This looks like an event that should interest people in our community.
Dominic
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Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 15:03:32 -0400
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Please join us on the evening of Wednesday, May 30th, for a special
event hosted by the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard Law
School Library, and the Harvard Book Store. Professors John Palfrey
(Director of the Berkman Center) and Urs Gasser (Executive Director of
the Berkman Center) will launch their new book, /Interop: The Promise
and Perils of Highly Interconnected Systems/, at 6PM at the Harvard Law
School. The book argues that interoperability is a critical aspect of
any successful system—and now it is more important than ever.
More information about the event and the book is below. The talk will be
followed by a reception, which we would welcome you to join. Please feel
free to share the announcement below with friends, colleagues, students,
and others who may be interested (and if you have recommendations for
people or groups to whom this may appeal, please feel free to share
their contact information with me).
Please don't hesitate to be in touch if you have any questions. We hope
to see you there!
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Interop: The Promise and Perils of Highly Interconnected Systems
John Palfrey and Urs Gasser*
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2012/05/interop
Wednesday, May 30, 6:00PM
Harvard Law School, Wasserstein Hall, Milstein West AB (2nd Floor, Map)
Free and Open to the Public
RSVP required for those attending in person via
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2012/05/interop
Co-sponsored by the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard Law
School Library, and the Harvard Book Store
Reception to follow
The practice of standardization has been facilitating innovation and
economic growth for centuries. The standardization of the railroad gauge
revolutionized the flow of commodities, the standardization of money
revolutionized debt markets and simplified trade, and the
standardization of credit networks has allowed for the purchase of goods
using money deposited in a bank half a world away. These advancements
did not eradicate the different systems they affected; instead, each
system has been transformed so that it can interoperate with systems all
over the world, while still preserving local diversity.
As Palfrey and Gasser show, interoperability is a critical aspect of any
successful system—and now it is more important than ever. Today we are
confronted with challenges that affect us on a global scale: the
financial crisis, the quest for sustainable energy, and the need to
reform health care systems and improve global disaster response systems.
The successful flow of information across systems is crucial if we are
to solve these problems, but we must also learn to manage the vast
degree of interconnection inherent in each system involved.
Interoperability offers a number of solutions to these global
challenges, but Palfrey and Gasser also consider its potential negative
effects, especially with respect to privacy, security, and co-dependence
of states; indeed, interoperability has already sparked debates about
document data formats, digital music, and how to create successful yet
safe cloud computing. Interop demonstrates that, in order to get the
most out of interoperability while minimizing its risks, we will need to
fundamentally revisit our understanding of how it works, and how it can
allow for improvements in each of its constituent parts.
*About John*
John Palfrey is Henry N. Ess Professor of Law and Vice Dean for Library
and Information Resources at Harvard Law School. He is the co-author of
"Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives"
(Basic Books, 2008) and "Access Denied: The Practice and Politics of
Internet Filtering" (MIT Press, 2008). His research and teaching is
focused on Internet law, intellectual property, and international law.
*About Urs*
Urs Gasser is the Executive Director of the Berkman Center for Internet
& Society at Harvard University. Urs Gasser has written several books,
is the co author of “Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of
Digital Natives” (Basic Books, 2008, with John Palfrey) that has been
translated into 10 languages (including Chinese), and has published over
70 articles in professional journals.
About the book:
http://www.amazon.com/Interop-Promise-Perils-Interconnected-Systems/dp/0465…
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Date: Tue, May 22, 2012 at 2:28 PM
Subject: [Internal-l] NYC Wiki World's Fair
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Please sign up today to have your Wikiverse group (region, chapter,
wikiproject) represented at the Wiki World's Fair for July 7 as part
of 'Wikimania Takes Manhattan':
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiki_World's_Fair
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiki_World's_Fair#Sign_up
Thanks,
Richard
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Samuel Klein identi.ca:sj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266
Hi folks,
Tonight's meetup is at 33 Harrison Avenue, not 33 Harrison Street. The
full amended address for the venue (Encuentro 5 in Chinatown) is:
33 Harrison Ave, floor 5, Boston, MA 02111
Map:
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=33+Harrison+Ave,+floor+5,+Boston,+MA+02111&h…
Apologies for the last-minute fix.
Eric
Does anyone have a current contact working on media at the Globe?
This would be a fun thing to coordinate come WLM time later this year.
