Publishing for Development - Stellenbosch University Open Access Seminar 2011Thomas King
This document discusses the importance of open access research publishing in developing countries. It notes that while open access has the potential to more widely disseminate research and further development goals, current policies and metrics focus too heavily on international citations and prestige, neglecting local relevance. Green open access repositories make articles accessible but do not ensure development impact. Alternative models are emerging, including open access journals and scholarly presses that are more aligned with developing world issues, as well as new ways of evaluating research like altmetrics. Overall open access represents an opportunity to transform scholarly communication systems and better serve development needs, but policies and mindsets would need to change.
Addressing the visibility of african research - 2012Thomas King
The document discusses the Scholarly Communication in Africa Programme (SCAP) and its efforts to increase the visibility of African research. SCAP works with universities in Africa to understand current research practices and explore the concept of "impact" as it relates to scholarly visibility. It finds that much valuable African research output is invisible globally as it exists in forms other than journal articles, such as conference papers and policy briefs. SCAP aims to address this by promoting open access and innovative ways to share and profile diverse research outputs through repositories and content management strategies. However, open access strategies used in other regions may not be directly applicable in Africa due to differences in funding and policy environments.
Mendeley is a reference manager and academic social network. It allows you to organize research papers and citations, collaborate with other researchers online, and discover new papers. The document provides steps to create a Mendeley profile, add papers to your Mendeley library from your computer or online sources, and synchronize your library across devices. It also explains how to share papers and citations with others on Mendeley and integrate Mendeley with word processors for citing references.
Shifting Sands - New publishing models and new opportunities for African Univ...Thomas King
Shifting publishing models and open access provide new opportunities for African universities. Open access publishing allows for worldwide distribution of peer-reviewed literature free of access barriers, accelerating research and enriching education. As open access journals and repositories grow, they gain importance for developing country publishing and help reverse African universities' limited presence in global research. The future may see more flexible and collaborative models linking journals to open data and social platforms to further support research and capacity building.
The Role of Open in African Higher Education - MauritiusThomas King
This document discusses scholarly communication in Africa and opportunities to make African research more accessible. It notes that while the internet offers greater connectivity, African research is still marginalized by a focus on publications in commercial indexes. However, opportunities exist to leverage technology, align communications with strategies, revalue "grey publishing", use open access platforms and repositories, and gain wider impact. The University of Mauritius is encouraged to harness these opportunities to deliver its strategic goals.
Publishing for Development - Stellenbosch University Open Access Seminar 2011Thomas King
This document discusses the importance of open access research publishing in developing countries. It notes that while open access has the potential to more widely disseminate research and further development goals, current policies and metrics focus too heavily on international citations and prestige, neglecting local relevance. Green open access repositories make articles accessible but do not ensure development impact. Alternative models are emerging, including open access journals and scholarly presses that are more aligned with developing world issues, as well as new ways of evaluating research like altmetrics. Overall open access represents an opportunity to transform scholarly communication systems and better serve development needs, but policies and mindsets would need to change.
Addressing the visibility of african research - 2012Thomas King
The document discusses the Scholarly Communication in Africa Programme (SCAP) and its efforts to increase the visibility of African research. SCAP works with universities in Africa to understand current research practices and explore the concept of "impact" as it relates to scholarly visibility. It finds that much valuable African research output is invisible globally as it exists in forms other than journal articles, such as conference papers and policy briefs. SCAP aims to address this by promoting open access and innovative ways to share and profile diverse research outputs through repositories and content management strategies. However, open access strategies used in other regions may not be directly applicable in Africa due to differences in funding and policy environments.
Mendeley is a reference manager and academic social network. It allows you to organize research papers and citations, collaborate with other researchers online, and discover new papers. The document provides steps to create a Mendeley profile, add papers to your Mendeley library from your computer or online sources, and synchronize your library across devices. It also explains how to share papers and citations with others on Mendeley and integrate Mendeley with word processors for citing references.
Shifting Sands - New publishing models and new opportunities for African Univ...Thomas King
Shifting publishing models and open access provide new opportunities for African universities. Open access publishing allows for worldwide distribution of peer-reviewed literature free of access barriers, accelerating research and enriching education. As open access journals and repositories grow, they gain importance for developing country publishing and help reverse African universities' limited presence in global research. The future may see more flexible and collaborative models linking journals to open data and social platforms to further support research and capacity building.
