This document discusses how to get users to appreciate metadata by reframing how they view and interact with it. It suggests translating traditional folders into a metadata structure and establishing sensible defaults to make metadata easier for users. While change can be difficult, implementing cool tricks and the right tools can help users recognize the benefits of metadata for organizing and collaborating on documents and projects.
#SPSTC Maximizing the SharePoint User Experience with Free 3rd Party jQuery L...Mark Rackley
SharePoint Saturday Twin Cities session on using third party jQuery libraries in SharePoint:
jQueryUI
DataTables.net
FullCalendar
Bluff Charts
StratusForms
SPTechCon Boston 2015 - Overcoming SharePoint LimitationsMark Rackley
This document discusses creating list views for large SharePoint lists. It begins with an introduction of the speaker and an overview of the agenda. It then covers the problems with large lists, such as losing functionality at the list view threshold of 5,000 items. It recommends preparing for large lists by using retention policies and indexing columns. It demonstrates using jQuery and REST to query large lists. Finally, it demonstrates creating interactive list views for large data sets using DataTables, bringing REST and DataTables together to build powerful views.
Introduction to StratusForms #SayNoToInfoPathMark Rackley
This document introduces StratusForms, a lightweight alternative to InfoPath that allows building forms using HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Key points include:
- StratusForms uses client-side code to build forms that can be customized and styled easily.
- It works with SharePoint 2007-2013 and Office 365 to store form data in lists and promote fields.
- Additional features include repeating sections, parent-child relationships, reporting, and field encryption.
- Support and customization services are available, and a premium version with automated configuration is coming soon to the SharePoint Store.
- The document demonstrates how to initialize a form, submit data, validate fields, and generate reports on form data.
SPTechCon Boston 2015 - Utilizing jQuery in SharePointMark Rackley
This document provides an overview of using jQuery in SharePoint. It discusses what jQuery is, why it is useful for SharePoint development, and how to deploy and develop with jQuery in SharePoint. It provides examples of common jQuery methods and best practices. It also demonstrates using the jQuery UI library to add tabs to a page.
A Power User's Intro to jQuery Awesomeness in SharePointMark Rackley
This document summarizes a presentation about enhancing SharePoint pages using JavaScript and jQuery. The presentation covers why it is useful to do this, how a power user can add scripts to SharePoint pages through content editor web parts, best practices, and provides examples of scripts that can be used to add features like tabs, signatures, and customized forms.
SPSDenver - Wrapping Your Head Around the SharePoint BeastMark Rackley
This document provides an overview of SharePoint and the path to becoming a SharePoint developer. It discusses why organizations implement SharePoint, defines common terminology, and reviews the logical architecture and taxonomy. It outlines the various roles in SharePoint development from end users to administrators to developers. It also discusses tools, debugging, deployment, and the importance of the SharePoint community.
Document Management in SharePoint without folders - Introduction to MetadataGregory Zelfond
Step-by-Step Guide to Document Management
in SharePoint. Part I – Introduction to Metadata
What’s wrong with Folders?
Intro to Metadata
Step-by-Step on how to setup SharePoint Metadata
This document discusses getting users to love metadata by reframing how they think about organizing documents and information. It suggests that while users don't typically love metadata, they are already using metadata implicitly through folders and filenames to structure their information. The document advocates translating existing folder structures into a metadata-driven structure with libraries, columns and content types to provide structure and enable search and collaboration. It acknowledges change can be difficult but provides some "cool tricks" and tools to help users add and work with metadata. The overall message is that metadata, when applied correctly, can fit users' needs for structuring and finding information better than traditional folders.
#SPSTC Maximizing the SharePoint User Experience with Free 3rd Party jQuery L...Mark Rackley
SharePoint Saturday Twin Cities session on using third party jQuery libraries in SharePoint:
jQueryUI
DataTables.net
FullCalendar
Bluff Charts
StratusForms
SPTechCon Boston 2015 - Overcoming SharePoint LimitationsMark Rackley
This document discusses creating list views for large SharePoint lists. It begins with an introduction of the speaker and an overview of the agenda. It then covers the problems with large lists, such as losing functionality at the list view threshold of 5,000 items. It recommends preparing for large lists by using retention policies and indexing columns. It demonstrates using jQuery and REST to query large lists. Finally, it demonstrates creating interactive list views for large data sets using DataTables, bringing REST and DataTables together to build powerful views.
Introduction to StratusForms #SayNoToInfoPathMark Rackley
This document introduces StratusForms, a lightweight alternative to InfoPath that allows building forms using HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Key points include:
- StratusForms uses client-side code to build forms that can be customized and styled easily.
- It works with SharePoint 2007-2013 and Office 365 to store form data in lists and promote fields.
- Additional features include repeating sections, parent-child relationships, reporting, and field encryption.
