Aankondiging: de Slag bij Winter

Een korte film met één camera, één bouwlamp, één aggregaat en een nog totaal onbekend script.

Felix en Maurice tonen 15 januari 2012 weer een ongekend cinematografisch hoogstandje dat in twee dagen tot stand is gekomen.

De locatie van de shoot staat vast: de oude mijnfabriek Beringen in het Belgische Wallonië.

De première is op zondag 15 januari 2012 om 22:00u op de Jupiterstraat 15 in Utrecht. Iedereen is van harte welkom.

Ben je geïnteresseerd om een of twee dagen van je leven toe te wijden aan de totstandkoming van deze film, laat het dan aan ons weten. We zoeken acteurs, cateraars en publiek.

Eerdere films: http://vimeo.com/24760635

Image from the Economist

The Age of Man, or the Anthropocene. As cultural philosopher Peter Sloterdijk wrote in his book “You have to change your life“, we are living in an age where mankind itself now is a factor of change in the Terrestrial Ecosystem Model. Peter wrote that this is the age where the human mindset for the first time is thinking globally, and is realising more and more that his actions have a global impact on many factors. These factors are part of complex intertwined global systems. These sysems can be Economic of nature, where the complex interconnection became very clear during the financial crisis, and also Ecologically of nature, where the climate crisis did it part. As written also in the Economist of May 26th 2011. “Humans have changed the way the world works. Now they have to change the way they think about it, too”. Nowadays mankind IS a significant factor in the earth-system, he can no longer stand back and ignore the fact that he should take control of the wheel. For its own survival mankind should organise itself, have a long term vision and as one organism steer the earth system in the right direction. The vision is Resilience, not sustainability. Sustainability is grasping for maintaining the status quo, Resilience is about making flexible so it can withstand dramatic change. Like the buildings build in Japan, their foundation is made flexible, so the building can withstand and absorb earth quake shocks.

The climate top in Copenhagen 2009 showed that mankin is not ready to make the offerings to create a resilient vision. When it fails to cooperate and still hold on to its current model of Ultra Consumerism, mankind will face a grim future. The documentary called “The Age of Stupid” tell us how the world looks like in 2100 if we don’t have a globally organised mandated vision. The documentary also tells us where it went wrong.
Age of 

Stupid: Trailers: Original Theatrical Trailer from SPANNER FILMS on Vimeo.

The title of the book from Peter Sloterdijk is well apt: “You must change your life”. This means: completely as we know it, in order to prevent the earth system to collapse to a point of no return. the current models will not be fit for a planet that holds billions of people striving for the Western way of life.

At the TED conference Johan Rockström explains that the earth system has nine buffer area’s, that can take hits from ecological disaster after disaster. When that buffer is depleted, the logic of the system changes drastically, and may drive in the opposite direction. When the logic changes, it is harder to predict who the earth system will react.

See also: Resilience Science

The sources of energy are getting depleted in 100 years time since the start of the industrial revolution, where mankind sets aside God, and became God himself. Now mankind can create its own future, yet it has to learn how to control and steer it in the right direction.
The challenge for mankind is to generate a different global mindset, and have faith the vision will be merciful for its future. A new world religion should be born, with its own rituals and priests, where millions of minds are mentally supporting the new world vision. Perhaps that is how to get the different global mindset. The mindful actions are the rituals, and the scientists are the preaching priests.

So what to do now? Well, there is hope according to Prof. Louise Vet there is hope. She learns us to “Think global, act local“. In her presentation at the TEDx conferentie in Amsterdam, she teaches us that this mantra is the only solution to be flexible for future set-backs.

TEDxAmsterdam: Louise Vet from TEDxAmsterdam on Vimeo. More at TEDxAmsterdam

“Think global, act local”. In other words be resilient in creativity. The artists of today have this creative mindset we can set to work in the anthropocene for other things then making paintings and sculptures. In the Netherlands the government stopped subsidising the Art sector in 2011. These people are the new poor, or the new hope. They will become the new hope, only if world governments are starting realising that; to live in the Anthropocene means to start taking control over the drivers wheel. The creative of minds know how to be resilient. They are masters in wielding the steer, so let them act and play their role on a local level within society.

