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- “Despite being extremely busy with final preparations for Science Online London, Victor Henning, Founder & Director of the company behind the popular academic research management tool Mendeley was kind enough to take a little time over the weekend to address a few questions I’d posed to him.”
Archive for the 'identity/privacy' Category
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- Session announcement: Author identity – Science Online London Blog – August 22, 2009 — Royal Institution of Great Britain“Duncan Hull, Geoffrey Bilder, Michael Habib, Reynold Guida: ResearcherID, Contributor ID, Scopus Author ID, etc. help to connect your scientific record. How do these tools connect to your online identity, and how can OpenID and other tools be integrated? How can we build an online reputation and when should we worry about our privacy?”
- Project website for Vanish: “Vanish is a research system designed to give users control over the lifetime of personal data stored on the web or in the cloud. Specifically, all copies of Vanish encrypted data — even archived or cached copies — will become permanently unreadable at a specific time, without any action on the part of the user or any third party or centralized service.”
- Article on U. of Washington prototype that uses a peer-to-peer encryption technique that makes messages disappear over time.
- “-> Settings -> Privacy -> News Feed and Wall -> Facebook Ads -> Appearance in Facebook Ads and click “no one.” Unless, of course, you want to be semifamous and have your picture used to push some garbage product or website without your knowledge.”
- Enhanced ScienceDirect Goes Live « Nextbio’s Blog“Remember my blog post NextBio Elsevier Partnership telling you that Elsevier was going to use NextBio technology to enhance ScienceDirect? Well, the updated version of ScienceDirect went live yesterday and now you can see the enhancements for yourself! “
- Less than 50 spots left…. “The Web is rapidly changing the communication, practice and culture of science. Science online London 2009 will explore the latest trends in science online. How is the Web affecting the work of researchers, science communicators, journalists, librarians, educators, students? What can you do to make the best use of the growing number of online tools?”
- via ALDirect – It frustrates me when I can’t leave comments. See post: on Democracy, Trust, and Libraries. I also discuss this issue in my Master’s Paper.
- “”There’s something important in there for the science community, creating an online identity is of growing importance, whether you do it through your lab’s web page, your set of tagged articles on Digg, your blog about your research or personal interests or your photos on Flickr. When people are interested in asking you to give a talk, hiring you, joining your lab, or collaborating with you, they’re going to look you up via Google, and as the Times article points out, there’s a danger in not participating, and thus not controlling your online image”
- SmallWorlds project at U. of Leicester: “This project will facilitate the construction of online professional networks using freely available Web 2.0 tools to support the development of early career stage laboratory scientists in the Life and Physical Sciences. We will do this by guiding and encouraging development of clustered small world networks.”
- Press release from NIH
- “Amid a national debate over the influence of industry money on medical research and practice, two pharmaceutical giants say they will begin publicly reporting payments they make to outside doctors.”
- “Dr. Zerhouni was chosen after President Bush announced strict limits on federal financing of stem-cell research, and the White House made clear that Dr. Zerhouni was expected to support this policy. But in 2004 and 2005, Dr. Zerhouni told Congress that the president’s policy was hindering scientific progress.”
- “MPACT is looking at how mentoring as a scholarly activity can be better measured and quantified. Our larger goal is to make the argument that mentoring is not being rewarded enough when faculty members are evaluated on their productivity.”
- “Authors, Identity Management and the Scholary Communication System” – More on the summit Terrell went to.
- Terrell’s project – “The MPACT Project is an ongoing project devoted to defining and assessing Mentoring as a scholarly activity.”
Privacy schmivacy ::: SAIS Library News
SAIS at JHU library blog discusses the LJ artice – “Have you ever posed for a photograph, tipsy, with a Corona in hand? Many would answer yes! Did you post that picture online?”
How to: Manage your online identity – librariesinteract.info: Blog central for Australian Libraries
“For the networks you keep, consider using a OpenID service, such as ClaimID, to track your blogs, websites, and profiles. Michael Habib gives a thorough overview of the service’s aims at authority control on the web in an article for Library Journal.”
