to a service locator page for appliance manufacturer Delonghi in New Zealand. The document concludes by thanking the reader.
A taste of Agile – Scrum methods for GLAM types Paddy Plunket and Ellen Fitzs...National Digital Forum
This document provides an introduction to using Agile Scrum methods for organizations in the galleries, libraries, archives, and museums (GLAM) sector. It discusses the three main Scrum roles of the Scrum Master, Product Owner, and Team. It also outlines some key Scrum concepts like sprints, planning poker, and retrospectives. The goal is to demonstrate how Agile Scrum principles can help GLAM organizations become more efficient and user-focused.
What happens when a website moves from an industry agency to an archive? Kate...National Digital Forum
The document discusses the challenges of moving a website from one organizational structure to another. It focuses on the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia's website, australianscreen, which moved from being managed by a film funding agency to the NFSA. Key challenges discussed include changing corporate plans and user expectations between the different types of organizations, and how to best represent the full breadth of the NFSA's extensive collection online beyond just films. Potential solutions proposed include leaving the site as is, adding more collection types, or integrating it more directly with the NFSA collection search.
Be proud of your data, the public will still like you if it is less than perf...National Digital Forum
This document discusses putting data online from museum collections and provides reasons why some institutions may hesitate to do so. It notes that time, money, and work hours are common barriers but encourages being proud of data even if it is imperfect. Resources are then listed that could help with sharing naval and maritime collections and histories online.
Biodiversity Heritage Library in Australia: Collaborating locally, contributi...National Digital Forum
The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is a global consortium that provides open access to digitized biodiversity literature. It began with institutions from the US and UK and has expanded to include partners in Australia, Europe, China, Latin America, and others. The BHL digitizes books, journals, and other materials related to natural history and biodiversity, making them freely available online to researchers and the public.
Towards a database of Maori and Moriori taonga in overseas museums Philip Edg...National Digital Forum
The document discusses establishing an online database of Māori and Moriori taonga (treasures) held in museums outside of New Zealand to make them more accessible. It notes that taonga are held in over 168 institutions in 25 countries. Currently only 57 institutions have put information online about their Māori collections, with only 7,700 records and 3,200 having images. The document discusses learning from similar collaborative projects and outlines next steps to scope the project further and pilot it with 5-6 international museums.
Collections online and copyright law – Is there a disconnect? Susan CorbettNational Digital Forum
This document discusses the disconnect between copyright law and the digitization practices of museums and archives in New Zealand. It summarizes the key findings of interviews with 26 employees at 7 cultural heritage institutions. The interviews revealed that the institutions ignore copyright law when digitizing and face several problems: 1) the archiving exceptions do not clearly apply to museums, 2) the exceptions limit public access, 3) digitization allows for many copies while the law permits limited copies, and 4) the exceptions focus on preservation rather than the institutions' goal of improved access. The document calls for changes to the exceptions and a new copyright provision to better balance public interests in culture and indigenous concerns.
The document outlines one person's career path over 7 years, including roles as a chief executive, consultant, and PhD student. It also discusses themes of convergence in the digital space, creating a sustainable national infrastructure for learning, and the long-term impact of digital technologies on public knowledge collections.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Digitisation projects: Purpose, planning, process, people :: Vye Perrone, Uni...National Digital Forum
The document discusses the British Parliamentary Papers New Zealand digitization project. It summarizes that the project digitized reports from 1837 to 1882 that provided information about New Zealand's colony. The documents were digitized to increase accessibility and usage. Scanning and OCR was outsourced, while metadata and file formatting was done in-house using the Greenstone digital library software. Challenges included structuring the collection and learning the new software during the project.
Moving image content: Challenges and choices :: Michael Parry, ACMI, MelbourneNational Digital Forum
The document announces that Michael Parry from the Australian Centre for the Moving Image will launch the Screen Worlds Exhibition in February 2012. The exhibition will explore how screens and screen-based media have shaped our understanding of the world.
What’s ours is yours, or is it? How open is our data? – The National and Stat...National Digital Forum
The document discusses opening up libraries and their collections by empowering communities to access, share, and create content. It describes a competition held by the State Library of Queensland that invited community members to create mashups and apps using library data and digital content. The competition received many creative entries that found new ways to showcase and interact with library collections. The document advocates for libraries to go further in openly sharing their collections and content for re-use.
