7. iPads even a 2 year old can use
them
Is a 2 year old a model for researchers?
8. Locking up access to information
• Deep web
• When is open really open
• Risks to research, teaching and learning
and collaboration
• Locking up is more than big publishers
• Up to 75% of government “publications”
disappear in a decade
11. Dense information
Read short segments Can use dense complex
publication
browse reading
annotations – an
impossible dream
Marginalia, the print
experience
Access to lots of
information – reliable,
long term?
Quality – role of scholarly
publishers
Many versions
Mobile and tablets vs print
12. Debates
• Joseph Konrath “Amazon will destroy you”
• Emma Wright. “The future of the book
business”
– Publishing quality
– Reading (esp children)
– Market and value
• Neil Gaiman - publishers must be like
dandelions
13. Remembering and knowing
• Students operate in print and e environments
• Garland study
– Small differences but
– More repetition required for digital texts to impart the
same information
– Book readers digest material more easily
(Szalavitz, Maria “Do e-books make it harder to
remember what you just read?”)
14. A future narrative
• Digital coevolution
(Nick Harkaway)
• Nicholas Carr “Is
Google making us
stupid?”
21. Open access
But a total conversion will be
slow in coming, because
scientists still have every
economic incentive to submit
their papers to high-prestige
subscription journals. The
subscriptions tend to be paid for
by campus libraries, and few
individual scientists see the
costs directly. From their
perspective, publication is
effectively free.
(Van Noorden, 2013)
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22. Government informaiton
• President Obama’s Executive Order
directs government-held data be made
more accessible to the public and to
entrepreneurs and others as fuel for
innovation and economic growth. (9 May
2013)
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26. Collections
• What makes a collection?
• Curation
• Corpus of knowledge
• Collaboration
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/paullew/3487810383/
27. Resource discovery
• All for one and one for all?
• Defining content
• Scholar needs
• When researchers cannot
get hold of a work in their
library, 87% (US) and 90%
(UK) often
or occasionally search for a
free online version.
(Schonfeld) http://listverse.com/2007/10/26/15-funny-street-signs/
28. • What value is location?
• Collaboration a new frontier?
30. • MOOCs new
environment – many
opportunities beyond
traditional academic
outcomes
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/81494696@N00/287199385/
31. • Are we “run over by technology”?
• Sir Bruce Williams Boyer lecture 1982
• What must we do to demonstrate value?
Flexibility, evolution
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32. … the electronic screen lends the text within
its frame the eternally pristine appearance of
a newly cut page, and this produces in me a
distancing feeling that, like Brecht’s dramatic
techniques, allows me a freer reading,
uncluttered by the sense of labouring under
previous perusals by myself and others.
Alberto Manguel cited in Barmé
33. Either you print things out, and find yourself
oppressed by piles of documents you’ll
never read, or you read online, but as soon
as you click onto the next page you forget
what you’ve just read, the very thing that
has brought you to the page now on your
screen
Alberto Manguel cited in Barmé
34. References
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Repositioning and Renewal of a National Asset. Canberra, ASAA.
http://coombs.anu.edu.au/SpecialProj/ASAA/asia-knowledge-book-v70.pdf
• Australian Government. (2012) Australia in the Asian Century : white paper.
Canberra: Australia in the Asian Century Implementation Task Force.
http://asiancentury.dpmc.gov.au/white-paper/
• Barmé, G. R. (2011) “Slow reading and fast reference, East Asian history 37.
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• Boston College, Daniel R. Coquillette Rare Book Room (2010) Recent additions to
the collection – Fall 2010: An illustrated guide to the exhibit.
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35. • Gainman, N. (2013) Keynote presentation to London Book Fair’s Digital Minds
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Notas del editor
Britannica Editors - March 13, 2012 For 244 years, the thick volumes of the Encyclopaedia Britannica have stood on the shelves of homes, libraries, and businesses everywhere, a source of enlightenment as well as comfort to their owners and users around the world. They’ve always been there. Year after year. Since 1768. Every. Single. Day. But not forever. Today we’ve announced that we will discontinue the 32-volume printed edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica when our current inventory is gone. A momentous event? In some ways, yes; the set is, after all, nearly a quarter of a millennium old. But in a larger sense this is just another historical data point in the evolution of human knowledge. For one thing, the encyclopedia will live on—in bigger, more numerous, and more vibrant digital forms. And just as important, we the publishers are poised, in the digital era, to serve knowledge and learning in new ways that go way beyond reference works. In fact, we already do.
Britannica Editors - March 13, 2012 For 244 years, the thick volumes of the Encyclopaedia Britannica have stood on the shelves of homes, libraries, and businesses everywhere, a source of enlightenment as well as comfort to their owners and users around the world. They’ve always been there. Year after year. Since 1768. Every. Single. Day. But not forever. Today we’ve announced that we will discontinue the 32-volume printed edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica when our current inventory is gone. A momentous event? In some ways, yes; the set is, after all, nearly a quarter of a millennium old. But in a larger sense this is just another historical data point in the evolution of human knowledge. For one thing, the encyclopedia will live on—in bigger, more numerous, and more vibrant digital forms. And just as important, we the publishers are poised, in the digital era, to serve knowledge and learning in new ways that go way beyond reference works. In fact, we already do.
http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2012/01/appleyard-internet-book One thing the luminaries mostly agree on is that the technological revolution of the late 20th century is the biggest upheaval since Gutenberg, and that growing up in a information-surfing culture is affecting us on a personal and social level. Given that I read this book on a train on my Kindle, while opposite me a stressed mother entertained her toddler - who could not yet talk - by letting the child play Angry Birds on her iPhone, I find it hard to disagree. Yet the very obviousness of this point exposes a limitation of the collection format: by halfway through, I was sighing repeatedly: "Oh, not bloody Gutenberg again !" The overlap makes this book one to dip into rather than read at one sitting, but it's bursting with quotable phrases. Here is the writer Paul Kedrosky wondering whether he could give up the internet. "Could I quit? At some level, it seems a silly question, like asking how I feel about taking a breathing hiatus or if on Tuesdays I would give up gravity." He is one of the minority who are relatively untroubled by the netpocalypse, wondering whether he really had more BDTs (big deep thoughts) before he spent all day connected, or whether his memory is playing tricks on him. It is largely the dissenters from hand-wringing who are more intriguing. June Cohen argues that "the rise of social media is really a reprise" - a return to a storytelling culture. And the psychologist and writer Steven Pinker believes that "the most interesting trend in the development of the internet is not how it is changing people's ways of thinking but how it is adapting to the way people think". He argues that the web took off because of the graphical user interface that made engaging with it more intuitive. Now we are developing interfaces based on speech, movement and even thought. Ultimately, many of the contributors conclude that we don't know how the internet is changing our brains because we don't know how anything changes the hefty lumps of fat and water in our skulls: they are still so poorly understood. Or, as Emily Dickinson put it in the poem that gave Appleyard his title: "The Brain - is wider than the Sky -/For - put them side by side -/The one the other will contain/With ease - and You - beside".