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Re: [Air-l] SW to store webpages
by Dan L Burk 07 Jun '05

07 Jun '05

On 6 Jun 2005, GTa3411203(a)aol.com wrote: > I have been following this discussion and have not yet seen anyone raise a > question relating to the legality of using this approach to capture web pages > in > support of academic research, in particular those web pages that are clearly > identified as being copyrighted. Are you contacting the owner of the site to > ask permission to create a copy of their documents for current and future > use? > If not, how are you justifying using this approach to duplicating the data? > Fair use laws? How are you using the data after it has been captured? Are you You needn't worry too much about whether pages are "clearly identified" as copyrighted -- you can pretty well assume that they are all copyrighted. In the United States, fair use may privelege storage of the pages for analysis. Since fair use does not exist elsewhere, researchers may have to rely on other user priveleges or exemptions (e.g., educational or research exemptions under fair dealing) which will vary country to country. Alternatively, there is at least an implied license to view the pages by virtue of their being publicly accessible. This may extend to some types of research storage, since the nature of the technology is that the pages will be stored anyway (in cache, in RAM, and so on). Implied license arguments are always tricky, since the terms are by definition unwritten, but there is at least a viable argument along these lines. This is also discussed in the forthcoming Allen, Burk & Davis paper that I mentioned in my previous post, which Gove Allen presented at the Toronto meeting. Dan L. Burk Visiting Professor Cornell Law School Myron Taylor Hall Ithaca, NY 14853 USA Oppenheimer, Wolff & Donnelly Professor University of Minnesota Law School 229 19th Avenue South Minneapolis, MN 55455 USA *************************************** Voice: 612-626-8726 Fax: 612-625-2011

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Re: [Air-l] SW to store webpages
by Dan L Burk 07 Jun '05

07 Jun '05

On 6 Jun 2005, GTa3411203(a)aol.com wrote: > I have been following this discussion and have not yet seen anyone raise a > question relating to the legality of using this approach to capture web pages > in > support of academic research, in particular those web pages that are clearly > identified as being copyrighted. Are you contacting the owner of the site to > ask permission to create a copy of their documents for current and future > use? > If not, how are you justifying using this approach to duplicating the data? > Fair use laws? How are you using the data after it has been captured? Are you You needn't worry too much about whether pages are "clearly identified" as copyrighted -- you can pretty well assume that they are all copyrighted. In the United States, fair use may privelege storage of the pages for analysis. Since fair use does not exist elsewhere, researchers may have to rely on other user priveleges or exemptions (e.g., educational or research exemptions under fair dealing) which will vary country to country. Alternatively, there is at least an implied license to view the pages by virtue of their being publicly accessible. This may extend to some types of research storage, since the nature of the technology is that the pages will be stored anyway (in cache, in RAM, and so on). Implied license arguments are always tricky, since the terms are by definition unwritten, but there is at least a viable argument along these lines. This is also discussed in the forthcoming Allen, Burk & Davis paper that I mentioned in my previous post, which Gove Allen presented at the Toronto meeting. Dan L. Burk Visiting Professor Cornell Law School Myron Taylor Hall Ithaca, NY 14853 USA Oppenheimer, Wolff & Donnelly Professor University of Minnesota Law School 229 19th Avenue South Minneapolis, MN 55455 USA *************************************** Voice: 612-626-8726 Fax: 612-625-2011

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Re: [Air-l] SW to store pages - scraping and robots
by Dan L Burk 07 Jun '05

