searching in the cloud: bright new dawn or stormy weather?
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Presentation given at the MmIT 2013 Conference "Cloudbusting - demystifying the cloud", held in Sheffield on 5th April 2013TRANSCRIPT
Searching in the cloudBright new dawn or stormy weather?
Karen [email protected]
MmIT 2013 - CloudbustingDemystifying the CloudSheffield, 5th April 2013
This presentation is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License
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Data & services hosted beyond an organisation’s server and accessible
via the web
Stuff that is out there
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Not really new, the difference is.....
No longer just publicly published data
– Learning resources accessible off site
– Federated search engines e.g. Deep Web Technologies
– Integration of institutional collections & external services e.g. Google Scholar
– Repository searches, OpenURL, open access(?)
– Internal documents, communications, personal files and searches
And lots more!
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Where’s my stuff?
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What’s not to love?
Your account has been DELETED!!
Unavailable
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Obfuscation
Fragmentation
Isolation
Blurring of boundaries – public vs private
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Blurring of boundaries – public vs private
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http://www.newmediatrendwatch.com/markets-by-country/18-uk/148-usage-patterns-and-demographics
http://infoism.co.uk/2013/01/why-the-digital-divide-and-not-the-welfare-state-is-the-real-poverty-trap/
Searching in the cloudBright new dawn or stormy weather?