Popular E-Content at The New York Public Library: Successes and Challenges     

Christopher Platt 《Publishing Research Quarterly》2011,27(3):247-253

Updated from a presentation given at Biblionext.it in Rome in April 2011, this article will highlight The New York Public Library’s success with e-books and other forms of popular e-content and our efforts to stay one step ahead of the consumer shift from print reading to e-reading. Consumer e-reading is dominated by Amazon.com in the US, followed by one of the largest chain bookstores, BarnesandNoble.com. The availability of digital versions of very popular titles, coupled with the explosion of e-readers, tablets, and smartphones that are priced competitively and fairly easy to use, are helping move a lot of Americans into the e-book world. Last month, Amazon.com announced they sold more e-books than physical books for the first time ever. Print books are not going away, but our experience is that it is clear e-books are no longer just an extra format to offer, they are integral to our future.  相似文献   

浅议我国数字博物馆的资源建设     

盛鑫  何均辉  赖晓龙  胡玥  王冲  梁晔 《科技广场》2011,(6)

计算机和网络技术的飞速发展为人类文化/自然遗产的保护与利用提供了新的契机,我国数字博物馆建设已经进入高速发展期,成为实体博物馆的有益补充。数字资源建设是博物馆数字化的基础,目前我国博物馆数字资源建设在数字资源展示模式、数字资源修复、数字资源共享以及数字资源版权保护等方面仍面临巨大挑战,数字博物馆的建设必须不断融合最先进的科学技术,才能更好的弘扬中华文化。  相似文献   

Is there an ethics of algorithms?     

Felicitas Kraemer  Kees van Overveld  Martin Peterson 《Ethics and Information Technology》2011,13(3):251-260

We argue that some algorithms are value-laden, and that two or more persons who accept different value-judgments may have a rational reason to design such algorithms differently. We exemplify our claim by discussing a set of algorithms used in medical image analysis: In these algorithms it is often necessary to set certain thresholds for whether e.g. a cell should count as diseased or not, and the chosen threshold will partly depend on the software designer’s preference between avoiding false positives and false negatives. This preference ultimately depends on a number of value-judgments. In the last section of the paper we discuss some general principles for dealing with ethical issues in algorithm-design.  相似文献   

Ethics in e-trust and e-trustworthiness: the case of direct computer-patient interfaces     

Philip J. Nickel 《Ethics and Information Technology》2011,13(4):355-363

In this paper, I examine the ethics of e-trust and e-trustworthiness in the context of health care, looking at direct computer-patient interfaces (DCPIs), information systems that provide medical information, diagnosis, advice, consenting and/or treatment directly to patients without clinicians as intermediaries. Designers, manufacturers and deployers of such systems have an ethical obligation to provide evidence of their trustworthiness to users. My argument for this claim is based on evidentialism about trust and trustworthiness: the idea that trust should be based on sound evidence of trustworthiness. Evidence of trustworthiness is a broader notion than one might suppose, including not just information about the risks and performance of the system, but also interactional and context-based information. I suggest some sources of evidence in this broader sense that make it plausible that designers, manufacturers and deployers of DCPIs can provide evidence to users that is cognitively simple, easy to communicate, yet rationally connected with actual trustworthiness.  相似文献   

Richard Spinello and Maria Bottis: Understanding the debate on the legal protection of moral intellectual property interests: review essay of A Defense of Intellectual Property Rights     

Kenneth Einar Himma 《Ethics and Information Technology》2011,13(3):283-288

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Bibliometric mapping of computer and information ethics   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Richard Heersmink  Jeroen van den Hoven  Nees Jan van Eck  Jan van den Berg 《Ethics and Information Technology》2011,13(3):241-249

This paper presents the first bibliometric mapping analysis of the field of computer and information ethics (C&IE). It provides a map of the relations between 400 key terms in the field. This term map can be used to get an overview of concepts and topics in the field and to identify relations between information and communication technology concepts on the one hand and ethical concepts on the other hand. To produce the term map, a data set of over thousand articles published in leading journals and conference proceedings in the C&IE field was constructed. With the help of various computer algorithms, key terms were identified in the titles and abstracts of the articles and co-occurrence frequencies of these key terms were calculated. Based on the co-occurrence frequencies, the term map was constructed. This was done using a computer program called VOSviewer. The term map provides a visual representation of the C&IE field and, more specifically, of the organization of the field around three main concepts, namely privacy, ethics, and the Internet.  相似文献   

基于CVM的耕地资源保护非市场价值研究——以浙江省温岭市为例   总被引：5，自引：5，他引：0  

江冲  金建君  李论 《资源科学》2011,33(10):1955-1961

我国耕地资源快速减少的根本原因在于人们对耕地资源价值的认识不清。为完善土地补偿制度,提高人们的耕地保护意识,本文以浙江省温岭市为例,采用条件价值法对耕地保护的非市场价值进行了评估。研究结果表明：温岭市居民已认识到耕地资源非市场价值的存在,城市居民对耕地保护非市场价值的认知较农村居民深刻;城、乡的平均支付意愿分别为500...  相似文献   

Contextual gaps: privacy issues on Facebook     

Gordon Hull  Heather Richter Lipford  Celine Latulipe 《Ethics and Information Technology》2011,13(4):289-302

Social networking sites like Facebook are rapidly gaining in popularity. At the same time, they seem to present significant privacy issues for their users. We analyze two of Facebooks’s more recent features, Applications and News Feed, from the perspective enabled by Helen Nissenbaum’s treatment of privacy as “contextual integrity.” Offline, privacy is mediated by highly granular social contexts. Online contexts, including social networking sites, lack much of this granularity. These contextual gaps are at the root of many of the sites’ privacy issues. Applications, which nearly invisibly shares not just a users’, but a user’s friends’ information with third parties, clearly violates standard norms of information flow. News Feed is a more complex case, because it involves not just questions of privacy, but also of program interface and of the meaning of “friendship” online. In both cases, many of the privacy issues on Facebook are primarily design issues, which could be ameliorated by an interface that made the flows of information more transparent to users.  相似文献   

e-Trust and reputation     

Thomas W. Simpson 《Ethics and Information Technology》2011,13(1):29-38

Trust online can be a hazardous affair; many are trustworthy, but some people use the anonymity of the web to behave very badly indeed. So how can we improve the quality of evidence for trustworthiness provided online? I focus on one of the devices we use to secure others’ trustworthiness: tracking past conduct through online reputation systems. Yet existing reputation systems face problems. I analyse these, and in the light of this develop some principles for system design, towards overcoming these challenges. In providing better evidence for trustworthiness online, so we can also encourage people actually to be trustworthy more often, which is an ethically welcome outcome.  相似文献   

北京市幼儿教师参加专业发展活动的现状、需求、动因及影响因素分析     

赖德信 《科教文汇》2011,(8):12-16

对北京市公办幼儿园4306名教师调查发现．继教学分培训、教研活动、大专学历是教师参加专业发展活动最主要的三种形式。教师对硕士学位等高层次学习需求强烈．因此提高教育教学水平是参加专业发展活动的最高动因．影响专业发展活动效果的主要因素是没有后续指导、内容不连续、内容不符合实际需求、个人工作负担重。  相似文献