Hitting the Road towards a Greater Digital Destination: Evaluating and Testin...Rachel Vacek
Since 2009, the University of Houston (UH) Libraries has digitized tens of thousands of rare and unique items and made them available for research through its UH Digital Library (UHDL) based on CONTENTdm. Six years later, the need for a digital asset management system (DAMS) that can facilitate large scale digitization, provide innovative features for users, and offer more efficient workflows for librarians and staff has emerged. To address these needs, UH Libraries formed the DAMS Task Force in the summer of 2014. The group’s goal was to identify a system that can support the growing expectations of the UHDL.
This presentation will focus on the two core activities, needs assessment and DAMS evaluation, that the task force completed. The key portions of the needs assessment include: the process of literature review on DAMS evaluation and migration; research on tools utilized by peer institutions; and library stakeholder interviews. The presentation will then cover how task force members compiled the results of the assessment to establish DAMS evaluation criteria. The evaluation process consisted of an environmental scan of possible DAMS to test, the creation of criteria to narrow the list of DAMS down for in-depth testing, and the comprehensive testing of the DSpace and Fedora systems.
The presentation will conclude with a discussion of the task force’s results as well as the lessons learned from the research and evaluation process. It will also reflect on the important role that collaboration, project management, and strategic planning played in this team-based approach to DAMS selection.
Hitting the Road towards a Greater Digital Destination: Evaluating and Testin...Rachel Vacek
Since 2009, the University of Houston (UH) Libraries has digitized tens of thousands of rare and unique items and made them available for research through its UH Digital Library (UHDL) based on CONTENTdm. Six years later, the need for a digital asset management system (DAMS) that can facilitate large scale digitization, provide innovative features for users, and offer more efficient workflows for librarians and staff has emerged. To address these needs, UH Libraries formed the DAMS Task Force in the summer of 2014. The group’s goal was to identify a system that can support the growing expectations of the UHDL.
This presentation will focus on the two core activities, needs assessment and DAMS evaluation, that the task force completed. The key portions of the needs assessment include: the process of literature review on DAMS evaluation and migration; research on tools utilized by peer institutions; and library stakeholder interviews. The presentation will then cover how task force members compiled the results of the assessment to establish DAMS evaluation criteria. The evaluation process consisted of an environmental scan of possible DAMS to test, the creation of criteria to narrow the list of DAMS down for in-depth testing, and the comprehensive testing of the DSpace and Fedora systems.
The presentation will conclude with a discussion of the task force’s results as well as the lessons learned from the research and evaluation process. It will also reflect on the important role that collaboration, project management, and strategic planning played in this team-based approach to DAMS selection.
Kuali OLE Overview at Charleston Conference 09John Little
Presentation by John.Little@Duke.edu for "The Changing Face of Library Workflow Management: Open Source, Grid Computing and Cloud Services" PreConference - Charleston Conference 2009.
Speaker(s): Tim Daniels - Assistant State Librarian for Technology and Infrastructure, Georgia Public Library Service; Robert H. McDonald, Associate Dean for Library Technologies, Indiana University; Andrew Pace, Executive Director for Networked Library Services, OCLC
Customizing Feedback for askref in SFX - ELUNA 2006John Little
Library has more than one location for askref feedback. A very small number of tweaks can be input so that the feedback can go to the appropriate reference desk.
The WHY give you the power to make the HOW. So, find your own reasons inside yourself!!! Online Educa Berlin 2011. Evolving a Learning Culture plenary session.
Internet Librarian 2009: The presenters address the challenges involved in providing library content and services to mobile users. They discuss offering an entire library experience to mobile users, discovery tools available (mobile-friendly OPACs, union catalogs, library webpages and subject guides), best practices for cataloging electronic resources specific to mobile devices, as well as IT issues, collection development trends, licensing issues, and gathering usage statistics.
OLE Project Update - Webinar March 31 2009John Little
Slides supporting the OLE Project Update webinar/webcast on March 31, 2009. More information can be found at http://oleproject.org
A full video/audio recording will be available soon.
Managing Metadata for Ebook CollectionsHolly Tomren
OCLC Cataloging Efficiencies that Make a Difference: Metadata for Ebook Collections, at American Library Association Annual Conference, Anaheim, CA, June 25, 2012
Virtual Worlds offer the potential to engage learners at higher levels, but as a teacher it's important to understand HOW and WHY Virtual Worlds are so engaging and also cause some caution.
Before teaching in Second Life be a studentRuth Martínez
Only if you have been there like a student you will consider some aspects not only to improve user engagement if not to enrich the experience and to design the learning activity and, one of the most important things, to research new ways for learning.