Europeana is a digital portal that provides access to over 20 million digitized items from museums, libraries, archives and audiovisual collections across Europe. It was launched in 2008 with 2 million items and has since expanded significantly. Europeana aims to aggregate Europe's cultural heritage online, make the materials freely available, and engage users through the portal and social media platforms.
History in the making – Creating a digital archive of the Canterbury earthqua...National Digital Forum
This document discusses creating a digital archive of photos from the 2010-2011 Canterbury earthquakes in New Zealand to capture the history through crowd-sourcing and community engagement. It provides contact information for Moira Fraser and Ross Becker, who are contributing photos to the archive and exploring new ways to work with digital collections, such as crowd-sourcing to improve archives and understanding user arrangements that support exploring content. The archive is capturing photos on Facebook and Picasa to document the earthquake events.
History in the making – Creating a digital archive of the Canterbury earthqua...National Digital Forum
The Christchurch City Libraries Earthquake Archive contains personal accounts and stories from residents about their experiences during the 2010-2011 Canterbury earthquakes. The archive includes written experiences from Liz and Miss Grace Heyward about being trapped in buildings during the February 2011 earthquake and needing assistance to evacuate due to injuries. It also includes audio recordings from residents sharing their stories at the 2011 A&P Show, as well as photos of the damaged Canterbury Public Library before it was demolished. The archive aims to collect and preserve first-hand stories about living through the earthquakes in Christchurch.
The document discusses the benefits of emulation for digital preservation. Emulation allows access to digital content by running original software in an emulated environment, preserving things like video games, digital artwork, and historic desktop environments. It also maintains authenticity and can be used as digital evidence. For some digital objects, emulation may be the only available option for long-term preservation since it can run software and file formats that are no longer supported on modern systems.
Giving cultural organisations a bite of the Apple – An introduction to Museum...National Digital Forum
The document discusses Museum Victoria's Field Guide app, which has been downloaded over 22,000 times in its first 8 months. The app provides mobile access to the museum's collection and has received positive reviews. It was created using open source code and content from the museum. The app aims to give everyone access to exploring the museum's collection and resources through their mobile device.
Steampunk DH :: Sydney Shep, Victoria University, James Smithies, University ...National Digital Forum
Digital humanities is the application of computing technology and techniques to build greater understanding of diverse social and cultural archives. It employs designing tools, formats and approaches to support new methods and findings. Digital humanities has evolved from early experiments in 1995 to become expansive through tools like mapping, text analytics and geospatial analysis. It is also innovative, connected and collaborative through partnerships and sharing of resources.
The document discusses connecting physical objects to digital information using technologies like QR codes and image recognition. It notes some issues with QR codes like needing a smartphone and scanner, and suggests image recognition may eventually bypass the need for QR codes. The document promotes using, creating, and sharing historical and geographic information through platforms like Pleiades, Google Books, Flickr, and OpenContent. It also advocates for low-tech solutions, providing an example of a low-tech adventure in Balboa Park. The overall message is about discovering places, finding connections between physical and digital content, and accessing content onsite, offline, or offsite.
I’m not there: Mobile devices in (and around) museums :: Michael Parry, ACMINational Digital Forum
The document discusses how museums are using mobile devices to enhance the visitor experience both onsite and offsite, providing examples of apps and digital experiences that expand access to collections, events, and education programs. It also examines some of the opportunities and challenges involved in adapting museum practices to new technologies and media, from guiding tours and exhibitions to co-creation with visitors and new models of engagement. The presentation concludes by noting the role of mobile devices in transforming museums and cultural institutions.
Using volunteers to add geo-tags to an art collection :: Tim Jones, Christchu...National Digital Forum
This document discusses a geo-tagging project by Gallery Friends to add location data to artworks. It provides an overview of the Friends organization and a link to a service locator page for appliance manufacturer Delonghi in New Zealand. The document concludes by thanking the reader.
A taste of Agile – Scrum methods for GLAM types Paddy Plunket and Ellen Fitzs...National Digital Forum
This document provides an introduction to using Agile Scrum methods for organizations in the galleries, libraries, archives, and museums (GLAM) sector. It discusses the three main Scrum roles of the Scrum Master, Product Owner, and Team. It also outlines some key Scrum concepts like sprints, planning poker, and retrospectives. The goal is to demonstrate how Agile Scrum principles can help GLAM organizations become more efficient and user-focused.
