LLLotW 2023.19
SUPARS and other largely forgotten systems were the forerunners of the contemporary search engines we have today. While the popular history of the internet valorises Silicon Valley coders – or, sometimes, the former US vice president Al Gore – many of the original concepts for search emerged from library scientists focused on the accessibility of documents in time and space. Working with research and development funding from the military and industry, their advances can be seen everywhere in the current online information landscape – from general approaches to ingesting and indexing full-text documents, to free-text searching and a sophisticated algorithm utilising previous saved searches of others, a foundational building block for contemporary query expansion and autocomplete.
Recruiting a Co-Convenor (Research) to the SIG
The Australasian Open Educational Practice Special Interest Group are looking for a Co-Convenor (Research) – could it be you?
This position is primarily responsible for identifying and coordinating SIG research activities that encourage the membership to become involved in collaborative publication and research presentation opportunities related to OER and OEP. The position will support at least one SIG conference paper at ASCILITE annually, with the intent to develop opportunities for AJET publications (or other OA journals). Additionally, the position will liaise with ASCILITE to determine support for research activities (for example, organising guest speakers), and identify (with the membership) opportunities for funding.
From the Atlantic a few months ago:
For a long time, the basic paradigm has been what we have termed the “read-write web.” We not only consumed content but could also produce it, participating in the creation of the web through edits, comments, and uploads. We are now on the verge of something much more like a “write-write web”: the web writing and rewriting itself, and maybe even rewiring itself in the process. (ChatGPT and its kindred can write code as easily as they can write prose, after all.)
We face, in essence, a crisis of never-ending spam, a debilitating amalgamation of human and machine authorship.
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