Hi! Interesting. Mitar -------- Original Message -------- From: Michael Buckland <buckland(a)berkeley.edu> Subject: [i-announce@ischool] Friday Afternoon Seminar: Nov 15: Nick Merrill & Clifford Lynch To: friday(a)ischool.berkeley.edu, I School Announcement <i-announce(a)ischool.berkeley.edu> FRIDAY AFTERNOON SEMINAR ON INFORMATION ACCESS. South Hall 107, Fridays 3-5 pm http://courses.ischool.berkeley.edu/i296a-ia/f13/schedule.html Open to the public. Everyone interested is welcome! *Friday, Nov 15: Nick MERRILL and Clifford LYNCH. Nick MERRILL: Alternative Visions of Internet Connectivity.* A short progress report will include discussion on the following projects: - /Namecoin/, a widely distributed DNS that relies on a proof-of-work cryptosystem to align the database over many peers; - /tent.io/ - a novel approach to cloud-based application development in which users store their personal data locally; and - /commotion wireless/, a cross-platform mesh network protcol with its eye on more than simple router replacement; and - /vole/ and its cousin /idas blue/ with shoutout to /blogracy/ --- attempts at peer-to-peer messaging that seem to slip below the great firewall of China. * Clifford LYNCH: The Failure of Stewardship Organizations and the Transfer or Conservation of Cultural Materials.* Continued from Sept 27: In the past decade or so, we've seen many examples of stewardship organizations abandoning their management of collections, usually for economic reasons. In some cases, these situations raise very interesting governance, legal and public policy problems as well as financial and operational issues. In this discussion, I'll examine a number of representative case studies, and focus on how the ability to create very high quality digital representations of physical items or collections may change the situation. Time permitting, I'll also begin a discussion of how these situations may play out when the collections are themselves inherently digital. FORTHCOMING Friday, Nov 22 in South Hall 205: Change of program: Marilyn TREMAINE: Investigating What Makes 3D Visualizations Difficult. Friday, Nov 29: Thanksgiving: No seminar meeting. Friday, Dec 6: Nick MERRILL: Alternative Visions of Internet Connectivity. Karen SMITH-YOSHIMURA: Registering Researchers in Authority Files. -- Michael Buckland, School of Information, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-4600 (510) 642 3159 buckland(a)ischool.berkeley.edu http://www.berkeley.edu/~buckland Co-Director, Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative -- http://mitar.tnode.com/ https://twitter.com/mitar_m