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Slides from a presentation at the Riding the Wave Conference in Gimli, MB. 12 May 2011. Seymour Papert describes bricolage as a way to learn and solve problems by trying, testing and playing around. How do we learn by playing around with digital stuff? Can we create deep learning experiences that encourage students to show and share what they know with the world and contribute to the global knowledge commons? A variety of concrete student centred learning experiences are shared that leverage the power of the world wide web and focus teachers instructional design through lenses that are student centred, knowledge centred, assessment centred, and community centred. We look at both small short term assignments and larger long term projects that demonstrate how your students can learn and share as 21st century bricoleurs.

Slides from a talk given at Manchester Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation on 13 October 2009. Focusses on the reasons why there is public funding of science and the issues that need to be tackled to insure this in the future.

Slides from a presentation for Archdiocese of Philadelphia schools, March 2011. Virtual Lessons for the Math and Science Classroom (Critical Thinking, Problem Solving - 21st Century Skills Series) Description: Technology today gives us many tools for Critical Thinking and problem solving. Learn about some uses particularly suited for the Math and Science classroom such as Interactive tools, web 2.0 tools and More!

The document discusses the BBC's efforts to build coherence across its digital content by implementing a linked data approach. It describes how historically the BBC created separate microsites that were coherent individually but not connected. With linked data, the BBC assigns unique URIs to people, places, concepts and creates RDF metadata to link related information across domains. This allows different teams to model their domains independently while still connecting data to build a coherent whole and enable new discoveries by following semantic connections between topics.

Slides from a presentation in support of a half day workshop at the 2010 MADLaT Conference in Winnipeg, Manitoba; 6 May 2010.

This document discusses trends and changes affecting libraries, including the emergence of Web 2.0 technologies. It notes that libraries now face new forms of competition and must adapt services to the changing digital landscape. Suggestions are made to engage patrons through new platforms like social media, conduct usability studies, and promote libraries as community destinations in the digital world. Staff development and change management are also addressed as libraries transition to combine physical and virtual services.

Keynote address given at the Minnesota Library Association's Academic and Research Division (ARLD) Day, April 27, 2012.

A presentation for the CATS 2010 Conference (http://cats.cdl.edu/online_2010/) How do we deal with the never ending onslaught of new technologies, resources, and media? How can we face this brave new world without a sense of dread? Is there an app for that? "Keeping up" is a myth, and the way of dealing with this is creating, sustaining, and being in your extended networks of friends, colleagues, and even people you don't know. Likewise, one cannot readily assess the value of new technology from the outside "looking in." This presentation will lead you through a range of examples of ways to practice more "being there-ness" so you can face the technology fire hose with a child-like sense of wonder. http://cogdogblog.com/stuff/beingthere

Slides from a presentation in support of a workshop for math teachers at the SUM (Saskatchewan Understands Math) Conference in Saskatoon, SK; May 2011.

A presentation to the JISC West Midlands Virtual Worlds in Education Forum. This presentation is rated 15.

This document discusses the need for libraries and information organizations to adapt and change with the exponential pace of technological change. It provides examples of how technologies like the printing press, telephone, and internet were adopted at an accelerating rate and disrupted existing industries. The document advocates for leadership that embraces experimentation and improvisation to remain relevant by understanding customer needs and communicating value in new ways.

This document provides an overview of visual literacy and design. It discusses how visuals are processed 60,000 times faster than text and the importance of visual storytelling. It also covers principles of good design like whitespace, fonts, color and focusing on the story. The document encourages exploring new formats like Pecha Kucha and sharing designs through online portfolios to inspire others. It emphasizes that design is about inspiration and inspiring others.

Slides from a presentation in support of a workshop for grades 5-12 math teachers at Charlottesville City Schools in Charlottesville, VA; 18 August 2010.

Slides from a presentation in support of a workshop at the Building Learning Communities Conference in Boston, MA; 15 July 2010.

Slides from a presentation given to teachers in the Lord Selkirk School Division in Selkirk, Manitoba, February 5, 2010.

Help students develop creative thinking, critical thinking and problem solving skills using SCRATCH and SketchUp.

Slides from a presentation in support of a workshop for the Garden Valley School Division in Winkler, Manitoba; 27 May 2010.

Talk given to the OASPA Conference in Riga in 2013. Discusses adoption patterns and communities and modes of advocacy.

Public and static slides for a presentation on Open Knowledge Institutions at Exeter University Egenis Centre on 13 January 2020

Talk given at the On Think Tanks meeting in Geneva in February 2019. Discusses the way in which research excellence is constructed and tends to 'internationalise' networks. Using the Sabato-Botana triangle as a model it argues for the importance of localism and the need for contextualised conceptions of excellence if research is to deliver value for the communities that support it.

