This is a talk by Craig Samuel from Hewlett Packard.<\/p>\n
Increase in available information leads to problems of information overload, and also issues of getting to ‘authenticated’ information<\/p>\n
The idea of ‘millenials’ people who have grown up with technology. A survey showed that 40% said they preferred to discuss stuff by sms (with friends) than f2f<\/p>\n
CS emphasising that the technology is the small part of the problem – the tip of the iceberg. We need to consider the Process, the People and the Culture. The technology is just an opportunity to challenge established practice.<\/p>\n
OK – so now to the meat of the talk – CS is going to talk about:
\nVirtual Collaboration
\nGrid Computing
\nIPv6
\nDigital Preservation
\nNext Generation Web
\nNanotechnology and computing<\/p>\n
Virtual Collaboration HP have been building virtual collaboration technology – but he skipped over the detail, so I’m not really sure how it all goes together – sounds good, but would be great to see it in action.<\/p>\n Grid Computing OK – CS seems to be skipping across these pretty quickly – I’d like a bit more detail really.<\/p>\n IPv6<\/strong> Digital Preservation<\/strong> Next generation web<\/strong> Again – apparently ‘very important’ and ‘very interesting’ – he really needs to explain a bit more what he is talking about!<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Can we create a virtual presence that is ‘better than being there’. Collaboration is around us – telephone, email, f2f – all of these are collaboration.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>HP have been working on The Paua Grid Project – a Decentralised and Open computing grids using peer-to-peer technology (this based in Brazil)<\/p>\n
\nApparently a Good Thing – he really isn’t given enough detail here to be interesting<\/p>\n
\nTalking about DSpace – open source solution that HP have worked on with partners like MIT. I’ve seen this – currently being used in the UK in some eprint projects. However, I can’t see that it is a viable alternative to Enterprise records management and content management – that is software that applies across the whole enterprise, and is just integrated into daily work – e.g. when you hit save, you shouldn’t be worrying about where the document is saved – it is saved with appropriate permissions in a central space – so you, or others, can access the document whenever necessary.<\/p>\n
\nSemantic web – HP looking at this to solve their own problems in managing information internally.<\/p>\n