tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-293047362024-03-17T23:02:54.116-04:00ZzzootScience, software engineering, information visualization, computational knowledge discovery, Open data/Open science, maps & mapping, library & scientific publishing stuff, random thoughts, open standards, Free/Open Source Software ramblings....hmm, probably too many things for one blog... :-(Glen Newtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03639309432955855745noreply@blogger.comBlogger277125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29304736.post-52843509308207845402022-09-01T00:16:00.039-04:002023-12-03T19:49:01.144-05:00Postscript coding resources<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostScript">Postscript</a> is one of my favourite programming languages. Resources for postscript programming are not too common, and are always popping up and then disappearing, as things tend to do on the Web. Here is a snapshot of links that work: I will do my best to keep them up-to-date.<span></span></p><a name='more'></a><ul style="text-align: left;"><li> <b>Updates appended:</b></li><ul><li><b><a href="https://zzzoot.blogspot.com/2022/09/postscript-coding-resources.html#2023.12.03">2023.12.03</a></b><br /></li></ul></ul><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><div><b>Books/Longer tutorials</b></div></li><ul><li><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://www3.nd.edu/~jsherman/portfolio/PSforD/PSforD.pdf">Taking Advantage of PostScript</a> - 2001, John F. Sherman (PDF, 323p)</span></span></li><li><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://w3-o.cs.hm.edu/~ruckert/compiler/ThinkingInPostScript.pdf">Thinking in Postscript </a>- 1990, Glen C. Reid (PDF, 239p)</span></span></li><li><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://personal.math.ubc.ca/~cass/graphics/text/www/">Mathematical Illustrations: A Manual of Geometry and PostScript</a> - 2004, Bill Casselman (PDFs, 266p)<br /></span></span></li><li><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/qms/ps-800/Inside_Postscript_1ed_Mar89.pdf">Inside Postscript </a>- 1989, Frank Braswell (PDF, 308p) </span></span></li><li><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Tutorials:</span></span></li><ul><li><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://sus.ziti.uni-heidelberg.de/Lehre/WS1718_Tools/POSTSCRIPT/PostScript_PeterFischer.pptx.pdf">A Short Introduction to Postscript</a> - 2017, Peter Fischer (PDF, 58p) </span></span></li><li><a href="https://staff.science.uva.nl/a.j.p.heck/Courses/Mastercourse2005/tutorial.pdf">Learning PostScript by Doing</a> 2005 - André Heck (PDF, 98p)</li><li><a href="https://cdn.preterhuman.net/texts/other/pracpost.pdf">Practical Postscript: A Guide to Digital Typesetting</a> - 2000, David Byram−Wigfield (PDF, 92p)</li><li><a href="https://archive.org/download/pdfy-4zmKNygOs6IJ9j9B/David%20Byram-Wigfield%20-%20The%20Tiny%20Guide%20For%20PostScript%20Markup%282004%29.1-902918-13-4.pdf">THE TINY GUIDE for PostScript Markup </a>- 1994, David Byram−Wigfield (PDF, 47p) <br /></li></ul></ul><li><b>Reference - </b>The Red and Blue books are also known as the <i>Postscript Bibles</i><b><br /></b></li><ul><li><b><span style="color: red;">Red book</span></b>: <b><i>PostScript Language Reference</i></b> third edition (<a href="https://www.adobe.com/jp/print/postscript/pdfs/PLRM.pdf">Adobe</a>) (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20231113151419/https://www.adobe.com/jp/print/postscript/pdfs/PLRM.pdf">archive.org</a>) 1999 (PDF, 912p) </li><li><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b>Blue book</b></span>: <b><i>Postscript Tutorial and Cookbook</i></b> - (<a href="https://archive.org/details/PSBlueBook">archive.org</a>) 1985 (PDF, 242p) </li><ul><li><a href="http://tex.anabar.ru/PostScript/books/examples/bluebook.html">Examples from Blue book (code)</a> <br /></li></ul><li><b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Green book</span></b>: <b><i>Postscript language program design </i></b> - (<a href="https://archive.org/details/PSGreenBook">archive.org</a>) 1988 (PDF, 228p) (archive.org zipped <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110613223722/http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/ps/sdk/sample/GreenBook.zip">copy</a>)<br /></li><li><a href="http://ftp.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/postscri.pdf">A Bibliography of PostScript and Portable Document Format Literature</a> 2019, Nelson H. F. Beebe (PDF, 54p)</li><li><a href="https://www.heldermann-verlag.de/jgg/jgg12/j12h2raub.pdf">On the Use of the PostScript Programming Language in an Undergraduate Computer Graphics Course</a> - 2008, Thomas Walter Rauber (PDF, 13p)</li></ul><li><b>Tutorials</b></li><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/PostScript_FAQ/Programming_PostScript">PostScript FAQ/Programming PostScript </a>- 2021, Wikibooks</li><li><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3by7evD3F527t79cHU0Ki8anStBmCci2">Postscript video tutorial</a> (youtube) - 2019, Jon Winans</span></span></li><ul><li><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://github.com/johnwinans/PostscriptTutorial">github</a> repo</span></span></li></ul><li><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://riptutorial.com/Download/postscript.pdf">Learning Postscript </a>- 2019 (PDF, 14p) </span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> <br /></span></span></li><li><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://ivansostarko.github.io/postscript-examples/">Postscript examples</a> - 2016, Ivan Sostarko</span></span></span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">, </span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">(code, 43 examples)</span></span></span></span></li><li><a href="https://subversion.american.edu/aisaac/wp/psdraw.html"><span style="font-weight: normal;">PostScript Drawing for the Sciences</span></a><span style="font-weight: normal;"> - </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">2009, Alan G. Isaac </span></li><li><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.tailrecursive.org/postscript/postscript.html">First Guide to PostScript </a>- 2006, Peter Weingartner</span></span></li><li><span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://subversion.american.edu/aisaac/wp/psdraw20030415.pdf">PostScript Drawing: An Economist’s Guide</a> </span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">- </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">2003, Alan G. Isaac (PDF, 41p)</span></span></li><li><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://paulbourke.net/dataformats/postscript/">Postscript Tutorial</a> - 1998, Paul Bourke </span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> <br /></span></span></li><li><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.ntg.nl/maps/17/23.pdf">Paradigms: Just a little bit of PostScript</a> - 1996, Kees van der Laan (PDF, 14p) </span></span></li><li><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://kar.kent.ac.uk/21051/">Postscript Tutorial and Reference</a> - 1992, Ian Utting (PDF, 19p)</span></span> <br /></li></ul><li><b>Sites</b> </li><ul><li><a href="https://groups.google.com/g/comp.lang.postscript?pli=1">comp.lang.postscript</a><a href="https://groups.google.com/g/comp.lang.postscript"> </a>(newsgroup)</li><li><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/postscript">Stackoverflow: tag: postscript</a></li><li><a href="https://riptutorial.com/postscript">Getting started with postscript</a> - riptutorial<br /></li><li><a href="http://www.inkguides.com/postscript.asp">Postscript (extensive)</a> - Inkguides</li><li><span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://stuff.mit.edu/afs/sipb/contrib/postscript/">MIT Postscript archive</a> (<span style="font-family: courier;">/afs/sipb/contrib/postscript</span>; many PS files, from 1990s mostly) </span><br /></li></ul><li> <b>Advanced</b></li><ul><li><a href="https://riptutorial.com/postscript/topic/6199/error-handling">Error Handling</a> - riptutorial</li><li><a href="https://www.anastigmatix.net/postscript/resource.html">Resource packaging for the PostScript® language</a> - 2009, anastigmatix </li><li><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://docs-hoffmann.de/pstutor22112002.pdf">Function Graphs and Other Applications for PostScript</a> - Gernot Hoffmann (PDF, 47p)</span></span></li><li><a href="https://www.tinaja.com/psutils/distlang.html">Using Acrobat Distiller as a General Purpose PostScript Computer </a>(coding examples) - 1997, Don Lancaster (HTML) </li><li><a href="https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.445.4261&rep=rep1&type=pdf">Postscript insider secrets</a> - 1990, Don Lancaster (PDF, 9p)</li><li><a href="https://www.anastigmatix.net/postscript/Hyphenate.html">Knuth-Liang hyphenation for the PostScript® language</a> - 2006, anastigmatix</li><li><span style="font-weight: normal;"><b><a href="https://www.tinaja.com/post01.shtml">Postscript resources (extensive!)</a></b>- Don Lancaster</span></li><li><a href="http://www.acumentraining.com/acumenjournal.html">Acumen Journal</a> (PDF and Postscript information) - 2000-2013, John Deubert (PDFs, <b>68 issues!</b>) <br /></li><li><a href="http://www.acumentraining.com/resources.html">John Deubert's Acumen Training: Postscript Resources</a> (<b>extensive</b>)<br /></li><li><a href="https://scholarworks.rit.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5409&context=theses">A Study of PostScript as a graphics programming language</a> (thesis) - 1988, Ruane Miller (PDF, 100p)<br /></li></ul><li><b>Fractals, L-Systems, Tilings, Shadows, etc</b><br /></li><ul><li><a href="https://www.let.rug.nl/~kleiweg/postscript/">Postscript</a> (depth, shadow, fractals, animation, L-systems) - 2008, Peter Kleiweg</li><li><a href="https://ankiewicz.com/design/fractals/">Fractals and PostScript</a> (artistic renderings)- 2022, Kristen Ankiewicz</li></ul><ul><li><a href="https://micans.org/stijn/ps/">Postscript</a> (mosaic, tilings)- Stijn van Dongen </li><ul><li><a href="https://github.com/micans/patterns">github</a></li></ul><li><a href="https://www.cs.unh.edu/~charpov/programming-lsystems.html">L-Systems in PostScript </a>- 2016, Michel Charpentier (HTML)</li><li><a href="http://www.ntg.nl/maps/44/06.pdf">Pythagoras Trees in PostScript </a>- 2013, Kees van der Laan (PDF, 22p)</li><li><a href="https://ntg.nl/maps/19/12.pdf">Tiling in PostScript and METAFONT – Escher’s wink</a> - 1997, Kees van der Laan (PDF, 29p) </li><li><a href="https://www.ntg.nl/maps/45/03.pdf">Julia fractals in PostScript</a> - 2012, Kees van der Laan (PDF, 51p)</li><li><a href="https://www.ntg.nl/maps/44/07.pdf">Classical Math Fractals in PostScript </a>- 2013, Kees van der Laan (PDF, 30p)<br /></li><li><a href="https://dml.cz/bitstream/handle/10338.dmlcz/150198/ZpravodajCSTUG_022-2012-1_3.pdf">PostScript as a Programming Language </a>(L-systems, fractals) - 2012, Michel Charpentier</li><li><a href="https://www.di.fc.ul.pt/~jpn/gv/pstools.htm">AGAPO Game boards in Postscript </a>(Othello, Go, Chess, Chequers, Dominoes, Mancala, hex) - Cameron Browne and João Neto</li></ul><li><b>Command reference cards</b></li><ul><li><a href="http://pstricks.tug.org/PS/quick-ref.PS.pdf">Reference quick card</a> - 2006, ULowel CS Dept<br /></li><li><a href="https://personal.math.ubc.ca/~cass/courses/ps.html">Postscript commands</a> - Bill Casselman; <a href="https://personal.math.ubc.ca/~cass/graphics/text/www/pdf/a1.pdf">PDF</a> </li><li><a href="http://www.tailrecursive.org/postscript/operators.html">PostScript Operators</a> - 2006, Peter Weingartner</li><li><a href="Index To Postscript Operands and Symbols">Index To Postscript Operands and Symbols</a> - Imation</li></ul><li><b>Libraries, code collections @<a href="https://github.com">github</a></b></li><ul><li><a href="https://github.com/denismm/dmmlib">dmmlib</a> (Library of convenient postscript functions) - 2022, Denis Moskowitz</li><li><a href="https://github.com/hzeller/postscript-hacks">Postscript hacks</a> - 2022, Henner Zeller</li><li><a href="https://github.com/scriptituk/pslutils">PostScript Language Utilities</a> - 2022, Scriptit </li><li><a href="https://github.com/goedel-gang/Postscript">Postscript </a>(fractals, Penrose tilings) - 2019, Izaak van Dongen </li><li><a href="https://github.com/phooky/postscript">Postscript</a> (L-systems, Hilbert curve) - 2020, Adam Mayer </li><li><a href="https://github.com/glaukon-ariston/PostScript">PostScript</a> (extensive library) - 2019, glaukon-ariston </li><li><a href="https://github.com/meientau/pstest">pstest</a> (PostScript unit test framework) - 2016, Jan Schormann</li><li><a href="https://github.com/Firedrake/postscript-libraries">Postscript Libraries</a> - 2022, RogerBW</li><li><a href="https://github.com/shlomif/PostScript-gradients-tests">PostScript-gradients-tests </a>- 2017, Shlomi Fish</li></ul><li><b>Personal </b></li><ul><li><b> </b><a href="https://github.com/gnewton/k22_posters">Klingon K-22 (Bird-of-Prey) Posters in Postscript</a> - 2022, Glen Newton. Four posters depicting a K-22 Bird-of-Prey in <i>hand-coded</i> postscript. Two of the posters inspired by two classic British Airways posters (1920s-30s) and two completely new posters.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://github.com/gnewton/k22_posters/raw/main/png/klingon_spaceways.