The proliferation of search engine optimization (SEO), Web analytics, and user tracking results in much greater leakage of user data across the Web, particularly into ad-sharing and social networks, while at the same time libraries seek to utilize these identical tools to construct their own content recommending and service integrations that make use of online libraries as seamless as other well-designed Internet sites, while generating new data that are increasingly susceptible to hacking.
Swords, Dragons, and Spells: Libraries and User Privacy, a project briefing presented at CNI’s December 2014 member meeting, explored these conflicting privacy challenges and surveyed the real-world data environments that libraries are working in. Panelists were Peter Brantley (NYPL), Marshall Breeding (consultant), Eric Hellman (Glejar), and Gary Price (infoDOCKET.com).
Video of the presentation is now available online:
and on YouTube: http://youtu.be/KQeK0rCQpmo
Previously-released videos from this meeting:
–The Linked Data For Libraries (LD4L) Project: A Progress Report, with Dean Krafft (Cornell), and Tom Cramer (Stanford)
http://youtu.be/QYd_OlenZ5U
–A Conversation on the Changing Landscape of Information Systems in Higher Education, with Clifford Lynch (CNI), James Hilton (U. Michigan), Michele Kimpton (DuraSpace), and Tom Cramer (Stanford)
http://youtu.be/q4VFIfjtvcE
–An Evolving Environment: Privacy, Security, Migration and Stewardship (Clifford Lynch, CNI)
Look for more announcements soon on videos of other sessions from the fall 2014 CNI meeting. To see all videos available from CNI, visit CNI’s video channels on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/cnivideo) and Vimeo (http://vimeo.com/channels/cni).