The Role of Open in African Higher Education - MauritiusThomas King
This document discusses scholarly communication in Africa and opportunities to make African research more accessible. It notes that while the internet offers greater connectivity, African research is still marginalized by a focus on publications in commercial indexes. However, opportunities exist to leverage technology, align communications with strategies, revalue "grey publishing", use open access platforms and repositories, and gain wider impact. The University of Mauritius is encouraged to harness these opportunities to deliver its strategic goals.
The document discusses the UCT Research Portal, including its statistics and most accessed pages from May 2012. It provides screenshots of the portal's current and planned interfaces. Key pages include those on funding opportunities, bibliographic tools, and research outputs. Integrating student, financial, and publication data from other university systems into personalized researcher profiles is planned for future phases to create a more unified portal experience.
The document discusses the development of the UCT Research Portal over time. It began as a conceptual "head-in-the-clouds" view in 2011, and has now reached Phase 1 with a live basic portal launched in February 2012. Phase 2 plans by November 2012 include more dynamic links to databases and templated researcher profiles. The long term goal is full integration with other university systems to reduce duplicate data entry and automatically populate profiles.
RLUK members meeting 25-11-11 discovery presentationRDTF-Discovery
The document discusses the business case for investing in better resource discovery through the JISC Discovery initiative. It summarizes the goals of Discovery to make learning, teaching and research resources more discoverable through open metadata and linked data principles. Several early Discovery projects showed business cases for institutions, practitioners, users and researchers by amplifying impact, improving user experience and contributing to the research ecosystem. The conclusion discusses how Discovery exemplifies use cases and needs to identify the right scale for initiatives while leveraging the library community. It also suggests priorities for the Research Libraries UK consortium to further the goals of Discovery.
Helen Barrett presented on using free online tools for ePortfolio development. She began by defining ePortfolios as digital collections that allow students to reflect on their learning through various media formats. Barrett discussed key concepts like the purposes of ePortfolios for reflection, identity development, and online branding. She outlined various free web 2.0 tools and mobile devices that can be used to create ePortfolios, focusing on tools like blogs, wikis, and social networks. Barrett emphasized that ePortfolios should balance being a working portfolio for reflection and a presentation portfolio to showcase work. She provided examples of student ePortfolios and discussed how purpose drives the choice of ePortfolio structure and tools.
This document provides an overview of the academic research process and how to cite sources. It discusses what academic research entails, the basic research process steps of organizing, developing topics, evaluating sources, organizing information, and composing drafts. Significant attention is given to evaluating and citing sources using styles like MLA and APA. Links are provided to additional resources for conducting searches, understanding citation styles, and getting research help.
The instructor provided a library instruction session covering key concepts for researching topics, including:
1) Distinguishing between scholarly and popular sources and the importance of using scholarly sources.
2) Developing keyword terms and search strategies to efficiently search databases and find relevant sources.
3) Demonstrating how to search the library catalog and article databases like Academic OneFile and FirstSearch using keyword search strategies.
4) Reviewing the main features of bibliographic records and how to evaluate and access full-text sources.
This workshop provides an overview of advanced subject searching techniques in specialized indexing databases. It covers formulating effective search strategies, such as using synonyms, broader/narrower terms, and Boolean logic. Search options like phrase searching, truncation, and proximity indicators are discussed. The workshop also demonstrates how to navigate database search results and features. Attendees will learn how to evaluate content coverage and choose appropriate databases for their research needs. Related workshops providing more in-depth training on specific databases and search tools are also mentioned.
The document discusses the Common Core State Standards and how they aim to better prepare students for college and careers. It notes that the standards emphasize having students read more informational texts rather than just literature as students progress through grade levels. The Common Core also focuses on having students closely read more complex texts across various disciplines and develop strong reading comprehension, writing, and research skills through hands-on activities and projects. It describes how online resources can help students learn by providing interactive elements, multimedia content, and ways for students to demonstrate their knowledge through writing and speaking.
Here are some examples of countries involved in open educational resources (OERs) across the world:
- United States: MIT Open Courseware Project, Rice University Connexions
- France: ParisTech OCW Project
- China: China Open Resources for Education consortium involving over 222 universities
- Africa: OER Africa initiative supported by UNESCO
- India: MORIL (Masters of Rules, India and Law) Project
- Multiple countries: Open educational practices and policies supported by UNESCO and its virtual university
This document discusses balancing student-centered and institution-centered approaches to ePortfolios. It addresses the purposes of learning/reflection, evaluation/accountability and presents strategies to balance these, including using separate tools for assessment and ePortfolios, incorporating social elements, and encouraging student choice and multimedia. The goal is to support deep learning, engagement and lifelong skills through ePortfolios while also collecting necessary assessment data.
