Browsing by Author "Klapwijk, Wouter"

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    Action plan 2017-2018: Big Data SIG Committee
    (International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2017-09) IFLA Big Data SIG Committee; Klapwijk, Wouter
    Objectives of Professional Unit 2017-18: 1. Contribute to the knowledgebase in IFLA that will enable librarians to assist researchers and themselves to use modern techniques and tools to analyse data and make new discoveries (Key Initiative 2.2, Activity 2.2.2: Promote the Hague Declaration on Text and Data Mining – with specific reference in the “Roadmap to Action” to create infrastructure and tools to analyse big data). 2. Help establish librarians’ competencies for data management, data governance, and data literacy (Key Initiative 1.1, Activity 1.1.2: Expand and promote a framework for media and information literacies – with specific reference to data literacy which is currently not included in the scope). 3. Contribute to gathering a strong evidence base to inform current and future policy work on openness and access to data, information and knowledge (Key Initiative 2.1: Defining a long-term, sustainable information environment).
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    Action plan 2018-2019: Big Data SIG Committee
    (International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2018-09) IFLA Big Data SIG Committee; Klapwijk, Wouter
    Objectives of Professional Unit 2018-19: 1. Contribute to the knowledgebase in IFLA that will enable librarians to assist researchers and themselves to use modern techniques and tools to analyse data and make new discoveries (Key Initiative 2.2, Activity 2.2.2: Promote the Hague Declaration on Text and Data Mining – with specific reference in the “Roadmap to Action” to create infrastructure and tools to analyse big data). 2. Help establish librarians’ competencies for data management, data governance, and data literacy (Key Initiative 1.1, Activity 1.1.2: Expand and promote a framework for media and information literacies – with specific reference to data literacy which is currently not included in the scope). 3. Contribute to gathering a strong evidence base to inform current and future policy work on openness and access to data, information and knowledge (Key Initiative 2.1: Defining a long-term, sustainable information environment).
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    Annual Report 2017-2018: Big Data SIG
    (International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2018-08-24) Klapwijk, Wouter; IFLA Big Data SIG Committee
    The activities of the SIG during the past 12 months can be summarized into three main areas of activity: Keeping abreast with IMLS-funded data projects / Coordinate participation in information sharing events / Doing research into Library Analytics
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    Applying agile principles for ICT operations management in libraries
    (International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2022-06-20) Klapwijk, Wouter
    During the COVID-19 pandemic, many Information Technology (IT) practices in libraries have changed, some out of pure necessity given the new demands placed on IT resources to deal with the new reality. Most IT practices that needed change benefited from a foundation that was laid well before the pandemic to allow for such change to happen in a brief period. One such change necessary was to have IT operations teams in libraries to work in a physically separate, but organizationally coherent, fashion. To adapt to the change required the implementation of methods and tools that allowed for new forms of autonomy, responsibility, and collaboration amongst IT operations teams. By applying agile principles and methods that were implemented at Stellenbosch University (SU) before the pandemic, the SU Library and Information Service’s Information Technology Services (ITS) operations team could respond to the change in a flexible and responsive way. Working and improving on what was already done, and known, about agile IT practices, the ITS team could adopt agile methods such as Kanban using the Jira project management software within a multi-disciplinary team that is responsible for IT operations management across an eco-system of technologies and service offerings. This allowed the team to take on an agile mindset to work, act and support the SU’s Library and Information Service in being responsive to service delivery and project implementation. This paper outlines specific agile methods and practices adopted by the ITS team, as well as the new agile project management methodology implemented to successfully implement vendor-driven software projects while still working to clear strategy-driven management priorities and reporting structures. More importantly, the paper shows that it is not needed to implement agile practices from scratch, because so many agile principles are already applied without practitioners actively realizing it.
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    Trends and Issues in Library Technology (TILT) Newsletter, December 2021 / January 2022
    (International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2021-12-23) Klapwijk, Wouter; Wingate Gray, Sara; Uzwyshyn, Ray; Wen Sze, Tan; Chee Kiam, Lim; Ying Yi, Chow; Fritz, Samantha; Mason, Ingrid; Leclaire, Céline; Balnaves, Edmund; IFLA Information Technology Section Standing Committee; Uzwyshyn, Ray
    Big Data special issue
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    Trends and Issues in Library Technology (TILT) Newsletter, January 2023
    (International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2022-12-28) IFLA Information Technology Section Standing Committee; Balnaves, Edmund; Uzwyshyn, Ray; Boffy, François-Xavier; Sogoba, Souleymane; Akça, Sümeyye; Palma Peña, Juan Miguel; Klapwijk, Wouter; Kleinveldt, Lynn; Uzwyshyn, Ray
    The January 2023 issue of TILT newsletter collects international articles about natural language processing, topic modeling and cultural heritage archives, open science, metadata, AI, and agile IT management.