1. ‘The Frictionless Library’
Following Ranganathan Towards "Five Principles for
Networked Libraries”
Tony Hirst
Department of Communication & Systems,
The Open University
5. Modalities of Constitutional Argument
These methods of reasoning and ways of making arguments determine the ways in which
constitutional propositions are characterized as valid from a legal point of view. These
methods might be divided or recategorized in different ways, but thefollowing six forms or
modalities of constitutional argument are widely accepted: (1) historical—
relying on the intentions of the framers and ratifiers of the Constitution (see Original Intent;
History, Court Uses of);(2) textual—looking to the meaning of the words of the
Constitution alone, as they would be interpreted by an average contemporary American
today;(3) structural— inferring structural rules from the relationships that
the Constitution mandates; (4) doctrinal—applying rules generated by
precedent;(5) ethical—deriving rules from those moral commitments of the
American ethos that are reflected in the Constitution; and (6) prudential—
seeking to balance the costs and benefits of a particular rule. A modality is the way in which
a proposition is characterized as true.
Read more: http://www.answers.com/topic/constitutional-interpretation#ixzz1mjX2jgoc
6. Historical Textual Structural Doctrinal Ethical Prudential
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2nd Law
3rd Law
4th Law
5th Law
27. I’ve started to think about factors affecting reuse as being causes of friction .... This
may not be an exhaustive list, but the things I can see that create friction in the reuse of
data are:
Explicit restrictions on reuse
Uncertainty about possible restrictions on reuse
Unusual or unfamiliar interfaces and formats
Lack of information on data and where the data is available
Sometimes you might deliberately introduce friction – perhaps you don’t want your
data to be reused by just anyone, for any purpose. I don’t see friction as bad per se –
we just need to be aware of it, and especially avoid introducing friction when we don’t
mean to.
http://www.meanboyfriend.com/overdue_ideas/2011/11/openly-connect/
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29. “static friction”
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65. User interface friction is the resistance that the
implementation and execution of a user interface feature
imposes on the user of a program, device, or operating
system.
User Interface Friction is not related to the functionality of an
application program, and does not depend on the processing
power of a computer, although these can be mitigating factors.
The same application program, functioning on two different
operating systems can yield different overall UIF because of
differences in the way the user interface responds.
User interface friction can result in significant productivity loss
when it occurs on frequently repeated operations.
Back to the Future and into the Cloud30 mins'The Frictionless Library - following Ranganathan: Towards "Five Principles for Networked Libraries"' as a starting point, what happens if we replace "books" with "resources" and then reimagine the laws in the context of online networks, social graphs, and frictionless resource recommendation and discovery?
Take inspiration from the title
There is a risk in me – an outsider – taking what may or may not be a foundational,naïve, taken for granted or thoroughly debunked view of Library Science and using as the keystone of my presentation, but we have to start somewhere. And much constitutional theorists in the United States often tries to address today’s concerns of the framers,
It could be interesting to try to get into the mind of Ranganathan by treating him as a framer and applying the techniques of the constitutional theorists to his 80 year old laws in order to help us interpret them in the contemporary context. But time is short, I’m too much of a butterfly mind for embarking on a very deep critique, and I don’t have a very deep understanding of either Ranganathan’s laws, or the different approaches to constitutional theory, either, so if anyone here would like to take up the challenge, send me a link;-)
As well as time saved, we might have “strength of support”
Hierachies once ruled the world, because hierarchical classification was efficient.
Processing overheads might relate to filetype conversion
What’s the scarce quantity? The time of the researcher?
What’s the scarce quantity? The time of the researcher?
Access ito appropriate…?
There is an issue here – do you refer people to best possible resource, or the best possible resource they can access?
The ranking algorithm is no longer a one-size-fits-all approach.
The invisible librarian takes away the pain…
Personal collection development
As well as time saved, we might have “strength of support”
