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Thursday, November 28, 2013

User Experience Librarian is more about outside of the library walls

The position (with many variants, including: emerging technology librarian' embedded librarian; Electronic Access and User Experience Librarian, Public Services-User Experience Librarian III / Instructor in the Library; Assessment and User Experience Librarian, USER EXPERIENCE REFERENCE LIBRARIAN AND WEBMASTER; Digital User Experience Librarian);  is more about analytics (metrics) and user experiences, than librarianship in any traditional sense of the term.

Examples of the job descriptions are here:
  • Knowledge and understanding of best practices, current issues and trends in assessment and usability [job ad at University of Manitoba Libraries]
  • Knowledge of metadata coding standards. Experience with library catalogue end users and/or end users of electronic resources... Website design and maintenance experience. [job ad at Nova Scotia Provincial Library]
  • basic knowledge ofMARC; experience with one or more Library enterprise systems suchas library management systems (Symphony, Aleph, Endeavor),discovery interfaces (Ebsco Discovery Services, Summon, Primo),search technologies (Solr, Elasticsearch), course managementsoftware (Sakai, Canvas, BlackBoard) [job ad for Discovery User Experience Librarian at Indiana University ]
  • will coordinate usability assessment fo

Saturday, October 22, 2011

The Supreme Court of Canada rules web links not illegal‎

The Supreme Court of Canada ruled that hyperlinking to libelous material does not constitute publishing the material itself. continue reading:

Extract:
The ruling will alleviate fears that holding someone liable for how they use hyperlinks on websites, personal ones or others, could cast a chill on internet use.

The responsible use of the internet and how traditional defamation law applies to modern technologies were at issue in this case, which was watched closely by media organizations and civil liberties groups.

How someone can protect their reputation in the internet age when content is passed around with the quick click of a button was also considered in the case. On social media websites such as Facebook and Twitter, users often share links, and the court's ruling could have dramatically disrupted that function had it gone the other way.

  • Internet links not libel, top court rules, 19/10/2011, CBC News
  • Canada Supreme Court: Hyperlinks cannot libel, BBC News ‎Oct 19, 2011‎ ... The ruling was closely watched as the case could have wide-ranging impacts
  • To link or not to link… Edmonton Journal (blog) - ‎Oct 19, 2011‎
  • Is linking to libel the same as publishing libel?
    CBC.ca - ‎Oct 19, 2011‎
    Extract: Wayne Crookes, a former Green Party campaign manager, sought damages from Jon Newton for defamation over links that appeared in an article posted on Newton's website on July 18, 2006.

    Newton didn't repeat the allegedly defamatory remarks on his site, but links to two U.S. websites were posted without comment.

    The B.C. Supreme Court dismissed the case saying links are like footnotes, not publication. Crookes's lawyer says linking to a website is an invitation and encouragement to visit the site.
  • Saturday, October 18, 2008

    Looks Can Be Deceptive: Web Analytics & Transaction Log Demystified

    A quote from the book helps visualizing the true figures of a Website's visitors:

    "One could legitimately wonder if the counted visits appearing in Table 7-6 can be attributed to actual people or to robots, spiders, crawlers and the likes. Robots are usually small applications designed to gather data for search engine indexes. Unfortunately, the record of a virtual visit by a robot, spider or crawler looks no different in a Web server transaction log than that of a visit by an actual person. Robot visits may be traceable through name identifiers (i.e., Googlebot), or by a high volume of pages accessed in a very small timeframe, or by their requests for a file on the Web site called 'robots.txt.' The latter normally describes what may or may not be indexed from a given Web site by search engines. Nevertheless, if found, visits by robots must be systematically filtered and separately counted or just ignored when assessing the real usage impact of a Web site."

    Continue reading this from the book on E-Metrics and the details @ eMetrics or Web-Metrics or Webometrics - A new book for Library & Information Professionals

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