This presentation discusses the basic concepts of Web 2.0 and how they are being used in libraries. It provides examples of these concepts, and emphasizes that over the next several years, the concepts of Web 2.0 (collaboration, participation, tagging, community, etc.) will only grow, but the actual technologies themselves will change.
Transformation of library and information science: Resources, services and pr...Nabi Hasan
Transformation of Libraries
Role of Librarian: Traditional Vs in eEnvironment
Emerging and Innovative Library Resources, Services and Products
Upgrading Professional competencies
Importance of Five Laws in eReading environment
Is there a need of Libraries and Librarians in the current digital era?
How to be a Smart Librarian by Smart Involvements
Summing up
Transformation of library and information science: Resources, services and pr...Nabi Hasan
Transformation of Libraries
Role of Librarian: Traditional Vs in eEnvironment
Emerging and Innovative Library Resources, Services and Products
Upgrading Professional competencies
Importance of Five Laws in eReading environment
Is there a need of Libraries and Librarians in the current digital era?
How to be a Smart Librarian by Smart Involvements
Summing up
Introduction to digital libraries - definitions, examples, concepts and trend...Olaf Janssen
This presentation gives an introduction to digital libraries.
It first explores different defintions of the phrase "Digital Library".
It then looks at 11 real life examples of digital library websites (slides 44-112), including Europeana, Google Books, Flickr the Commons, Delpher, Wikisource, The Memory of the Netherlands and Project Gutenberg. Each of these DLs is assessed against five different criteria (concepts, properties)
- Content/User experience
- Cultural heritage domain (libraries, archives, museums, AV-institutions)
- Controlled / run by
- Content providing parties
- User involvement
Many references are made to Web2.0-concepts from Tim O'Reilly's article http://www.oreilly.com/pub/a/web2/archive/what-is-web-20.html
From these 11x5 = 55 datapoints 6 trend plots are drawn (slides 116-166) to show "what is hot" and "what is not" in the current DL-landscape. Key slide summarizing this = no 168
Finally, some strategies for content & brand distribution of DLs are being discussed (SEO, Wikipedia, social & ego networks) , as well as some financial trends in DLs
This presentation was given by Olaf Janssen (National Library of the Netherlands - KB) as a lecture for students of the master's course "The Library" at Leiden University, most recently on 3-11-2016.
Emerging Technologies in the Workplace For Quality ServiceFe Angela Verzosa
presented at the Seminar on the theme “Basics and Beyond Librarianship: Towards a Compleat Librarian,” held at Holy Angel University, Angeles, Pampanga on September 9, 2009
Access to electronic information resources in librariesavid
Recent advances in the field of Information Technology have already influenced the life in more than one direction. Its impact on the field of Library and Information Science is also quite significant, more so in advanced countries. Most obviously the situation is a resultant of the growth of electronic publishing and of networks that facilitate scholarly communication. Technological advances, especially the Information Technology are facilitating a fascinating change in libraries with a vision and are trying to accommodate all types of media for providing electronic information services to the users in a more convenient and effective way. The article describes various types of eminent Electronic resources used in libraries. It briefly touches their advantages, disadvantages and usage in libraries.
Emerging Trends in Libraries
Latest Trends in Libraries
Current Trends in Library
Library and Information Science Profession
Latest Technologies in Library
Use of IT in a Library
Trends in Library Building and Furniture
Libraries of developed countries
This was the proposal our group submitted at the beginning of the semester outlining our goals for the project. View the DL here - http://tinyurl.com/FLsubcultDL
EP is the dissemination of Information in electronic format and its distribution to potential users either on electronic networks such as internet and Intranet or in stand-alone formats such as CD-ROMs and Diskette.
Synonym for EP is CAP (Computer Assisted Publishing)
People, Communities and Platforms: Digital Cultural Heritage and the WebTrevor Owens
Libraries, archives and museums are sites of community memory. The first public computerized bulletin board system was called community memory. Trevor’s talk will explore the connections between the development of the web as a global knowledge base, the open source software movement, and digital strategy for libraries, archives and museums. This keynote talk will synthesize research on the history of online community software with practical experience working on open source digital library projects. This exploration underscores the essential role cultural heritage institutions need to play in this era of the web and some important distinctions between how the concept of community is deployed in discussions of the web.