- Support and customization services are available, and a premium version with automated configuration is coming soon to the SharePoint Store.
- The document demonstrates how to initialize a form, submit data, validate fields, and generate reports on form data.
SPTechCon Boston 2015 - Utilizing jQuery in SharePointMark Rackley
This document provides an overview of using jQuery in SharePoint. It discusses what jQuery is, why it is useful for SharePoint development, and how to deploy and develop with jQuery in SharePoint. It provides examples of common jQuery methods and best practices. It also demonstrates using the jQuery UI library to add tabs to a page.
A Power User's Intro to jQuery Awesomeness in SharePointMark Rackley
This document summarizes a presentation about enhancing SharePoint pages using JavaScript and jQuery. The presentation covers why it is useful to do this, how a power user can add scripts to SharePoint pages through content editor web parts, best practices, and provides examples of scripts that can be used to add features like tabs, signatures, and customized forms.
SPSDenver - Wrapping Your Head Around the SharePoint BeastMark Rackley
This document provides an overview of SharePoint and the path to becoming a SharePoint developer. It discusses why organizations implement SharePoint, defines common terminology, and reviews the logical architecture and taxonomy. It outlines the various roles in SharePoint development from end users to administrators to developers. It also discusses tools, debugging, deployment, and the importance of the SharePoint community.
Document Management in SharePoint without folders - Introduction to MetadataGregory Zelfond
Step-by-Step Guide to Document Management
in SharePoint. Part I – Introduction to Metadata
What’s wrong with Folders?
Intro to Metadata
Step-by-Step on how to setup SharePoint Metadata
This document discusses getting users to love metadata by reframing how they think about organizing documents and information. It suggests that while users don't typically love metadata, they are already using metadata implicitly through folders and filenames to structure their information. The document advocates translating existing folder structures into a metadata-driven structure with libraries, columns and content types to provide structure and enable search and collaboration. It acknowledges change can be difficult but provides some "cool tricks" and tools to help users add and work with metadata. The overall message is that metadata, when applied correctly, can fit users' needs for structuring and finding information better than traditional folders.
Our time is too valuable to spend it looking for files or re-inventing what we’ve already created. It’s time to get off of file shares and adopt a content management strategy leveraging SharePoint libraries, metadata, and search.
We can all fall victim to clinging to our folder structures but there’s a better way. Learn how to take advantage of the beneficial features of powerful search and custom metadata in SharePoint.
In this session we feature TermSet, an exciting new product that automatically adds metadata and taxonomies to SharePoint. All without a burden on business users or your IT department!
Assessment of Metadata Remediation EffortsJenn Riley
Riley, Jenn. "Assessment of Metadata Remediation Efforts." Metadata Enhancement and OAI Workshop (MEOW), Robert W. Woodruff Library, Emory University, July 24-25, 2006.
Co-Authoring Documents using Teams, OneDrive and Office at SPS Johannesburg 2019Sasja Beerendonk
Here are the key steps to co-authoring documents efficiently using Microsoft Teams and Office:
1. Use Teams for collaboration instead of file shares or email. Teams provides version control and real-time co-editing.
2. Start drafts in Teams to allow easy collaboration from the start. Teams integrates with Office so others can view and edit documents simultaneously.
3. Leverage feedback tools in Office and Teams like comments, @mentions, and chat to review documents collaboratively in real-time.
4. Final approved versions can be published to SharePoint for wider access while maintaining version history in Teams.
Office 365 Saturday 2013 - A guideline to structure your documents in SharePo...Jasper Oosterveld
A guideline to structure your documents in SharePoint Online 2013. Learn how to work with the SharePoint features to structure your documents in document libraries.
Here are my slides for my session for the International Institute of Business Analysis (May 23, 2012). I focus on best practices of survey design, highlighting qualitative data.
Words and sentences are the basic units of text. In this lecture we discuss basics of operations on words and sentences such as tokenization, text normalization, tf-idf, cosine similarity measures, vector space models and word representation
Supporting Learners in Formatting ETDRs with an MS Word Template Shalin Hai-Jew
University life is often seasonal, with intensifications of work and times of less hectic work. As learners approach graduation, they focus on formatting their theses, dissertations, and reports for submittal to ProQuest and the university repository or other destinations. Various pre-programmed or pre-scripted templates are available to ensure that the works align with given layouts, interactivity (jumping from TOCs and Lists to the respective contents), and other formatting, for the Electronic Theses, Dissertations, and Reports (ETDRs). For many whose works have to pass muster with various committees and professors, they come at the template at the last minute, with various challenges: recalcitrant TOCs, low res visuals, citation challenges, captions that will not stay in place, .pdf files without navigation capability, and other common errors. This session describes some common ways to support users of ETDR templates with efficiency, for successful outcomes (passing muster with the Graduate School and ProQuest.