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="518" height="200" src="https://github.com/gnewton/k22_posters/raw/main/png/klingon_spaceways.png" width="130" /></a><a href="https://github.com/gnewton/k22_posters/raw/main/pdf/klingon_spaceways_bird.pdf" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="518" height="200" src="https://github.com/gnewton/k22_posters/raw/main/png/klingon_spaceways_bird.png" width="130" /></a></div></li></ul><li><b>New additions (unclassified)<br /></b></li><ul><li><a id="2023.12.03">2023-12-03</a> - github search for postscript <u><b>code</b></u> repos, with year of last update<br /></li><ul><li><a href="https://github.com/hzeller/postscript-hacks"><i>Little useful and silly PostScript hacks</i></a><i> </i>(2021)<i><br /></i></li><li><a href="https://github.com/steiza/postscript_fractals">PostScript Fractals</a> (2016)<br /></li><li><a href="https://github.com/johnwinans/PostscriptTutorial">Postscript Tutorial</a> (2019)</li><ul><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3by7evD3F527t79cHU0Ki8anStBmCci2">Video</a> <br /></li></ul><li><a href="https://github.com/ivansostarko/postscript-examples">(43) Postscript Examples</a> (2016)<br /></li><ul><li> <a href="https://ivansostarko.github.io/postscript-examples">Documentation</a><br /></li></ul><li><i><a href="https://github.com/adobe-type-tools/ehandler.ps">This open source project contains a PostScript error handler, which can be used to troubleshoot PostScript errors and other problems that occur when printing</a></i> (2019)<br /></li><li><i><a href="https://github.com/denismm/dmmlib">Library of convenient postscript functions</a> </i>(2023)<i><br /></i></li><li><a href="https://suberic.net/~dmm/graphics/lines/lines.html">Alternate line styles in PostScript</a> [Not github] (2008)<br /></li><li><a href="https://github.com/luser-dr00g/debug.ps">A portable source-level debugger for postscript programs</a> (2020)<br /></li><li><a href="https://github.com/adc-code/PSFractals">Fractals</a><br /></li><li><a href="https://github.com/00dingens/Postscript">Many examples (L-Systems, fractals, etc)</a> (2021)<br /></li><li><a href="https://github.com/runapp/postscriptbook">A First Guide to PostScript - epub version</a> (2016)<br /></li><li><i><a href="https://github.com/peterbillam/postscriptlib">The brownian.ps subroutines for random fractal ("Brownian Noise") curves and landscapes, for artists to generate horizons, cloudscapes, interestingly textured backgrounds, etc</a> </i>(2018) <br /></li><li><i><a href="https://github.com/rsmith-nl/ps-lib">My PostScript modules</a></i> (2019)<br /></li><li><i><a href="https://github.com/meientau/pstest">A PostScript unit test framework written in PostScript</a> </i>(2016)<br /></li><li><a href="https://github.com/shlomif/PostScript-gradients-tests">Examples of color and black-and-white gradients</a> (2017) <br /></li><li><a href="https://github.com/fifth-postulate/postscript-whisperer">Postscript tutorial (github)</a> (2022)<br /></li><ul><li><a href="https://fifth-postulate.nl/postscript-whisperer/guide/index.html">Postscript tutorial</a><br /></li></ul><li><i><a href="https://github.com/nfgrusk/pinwheels">A PostScript program that draws a Pinwheel tiling</a> </i>(2015)<br /></li><li><a href="https://github.com/rauschm/pssort"><i>This repository contains 2 sort functions for PostScript: </i><span style="font-family: courier;">mergesort.ps quicksort.ps</span></a><span style="font-family: courier;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">(2022)<br /></span></li><li><i><a href="https://github.com/boredzo/switch-PostScript">Switch-case library for PostScript</a> </i>(2021)<br /></li><li><i><a href="https://github.com/ldfritz/postscript-unit-tests">Postscript unit tests</a></i> (2015)<br /></li><li><i><a href="https://github.com/Alhadis/Inspect.ps">A recursive inspection library for PostScript, stylised in the vein of Node.js's colourful util.inspect() output</a> (2023) </i><br /></li><ul><li><i><a href="https://github.com/Alhadis/Stupid-Post-Tricks">PostScript snippets that I gone and dun</a> </i>(2023)<br /></li></ul></ul></ul></ul>Glen Newtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03639309432955855745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29304736.post-88411166744196577932020-03-18T14:36:00.004-04:002020-03-18T14:56:58.121-04:00VPN Down? Fill your time (and brain) with free cloud training Part 2 of 2: Azure <b>Part 2: Azure</b><br />
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Free Azure educational material. Ordered (oddly enough) by time length. <i>Non-exhaustive, personally selected for my team and peer teams</i>, but I hope useful for you too. :-)<br />
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[Link to <a href="https://zzzoot.blogspot.com/2020/03/vpn-down-fill-your-time-and-brain-with.html">Part 1: AWS</a>]<br />
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And full disclosure: I have no affiliation with either of these companies.<br />
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<li>25 min: <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/modules/intro-to-data-in-azure/">Core Cloud Services - Azure data storage options </a></li>
<li>25 min: <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/modules/get-started-with-devops/">Get started with Azure DevOps</a></li>
<li>28 min: <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/modules/intro-to-azure-networking/">Core Cloud Services - Azure networking options </a></li>
<li>30 min: <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/modules/choose-storage-approach-in-azure/">Choose a data storage approach in Azure </a></li>
<li>34 min: <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/modules/analyze-infrastructure-with-azure-monitor-logs/">Analyze your Azure infrastructure by using Azure Monitor logs </a></li>
<li>34 min: <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/modules/control-azure-services-with-cli/">Control Azure services with the CLI </a></li>
<li>35 min: <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/modules/align-requirements-in-azure/">Align requirements with cloud types and service models in Azure </a></li>
<li>36 min: <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/modules/add-and-size-disks-in-azure-virtual-machines/">Add and size disks in Azure virtual machines </a></li>
<li>36 min: <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/modules/welcome-to-azure/">Core Cloud Services - Introduction to Azure </a></li>
<li>36 min: <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/modules/create-serverless-logic-with-azure-functions/">Create serverless logic with Azure Functions </a></li>
<li>37 min: <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/modules/design-ip-addressing-for-azure/">Design an IP addressing schema for your Azure deployment </a></li>
<li>37 min: <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/modules/troubleshoot-azure-network-infrastructure/">Monitor and troubleshoot your end-to-end Azure network infrastructure by using network monitoring tools </a></li>
<li>38 min: <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/modules/intro-to-azure-compute/">Core Cloud Services - Azure compute options </a></li>
<li>38 min: <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/modules/scan-open-source/">Scan open source components for vulnerabilities and license ratings in Azure Pipelines </a></li>
<li>39 min: <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/modules/connect-on-premises-network-with-vpn-gateway/">Connect your on-premises network to Azure with VPN Gateway </a></li>
<li>39 min: <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/modules/create-an-azure-account/">Create an Azure account </a></li>
<li>40 min: <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/modules/choose-an-agile-approach/">Choose an Agile approach to software development </a></li>
<li>42 min: <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/modules/integrate-vnets-with-vnet-peering/">Distribute your services across Azure virtual networks and integrate them by using virtual network peering </a></li>
<li>43 min: <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/modules/monitor-azure-vm-using-diagnostic-data/">Monitor the health of your Azure virtual machine by collecting and analyzing diagnostic data </a></li>
<li>43 min: <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/modules/secure-and-isolate-with-nsg-and-service-endpoints/">Secure and isolate access to Azure resources by using network security groups and service endpoints </a></li>
<li>44 min: <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/modules/create-azure-db-for-postgresql-server/">Create an Azure Database for PostgreSQL server </a></li>
<li>45 min: <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/modules/explore-azure-infrastructure/">Core Cloud Services - Azure architecture and service guarantees </a></li>
<li>46 min: <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/modules/intro-to-governance/">Apply and monitor infrastructure standards with Azure Policy </a></li>
<li>46 min: <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/modules/intro-to-governance/">Apply and monitor infrastructure standards with Azure Policy </a></li>
<li>46 min: <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/modules/control-and-organize-with-azure-resource-manager/">Control and organize Azure resources with Azure Resource Manager </a></li>
<li>46 min: <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/modules/control-and-organize-with-azure-resource-manager/">Control and organize Azure resources with Azure Resource Manager </a></li>
<li>47 min: <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/modules/improve-app-scalability-resiliency-with-load-balancer/">Improve application scalability and resiliency by using Azure Load Balancer </a></li>
<li>50 min: <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/modules/control-network-traffic-flow-with-routes/">Manage and control traffic flow in your Azure deployment with routes </a></li>
<li>50 min: <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/modules/manage-users-and-groups-in-aad/">Manage users and groups in Azure Active Directory </a></li>
<li>50 min: <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/modules/provision-azure-sql-db/">Provision an Azure SQL database to store application data </a></li>
<li>50 min: <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/modules/secure-app-with-oidc-and-azure-ad/">Secure your application by using OpenID Connect and Azure AD </a></li>
<li>50 min: <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/modules/store-app-data-with-azure-blob-storage/">Store application data with Azure Blob storage </a></li>
<li>51 min: <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/modules/create-windows-virtual-machine-in-azure/">Create a Windows virtual machine in Azure </a></li>
<li>51 min: <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/modules/manage-virtual-machines-with-azure-cli/">Manage virtual machines with the Azure CLI </a></li>
<li>53 min: <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/modules/incident-response-with-alerting-on-azure/">Improve incident response with alerting on Azure </a></li>
<li>53 min: <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/modules/monitor-github-events-with-a-function-triggered-by-a-webhook/">Monitor GitHub events by using a webhook with Azure Functions </a></li>
<li>59 min: <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/modules/secure-your-azure-virtual-machine-disks/">Secure your Azure virtual machine disks </a></li>
<li>1 hr 2 min: <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/modules/principles-cloud-computing/">Cloud Concepts - Principles of cloud computing </a></li>
<li>1 hr 7 min: <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/modules/intro-to-azure-virtual-machines/">Introduction to Azure virtual machines </a></li>
<li>1 hr 7 min: <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/modules/secure-your-azure-sql-database/">Secure your Azure SQL Database </a></li>
<li>1 hr 11 min: <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/modules/automate-azure-tasks-with-powershell/">Automate Azure tasks using scripts with PowerShell </a></li>
<li>1 hr 13 min: <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/modules/tour-azure-portal/">Core Cloud Services - Manage services with the Azure portal </a></li>
<li>1 hr 14 min: <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/modules/predict-costs-and-optimize-spending/">Predict costs and optimize spending for Azure </a></li>
<li>1 hr 14 min: <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/modules/predict-costs-and-optimize-spending/">Predict costs and optimize spending for Azure </a></li>
<li>1 hr 15 min: <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/modules/connect-an-app-to-azure-storage/">Connect an app to Azure Storage </a></li>
<li>1 hr 16 min: <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/modules/intro-to-security-in-azure/">Security, responsibility, and trust in Azure </a></li>
<li>1 hr 16 min: <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/modules/intro-to-security-in-azure/">Security, responsibility, and trust in Azure </a></li>
<li>1 hr 23: <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/modules/execute-azure-function-with-triggers/">Execute an Azure Function with triggers </a></li>
<li>1 hr 26 min: <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/modules/create-linux-virtual-machine-in-azure/">Create a Linux virtual machine in Azure </a></li>
<li>1 hr 27 min: <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/modules/implement-code-workflow/">Implement a code workflow in your build pipeline by using Git and GitHub </a></li>
<li>1 hr 34 min: <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/modules/configure-network-for-azure-virtual-machines/">Configure the network for your virtual machines </a></li>
<li>1 hr 43 min: <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/modules/scan-for-vulnerabilities/">Scan code for vulnerabilities in Azure Pipelines </a></li>
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Glen Newtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03639309432955855745noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29304736.post-24444319878712325672020-03-18T14:28:00.000-04:002020-03-18T14:57:11.841-04:00VPN Down? Fill your time (and brain) with free cloud training Part 1 of 2: Amazon Web Services In this difficult time, many of us are at home, teleworking, (and worrying about the world around us), waiting for someone else to get off the #*%#!$@# VPN so we can get on it, quickly read emails and copy files to work offline. But there is a limit in what you can do not connected to the Borg collective.<br />
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In order to fill the remaining hours of the day, I've collected free AWS and Azure training material that you can use to make productive use of the time when you are not able to have a full pipeline of tasks on your plate. And perhaps to distract a little from the events of the day. <br />
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<b>Part 1 AWS:</b> About 75 hours of training material, ordered (oddly enough) by time length. <i>Non-exhaustive, personally selected for my team and peer teams</i>, but I hope useful for you too. :-)<br />
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[<b><a href="https://zzzoot.blogspot.com/2020/03/vpn-down-fill-your-time-and-brain-with_18.html">Part 2 Azure</a>: </b>About 50 hours of training material. Sorry, less than AWS: I got tired of collecting it all!]<br />
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And full disclosure: I have no affiliation with either of these companies.<br />
And please be safe and healthy.<br />
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<li>10 min: <a href="https://www.aws.training/Details/Video?id=16486">Differences Between Security Groups and NACLs </a></li>
<li>10 min: <a href="https://www.aws.training/Details/Video?id=16491">Instance Isolation with Elastic Network Interfaces </a></li>
<li>10 min: <a href="https://www.aws.training/Details/Video?id=18344">Introduction to AWS Auto Scaling </a></li>
<li>10 min: <a href="https://www.aws.training/Details/Video?id=15875">Introduction to AWS Billing and Cost Management </a></li>
<li>10 min: <a href="https://www.aws.training/Details/Video?id=15890">Introduction to AWS Certificate Manager </a></li>
<li>10 min: <a href="https://www.aws.training/Details/Video?id=15892">Introduction to AWS CloudFormation </a></li>
<li>10 min: <a href="https://www.aws.training/Details/Video?id=16019">Introduction to AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) </a></li>
<li>10 min: <a href="https://www.aws.training/Details/Video?id=16020">Introduction to AWS Config </a></li>
<li>10 min: <a href="https://www.aws.training/Details/Video?id=16510">Introduction to AWS Data Pipeline </a></li>
