Week 8 Assignment
Write about the Mashup you found on your blog
Repository 66 is a mashup of data from ROAR and OpenDOAR overlayed onto Google maps.
ROAR is a registry of open access repositories, including —
- Dspace which is an open source solution for accessing, managing, and preserving scholarly works
Closes one to Toledo is at the University of Michigan. Deep Blue provides access to work by
the university community.
- “Eprints are open software package for building open repositories that are compliant with the “Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting”
“The EPrints software is not to be confused with “eprints” (or “e-prints”), which are preprints and postprints of research journal articles…”
[Wikipedia]
Closest is Philosophy of Science Archive in Pittsburg, a “subject repository for documents
relating to the philosophy of science, supported by the University Library and departments of
History & the Philosophy of Science and Philosophy. The repository is offered as a free service to
the philosophy of science community..”
- Fedora is an “open source software gives organizations a flexible service-oriented architecture for managing and delivering their digital content”
Closest is MatDI.org (Materials Digital Library Pathway) in Cleveland. It is a partnership of 5 universities and NIST.
It “aims to provide stewardship for content and services needed across the MS community and in particular for its targeted audience of materials undergraduate and graduate students, educators, and researchers by offering software tools ..” for data management, modeling, teaching and lab support. - Berkely Electronic Press “publishes high quality peer-reviewed journals that offer cuting edge research quickly and at sustainable prices” in the areas of economics, business, law, political science, health, medicine, science,and technology.
Closest location is the Digital Commons at Wayne State University which “is a service of the Wayne State University libraries. Research and scholarly output included here has been selected and deposited by the individual university departments and centers on campus.”
At Rollyo,
- Type “librarianblogs” into the search box
- Click the librarianblogs Searchroll.
- Search for “privacy”
- Browse the results and write something about what these bloggers said about privacy in your blog.
There is a wide range of library related issues that use the word privacy. Some deal with internet usage by the public (inside and outside the library) as they post images of others without permission and post about themselves with little regard of how it may effect them later in life, and the right to pursue knowledge (intellectual freedom). Some discuss legal and political ramificatons as the PATRIOTACTas well as philosophical underpinnings of the the role of government in individual lives (issues as surveillance and
information gathering).
Two examples…
….” having Google toolbar on public computers can, if the advanced mode is activated, constitute a serious privacy leak. Would a university export its user’s server logs to third parties in any other circumstance? Not without a subpoena. Is it time to call on universities, libraries and other public computing spaces to remove the Google Toolbar? I think so.”
- Annoyed Librarian entry
“I was reminded of the value of privacy so many librarians claim to espouse while reading a post at Library Juice last week that had Rory Litwin engaging in a little revisionist history. From the LJ post: “The Council sessions of the ALA Midwinter Meeting in Seattle in January were interpreted by many as a defeat of the idea that Council should address ‘non library issues,’ [note the scare quotes] as resolutions aimed at defunding the war in Iraq and impeaching President Bush were voted down by wide margins.”" ..
“he ALA and most librarians claim to respect the privacy of library users. And privacy is a liberal value, based on the liberal values of individual autonomy and tolerance, born in the horrors of the European wars of religion. Liberals value privacy because of the belief that people should be allowed to think and believe what they like without interference. The political claim most at odds with the liberal value of privacy is the leftist claim that the personal is the political. Privacy is the separation of the personal and the political; it is the the assertion that there is a personal sphere that is always separate from the political. Liberals believe in separating the personal and the political. Other political ideologies don’t.How much privacy can we have if the personal and the political (and by extension the professional) are intertwined? Not much. If you value privacy, then you will not believe that the personal is the political. You will specifically believe that the two are not identical, and that there is a separation of the two absolutely necessary for peace and justice. If you believe that the personal is the political, then you believe that what you do in private is the business of politicians. That’s exactly what leftists and “progressives” have been arguing since the 1960s, but there’s nothing “liberal” about it.”