What happens when a website moves from an industry agency to an archive? Kate...National Digital Forum
The document discusses the challenges of moving a website from one organizational structure to another. It focuses on the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia's website, australianscreen, which moved from being managed by a film funding agency to the NFSA. Key challenges discussed include changing corporate plans and user expectations between the different types of organizations, and how to best represent the full breadth of the NFSA's extensive collection online beyond just films. Potential solutions proposed include leaving the site as is, adding more collection types, or integrating it more directly with the NFSA collection search.
Be proud of your data, the public will still like you if it is less than perf...National Digital Forum
This document discusses putting data online from museum collections and provides reasons why some institutions may hesitate to do so. It notes that time, money, and work hours are common barriers but encourages being proud of data even if it is imperfect. Resources are then listed that could help with sharing naval and maritime collections and histories online.
Biodiversity Heritage Library in Australia: Collaborating locally, contributi...National Digital Forum
The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is a global consortium that provides open access to digitized biodiversity literature. It began with institutions from the US and UK and has expanded to include partners in Australia, Europe, China, Latin America, and others. The BHL digitizes books, journals, and other materials related to natural history and biodiversity, making them freely available online to researchers and the public.
Towards a database of Maori and Moriori taonga in overseas museums Philip Edg...National Digital Forum
The document discusses establishing an online database of Māori and Moriori taonga (treasures) held in museums outside of New Zealand to make them more accessible. It notes that taonga are held in over 168 institutions in 25 countries. Currently only 57 institutions have put information online about their Māori collections, with only 7,700 records and 3,200 having images. The document discusses learning from similar collaborative projects and outlines next steps to scope the project further and pilot it with 5-6 international museums.
Collections online and copyright law – Is there a disconnect? Susan CorbettNational Digital Forum
This document discusses the disconnect between copyright law and the digitization practices of museums and archives in New Zealand. It summarizes the key findings of interviews with 26 employees at 7 cultural heritage institutions. The interviews revealed that the institutions ignore copyright law when digitizing and face several problems: 1) the archiving exceptions do not clearly apply to museums, 2) the exceptions limit public access, 3) digitization allows for many copies while the law permits limited copies, and 4) the exceptions focus on preservation rather than the institutions' goal of improved access. The document calls for changes to the exceptions and a new copyright provision to better balance public interests in culture and indigenous concerns.
The document outlines one person's career path over 7 years, including roles as a chief executive, consultant, and PhD student. It also discusses themes of convergence in the digital space, creating a sustainable national infrastructure for learning, and the long-term impact of digital technologies on public knowledge collections.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Climate Impact of Software Testing at Nordic Testing DaysKari Kakkonen
My slides at Nordic Testing Days 6.6.2024
Climate impact / sustainability of software testing discussed on the talk. ICT and testing must carry their part of global responsibility to help with the climat warming. We can minimize the carbon footprint but we can also have a carbon handprint, a positive impact on the climate. Quality characteristics can be added with sustainability, and then measured continuously. Test environments can be used less, and in smaller scale and on demand. Test techniques can be used in optimizing or minimizing number of tests. Test automation can be used to speed up testing.
Unlock the Future of Search with MongoDB Atlas_ Vector Search Unleashed.pdfMalak Abu Hammad
Discover how MongoDB Atlas and vector search technology can revolutionize your application's search capabilities. This comprehensive presentation covers:
* What is Vector Search?
* Importance and benefits of vector search
* Practical use cases across various industries
* Step-by-step implementation guide
* Live demos with code snippets
* Enhancing LLM capabilities with vector search
* Best practices and optimization strategies
Perfect for developers, AI enthusiasts, and tech leaders. Learn how to leverage MongoDB Atlas to deliver highly relevant, context-aware search results, transforming your data retrieval process. Stay ahead in tech innovation and maximize the potential of your applications.
#MongoDB #VectorSearch #AI #SemanticSearch #TechInnovation #DataScience #LLM #MachineLearning #SearchTechnology
Sudheer Mechineni, Head of Application Frameworks, Standard Chartered Bank
Discover how Standard Chartered Bank harnessed the power of Neo4j to transform complex data access challenges into a dynamic, scalable graph database solution. This keynote will cover their journey from initial adoption to deploying a fully automated, enterprise-grade causal cluster, highlighting key strategies for modelling organisational changes and ensuring robust disaster recovery. Learn how these innovations have not only enhanced Standard Chartered Bank’s data infrastructure but also positioned them as pioneers in the banking sector’s adoption of graph technology.
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.
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.