07 Jun '05

On 5 Jun 2005, Thomas Koenig wrote: > Bernie Hogan wrote: > > >Be careful when you scrape. Check the robots.txt file at the domain level > >for example http://www.google.com/robots.txt. If your aren't allowed to > >spider it, then perhaps you need some sort of ethics approval to capture it > >for academic purposes [if not, I feel you should require this approval, and > >to open a can of worms - I think the AoIR guidelines should reflect this]. > > > wget actually has an option to ignore "robots.txt" and even an option to > pose as IE or any other browser for that matter (as do HTTrack and > WebCopier ;-) ). I personally wouldn't have any problems to activate > that option. But that's a political decision I feel is better decided by > national or supranational polities than a voluntary associations such as > aoir. Those who attended Gove Allen's presentation on academic use of automated data retrieval 'bots at the Toronto conference will recall that this is both a legal and an ethical problem. Gove, Charles Ess, Gordon Davis, and I have papers on both aspects forthcoming. Given Charles' involvement in the project, I know that there is a very keen interest in having the AoIR guidelines at some point, probably not too far in the future, address at least the ethical side of the problem. Oh, and don't just check the robots.txt file -- probably better check any written TOS pages as well. The machine-readable and the human-readable prohibitions aren't always congruent. Dan L. Burk Visiting Professor Cornell Law School Myron Taylor Hall Ithaca, NY 14853 USA Oppenheimer, Wolff & Donnelly Professor University of Minnesota Law School 229 19th Avenue South Minneapolis, MN 55455 USA *************************************** Voice: 612-626-8726 Fax: 612-625-2011

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Re: Delphi Method & Webdesign
by Niels Hendriks 07 Jun '05

07 Jun '05

Dear List, a week ago I sent a question on the use of the Delphi Method for Webdesign projects to this lists. I wanted to thank you for all your replies. One of the respondents, Mr Murray Turoff, asked me to post his reply to the list. Regards, Niels Hendriks niels.hendriks(a)mda.khlim.be _____________________________________________________ Delphi has been used as a way of gathering requirments from a large number of potential users of a system and to give them all a chance to compare everyone elses suggestions and then have the whole group rate them. I dont think any of examples of this application has been published in a paper. The whole Delphi Method book is on my website but more interesting is the paper: Turoff, M., Hiltz, S. R., Li, Z., Wang, Y., Cho, H., Yao, X., (2004) Online Collaborative Learning Enhancement through the Delphi Method, Proceedings of the OZCHI 2004 Conference, November 22-24, University of Wollongong, Australia this software could easily have been used to do what you are asking about and if someone wants to put it up somewhere they can contact the two phd students that wrote it, it operates in coldfusion on a microsoft server. this is located also on my website. http://is.njit.edu/turoff I am not in the mailing list you sent your message to and someone copied it to me. please do enter the above information as a follow up on that list.

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FW: UNDP-APDIP Releases ORDIG Policy Brief and Input Paper on Internet Governance
by Danny Butt 07 Jun '05

07 Jun '05

These may be useful for some on this list Regards Danny **Please disseminate widely** **Apologies for cross-postings** =================================================== UNDP Asia-Pacific Development Information Programme (UNDP-APDIP) Releases ORDIG Policy Brief and Input Paper on Internet Governance 7 June 2005 Voices from Asia-Pacific: Internet Governance Priorities and Recommendations =================================================== After almost ten months of research and activities, UNDP-APDIP's Open Regional Dialogue on Internet Governance (ORDIG*) has produced a two-part report entitled, "Voices from Asia-Pacific: Internet Governance Priorities and Recommendations" - consisting of 1) the ORDIG Policy Brief and Executive Summary, and 2) the ORDIG Input Paper for the UN Working Group on Internet Governance (WGIG) and the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). These documents stem from months of consultations involving stakeholder groups from the public and private sectors, as well as civil society. ORDIG consulted over 3,000 stakeholders through sub-regional meetings, jointly organized with UNESCAP and others; a region-wide online forum that allowed for open and candid discussions on the issues; and a region-wide, multi-lingual, issues-based online survey that looked at the Internet governance priorities of the region. The resulting two reports are the synthesis, consolidation, and reading of the voices from the Asia-Pacific region. They outline the principles and dimensions that make up the framework for building recommendations, which are provided in the documents at two levels - general and specific recommendations. Issues and recommendations covered in the Infrastructure dimension are access costs, VOIP, and wireless networks. Issues and recommendations covered in the Logical dimension are DNS management, IP address management, and technical standards. Issues covered in the Content dimension are content pollution (spam, viruses, spyware, etc.) and cybercrime. Issues covered in the Social/Developmental dimension are cultural diversity and participation. The "Voices from Asia-Pacific: Internet Governance Priorities and Recommendations" documents were shared with and endorsed by delegates at the High Level Asia-Pacific Conference for the World Summit on the Information Society, in Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran (31 May-2 June 2005). Furthermore, these reports will be provided to the WGIG at their upcoming Fourth Meeting (14-17 June 2005), as the Asia-Pacific input for the Working Group's deliberation. For all documents, please go to: ORDIG Policy Brief http://igov.apdip.net/ORDIG_Policy_Brief.pdf ORDIG Input Paper http://igov.apdip.net/ORDIG_Paper.pdf ORDIG Survey Report http://igov.apdip.net/ORDIG.Survey.Report.pdf ORDIG Forum Summary http://igov.apdip.net/undp-apdip%20forum%20summary.pdf Contact: Phet Sayo, UNDP-APDIP Programme Specialist, phet(a)apdip.net ======================= * ORDIG is an initiative of UNDP's Asia-Pacific Development Information Programme (UNDP-APDIP), in collaboration with the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP), and the Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC). It was carried out with the aid of a grant from the International Development Research Centre, Ottawa, Canada. ------ End of Forwarded Message ------ End of Forwarded Message