The Web 2.0 is here and it’s changing everything that we do on the Internet! Library 2.0: A New Version for the Future looks at how library systems and services fit into this user-centric world where dynamic, Web-based tools, online communities, and the ability to personalize everything drive one’s computing environment. In this day-long seminar we will look at how people are using technology (in and out of the library) and explore the the mindset of library users. We will also take a look at specific Web environments, tools, and applications that are currently shaping the information landscape.
Digital library literature nabi hasan and mukhtiar singh at ICDL-2013Nabi Hasan
The paper attempts to evaluate the trend of world literature on “digital library” in terms of the output of research publications as indexed in the Science Citation Index during the period from 2003 to 2012. A total of 1733 papers were indexed on “digital library” in the database during the 10 year study period. The average number of papers published per year was 173.30. The highest number of papers, i.e. 15.41% were published in the year 2007. A total of 70 counties were involved in contributing publications and United States contributed highest to the tune of 38.60% and India was at eighth position with 2.25% publications. Most productive institution was University of California, which contributed a total of 2.83% publications. Proceeding papers amounted to 70.28% of the literature on digital library. Lecture Notes in Computer Science with 20.89% and English language with 98.50% publications were at the top. Highest foreign collaborations in 24.66% publications reported in papers from UK. The study may help policy makers to look into the trends and make effective policies related to digital libraries on the basis of inferences drawn from the analysis.
Introduction to digital libraries - definitions, examples, concepts and trend...Olaf Janssen
This presentation gives an introduction to digital libraries.
It first explores different defintions of the phrase "Digital Library".
It then looks at 11 real life examples of digital library websites (slides 44-112), including Europeana, Google Books, Flickr the Commons, Delpher, Wikisource, The Memory of the Netherlands and Project Gutenberg. Each of these DLs is assessed against five different criteria (concepts, properties)
- Content/User experience
- Cultural heritage domain (libraries, archives, museums, AV-institutions)
- Controlled / run by
- Content providing parties
- User involvement
Many references are made to Web2.0-concepts from Tim O'Reilly's article http://www.oreilly.com/pub/a/web2/archive/what-is-web-20.html
From these 11x5 = 55 datapoints 6 trend plots are drawn (slides 116-166) to show "what is hot" and "what is not" in the current DL-landscape. Key slide summarizing this = no 168
Finally, some strategies for content & brand distribution of DLs are being discussed (SEO, Wikipedia, social & ego networks) , as well as some financial trends in DLs
This presentation was given by Olaf Janssen (National Library of the Netherlands - KB) as a lecture for students of the master's course "The Library" at Leiden University, most recently on 3-11-2016.
Emerging Technologies in the Workplace For Quality ServiceFe Angela Verzosa
presented at the Seminar on the theme “Basics and Beyond Librarianship: Towards a Compleat Librarian,” held at Holy Angel University, Angeles, Pampanga on September 9, 2009
Access to electronic information resources in librariesavid
Recent advances in the field of Information Technology have already influenced the life in more than one direction. Its impact on the field of Library and Information Science is also quite significant, more so in advanced countries. Most obviously the situation is a resultant of the growth of electronic publishing and of networks that facilitate scholarly communication. Technological advances, especially the Information Technology are facilitating a fascinating change in libraries with a vision and are trying to accommodate all types of media for providing electronic information services to the users in a more convenient and effective way. The article describes various types of eminent Electronic resources used in libraries. It briefly touches their advantages, disadvantages and usage in libraries.
Emerging Trends in Libraries
Latest Trends in Libraries
Current Trends in Library
Library and Information Science Profession
Latest Technologies in Library
Use of IT in a Library
Trends in Library Building and Furniture
Libraries of developed countries
This was the proposal our group submitted at the beginning of the semester outlining our goals for the project. View the DL here - http://tinyurl.com/FLsubcultDL
EP is the dissemination of Information in electronic format and its distribution to potential users either on electronic networks such as internet and Intranet or in stand-alone formats such as CD-ROMs and Diskette.
