ICTlogy

[notes from the Bazaar Seminar: Hey Dude, Where’s My Data?]

Goals of the seminar:

• To explore issues arising from implementation of web 2.0 and the development of web services
• To examine the nature of dispersed personal data and what it means for the future
• To discuss the implications of these developments for education
• To study the future scenarios and possible responses

Possible outcomes:

• scoping of issues
• possible scenarios for future
• identification of impilcations
• recommendations
• further research issues identification

People in the meeting: Graham Attwell, Josep Blat, Julia Silies, Dai Grifiths, Stuart Yates, Ramon Ovelar, Ben Werdmuller, John Smith, Jan Hylen, George Bekiaridis, Sakis Marantos, Núria Ferran, Ismael Peña-López, Chris Lakin.

Scoping of issues

Dai Grifiths:

• the (educational) institution is years behind the practice (of the student)
• the ease of installing new Virtual Learning Environments… what impact would this have in institutions?
• what happens with the institution if everything goes virtual?

Stuart Yates:

• big concern with intellectual property rights
• who spends the money to store data?

John Smith

• students are already playing with data and institutions are not
• conflict among security (technical and legal) vs. flexibility

George Bekiaridis

• Why people/students use web 2.0 apps? Quick, cheap, powerful. Can (educational) institutions provide such services?
• maybe small (personal?) servers, connected in sort of a P2P netword would be a solution

Núria Ferran

• Libraries could play an important role in keeping data as a public service… as they have always done with knowledge in general

Ismael Peña-López

• focus on people rather than data: digital identities
• A data store is much more than a tool, as a house is much more than bricks. We need a data home, not a data house
• Long life learning: long life e-portfolio, such as Scott Wilson’s personal learning environment
• Difference among stock data (what do I want to keep that defines my digital persona) vs. flow data (data I exchange and can be erased once the communication is over)
• “I’d rather trackback than comment”

Graham Attwell

• Not “where’s my data” but “what’s my data”. What’s important to keep?

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