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Search opened - Assistant Professor of Communication
by Steve Jones 07 Jun '05

07 Jun '05

The Department of Communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago invites applications for the following anticipated position: Assistant Professor of Communication. A successful candidate must have interests in the study of new media, the internet, and/or communication technology, in some combination with the study of one or more of the areas in which the department has research strength. The candidate will also have an earned doctorate in Communication or a related field, strong promise of scholarly accomplishments and teaching success (at the undergraduate and graduate levels) appropriate for appointment as Assistant Professor, good prospects for external research funding, and demonstrated commitment to multidisciplinary scholarship. Located in the heart of Chicago, UIC is a Research I University with 16,000 undergraduates, 6,500 graduate and 3,000 professional students. The Department of Communication has 11 full-time faculty, approximately 100 undergraduate majors, and 25 M.A. students. The Department is developing a doctoral program focused on the relationship between technology and cultural and media studies. Subject to budgetary approval, the desired appointment is date for the position is August 16, 2006. Interested parties should send a full curriculum vitae, samples of relevant scholarly publications, evidence of teaching effectiveness, and four letters of reference to — Professor Steve Jones, Chair Communication Search Committee Department of Communication (MC-132) 1007 West Harrison Street The University of Illinois at Chicago Chicago, IL 60607-7137 Applications should be received by October 15, 2005, to receive full consideration, although the search will proceed until the position is filled. Applications from women and minorities are particularly encouraged. The University of Illinois is an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer.

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CFP - Workshop on Location-Awareness and Community
by Quentin (Gad) Jones 07 Jun '05