Personal note: My challenge would be to enact this mantra “think global, act local” much as possible. And furthermore help others to enact this mantra as well. Currently I don’t know where to start. I can think about local farming, but that means I need to have knowledge and the time to do it. Buying the right things. Eating local food, food that comes with the season. Investing in local energy stations (solar, wind). There is this small book called “practical idealism” that would be nice to read.

Recommended reading

• Welcome to the Anthropocene, The Economist, May 26th 2011, http://www.economist.com/node/18744401

• Du musst dein Leben aendern, Peter Sloterdijk, 2009, http://www.petersloterdijk.net/werk/suhrkamp/du-musst-dein-leben-aendern

Related articles

• Welcome to the Anthropocene (economist.com)
• The Economist Offers a Sobering Outlook on the Risks and Challenges of the Anthropocene (bigthink.com)

From 2007 until 2009 I was running a very successful film making platform with a friend, Leendert Oostlander (see the picture below in the video stream), in Utrecht. This platform was to offer Film makers a stage where they could make short films and show it to interested visitors in a real cinema. After 2009 we realised we couldn’t manage this with continuing our day job. It was either this or nothing.

So we decided to hand the platform over to the community that increasingly grew. They continued in Eendags_, a platform not exclusively for film makers. So the management over the Eendagsfilm.com website came to a halt.

We had a lot of fun, had good times, but it all remains to the past now. We can now look back with good memories of the time we crafted a lot of creative short films, and gave people inspiration and the possibilities to do also.

photography by Jan Coolen; edited by Maurice Vanderfeesten

It was called Eendagsfilm, with the logo of a One-Day Fly, to represent the starting seed and the final result of the labor of one-day film making. The film teams got a common theme in the morning, and came back in the evening with completely different interpretations. Eendagsfilm was exciting, an most of al fun! I enjoyed it.

Today I decided to close down it’s website, eendagsfilm.com, by the 1th of August 2011. In Memorial I have saved the video’s. You can watch them in the video stream above, als long as blip.tv is still offering the service. The video’s can be watched on the internet, and on digital tv channels all over the world, if I take the effort to convert to MP4. All the other stuff, like pictures etc I have put in a zipfile archive. eendagsfilm-website-files

Goodbye Eendagsfilm, I try to keep goodtimes in memory : )

The clip below shows the first Opening of Eendagsfilm, where Leendert Oostlander is presenting the start of where it all began on November 16th 2007.

Actually, it began on July 20th in 2007, where Leendert and I came with the concept and made our first short film (see the video section) in just one day. The audience was enthusiastic. They reminded us they liked the concept and would like to join and create short films in one day as well. So we stared looking for the right location to offer our friends a cinematic experience.

Connecting datasets and publications automatically
Wouldn’t it be great for a scientific data archive to know what publications made use of their data sets? Pingback mechanisms, used in blog systems, can send citation notifications automatically. Can the same be applicable for online journal systems, notifying each other and data archives about citations? It all comes down to agree on using a really simple standard.

MESUR.org: Related journals, based on citation clickstreams. From: Bollen J, Van de Sompel H, Hagberg A, Bettencourt L, Chute R, et al. (2009) Clickstream Data Yields High-Resolution Maps of Science. PLoS ONE 4(3): e4803. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0004803

This idea is just giving an impression about how to tackle one of the problems in the scholarly community where it is common practice to create bi-directional citation links in retrospect, which is very labor intensive. A given is that in journals like Plos a link is provided, citing the dataset. Yet at the datacenter there is no information back to the article, because they are unaware of this citation. This comes with the reality that there is no notification mandate at the journal side, and it is labor intensive if not automated.

If a notification partnership between journal and data center will become reality, why not automate it?
The technology is already there developed in the web-log community, using a Ping-back mechanism. Blogs that cite one another automatically send notification messages where they can refer back to the originating blog.

The steps how it works, and how it can work for journals and data centers, is explained below.

For the example we use the following ingredients

• The article A in journal system X has a DOI 10.x/a
• The dataset B in data archive Y has a DOI 10.y/b
• The journal system is posting information about the article on the website, including citation information referring to the dataset.
• Both journal system and data archive are using Pingback mechanisms according to the specifications.