Synonym for EP is CAP (Computer Assisted Publishing)
People, Communities and Platforms: Digital Cultural Heritage and the WebTrevor Owens
Libraries, archives and museums are sites of community memory. The first public computerized bulletin board system was called community memory. Trevor’s talk will explore the connections between the development of the web as a global knowledge base, the open source software movement, and digital strategy for libraries, archives and museums. This keynote talk will synthesize research on the history of online community software with practical experience working on open source digital library projects. This exploration underscores the essential role cultural heritage institutions need to play in this era of the web and some important distinctions between how the concept of community is deployed in discussions of the web.
The Web 2.0 is here and it’s changing everything that we do on the Internet! Library 2.0: A New Version for the Future looks at how library systems and services fit into this user-centric world where dynamic, Web-based tools, online communities, and the ability to personalize everything drive one’s computing environment. In this day-long seminar we will look at how people are using technology (in and out of the library) and explore the the mindset of library users. We will also take a look at specific Web environments, tools, and applications that are currently shaping the information landscape.
Digital library literature nabi hasan and mukhtiar singh at ICDL-2013Nabi Hasan
The paper attempts to evaluate the trend of world literature on “digital library” in terms of the output of research publications as indexed in the Science Citation Index during the period from 2003 to 2012. A total of 1733 papers were indexed on “digital library” in the database during the 10 year study period. The average number of papers published per year was 173.30. The highest number of papers, i.e. 15.41% were published in the year 2007. A total of 70 counties were involved in contributing publications and United States contributed highest to the tune of 38.60% and India was at eighth position with 2.25% publications. Most productive institution was University of California, which contributed a total of 2.83% publications. Proceeding papers amounted to 70.28% of the literature on digital library. Lecture Notes in Computer Science with 20.89% and English language with 98.50% publications were at the top. Highest foreign collaborations in 24.66% publications reported in papers from UK. The study may help policy makers to look into the trends and make effective policies related to digital libraries on the basis of inferences drawn from the analysis.
Annual LIANZA / SLANZA Weekend School, held Nelson, New Zealand on 28 April, 2007. This keynote presentation explores the Web 2.0 world, and the 'possibilities' for libraries in a digitally networked world.
This presentation highlights current web design trends, agile development methodologies, and current trends in library research, user behaviors, and the implications of Lorcan Dempsey's concept of Inside Out libraries and Full Library Discovery on our users' experiences with our library websites.
Library 2.0? No, thank you! Obstacles to Creating a Social Library mboule
This presentation was creates by Kate Peterson, Plamen Miltenoff, and Melissa Prescott for the Five Weeks to a Social Library Project and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. The original can be found here: http://sociallibraries.com/course/week5
This is an introductory talk on social media as presented at the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals in Scotland (CILIPS) 'Imaging the Future' conference on 7-8 June 2011. It describes the challenge that exists regarding participating in social media to library staff, provides an introduction to social networks and related media, with examples of how individuals and libraries are realising associated benefits.
Lecture on Class & Technology Arin2600 L6Chris Chesher
Class is a key category in classic sociology to distinguish groups from one another based on economic positions and/or social status. More recently, some theorists have identified how class differences relate to attitudes to, and skills and creativity with, technology.
From Siloed to Connected - Using Engagement as a Means to Improve the Culture...Rachel Vacek
An organization's culture is complex and unique, and is made up of deeply seated values, beliefs, expectations, traditions, and motives that shape how employees respond to situations. In this session, learn how a small team in an academic library’s IT division has sought to enhance its culture, reduce the number of silos, improve the employee experience, and expand potential partnerships throughout the library and beyond. We’ll share how we gathered and prioritized ideas and subsequently offered programming with opportunities to learn from one another and from guest speakers. We touch on some of the documentation we put in place to bring some consistency and structure to onboarding. We’ll also discuss the training we offered to raise awareness of racism and better understand how racism appears on the job, particularly in IT work, as well as how we encourage colleagues to critically examine how to bring that lens to our division and overall library through meaningful action.With the move to being completely remote in March 2020, the team also hosted sessions that addressed communication, productivity, and social challenges within the division’s culture. Finally, we’ll highlight how we’ve assessed all this work and made strategic efforts to make the framework for the various programs reusable in coming years. Attendees of this session will leave with a plethora of ideas and considerations for how to enhance their own library culture through engagement, information sharing, and assessment.