07 Jun '05

Call for Participation Workshop on Location-Awareness and Community Deadline: June 20, 2005 ECSCW 2005 9th European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work September 18-22, 2005, Paris, France http://www.haifa.il.ibm.com/conferences/laac05/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- INTRODUCTION Several real-world tracking and positioning technologies, such as GPS, 802.11, Bluetooth and RFID tags, have become mature enough to be widely adopted and employed in systems linking information and communication to geographic places and people. The challenge is to better understand what can be presented to users in a useful and unobtrusive way. There are many examples of different approaches to this challenge. Key examples include systems that associate digital text to physical places enabling users to leave others, or themselves, relevant notes, recommendations and reminders. Several systems leverage location for mobile tour guides or to map users' activities or position. Location is also used to enhance remote awareness of others and to infer availability for communication. A major challenge with location-based systems is how to automatically learn and identify a user's position. Low-level sensor data must be filtered and abstracted to a meaningful granularity (e.g., GPS coordinates to "heading to the gym", or wireless LAN signals to "room 636"). GOALS and OBJECTIVES Many challenges remain to effectively leverage location awareness to support community. These problems span the social and the technical fields—tensions between privacy control and awareness, from raw data to effectively processed meaningful inferences. Thus, there is a wide range of areas for fruitful discussion. These include, but are not limited to, the following areas. Algorithmic: - Automatically learning and identifying a user's location in a meaningful way - Methods for labeling locations and sharing descriptions - Rich representation of locations; composed of geometric, social, and temporal properties Conceptual: - Place shape behaviour: how people describe places, whether their descriptions are relevant to others - How place types relate to people's desire for place-related awareness and communication with others - What information people are willing to share about themselves to enable place-related communication and awareness - Which lessons learned from online communities are applicable to non-virtual communities, particularly referring to identity and privacy Interaction Techniques / User Interface Design: - Models to ensure people's privacy in presence enabled systems - UIs for managing complex privacy information and preferences, particularly on mobile devices - Designs and implementations of mobile location-aware community information systems - Scalable visualizations of people- and place-centered systems - Creative location-relevant content WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION This will be a one-day workshop. Rather than just presentations on the position papers, we would like it to be interactive. The accepted papers will be distributed to the participants in advance. We hope to involve participants in a pre-workshop activity that will help everyone think about common data from their own diverse perspectives. During the day, we will have short, five-minute presentations for each participant to highlight the core ideas in their paper and how they relate to the workshop topic. The main part of the day will involve a design exercise, in mixed groups based on expertise. In this exercise, participants will work on different aspects of a specific scenario, revolving around our three main themes: Algorithmic, Conceptual, and Interaction Techniques/UI Design. The last part of the workshop will be dedicated to re-writing a "solution" for the scenario, using comments, observations, and technologies from all the participants. If people are willing, participants could all go out to dinner the previous night in order to get to know each other before the workshop. We expect about ten participants, but this could expand if more submissions are received. PARTICIPATION Participants will be selected on the basis of position papers submitted prior to the workshop. Proposals should be no longer than six pages in the ECSCW conference format and can address any one of our three themes (Algorithmic, Conceptual, Interaction Techniques/UI Design) individually, or any combination of them. Papers should be clear regarding which elements are conceptual or theoretical and what has been implemented/verified. Where relevant, details should be given about the type of community (e.g., work, leisure), and important contextual factors and social interactions supported. Position papers should explain how the author’s work relates to the workshop theme. We are particularly interested in seeing perspectives at a variety of levels, ranging from meta views to micro-scale analyses. Submissions should be sent to nmarmas(a)il.ibm.com by June 20, 2005. Position papers will be reviewed by the workshop organizers and notification of acceptance will be given by the first week of July. We encourage a wide range of participants from diverse backgrounds. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Natalia Marmasse, IBM Research Lab in Haifa Vladimir Soroka, IBM Research Lab in Haifa Quentin (Gad) Jones, New Jersey Institute of Technology Christine Halverson, IBM T.J. Watson Research Lab

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Re: [Air-l] Technical competence
by Eszter Hargittai 07 Jun '05