SJ
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From: Itzik Edri <itzik(a)infra.co.il>
Date: Fri, May 11, 2012 at 6:24 AM
Subject: Re: [Wiki Loves Monuments] wanted: suggestion for
international media partners to WLM 2012
To: Wiki Loves Monuments Photograph Competition
<wikilovesmonuments(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
It's less international, but The Atlantis and the Boston Globe have a
great and very popular weekly picture posts (The Big Picture). Maybe
we can also combine something with them
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On May 11, 2012 12:01 PM, "Barbara Fischer"
<barbara.fischer(a)wikimedia.de> wrote:
>
> Hello all of You,
>
> we would love to further the outreach of the WLM contest even beyond the boundaries of the community. For that reason each participating chapter will likely to be organizing its own press information center and maybe try to get media partners for support. In case you like to get support in how to raise a media partnership please do contact me. We are working on a basic pattern for such purpose. In any case please do inform me about Your press activity as soon as it comes to partnerships.
>
> On international level we strive for media partnerships aswell. Please let me know, if You do have specific media in mind, that could be interesting to address. Right now we consider magazines on photography and heritage of interest but also web related focus as open access would be fine. If You do have further ideas, come on and share them.Both print and online would be just nice.
>
> Here some examples:
>
> National Geographic http://www.nationalgeographic.com/
> Metro Newspaper http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro_International
> Eikon http://www.eikon.at/content/en/termine_wettbewerbe.php
> world monuments fund http://www.wmf.org/watch
>
>
> Please help me to complete the list! If You do know who to address to obtain a quick decision please let me know. :))
>
> best regards and have a nice weekend
>
> Barbara
>
>
> --
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>
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> Tel. (030) 219 158 26-0
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> http://wikimedia.de
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Samuel Klein identi.ca:sj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266
This is very late-notice, but the New England American Studies Association
conference's theme this year is Digital Revolutions, and it seems to me
Wikipedia and GLAM would fit in perfectly. The deadline for proposals is
May 3 (this Thursday). Anyone interested?
Dominic
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From: kristen_albert2 <kristen.albert(a)yale.edu>
Date: 26 April 2012 18:02
Subject: [NEAdiscuss] New England American Studies Association Call for
Papers—Deadline May 3, 2012
To: NEAdiscuss(a)yahoogroups.com
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Call for Papers—Deadline Extended to May 3, 2012
New England American Studies Association 2012 Conference
URI Campus, Providence, Rhode Island
October 12–13, 2012
Digital Revolutions: Interpreting and Historicizing American Culture
Recent developments in digital technologies have transformed the place of
the humanities in American life. From online versions of Cotton Mather's
Magnalia Christi Americana to a daily John Quincy Adams Twitter feed to the
Smithsonian's publicly accessible Archives of American Art to the Women
Writers Online Project, digital technologists are reshaping our sense of
history, place, community, and identity. Digitization of America's cultural
heritage has also fundamentally transformed work in the humanities itself.
>From universities to libraries to cultural institutions, the information
infrastructure has brought forth digital collaborations across disciplines
and beyond the academy, as well as between scholars, educators, archivists
and programmers. But it has also brought forward concerns about copyright,
control and access to information and the future of print media.
Are such changes unprecedented? Prior evolutions in communications
technology suggest otherwise. From broadsides to blogs, such changes have
reshaped the way Americans interact and understand themselves both in the
present and the past. The 2012 NEASA conference, Digital Revolutions,
invites participants to consider what these developments are, how they are
redefining work in the humanities and what previous media revolutions
suggest for the future.
This conference will combine scholarly investigation of the cultural,
political and economic significance of communications media with a series
of panels, workshops and participatory forums that can take advantage of
technologies now available to us. In addition to individual paper
proposals, we also welcome submissions for roundtable discussions, hands-on
workshops and multimedia sessions such as film screenings, online
presentations and 5-minute micropapers.
Proposals should include a one page abstract and title, as well as the
author's name, address (including email), and institutional or professional
affiliation. For panel proposals please include contact information for all
participants, as well as a brief (no more than two page) description of the
session topic and format. Submit proposals to
neasaconference12(a)gmail.comby the revised deadline of May 3, 2012.
Proposal or queries may also be
sent to:
Sara Sikes, NEASA President
Massachusetts Historical Society, The Adams Papers
1154 Boylston Street
Boston, MA02215
ssikes(a)masshist.org
For more information about the conference and NEASA, including an expanded
Call for Papers, please visit www.neasa.org.