<li>10 min: <a href="https://www.aws.training/Details/Video?id=15878">Introduction to AWS Elastic Beanstalk </a></li>
<li>10 min: <a href="https://www.aws.training/Details/Video?id=16623">Introduction to AWS Fargate </a></li>
<li>10 min: <a href="https://www.aws.training/Details/Video?id=16448">Introduction to AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) </a></li>
<li>10 min: <a href="https://www.aws.training/Details/Video?id=16360">Introduction to AWS Lambda </a></li>
<li>10 min: <a href="https://www.aws.training/Details/Video?id=16367">Introduction to AWS OpsWorks Stacks </a></li>
<li>10 min: <a href="https://www.aws.training/Details/Video?id=16451">Introduction to AWS Organizations </a></li>
<li>10 min: <a href="https://www.aws.training/Details/Video?id=27168">Introduction to AWS Security Hub </a></li>
<li>10 min: <a href="https://www.aws.training/Details/Video?id=16497">Introduction to AWS Service Catalog </a></li>
<li>10 min: <a href="https://www.aws.training/Details/Video?id=16452">Introduction to Amazon API Gateway </a></li>
<li>10 min: <a href="https://www.aws.training/Details/Video?id=16379">Introduction to Amazon Cloud Directory </a></li>
<li>10 min: <a href="https://www.aws.training/Details/Video?id=15891">Introduction to Amazon CloudFront </a></li>
<li>10 min: <a href="https://www.aws.training/Details/Video?id=16391">Introduction to Amazon CloudWatch Logs </a></li>
<li>10 min: <a href="https://www.aws.training/Details/Video?id=16390">Introduction to Amazon CloudWatch </a></li>
<li>10 min: <a href="https://www.aws.training/Details/Video?id=16512">Introduction to Amazon Direct Connect </a></li>
<li>10 min: <a href="https://www.aws.training/Details/Video?id=16021">Introduction to Amazon DynamoDB </a></li>
<li>10 min: <a href="https://www.aws.training/Details/Video?id=16513">Introduction to Amazon EC2 Systems Manager </a></li>
<li>10 min: <a href="https://www.aws.training/Details/Video?id=16445">Introduction to Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) </a></li>
<li>10 min: <a href="https://www.aws.training/Details/Video?id=16382">Introduction to Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) </a></li>
<li>10 min: <a href="https://www.aws.training/Details/Video?id=15876">Introduction to Amazon Elastic Container Registry </a></li>
<li>10 min: <a href="https://www.aws.training/Details/Video?id=16444">Introduction to Amazon Elastic Container Service </a></li>
<li>10 min: <a href="https://www.aws.training/Details/Video?id=16446">Introduction to Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) </a></li>
<li>10 min: <a href="https://www.aws.training/Details/Video?id=16496">Introduction to Amazon Glacier </a></li>
<li>10 min: <a href="https://www.aws.training/Details/Video?id=16620">Introduction to Amazon GuardDuty </a></li>
<li>10 min: <a href="https://www.aws.training/Details/Video?id=27157">Introduction to Amazon Route 53 Resolver </a></li>
<li>10 min: <a href="https://www.aws.training/Details/Video?id=15881">Introduction to Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) </a></li>
<li>10 min: <a href="https://www.aws.training/Details/Video?id=15882">Introduction to Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) </a></li>
<li>10 min: <a href="https://www.aws.training/Details/Video?id=15883">Introduction to Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) </a></li>
<li>10 min: <a href="https://www.aws.training/Details/Video?id=15884">Introduction to Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) </a></li>
<li>10 min: <a href="https://www.aws.training/Details/Video?id=16387">Introduction to EC2 Auto Scaling </a></li>
<li>10 min: <a href="https://www.aws.training/Details/Video?id=16622">IoT Edge Computing: Introduction to Amazon FreeRTOS </a></li>
<li>10 min: <a href="https://www.aws.training/Details/Video?id=27223">Machine Learning for Leaders </a></li>
<li>15 min: <a href="https://www.aws.training/Details/eLearning?id=27182">Introduction to Containers </a></li>
<li>15 min: <a href="https://www.aws.training/Details/eLearning?id=36856">Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) Block Public Access </a></li>
<li>15 min: <a href="https://www.aws.training/Details/Video?id=16484">Authentication and Authorization with AWS Identity and Access Management </a></li>
<li>15 min: <a href="https://www.aws.training/Details/Video?id=15889">Introduction to AWS Batch </a></li>
<li>15 min: <a href="https://www.aws.training/Details/Video?id=16347">Introduction to AWS CodeCommit </a></li>
<li>15 min: <a href="https://www.aws.training/Details/Video?id=19441">Introduction to AWS Secrets Manager </a></li>
<li>15 min: <a href="https://www.aws.training/Details/Video?id=19440">Introduction to Amazon Certificate Manager Private Certificate Authority </a></li>
<li>15 min: <a href="https://www.aws.training/Details/Video?id=16454">Introduction to Amazon Elastic Load Balancer - Application </a></li>
<li>15 min: <a href="https://www.aws.training/Details/Video?id=16023">Introduction to Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR) </a></li>
<li>15 min: <a href="https://www.aws.training/Details/Video?id=15879">Introduction to Amazon Inspector </a></li>
<li>15 min: <a href="https://www.aws.training/Details/eLearning?id=32727">Introduction to Amazon S3 </a></li>
<li>15 min: <a href="https://www.aws.training/Details/Video?id=16481">Introduction to Dedicated Instances </a></li>
<li>15 min: <a href="https://www.aws.training/Details/eLearning?id=43293">PostgreSQL Fundamentals: SQL Command Line </a></li>
<li>17 min: <a href="https://www.aws.training/Details/Video?id=16490">Subnets, Gateways, and Route Tables Explained </a></li>
<li>20 min: <a href="https://www.aws.training/Details/eLearning?id=36858">Amazon DynamoDB Service Primer </a></li>
<li>20 min: <a href="https://www.aws.training/Details/eLearning?id=36893">Amazon ElastiCache Service Primer </a></li>
<li>20 min: <a href="https://www.aws.training/Details/eLearning?id=36902">Amazon Neptune Service Primer </a></li>
<li>20 min: <a href="https://www.aws.training/Details/eLearning?id=36999">Amazon RDS Service Primer </a></li>
<li>20 min: <a href="https://www.aws.training/Details/Video?id=16432">Introduction to AWS Application Discovery Service </a></li>
<li>20 min: <a href="https://www.aws.training/Details/Video?id=29646">Introduction to AWS Backup </a></li>
<li>20 min: <a href="https://www.aws.training/Details/Video?id=22391">Introduction to AWS Elemental MediaStore </a></li>
<li>20 min: <a href="https://www.aws.training/Details/Video?id=16361">Introduction to AWS Management Console </a></li>
<li>20 min: <a href="https://www.aws.training/Details/Video?id=15877">Introduction to AWS Security Token Services (STS) </a></li>
<li>20 min: <a href="https://www.aws.training/Details/Video?id=37440">Introduction to AWS Storage Gateway </a></li>
<li>20 min: <a href="https://www.aws.training/Details/Video?id=27177">Introduction to Amazon FSx for Windows File Server </a></li>
<li>20 min: <a href="https://www.aws.training/Details/eLearning?id=14986">Introduction to Cloud Adoption Framework </a></li>
<li>20 min: <a href="https://www.aws.training/Details/eLearning?id=32439">PostgreSQL Fundamentals </a></li>
<li>20min: <a href="https://www.aws.training/Details/eLearning?id=29699">AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials (Second Edition): Introduction to the AWS Cloud </a></li>
<li>25 min: <a href="https://www.aws.training/Details/Video?id=30976">Amazon Elastic File System (EFS) Primer </a></li>
<li>25 min: <a href="https://www.aws.training/Details/Curriculum?id=27270">Conversation Primer: Machine Learning Terminology </a></li>
<li>25 min: <a href="https://www.aws.training/Details/Video?id=36347">Introduction to AWS Snowball Edge </a></li>
<li>30 min: <a href="https://www.aws.training/Details/eLearning?id=30260">Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) Primer </a></li>
<li>30 min: <a href="https://www.aws.training/Details/eLearning?id=29702">AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials (Second Edition): AWS Architecture </a></li>
<li>30 min: <a href="https://www.aws.training/Details/eLearning?id=29704">AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials (Second Edition): Pricing and Support </a></li>
<li>30 min: <a href="https://www.aws.training/Details/Video?id=41763">Building Highly Connected Applications using Amazon Neptune: </a></li>
<li>30 min: <a href="https://www.aws.training/Details/eLearning?id=27198">Getting into the Serverless Mindset: </a></li>
<li>30 min: <a href="https://www.aws.training/Details/eLearning?id=18343">Introduction to AWS Media Services </a></li>
<li>30 min: <a href="https://www.aws.training/Details/Video?id=24743">IoT First Class Cloud Citizen </a></li>
<li>30 min: <a href="https://www.aws.training/Details/eLearning?id=11987">Job Roles in the Cloud </a></li>
<li>30 min: <a href="https://www.aws.training/Details/eLearning?id=43291">PostgreSQL Fundamentals: Explain </a></li>
<li>30 min: <a href="https://www.aws.training/Details/eLearning?id=36545">AWS Managed Services Provisioning Management Overview </a></li>
<li>30min: <a href="https://www.aws.training/Details/Video?id=26851">Best Practices for Data Warehousing with Amazon Redshift </a></li>
<li>40 min: <a href="https://www.aws.training/Details/eLearning?id=39136">CloudEndure Migration Training - Business </a></li>
<li>40 min: <a href="https://www.aws.training/Details/Curriculum?id=27242">ML Building Blocks: Services and Terminology </a></li>
<li>45 min: <a href="https://www.aws.training/Details/eLearning?id=29700">AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials (Second Edition): AWS Core Services </a></li>
<li>45 min: <a href="https://www.aws.training/Details/Curriculum?id=27241">Demystifying AI/ML/DL </a></li>
<li>45 min: <a href="https://www.aws.training/Details/eLearning?id=43988">Introduction to Database Migration </a></li>
<li>45 min: <a href="https://www.aws.training/Details/Video?id=26846">Build and Deploy APIs with a Serverless CI/CD </a></li>
<li>45 min: <a href="https://www.aws.training/Details/Video?id=26849">Mapping a Few Core Oracle DB Concepts to Amazon RDS/Aurora PostgreSQL Concepts </a></li>
<li>50 min: <a href="https://www.aws.training/Details/eLearning?id=29703">AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials (Second Edition): AWS Security </a></li>
<li>1 hour: <a href="https://www.aws.training/Details/eLearning?id=27197">AWS Lambda Foundations </a></li>
<li>1 hour: <a href="https://www.aws.training/Details/eLearning?id=32894">Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) Primer </a></li>
<li>1 hour: <a href="https://www.aws.training/Details/Curriculum?id=32729">Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) Primer </a></li>
<li>1 hour: <a href="https://www.aws.training/Details/eLearning?id=34084">Machine Learning Data Readiness </a></li>
<li>1 hour: <a href="https://www.aws.training/Details/eLearning?id=27052">Machine Learning for Business Challenges </a></li>
<li>1 hour: <a href="https://www.aws.training/Details/eLearning?id=42102">PostgreSQL Fundamentals: Architecture </a></li>
<li>1 hour 5 min: <a href="https://www.aws.training/Details/Curriculum?id=38786">AWS Snowball Edge Getting Started </a></li>
<li>1 hour 10 min: <a href="https://www.aws.training/Details/eLearning?id=29701">AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials (Second Edition): AWS Integrated Services </a></li>
<li>1 hour 10 min: <a href="https://www.aws.training/Details/eLearning?id=39246">AWS Storage Offerings </a></li>
<li>1 hour 15 min: <a href="https://www.aws.training/Details/eLearning?id=27199">Amazon API Gateway for Serverless Applications </a></li>
<li>1.5 hours: <a href="https://www.aws.training/Details/eLearning?id=40337">AWS Hadoop Fundamentals </a></li>
<li>1.5 hours: <a href="https://www.aws.training/Details/Curriculum?id=42037">AWS Well-Architected </a></li>
<li>1.5 hours: <a href="https://www.aws.training/Details/Curriculum?id=11070">Big Data Technology Fundamentals Online </a></li>
<li>2 hour: <a href="https://www.aws.training/Details/eLearning?id=40275">Transit Gateway Networking and Scaling </a></li>
<li>2 hours: <a href="https://www.aws.training/Details/eLearning?id=34259">AWS Security Fundamentals (Second Edition) </a></li>
<li>2 hours: <a href="https://www.aws.training/Details/eLearning?id=27196">Amazon DynamoDB for Serverless Architectures </a></li>
<li>2 hours: <a href="https://www.aws.training/Details/eLearning?id=39068">CloudEndure Migration Training - Technical </a></li>
<li>2 hours: <a href="https://www.aws.training/Details/Curriculum?id=38138">Mobile Development in IoT </a></li>
<li>2 hours: <a href="https://www.aws.training/Details/eLearning?id=40275">Transit Gateway Networking and Scaling </a></li>
<li>3 hours: <a href="https://www.aws.training/Details/eLearning?id=42594">Architecting Serverless Solutions </a></li>
<li>3.5 hours: <a href="https://www.aws.training/Details/eLearning?id=35364">Data Analytics Fundamentals </a></li>
<li>3.5 hours: <a href="https://www.aws.training/Details/eLearning?id=46612">Exam Readiness: AWS Certified Data Analytics - Specialty </a></li>
<li>3.5 hours: <a href="https://www.aws.training/Details/eLearning?id=47245">Exam Readiness: AWS Certified Database - Specialty </a></li>
<li>4 hours: <a href="https://www.aws.training/Details/Curriculum?id=10795">AWS Security Fundamentals </a></li>
<li>5 1/2 hours: <a href="https://www.aws.training/Details/Curriculum?id=38111">AWS Database Offerings: </a></li>
<li>6 hours: <a href="https://www.aws.training/Details/Curriculum?id=27076">AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials (Second Edition) </a></li>
Glen Newtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03639309432955855745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29304736.post-44983674455103330332015-08-10T17:40:00.001-04:002015-09-11T18:50:44.666-04:00Learning TikZ: Re-creating article diagrams with LaTeX / TikZ: #1I am trying to improve my LaTeX/TikZ skills, so I am re-creating <i>on request</i> scientific article diagrams. The first is here that I've made for a friend of mine:<br />
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Original diagram (Note this diagram is copyright(c) Academy of Management; used here in a Fair Use fashion):<br />
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The LaTeX code and instructions can be found at <a href="https://github.com/gnewton/clw1999">github</a>.<br />
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Licensed under a <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License</a> <br />
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If you have a diagram you'd like re-created, just add a comment to this blog post and we can talk. Expect a turn-around time of >1 week.<br />
I reserve the write to decline diagrams. :-)<br />
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The paper the original diagram (Figure 1, p532) is from:<br />
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<pre><code><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">An Organizational Learning Framework: From Intuition to Institution
Mary M. Crossan, Henry W. Lane and Roderick E. White
The Academy of Management Review
Vol. 24, No. 3 (Jul., 1999) , pp. 522-537