07 Jun '05

Elizabeth, great question. I have thought about this often, especially when people post UNIX-based solutions to questions on this list. Someone mentioned that it may depend on your research questions and types of methodological approaches to your questions, I think this is likely correct in most cases. I don't think it's reasonable to assume that social scientists will have all sorts of technical skills nor must they depending on their research. For a group (ours here) that is supposedly in tune with inequalities and differences in access and use of IT, it's often interesting to observe how some people ignore the fact that differences in abilities are likely present among our members as well. And let's not simply blame the students (or profs). These issues are often structural. After all, most graduate programs are not equipped to train people well in both the social sciences and computer science. I'll take this opportunity to make a pitch for our interdisciplinary PhD program in the School of Communication at Northwestern. In our PhD program on Media, Technology and Society (especially the Technology and Social Behavior track) we offer training in both. In traditional social science PhD programs a student will usually not get course credit for taking a course in a CS dept nor will s/he know where to go (e.g. with which course to start) to get some such training. We approach this differently. A few years ago when I was running the computer orientation session for the incoming cohort in a Sociology dept almost none of the students had ever logged on to UNIX. So while it may seem like a joke to run a computer orientation program these days, it's not depending on what you cover and what may be helpful for students. I suspect this lack of experience with UNIX is quite representative of other cohorts in social science programs nowadays. So to tell such people to go use wget or perl is not going to be very helpful. Numerous universities don't even support UNIX access to general users anymore and you have to jump through hoops to get such an account. But how to get such an account when you don't even really know what it is? So I think it would be helpful if people were sensitive to these differences when suggesting solutions to questions. I think it's great that people suggest all sorts of approaches, but this "Mine is better than yours" approach based on operating systems doesn't necessarily seem productive or helpful to the person posing the query yet hopefully the goal (or at least one goal) of responding to questions on the list is to help out the person asking the question. And by the way, there is no reason to have to switch away from Windows even if you do use UNIX to some extent. If you do have a UNIX account, you can easily access it using a program such as SSH Secure Shell. Eszter PS. In case you're curious, I'm a former Mac user, currently on Windows, still using Pine for some email (a comment that will be meaningful to other Pine users and pretty meaningless to others, I realize), and running some programs in UNIX including some scripts I wrote - with help from others - in perl.

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SOCQUIT (Social Capital, Quality of Life & ICT) results conference
by Ben Anderson 07 Jun '05

07 Jun '05

Apologies for cross-posting. Begin forwarded message: > > From: <jeroen.heres(a)tno.nl> > Date: 6 June 2005 15:52:38 BDT > Subject: invitation for registration SOCQUIT conference > > Dear Madam/Sir, > Information- and Communication Technologies are changing society > and the everyday life. ICT policy and industry often assume that > this development will provide important opportunities to increase > quality of life and especially social relationships. The EU > project SOCQUIT (Social Capital, Quality of Life and IST) analyses > the effects of ICT on social capital and quality of life. > On behalf of the SOCQUIT consortium and France Télécom R&D I am > very happy to invite you to register for the conference "Social > Capital and Quality of Life in the Information Society", 29 and 30 > September 2005 in Paris where the SOCQUIT results will be presented. > http://www.eurescom.de/socquit/socquit-conference.htm > About the program: > At this conference experts from within and outside the SOCQUIT > project will show the recent insights about social capital and > quality of life and the way this is influenced by ICT. The > opportunities and threats of ICTs will be discussed based on > empirical results > from four case-studies carried out by SOCQUIT: > > - employment > > - the ageing society > > - local ICT initiatives > > - migrants. > > The implications of the results will be discussed together with > European policy makers as well as with representatives from ICT > industry. SOCQUIT will also demonstrate its decision support tool > enclosing the SOCQUIT findings and recommendations. This tool > facilitates the use of the SOCQUIT results by policy makers. > > Time and venue > > The conference will start Thursday 29 September at 9h00 and will > end Friday 30 September at 13h00. > The venue of the conference is: > Groupe Scolaire Saint-Nicolas > 6, rue Vaudétard > 92130 Issy-les-Moulineaux, Paris > Registration > > There are no costs involved for attending the conference, but as > the number of > available seats is limited registration is required. > Information about the conference including registration forms can > be found at: > http://www.eurescom.de/socquit/socquit-conference.htm

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life cycle of online discussions: references? (was: SW to store webpages)
by Kathy Mancuso 06 Jun '05

06 Jun '05

Do you mean Clay Shirky's article Group as User: Flaming and the Design of Social Software, maybe? http://www.shirky.com/writings/group_user.html -- Katherine Mancuso academic, interrupted. new e-mails (don't use sc dot edu) personal: kmancuso at gmail dot com professional: katherine dot mancuso at emory dot edu Because long sig quotes are annoying, read mine below instead: http://www.echonyc.com/~janedoe/writing/selflove.html Anthropologists and labor unions allied: http://AAAUnite.blogspot.com Orphan Films (22-26 March 2006, CFP): http://www.sc.edu/filmsymposium Social software research linkage: http://del.icio.us/museumfreak

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