Search, Report, Wherever You Are: A Novel Approach to Assessing User Satisfac...Rachel Vacek
In an effort to assess user experience and satisfaction with searching the University of Michigan Library catalog, we developed an online data collection tool that captured both data on user searches and their reports on various aspects of the search experience. We successfully piloted the tool, demonstrating both the usefulness of the assessment data and the readiness of the tool for use with a larger group of campus stakeholders. We focus in this paper on the features and deployment of the data collection tool, and we also discuss our pilot phase findings and our plan to use the tool in future assessment work.
Our Website Redesign Project and the Creation of a DEIA statementRachel Vacek
This presentation was delivered at the User Experience Leadership in Academic Libraries Meetup at North Carlonia State University Libraries in Raleigh, NC, on Monday, November 4, 2019.
Personal README Files: User Manuals for Library StaffRachel Vacek
Teams at three libraries are using personal README files to improve communication. As README files tell you how to use software, personal README files tell you how best to interact with teammates. Presenters will share the hows, whys and benefits of incorporating personal README files into your team's practice.
Presentation given at the Designing for Digital Conference in Austin, Texas, on Monday, March 9, 2020.
Transforming Organizational Culture Using UX StrategiesRachel Vacek
Many libraries hope to reimagine and transform their organizational cultures as well as their physical and digital spaces to better represent their expertise, collections, and resources, and to meet the evolving needs of their user communities. Some libraries use assessment and user experience methodologies to "prove" their value and to demonstrate student success. In this 60-minute presentation, the presenters will discuss the importance of how establishing user-centered values for the library can be an impactful strategy coupled with empowering library staff to become UX advocates. They will present methods, team structures, and approaches used within their libraries aimed at facilitating organizational and cultural change that puts the user at the center of service design, collaborative partnerships, and strategic and data-driven decisions.
Practicing intentionality in team and project workRachel Vacek
As part of our library's website redesign project, we are working to intentionally espouse and elevate principles of diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility in our work to ensure they inform and accompany all stages of a project, and to be a model for other projects. Learn how we're integrating these principles into team formation, project structure, communication and assessment plans, user research, and how this work impacts the library.
http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/150634
Transforming library culture with a Digital Accessibility TeamRachel Vacek
By intentionally creating positions that incorporate accessibility into job responsibilities, and through the formation of a Digital Accessibility Team (DAT), our library has been able to further establish a culture of accessibility advocacy and awareness. Learn about DAT's accessibility services, including consultations, evaluations, and support for those who want to build accessibility best practices into all stages of projects and service design.
http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/150635
Service Design: Thinking Holistically About Services and TechnologyRachel Vacek
In Spring 2017, our library started to transform how it designs and implements its virtual and physical services iteratively through user and staff engagement and service design thinking. Service design is a user-focused technique that involves understanding and planning for user needs, service touchpoints, and employee and user workflows. This presentation will use a case study to illustrate how we integrated user needs, current and future library services, and technology in the redesign of a web application and the service offering. Attendees will learn the basics of how to create a service blueprint.
Customizing Discovery Interfaces: Understanding Users’ Behaviors and Providin...Rachel Vacek
Customizing a library discovery layer using open-source software enables libraries to tailor services to its users, understand user behavior at user, department, and campus levels, and build integrations with library and campus services. Learn how and why a research library built a discovery interface to consolidate multiple interfaces into one.
This presentation was given on March 5, 2018 at the conference Electronic Resources & Libraries, in Austin, TX.