In this 20 minute presentation, Gerry Brimacombe will talk about migrating files to Office 365, and present some of the tools available. You'll learn about planning a migration, common challenges, and a few tips and tricks from his real life migration projects.
Audience: IT pros, business pros, site admins
Level: 100
Who says you can't do records management in SharePoint?John F. Holliday
Although records management features have steadily improved with each new SharePoint version, many industry observers are starting to express their doubts as to whether SharePoint is a viable platform for building real-world ERM solutions. This session will explore the enhanced RM capabilities of SharePoint 2013 and show how to leverage them to full advantage. The session will also introduce several third-party tools that further enhance the platform to enable true enterprise-class content lifecycle management.
This document summarizes Rob Sanderson's presentation on linked data best practices and BibFrame. It finds that while BibFrame 2.0 shows some improvement, it still does not fully conform to linked data best practices. Specifically, it does not sufficiently reuse existing vocabularies, relate terms outside its namespace, or drop remaining non-URI identifiers. It also finds that the MARC to BibFrame conversion tools are insufficient for production use and need to be more openly developed and documented to support implementation by the linked data community.
VisibleThread for Docs 2.13 - What's NewVisibleThread
This document summarizes the new features in VisibleThread for Docs 2.13. Key updates include:
1. A document compare tool that allows side-by-side comparison of document revisions and easier identification of changes.
2. The ability to view documents with VisibleThread comments directly annotated, improving the workflow for addressing issues.
3. Enhancements to clear language reports including the option to customize which metrics are included and exclude portions of text from analysis.
4. A new responsibility matrix feature to clarify roles and assign responsibilities for projects using terms from the quality dictionary.
5. The ability to move documents between folders to reorganize content.
6. Improved
Presented at Computers in Libraries 2016
As a late adopter to the LibGuide platform, our library was able to learn from earlier successes and failures of others. We took an evidence-based approach to design its guides based on iterative testing and data from Springshare and Google Analytics. I share what user data showed and how it led to a consistent look and feel.
This presentation was delivered as part of a Digital Humanities workshop in Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto. Its aim was to engage with digital humanists in the area of data management and start a conversation about what good data management means (from collection to preservation). Included is a data management checklist for DH projects.
The document discusses metadata standards and practices. It begins by asking questions about how digital information is organized and found. It then discusses challenges like having to do new tasks without full knowledge and learning from others. The document provides overviews of various metadata standards like MODS, MIX, PREMIS, METS, and TEI. It also discusses topics such as metadata schemas, subject metadata, indexing metadata, and search relevance. Throughout, it offers advice on evaluating and implementing metadata standards.
This is the PowerPoint of the short-term training programme conducted at MGR university by Dr.S.Vijayakumar of Crescent University. The talk focussed on the following aspects
Kinds of Research
How to write an Abstract
How to write Keywords
How to write an Effective Introduction
Reporting Methods
Writing the Results
Writing the Discussion section
How to Integrate Tables and Figures in your research paper.
Reference Management-Introduction to Mendeley
This document summarizes a project at New College Durham to create interactive online reading lists. The college was experiencing problems obtaining and publicizing reading lists from lecturers. To address this, the library created interactive reading lists with hyperlinks to the catalog and other resources. This allowed lists to be easily updated and shared. The project was successful in getting all reading lists supplied to the library and raising the library's profile. Further developments will expand lists to include more online content like journal articles and videos.
Developing & Running your own E-reader Seminars and Gadget LabsSarah Felkar
Presentation for the Netspeed 2012 Conference in Edmonton, AB.
Brief abstract: Often, one-on-one instruction is not the most efficient nor enjoyable
method of helping your staff or community learn more about technology. And as Ereaders, tablet computers, smartphones and other gadgets grow in number and type
library staff need to have ways of addressing questions about these devices.
Whether you are a highly tech-skilled library or feel a bit behind the times, this
hands-on workshop is designed to help you best serve your community’s needs.
This session will:
• Help you assess your staff or community’s needs
• Help you decide the best teaching option for each kind of audience or device
• Give you a working knowledge of a number of popular devices
• Suggest ways to evaluate your programs
• Give you an opportunity to discuss ideas and opportunities with other attendees
Richard discusses what a data warehouse is and why schools are setting them up. He explains that a data warehouse makes it easier for schools to optimize classroom usage, refine admissions systems, forecast demand, and more by bringing together data from different sources. It provides better information to make better admissions, retention, and fundraising decisions. He then discusses key data warehouse concepts like OLTP, OLAP, ETL, star schemas, and metadata to help the audience understand warehouse implementations.