The illustration on the right is following the steps described below.

An editor it finishing a publication in an online journal system, he is minting the DOI for the article A, and fills-in the metadata, also the citation information where the DOI of the dataset B is typed in.

At the moment when the article A is published on the web the Ping-back mechanism kicks in. It essentially sends a RPC Pingback notification to the Dataset B’s web address http://dx.doi.org/10.y/b.

Because the data archive, where dataset B resides, understands Pingback RPC requests, it automatically makes a check in the HTML at the web address where the Article A resides on the Journal System at http://dx.doi.org/10.x/a . The data archive is expecting to find in the HTML of the article something that looks like:

This way the dataset automatically is becoming aware of the  Articles it is cited, used or aggregated in.
A fully installed mechanism works bi-directional, so also where a dataset is making an assertion to an article, the article becomes aware it is being asserted.

Advanced Pingback in RDF

Perhaps we would like to add more information about the nature of the link between the two locations. This can ideally be done in RDF. Where in the Linked Data mindset RDF documents are linking to each other, not HTML documents.
This will lead to the following advanced Pingback check. This falls outside the Pingback specification, and therefor is not a standard.

The 3TU data center is already expressing their data sets descriptions in RDF. example: http://data.3tu.nl/repository/resource:location-49760597/object/ORE
The folowing could easily be done for them.

The example continues:
Metadata is given to the article A, also the dataset it has used, using rdf-statement ore:aggregates, in a ResourceMap for the article. This will result in a RDF/n-tripples expression (object, predicate, subject) :  10.x/a aggregates 10.y/b

<http://dx.doi.org/10.x/a>
<http://www.openarchives.org/ore/terms/aggregates>
<http://dx.doi.org/10.y/b>

Now, at the moment when the article A is published on the web the Ping-back mechanism kicks in. It essentially sends a RPC Pingback notification to the Dataset B’s web address http://dx.doi.org/10.y/b.

Because the data archive, where dataset B resides, understands Pingback RPC requests, it automatically makes a check in the rdf at the web address where the Article A resides on the Journal System at http://dx.doi.org/10.x/a . The data archive is expecting to find in the rdf of the article something that looks like the tripple:

http://dx.doi.org/10.x/a

http://www.openarchives.org/ore/terms/aggregates

http://dx.doi.org/10.y/b

If the data archive finds this tripple with the data set id as the object, and the ore:aggregates term as the predicate, it will grab the id of the subject in this tripple, and add it to it’s own ResourceMap. That looks like:

http://dx.doi.org/10.y/b

http://www.openarchives.org/ore/terms/isAggregatedBy

http://dx.doi.org/10.x/a

more specific towards citation

The examples above use the Object Reuse and Exchange (ORE) ontology, which makes the relations between the two very generic. We use this standard because it is widely used. However when we want to be more specific about the fact that this article cites the dataset, additional assertions can be made by using the Semantic Publishing and Referencing (SPAR) ontology. This lead to the following tripple:

http://dx.doi.org/10.x/a

http://purl.org/spar/cito/cites

http://dx.doi.org/10.y/b

The RPC of the Ping-back mechanism can automatically create an inverse relation at the data center side.

http://dx.doi.org/10.y/b

http://purl.org/spar/cito/isCitedBy

http://dx.doi.org/10.x/a

even more specific citation of a dataset

Even neater is to make an assertion specific to that fact that a DataSource is cited, where the predicate is a sub-class of “cites” in the ontology.

http://dx.doi.org/10.x/a

http://purl.org/spar/cito/citesAsDataSource

http://dx.doi.org/10.y/b

And the inverse

http://dx.doi.org/10.y/b

http://purl.org/spar/cito/isCitedAsDataSourceBy

http://dx.doi.org/10.x/a

Standard for Pingback in RDF embedded in HTML

Now it all comes to create a simple standard.