Challenges and Opportunities in Customizing Library Repository User InterfacesRachel Vacek
This presentation will dive into the ongoing challenges that academic libraries often face when improving the user experiences of out-of-the-box and open source repositories. Fueling the challenges are the ambiguity and fast-changing nature within the field of digital scholarship and the constant flux of technology platforms and tools. Fortunately, many libraries are paying more attention to users’ motivations and responding by designing user interfaces that support particular formats and contexts. We’ll explore emerging opportunities with repositories in looking at how far libraries should go in providing customizations to balance stakeholder and user needs, and how to plan for users’ ever-shifting expectations.
This presentation was part of a NISO and NASIG webinar, "Library As Publisher, Part Two: UX and UI for the Library's Digital Collections" and was presented on March 14, 2018.
Transforming an Organization through Service and Space Design StrategyRachel Vacek
Learn how one library is engaging with its user community to implement a service framework to transform its organizational capacity to design, deliver, and iterate high quality virtual and physical services in 21st century learning and research environments. This framework, through pilots and prototypes, informs future space transformations and will help create aligned and impactful user experiences. Presenters will share strategies and UX tools for engaging an organization in this type of work.
Fostering Great Experiences for UX-Tasked Student WorkersRachel Vacek
Library UX work can include conducting user research, analyzing data, managing stakeholder expectations, and making design recommendations. This can be overwhelming for solo UX librarians or small teams. In this session, learn how different institutions are utilizing student workers to assist with UX projects and providing them with great learning experiences. Hear the benefits, challenges, and success stories of student workers with UX responsibilities and how they can make a strategic difference in your library.
Fostering Organizational Change through Service and Space Design StrategyRachel Vacek
In Spring 2017, the University of Michigan Library completed an engagement with brightspot strategy, consultants who worked with our academic user community and staff to design a service framework and space strategy to guide our organization's work into the future. This holistic framework and philosophy have the potential to transform our large organization's approach to designing and delivering aligned and impactful user experiences. A Service Design Task Force was formed to take this strategy and begin to design pilots and prototypes for new and evolved services and spaces, with a particular focus on enhancing the library's ability to partner around consultation, digital scholarship, and designing for emergence. The three members of the Task Force represent expertise in learning and teaching services, user experience, space design, discovery services, and web technologies. Our goal in this work is to transform our organization's capacity to design, deliver, and iterate high quality virtual and physical services in 21st-century learning and research environments within the library through user and staff engagement, rapid prototyping, and design thinking. In our presentation, the Task Force members will share current and future strategies for engaging the organization in this work, including tools and formats for design and discussion that have supported our work with the library community. We'll also discuss next steps for piloting and prototyping new service ideas in existing library spaces in order to inform future space transformations.
Keeping UX Practical: Integrating User Experience Practices into ProjectsRachel Vacek
I participated in a Library Journal webcast on September 27, 2017, along with New York University’s Iris Bierlein and Emerald Publishing’s Kat Palmer, called “Smoothing the Path of the Research Journey: Designing for User Experience Excellence in Academic Libraries.”
This presentation is 1 of 3 presentations from that webcast.
Abstract: Leading scholars and librarians have used assessment techniques from personas to eye tracking to pin down just what are the best practices in user experience design for academic libraries. But different campuses have different needs, and as technology changes–and user expectations evolve in response–great UX remains a moving target. This webinar will cover the essential UX tools to designing an excellent experience for your own unique users–and share some key takeaways from sponsor Emerald’s own research.
Own the User Experience: Provide Discovery for Your UsersRachel Vacek
In the past several years, discovery systems have come a long way in enabling library staff to customize their user interfaces. However, there are still limitations to what a library can do to meet its particular user community’s needs. Fortunately, technology has advanced to a point where it’s becoming easier to use off-the-shelf, open source components to compliment your discovery index in order to create a highly configurable discovery environment. In this session, learn about how and why the University of Michigan Library chose to build a new discovery interface, the advantages and additional responsibilities of doing so, and considerations for your own discovery environment.
Customizing Discovery at the University of MichiganRachel Vacek
Panel of 3 ARL libraries will highlight the customized implementations of their respective discovery services and discuss the need for flexibility in discovery to meet institutional goals as well as the needs of diverse users. Panel will discuss trends in discovery UX related to APIs, vendor interfaces, and user personalization.