Published by: Academy of Management</span>
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<br />Glen Newtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03639309432955855745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29304736.post-35009442797612457612014-08-28T09:58:00.000-04:002014-08-28T09:58:18.665-04:00chidley: XML to JSON converter, written in GoI have just this morning released <span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><a href="https://github.com/gnewton/chidley">chidley</a></span>, a code generator that reads XML and generates a <a href="http://golang.org/">Go</a> program that can convert the given XML into JSON. Please see the github site for more details.<br />
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I will be doing a series of <span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">chidley</span> examples in this blog over the coming weeks.Glen Newtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03639309432955855745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29304736.post-61451322638580145322014-03-05T20:16:00.001-05:002014-03-05T20:17:36.595-05:00rpmout: Go (golang) tools for listing installed RPMs in HTML,. LaTeX, json<a href="https://github.com/AAFC-MBB/rpmout">rpmout</a> is a utility for creating user facing rpm information written in Go.<br />
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It extracts the rpm tag info (using the rpm command) and produces an HTML list fragment (default), JSON, simple text, and LaTeX.
It can be restricted to the rpms that are implicated in a particular set of directories.<br />
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My use is to produce a list of bioinformatics applications installed as RPMS on a Rocks cluster <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocks_Cluster_Distribution">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocks_Cluster_Distribution</a><br />
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For example: users want to know what is installed in the
bioinformatics install dir /opt/bioinformatics, and 'rpmout' generates
(by default) an HTML fragment made up of a list of rpms and their useful
attributes.
This fragment is meant to be embedded into a static HTML page that wraps
it with the appropriate local style, titles it, etc.<br />
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Here is an example HTML output file: <a href="https://github.com/AAFC-MBB/rpmout/blob/master/sample.html.gz?raw=true">https://github.com/AAFC-MBB/rpmout/blob/master/sample.html.gz?raw=true</a> (~1.4MB compressed) <br />
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rpmout is my first real Go program, and I learned a lot about using channels and goroutines.<br />
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Comments welcome! :-)Glen Newtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03639309432955855745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29304736.post-7637143709038119842012-10-25T22:57:00.001-04:002021-01-27T18:15:18.047-05:00Visualizing Canadian Energy Flows with d3.js Sankey diagramsI have been working with <a href="http://processing.js/"></a><a href="http://processingjs.org/">processing.js</a> but wanted to learn a little about <a href="http://d3js.org/">d3js</a> for visualizations, so took a look at <a href="http://bost.ocks.org/mike/" target="_blank">Mike Bostock</a>'s d3.js <a href="http://bost.ocks.org/mike/sankey/">plugin</a> for making <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sankey_diagram" target="_blank">Sankey diagrams</a>. <br />
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So I pulled down two documents that had energy flow diagrams for Canada:<br />
<ul>
<li> <a href="http://publications.gc.ca/collections/Collection/M4-40-2006E.pdf">
2006.
Powerful Connections: Priorities and Directions in Energy Science
and Technology in Canada. The Report of the National Advisor Panel
on Sustainable Energy Science and Technology</a>,
Natural Resources Canada, p76. </li>
<li><a href="http://gnewton.ca/gn/sankey/www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/57-003-x/57-003-x2008000-eng.pdf">2008. Report on Energy Supply and Demand in Canada</a> Catalogue
no. 57-003-X, Statistics Canada, p121. </li>
</ul>
I extracted the data from these diagrams and built these interactive Sankey energy flows:<br />
<ul>
<li><a href="http://gnewton.ca/gn/sankey/sankey_canada_energy_flow_2003.html" target="_blank">2003 Canadian Energy Flows</a></li>
<li><a href="http://gnewton.ca/gn/sankey/sankey_canada_energy_flow_2007.html" target="_blank">2007 Canadian Energy Flows</a></li>
</ul>
Note that these two documents are looking at slightly different views of energy flows (and 2007 does not include <i>Uranium</i>), so can't be compared directly.<br />
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If you have any (preferably Canadian) datasets that could be presented in this fashion, let me know and we can collaborate in getting them into this form.<br />
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<b>Addendum: 2012 10 26 22:28:</b> Wow! The Economist's blog <i>Graphic detail: Charts, maps and infographics</i> has an article about this post: <a href="http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2012/10/charting-canadas-energy" target="_blank"><i>Charting Canada's energy: Go with the flow </i></a><br />
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<i><br /></i>Glen Newtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03639309432955855745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29304736.post-62434443265432570952011-11-23T16:51:00.000-05:002011-11-23T16:51:34.727-05:00My Google Scholar Citations pageI just took advantage of the opening-up of Google Scholar Citations and got <a href="http://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=iEEmS2sAAAAJ">my own page up</a>. It is pretty cool to see your citations, etc. all pulled together.Glen Newtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03639309432955855745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29304736.post-69996513159664314782011-07-14T14:18:00.001-04:002011-07-14T14:21:15.076-04:00IEEE Software on Software Business ModelsThe <a href="http://www.computer.org/portal/web/csdl/abs/mags/so/2011/04/mso201104toc.htm">July/August IEEE Software</a> [paywall warning] is a special issue on software as business, which includes one article that is Open Source oriented, and one that is "code sharing" oriented. Here are the articles:<br />
<ul><li><a href="http://www.computer.org/portal/web/csdl/abs/html/mags/so/2011/04/mso2011040022.htm"><i>Guest Editors' Introduction: Software as a Business</i></a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.computer.org/portal/web/csdl/doi/10.1109/MS.2011.52"><i>Software Industry Business Models</i></a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.computer.org/portal/web/csdl/doi/10.1109/MS.2011.50"><b><i>Matching Open Source Software Licenses with Corresponding Business Models</i></b></a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.computer.org/portal/web/csdl/doi/10.1109/MS.2011.53"><b><i>Sharing Source Code with Clients: A Hybrid Business and Development Model</i></b></a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.computer.org/portal/web/csdl/doi/10.1109/MS.2011.51"><i>Developing Cloud Business Models: A Case Study on Cloud Gaming</i></a></li>
</ul>Glen Newtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03639309432955855745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29304736.post-84227063595175653972011-03-27T08:06:00.003-04:002011-03-27T11:55:12.183-04:00Canada not involved in Aid transparency<ol><li><i><a href="http://blog.okfn.org/2011/03/25/the-aid-revolution-begins-with-xml-the-aid-revolution-begins-here/">The Aid Revolution begins with XML / The Aid Revolution Begins Here</a></i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://www.publishwhatyoufund.org/"> Publish What You Fund: The Global Campaign for Aid Transparency</a></i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://www.aidtransparency.net/"> International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI)</a></i></li>
</ol><br />
Very oddly, Canada (<b>correction:</b> <i>Canadian government</i>: see below) is NOT <a href="http://www.aidtransparency.net/whos-involved">involved in this initiative</a>, but the following countries and organizations are:<br />
<ul><li> World Bank</li>
<li> Asian Development Bank</li>
<li> The European Commission (EC)</li>
<li> United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)</li>
<li> Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation (GAVI)</li>
<li> Hewlett Foundation</li>
<li> Australia - AusAID</li>
<li> Denmark - Ministry of Foreign Affairs</li>
<li> Finland - Ministry for Foreign Affairs</li>
<li> Germany - Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)</li>
<li> Ireland - Irish Aid</li>
<li> Netherlands – Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs – Development Cooperation</li>
<li> New Zealand – NZAID</li>
<li> Norway - Norad</li>
<li> Spain – Spain Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation</li>
<li> Sweden - SIDA</li>
<li> Switzerland - Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)</li>
<li> UK - DFID</li>
</ul>There is also no Canadian government involvement on the IATI <a href="http://aidtransparency.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/IATI-Steering-Committee-members.pdf">steering committee</a>. <br />
<ul></ul><br />
Someone should pass this on to the CBC, pointing out Canada's non-participation.<br />
Someone should ask all the parties in the Canadian election what their policy on this is.<br />
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<b>Correction: 2011.03.27 11:54</b>: As suggested by letters to donors ("<i><a href="http://www.publishwhatyoufund.org/news/2011/03/congratulating-donors-agreeing-iati-and-delivering-aid-transparency-hlf-4/">IATI steering committee members commend donors for agreement of Standard</a></i>") there is some Canadian, non-government, involvement of<br />
<ul><li>The <a href="http://www.ccic.ca/ccic/ccic_e.php">Canadian Council for International Cooperation and Better Aid</a></li>
<li>The <a href="http://www.ccic.ca/">Canadian coalition to end global poverty</a></li>
</ul>Glen Newtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03639309432955855745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29304736.post-40864089864488234262011-03-13T16:16:00.001-04:002011-03-14T06:30:46.658-04:00Comparative E-Government: Canada<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6536-3">Comparative E-Government</a><br />
Integrated Series in Information Systems<br />
Volume 25, 2010, DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-6536-3<br />
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Chapters involving Canada:<br />
<ul><li><i><a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6536-3_7">Digital Government in North America: A Comparative Analysis of Policy and Program Priorities in Canada, Mexico, and the United States</a></i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6536-3_1">E-government Maturity over 10 Years: A Comparative Analysis of E-government Maturity in Select Countries Around the World </a></i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6536-3_9">E-government and Federalism in Italy and Canada—A Comparative Assessment</a></i></li>
<li><i><a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6536-3_8">Adoption of Web 2.0 by Canadian and US Governments</a></i><i> </i></li>
</ul>Glen Newtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03639309432955855745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29304736.post-81198226334413907012011-01-21T17:06:00.004-05:002012-06-09T11:15:40.992-04:00Visualizing the relationship between different classes of digital and physical resources in a Science-policy-based DepartmentSome of my work includes consulting with the Canadian Forestry Service (CFS) at Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) in the area of scientific data management, digital repositories / archiving and project management.<br />
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Some of the work revolves around the interpretation and application of various records keeping and archival policies, such as those from Treasury Board Secretariate's <a href="http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/pol/doc-eng.aspx?section=text&id=16552">Directive on Record Keeping</a> and Library and Archives Canada. Some of these policies are difficult to interpret or are still in flux, and I have had some difficulties in interpreting the terms, definitions, etc. of these policies.<br />
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I find that visualizing things (or the <i>act</i> of creating a visualization) can often help in understanding. So I've put together the following <a href="https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Venn_diagram">Venn diagrams</a> to help (me mostly). I've tried to generalize to any Science-base-policy department in the government of Canada.<br />
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<b>Caveat</b>: <b>This is my own view of what I have seen and interpreted, and may be incorrect. It is not derived from any private or proprietary information. It is also very possible that this does not correspond to how NRCan, CFS, LAC and TBS view these things. I am not a government employee and this is my own view.</b><br />
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<b>Figure 1</b> <br />
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<ul>
<li>There are physical and digital information resources<br />
</li>
<li>There are resources of 'business value'; some are digital, some are physical<br />
</li>
<li>Science resources are all of business value; some are digital, some are physical<br />
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<li>Some resources of business value will be archived by LAC; Some science resources will be archived by LAC<br />
</li>
<li>Some (most going forward) science resources and resources of business value will be <a href="https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Born-digital">born digital</a><br />
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</ul>
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<b>Figure 2</b>: Figure 1 may be a little too abstract to some, so I have a couple of exemplary and special case information resource media types to help show where these fit in to this framework.<br />
<ul>
<li>Artifacts, samples, & specimens are physical resources, some of which will be sent to LAC<br />
</li>
<li>Some artifacts, samples, & specimens are science resources, some of which will be sent to LAC<br />
</li>
<li>Documents, still & moving images are both physical and digital<br />
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<li>Some documents, still & moving images will be born digital<br />
</li>
<li>Some documents, still & moving images are of business value, some of which will be sent to LAC<br />
</li>
<li>Some documents, still & moving images are of science resources, some of which will be sent to LAC<br />
