Divendres 3 de setembre tindrà lloc un seminari a càrrec d’en Brian Kelly amb el títol “What Can We Learn From Amplified Events?”. La xerrada serà a 2/4 d’1, a la Sala Ernest Lluch de la Bilblioteca del Campus de Montilivi de la UdG (nivell -1). L’accés és lliure i gratuït.

ATENCIÓ: Hi ha hagut un canvi d’ubicació. inicialment la xerrada estava prevista a la Sala-Aulari 2 de l’edifici Casademont del Parc Científic i Tecnològic de la UdG.

En Brian Kelly és membre d’UKOLN, una organització anglesa amb seu a la University of Bath, que té per missió “to inform practice and influence policy in the areas of: digital libraries, metadata and resource discovery, distributed library and information systems, bibliographic management, and web technologies. It provides network information services, including the Ariadne magazine, and runs workshops and conferences.”.

En particular, en Brian Kelly té com a funció assesorar la comunitat anglesa d’educació superior sobre bones pràctiques en l’ús de la Web. A més, el conferenciant és expert en l’ús de les xarxes socials i les eines de la Web 2.0, i manté el blog UK Web Focus, on ha fet més de 750 entrades sobre aquest tema, a més de contribuir en molts d’altres blogs. Fa poc ha estat co-chairman del Institutional Web Management Workshop, IWMW 2010, que ha tingut lloc el mes de juliol a Sheffield.

En Brian ha publicat varis articles amb revisió com “Empowering Users and Institutions: A Risks and Opportunities Framework for Exploiting the Social Web” i “Library 2.0: Balancing the Risks and Benefits to Maximise the Dividends”. Ha estat present en diversos congressos internacionals i ha impartit conferències invitades a Suècia, Taiwan, Singapur, Espanya i Austràlia. En Brian va ser el Professional Informàtic de l’Any (2007-08) segons Information World Review, i ha obtingut premis per la millor comunicació a la conferència W4A 2010 conference i el millor article de recerca a la conferència ALT-C 2006.

Una versió més extensa d’aquest CV es pot trobar a la pàgina What Can We Learn From Amplified Events?

Resum de la xerrada:

Brian Kelly was the co-chair of UKOLN’s annual Institutional Web Management Workshop, IWMW 2010 which was held at the Univerity of Sheffield in the UK on 12-14 July 2010. In addition to the 170+ participants at the event a remote audience viewed the live streaming video of the plenary talks, browsed the speakers’ slides which were hosted on Slideshare and participated in the ‘back channel’ discussions on Twitter and Coveritlive. There was event an online barcamp which was held alongside the event barcamps which provided an opportunity for informal ad hoc presntations and discusisons to be arranged.

Such event amplification, to use the term coined by Lorcan Dempsey and described in a Wikipedia article on Amplified conferences, exploits the potential of WiFi networks, which are widely available across many University campuses, and the popularity of mobile devices, such as smartphones, PDAs and other devices with WiFi capabilities. Amplified event also appear to be particularly appropriate at a time when institutions and individuals are concerned about the environmental impact associated with travel to events and when financial cuts in the public sector are resulting in difficulties in obtaining funding to travel to events.

But can amplified events rally provide a useful and scaleable solution to such concerns? How should organisations address the risks of, effectively, outsourcing the event amplification infrastructure to Social Web services with whom there are no formal contractual agreements? Is it appropriate to make use of Social Web services, with their emphasis of the individual, to support institutional objectives? And what of the user who may feel that use of devices at an event is distracting and perhaps also rude?

This seminar will explore these issues and provide advice for those wishing to host amplified events.