A brief overview of the format check process in the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Why You Should Replace Windows 11 with Nitrux Linux 3.5.0 for enhanced perfor...SOFTTECHHUB
The choice of an operating system plays a pivotal role in shaping our computing experience. For decades, Microsoft's Windows has dominated the market, offering a familiar and widely adopted platform for personal and professional use. However, as technological advancements continue to push the boundaries of innovation, alternative operating systems have emerged, challenging the status quo and offering users a fresh perspective on computing.
One such alternative that has garnered significant attention and acclaim is Nitrux Linux 3.5.0, a sleek, powerful, and user-friendly Linux distribution that promises to redefine the way we interact with our devices. With its focus on performance, security, and customization, Nitrux Linux presents a compelling case for those seeking to break free from the constraints of proprietary software and embrace the freedom and flexibility of open-source computing.
Our time is too valuable to spend it looking for files or re-inventing what we’ve already created. It’s time to get off of file shares and adopt a content management strategy leveraging SharePoint libraries, metadata, and search.
We can all fall victim to clinging to our folder structures but there’s a better way. Learn how to take advantage of the beneficial features of powerful search and custom metadata in SharePoint.
In this session we feature TermSet, an exciting new product that automatically adds metadata and taxonomies to SharePoint. All without a burden on business users or your IT department!
Assessment of Metadata Remediation EffortsJenn Riley
Riley, Jenn. "Assessment of Metadata Remediation Efforts." Metadata Enhancement and OAI Workshop (MEOW), Robert W. Woodruff Library, Emory University, July 24-25, 2006.
Co-Authoring Documents using Teams, OneDrive and Office at SPS Johannesburg 2019Sasja Beerendonk
Here are the key steps to co-authoring documents efficiently using Microsoft Teams and Office:
1. Use Teams for collaboration instead of file shares or email. Teams provides version control and real-time co-editing.
2. Start drafts in Teams to allow easy collaboration from the start. Teams integrates with Office so others can view and edit documents simultaneously.
3. Leverage feedback tools in Office and Teams like comments, @mentions, and chat to review documents collaboratively in real-time.
4. Final approved versions can be published to SharePoint for wider access while maintaining version history in Teams.
Office 365 Saturday 2013 - A guideline to structure your documents in SharePo...Jasper Oosterveld
A guideline to structure your documents in SharePoint Online 2013. Learn how to work with the SharePoint features to structure your documents in document libraries.
Here are my slides for my session for the International Institute of Business Analysis (May 23, 2012). I focus on best practices of survey design, highlighting qualitative data.
Words and sentences are the basic units of text. In this lecture we discuss basics of operations on words and sentences such as tokenization, text normalization, tf-idf, cosine similarity measures, vector space models and word representation
Supporting Learners in Formatting ETDRs with an MS Word Template Shalin Hai-Jew
University life is often seasonal, with intensifications of work and times of less hectic work. As learners approach graduation, they focus on formatting their theses, dissertations, and reports for submittal to ProQuest and the university repository or other destinations. Various pre-programmed or pre-scripted templates are available to ensure that the works align with given layouts, interactivity (jumping from TOCs and Lists to the respective contents), and other formatting, for the Electronic Theses, Dissertations, and Reports (ETDRs). For many whose works have to pass muster with various committees and professors, they come at the template at the last minute, with various challenges: recalcitrant TOCs, low res visuals, citation challenges, captions that will not stay in place, .pdf files without navigation capability, and other common errors. This session describes some common ways to support users of ETDR templates with efficiency, for successful outcomes (passing muster with the Graduate School and ProQuest.
In this 20 minute presentation, Gerry Brimacombe will talk about migrating files to Office 365, and present some of the tools available. You'll learn about planning a migration, common challenges, and a few tips and tricks from his real life migration projects.
Audience: IT pros, business pros, site admins
Level: 100
Who says you can't do records management in SharePoint?John F. Holliday
Although records management features have steadily improved with each new SharePoint version, many industry observers are starting to express their doubts as to whether SharePoint is a viable platform for building real-world ERM solutions. This session will explore the enhanced RM capabilities of SharePoint 2013 and show how to leverage them to full advantage. The session will also introduce several third-party tools that further enhance the platform to enable true enterprise-class content lifecycle management.
This document summarizes Rob Sanderson's presentation on linked data best practices and BibFrame. It finds that while BibFrame 2.0 shows some improvement, it still does not fully conform to linked data best practices. Specifically, it does not sufficiently reuse existing vocabularies, relate terms outside its namespace, or drop remaining non-URI identifiers. It also finds that the MARC to BibFrame conversion tools are insufficient for production use and need to be more openly developed and documented to support implementation by the linked data community.
VisibleThread for Docs 2.13 - What's NewVisibleThread
This document summarizes the new features in VisibleThread for Docs 2.13. Key updates include:
1. A document compare tool that allows side-by-side comparison of document revisions and easier identification of changes.