The document discusses how knowledge grows through networks and groups. It argues that knowledge is produced at boundaries between groups through contact and conflict. While larger networks can enable greater growth of knowledge, they also face challenges of discoverability, silos, and trust. Productive knowledge growth requires the right local network structures and institutions that support boundaries and conflict between groups. Diversity is important for knowledge creation, but so is community and identity, which encourage some level of exclusion. The right balance must be struck between opening and closing networks.

The document discusses the need for open indicators to measure open science. It notes that while open science policy is easy to mandate, achieving real culture change is difficult. It argues that open indicators are needed to align quantitative and qualitative narratives around open science and ensure consistency. Examples of potential open indicators include percentages of open access articles and measures of access to knowledge. The document advocates for measuring access in terms of citizen needs rather than limitations of specific databases. Overall it calls for open indicators to guide investment and evaluate progress in supporting the goals of open science.

Slides from a keynote at the meeting 'Perspectives of Research Excellence in the Global South' - argues that considering research excellence as a neo-colonial agenda helps to defuse the dangers that a North Atlantic attitude to 'biblio-excellence' creates but also offers opportunities for developing and transitional countries to take a leadership role on the future of research policy

This document discusses the power of infrastructures and infrastructures of power. It argues that infrastructures restructure available resources to create abundance. However, trust is the ultimate infrastructure layer and trust is a collective action problem that is difficult to establish. The document suggests that infrastructures need certain characteristics like broad coverage, stakeholder governance, non-discrimination, transparency and limitations on lobbying in order to build trust and ensure stability.

Keynote given at the NFAIS 2018 meeting in Alexandria, Virginia, USA on 28 February 2018 The world of information is transforming at a bewildering pace. The assumptions of yesterday, the stable institutions and cherished practices increasingly seem to be vanishing before our eyes. The first assumption of any new strategy seems to be “what would this look like if we built it from scratch, today”. And yet continuity matters, we don’t build new tools, institutions and practices from scratch, they evolve in a messy and contingent way from what we have available to us in the moment. In this talk, Neylon unpicks the underlying drivers of change, and how they are coupled to a long history of how we manage information. Neylon will discuss how the different perspectives of important groups—scholars, publishers, funders, platform providers and the myriad of information professionals—lead to a partial focus that can make us simultaneously fearful of the change we see and blind to the shifts that actually matter. If the arc of history bends towards justice then it follows that the arc of our knowledge and information environment necessarily bends towards greater scale and greater diversity. At the same time it is the values that underpin scholarship and the various ways in which we identify with the project of building knowledge, that drive us forward. If we are to take advantage of change, we need to understand what it is that must stay the same.

Open Access, Open Science, Open Government, Open Education. We often see these as new movements, set against an old world of broken – and closed – systems of scholarship and education. New technologies, primarily the web, have lifted the veil from our eyes to let us see this new world. If only we could build the right technology...mandate the right behavior then a new utopia of open scholarship will be upon us! The problem with this view is that it sees the disruption of the web as a one-off event that once worked through will provide a solution for all time. Framed that way this is obviously not true, but the challenge goes deeper than that. Scholarship, in its western institutionalized forms, has increased in scale continuously for at least 400 and possibly 2000 years. No social or institutional system can scale continuously over several order of magnitude. Therefore we must expect structural historical breaks. The question is not how to fix scholarship, but how on earth it has managed to last this long? I will argue that what sits at the core of this survival is a set of normative cultural values that privilege openness. Their application has been far from perfect but the concepts of communication, criticism, civility and inclusion have deep roots in our institutions and communities. At the same time community and identity are critical to scholarship, and both of these imply exclusion and boundary work to define community. My argument is that the culture, forms and values of western scholarship have held these two tendencies in productive tension, allowing the academy to address the ongoing scaling (and consequent inclusion) problem through social, technical and economic innovation. Our challenge is not simply to solve today's problems, but to re-imagine our institutions so that they continuously generate and are able to adopt the innovations necessary to continue to solve the scaling problem into the indefinite future.

One variant of the "Excellence is Bullshit" talk about evaluation, rankings etc. Builds on "Excellence R Us" Moore et al Palgrave Communications, 2017

Slides for a presentation to the SCONUL conference in 2015. Focusses on the idea that there is an ongoing shift from working within life cycles to networks in the research world

The document discusses positive framings for open science through three lenses: (1) the economics of clubs as described by Elinor Ostrom, where openness can increase returns for the club over time; (2) knowledge as a product of translation between esoteric and exoteric realms as proposed by Ludwig Fleck, where openness facilitates translation; and (3) cultural science perspectives seeing science as a cultural practice sustained through open and diverse groups as suggested by Hartley and Potts. The document argues that openness has long been an aspiration in science to make knowledge more accessible and that open projects will always be works in progress that value diversity.