Contextual Inquiry: How Ethnographic Research can Impact the UX of Your WebsiteRachel Vacek
A contextual inquiry is a research study that involves in-depth interviews where users walk through common tasks in the physical environment in which they typically perform them. It can be used to better understand the intents and motivations behind user behavior. In this session, learn what’s needed to conduct a contextual inquiry and how to analyze the ethnographic data once collected. We’ll cover how to synthesize and visualize your findings as sequence models and affinity diagrams that directly inform the development of personas and common task flows. Finally, learn how this process can help guide your design and content strategy efforts while constructing a rich picture of the user experience.
Assessing Your Library Website: Using User Research Methods and Other ToolsRachel Vacek
This is a presentation given to the Oklahoma chapter of the Association of College and Research Libraries. It's about using web analytics and content audits as well as a variety of user research methods to better understand your users and assess and improve your website.
This is a keynote presentation that I presented to the Oklahoma Chapter of the Association of Research Libraries on looking at how academic library websites in the next few years might look, and how the research and design process has evolved in the past decade or so.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
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Technology Trends in Libraries - Today & Tomorrow
1. Technology Trends in Libraries -
Today & Tomorrow
By Rachel Vacek
Web Technologies Librarian Candidate
Lupton Library @ UTC
2. Overview
• What’s HOT now
• Web 2.0 and Library 2.0
• Examples of libraries and technologies
• Lasting concepts and fading tools
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3. What’s HOT
• OpenID or one-time • Plugins, add-ons, & extensions
authentication • Metasearching
• Open WorldCat • Faceted browsing
• Cell phones & texting • Mashups
• Tagging • Online photo sharing
• Social bookmarking • Citizen journalism
• Folksonomies • Social networking
• RSS feeds & aggregators • User comments and ratings
• Wikis • Being connected 24/7
• Podcasting, screencasting, • Fast delivery
and vodcasting • Instant gratification
• Blogs • Widgets and gadgets
• Gaming & virtual realities • Web applications replacing
• Open source ILS desktop applications
• Custom search engines
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5. From Karen G. Schneider’s Library 2.0 Cookbook
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6. Concepts of Web 2.0
• Collaboration • Radical trust
• Sharing • Personal data
• Ownership • Remixable
• Wisdom of crowds • Web-based
• Personalization • Perpetual state of
being in beta
• Self-expression
• Transparency
• Community
• Participation
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7. Library 2.0
Any service, physical or virtual, that
successfully reaches users, is evaluated
frequently, and makes use of customer
input is a Library 2.0 service. Even older,
traditional services can be Library 2.0 if
criteria are met.
From “Library 2.0” by Michael E. Casey and Laura C. Savastinuk, Library
Journal, September 1, 2006
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8. From Karen G. Schneider’s Library 2.0 Cookbook
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9. The Long Tail
• Libraries provide a lot of services, some of
which reach users
• Far more people do not find or receive
library services and tools than those who
do
• The trick is to find ways of reaching both
groups
Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief of Wired, coined the phrase “the long tail”
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10. Can libraries do these things?
YES!
Libraries should build,
engage, innovate, and participate
in Web 2.0 technologies,
especially if they foster
community and collaboration.
Libraries MUST meet user expectations
if they want to continue to exist.
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11. Concepts vs. Technologies
• Don’t implement a technology for technology’s
sake
• Library 2.0 is more about the concepts, not just
the emerging technologies
• The concepts are what will endure over time, not
necessarily a specific piece of software or online
application
• It’s the human aspect – the users that are
important
• Technology is just a tool for helping people
interact with one another
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12. Excerpts from Karen Schneider’s
“The User Is Not Broken: A meme
masquerading as a manifesto”
• All technologies evolve and die.
• You are not a format. You are a service.
• The OPAC is not the sun. The user is the sun.
• The user is not broken.
• You cannot change the user, but you can transform the user
experience to meet the user.
• Meet people where they are - not where you want them to be.