For many courses, OER already exist, but where to look for them? And when we find them will they look like what we expect? OER vary widely in format and quality. This session addresses the challenges of locating appropriate OER and suggests strategies for searching, evaluation, and attribution.
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.
OpenCourseWare (OCW) can be summarized as:
1) OCW refers to open digital educational materials from universities, including course planning materials, content, and evaluation tools, that are freely accessible online to anyone.
2) "Open" means the materials are free to access, use, and share without fees or access barriers. They can be reused, redistributed, revised, and remixed.
3) OCW aims to provide high quality educational resources that are organized as courses and cover a range of topics, acting as a supplement to formal higher education.
Using Linked Data as the basis for Learning Resource RecommendationChris Clarke
The document discusses building a linked data application for learning resource recommendations. It describes the vision of creating an ecosystem of interconnected learning data from institutions around the world. It outlines some early progress made, including building basic ontologies and linking existing data sources. However, it notes that more work is still needed to fully connect resources and infer relationships. The document also covers some lessons learned, such as the importance of sustainability, provenance, licensing and reliability when creating applications using linked open data.
The document provides an overview of searching for resources on adventure education topics in the John F. Reed Library at Fort Lewis College, including searching the library catalog and databases, using keywords and Boolean operators to conduct efficient searches, and tips for finding full-text articles and citing sources using APA format. Students are encouraged to save sources and citations using EndNote Online or by emailing citations to themselves for later use in research papers.
Loyola University Chicago is launching an initiative to enhance teaching and learning through the use of electronic portfolios. View this presentation to learn more about portfolios as a form of pedagogy.
Developing sustainable business models for institutions’ provision of open ed...Dr Patrina Law
Universities across the globe have, for some time, been exploring the possibilities for achieving public benefit and generating business and visibility through releasing and sharing open educational resources (OER). Many have written about the need to develop sustainable and profitable business models around the production and release of OER. Downes (2006), for example, has questioned the financial sustainability of OER production at scale. Many of the proposed business models focus on OER’s value in generating revenue and detractors of OER have questioned whether they are in competition with formal education.
This presentation reports on a study intended to broaden the conversation about OER business models to consider the motivations and experiences of OER users as the basis for making a better informed decision about whether OER and formal learning are competitive or complementary with each other. The study focused on OpenLearn - the Open University’s (OU) web-based platform for OER, which hosts hundreds of online courses and videos and is accessed by over 3,000,000 users a year. A large scale survey and follow-up interviews with OpenLearn users worldwide revealed that university provided OER can offer learners a bridge to formal education, allowing them to try out a subject before registering on a formal course and to build confidence in their abilities as learners. In addition, it was found that using OER during formal paid-for study can improve learners’ performance and self-reliance, leading to increased retention and satisfaction with the learning experience.
This document provides an overview of research strategies and resources for students writing papers. It discusses creating a research strategy, identifying books and journal articles, managing research, and evaluating web resources. The document reviews research guides, libraries at Ohio Northern University, argumentative papers, annotated bibliographies, databases like Academic Search Complete and JSTOR, locating print journals, internet tools like Google Scholar, and getting help from reference librarians.
All you (never) wanted to know about COVID-19 and SARS-CoV-2Edward Rybicki
This document summarizes information about SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19. It describes the virus, how it is transmitted, symptoms of the disease, current treatments and vaccines in development. SARS-CoV-2 is a novel coronavirus that likely originated in bats and is genetically similar to coronaviruses that cause SARS and MERS. It is transmitted through respiratory droplets and contact with contaminated surfaces. COVID-19 symptoms range from mild to severe and can include fever, cough and breathing difficulties. Treatments include antiviral drugs and immune therapies, while several vaccine candidates are in development using different approaches.
The document provides advice and strategies for using social media and online platforms to advance one's research career. It recommends establishing an online presence through a professional website and accounts on social media sites like Twitter, LinkedIn, Academia.edu and ResearchGate. These platforms can help increase visibility, track metrics, enhance networking and expand one's professional network. The document also provides tips for new users, such as exploring online guides, locating relevant online conversations, and reading discussions before actively contributing.