2. The ability to view documents with VisibleThread comments directly annotated, improving the workflow for addressing issues.
3. Enhancements to clear language reports including the option to customize which metrics are included and exclude portions of text from analysis.
4. A new responsibility matrix feature to clarify roles and assign responsibilities for projects using terms from the quality dictionary.
5. The ability to move documents between folders to reorganize content.
6. Improved
Presented at Computers in Libraries 2016
As a late adopter to the LibGuide platform, our library was able to learn from earlier successes and failures of others. We took an evidence-based approach to design its guides based on iterative testing and data from Springshare and Google Analytics. I share what user data showed and how it led to a consistent look and feel.
This presentation was delivered as part of a Digital Humanities workshop in Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto. Its aim was to engage with digital humanists in the area of data management and start a conversation about what good data management means (from collection to preservation). Included is a data management checklist for DH projects.
The document discusses metadata standards and practices. It begins by asking questions about how digital information is organized and found. It then discusses challenges like having to do new tasks without full knowledge and learning from others. The document provides overviews of various metadata standards like MODS, MIX, PREMIS, METS, and TEI. It also discusses topics such as metadata schemas, subject metadata, indexing metadata, and search relevance. Throughout, it offers advice on evaluating and implementing metadata standards.
This is the PowerPoint of the short-term training programme conducted at MGR university by Dr.S.Vijayakumar of Crescent University. The talk focussed on the following aspects
Kinds of Research
How to write an Abstract
How to write Keywords
How to write an Effective Introduction
Reporting Methods
Writing the Results
Writing the Discussion section
How to Integrate Tables and Figures in your research paper.
Reference Management-Introduction to Mendeley
This document summarizes a project at New College Durham to create interactive online reading lists. The college was experiencing problems obtaining and publicizing reading lists from lecturers. To address this, the library created interactive reading lists with hyperlinks to the catalog and other resources. This allowed lists to be easily updated and shared. The project was successful in getting all reading lists supplied to the library and raising the library's profile. Further developments will expand lists to include more online content like journal articles and videos.
Developing & Running your own E-reader Seminars and Gadget LabsSarah Felkar
Presentation for the Netspeed 2012 Conference in Edmonton, AB.
Brief abstract: Often, one-on-one instruction is not the most efficient nor enjoyable
method of helping your staff or community learn more about technology. And as Ereaders, tablet computers, smartphones and other gadgets grow in number and type
library staff need to have ways of addressing questions about these devices.
Whether you are a highly tech-skilled library or feel a bit behind the times, this
hands-on workshop is designed to help you best serve your community’s needs.
This session will:
• Help you assess your staff or community’s needs
• Help you decide the best teaching option for each kind of audience or device
• Give you a working knowledge of a number of popular devices
• Suggest ways to evaluate your programs
• Give you an opportunity to discuss ideas and opportunities with other attendees
Richard discusses what a data warehouse is and why schools are setting them up. He explains that a data warehouse makes it easier for schools to optimize classroom usage, refine admissions systems, forecast demand, and more by bringing together data from different sources. It provides better information to make better admissions, retention, and fundraising decisions. He then discusses key data warehouse concepts like OLTP, OLAP, ETL, star schemas, and metadata to help the audience understand warehouse implementations.
A brief overview of the format check process in the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Why You Should Replace Windows 11 with Nitrux Linux 3.5.0 for enhanced perfor...SOFTTECHHUB
The choice of an operating system plays a pivotal role in shaping our computing experience. For decades, Microsoft's Windows has dominated the market, offering a familiar and widely adopted platform for personal and professional use. However, as technological advancements continue to push the boundaries of innovation, alternative operating systems have emerged, challenging the status quo and offering users a fresh perspective on computing.
One such alternative that has garnered significant attention and acclaim is Nitrux Linux 3.5.0, a sleek, powerful, and user-friendly Linux distribution that promises to redefine the way we interact with our devices. With its focus on performance, security, and customization, Nitrux Linux presents a compelling case for those seeking to break free from the constraints of proprietary software and embrace the freedom and flexibility of open-source computing.
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.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 5DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 5. In this session, we will cover CI/CD with devops.
Topics covered:
CI/CD with in UiPath
End-to-end overview of CI/CD pipeline with Azure devops
Speaker:
Lyndsey Byblow, Test Suite Sales Engineer @ UiPath, Inc.
