This is my final post from the conference. Due to an 8pm flight home from San Francisco this evening, I’m stopping after the final morning presentation and having lunch & dinner somewhere up the coast. I’m disappointed about this as I’ll be missing Stephen Abram’s closing keynote but I’m sure he’ll post the slides to his blog later in the week. (Funding issues are making me leave tonight instead of tomorrow morning.) Once I’ve had a chance to digest everything I’ve heard over the past 2.5 days I’ll post a post-conference wrap-up and additional thoughts. Thanks to everyone who’ve been following me through this conference.
Archive for » October 26th, 2005«
IL05: Fueling Engines for the Future
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Oct 2005
David Mandelbrot, Vice President of Search Content, Yahoo!
Peter Norvig, Director of Search Quality, Google
A9.com
- About
- Subsidiary of Amazon.com
- Founded in October 2003
- Based in
- Powers amazon product search
- Google supplies both Web and image search results
- Growing a9
- Started with web, images, books
- Added Wikipedia, ref, yellow pages, moves, & more
- Most search engine APIs are similar albeit proprietary
- Which is why we introduced…
- OpenSearch
- It’s simple search syndication
- Behind OpenSearch
- Propose a common format for queries and results
- Identified the minimal subset of data necessary
- Reuse existing and familiar standards such as RSS
- A9.com – Click “choose more columns”
- Currently 298 choices
- Flickr photo search [M: !!!]
- PubMed OpenSearch
- OpenSearch response in XML/RSS format
- OpenSearchLaunch
- March 2005
- More than one/day added
- Creative commons licensed
- OpenSearch 1.1
- Built into IE7
- Flexible syndication formats including Atom support
- Extensibility (can work with SRW/U)
- http://opensearch.a9.com/
Google: Research Search Innovations
- GoogleAnswers
- Type in factual question, get answer and source
- What you might be looking for
- javascript not
- javascript not operator
- Statistical Machine Translation
- Translation on the fly of results
- In research right now
- Underlined words = not sure
- Effects of more data
- More words in data, better translations
- Google Mobile
- Local search on phone
- Google Maps
- Uses
- Satellite results
- Moon (no directions yet)
- Integrating additional data
- Katrina
- Seattle911.com
- Urinal dot net
- Brewster Jennings Projects
- PlaceOpedia (Wikipedia place aritcles)
Yahoo!
· Innovation acceleration
· FUSE
o Enable people to Find, Use, Share and Expand all human knowledge
· Challenge
o Attempts to find “all human knowledge” didn’t include for-pay content sources – couldn’t find everything
o Search Subscriptions
§ Searching popular for-pay content
§ Personalization allows users to always get for-pay content
§ Feed from partner web sites ensure…
· Challenge: once you find content, how can you use it?
o Find pic, can I post it on my page?
§ Search for Creative Commons
§ Licencing system
§ Yahoo created interface to all users to search CC content
§ Then users know they can use it
§ Feature allows search based on type of use
· Challenge: enable users to share knowledge with their community to create a better search experience
o Limit to number of useful relevant results
o How can I share what I’ve learned from my searches
o My Web 2.0 (“social search”)
§ Save results
§ Tag results
§ Share results
· Challenge: expanding the amount of content made openly available online while not upsetting the ecosystem
o Open Content
§ Joint effort
§ Approval of copyright holders
§ Multimedia & text
§ Full text rather and snippets
§ Freely crawlable
§ International effort
§ Uses common formats
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Librarians’ Internet Index
26
Oct 2005
It seems that I’m now allowed to say that I worked on the redesign of LII since I’m listed in the credits.
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IL05: “I” Roles – Who & What Do We Teach
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Oct 2005
Mike Crandal, The Information School,
- Was reading “The Worlds is Flat” by Thomas Friedman when writing this presentation
- Changing landscape in our world and how it’s impacting organizations of all types
- Between dot com bust & today Google went from 150 searches per day to over one billion per day, only 1/3 coming from within the
- Global internet usage went up 125 from 2000 to 2004
- The Great Sorting Out
- Where do companies (libraries) start and stop
- From command and control to collaborate and connect
- Multiple identity disorder
- Who owns what?
- Death of the salesman
- UPS DIAD (Delivery Information Acquisition Device)
- What we’re up against
- What we know about IT projects
- More likely to be unsuccessful than successful
- About one in five projects is likely to be full satisfaction
- Larger projects more likely to fail
- Relying on explicit knowledge is important
- Tacit knowledge is weaker
- Why is this happening?
- Avoid focusing on technology
- Look at the larger structures
- The organization
- Relationships
- Change in direction?
- Drastic fall in CS enrolment
- Reflection of the changing climate (dot com bust scared people)
- Who will fill the void in building high quality information systems and services?
- A possible solution?
- Reconsider our educational processes
- Rapid convergence of technologies
- Bring in from other disciplines
- Linguistics
- Anthropology
- Social sciences left on the side
- What’s to be Done?
- Emphasize more generic forms of learning rather than specific preoccupational skills
- Value of collaboration
- Ability of collaborate
- Problem solving
- Information Schools
- Integration of people, technology, management and policy
- Many disciplines all pointing to information in the center
- Technology is only one part
- All parts are as important as each other
- i-Conference 2005,
- Curriculum
- Programming
- distributed computing
- networking
- info systems
- organizations
- database management
- info analysis
- systems analysis
- telecommunications
- info policy
- The Core Competencies (
- Info resources
- Info management
- Info access
- Info systems & technologies
- Research
- Info policy
- Specializations
- Lib mgt
- E-government
- Comp intelligence
- Human-computer ineteraction
- Web design
- Info architecture
- Taxonomy management
- Info retrieval
- Security
- Etc…
- Real-world Orientation
- Project-based study
- Teamwork
- Active learning
- Internships
- Capstone projects
- Integrate theory into practice in real-life environment
- UW iSchools
- Enrollment projections shown
- Numbers going steadily up
- UW iSchool
- Demographic numbers
- 2004 – male/female 50/50
- 2005 – male/female 38/62
- 2005 day program – male/female 11/63
- Not just libraries are hiring their graduates
- Boeing
- Microsoft
- Federal Loan Banks
- Non-Profits
- Untouchables
- Workers who are special
- … specialized
- … anchored
- … readily adaptable
- iSchools are producing the untouchables for the information age
- there will always only be a few “specials” but iSchools produce people that are the other three
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