The document discusses the UCT Research Portal, including its statistics and most accessed pages from May 2012. It provides screenshots of the portal's current and planned interfaces. Key pages include those on funding opportunities, bibliographic tools, and research outputs. Integrating student, financial, and publication data from other university systems into personalized researcher profiles is planned for future phases to create a more unified portal experience.
The document discusses the development of the UCT Research Portal over time. It began as a conceptual "head-in-the-clouds" view in 2011, and has now reached Phase 1 with a live basic portal launched in February 2012. Phase 2 plans by November 2012 include more dynamic links to databases and templated researcher profiles. The long term goal is full integration with other university systems to reduce duplicate data entry and automatically populate profiles.
RLUK members meeting 25-11-11 discovery presentationRDTF-Discovery
The document discusses the business case for investing in better resource discovery through the JISC Discovery initiative. It summarizes the goals of Discovery to make learning, teaching and research resources more discoverable through open metadata and linked data principles. Several early Discovery projects showed business cases for institutions, practitioners, users and researchers by amplifying impact, improving user experience and contributing to the research ecosystem. The conclusion discusses how Discovery exemplifies use cases and needs to identify the right scale for initiatives while leveraging the library community. It also suggests priorities for the Research Libraries UK consortium to further the goals of Discovery.
Helen Barrett presented on using free online tools for ePortfolio development. She began by defining ePortfolios as digital collections that allow students to reflect on their learning through various media formats. Barrett discussed key concepts like the purposes of ePortfolios for reflection, identity development, and online branding. She outlined various free web 2.0 tools and mobile devices that can be used to create ePortfolios, focusing on tools like blogs, wikis, and social networks. Barrett emphasized that ePortfolios should balance being a working portfolio for reflection and a presentation portfolio to showcase work. She provided examples of student ePortfolios and discussed how purpose drives the choice of ePortfolio structure and tools.
This document provides an overview of the academic research process and how to cite sources. It discusses what academic research entails, the basic research process steps of organizing, developing topics, evaluating sources, organizing information, and composing drafts. Significant attention is given to evaluating and citing sources using styles like MLA and APA. Links are provided to additional resources for conducting searches, understanding citation styles, and getting research help.
The instructor provided a library instruction session covering key concepts for researching topics, including:
1) Distinguishing between scholarly and popular sources and the importance of using scholarly sources.
2) Developing keyword terms and search strategies to efficiently search databases and find relevant sources.
3) Demonstrating how to search the library catalog and article databases like Academic OneFile and FirstSearch using keyword search strategies.
4) Reviewing the main features of bibliographic records and how to evaluate and access full-text sources.
This workshop provides an overview of advanced subject searching techniques in specialized indexing databases. It covers formulating effective search strategies, such as using synonyms, broader/narrower terms, and Boolean logic. Search options like phrase searching, truncation, and proximity indicators are discussed. The workshop also demonstrates how to navigate database search results and features. Attendees will learn how to evaluate content coverage and choose appropriate databases for their research needs. Related workshops providing more in-depth training on specific databases and search tools are also mentioned.
The document discusses the Common Core State Standards and how they aim to better prepare students for college and careers. It notes that the standards emphasize having students read more informational texts rather than just literature as students progress through grade levels. The Common Core also focuses on having students closely read more complex texts across various disciplines and develop strong reading comprehension, writing, and research skills through hands-on activities and projects. It describes how online resources can help students learn by providing interactive elements, multimedia content, and ways for students to demonstrate their knowledge through writing and speaking.
Here are some examples of countries involved in open educational resources (OERs) across the world:
- United States: MIT Open Courseware Project, Rice University Connexions
- France: ParisTech OCW Project
- China: China Open Resources for Education consortium involving over 222 universities
- Africa: OER Africa initiative supported by UNESCO
- India: MORIL (Masters of Rules, India and Law) Project
- Multiple countries: Open educational practices and policies supported by UNESCO and its virtual university
This document discusses balancing student-centered and institution-centered approaches to ePortfolios. It addresses the purposes of learning/reflection, evaluation/accountability and presents strategies to balance these, including using separate tools for assessment and ePortfolios, incorporating social elements, and encouraging student choice and multimedia. The goal is to support deep learning, engagement and lifelong skills through ePortfolios while also collecting necessary assessment data.