</li>
<li>Huge data is extremely large volume data, that is of business value<br />
</li>
<li>Huge data is mostly science resources value<br />
</li>
<li>Huge data will never be sent to LAC value<br />
</li>
</ul>
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<b>Figure 3</b>: Information resources not sent to LAC that are active and to be used / store over the long term need to be managed by the owning organization. This management can include institutional repositories and data centres (IRDC), along with a certain amount of process.<br />
<ul>
<li>IRDC include <b>many</b> resources of business value<br />
</li>
<li>IRDC include <b>most</b> science resources<br />
</li>
<li>IRDC does <b>not include all huge data</b><br />
</li>
<li>IRDC include both digital and physical resources, some documents, still & moving images and some artifacts, samples, & specimens.</li>
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I am the most unsure of the the <i>huge data</i> resource. I don't have any huge data being created that is not of business value. I _think_ this is right, but there may be some use cases of which I am not aware.<br />
The IRDC do not include all resources of business value. Here I am thinking that the ephemeral business value resources will not make it into the IRDC. Again, I think this is correct.<br />
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I'd appreciate any feedback on this visualization; whether it makes sense and if it is fairly successful at representing the main classes of information resources at play in science-policy-based departments.<br />
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You can find a PDF of these diagrams on <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/gnewton/visualizing-the-relationship-between-different-classes-of-digital-and-physical-resources-in-a-sciencepolicybased-department">slideshare</a>.<br />
<ul></ul>Glen Newtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03639309432955855745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29304736.post-76536145978835012162011-01-11T10:45:00.004-05:002011-01-11T11:00:40.117-05:00"We Need a Research Data Census" - Francine BermanF<span style="font-size:100%;">rancine Berman's call for a research data census in the U.S. recognizes the reality that the valuable research assets produced by public (and private) research funding is uncounted, mostly unmanaged, and destined to be, or in the process of being, degraded, damaged and lost. Lost to future research, re-use, re-purposing.<br /><br />While a census is useful when your knowledge about a topic is effectively <span style="font-style: italic;">zero</span>, as in this case, I don't think that it is a good <span style="font-style: italic;">ongoing</span> solution to this particular problem. Distributed and open research data repositories, open standards like <a href="http://www.openarchives.org/pmh/">OAI-PMH</a>, rich metadata (and the tools to create/manage them) and the will of funding agencies and research organizations can all come together to make a real-time census possible.<br /><br />But an initial census is clearly needed, in order properly discover the complete nature of the research data problem, in order to plan the processes, infrastructure and organizations to properly deal it.<br /><br /></span><ul><li><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" >Berman, F. 2010. <span style="font-weight: bold;">We Need a Research Data Census -</span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">The increasing volume of research data highlights the need for reliable, cost-effective data storage and preservation at the national scale</span>.</span></span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Communications of the ACM</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"> 53:12:39-41</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> <a href="http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2010/12/102121-we-need-a-research-data-census/fulltext">10.1145/1859204.1859220</a></span></li></ul> <p class="metadata"> </p>Glen Newtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03639309432955855745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29304736.post-82595183581069845532010-12-20T15:56:00.018-05:002023-08-10T11:58:10.086-04:00Research Data and Metadata at Risk: Degradation over TimeResearch data and metadata - usually derived from an experiment or series of experiments - is in the hot focus of the researcher during the experiment and the subsequent interpretation, paper writing and publishing. But once the researcher has moved on to their next effort, this data is very much at risk. Often (read '<span style="font-style: italic;">the-rule-rather-than-the-exception</span>'), the data is not properly managed and archived, and resides as a single copy on the researcher's desktop or maybe research server.<br />
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In addition, the metadata is minimal or non-existent, and if it does exist is only interpretable by the researcher and their colleagues or students. Over time, the chance that this data will be lost or useful knowledge about it forgotten by the researcher increases, and the information content of the data and metadata rapidly decreases. Some events can seriously accelerate this decrease: data loss (media failure, computer replacement, other serious accidents or failures, etc); change of careers and retirement; and the death of the researcher.<br />
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This common scenario was first described in published form in 1997 (to my knowledge) in a paper entitled: <span style="font-weight: bold;">Nongeospatial Metadata for the Ecological Sciences</span> (citation below). It included a very expressive diagram, which I have re-created for another paper (which was used in the <i>draft</i> of the paper but it was decided not to use the diagram in the final version), and you can see it below:<br />
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</a><img alt="" src="file:///tmp/moz-screenshot.png" />A higher resolution jpeg image can be found <a href="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gnewton/michener1997/master/afterMichener1997page.jpg">here</a>.<br />
A high resolution PDF can be found <a href="https://github.com/gnewton/michener1997/raw/master/afterMichener1997page.pdf">here</a>.<br />
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The diagram was created using LaTeX and <a href="http://www.texample.net/tikz/">TikZ</a>. The source files can be found at the <a href="https://github.com/gnewton/michener1997">github repo</a>.</p><p><br />
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<b>From</b> (only in draft): </div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">de la Sablonnière, Auger, Sabourin and Newton. 2012. <a href="https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/dsj/11/0/11_11-DS4/_article"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Facilitating Data Sharing in the Behavioral Sciences</span></a>. <a href="http://www.codata.org/dsj/"><span style="font-style: italic;">Data Science Journal</span></a>. Volume 11, 23 March 2012. DOI </span><span style="font-size: small;"><a class="bluelink-style" href="https://doi.org/10.2481/dsj.11-DS4" style="word-break: break-all;">10.2481/dsj.11-DS4</a></span></div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>After:</b> </div><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">Michener, W., J. Brunt, J. Helly, T. Kirchner & S. Stafford. 1997. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Nongeospatial Metadata for the Ecological Sciences</span>. <a href="http://www.esajournals.org/loi/ecap"><span style="font-style: italic;">Ecological Applications</span></a> 7:1:330-342 DOI: <span><a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/1051-0761%281997%29007%5B0330:NMFTES%5D2.0.CO;2">10.1890/1051-0761(1997)007[0330:NMFTES]2.0.CO;2</a></span></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 85%;">
</span></div><p> </p><p>The <i>Michener</i> paper is excellent and very much before its time. Its many insights generalize to other research domains.<br />
<br /></p>Glen Newtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03639309432955855745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29304736.post-40236372010544149222010-11-17T05:12:00.004-05:002010-11-17T05:24:37.321-05:00Canadian "Open Data" Cities: 'No stars' in Tim Berners-Lee Five Star Rating for Open Government DataAt the <a href="http://www.data.gov/conference">International Open Government Data Conference</a> (IOGDC) Tim Berners-Lee "<span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-style: italic;">...reiterated his </span><a style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-style: italic;" href="http://lab.linkeddata.deri.ie/2010/star-scheme-by-example/">“<strong>five star system</strong>” for open government data</a><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-style: italic;">:</span> <ul><li style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-style: italic;">1 Star for putting data on the Web at all, with an open license.<br /></li><li style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-style: italic;">2 Stars if it’s machine-readable.<br /></li><li style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-style: italic;">3 Stars for machine-readable, non-proprietary formats</li><li style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-style: italic;">4 Stars if the data is converted into <a href="http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/11/semantic-web-linked-data.html">open linked data</a> standards like RDF or SPARQL</li><li><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-style: italic;">5 Stars when people have gone through the trouble of linking it</span>"</li></ul>From: <a href="http://gov20.govfresh.com/open-data-accountability-citizen-utility-and-economic-opportunity/">http://gov20.govfresh.com/open-data-accountability-citizen-utility-and-economic-opportunity/</a><br />Original TB-L ref: <a href="http://lab.linkeddata.deri.ie/2010/star-scheme-by-example/">http://lab.linkeddata.deri.ie/2010/star-scheme-by-example/</a><br /><br />So according this metric by TB-L, the Canadian cites (Ottawa, Vancouver, Toronto,, Edmonton, etc) that have recently released data with <a href="http://zzzoot.blogspot.com/2010/07/its-not-open-data-so-stop-calling-it.html">not open licenses</a> get<span style="font-weight: bold;"> ZERO stars</span>!!!Glen Newtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03639309432955855745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29304736.post-90963025688121968392010-09-17T14:28:00.003-04:002010-09-17T14:36:47.684-04:00Not 'in spite of' but 'because of': agile: Multics--The first seven yearIn the <a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.multicians.org/f7y.html">Multics--The first seven years</a><span style="font-style: italic;"> (</span><cite>1972 Spring Joint Computer Conference</cite>) Corbato <span style="font-style: italic;">et al</span> make the interesting statement:<br /><blockquote style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">"<span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">In spite of</span> </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">[bold added] </span><span style="font-style: italic;">the unexpected design iteration phase, the Multics system became sufficiently effective by late 1968 to allow system programmers to use the system while still developing it.</span>"<br /></blockquote>I think that many from the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agile_software_development">agile</a> community might change the "<span style="font-style: italic;">in spite of</span>" to "<span style="font-style: italic;">because of</span>"... <br /><br />:-)Glen Newtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03639309432955855745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29304736.post-574729493424579332010-09-17T10:30:00.009-04:002010-09-20T09:07:18.606-04:00Mars Inc. Cacao Genome Database claims Open Access, public domain: falls shortThis initially looked very promising: <a href="http://www.mars.com/">Mars</a>, along with a number of collaborators (USDA, IBM, Clemson University Genomics Institute; Public Intellectual Property Resource for Agriculture at the University of California-Davis; National Center for Genome Resources; Center for Genomics and Bioinformatics at Indiana University; HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology; and Washington State University), have sequenced the cacao genome and <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/first-rice-then-wheat-ndash-now-scientists-unravel-the-cocoa-genome-2081633.html">released</a> it "Open Access" and "public domain" for the benefit of all, at a site called the <a href="http://www.cacaogenomedb.org/">Cacao Genome Project</a>:<br /><blockquote><em> <span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">McLean, VA –Today, Mars, Incorporated, the U.S. Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS), and IBM released the preliminary findings of their breakthrough cacao genome sequence and made it available in the </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">public domain</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">.</span> </em><br />- From the Mars Inc. <a href="http://www.mars.com/global/news-and-media/press-releases/news-releases.aspx?SiteId=94&Id=2460%20">press release</a> 15 September 2010<br /></blockquote>A quote from the Independent article on the release (<em><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/first-rice-then-wheat-ndash-now-scientists-unravel-the-cocoa-genome-2081633.html">First rice, then wheat – now cocoa genome unravelled</a></em> 15 Sep 2010) from one of the collaborators on the project:<br /><blockquote><em style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Professor Shapiro, a molecular biologist, said: "We thought: 'Let's put this in the public domain so everyone has free access to it for eternity'. It could be patented and it can't be now. We have <span style="font-weight: bold;">full open access</span>.</em><br /></blockquote>"<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain">public domain</a>"<br /><br />"<span style="font-weight: bold;">full</span> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_access_%28publishing%29">open access</a>"<br /><br />As this is data, we could also be talking about <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_science_data">Open Data</a>.<br /><br />Let's take a look at how 'open' this <a href="http://www.cacaogenomedb.org/">Cacao Genome Project</a> is by examining the fine print (of the license):<br /><br />In order to get access to the data, you have to get an account (no anonymous access; obligatory registration is pretty counter-Open Access and arguably not 'public domain'). In order to get an account, you have to agree to a license.