Full-RAG: A modern architecture for hyper-personalizationZilliz
Mike Del Balso, CEO & Co-Founder at Tecton, presents "Full RAG," a novel approach to AI recommendation systems, aiming to push beyond the limitations of traditional models through a deep integration of contextual insights and real-time data, leveraging the Retrieval-Augmented Generation architecture. This talk will outline Full RAG's potential to significantly enhance personalization, address engineering challenges such as data management and model training, and introduce data enrichment with reranking as a key solution. Attendees will gain crucial insights into the importance of hyperpersonalization in AI, the capabilities of Full RAG for advanced personalization, and strategies for managing complex data integrations for deploying cutting-edge AI solutions.
Unlocking Productivity: Leveraging the Potential of Copilot in Microsoft 365, a presentation by Christoforos Vlachos, Senior Solutions Manager – Modern Workplace, Uni Systems
TrustArc Webinar - 2024 Global Privacy SurveyTrustArc
How does your privacy program stack up against your peers? What challenges are privacy teams tackling and prioritizing in 2024?
In the fifth annual Global Privacy Benchmarks Survey, we asked over 1,800 global privacy professionals and business executives to share their perspectives on the current state of privacy inside and outside of their organizations. This year’s report focused on emerging areas of importance for privacy and compliance professionals, including considerations and implications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies, building brand trust, and different approaches for achieving higher privacy competence scores.
See how organizational priorities and strategic approaches to data security and privacy are evolving around the globe.
This webinar will review:
- The top 10 privacy insights from the fifth annual Global Privacy Benchmarks Survey
- The top challenges for privacy leaders, practitioners, and organizations in 2024
- Key themes to consider in developing and maintaining your privacy program
Alt. GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using ...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.
Building RAG with self-deployed Milvus vector database and Snowpark Container...Zilliz
This talk will give hands-on advice on building RAG applications with an open-source Milvus database deployed as a docker container. We will also introduce the integration of Milvus with Snowpark Container Services.
Observability Concepts EVERY Developer Should Know -- DeveloperWeek Europe.pdfPaige Cruz
Monitoring and observability aren’t traditionally found in software curriculums and many of us cobble this knowledge together from whatever vendor or ecosystem we were first introduced to and whatever is a part of your current company’s observability stack.
While the dev and ops silo continues to crumble….many organizations still relegate monitoring & observability as the purview of ops, infra and SRE teams. This is a mistake - achieving a highly observable system requires collaboration up and down the stack.
I, a former op, would like to extend an invitation to all application developers to join the observability party will share these foundational concepts to build on:
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
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
• Why is it important?
• How can it help today’s business and the benefits
• Phases in Communication Mining
• Demo on Platform overview
• Q/A
Essentials of Automations: The Art of Triggers and Actions in FMESafe Software
In this second installment of our Essentials of Automations webinar series, we’ll explore the landscape of triggers and actions, guiding you through the nuances of authoring and adapting workspaces for seamless automations. Gain an understanding of the full spectrum of triggers and actions available in FME, empowering you to enhance your workspaces for efficient automation.
We’ll kick things off by showcasing the most commonly used event-based triggers, introducing you to various automation workflows like manual triggers, schedules, directory watchers, and more. Plus, see how these elements play out in real scenarios.
Whether you’re tweaking your current setup or building from the ground up, this session will arm you with the tools and insights needed to transform your FME usage into a powerhouse of productivity. Join us to discover effective strategies that simplify complex processes, enhancing your productivity and transforming your data management practices with FME. Let’s turn complexity into clarity and make your workspaces work wonders!
Enchancing adoption of Open Source Libraries. A case study on Albumentations.AIVladimir Iglovikov, Ph.D.
Presented by Vladimir Iglovikov:
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/iglovikov/
- https://x.com/viglovikov
- https://www.instagram.com/ternaus/
This presentation delves into the journey of Albumentations.ai, a highly successful open-source library for data augmentation.
Created out of a necessity for superior performance in Kaggle competitions, Albumentations has grown to become a widely used tool among data scientists and machine learning practitioners.
This case study covers various aspects, including:
People: The contributors and community that have supported Albumentations.
Metrics: The success indicators such as downloads, daily active users, GitHub stars, and financial contributions.
Challenges: The hurdles in monetizing open-source projects and measuring user engagement.
Development Practices: Best practices for creating, maintaining, and scaling open-source libraries, including code hygiene, CI/CD, and fast iteration.
Community Building: Strategies for making adoption easy, iterating quickly, and fostering a vibrant, engaged community.
Marketing: Both online and offline marketing tactics, focusing on real, impactful interactions and collaborations.
Mental Health: Maintaining balance and not feeling pressured by user demands.
Key insights include the importance of automation, making the adoption process seamless, and leveraging offline interactions for marketing. The presentation also emphasizes the need for continuous small improvements and building a friendly, inclusive community that contributes to the project's growth.
Vladimir Iglovikov brings his extensive experience as a Kaggle Grandmaster, ex-Staff ML Engineer at Lyft, sharing valuable lessons and practical advice for anyone looking to enhance the adoption of their open-source projects.
