searching in the cloud: bright new dawn or stormy weather?

Searching in the cloudBright new dawn or stormy weather?

Karen BlakemanKaren.Blakeman@rba.co.uk

MmIT 2013 - CloudbustingDemystifying the CloudSheffield, 5th April 2013

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Data & services hosted beyond an organisation’s server and accessible

via the web

Stuff that is out there

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Not really new, the difference is.....

No longer just publicly published data

– Learning resources accessible off site

– Federated search engines e.g. Deep Web Technologies

– Integration of institutional collections & external services e.g. Google Scholar

– Repository searches, OpenURL, open access(?)

– Internal documents, communications, personal files and searches

And lots more!

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Where’s my stuff?

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What’s not to love?

Your account has been DELETED!!

Unavailable

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Obfuscation

Fragmentation

Isolation

Blurring of boundaries – public vs private

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Blurring of boundaries – public vs private

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http://www.newmediatrendwatch.com/markets-by-country/18-uk/148-usage-patterns-and-demographics

http://infoism.co.uk/2013/01/why-the-digital-divide-and-not-the-welfare-state-is-the-real-poverty-trap/

Searching in the cloudBright new dawn or stormy weather?