For many courses, OER already exist, but where to look for them? And when we find them will they look like what we expect? OER vary widely in format and quality. This session addresses the challenges of locating appropriate OER and suggests strategies for searching, evaluation, and attribution.
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.
OpenCourseWare (OCW) can be summarized as:
1) OCW refers to open digital educational materials from universities, including course planning materials, content, and evaluation tools, that are freely accessible online to anyone.
2) "Open" means the materials are free to access, use, and share without fees or access barriers. They can be reused, redistributed, revised, and remixed.
3) OCW aims to provide high quality educational resources that are organized as courses and cover a range of topics, acting as a supplement to formal higher education.
Using Linked Data as the basis for Learning Resource RecommendationChris Clarke
The document discusses building a linked data application for learning resource recommendations. It describes the vision of creating an ecosystem of interconnected learning data from institutions around the world. It outlines some early progress made, including building basic ontologies and linking existing data sources. However, it notes that more work is still needed to fully connect resources and infer relationships. The document also covers some lessons learned, such as the importance of sustainability, provenance, licensing and reliability when creating applications using linked open data.
The document provides an overview of searching for resources on adventure education topics in the John F. Reed Library at Fort Lewis College, including searching the library catalog and databases, using keywords and Boolean operators to conduct efficient searches, and tips for finding full-text articles and citing sources using APA format. Students are encouraged to save sources and citations using EndNote Online or by emailing citations to themselves for later use in research papers.
Loyola University Chicago is launching an initiative to enhance teaching and learning through the use of electronic portfolios. View this presentation to learn more about portfolios as a form of pedagogy.
Developing sustainable business models for institutions’ provision of open ed...Dr Patrina Law
Universities across the globe have, for some time, been exploring the possibilities for achieving public benefit and generating business and visibility through releasing and sharing open educational resources (OER). Many have written about the need to develop sustainable and profitable business models around the production and release of OER. Downes (2006), for example, has questioned the financial sustainability of OER production at scale. Many of the proposed business models focus on OER’s value in generating revenue and detractors of OER have questioned whether they are in competition with formal education.
This presentation reports on a study intended to broaden the conversation about OER business models to consider the motivations and experiences of OER users as the basis for making a better informed decision about whether OER and formal learning are competitive or complementary with each other. The study focused on OpenLearn - the Open University’s (OU) web-based platform for OER, which hosts hundreds of online courses and videos and is accessed by over 3,000,000 users a year. A large scale survey and follow-up interviews with OpenLearn users worldwide revealed that university provided OER can offer learners a bridge to formal education, allowing them to try out a subject before registering on a formal course and to build confidence in their abilities as learners. In addition, it was found that using OER during formal paid-for study can improve learners’ performance and self-reliance, leading to increased retention and satisfaction with the learning experience.
This document provides an overview of research strategies and resources for students writing papers. It discusses creating a research strategy, identifying books and journal articles, managing research, and evaluating web resources. The document reviews research guides, libraries at Ohio Northern University, argumentative papers, annotated bibliographies, databases like Academic Search Complete and JSTOR, locating print journals, internet tools like Google Scholar, and getting help from reference librarians.
All you (never) wanted to know about COVID-19 and SARS-CoV-2Edward Rybicki
This document summarizes information about SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19. It describes the virus, how it is transmitted, symptoms of the disease, current treatments and vaccines in development. SARS-CoV-2 is a novel coronavirus that likely originated in bats and is genetically similar to coronaviruses that cause SARS and MERS. It is transmitted through respiratory droplets and contact with contaminated surfaces. COVID-19 symptoms range from mild to severe and can include fever, cough and breathing difficulties. Treatments include antiviral drugs and immune therapies, while several vaccine candidates are in development using different approaches.
The document provides advice and strategies for using social media and online platforms to advance one's research career. It recommends establishing an online presence through a professional website and accounts on social media sites like Twitter, LinkedIn, Academia.edu and ResearchGate. These platforms can help increase visibility, track metrics, enhance networking and expand one's professional network. The document also provides tips for new users, such as exploring online guides, locating relevant online conversations, and reading discussions before actively contributing.