So for the sake of simplicity I would presume that MicroData would be the standard to use for RDF integration in HTML5 publishing and authoring tools. I base this on that fact that Google, Bing and Yahoo have come up with Schema.org to set a standard vocabulary for enriching HTML. (I am not going into the discussion whether this is a good thing ruling a whole hard working community out, etc.)
So when a publishing tool is going to post a page where citation is involved, this is what the Ping-back mechanism of the data center side should pick-up an be able to process.

Below an example I have reused and changed a bit from http://www.schema.org/Article
The HTML text

How to Tie a Reef Knot
by John Doe
This article is based on data set http://dx.doi.org/10.y/b

The enriched version

  How to Tie a Reef Knot
  by John Doe
  This article is based on data set http://dx.doi.org/10.y/b
  

The Pingback-RDF mechanism at the data center side would be able to, first parse RDF that is embedded in this HTML file. Next to check if the global identifier of the data set appears as being cited. If so, it then can extract the metadata of the article and publish a ‘citedBy’ link on it’s own page.

I am curious what you think of it, so lease leave some comments.

References

ResourceMaps http://www.openarchives.org/ore/1.0/primer.html

Enhanced Publications http://www.surffoundation.nl/enhancedpublications

Ping-back http://www.hixie.ch/specs/pingback/pingback

DataCite http://datacite.org/whycitedata

Journal System http://pkp.sfu.ca/?q=ojs

Data Archive http://datacentrum.3tu.nl/

Semantic Publishing and Referencing http://purl.org/spar/

Piwowar HA, Day RS, Fridsma DB (2007) Sharing Detailed Research Data Is Associated with Increased Citation Rate. PLoS ONE 2(3): e308. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0000308

Introducing the Semantic Publishing and Referencing (SPAR) Ontologies | by David Shotton

How to use Citation Typing Ontology (CiTO) in your blog posts | by Martin Fenner

Last weekend  Google, Microsoft’s BING and Yahoo! agreed to use the MicroData format as a common standard and schema.org as a common vocabulary to make search even more efficient.  Will this also be the answer for describing inter-related scholarly work, aka Enhanced Publications?

The standard the Big3 have announced can be found on http://www.schema.org/ . With this HTML pages can be enriched, by simply making semantic annotations to your current HTML markup. For Institutional repostitories, who are already being crawled by search engines, this means they can finaly rely on a standard that makes sense to annotate their HTML pages, and use it as a machine readable metadata record!

According to schema.org repositories can use the semantic class http://www.schema.org/ScholarlyArticle to express more details. For example a Dspace  jump-off page from  Utrecht University can easily be  enriched. http://igitur-archive.library.uu.nl/law/2011-0328-200533/UUindex.html

Before

<body>...

<table border=0 id="abstract">

 <tr><td>De logeerbuik: draagmoederschap in Nederland</td></tr>

</table>

<table border=0 id="abstract">

  <tr><td>authors </td><td>Vonk, Machteld</td></tr>

  <tr><td>source </td><td>Actuele ontwikkelingen in het familierecht - vijfde Ucerf symposium,

                          (2011), pp. 63-72</td></tr>

  <tr><td>full text </td><td><a href="http://igitur-archive.library.uu.nl/law/2011-0328-200533/

                              De%20logeerbuik%20UCERF%20Draagmoederschap.pdf"

                              onMousedown="stats('&jop=1')">[Full text]</a><br> </td></tr>

   <tr><td>publisher </td><td>Ars Aequi</td></tr>

   <tr><td>URL publisher </td><td><a href="http://uitgeverij.arsaequi.nl/">

                                   [Website publisher]</a> </td></tr>

   <tr><td>document type </td><td>Article</td></tr>

   <tr><td>version </td><td>Final Author version</td></tr>

   <tr><td>disciplines </td><td>Rechtsgeleerdheid</td></tr>

   <tr><td>abstract </td><td>Draagmoederschap is in Nederland niet specifiek geregeld.

                             In dit artikel wordt de Nederlandse situatie beschreven. Bepaalde vormen

                             van draagmoederschap zijn toegestaan en worden door de medische stand

                             gefaciliteerd, maar zijn niet door de wetgever specifiek geregeld.