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Rapid and secure feature delivery is a goal across every application team and every branch of the DoD. The Navy’s DevSecOps platform, Party Barge, has achieved:
- Reduction in onboarding time from 5 weeks to 1 day
- Improved developer experience and productivity through actionable findings and reduction of false positives
- Maintenance of superior security standards and inherent policy enforcement with Authorization to Operate (ATO)
Development teams can ship efficiently and ensure applications are cyber ready for Navy Authorizing Officials (AOs). In this webinar, Sigma Defense and Anchore will give attendees a look behind the scenes and demo secure pipeline automation and security artifacts that speed up application ATO and time to production.
We will cover:
- How to remove silos in DevSecOps
- How to build efficient development pipeline roles and component templates
- How to deliver security artifacts that matter for ATO’s (SBOMs, vulnerability reports, and policy evidence)
- How to streamline operations with automated policy checks on container images
17. Structure / Collaboration
• Moderatly structured
• Used for reference only
• Usually ‘archive’ type information
• Metadata used to refine search results
• Very low collaboration
Research
Reports
• Highly structured
• Metadata used to quickly find results
• Low to medium collaboration Contracts
Working
• Very unstructured
area • Very high collaboration
How much?
18. How much metadata do we need?
Research
Reports
• Some
Contracts
• A lot
Working area
• Little to none
Fits all?
23. Research reports
Folder horizontal Column name
Level 1 Year
Level 2 Archived (yes/no)
Contracts
Research
reports
2010 2011 2012 Archive
2009 2008
24. Contracts
Contracts
2013 2014
Client C
Signed Unsigned
Folder horizontal Column name
Level 1 Year
Level 2 Client name
Client D
Signed Unsigned
Level 3 Signed (yes/no) Working docs
25. Working documents
Folder horizontal Column name
Level 1 Documents type?
• Personal document
• Template
• Minutes
Done?
Working
Area
Jan’s folder
Minutes of
meeting
More stuff
Peter’s
folder
Another
messy folder
Templates
Minutes PDP
This is a session about metadata, change and the role we, as consultants play in implementing it.
This is not about changing user behaviour, this is about changing our own behaviour and changing the way we look at metadata and how we explain metadata to our users
Users most of the time struggle with using metadata or refuse to use it at all.
We’ve often gone through great lengths to come up with a lot of different columns for the user to fill in, then explain how fill them in. And then we try to explain the benefits of using views etc.
But somehow users still have trouble relating to these changes, and they actually blame SharePoint. And label it as inflexible, a lot of work, difficult etc.
The current and the new situation
Let’s say we are now in a folder based environment. Like Livelink, or a file share.
Users add all their documents to the folders
The new situation will be a metadata based environment, where users categorise documents using metadata.
Our problem is that users most of the time have been working with these folders for quite some time.
And don’t yet fully understand the concept of metadata.
So when users show resistance to our plans for implementing metadata, we tend to react like this (even if we’re not aware of it).
We may not even be aware of the way our users see us.
But this attitude can lead to even more resistance from our user community.
When I first started as a SharePoint training with Shell, I was so convinced of this metadata story, that I took the same approach.
Completely unaware of the way our users are starting to feel about metadata and SharePoint. We bravely proceed with our efforts to implements SharePoint.
We create numerous columns, that usually do not make that much sense to users.
This is because the metadata we think the user needs is usually metadata that only makes sense if you look at it from up high.
So it will make sense on enterprise level, but not on departmental or user level.
So we could end up confusing, and even frustrating our user community
Why users don’t like metadata:
Hopefully, at this stage, we are becoming aware of some resistance and frustration from the user community.
So where does this come from, and how can we change our approach in such a way, users will, over time, embrace our efforts.
First we must realise that moving away from folders, to a metadata based way of document management is a big change.
Just because we ‘get it’ doesn’t mean our users do.
Users usually experience the feeling of losing control and they fear it will all be ‘one big mess’
They feel it takes too much time to add all that metadata and it is much easier to put everything in a folder.
And we tend to go overboard with our metadata. And on top of that, the metadata we come up with is metadata users cannot relate to.
So we tend to go for ‘too big a bang’ (don’t mind the pun)
All we manage to accomplish, is confusing the users
So up until now we’ve managed to:
Come up with complex metadata
and confuse and frustrate our user community
Something has to change.
And this where usually thing go wrong.
We provide more and more training to end users, handholding, floorwalking etc.
We try to change the users!!!!
We should not try to change the users, this is a battle we eventually will lose.
Something in our approach must change.
So instead of changing user behaviour, let’s change the way we approach the problem.
Most of the time ‘Change = Learning’
What is learning
Learning is relating something you don’t know, to something you do know.
A new situation is like and old situation. Or is like a combination of different situations.