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Massachusetts Historical Society
1154 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02215
Tel: 617-646-0571, Fax: 617-859-0074
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I saw two news items this week that might be of interest to the Boston
group:
- The WMF is seeking a Wikipedian to serve as a full-time fellow at the
Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy
School of Government. The goal is to help use the Belfer Center's resources
to improve Wikipedia's coverage of topics such as nuclear security.
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/04/26/can-you-help-wikipedians-collaborate-…
- Harvard's libraries have put the metadata on 12 million items in their
collection in the public domain:
http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2012/04/24/2b2keverythingismiscbig-data-for…
metadata consists of information about books, such as sizes, and
sometimes tables of contents.
Best,
Gabe
Pizza made entirely of tofu!
Thank you, this is great. And so is the page update...
SJ
On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 12:58 AM, emw <emw.wiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> Our next meetup is confirmed for May 14 at 7:00 PM at encuentro 5. The
> address is 33 Harrison Ave, floor 5, Boston, MA 02111. Many thanks to Gabe
> for quickly securing the new venue -- it looks like a neat place, and should
> hopefully be more convenient for folks in the city proper.
>
> You can sign up at the Wikipedia meetup page
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Boston#Upcoming) and/or our
> meetup.com page (http://www.meetup.com/wikipedia-5/events/57543932/). I've
> put forward some ideas for discussion topics on that Wikipedia meetup page,
> and you should too. A geonotice request for Massachusetts is up
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Geonotice#Wikipedia:Meetup.2FBoston),
> so you'll probably see that on your watchlist soon.
>
> For those who plan to attend -- what are your thoughts on food? I recall
> seeing pizza and tofu suggested in a recent thread. I'd be up for that, and
> maybe some caprese sandwiches. It might be simplest to have attendees who
> plan to eat bring a few dollars for food -- otherwise, I can look into
> different options.
>
> Please send any questions or comments my way.
>
> Best,
> Eric
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Emw
>
> P.S.: I've spruced up that Wikipedia meetup page -- did you know the Boston
> group has recorded about 70 meetings since 2004? Add/adjust/remove as you'd
> like!
>
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Samuel Klein identi.ca:sj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266
Hello!
Our next meetup is confirmed for May 14 at 7:00 PM at encuentro 5. The
address is 33 Harrison Ave, floor 5, Boston, MA 02111. Many thanks to Gabe
for quickly securing the new venue -- it looks like a neat place, and
should hopefully be more convenient for folks in the city proper.
You can sign up at the Wikipedia meetup page (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Boston#Upcoming) and/or our
meetup.com page (http://www.meetup.com/wikipedia-5/events/57543932/). I've
put forward some ideas for discussion topics on that Wikipedia meetup page,
and you should too. A geonotice request for Massachusetts is up (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Geonotice#Wikipedia:Meetup.2FBoston),
so you'll probably see that on your watchlist soon.
For those who plan to attend -- what are your thoughts on food? I recall
seeing pizza and tofu suggested in a recent thread. I'd be up for that,
and maybe some caprese sandwiches. It might be simplest to have attendees
who plan to eat bring a few dollars for food -- otherwise, I can look into
different options.
Please send any questions or comments my way.
Best,
Eric
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Emw
P.S.: I've spruced up that Wikipedia meetup page -- did you know the Boston
group has recorded about 70 meetings since 2004? Add/adjust/remove as
you'd like!
Hi all,
It was terrific to meet all of you at the general meeting on Sunday. I'm
very excited about taking our local efforts to the next level.
I wanted to follow up on the idea of hosting a meeting where we invite a
local professor who has conducted research on Wikipedia and free culture to
be our guest speaker. SJ suggested Yochai Benkler at the Berkman Center (
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/people/ybenkler). Our preliminary plan was for
SJ to make the initial contact and for me to handle the follow-up and the
logistics.
I'd like to get started as soon as possible since we're so close to the end
of the semester. I have a couple of questions for the group:
1. Do we want to potentially combine this with the regular meetup we've
scheduled for May 14th?
2. Do we want to allocate some money for pizza (there may be a way to get a
student group at Harvard to cover this)?
3. Should we consider postponing the event until the Fall, given that many
schools are in the midst of finals?
Best wishes,
Gabe (GabrielF)
Reminder: there is a meeting today in the BPL until 4:30, then heading
to an early supper tonight (location TBD; a followup will be sent out
in a bit)
@ the BPL:
Conference Room C06, Johnson Building,
Boston Public Library—Central Library
700 Boylston St., Boston MA 02116
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/New_England
SJ
617 529 4266