As student you will realize the importance of a previous support to obtain an idea about the activity (aims, details and methodology) that you are required to make into Second Life. You will consider some values and needs to be explain before using, for example, communicative tools from Second Life. Should you explain what is a notecard before using it in your class? Should you give a roadmap about what kind or Slurls or land could be useful to visit for the learning activity? So, would you explain how to use the map and the search before? And maybe you wonder how would you determine the level of knowledge about Second Life of your students and, if doing that how to design the learning activity because Second Life has to be a tool for teaching not the subject of your learning activity.
Kuali OLE Overview at Charleston Conference 09John Little
Presentation by John.Little@Duke.edu for "The Changing Face of Library Workflow Management: Open Source, Grid Computing and Cloud Services" PreConference - Charleston Conference 2009.
Speaker(s): Tim Daniels - Assistant State Librarian for Technology and Infrastructure, Georgia Public Library Service; Robert H. McDonald, Associate Dean for Library Technologies, Indiana University; Andrew Pace, Executive Director for Networked Library Services, OCLC
Customizing Feedback for askref in SFX - ELUNA 2006John Little
Library has more than one location for askref feedback. A very small number of tweaks can be input so that the feedback can go to the appropriate reference desk.
The WHY give you the power to make the HOW. So, find your own reasons inside yourself!!! Online Educa Berlin 2011. Evolving a Learning Culture plenary session.
Internet Librarian 2009: The presenters address the challenges involved in providing library content and services to mobile users. They discuss offering an entire library experience to mobile users, discovery tools available (mobile-friendly OPACs, union catalogs, library webpages and subject guides), best practices for cataloging electronic resources specific to mobile devices, as well as IT issues, collection development trends, licensing issues, and gathering usage statistics.
OLE Project Update - Webinar March 31 2009John Little
Slides supporting the OLE Project Update webinar/webcast on March 31, 2009. More information can be found at http://oleproject.org
A full video/audio recording will be available soon.
Managing Metadata for Ebook CollectionsHolly Tomren
OCLC Cataloging Efficiencies that Make a Difference: Metadata for Ebook Collections, at American Library Association Annual Conference, Anaheim, CA, June 25, 2012
Virtual Worlds offer the potential to engage learners at higher levels, but as a teacher it's important to understand HOW and WHY Virtual Worlds are so engaging and also cause some caution.
Before teaching in Second Life be a studentRuth Martínez
Only if you have been there like a student you will consider some aspects not only to improve user engagement if not to enrich the experience and to design the learning activity and, one of the most important things, to research new ways for learning.
As student you will realize the importance of a previous support to obtain an idea about the activity (aims, details and methodology) that you are required to make into Second Life. You will consider some values and needs to be explain before using, for example, communicative tools from Second Life. Should you explain what is a notecard before using it in your class? Should you give a roadmap about what kind or Slurls or land could be useful to visit for the learning activity? So, would you explain how to use the map and the search before? And maybe you wonder how would you determine the level of knowledge about Second Life of your students and, if doing that how to design the learning activity because Second Life has to be a tool for teaching not the subject of your learning activity.
Open Source project failure often stems from not setting clear objectives or having a shared vision from the start. That said there are many success stories, including two well known Statistical examples: Demetra; and Eurostat SDMX tools (SDMX-RI). However, in all these examples there was at first a founding organisation/entity that created the right environment for its successful path into a new paradigm. In the context of my presentation this being the Statistical Information System Collaboration Community (SIS-CC / http://siscc.oecd.org).
Presented at the International Marketing and Output DataBase Conference, Gozd Martuljek, September 18 - 22, 2016.
IWMW 2002: Web standards briefing (session C2)IWMW
Web Standards Briefing session at IWMW 2002 event by Brian Kelly.
See http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2002/materials/kelly1/
Cultivating Sustainable Software For ResearchNeil Chue Hong
Keynote given at the NSF Cyberinfrastructure Software and Sustainability Workshop, March 26th-27th 2009, Indianapolis.
Exploration of software sustainability based on experiences from UK.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
Generating a custom Ruby SDK for your web service or Rails API using Smithyg2nightmarescribd
Have you ever wanted a Ruby client API to communicate with your web service? Smithy is a protocol-agnostic language for defining services and SDKs. Smithy Ruby is an implementation of Smithy that generates a Ruby SDK using a Smithy model. In this talk, we will explore Smithy and Smithy Ruby to learn how to generate custom feature-rich SDKs that can communicate with any web service, such as a Rails JSON API.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
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/
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
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.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
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.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Securing your Kubernetes cluster_ a step-by-step guide to success !KatiaHIMEUR1
Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.