What can we learn about folders? And what can we learn about metadata?
So how can metadata be like folders?
For this we can use a technique called reframing.
We will Reframe the old situation to match the new
The step from Learning to Reframing is important and we’ll need to consider it carefully.
Compare new with old:
What is the same? – we recognize – we feel comfortable
What is different? – we want to understand – we feel uncomfortable
What is reframing?
Reframing had been used by therapist since the 1960’s. It is basically a technique to explain something old in a new way.
And this is precisely what we are going to do to our folders.
We are going to explain folders in such a way, that we can better relate them to metadata.
And in the process we’ll also be reframing any reference users have to metadata.
The trick here is to reframe both folders and metadata in such a way, that the user will come to understand that the two are actually a lot alike.
How to reframe folders:
So, what are folders really?
Folders have always been a way of categorising information.
They allow us to add context to our documents and to find our documents back by using that context.
Think about a folder called ‘minutes of meeting’
Why do users like folders?
Managing documents using folders is something we are all familiar with.
And the hierarchy folders provide is close to how our brain works.
Folders give us a nice visualisation of how our documents relate to each other.
What do folders do?
Folder do 3 things.
Folders add context. By simply adding a document to a folder, we add context to that document
Folders also filter, by opening the folder ‘2014’ we are basically filtering on the year 2014
And most importantly, folders are a way of visualising how our documents relate to our organisation.
And this one is very tricky to get around.
So a folder, in a way, is ‘metadata’
What is problem with folders?
1 dimensional approach, but it worked well…
Another aspect of folders we must reframe, is the storing of documents.
In a folder structure we first select the folder where we want to store a document. And then we save the document. So we first select the ‘metadata’ and then save the document.
In a metadata driven environment, we first select the ‘folder’.
Now we’ll take a simple folder structure. Something you would typically see people use.
For the sake of time, we’ll use a rather flat structure.
And we’ll reframe them, to fit our metadata philosophy
In our folder structure we can identify 3 different area’s on top level:
Research reports
Contracts
Deprartmental
Now when we look at how we would use these different areas, we’ll see that they are fundamentally different
Each of these area’s will be used in a different ways. With regards to Storing, finding and collaboration.
And each area differs in the way it is structured.
We will need to keep this in mind when we convert our folders to metadata
The research reports area is usually used as reference.
If we search this area, we usually don’t really know what results we are looking for.
The contracts area is highly structured.
If we search this area, we usually know exactly what we are looking for
The working area is the least structured of the three.
And although the content is initially unstructured, it might be placed in a more structured environment later on.
So you’ll see it is not enough to add some basic departmental metadata.
One size does not fit all.
We’ve now seen that the different root folders contain information that is fundamentally different in both collaboration and in structure.
Because of this fundamental difference, we can decide to split our content into 3 different content types:
Research reports
Contracts
Working documents
To make things easier to understand for our users, we’ll also choose to create 3 different libraries on our site.
So now we will have a closer look at the metadata we will need for our three content types.
Do we actually need any metadata at all here?
We have now managed to reframe folders in such a way we can translate them to relatable metadata.
The metadata we now have makes sense to the user community.
So we can now get rid of all the folders, have everything in 1 big list and only use metadata.
Done right?
Maybe this is enough for us, but not for our users
Remember why our users don’t like metadata?Remember the 3 things folders do for us?
Add context, filter and visualisation?
The first 2 we’ve now taken care of.
And yes, we could use grouped views to provide some visualisation, but remember the big bang?
Take it slow!!
Using tools to add metadata:
There is a tool in SharePoint that allows us to add a lot of metadata automatically, and make the life of our users a lot easier.
This is also a tool that will allow us to create a nice overview of how our information relates to the organisation
And the nice thing is that is free (if you already have SP), out of the box and extremely easy to use
You may all have seen that we can use folder default values (or one could even do this on library level) to add metadata to new documents.
So if we stick with our trusted folder structure, translate that into metadata and add the metadata defaults to the folders. We basically have a best of both worlds situation, that suits both us and the end users.
All metadata should be filled in through default values.
Make sure all the ‘enterprise’ columns are filled in by site or library defaults.
All local, or departmental metadata should be filled in through our folder structure.
Please remember. This is step 1 of our change process, many more will follow. But please take your time!!
Make sure that most of your metadata is filled in by using default values.
You can even add your enterprise metadata to the metadata we’ve already discussed. As long as you make sure users don’t have to worry about it.
By slowly introducing cool Sharepoint functionality like:
Webparts
Folderless views
Grouping views
Metadata navigation
or even a dashboard page.
Users will adjust to the new ways of working and grow more comfortable with metadata
Hopefully over time our users will come to accept SharePoint and not only see the benefits of metadata. But also experience them.