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.cacaogenomedb.org/user/register">Registration & license</a><br /><br />From the license:<br /><blockquote><em style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">The Provider is making available the information and data found in the cocoa genome databases for general information purposes for scientific research, germplasm conservation and enhancement such as plant breeding, technical training, general education, academic use, or personal use.</em><br /></blockquote>Restricted use, appearing not to include commercial use. So more of a GPL-ish license as opposed to a BSD-ish license (before anyone calls me out, but I am not saying GPL is NOT commercial, just generally viewed as less commercial-friendly than BSD).<br /><br />Moving on:<br /><blockquote><em style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Anytime the User consults the data base through the cocoa genome database web site, he/she shall be bound to the same obligations under this IAA. Should the User store the information and data for future use he/she shall be bound to the same obligations under this IAA.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">The User shall not transfer the information referred to in this agreement, or any copy of them, to a third party without obtaining written authorization from the Providers which will only be provided subject to the third party user entering into this same IAA</span>.</em><br /></blockquote>Wow. That is particularly extraordinary. A WTF moment.<br /><br />Fortunately I didn't agree to the license so I AM able to talk about it now.<br /><br />Not allowing third parties to see a license is inherently incompatible to the idea of Open Access, Open Source, Open Data and public domain.<br /><br />It is simply bizarre in these modern times.<br /><br /><br />Moving on:<br /><blockquote><em style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">The User shall not claim legal ownership over the information and data found in the data base nor seek intellectual property protection under any form over these information, data and data base. For clarity, the user agrees not to claim any of the sequences disclosed in these databases in any patent application.</em><br /></blockquote><br />Translation: Don't claim legal ownership, because we own the IP for the data AND the sequences, and (maybe) we will be claiming patents, etc some time in the future. I have not been able to find anything on the site to the contrary (see below 'Deluded or Disengenuous' below).<br /><br />Moving on:<br /><blockquote><em style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">However, the foregoing shall not prevent the User from releasing, reproducing or seeking intellectual property protection on improved seeds or plants that may be developed using the information for purposes of making such seeds or plants available to farmers for cultivation.</em><br /></blockquote>This appears to allow commercial use of the database ("make available" can include selling the seeds), which seems to conflict with the earlier clause.<br /><br /><br /><h2>Conclusion<br /></h2>Clearly, this data set has not been released as Open Access and certainly not released into the public domain.<br /><br />Instead of Open Access or public domain, they have a restrictive license, which allows gated access for a restricted set of uses.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">They should therefore not be claiming Open Access or public domain for this data.</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><h2>Deluded or disingenuous?<br /></h2>The "<a href="http://www.cacaogenomedb.org/about">About</a>" page of the <a href="http://www.cacaogenomedb.org/">Cacao Genome Project</a> claims that the license is in place to defensibly block patents of the sequences. While this may be true, claiming an Open Access AND public domain release of the data is either disingenuous or deluded.<br /><blockquote><em><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Public access to the genome will be available permanently without</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">patent via the Cacao Genome Database. Before viewing the data, users</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">have to agree that they will not seek any intellectual property</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">protection over the data, including gene sequences contained in the</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">database. The Information Access Agreement allows any cacao breeders</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">and other researchers to </span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">free</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">ly use the genome information to develop</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">new cacao varieties. This allows for a level playing field and a</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">healthy competitive environment that will ultimately benefit the</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">sustainability of cacao production in the long term.</span><br /></em><br /></blockquote>'Free' as in 'beer' they should have said.Glen Newtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03639309432955855745noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29304736.post-47460411233910693712010-08-21T07:56:00.003-04:002010-08-21T08:26:15.490-04:00Conference proceedings: Electronic Government and the Information Systems PerspectiveVolume 6267: <a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15172-9_1">Electronic Government and the Information Systems Perspective</a>. First International Conference, EGOVIS 2010, Bilbao, Spain, August 31. September 2, 2010. [NB: Behind paywall]<br /><ul><li><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.blogger.com/httoL//dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15172-9_1">Stakeholders’ Views on Government Enterprise Architecture: Strategic Goals and New Public Services</a>. Katja Penttinen, Hannakaisa Isomäki<br /></li><li><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15172-9_2">An Investigation into Critical Determinants of e-Government Implementation in the Context of a Developing Nation</a>. Nahid Rashid, Shams Rahman<br /></li><li><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15172-9_3">“What We Cannot Speak about We Must Pass over in Silence” – (In)correctly Arguing and Comparing the Costs of IT Investments in Public Sector</a>. Samuli Pekkola, Kimmo Wideroos<br /></li><li><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15172-9_4">Small-Area Population Projections - A Key Element in Knowledge Based e-Governance</a>. Henning Sten Hansen<br /></li><li><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15172-9_5">From Policy-Making Statements to First-Order Logic</a>. Adam Wyner, Tom Engers, Kiavash Bahreini<br /></li><li><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15172-9_6">A Fuzzy Recommender System for eElections</a>. Luis Terán, Andreas Meier<br /></li><li><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15172-9_7">Web 2.0 Creates a New Government</a>. Roland Traunmüller<br /></li><li><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15172-9_8">Elements of Comprehensive Assessments of IT Infrastructure Projects in the Austrian Ministry of Finance</a>. Edward W. N. Bernroider, Stefan Koch, Volker Stix<br /></li><li><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15172-9_9">Updating Official Publications to the Web 3.0: A Quantum Leap in e-Gov Transparency and Citizen Participation Is on Sight</a>. Francisco-Javier García-Marco<br /></li><li><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15172-9_10">One Inch Wide and One Inch Deep: The Role of Policies in Shaping the Adoption of Open Standards and Software in Government</a>. Kim Normann Andersen, Daniel Veit, Rony Medaglia, Helle Zinner Henriksen<br /></li><li><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15172-9_11">Facilitating E-Government Services through SDIs, an Application for Water Abstractions Authorizations</a>. Miguel Ángel Latre, Francisco J. Lopez-Pellicer, Javier Nogueras-Iso, Rubén Béjar, Pedro R. Muro-Medrano<br /></li><li><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15172-9_12">Towards Interoperability: An Architecture for Pan-European eID-Based Authentication Services</a>. Arne Tauber, Bernd Zwattendorfer, Thomas Zefferer, Yasmin Mazhari, Eleftherios Chamakiotis<br /></li><li><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15172-9_13">SocialSupervisor: A Geographically Enhanced Social Content Site to Supervise Public Works</a>. Luciana Cavalcante Menezes, Hugo Feitosa Figueirêdo, Ricardo Madeira Fernandes, Tiago Eduardo Silva, Cláudio Souza Baptista<br /></li><li><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15172-9_14">Transforming the Greek e-Government Environment towards the e-Gov 2.0 Era</a>. Prokopios Drogkaris, Stefanos Gritzalis, Costas Lambrinoudakis<br /></li><li><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15172-9_15">Geographic e-Services Development through Product-Line Engineering and Standardization</a>. Agustina Buccella, Alejandra Cechich<br /></li><li><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15172-9_16">Governmeter: Monitoring Government Performance. A Web Based Application Proposal</a>. Artur Afonso Sousa, Pedro Agante, Luís Borges Gouveia<br /></li><li><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15172-9_17">Policy Incentives for Innovation Diffusion: An Agent-Based Simulation</a>. Enrico Ferro, Brunella Caroleo, Marco Cantamessa, Maurizio Leo<br /></li><li><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15172-9_18">E-Government Services Using Customer Index Knowledge</a>. Sung Ho Ha, Min Jung Lee<br /></li><li><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15172-9_19">The Bangladesh National Biometric Database: A Transferable Success?</a>. M. Sirajul Islam, Åke Grönlund<br /></li><li><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15172-9_20">E-Government and Geographical Information Based Collaboration Patterns</a>. Lise Schrøder, Line Hvingel, Henning Sten Hansen<br /></li><li><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15172-9_21">Participatory Design of Public Sector Services</a>. Alan Hartman, Anshu N. Jain, Jay Ramanathan, Antonis Ramfos, Willem-Jan Heuvel, Christian Zirpins, Stefan Tai, Yannis Charalabidis, A. Pasic, T. Johannessen, T. Grønsund<br /></li><li><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15172-9_22">Public Safety Mashups to Support Policy Makers</a>. Sunil Choenni, Erik Leertouwer<br /></li><li><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15172-9_23">Intellectual Capital Management Using Knowledge Scorecards: The Austrian National Defence Academy Showcase</a>. Johannes Göllner, Klaus Mak, Robert Woitsch<br /></li><li><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15172-9_24">Deploying a Semantically-Enabled Content Management System in a State University</a>. Maria Befa, Efstratios Kontopoulos, Nick Bassiliades, Christos Berberidis, Ioannis Vlahavas</li><br /><br /></ul>Glen Newtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03639309432955855745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29304736.post-43878369299635734382010-08-18T16:41:00.006-04:002010-08-18T16:51:11.288-04:00What is Open Gov Data? The Sunlight Foundation: Ten Principles for Opening Up Government InformationMy earlier entry/rant, <span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" ><a href="http://zzzoot.blogspot.com/2010/07/its-not-open-data-so-stop-calling-it.html">It's not Open Data, so stop calling it that...</a></span><span style="font-style: italic;"> </span>about the non-Open Data nature of a number of Canadian cities' Open Data initiatives is supported by the just released<span style="font-style: italic;"> </span><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://sunlightfoundation.com/policy/documents/ten-open-data-principles/">Ten Principles for Opening Up Government Information</a> from the <a href="http://sunlightfoundation.com/">Sunlight Foundation</a>. Specifically:<br /><ul style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"><li style="font-style: italic;"> <p><strong>6. Non-discrimination </strong></p> <strong></strong> <p>"Non-discrimination" refers to who can access data and how they must do so. Barriers to use of data can include registration or membership requirements. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Another barrier is the uses of "walled garden," which is when only some applications are allowed access to data. At its broadest, non-discriminatory access to data means that any person can access the data at any time without having to identify him/herself or provide any justification for doing so. </span></p> </li><li style="font-style: italic;"> <p><strong>8. Licensing </strong></p> <strong></strong> <p>The<span style="font-weight: bold;"> imposition of "Terms of Service," attribution requirements, restrictions on dissemination and so on acts as barriers to public use of data</span>. Maximal openness includes clearly labeling public information as a work of the government and available without restrictions on use as part of the public domain. </p> </li><li> <p style="font-style: italic;"><strong>9. Permanence </strong></p> <strong style="font-style: italic;"></strong> <p><span style="font-style: italic;">The capability of finding information over time is referred to as permanence. Information released by the government online should be sticky: It should be available online in archives in perpetuity. Often times, information is updated, changed or removed without any indication that an alteration has been made. Or, it is made available as a stream of data, but not archived anywhere. For best use by the public, information made available online should remain online, with <span style="font-weight: bold;">appropriate version-tracking and archiving over time</span>.</span> </p> </li></ul>Glen Newtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03639309432955855745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29304736.post-74393467551028371442010-08-13T14:23:00.003-04:002010-08-13T14:30:06.539-04:00ARL Report: E-Science and Data Support ServicesThe U.S. Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has produced a new report (<a style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;" href="http://www.arl.org/bm%7Edoc/escience_report2010.pdf">E-Science and Data Support Services</a>).Glen Newtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03639309432955855745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29304736.post-67900197128777592092010-08-13T13:29:00.005-04:002010-08-13T13:55:21.813-04:00Alzheimer's Spinal Fluid Test and Research Data SharingThe recent reports on being able to predict Alzheimer's (<a href="http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2010/08/10/alzheimer-predict-test.html"><span style="font-style: italic;">Alzheimer's predicted by spinal-fluid test</span> </a>-- CBC, 2010.08.10) are the direct results due to the data sharing of scores of biomedical researchers (<a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/13/health/research/13alzheimer.html?