Slides for talk on "Enthusiastic Amateurs and Overcoming Institutional Inertia" given by Brian Kelly, UKOLN at the Mashed Libraries 2009 ('Mash Oop North') event. See http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/mashed-library-2009/
A centre of expertise in digital information management Mashed Library “Oop North” 2009: Enthusiastic Amateurs and Overcoming Institutional Inertia Brian Kelly UKOLN University of Bath Bath, UK UKOLN is supported by: This work is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial- ShareAlike 2.0 licence (but note caveat) Acceptable Use Policy Recording of this talk, taking photos, discussing the content using email, instant messaging, blogs, SMS, etc. is permitted providing distractions to others is minimised. Resources bookmarked using ‘mashlib09' tag http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/ mashed-library-2009/ Email: [email protected]Twitter: http://twitter.com/ briankelly/ Blog: http:// ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/
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http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/mashed-library-2009/
Mashed Library Oop North 2009: Enthusiastic Amateurs and Overcoming
Institutional Inertia Brian Kelly Acceptable Use Policy UKOLN
Recording of this talk, taking photos, University of Bath
discussing the content using email, Bath, UK instant messaging,
blogs, SMS, etc. is permitted providing distractions to Email:
others is minimised. [email protected] Twitter: Blog:
http://twitter.com/briankelly/ http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/
Resources bookmarked using mashlib09' tag UKOLN is supported by:
This work is licensed under a Attribution- NonCommercial-ShareAlike
2.0 licence A centre of expertise in digital information management
(but note caveat)
2. Introduction About Me Brian Kelly: National Web adviser to
UK Universities and cultural heritage organisations Based at UKOLN,
a national centre of expertise in digital information management
and located at the University of Bath Involved in Web since January
1993 Current area of interest include Web 2.0, Web standards and
Web accessibility Not a developer (though used to write Algol,
Fortran, Basic and Cobol!) A centre of expertise in digital
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3. Mashups Are Exciting! Innovation Competition at IWMW 2008
attracted several good examples of mashups, including several from
Mike Ellis A centre of expertise in digital information management
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4. Mashups Are Exciting! Thumbnails of UK HEI Web pages,
generated automatically using Thumbalizr (Note I did this manually
in early days of Web) A centre of expertise in digital information
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5. Mashups Are Exciting! Google Custom Search Engine (GCSE) of
UK University sites Why? I dunno either? Joke at my Scottish HEI
GCSE page Note JISC proposal for this in late 1990s A centre of
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6. Mashups Are Exciting! Google Earth view of of UK
Universities Why? A centre of expertise in digital information
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7. Mashups Are Exciting! Tony Hirsts submission to IWMW 2008
innovation competition Note: Mashup (using RSS, Yahoo Pipes, &
Dipity) Documentation on blog Display of effectiveness of media
releases (how they are picked up by news & centre of expertise
in digital information management A in blogosphere) 7
8. Documenting The Mashups Tony Hirsts blog post about his IWMW
2008 submission includes documentation of what he did and screen
shots of tools used A centre of expertise in digital information
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9. Bring Down The Government! Tony Hirst has written (&
documented) multiple mashup examples making use of public sector
data (e.g. Guardian APIs): Formula 1 data MPs expenses Note
interview in journalism.co.uk A centre of expertise in digital
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10. D What About You? Some questions: Will your mashup
expertise thrive after today? What should be different after today?
What barriers do you envisage? Will you be able to demonstrate
value for attending Mash Oop North? (cf evidence for MPs expenses!)
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11. Advocacy Your convinced (to some extent) of: The value of
data reuse The benefits of light-weigh development You can: Promote
this to senior managers Encourage these approaches by your
developers What else? A centre of expertise in digital information
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12. Encouraging Greater Openness Youre convinced (to some
extent) of allowing others to access your data & reuse of
others data You can: Minimise legal barriers to reuse of your data
(e.g. CC0 & PDDL licences) Use reusable formats (e.g. XML, not
PDF) Encourage a risk management attitude for your developers e.g.
Oppenheim formula: R=AxBxCxD What else? A centre of expertise in
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13. Providing Documentation Youve a great mashup service but
developer leaves (dies): Did he say anything about the source code?
Anyone know if theres any documentation How about encouraging open
documentation e.g. using a blog (open to peer review) A centre of
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14. Sharing Experiences Some additional thoughts: Sharing
experiences Allowing and permitting Engaging with others (peers,
users, policy makers, ) Driving down costs (e.g. negotiations with
vendors) What else? A centre of expertise in digital information
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15. Critical Friends Remember, though, that developers may get
it wrong! Acting as a Critical Friend may be helpful A centre of
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16. Questions? A centre of expertise in digital information
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