Transcript Are all the children in their bed?

Are all the children in their
bed?
Derek Law
Information Resources Directorate,
University of Strathclyde
Welcome to Glasgow
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City of Culture
City of Architecture
City of deep fried Mars Bars
Strathclyde - A Place of Useful Learning
The home of WWW
W3, Urban myth,authentication
and censorship
Wee Willie Winkie runs through the town
Upstairs and downstairs in his nightgown
chappin’ }
knockin’ }
keekin’ }
speirin’ }
keekin’ }
checking}
at the windows,
at the locks,
“Are all the children in their beds?
It’s past
eight o’ clock} ”
ten o’ clock }
Themes
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An internal tool or an external propaganda weapon?
Information and quality assurance
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Censorship and curfews
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Napster, spam and MUD
Version control
Ownership
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Are we responsible?
Anon – or William Miller?
Centralisation versus decentralisation
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A pointless argument?
MLE’s, VLE’s and teaching for dummies
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A single standard or interoperability?
Who is responsible for e-learning strategies?
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The Vesalius conundrum
Holding forth or holding the jackets?
Have academic services ANY role in forcing
change?
Research Infrastructure
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How can web services support research?
Data mining
OAI
Webmail
Document Management
Student centred systems
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Happy days
Happy hours
Sad anoraks
Sado masochists
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Monitoring usage
MIS
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We know where you live
Data Protection, RIP and policing the
boundaries
Who “owns” data? and therefore can change
it
Conclusions
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Who wants web-based services?
Who needs web-based services but doesn’t
know it?
Who is responsible for originating change?
Who is responsible for delivering change?