_r=2&pagewanted=1&hp">Sharing of Data Leads to Progress on Alzheimer’s</a> -- New York Times, 2010.08.10). The sharing included both academic researchers and drug company researchers. The data sets are available online:<br /><blockquote style="font-style: italic;">Companies as well as academic researchers are using the data. There have been more than 3,200 downloads of the entire massive data set and almost a million downloads of the data sets containing images from brain scans.<br /></blockquote><a href="http://www.adni-info.org/">Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative</a> (ADNI), the organization looking after the data, has a very complete policy (<a href="http://scientificdatasharing.com/medicine/alzheimers-disease-neuroimaging-initiative-adni-data-sharing-and-publication-policy/" title="Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) Data Sharing and Publication Policy">Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) Data Sharing and Publication Policy</a>) about their data sharing.Glen Newtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03639309432955855745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29304736.post-65020685701412968462010-07-27T00:04:00.013-04:002010-11-23T02:31:22.826-05:00It's not Open Data, so stop calling it that...While it is a great positive change that data is being released through numerous efforts around the world, <span style="font-weight: bold;">data release</span> is not the same as <span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Open Data</span> release</span>. A number of <span style="font-weight: bold;">Canadian</span> cities have announced Open Data initiatives, but they are not releasing Open Data. They are just releasing data. Of course, this is better than not releasing data. But let's at least be honest about what we are doing.<br /><br />Why aren't they Open Data? Because their licenses are not Open Data licenses:<br /><ul><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Not Open Data</span>: Edmonton: "<span style="font-style: italic;">The City may, in its sole discretion, cancel or suspend your access to the datasets without notice and for any reason</span>..." - from <a href="http://www.edmonton.ca/city_government/open_data/open-data-terms-of-use.aspx">Terms of Use</a></li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Not Open Data</span>: Vancouver: "The City may, in its sole discretion, cancel or suspend your access to the datasets without notice and for any reason..." - <a href="http://data.vancouver.ca/termsOfUse.htm">Terms of Use</a><br /></li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Not Open Data</span>: Ottawa: "<span style="font-style: italic;">The City may, in its sole discretion, cancel or suspend your access to the datasets without notice and for any reason</span>..." - from <a href="http://www.ottawa.ca/online_services/opendata/terms_en.html#P31_4730">Terms of Use</a></li><li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Not Open Data</span>: Toronto: "<span style="font-style: italic;">The City may, in its sole discretion, cancel or suspend your access to the datasets without notice and for any reason...</span>" - from <a href="http://www.toronto.ca/open/terms.htm">Terms of Use</a><br /></li></ul>All of these licenses also suffer from the additional mis-feature of arbitrary retroactivity:<br /><blockquote></blockquote><blockquote>"<span style="font-style: italic;">The City may at any time and from time to time add, delete, or change the datasets or these Terms of Use. Notice of changes may be posted on the home page for these datasets or this page. Any change is effective immediately upon posting, unless otherwise stated</span>"<br /></blockquote><br />These two clauses mean that there is no stability for someone using this data. If, something they do or say (data related or not) is not liked by the city whose data they are using, they can lose access. Or if the city finds that many data users are doing things they do not like, they can change the terms of reference to impact data previously obtained by users.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">How to fix</span></span><br />Obligatory versioning of both datasets and licenses, and losing the above two clauses. When a dataset is released, it is given a version, and that release is matched to a (usually the most recent) license version, that will always apply to that version of that data release. Any change to a license generates a new version, only applicable to subsequent releases that choose to use the new license.<br /><br />This is how things work in the Open Source world. It means that if you possess a piece of Open Source software, with a license of a specific version, someone half-way across the world from you cannot turn you into criminal and/or shut you down by retroactively changing the license. It means that you have stability. Of course, you may be shut out of the next version if they change its license, but that doesn't necessarily shut you down today. You have some level of stability.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">An example</span>: an SME builds a business based on data released by the cities. This business perhaps includes data mining tools that reveal some things that some of the cities do not like revealed or discussed. They change the license (remember: "<span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 51);">...cancel or suspend ...without notice and for <span style="font-weight: bold;">any reason</span></span>...</span>") or simply cancel or suspend the company's data access to shut this company out, and the company goes out of business.<br /><br />-----<br /><br />So, if you want to release Open Source code or Open Data, you must be willing to accept that it will be used in ways that you may find offensive, to you (and/or your constituents). That is how it works.<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Update: 2010 10 14</span>: <span style="font-style: italic;">Eight Principles of Open Data</span> from <a href="http://resource.org/8_principles.html">Open Government Data Principles:</a><ol><li><b>Primary</b> Data is as collected at the source, with the highest possible level of granularity, not in aggregate or modified forms.</li><li><b>Complete</b> All public data is made available. Public data is data that is not subject to valid privacy, security or privilege limitations.</li><li><b>Timely</b> Data is made available as quickly as necessary to preserve the value of the data.</li><li><b>Accessible</b> Data is available to the widest range of users for the widest range of purposes.</li><li><b>Machine processable</b> Data is reasonably structured to allow automated processing.</li><li><b>Non-discriminatory</b> Data is available to anyone, with no requirement of registration.</li><li><b>Non-proprietary</b> Data is available in a format over which no entity has exclusive control.</li><li><b>License-free</b> Data is not subject to any copyright, patent, trademark or trade secret regulation. Reasonable privacy, security and privilege restrictions may be allowed.</li></ol>The above cities' licenses are are not compliant with #4 and #6 of these eight principles. See also <a href="http://zzzoot.blogspot.com/2010/08/what-is-open-gov-data-sunlight.html">http://zzzoot.blogspot.com/2010/08/what-is-open-gov-data-sunlight.html<br /><br /></a>Update: 2010 Nov 7: <a href="http://acrosscanadatrails.posterous.com/civicaccess-discuss-importance-of-true-open-d">http://acrosscanadatrails.posterous.com/civicaccess-discuss-importance-of-true-open-d</a>Glen Newtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03639309432955855745noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29304736.post-46390022675374424202010-07-24T23:21:00.011-04:002010-07-26T05:37:44.428-04:00University visitor @ Australian National University<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_041xGQfsUwo/TEuwrpY6Y6I/AAAAAAAAAW4/FHVbdtbUTqo/s1600/IMG_2589cs.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 302px; height: 160px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_041xGQfsUwo/TEuwrpY6Y6I/AAAAAAAAAW4/FHVbdtbUTqo/s400/IMG_2589cs.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5497682034027029410" border="0" /></a><br />Tomorrow is (sadly) my last official day<a href="http://zzzoot.blogspot.com/2010/07/university-visitor-australian-national.html#day"><sup>*</sup></a> as a university visitor at the <a href="http://www.anu.edu.au/">Australian National University</a> (ANU), <a href="http://maps.google.com.au/maps?q=Canberra&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=Canberra+ACT&gl=au&ei=ScZLTMHOG4aAvgPH4_y6Cg&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=title&resnum=1&ved=0CCUQ8gEwAA">Canberra</a>.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_041xGQfsUwo/TEut-8WpDdI/AAAAAAAAAWQ/jSscwFfmQMI/s1600/IMG_2672cs.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 173px; height: 110px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_041xGQfsUwo/TEut-8WpDdI/AAAAAAAAAWQ/jSscwFfmQMI/s400/IMG_2672cs.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5497679067000409554" border="0" /></a>I've been here since late June, invited by ANU adjunct and <a href="http://funnelback.com/">Funnelback</a> chief scientist (and <a href="http://es.csiro.au/people/Dave/">ex-CSIRO</a>) <a href="http://david-hawking.net/">David Hawking</a>, to visit the <a href="http://cs.anu.edu.au/research/groups/algdata">Algorithms and Data Research Group</a>, <a href="http://cs.anu.edu.au/">School of Computer Science</a>, <a href="http://cecs.anu.edu.au/">College of Engineering and Computer Science</a>.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_041xGQfsUwo/TEuxlnoPXBI/AAAAAAAAAXQ/6bU-_oGnYHM/s1600/IMG_2527s.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: left; cursor: pointer; width: 242px; height: 181px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_041xGQfsUwo/TEuxlnoPXBI/AAAAAAAAAXQ/6bU-_oGnYHM/s400/IMG_2527s.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5497683029986860050" border="0" /></a>I was installed in a lovely <a href="http://maps.google.com.au/maps?q=canberra+australia&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Canberra+Australian+Capital+Territory&gl=au&ei=zEspTLDIM8LBcbyQsdQC&ved=0CCQQ8gEwAA&ll=-35.275088,149.121037&spn=0.000481,0.001281&t=h&z=20&layer=c&cbll=-35.275,149.121013&panoid=nuMeTt3XQ2W8lRhD4L9FnQ&cbp=12,236.96,,2,-4.54">office</a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_041xGQfsUwo/TEut_iKmxxI/AAAAAAAAAWg/o1x1Y174JVg/s1600/IMG_2670s.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_041xGQfsUwo/TEut_iKmxxI/AAAAAAAAAWg/o1x1Y174JVg/s400/IMG_2670s.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5497679077150476050" border="0" /></a><br /><br />looking out into the campus,<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_041xGQfsUwo/TEuwrJbNZ2I/AAAAAAAAAWw/MHuFqiBCElY/s1600/IMG_2594s.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_041xGQfsUwo/TEuwrJbNZ2I/AAAAAAAAAWw/MHuFqiBCElY/s400/IMG_2594s.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5497682025446729570" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_041xGQfsUwo/TEuxl9T__5I/AAAAAAAAAXY/mVqgWnMEP88/s1600/IMG_2528sc.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 364px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_041xGQfsUwo/TEuxl9T__5I/AAAAAAAAAXY/mVqgWnMEP88/s400/IMG_2528sc.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5497683035807547282" border="0" /></a><br />where I've been working on large scale journal visualization, a continuation of the <a href="http://zzzoot.blogspot.com/2009/07/project-torngat-building-large-scale.html">Torngat project</a>. I've been working on a couple of things, including applying <a href="http://mulan.sourceforge.net/">Mulan</a> to the multi-label problem of the corpus I am working with, so I can get precision and recall to evaluate this method empirically. My productivity has been hampered by a recurring stomach problem (which appears to be gone this last week: yay!), so I've not progressed as much as I would have wanted to.... :-(<br />At the end of last week I gave a presentation at <a href="http://www.csiro.au/places/CSIRO-at-ANU.html">CSIRO</a> (in the same building) on this work entitled: <a href="http://cs.anu.edu.au/seminars/more/SID/2642"><span style="font-style: italic;">Search refinement: visualizing research journals in semantic space</span></a>. After this talk I had a discussion with <a href="http://www.ict.csiro.au/staff/alexander.krumpholz/">Alex Krumpholz</a> and <a href="http://www.nicta.com.au/people/hanna_suominen">Hanna Suominen</a>, and it is looking like we will be working together on a project involving Torngat.<br /><br />I've also enjoyed the company of <a href="http://wwwmaths.anu.edu.au/%7Ejohnm/">John Maindonald</a>, (went on a very nice Sunday walk with him and his wife and some of their friends) one of the important players in the <a href="http://www.r-project.org/">R</a> universe. He's arranged an invite for me to <a href="http://www.meetup.com/Canberra-R-Users-Group/calendar/14175846/">talk</a> tomorrow about how I've used R in the Torngat project, with the <a href="http://canrug.togaware.com/">Canberrra R Users Group</a>.<br /><br />I also enjoyed an afternoon this past week meeting with the <a href="http://ands.org.au/">Australian National Data Service (ANDS)</a> people, arranged by the wonderful <a href="http://ands.org.au/contact.html">Monica Omodei</a> (formerly Berko), learning about their success in putting together ANDS and where they were going. They were also interested in Torngat, so I gave them a brief presentation on it.<br /><br />A bit of a surprise collaboration: I have committed myself to helping improve the single-threaded Lucene indexing benchmark in the <a href="http://dacapobench.org/">DaCapo</a> Java benchmarks, after discussions with ANU's <a href="http://cs.anu.edu.au/%7ESteve.Blackburn">Steve Blackburn</a>, a Java VM and GC guru. I've also committed to implementing a new multi-threaded indexing benchmark. Most of the code will be derived from existing code from my <a href="http://zzzoot.blogspot.com/2008/11/software-announcement-lusql-database-to.html">LuSql</a> tool (it is actually from the yet un-released LuSql v1.0 codebase).<br /><br />While it has been winter (Spring/Fall by Canadian standards...) here in Canberra, I have still been amazed at the fantastic birds that are (still) here. Like nothing we have at home, there are the loud and raucous-yet-endearing <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulphur-crested_Cockatoo">sulfur crested cockatoos</a>:<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_041xGQfsUwo/TEuwtNGR5VI/AAAAAAAAAXI/7tV5mfEue9w/s1600/IMG_2573.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_041xGQfsUwo/TEuwtNGR5VI/AAAAAAAAAXI/7tV5mfEue9w/s400/IMG_2573.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5497682060792423762" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gang-gang_Cockatoo">Gang-gang cockatoos</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimson_Rosella">crimson</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Rosella">eastern</a> rosellas, and many others that flittered past in a rush of colour or sang in the distance, unseen and unrecognized by me. These guys below were also fairly common, but I'm not sure what they are:<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_041xGQfsUwo/TEuwsCZbEoI/AAAAAAAAAXA/_uM1ZcgPou4/s1600/IMG_2578s.