Research portal Commerce Faculty 11 09-2013Edward Rybicki
The document discusses plans for the UCT Research Portal, which aims to provide researchers with secure access to research tools and resources. Phase 1 involved creating web pages and linking a database to the portal site. Phase 2 plans include developing dynamic links to databases, creating standardized researcher profiles including publication lists, and potentially incorporating non-traditional research outputs. The profiles would pull together information currently entered separately for various purposes. The best exemplar is the Queensland University of Technology profiles system, which underpins their portal and database and provides similar functionality to what is proposed for UCT's portal and profiles.
This document discusses how social media can help with self-advancement in research. It describes various social media tools like blogs, Twitter, Facebook, SlideShare, and Pinterest. It explains that using social media can help improve traditional metrics like citations and downloads by increasing online visibility. Social media also enhances professional networking by facilitating real-world interactions from online discussions. The document provides advice for new users, like exploring guides, establishing a professional website, finding relevant conversations, and managing information overload. It recommends establishing profiles on LinkedIn, Academia.edu, and ResearchGate to increase findability and exposure.
Research Portal Update - Humanities and CHED, July 2013Edward Rybicki
1) The UCT Research Portal provides researchers secure access to resources and allows public access to the Research Office site.
2) Phase 1 of the portal launched in February 2012, creating web pages and databases. Phase 2 is planned to launch by late 2013, adding dynamic links to databases and templated scholarly profiles.
3) The objective is to reduce the number of times researchers must provide the same information by allowing it to be pulled from their profile for different purposes like assessments, applications, and reporting to funding bodies.
This document discusses how using auto-googling and citation metrics tools like Google Scholar, Publish or Perish, and SciVal Spotlight can help researchers advance their careers by tracking their publication and citation metrics over time. It provides information on setting up auto-googling to track an individual's h-index and recent impact, and describes useful features of citation analysis tools like seeing top cited papers, comparing citation metrics to others in a field, and analyzing collaborative networks. The document also mentions how metrics can be included in applications like NRF assessments and promotions to objectively demonstrate research impact and influence in a field.
This document describes SciVal Spotlight, a tool from Elsevier for assessing institutional publication impact. The tool allows users to map competencies, publications, and collaborations by gathering clusters of research into competencies represented as circles. It also graphs collaborations between institutions and identifies the top collaborating authors, institutions, and options for different analyses.
This document discusses how to use reference management software to import references from online sources like PubMed, choose authors, approve reference matches, copy references to an existing database, and output references in various citation styles. It covers importing references via the web or text files, saving locally before importing into a reference database, and using the custom toolbar in Word to insert citations into a manuscript.
From Margaret Koopman:
The University of Cape Town subscribes to RefWorks, a web-based reference management service used for storing and organizing references. UCT staff and students may use RefWorks on campus and also off-campus (by logging in via EZProxy).
More information about RefWorks can be found on the UCT Libraries RefWorks information page.
This document is a world map showing the number of institutional collaborations that the University of Cape Town (UCT) has per country. By clicking on a country like Australia, it displays the number of institutions in that country that have collaborated with UCT as well as the number of co-publications between UCT researchers and those institutions. Clicking on a specific institution, like the University of Sydney, provides more detail on co-authored articles with UCT including those within UCT competencies. This information identifies potential collaborators for UCT to pursue opportunities with.
UCT now has a new tool called Spotlight that provides information about the university's competencies and publications. Spotlight allows users to view the size and position of competency lines to understand their multidisciplinarity, see top competencies, and get more information by clicking on competencies or drilling down into rank lists to see standing within the university and worldwide.
SciVal Spotlight identifies competencies in three steps: (1) it performs a co-citation analysis to group references into article clusters, (2) it determines which clusters represent an institution's research strengths based on article contribution, and (3) it further groups clusters together that share articles from the institution. This identifies the research areas where an institution is a leader. The document then provides examples of the largest competency identified for UCT and lists the top 19 authors from UCT in terms of their published articles and articles within identified competencies from 2005-2009.
Northern Engraving | Nameplate Manufacturing Process - 2024Northern Engraving
Manufacturing custom quality metal nameplates and badges involves several standard operations. Processes include sheet prep, lithography, screening, coating, punch press and inspection. All decoration is completed in the flat sheet with adhesive and tooling operations following. The possibilities for creating unique durable nameplates are endless. How will you create your brand identity? We can help!