The debate over the meaning, and value, of open movements has intensified. The fear of co-option of various efforts from Open Access to Open Data is driving a reassessment and re-definition of what is intended by “open”. In this article I apply group level models from cultural studies and economics to argue that the tension between exclusionary group formation and identity and aspirations towards inclusion and openness are a natural part of knowledge- making. Situating the traditional Western Scientific Knowledge System as a culture-made group, I argue that the institutional forms that support the group act as economic underwriters for the process by which groups creating exclusive knowledge invest in the process of making it more accessible, less exclusive, and more public-good-like, in exchange for receiving excludable goods that sustain the group. A necessary consequence of this is that our institutions will be conservative in their assessment of what knowledge-goods are worth of consideration and who is allowed within those institutional systems. Nonetheless the inclusion of new perspectives and increasing diversity underpins the production of general knowledge. I suggest that instead of positioning openness as new, and in opposition to traditional closed systems, it may be more productive to adopt a narrative in which efforts to increase inclusion are seen as a very old, core value of the academy, albeit one that is a constant work in progress.

Talk on the economics of sustainability models for scholarly communication given at ScienceEurope/LIBER workshop in Antwerp on 27 April 2017. Focuses on very fundamental issues of what happens in economic terms with scholarly communication and how cultural institutuions as well as formal institutions play a key role in supporting groups, clubs in economic terms, that take knowledge and covert to being more public like.

This document discusses challenges in sustaining scholarly infrastructures as collective goods and lessons that can be learned from economist Olson's work. It notes that large groups have difficulty provisioning collective goods without special cases like oligopoly control, non-collective side benefits, or compulsory funding. Crossref is used as an example that transitioned through these phases over time. Membership models are less applicable for open data and if taxation models are needed, organizations will require community trust.

Slides for a talk given at Duke University on 7 October 2016. The talk focusses on political economics of scholarly publishing and routes forward to finding equitable and affordable ways to shift to Open Access.

The document contains a trigger warning for the presentation, noting that some content or elements may upset some audience members. It advises anyone who finds such warnings distressing or feels unable to cope with techniques like empathy, diversity of viewpoints, or differing experiences to leave and find a safe place to avoid such experiences.

How can we invest in future development of scholarly communications. Whose role is it and who is paying? In this talk, given at the UKSG meeting in 2016 I use the lens of culture to ask how scholarly communications needs to change, and where the opportunities lie for researchers and publishers.

Slides for my talk at Calsberg #cix working in Copenhagen on 30 June 2015. Covers evaluation and questions of identifying "excellence"

Talk given at Sydney University on 4 August 2015. Across many parts of our lives we are faced with the increasing availability of data to support decision making. With every element of the research process moving online, there are many new sources of data, as well as improved old sources of data, that can provide information on the performance, value and use of research and researchers. But there is a problem. The proliferation of proxy data, and their naive equation with such weakly defined concepts as “quality” and “excellence”, have lead to a reliance on rankings and quantitative measures as institutional targets. More than this the adoption of these instrumental targets has lead us away from a critical discussion of institutional values, indeed of what the institution is for. I will argue that it is only by moving away from such vague terms as “quality”, “excellence” and “impact” and focussing on institutional values and a well articulated mission that institutions of scholarship will continue to be relevant for the future. It is through interrogating the goals of the institution that the enormous potential resource of data on the research enterprise can be realised. Using the data effectively will allow us a window on how knowledge actually moves and is used. In combination with a clear sense of institutional goals this provides great opportunities for institutions to differentiate themselves from the pack.

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Blockchain technology is transforming industries and reshaping the way we conduct business, manage data, and secure transactions. Whether you're new to blockchain or looking to deepen your knowledge, our guidebook, "Blockchain for Dummies", is your ultimate resource.