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…
How to Get CNIC Information System with Paksim Ga.pptxdanishmna97
Pakdata Cf is a groundbreaking system designed to streamline and facilitate access to CNIC information. This innovative platform leverages advanced technology to provide users with efficient and secure access to their CNIC details.
GraphSummit Singapore | The Art of the Possible with Graph - Q2 2024Neo4j
Neha Bajwa, Vice President of Product Marketing, Neo4j
Join us as we explore breakthrough innovations enabled by interconnected data and AI. Discover firsthand how organizations use relationships in data to uncover contextual insights and solve our most pressing challenges – from optimizing supply chains, detecting fraud, and improving customer experiences to accelerating drug discoveries.
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
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
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
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.
Communications Mining Series - Zero to Hero - Session 1DianaGray10
This session provides introduction to UiPath Communication Mining, importance and platform overview. You will acquire a good understand of the phases in Communication Mining as we go over the platform with you. Topics covered:
• Communication Mining Overview
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• How can it help today’s business and the benefits
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1. Top of the South Stories : Te Tau Ihu o te Waka a Maui National Digital Forum 2009
2. Top of the South Stories : Te Tau Ihu o te Waka a Maui music credit: Hirini Melbourne & Richard Nunns (‘ Te Kú Te Whé Remixed ’) voice credit: Mike Elkington
3. Project Goal The Prow aims to celebrate, preserve and make accessible the unique history, culture and stories of the Top of the South Island by creating a website of local digital stories that encompasses the anecdotes, stories and memories of our residents.
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5. Features of The Prow website Resources for teachers Add a story Theme tabs Story of the day Interactive map Search box
15. Appo Hocton - Comments What a great story, what an adventurous youngster! Does anyone know where Appo was hailed from in China? I wonder it is at all possible for his descendants to trace where it all started. Posted by Douglas Lam, 15/08/2009 Readers can comment on stories
16. Adding a new story is quick and easy! Copy and paste your story here
19. Cooperation – the Prow as a repository or portal for local research Coming soon: Port Nelson’s journal (rePort) Nelson City Council heritage plaques Tasman District Council’s
Introduce myself – Ales and Cliff. I am going to introduce and demonstrate the Prow website through a series of slides, and bring up the live site at the end, with time for questions. First of all – why the prow? [Music and sound – done for LIANZA 3M awards Captures why the site is called the Prow In the spirit of the site – of collaboration in revealing the riches of the region. Richard Nunns Mike Elkington]
Music and sound – done for LIANZA 3M awards Captures why the site is called the Prow In the spirit of the site – of collaboration in revealing the riches of the region. Richard Nunns Mike Elkington
This is the project goal For years library staff recognised need for one stop resource of local historical information . Regularly requests came to us for school projects, from genealogists and historians;information to satisfy those requests often scattered amongst many institutions, (locally and and nationally) resources or not available – increasingly available in digital form On a range of sites. Prow project was initiated to create a vessel for the region's history, culture and stories We wanted to utilise modern technology to deliver this resource to as wide audience as possible, and to make it part of New Zealand's digital heritage. very important to us that it was a collaboration between top of the south institutions and that it was resource for the whole community , one that they could contribute to and share.