AppSec PNW: Android and iOS Application Security with MobSFAjin Abraham
Mobile Security Framework - MobSF is a free and open source automated mobile application security testing environment designed to help security engineers, researchers, developers, and penetration testers to identify security vulnerabilities, malicious behaviours and privacy concerns in mobile applications using static and dynamic analysis. It supports all the popular mobile application binaries and source code formats built for Android and iOS devices. In addition to automated security assessment, it also offers an interactive testing environment to build and execute scenario based test/fuzz cases against the application.
This talk covers:
Using MobSF for static analysis of mobile applications.
Interactive dynamic security assessment of Android and iOS applications.
Solving Mobile app CTF challenges.
Reverse engineering and runtime analysis of Mobile malware.
How to shift left and integrate MobSF/mobsfscan SAST and DAST in your build pipeline.
Conversational agents, or chatbots, are increasingly used to access all sorts of services using natural language. While open-domain chatbots - like ChatGPT - can converse on any topic, task-oriented chatbots - the focus of this paper - are designed for specific tasks, like booking a flight, obtaining customer support, or setting an appointment. Like any other software, task-oriented chatbots need to be properly tested, usually by defining and executing test scenarios (i.e., sequences of user-chatbot interactions). However, there is currently a lack of methods to quantify the completeness and strength of such test scenarios, which can lead to low-quality tests, and hence to buggy chatbots.
To fill this gap, we propose adapting mutation testing (MuT) for task-oriented chatbots. To this end, we introduce a set of mutation operators that emulate faults in chatbot designs, an architecture that enables MuT on chatbots built using heterogeneous technologies, and a practical realisation as an Eclipse plugin. Moreover, we evaluate the applicability, effectiveness and efficiency of our approach on open-source chatbots, with promising results.
Ivanti’s Patch Tuesday breakdown goes beyond patching your applications and brings you the intelligence and guidance needed to prioritize where to focus your attention first. Catch early analysis on our Ivanti blog, then join industry expert Chris Goettl for the Patch Tuesday Webinar Event. There we’ll do a deep dive into each of the bulletins and give guidance on the risks associated with the newly-identified vulnerabilities.
Taking AI to the Next Level in Manufacturing.pdfssuserfac0301
Read Taking AI to the Next Level in Manufacturing to gain insights on AI adoption in the manufacturing industry, such as:
1. How quickly AI is being implemented in manufacturing.
2. Which barriers stand in the way of AI adoption.
3. How data quality and governance form the backbone of AI.
4. Organizational processes and structures that may inhibit effective AI adoption.
6. Ideas and approaches to help build your organization's AI strategy.
How to Interpret Trends in the Kalyan Rajdhani Mix Chart.pdfChart Kalyan
A Mix Chart displays historical data of numbers in a graphical or tabular form. The Kalyan Rajdhani Mix Chart specifically shows the results of a sequence of numbers over different periods.
For the full video of this presentation, please visit: https://www.edge-ai-vision.com/2024/06/temporal-event-neural-networks-a-more-efficient-alternative-to-the-transformer-a-presentation-from-brainchip/
Chris Jones, Director of Product Management at BrainChip , presents the “Temporal Event Neural Networks: A More Efficient Alternative to the Transformer” tutorial at the May 2024 Embedded Vision Summit.
The expansion of AI services necessitates enhanced computational capabilities on edge devices. Temporal Event Neural Networks (TENNs), developed by BrainChip, represent a novel and highly efficient state-space network. TENNs demonstrate exceptional proficiency in handling multi-dimensional streaming data, facilitating advancements in object detection, action recognition, speech enhancement and language model/sequence generation. Through the utilization of polynomial-based continuous convolutions, TENNs streamline models, expedite training processes and significantly diminish memory requirements, achieving notable reductions of up to 50x in parameters and 5,000x in energy consumption compared to prevailing methodologies like transformers.
Integration with BrainChip’s Akida neuromorphic hardware IP further enhances TENNs’ capabilities, enabling the realization of highly capable, portable and passively cooled edge devices. This presentation delves into the technical innovations underlying TENNs, presents real-world benchmarks, and elucidates how this cutting-edge approach is positioned to revolutionize edge AI across diverse applications.
[OReilly Superstream] Occupy the Space: A grassroots guide to engineering (an...Jason Yip
The typical problem in product engineering is not bad strategy, so much as “no strategy”. This leads to confusion, lack of motivation, and incoherent action. The next time you look for a strategy and find an empty space, instead of waiting for it to be filled, I will show you how to fill it in yourself. If you’re wrong, it forces a correction. If you’re right, it helps create focus. I’ll share how I’ve approached this in the past, both what works and lessons for what didn’t work so well.