• The user is not "remote." You, the librarian, are remote, and it is
your job to close that gap.
• Most of your most passionate users will never meet you face to face.
• Most of your most alienated users will never meet you face to face.
http://freerangelibrarian.com/2006/06/the_user_is_not_broken_a_meme.php
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13. So keeping these things in mind…
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14. Social Software & Networking
• Allows people to build communities from
the ground up
• Enables collaboration in real time
• Encourages networking with both peers
and users
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19. RSS Feeds & Aggregators
• RSS is a text-based format, a type of XML
• It’s information repackaged by provider or
creator to give the user more control over
delivery
• Can be web-based or client-side as well as stuck
in browsers or email clients
• Free, relatively inexpensive, or enterprise
• Most blogs and most major information
resources can syndicate a feed you can
subscribe to
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25. Blogs
• Have posts organized chronologically by date
• Self-archive by date
• Use a permalink for each individual post
• Most have RSS feeds that syndicate the content
• Benefits:
– Can humanize your library
– Communicate and interact with users and your
colleagues in new ways
– Allows you to focus on content, not process
– Can update from anywhere
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30. Tagging
• Term given to a piece of information (like a picture,
article, or video clip), thus describing the item and
enabling a keyword-based classification
• Folksonomy vs. taxonomoy
• Examples
– del.icio.us - A social bookmarking site
– Flickr – Tag the images you upload
– Gmail – can use tags (labels) to help classify your email
– Technorati - A blog search engine
– Last.fm - A social music website and wiki that allows users to tag
artists, albums and tracks
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34. Tagging on the rise
A December 2006 survey by the Pew
Internet & American Life Project found that
28% of internet users - and 7% on any
typical day - have tagged or categorized
online content such as photos, news
stories or blog posts.
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35. Cell Phones & Smart Phones
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37. Wikis & Online Collaboration
• A wiki is a website anyone can edit with
little knowledge of markup
• Allows for collaboration and sharing of
information
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43. OPAC & ILS
• Open Source ILS
– Koha
– Evergreen PINES
• Other alternatives
– Endeca
– Primo (ExLibris)
– Encore (Innovative Interfaces)
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44. What libraries will look like…
• Web 2.0 concepts will carry on, but the
technologies will change
• More mashups
• More open source
• More customization and personalization
• More social interaction
• More interaction with virtual worlds
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45. Specific examples of other
emerging technologies
• Drupal – a free software package that allows an individual or a community
of users to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on
a website
• OpenID - open, decentralized, free framework for user-centric digital identity
• AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) - a web development technique
for creating interactive websites
– Pages feel more responsive by exchanging small amounts of data with the
server behind the scenes, so that the entire web page does not have to be
reloaded each time the user requests a change.
– Increase the web page's interactivity, speed, and usability
• Ruby on Rails - a web application framework that aims to increase the
speed and ease with which database-driven websites can be created and
offers skeleton code frameworks from the outset
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46. More Examples
• OPML (Outline Processor Markup Language) - a
collection of RSS feeds can be shared by an OPML file
and imported by others into their RSS
readers/aggregators
– Great way to create reading or additional resource lists for
classes
– Can share the feeds you use to keep current with your
colleagues
• Architectures of Collaboration - a type of network where
web services and the integration between these tools
work together to provide a consistent and reliable
communication flow
– Collaboration isn’t just between users - it needs to happen on the
backend between systems as well
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54. It’s all about the user.
• The user helps determine what technologies are relevant
• How do we find out what users need?
– Ask them
– Watch them
– Surveys
• Conduct local surveys
• Look at reports from Educause, Pew, etc.
– Look at traffic patterns on web servers
– Weblog analysis
– Give them the tools and let them build what they need
themselves
– Capitalize on the ubiquitous nature of open source
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55. Thanks!
Current Contact Information:
Rachel E. Vacek
Electronic Resources Librarian and Technology Coordinator
Walker Management Library, Vanderbilt University
rachel.vacek@owen.vanderbilt.edu
615-322-3818
AIM: vacekrae1976
Yahoo!: vacekrae
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