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The Real Information Environment

The Real Information Environment. Dr Martin Poulter ICT Manager, The Economics Network Academy technical away day 18 January 2008. Embeddability.

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The Real Information Environment

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  1. The Real Information Environment Dr Martin Poulter ICT Manager, The Economics Network Academy technical away day 18 January 2008

  2. Embeddability • By providing (maps/ book data/ bookmarks/ image sets) as an embeddable service, (Google/ Amazon/ Delicious/ Flickr) makes other web sites better, not just their own. • Google Video, YouTube and SlideShare on Economics Network • Economics Network on YouTube and SlideShare

  3. The real Information Environment • The FEELE FDTL5 project is using WikiVersity to create documentation • So why not republish it on our site? • We get more hits via WikiPedia than via Heacademy.ac.uk • So why not become a WikiPedia editor? • Health Economics lecturers want a sub-site • So why not create it in Pbwiki.com and import it automatically to economicsnetwork.ac.uk? • Lecturers find it easier to recommend links to students via Del.icio.us than via their VLE • So why not copy our entire links database into Del.icio.us?

  4. So what is economicsnetwork.ac.uk? • Not just a site that you visit for documents and databases • Increasingly, a content provider and filter that uses a variety of external services and embedded content, and engages in an increasing number of online communities.

  5. Issues with commercial services • Credibility of source • Embed content (e.g. YouTube video), so it is reached via our (credible) site, as well as by searching in YT • Free services might go bust or start charging • So keep copies of content • Content gets branded with their logo • So what? Academics don’t care it’s a YouTube video • Invisibility to our site search engines • So put description and metadata on our site

  6. Amazon SlideShare Intute YouTube Google Video Other JISC services e.g. JORUM Google Books Google Calendar Flickr PBwiki Del.icio.us WikiPedia / WikiVersity / Commons Distributed web sites? =are doing =would like to do Subject Centre

  7. Become a film crew £25 £1140 £245 £1516 (circa 2005)! £30 £61 £15

  8. PBWiki as a CMS • Health Economics education on PBwiki • HEe on Economicsnetwork.ac.uk Screenscrape… …then parse

  9. Google Books foreknowledge

  10. Hacking Google Books • Need a “human” user agent • A limit of several hundred requests per hour (a few runs needed) • Spacing out requests (2-sec wait) • Basic screen-scraping • Search for phrases “Limited preview”, “No preview available”, “Snippet view”, “Full view”

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