Bibliotecari Marzo 2019

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Immagine (cioè illustrazione) delle biblioteche
by Federico Leva (Nemo) 26 Apr '21

26 Apr '21

Alle Stelline qualcuno ha fatto notare come la voce https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblioteca sia concentrata su illustrazioni di gusto medievale, a parte una foto del 2012. Adesso ne ho messa una piú moderna, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Paolo_Monti_-_Servizio_fotografico… : spesso il copyright è un problema, quando si vuole illustrare gli ultimi due secoli di storia, ma adesso un po' meno grazie a https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:BEIC . https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Libraries_in_Italy resta piuttosto povera; chi può, almeno qualche foto di interni (che di solito non sono soggetti alla scure del copyright degli architetti) potrebbe aggiungerla. Nemo-BEIC

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Fwd: [wikicite-discuss] Proof of concept for French national entities platform using WikiBase : call for tender
by Luca Martinelli 20 Mag '19

20 Mag '19

I francesi arrivano secondi rispetto all'idea che abbiamo avuto qua in Italia. L. ---------- Forwarded message --------- Da: Benjamin Bober <bober(a)abes.fr> Date: ven 29 mar 2019 alle ore 14:29 Subject: [wikicite-discuss] Proof of concept for French national entities platform using WikiBase : call for tender To: <wikicite-discuss(a)wikimedia.org> Dear all, ABES (Bibliographic Agency for Higher Education) and BnF (Bibliothèque nationale de France) in France are jointly involved in an initiative to build a central national platform for the description of “entities”, including persons, corporate bodies, works, concepts, places… The challenge is to create and maintain centrally and cooperatively information about entities documented in the collections held by libraries and other cultural heritage and research institutions in France. Key objectives also include, but are not limited to : better integrate into the Web of data the reference datasets created by such institutions and facilitate the use of data by any interested community; share efforts and increase possibilities to collectively improve data quality; develop a shared data strategy. In the previous stage, ABES and BnF carried out a feasibility study, including investigation of different solutions to support the overall infrastructure of the platform. The study led to the conclusion that it would be advisable at this stage to carry out a Proof of Concept in order to investigate the possibility of using the software infrastructure of WikiBase to support the FNE. The rationale is based on the observation that a good portion of the principles and functional characteristics of WikiBase and its related tools are likely to respond to the functional requirements that both partners have formulated for FNE. This hypothesis remains to be proved by the Proof of Concept this tender is about, and ABES and BnF are looking for a contractor that will help them test it.The call for tender is open until April 26th. All the documents are available here https://www.marches-publics.gouv.fr/app.php/consultation/422595. While the responses to the call for tender can be written in English, provided a French version is also supplied alongside, While the responses to the call for tender can be written in English, provided a French version is also provided alongside, mastering French language is not a prerequisite. Don't hesitate to contact me if you have any questions. Best regards, Ben Benjamin Bober Chef de projet Fichier National d'Entités +33 4 67 54 84 74 227 avenue Professeur Jean-Louis Viala |CS 84308 34193 Montpellier Cedex 5

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Fwd: [Humanist] 32.362: the question on Wikipedia
by Carla Colombati 26 Mar '19