                             Vervolgens wordt naar de Engelse Parental Order gekeken, die overdracht

                             van ouderschap na draagmoederschap mogelijk maakt. Op grond van de

                             beschrijving van beide systemen komen voorstellen en relevante elementen

                             voor een mogelijke regeling aan de orde.</td></tr>

   <tr><td>keywords </td><td>draagmoederschap, kunstmatige voortplanting</td></tr>

</table>

...

</body>

After

<body itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ScholarlyArticle">

...

<table border=0 id="abstract">

 <tr><td itemprop="name">De logeerbuik: draagmoederschap in Nederland</td></tr>

</table>

<table border=0 id="abstract">

  <tr><td>authors </td><td itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person" 

                           itemprop="name">Vonk, Machteld</td></tr>

  <tr><td>source </td><td>Actuele ontwikkelingen in het familierecht - vijfde Ucerf symposium, (2011),

                          pp. 63-72</td></tr>

  <tr><td>full text </td><td itemprop="encodings"><a itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/MediaObject"

                             itemprop="contentURL" href="http://igitur-archive.library.uu.nl/law/2011-

                             0328-200533/De%20logeerbuik%20UCERF%20Draagmoederschap.pdf"

                             onMousedown="stats('&jop=1')">[Full text]</a><br> </td></tr>

   <tr><td >publisher </td><td itemprop="publisher" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Organization"

                               itemprop="name">Ars Aequi</td></tr>

   <tr><td>URL publisher </td><td><a href="http://uitgeverij.arsaequi.nl/">[Website publisher]</a>

                                  </td></tr>

   <tr><td>document type </td><td>Article</td></tr>

   <tr><td>version </td><td>Final Author version</td></tr>

   <tr><td>disciplines </td><td itemprop="keywords">Rechtsgeleerdheid</td></tr>

   <tr><td>abstract </td><td itemprop="description">Draagmoederschap is in Nederland niet specifiek

                                                    geregeld. In dit artikel wordt de Nederlandse

                                                    situatie beschreven. Bepaalde vormen van

                                                    draagmoederschap zijn toegestaan en worden door

                                                    de medische stand gefaciliteerd, maar zijn niet

                                                    door de wetgever specifiek geregeld. Vervolgens

                                                    wordt naar de Engelse Parental Order gekeken, die

                                                    overdracht van ouderschap na draagmoederschap

                                                    mogelijk maakt. Op grond van de beschrijving van

                                                    beide systemen komen voorstellen en relevante

                                                    elementen voor een mogelijke regeling aan de orde.

                                                    </td></tr>

   <tr><td>keywords </td><td itemprop="keywords">draagmoederschap, kunstmatige voortplanting</td></tr>

</table>

...

</body>

Enhanced Publications

To make the relation between the Scholarly article and Datasets or other related material, there is a need for anaddition vocabulary. The Big3 set the standard to be the MicroData format, yet the schema.org does not seem to fit for inter-relating scholarly work. Or does it? Can we mis-use some vocabulary elements to so stuff still get’s validly indexed by the Big3?

Please send your comments below.

tweedagsfilm 29 mei

Lieve Allemaal,

Graag nodigen we jullie bij deze uit voor een filmavondje op zondag 29 Mei, om 20:30 @Maurice (Biltstraat 99, Utrecht)

In Maurice’s tuinbios wordt Tweedagsfilm gelanceerd: korte filmpjes waarvan de productie de dag ervoor is begonnen. Scriptschrijven, casten, filmen en montage vinden in één weekend plaats.

Bekijk online: http://vimeo.com/groups/tweedagsfilm/

Aansluitend vertonen we de Vlaamse film “Frits en Freddy“. (… van de makers van de serie “Van Vlees en Bloed”!)

Wees er bij! Het wordt geniaal! Zet het in je agenda… NU! (zo 29 mei 2011, v.a. 20:30, @biltstraat99 utrecht,)

Liefs,

Maurice & Felix

“Page not found” nowadays in the dynamic information society a common phrase when you use your old bookmarks. To find your beloved document you have to “Google” it. A web-crawling search engine is by far the most reliable resolver of the documents, but there is no guarantee. This is fine, you get some, you loose some. However when considering working in a academic arena, this really gets annoying. New Knowledge is build  on older knowledge to reject or refine this knowledge, to answer new questions. when you cannot read back that older knowledge, then there is a Knowledge Gap. The Knowledge Gap might be a risk for shifting  the paradigm for all the continued research stacked on top of this gap.

