Browsing by Author "Rother, Kyle"

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    Copyright in an academic library context: Part 1
    (2014-05) Rother, Kyle
    Most people will have at least passing familiarity with the word ‘copyright'. Even if you don't really know what it means, you will have almost certainly seen that ‘C' in a circle, accompanied by a year, and the words ‘All rights reserved', which essentially means ‘You shall not copy'. You may even have read a couple of copyright disclaimers – they're near impossible to avoid, but quite easy to ignore. Depending on your line of work, you may have more exposure to the perils of copyright than the average citizen, and it's fair to assume that if you are engaged in the academic circus, you have, at some point, had to make copyright your business.
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    Copyright in an academic library context: Part 2
    (2014-06) Rother, Kyle
    It would be unfair (and largely incorrect) to say that the concept of a knowledge ‘commons' is a product of the information age – sharing of and access to information and knowledge have always been foundational principles in organisations like libraries and universities. However, the rise of the internet has certainly provided impetus to the idea, and brought the commons to the people. Access to information need no longer be mediated by institutions or academies. Anyone with access to the internet has a means to engage with and reiterate information from its source, and to generate and disseminate new information and content of their own.
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    Curation for participation: an eight-step guide to curating open scholarly content
    (2014) Rother, Kyle; Goodier, Sarah; Czerniewicz, Laura; Nyahodza, Lena
    This Guide is for anyone who finds themselves curating scholarly and educational content at UCT, even if you don’t know that it is called curation. You may be a postgraduate student tasked to put a professor’s research output online, or you may be a communications officer whose tasks have now extended to curating content. You may be a webmaster who finds that you are asked to upload all kinds of resources. You may be employed part­time, or on an ad­hoc basis. You probably won’t have a qualification in digital curation or library science. You will probably have little to no experience in this type of work. But you find yourself in this position. So, what needs to be done?
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    An inequality lens on educational technology focusing on institutional policy
    (University of Lancaster, 2017-03-06) Czerniewicz, Laura; Rother, Kyle
    Presentation on how educational technology can impact upon inequality, focusing on institutional policy.
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    Metadata: not a four-letter word
    (2014-02) Rother, Kyle
    Since starting my work here at OpenUCT in mid-November 2013, I've been using the word ‘metadata' quite a lot (sometimes also spelled ‘meatdata' at first attempt). Say this word to a given member of the general public and you will usually elicit the following response: a slight glazing or crossing of the eyes, accompanied by dull incomprehension, and a tentative "What's that?" This is not to say that these people don't know what metadata is or don't use it themselves on a daily basis; there simply comes a point where conceptions and definitions diverge from everyday experience, and seem to enter the magical realm of fairy dust and crop circles.
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    An 'open source' open score edition of Bach's Well-tempered Clavier
    (2015) Rother, Kyle
    This is an 'open source' open score edition of the 48 fugues and 1 prelude from Johann Sebastian Bach's 'Well-tempered Clavier'. All of the typesetting was done using Lilypond (lilypond.org), an open source music notation software, and the scores are offered in PDF format for ease of use and printing, as well as in the source format known as .ly files. The primary source is the 1866 Breitkopf & Härtel Bach-Gesellschaft Ausgabe, which is in the public domain. All of these files are free to be used by any person in any way. The preparation of this edition was made possible by an OER grant from the Centre for Innovation in Learning and Teaching.