26 Mar '19

Buongiorno, da giorni sulla lista "humanist@digital humanist.org" fra i vari topic si discute di Wikipedia. Ne viene fuori uno scambio in termini positivi sull'engagement, etc. Vi giro questa riflessione con domanda che è interessante: "Is there a way to improve the reliability of Wikipedia across the entire contents? Or, perhaps to put it another way: Is there a way to ensure that *every* Wikipedia article is as reliable as *every* article in Encyclopedia Britannica? Yours, Ken Ken Friedman, Ph.D., D.Sc. (hc), FDRS | Editor-in-Chief | è®¾è®¡ She Ji. The Journal of Design, Economics, and Innovation | Published by Tongji University in Cooperation with Elsevier | URL: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/she-ji-the- journal-of-design-economics-and-innovation/ Etc" Sent from my mobile. Please, excuse any typos -------------------------------------------------Carla Colombati Mob.: +393927848408 | Tel.-Fax: +390858007062 carlacolombati(a)gmail.com |Skype: carla.colombati | LinkedIn https://it.linkedin.com/in/carla-colombati-35023625 | Twitter https://twitter.com/carlacolombati | ResearchGate https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Carla_Colombati ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Humanist <humanist(a)dhhumanist.org> Date: Dom 20 Gen 2019, 07:56 Subject: [Humanist] 32.362: the question on Wikipedia To: <publish-liv(a)humanist.kdl.kcl.ac.uk> Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 32, No. 362. Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London Hosted by King's Digital Lab www.dhhumanist.org Submit to: humanist(a)dhhumanist.org Date: 2019-01-19 09:24:34+00:00 From: Ken Friedman <ken.friedman.sheji(a)icloud.com> Subject: My Wikipedia Question Dear Friends, While I've seen a lot of good ideas and interesting information in the responses to my question, I observe that no one has addressed the question of reliability and the massive load of problematic articles. Everyone points to the massive engagement of Wikipedia with educational programs, wide usage, editing festivals, etc. All this is true. It's as though the world suddenly developed motor traffic over a period of twenty years with urban streets designed for cars and the highway system. There would be lots of attention to it and every university in the world would have an area that studies or works with the phenomenon. (In fact, most do -- urban planning, civil engineering, architecture, transportation design, and others have departments that attend to, plan for, work with, and analyse the effects of motor traffic, along with special areas of medicine, law, political science, chemistry, and many more.) To say that universities and everyone else work with or use Wikipedia in some way is true, but insufficient. Wikipedia is without question the world's largest reference work, is most widely used, and one of the largest and most widely used web site. My problem is that it doesn't yet do what it was designed to do: deliver reliable and accurate information across the wide range of its nearly 6,000,000 articles (in English). The question is what might be done to bring that situation into being. CocaCola and PepsiCola are a massively successful and a widely used products. The necessary design of the CocaCola product leads to adverse health effects. When people point this out, no one says, "They serve CocaCola in the cafeterias at Harvard!" Unlike Coke and Pepsi, Wikipedia was established for benevolent purposes. Even so, something has gone wrong when a majority of articles revert to mediocrity in a system where human editors and bots interpret any change as damage. Something has gone wrong where editors delete or reject biographical articles because they don't properly apply notability criteria. Something has gone wrong when editors trim biographical entries or revert improved entries to earlier states due to length while the Wikipedia system uses 150 times as much space to archive 873,775,490 prior states of articles. Something has certainly gone wrong when bots compete with one another to change Wikipedia articles back and forth and back and forth again without human oversight. Everyone here -- myself amongst you -- seems to use Wikipedia. We all agree that it is a good place to begin. We all agree that we should teach our students to read Wikipedia with a critical eye -- I'd say that we should read all sources with care and critical reflection, and I'd guess most of you agree. There seems to be slightly less agreement on reliability, since many people say, correctly, that one finds mistakes in every book. This is true, but relatively meaningless. There has never been a serious comparison of Wikipedia against any other reference work using properly considered methods that allow for a responsible comparative sampling across the range of articles in each book. (The studies that show Wikipedia to be nearly as good as any other source usually involve cherry-picking. This is done by comparing a small, selective group of the best articles in Wikipedia against comparable articles in the other source.) A friend of mine at the University of California was formerly an advisor to Britannica. He once recounted an experience that took place at one of the advisory board meetings. Another advisor with a Nobel Prize in physics pointed out that many articles will inevitably be wrong as scientific knowledge moves forward. He gave the example of an article by James Clerk Maxwell in an early edition of Britannica that turned out to be wrong on some point as physics moved forward. But he said that this wasn't a problem. The article was up-to-date and correct when Maxwell wrote it, it was based on the best science then available, and it reflected judicious and appropriate expertise. There will always be mistakes in every book. Nearly every reference book has mechanisms for removing errors and improving quality. Current editions of Britannica no longer contains Maxwell's mistaken point. Wikipedia as it stands now does not seem to be able to do this. Articles revert to a consensus of opinion by generally amateur editors, with the consensus enforced by administrators who focus internally on Wikipedia customs and culture rather than focusing on how to represent what Jimmy Wales describes as "the sum of all human knowledge." While I find the ideas and thoughts on the value of Wikipedia valuable, I am hoping for an answer to a specific question that no one has yet addressed: Is there a way to improve the reliability of Wikipedia across the entire contents? Or, perhaps to put it another way: Is there a way to ensure that *every* Wikipedia article is as reliable as *every* article in Encyclopedia Britannica? Yours, Ken Ken Friedman, Ph.D., D.Sc. (hc), FDRS | Editor-in-Chief | è®¾è®¡ She Ji. The Journal of Design, Economics, and Innovation | Published by Tongji University in Cooperation with Elsevier | URL: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/she-ji-the- journal-of-design-economics-and-innovation/ <http://www.journals.elsevier.com/she-ji-the-journal-of-design-economics-and…> Chair Professor of Design Innovation Studies | College of Design and Innovation | Tongji University | Shanghai, China ||| Email ken.friedman.sheji(a)icloud.com | Academia http://swinburne.academia.edu/KenFriedman | D&I http://tjdi.tongji.edu.cn _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe at: http://dhhumanist.org/Restricted List posts to: humanist(a)dhhumanist.org List info and archives at at: http://dhhumanist.org Listmember interface at: http://dhhumanist.org/Restricted/ Subscribe at: http://dhhumanist.org/membership_form.php

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SBNWeb diventa software libero
by Federico Leva (Nemo) 20 Mar '19

20 Mar '19

Inoltro da AIB-CUR: ---- L'ICCU è lieto di informare che l'11 marzo scorso ha pubblicato su repository di code hosting GitHub il software SBNWeb, l'applicativo per la gestione di biblioteca e la catalogazione partecipata in SBN. Prosegue così la nuova politica di distribuzione dei software che l'ICCU progetta e sviluppa per le biblioteche, gli istituti culturali e il mondo della cooperazione SBN. I repositories ufficiali dell'ICCU sono raggiungibili al seguente indirizzo: <https://github.com/IstitutoCentraleCatalogoUnicoBiblio> Il software è stato rilasciato con licenza GNU AGPL v3 secondo quanto stabilito dalle Linee Guida dell'AgID per l'acquisizione e il riuso del software. Un cordiale saluto a tutti Maria Cristina Mataloni ---- Fa piacere non solo la licenza libera AGPL ma anche che il codice sembra pubblicato "in chiaro", consentendo quindi l'uso del controllo di versione per seguire e proporre modifiche. Pubblicare solo un "tarball" non sarebbe la stessa cosa. Non mi è chiaro lo stato di alcune dipendenze Java e non ho ancora provato a installare l'applicazione, ma almeno adesso chiunque ci si può cimentare. Inoltre sono convinto che scrivere e pubblicare documentazione come questa per l'installazione aiuti anche l'ente a migliorare il cosiddetto "bus factor" (cioè a rendere più sostenibile nel tempo il servizio anche di fronte ad avvicendamenti o passaggi di consegne). Federico

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