The project is a partnership – project partners (plus collab. with other museums – eg Brayshaw) ; funding from Government digital Strategy Community Partnerships Fund and partners. Nelson Provincial Museum and Marlborough Museum have own digitisation projects, smaller ones do not – a way of linking to objects and manuscripts, providing context. Promoting smaller insitutions Funding Project set-up – tender and contract: local software developers, NZ software – silverstripe with customisation local writers researchers (Joy, Karen – and MITCHELLs) Project management – steering group from partners led by NPL The outcome - digital stories website, The Prow; nga korero o te tau ihu , launched in February 2009
Features important for us : Community contributions, but: Organised and authoritative Easy to navigate and browse in a structured way. We did not want a wiki – would we have the critical mass in the region; harder to manage as key users schools? Moderating We did not choose a kete – wanted a level of organisation by theme and story. Now over 100 stories – so how do you find what you want? The Theme Tabs for browsing Story of the day randomly selected each day – or can select something relevant (click on this to go to story) Interactive map
DNZ search widget - we are a partner institution Creative commons licence for content (apart from the images) Project Partners Features and news – newsletter, Prow Quiz – hundreds of entries
Search feature – using Silverstripe User friendly navigation with either basic keyword search or advanced search Search by keywords in the search box and it will pick up any words occurring in the stories or using the advanced search option you can search by theme and date, keyword and many other options Stories are also easily findable on Google – keyword search usually brings them near top of a result list.: Google analytics, most people do come in from search engines
Can expand the map to street level and click on the link to take you to that story
Lets look at the stories – mix now of commissioned and user generated Community consultation from the start - part of the process of getting support and funding for project. A lot of the initial feedback drove the development of the website and content. Nelson, marlb. & Tasman Ongoing process – we still consult about which stories to commission
Now we will look at one of the stories. This one is about Appo Hocton, reputed to be New Zealand’s first Chinese immigrant. He jumped ship in Nelson in 1842. Note the Contents box which gives an overview of what the story contains. You can click on any of the items listed in the contents box and go straight to them. A lot of the place names mentioned in stories have hyperlinks to a Google map. Or a hyperlink may lead you to more information on that word (which may be a person, or topic e.g. click on the lure of gold hyperlink and it will take you to the Aorere Gold story. It may take you to another story within the Prow website or to another website e.g. Te Ara You can Click on image to enlarge
A note about images: mages have been sourced locally where possible. – all are fully referenced and copyright respected – each institution has own requirements. Have worked with Nelson Provincial Museum – have provided excellent support as one of the project partners. Good promotion of their images. Marlborough for Marlb. Images – and others, useful way of getting them digitises. Also – search range of digital images available Alexander Turnbull Library – Timeframes and new Maps&Pictorial site, NZETC, auckland public library maps etc etc… Putting wealth of material in context. Wherever possible there is a hyperlink to the owning institution for ordering high resolution copies Plus photographs and images from the team and friends. or locally from museums or other sources.
All stories have been referenced with page numbers from the source – so that people can check particular points, or seek further information. We want the commissioned stories to be authoritative. Related stories – to give context, interlinking
Further Sources – with links to Worldcat so users can find where the nearest library to them which holds the item. Articles include magazine articles and links to19 th century newspapers via Paperpast where applicable so users can read the eyewitness accounts.
Other includes unpublished material from museums. Makes people aware of the wealth of material available in museums, and makes it easier for the museums as people can ask for the material by its correct collection title and number. Can point to digital alternatives. Web resources Again harvesting and bringing together digital resources - huge amount of material, DNZB, TE Ara, NA History Online etc etc Some stories have more resources than others (eg see maungatapu murders)
Readers can add comments to our stories These comments often expand or correct information which we have provided in the stories. Although the references used in our stories are from authoritative sources, some were published many years ago – often further research reveals new facts or descendants can add information which has not been published.. Comments do not go directly onto the web page but are vetted first to eliminate offensive language or prank entries . If you see something we have missed, want to correct, or just an associated information – add a comment, it is easy. No need to log on.
Your Stories Key part of the site was to encourage the community to participate and create a space for locally produced stories. Create a log on and add copy and paste story in – you can also add 2 pix.
Guidelines for writing – but we are flexible
What has been added
We have liaised with other locally produced publications for using some of their local history stories on our website. These sometimes need light editing (e.g. to fit into our 500 word criteria) and bibliographies, links and images are added. Collecting info hidden in PDF’s etc into one space The Nelson Mail and Marlborough Express have regularly published some of our stories which have given us publicity to a wider audience.
The Prow is increasingly been seen in the region as a valuable community resource. – single space. Fits into theme of the conference Good usage The number, and range of stories available has continued to grow and we have a further number waiting to be added to the site. The level of community participation is growing steadily both in the comments and reminiscences people are adding to specific stories and through contributing their own stories. Funding has been secured from local authorities which will not only ensure the ongoing maintenance of the site but will enable us to continue to develop The Prow. We have learnt a huge amount from the experience over the last 3 years. All of which puts us in good stead for planning for the future.
So for a quick glimpse into future – these are on the horizon As we have little time I’ll just give you some time to read through them Although I would say that oral histories is probably top of the list to do I think The Prow’s future is looking good, we have a committed and supportive group of Partners, a talented group of library staff and a resource that is fulfilling an important community need. Will now open up the live site, and you can ask if you want to look at anything more closely. ..or ask any questions.
Wanted: Clean, clear interface Easy navigation Identifiable as Top of the South (part of this is the name) Authoritative feel For browsing purposes, stories were divided into themes. We will look more closely at site features later, first we will look at one of the commissioned stories