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 133px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_041xGQfsUwo/TEuwsCZbEoI/AAAAAAAAAXA/_uM1ZcgPou4/s400/IMG_2578s.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5497682040740057730" border="0" /></a><br />A number of people have been very helpful and gratious with their time, and I'm going to list them here, in no particular order: <a href="http://www.ict.csiro.au/staff/alexander.krumpholz/">Alex Krumpholz & family</a> (thanks for the hike up <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Mountain_%28Australian_Capital_Territory%29">Black Mountain</a> & dinner & talk afterwards!); <a href="http://www.ict.csiro.au/staff/tom.rowlands/">Tom Rowlands</a>; <a href="http://cs.anu.edu.au/%7ETim.Jones/">Tim Jones</a>; <a href="http://www.ict.csiro.au/staff/paul.thomas/">Paul Thomas</a>; David Hawking & <a href="http://cmhr.anu.edu.au/people/staff.php#Griffiths">Kathy Griffiths</a>; Diane Kossatz; Chelsea Holton; <a href="http://wwwmaths.anu.edu.au/%7Ejohnm/">John Maindonald</a>; <a href="http://ands.org.au/contact.html">Monica Omodei</a>; <a href="http://www.nicta.com.au/people/hanna_suominen">Hanna Suominen</a>; <a href="http://cs.anu.edu.au/%7ESteve.Blackburn">Steve Blackburn</a>.<br /><br />------------------------------<br /><br />I think this is <a href="http://maps.google.com.au/maps?q=canberra&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=Canberra+ACT&gl=au&ei=b81LTKHrAYi2vQPB4eC7Cg&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=image&resnum=1&ved=0CCUQ8gEwAA">Mount Stromlo</a>, (the low hill/mountain to the right, with the mountains of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brindabella_Ranges">Brindabella Range</a> (I think) in the background) from Black Mountain. You can see some of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Stromlo_Observatory">Mount Stromlo Observatory</a> at white dots on the crest of Mt. Stromlo. The observatory and the forest that was on Mt. Stromlo were mostly <a href="http://isthe.com/chongo/tech/astro/stromlo/index.html">destroyed</a> in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_Canberra_bushfires">2003 Canberra bushfires</a>. When I was up at the observatory earlier in the month there were many burnt-out tree stumps to be seen. And 'roos. :-)<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_041xGQfsUwo/TEuwq3mmVEI/AAAAAAAAAWo/bX8hPQ1SLz0/s1600/IMG_2625s.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_041xGQfsUwo/TEuwq3mmVEI/AAAAAAAAAWo/bX8hPQ1SLz0/s400/IMG_2625s.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5497682020662662210" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_041xGQfsUwo/TEut-8WpDdI/AAAAAAAAAWQ/jSscwFfmQMI/s1600/IMG_2672cs.JPG"><br /></a><br /></div><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><a name="day">*Today is July 25<sup>th</sup>: I am 14 hours ahead here in Canberra of the eastern time zone in North America. But blogger thinks I am there on the 24<sup>th</sup>...<br /></a></span>Glen Newtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03639309432955855745noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29304736.post-42020931107619291732010-07-08T21:09:00.007-04:002010-07-08T23:10:10.266-04:00E-Government ICT ConferenceThe recent conference <a href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-0-387-09711-4">E-Government ICT Professionalism and Competences Service Science</a> (IFIP International Federation for Information Processing, IFIP 20th World Computer Congress, Industry-Oriented Conferences, September 7-10, 2008, Milano, Italy) is of interest to those involved with ICT in government and eGovernment in general (although the conference is rather EU-centred).<br />Note the content is behind a pay-wall, so you can't read the articles unless you belong to an institution that has a subscription or you have one yourself.<br /><br />Of interest:<br /><ul><li><a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09712-1_2">Why is True eGovernment still difficult to be achieved?</a><br /></li><li><a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09712-1_1">E-Government For Small Local Government Organizations</a><br /></li><li><a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09712-1_3">A normative approach to democracy in the electronic government framework</a><br /></li><li><a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09712-1_16IT">IT skill requirements in Public Administration<br /></a></li><li><a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09712-1_10">How to move forward and implement e-skills on a long term basis</a></li></ul><br />Search: "open source":<br /><ul><li><a href="http://www.blogger.com/%20%20http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09712-1_25"> Business Process Monitoring: BT Italy case study</a><br /></li><li><a href="http://www.blogger.com/%20%20http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09712-1_6"> The Italian Public Administration Electronic Market: Scenario, Operation, Trends:</a> <blockquote style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);"><span style="font-size:85%;">"The selected software to develop the dashboard has been <a href="http://www.pentaho.com/products/">Pentaho</a> suite, which is an open source application. It better fits all the project needs that can be summarized by the following drivers:<br /> • Low license costs. It has no license costs.<br /> • Low impact on current systems architecture. It does not need a complex integration with source systems.<br /> • Availability of “off the shelf” features (reporting and KPIs analysis). It has rich libraries of graphical objects and reports to better show indicators.<br /> • Short Time to Delivery. The Dashboard has been delivered in three months including a tuning phase in which some new features had been added."</span></blockquote><br /></li></ul>Table of Contents:<br /><ul><li><a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09712-1_12">A Model for Rating and Certifying Competences in the EUCIP Framework</a>. Andrea Violetti, Susanna Daddi, Stefano Hajek.<br /></li><li> <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09712-1_3">A normative approach to democracy in the electronic government framework.</a><span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span> Andrea Maggipinto, Ezio Visconti.<br /></li><li><a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09712-1_22">Business Process Design: Towards Service- Based Green Information Systems</a>. Barbara Pernici, Danilo Ardagna, Cinzia Cappiello.<br /></li><li><a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09712-1_25">Business Process Monitoring: BT Italy case study</a>. Giorgio Rimini, Paolo Roberti.<br /></li><li><a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09712-1_21">Compliance Requirements for Business-process driven SOAs. </a> Michael P. Papazoglou.<br /></li><li><a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09712-1_26">Dealing with Availability in an international Service Management scenario.</a> Flavio Gaj, Giovanni Umberto Germani.<br /></li><li><a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09712-1_1">E-Government For Small Local Government Organizations</a>. Walter Castelnovo.<br /></li><li><a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09712-1_14">EUCIP Driving the IT-Professional Competence in Norway</a> .Renny Bakke Amundsen.<br /></li><li><a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09712-1_20">European Standardisation Process</a> .Noel Geoffrey McMullen, John O’Sullivan.<br /></li><li><a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09712-1_9">European Universities and the ICT Industry</a> .Vasile Baltac.<br /></li><li><a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09712-1_28">Explaining the Evolving Web - Mixing Technology with Pleasure</a> .Robert I. Benjamin, Rolf T. Wigand, Johanna L. H. Birkland.<br /></li><li><a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09712-1_10">How to move forward and implement e-skills on a long term basis</a> .Franco Patini.<br /></li><li><a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09712-1_31">ICT Portfolio: Mapping Business and ICT Services</a> .Giovanni Pignatelli, Gianmario Motta, Giovanni Umberto Germani.<br /></li><li><a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09712-1_17">International Professional Practice Partnership (IP3) - Overview</a> . Charles Hughes.<br /></li><li><a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09712-1_18">IP3 - National Societies’ Roles and Responsibilities</a>. Roger G. Johnson.<br /></li><li><a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09712-1_11">IT and Professionalism in Developing Countries</a>. Moira de Roche.<br /></li><li><a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09712-1_8">IT Professional role today and tomorrow</a>. Colin Thompson.<br /></li><li><a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09712-1_16">IT skill requirements in Public Administration</a>. Pietro Paolo Trimarchi.<br /></li><li><a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09712-1_4">Knowledge Representation and Management for E-Government Documents</a>. Flora Amato, Antonino Mazzeo, Antonio Penta, Antonio Picariello.<br /></li><li><a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09712-1_24">Reengineering Lead to Cash - Process and Organization</a>. Giorgio Rimini, Paolo Roberti.<br /></li><li><a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09712-1_27">Service level and Value to Customer as key business drivers: a case studying a leader truck industry</a>. Maximiliano Cascini, Manuela Maini, Thiago Barroero.<br /></li><li><a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09712-1_23">SIFET-CBA Project</a>. Mario A. Bochicchio, Antonella Longo, Federica Longo, Antonio Bernardo.<br /></li><li><a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09712-1_30">Strategic Modelling of Enterprise Information Requirements</a>. Gianmario Motta, Giovanni Pignatelli.<br /></li><li><a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09712-1_5">The Accounting System of Central State Administrations</a>. Francesco Cancellaro.<br /></li><li><a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09712-1_7">The Emergence of Software Engineering Professionalism</a>. Stephen B. Seidman.<br /></li><li><a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09712-1_19">The Emerging ISO International Standard for Certification of Software Engineering Professionals</a>. Juan Garbajosa.<br /></li><li><a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09712-1_15">The EUCIP Scheme in the Italian University System</a>. Marco Ferretti.<br /></li><li><a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09712-1_6">The Italian Public Administration Electronic Market: Scenario, Operation, Trends</a>. Danilo Broggil.<br /></li><li><a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09712-1_13">The need for a standard qualification of ICT-professional competences</a>. Paolo Schgör.<br /></li><li><a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09712-1_29">Value-Aware Service Model Driven Architecture and Methodology</a>. Xiaofei Xu, Zhongjie Wang.<br /></li><li><a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09712-1_2">Why is True eGovernment still difficult to be achieved?</a>. Fugini Mariagrazia, Maggiolini Piercarlo, Nanini Krysnaia, Boselli Roberto, Cesarini Mirko, Mezzanzanica Mario. </li><br /></ul>Glen Newtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03639309432955855745noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29304736.post-74323135655484101332010-06-22T19:45:00.005-04:002010-06-22T20:00:13.951-04:00JCDL2010 Research Data Papers<div class="paper-title">I am at the <a href="http://www.jcdl-icadl2010.org/">2010 Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL2010)</a> at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surfers_Paradise,_Queensland">Surfer's Paradise</a> in Queensland, Australia. Among the many interesting <a href="http://www.jcdl2010.org/papers.php">papers</a> are two papers very relevant to those interested in research data issues.<br /><br />[JCDL2011 will be held in Ottawa, Canada June 13-17 2011. I am the general chair for the conference]<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Digital Libraries for Scientific Data Discovery and Reuse: From Vision to Practical Reality</span><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="paper-type"></span></div> <div class="paper-authors">Jillian Wallis, Matthew Mayernik, Christine Borgman and Alberto Pepe<br /></div> <div class="paper-abstract"> Abstract.<span style="font-style: italic;"> Science and technology research is becoming not only more distributed and collaborative, but more highly instrumented. Digital libraries provide a means to capture, manage, and access the data deluge that results from these research enterprises. We have conducted research on data practices and participated in developing data management services for the Center for Embedded Networked Sensing since its founding in 2002 as a National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center. Over the course of 8 years, our digital library strategy has shifted dramatically in response to changing technologies, practices, and policies. We report on the development of several DL systems and on the lessons learned, which include the difficulty of anticipating data requirements from nascent technologies, building systems for highly diverse work practices and data types, the need to bind together multiple single-purpose systems, the lack of incentives to manage and share data, the complementary nature of research and development in understanding practices, and sustainability.</span><br /><br /><div class="paper-title"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Discovering Australia's Research Data</span><span class="paper-type"><br /></span></div> <div class="paper-authors">Stefanie Kethers, Xiaobin Shen, Andrew Treloar and Ross Wilkinson</div> <div class="paper-abstract"> Abstract. <span style="font-style: italic;">Access to data crucial to research is often slow and difficult. When research problems cross disciplinary boundaries, problems are exacerbated. This paper argues that it is important to make it easier to find and access data that might be found in an institution, in a disciplinary data store, in a government department, or held privately. We explore how to meet ad hoc needs that cannot easily be supported by a disciplinary ontology, and argue that web pages that describe data collections with rich links and rich text are valuable. We describe the approach followed by the Australian National Data Service (ANDS) in making such pages available. Finally, we discuss how we plan to evaluate this approach. </span></div><br /></div>Glen Newtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03639309432955855745noreply@blogger.com0