Issue Date: 7-Dec-2006
Type: Presentation
Publisher: The 2007 Greater Mekong Subregion Academic and Research Network (GMSARN) International Conference on Sustainable Development, Thailand
URI: http://dspace.siu.ac.th/handle/1532/143
2. About me
Doctoral candidate in structural engineering
About this project
Part of doctoral thesis to address collaborative
problem in structural engineering
Engineering calculations
Knowledge sharing
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3. Meet the Bloggers
An introduction to Blogs, Bloggers and the
Blogosphere
Digital Libraries
Organizational repository of knowledge
Blog+DL-based KM System
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22. Web 2.0 – Social web and communities of
practice
Blogging create social networks
Among Hobbyists, Business people, Practitioners
For business people: Business opportunities
For hobbyists and practitioners
Fast discovery and evolution of knowledge
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23. Reading + commenting + posting forms a network of
bloggers
Here is how:
I am looking for an information about this on Google
I came across your blog entry
I read your entry
I’m interested in this also and here’s my two cents. You can also
visit my blog at http://thitiv.blogspot.com
You read my blog and it’s true that we share the same interest
We keep visiting each other’s blog and exchange our
experiences
We become pen-pals
Lots of these from a “social network”
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29. A digital library is an integrated set of services
for capturing, cataloging, storing, searching,
protecting, and retrieving information
(Reddy et al. 1999)
A digital library typically comprises digital
collections, services and infrastructure to
support life-long learning, research, scholarly
communication and preservation
(Wikipedia 2006b).
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30. Original use
Preservation: Archive of digitized copies of rare
documents, books, and historical objects
For study by people of new generations
Modern use: Material from MIT’s white paper
Central repository to store virtually all works of
faculty and staff
Preservation of all works so that they do not
vanish with time (and technological obsolescence)
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32. Source: Dunn and Walsh (2004). Indiana University.
“DSpace is a groundbreaking digital institutional
repository that captures, stores, indexes, preserves,
and redistributes the intellectual output of a
university’s research faculty in digital formats.”
Developed jointly by MIT Libraries and Hewlett-
Packard
Licensed under BSD distribution license
www.dspace.org
33. Supports submission of, management of, and
access to digital content
Formats: text, images, audio, video
Organized based on organizational needs of a
large university
Communities and collections
34. Digital preservation
Persistent IDs, support levels for different file
formats
Access control
Versioning
Search and retrieval
Based on qualified Dublin Core metadata
Plus interoperability with other digital library
systems
35. OS: Unix/Linux or Windows
Written in Java
PostgreSQL relational database
Provides complete Web user interface, but
Java APIs available
47. Blogs and Digital Library (Blog+DL) are
modern information technologies deployable
on the Internet or an intranet that can be
combined to build the second-generation of
knowledge management (KM) systems.
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48. Blog+DL can assist members of an
organization in
sharing tacit knowledge
developing concepts from many pieces of tacit
knowledge
combining various elements of explicit
knowledge, and
keeping new knowledge in the knowledge bases
of individuals and the organization.
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49. When a Blog+DL KM system is deployed
Each staff is assigned a personal blog
Through the facilities of blogging, exchanges of
comments and discussions among colleagues are
electronically facilitated
Cross-referencing among individual blog entries and
discussions can be made
After a work-in-progress is completed, related blog
entries and discussions, as well as a project summary
document, are archived to the digital library for future
references
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51. WWW
Archiever Digital Library
Blog Server
Web Browser
User
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52. Blog Server
ANY Open Source/Freeware blog servers
Suggested servers: Blojsom (Java open source)
Digital Library
Frequent incremental submission by user
DSpace is best option
Webpage Archiver
A server component to take snapshot of a webpage
Submit to specific collection in DSpace
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53. Mozilla Firefox Web Browser
Extension (bookmarklets) for Mozilla Firefox
Save to digital library
Search digital library
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56. Traditional
Discussion with colleagues & experts
Summarized and blogged
Experience from past projects
Relevant project files collected & documented
Web
Web browsing & Google searches
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75. DSpace facilitates
Personal Portfolio of Knowledge
Matured discussions of past experience
Organizational Knowledge
Personal portfolios shared by colleagues
Readily reuse of knowledge
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84. Question on Retrofitting a historical building
Go global
Blog search engines
Google Blog Search
Technorati (topic-based)
Traditional web search engine sources
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