Having a domain name and making coolURI’s, and pretending to say “this will be always the same” is not enough any more. Universities merge, change names, and server architecture changes due to internal policy decisions.

In order to provide for a reliable information infrastructure we need a few things: a digital object, an identifier, a trusted digital archive and a trusted resolver. For the end-user, man or machine, it must be really simple to use; type in the identifier and you get the digital object.

Under the hood there is much more going on. The internet as we know it might change (considering net neutrality issues and ipv6 transitions), so the identifier must be technology independent and the resolver must be follow the changes of the net to keep the user access to the digital object.  The file formats changes over time due to popularity of software to use to access the information of the bits and bytes inside a digital object, therefore specialised Long Term Preservation Archives are build to store and make available digital object in future formats. All organisations involved in this trusted information infrastructure keep the resolver updated, whether a digital object has moved, has duplicate locations or has different file formats.

In the current repository landscape a scientist who want to make their digital object future proof, they have to deposit it in an officially approved repository, and get back a persistent identifier. The trusted repositories have the mandate to create their own identifiers. Resolvers can hand out sub-namespaces in the identifier to these repositories. The repository must update the resolver to provide a new identifier and the new location of the digital object. The Long term archive must fetch the new digital object, store it for future access and update the resolver with the backup location of the digital object. This triangle of systems provide the core of trust.

Every academic community has its own demands for what data to deliver, how it is resolved, what additional services should be provided etc. So the infrastructure must provide flexibility and yet be very reliable. All these triangles form an information network. The resolvers provide the access of this information, these access points can be united in a meta resolver. The meta resolver is the single point of access where the end-user (man or machine) can query all the underlying triangles of trust at once. The meta resolver does not have to be visible, in practice it is just the browser address bar, where the persistent identifier is fetched and sent to the meta resolver to provide the end-user with the digital object.

Read more:

• Persistent Identifiers; PersID reports
• Riding the wave – How Europe can gain from the rising tide of scientific data – Final report of the High Level Expert Group on Scientific Data – October 2010 (1,4 Mb)
• Interoperability Solutions for European Public Administrations (interesting comments @TalkStandards)

The speed of alt-metrics presents the opportunity to create real-time recommendation and collaborative filtering systems: instead of subscribing to dozens of tables-of-contents, a researcher could get a feed of this week’s most significant work in her field. This becomes especially powerful when combined with quick “alt-publications” like blogs or preprint servers, shrinking the communication cycle from years to weeks or days. Faster, broader impact metrics could also play a role in funding and promotion decisions.

read more on http://altmetrics.org

Alt-metrics expand our view of what impact looks like, but also of what’s making the impact. This matters because expressions of scholarship are becoming more diverse. Articles are increasingly joined by:

• The sharing of “raw science” like datasets, code, and experimental designs
• Semantic publishing or “nanopublication,” where the citeable unit is an argument or passage rather than entire article.
• Widespread self-publishing via blogging, microblogging, and comments or annotations on existing work.

Because alt-metrics are themselves diverse, they’re great for measuring impact in this diverse scholarly ecosystem. In fact, alt-metrics will be essential to sift these new forms, since they’re outside the scope of traditional filters. This diversity can also help in measuring the aggregate impact of the research enterprise itself.

What if the newspaper of tomorrow was invented today?

News+ is such concept, created by Bonnier a Swedish publishing organisation, to show what happens when old paradigms are left behind and shifting towards new possibilities.
News+ combines the depth and editorial choices of a daily newspaper with the web’s possibilities for interaction and quick updates, keeping the user in mind.
Watch the video below and give you opinion.

News+ concept live from Bonnier from Bonnier on Vimeo.

Another on Digital Text Books: http://www.ted.com/talks/mike_matas.html

What about using ePub standard using this technology with HTML5+Javascript?

http://www.ideo.com/

The Future of the Book. from IDEO on Vimeo.