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danahboyd SXSW talk…”Fundamentally, privacy is about having control over how information flows. It’s about being able to understand the social setting in order to behave appropriately. To do so, people must trust their interpretation of the context, including the people in the room and the architecture that defines the setting. When they feel as though control has been taken away from them or when they lack the control they need to do the right thing, they scream privacy foul. “
Category: ethics
links for 2010-03-29
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A good blog post summarizing a lot of the issues that keep coming up with standards and metrics.
links for 2010-02-04 – HKU and Scopus APIs
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Hong Kong University First to Use Scopus API for all HKU Authors Across the InstitutionPress release: “Hong Kong University First to Use Scopus API for all HKU Authors Across the Institution02-03-2010 – Updating Institutional Repository through API Technology -“
links for 2009-12-08
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“His presentation on scholarly identity 2.0 reminds me that academic libraries’ strategic planning should include a line item about assisting faculty with managing their digital reputation and identity (even promoting it).”
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PhD 2.0: scholarly communication in the Google era (slides and video)Cornelius Puschmann’s Blog “…after which I went on a long but practically-oriented rant on scholarly communication in the digital age. “
links for 2009-12-02
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From the Press Release: “Amsterdam, 2 December 2009 – Elsevier… today announced that Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature and quality Web sources, will be added to Research4Life… the collective name given to HINARI, AGORA and OARE, the three public-private partnerships that offer health, agriculture and environmental research for free or at very low cost to developing countries.”