The presentation showcases the diverse real-world applications of Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) across multiple industries: 1. **Manufacturing**: FDM is utilized in manufacturing for rapid prototyping, creating custom tools and fixtures, and producing functional end-use parts. Companies leverage its cost-effectiveness and flexibility to streamline production processes. 2. **Medical**: In the medical field, FDM is used to create patient-specific anatomical models, surgical guides, and prosthetics. Its ability to produce precise and biocompatible parts supports advancements in personalized healthcare solutions. 3. **Education**: FDM plays a crucial role in education by enabling students to learn about design and engineering through hands-on 3D printing projects. It promotes innovation and practical skill development in STEM disciplines. 4. **Science**: Researchers use FDM to prototype equipment for scientific experiments, build custom laboratory tools, and create models for visualization and testing purposes. It facilitates rapid iteration and customization in scientific endeavors. 5. **Automotive**: Automotive manufacturers employ FDM for prototyping vehicle components, tooling for assembly lines, and customized parts. It speeds up the design validation process and enhances efficiency in automotive engineering. 6. **Consumer Electronics**: FDM is utilized in consumer electronics for designing and prototyping product enclosures, casings, and internal components. It enables rapid iteration and customization to meet evolving consumer demands. 7. **Robotics**: Robotics engineers leverage FDM to prototype robot parts, create lightweight and durable components, and customize robot designs for specific applications. It supports innovation and optimization in robotic systems. 8. **Aerospace**: In aerospace, FDM is used to manufacture lightweight parts, complex geometries, and prototypes of aircraft components. It contributes to cost reduction, faster production cycles, and weight savings in aerospace engineering. 9. **Architecture**: Architects utilize FDM for creating detailed architectural models, prototypes of building components, and intricate designs. It aids in visualizing concepts, testing structural integrity, and communicating design ideas effectively. Each industry example demonstrates how FDM enhances innovation, accelerates product development, and addresses specific challenges through advanced manufacturing capabilities.

An invited talk given by Mark Billinghurst on Research Directions for Cross Reality Interfaces. This was given on July 2nd 2024 as part of the 2024 Summer School on Cross Reality in Hagenberg, Austria (July 1st - 7th)

In the modern digital era, social media platforms have become integral to our daily lives. These platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Snapchat, offer countless ways to connect, share, and communicate.

Is your patent a vanity piece of paper for your office wall? Or is it a reliable, defendable, assertable, property right? The difference is often quality. Is your patent simply a transactional cost and a large pile of legal bills for your startup? Or is it a leverageable asset worthy of attracting precious investment dollars, worth its cost in multiples of valuation? The difference is often quality. Is your patent application only good enough to get through the examination process? Or has it been crafted to stand the tests of time and varied audiences if you later need to assert that document against an infringer, find yourself litigating with it in an Article 3 Court at the hands of a judge and jury, God forbid, end up having to defend its validity at the PTAB, or even needing to use it to block pirated imports at the International Trade Commission? The difference is often quality. Quality will be our focus for a good chunk of the remainder of this season. What goes into a quality patent, and where possible, how do you get it without breaking the bank? ** Episode Overview ** In this first episode of our quality series, Kristen Hansen and the panel discuss: ⦿ What do we mean when we say patent quality? ⦿ Why is patent quality important? ⦿ How to balance quality and budget ⦿ The importance of searching, continuations, and draftsperson domain expertise ⦿ Very practical tips, tricks, examples, and Kristen’s Musts for drafting quality applications https://www.aurorapatents.com/patently-strategic-podcast.html

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Presented at Gartner Data & Analytics, London Maty 2024. BT Group has used the Neo4j Graph Database to enable impressive digital transformation programs over the last 6 years. By re-imagining their operational support systems to adopt self-serve and data lead principles they have substantially reduced the number of applications and complexity of their operations. The result has been a substantial reduction in risk and costs while improving time to value, innovation, and process automation. Join this session to hear their story, the lessons they learned along the way and how their future innovation plans include the exploration of uses of EKG + Generative AI.

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This presentation explores the practical application of image description techniques. Familiar guidelines will be demonstrated in practice, and descriptions will be developed “live”! If you have learned a lot about the theory of image description techniques but want to feel more confident putting them into practice, this is the presentation for you. There will be useful, actionable information for everyone, whether you are working with authors, colleagues, alone, or leveraging AI as a collaborator. Link to presentation recording and transcript: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/details-of-description-part-ii-describing-images-in-practice/ Presented by BookNet Canada on June 25, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.

Support en anglais diffusé lors de l'événement 100% IA organisé dans les locaux parisiens d'Iguane Solutions, le mardi 2 juillet 2024 : - Présentation de notre plateforme IA plug and play : ses fonctionnalités avancées, telles que son interface utilisateur intuitive, son copilot puissant et des outils de monitoring performants. - REX client : Cyril Janssens, CTO d’ easybourse, partage son expérience d’utilisation de notre plateforme IA plug & play.

Your comprehensive guide to RPA in healthcare for 2024. Explore the benefits, use cases, and emerging trends of robotic process automation. Understand the challenges and prepare for the future of healthcare automation

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Kief Morris rethinks the infrastructure code delivery lifecycle, advocating for a shift towards composable infrastructure systems. We should shift to designing around deployable components rather than code modules, use more useful levels of abstraction, and drive design and deployment from applications rather than bottom-up, monolithic architecture and delivery.

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