Driving Business Innovation: Latest Generative AI Advancements & Success StorySafe Software
Are you ready to revolutionize how you handle data? Join us for a webinar where we’ll bring you up to speed with the latest advancements in Generative AI technology and discover how leveraging FME with tools from giants like Google Gemini, Amazon, and Microsoft OpenAI can supercharge your workflow efficiency.
During the hour, we’ll take you through:
Guest Speaker Segment with Hannah Barrington: Dive into the world of dynamic real estate marketing with Hannah, the Marketing Manager at Workspace Group. Hear firsthand how their team generates engaging descriptions for thousands of office units by integrating diverse data sources—from PDF floorplans to web pages—using FME transformers, like OpenAIVisionConnector and AnthropicVisionConnector. This use case will show you how GenAI can streamline content creation for marketing across the board.
Ollama Use Case: Learn how Scenario Specialist Dmitri Bagh has utilized Ollama within FME to input data, create custom models, and enhance security protocols. This segment will include demos to illustrate the full capabilities of FME in AI-driven processes.
Custom AI Models: Discover how to leverage FME to build personalized AI models using your data. Whether it’s populating a model with local data for added security or integrating public AI tools, find out how FME facilitates a versatile and secure approach to AI.
We’ll wrap up with a live Q&A session where you can engage with our experts on your specific use cases, and learn more about optimizing your data workflows with AI.
This webinar is ideal for professionals seeking to harness the power of AI within their data management systems while ensuring high levels of customization and security. Whether you're a novice or an expert, gain actionable insights and strategies to elevate your data processes. Join us to see how FME and AI can revolutionize how you work with data!
How information systems are built or acquired puts information, which is what they should be about, in a secondary place. Our language adapted accordingly, and we no longer talk about information systems but applications. Applications evolved in a way to break data into diverse fragments, tightly coupled with applications and expensive to integrate. The result is technical debt, which is re-paid by taking even bigger "loans", resulting in an ever-increasing technical debt. Software engineering and procurement practices work in sync with market forces to maintain this trend. This talk demonstrates how natural this situation is. The question is: can something be done to reverse the trend?
Skybuffer SAM4U tool for SAP license adoptionTatiana Kojar
Manage and optimize your license adoption and consumption with SAM4U, an SAP free customer software asset management tool.
SAM4U, an SAP complimentary software asset management tool for customers, delivers a detailed and well-structured overview of license inventory and usage with a user-friendly interface. We offer a hosted, cost-effective, and performance-optimized SAM4U setup in the Skybuffer Cloud environment. You retain ownership of the system and data, while we manage the ABAP 7.58 infrastructure, ensuring fixed Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and exceptional services through the SAP Fiori interface.
Your One-Stop Shop for Python Success: Top 10 US Python Development Providersakankshawande
Simplify your search for a reliable Python development partner! This list presents the top 10 trusted US providers offering comprehensive Python development services, ensuring your project's success from conception to completion.
Connector Corner: Seamlessly power UiPath Apps, GenAI with prebuilt connectorsDianaGray10
Join us to learn how UiPath Apps can directly and easily interact with prebuilt connectors via Integration Service--including Salesforce, ServiceNow, Open GenAI, and more.
The best part is you can achieve this without building a custom workflow! Say goodbye to the hassle of using separate automations to call APIs. By seamlessly integrating within App Studio, you can now easily streamline your workflow, while gaining direct access to our Connector Catalog of popular applications.
We’ll discuss and demo the benefits of UiPath Apps and connectors including:
Creating a compelling user experience for any software, without the limitations of APIs.
Accelerating the app creation process, saving time and effort
Enjoying high-performance CRUD (create, read, update, delete) operations, for
seamless data management.
Speakers:
Russell Alfeche, Technology Leader, RPA at qBotic and UiPath MVP
Charlie Greenberg, host
Freshworks Rethinks NoSQL for Rapid Scaling & Cost-EfficiencyScyllaDB
Freshworks creates AI-boosted business software that helps employees work more efficiently and effectively. Managing data across multiple RDBMS and NoSQL databases was already a challenge at their current scale. To prepare for 10X growth, they knew it was time to rethink their database strategy. Learn how they architected a solution that would simplify scaling while keeping costs under control.
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