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'''Type''': Policy


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'''Status''': Adopted on 4/22/04 and revised in January 2007


= Intro =
'''Source File''': http://www.ecohusky.uconn.edu/policystate.html


[https://wiki.openitp.org/events:techno-activism_3rd_mondays:montreal TA3M event]
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'''University of Connecticut'''<br>
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'''Environmental Policy Statement'''
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In fulfilling its mission as Connecticut’s land grant, public research university and its corresponding obligation to protect and preserve natural resources for an environmentally sustainable future, the University of Connecticut commits to the following principles of environmental leadership:


The panopticon is an institutional design whereby authorities can watch any subject with a minimum of effort. A reverse panopticon makes it possible to better track the actions of those in positions of authority.
'''Performance''': The University will institutionalize best practices, comply with environmental laws, regulations and standards, and continually monitor, report on and improve its environmental performance.


David Mason will discuss a system designed to collect semantic content and link it to documents as they're browsed. For example, it can determine connections between people mentioned on a current page - those involved in politics, big business or crime. Content can be collected and annotated through automated crawling or by a user browsing their topic of interest. An investigative journalist can easily edit and annotate semantic links of people and their association as they follow a line of inquiry. General questions can be asked from the repository of all the links they visited, such as 'politician' and 'Saguenay'. The tool's flexible design and open source nature could allow anyone to participate in creating annotators and add meaning, connections to content. The system can support individual or federated instances.
'''Responsible management and growth''': The University will endeavor to design, construct and maintain its buildings, infrastructure and grounds in a manner that ensures environmental sustainability and protects public health and safety.


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'''Outreach''': The University will promote environmental stewardship in Connecticut and embrace environmental initiatives in partnership with its surrounding communities.


= The idea =
'''Academics''': The University will advance understanding of the environment through its curriculum, research and other academic programs, and will employ an ethic of environmental stewardship in all intellectual pursuits.


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'''Conservation''': The University will conserve natural resources, increase its use of environmentally sustainable products, materials and services, including renewable resources, and prevent pollution and minimize wastes through reduction, reuse and recycling.


  https://www.google.ca/search?q=%22reversing+the+panopticon%22 "reversing the panopticon"
'''Teamwork''': The University will encourage teamwork and provide groups and individuals with support, guidance and recognition for achieving shared environmental goals.
 
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Today's version is a Web based system for organizing data behind content.
In March 2007, the University of Connecticut adopted an additional [http://www.ecohusky.uconn.edu/SDCpolicy.htm Sustainable Design & Construction Policy], which specifies the University's objectives to plan, design, construct, renovate and maintain sustainable, energy- and water-efficient buildings.


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== Supporting content==
[[Category:Policies]]
 
[[Category:Sustainability Policies]]
* Corporate registries - Sunlight foundation
* Wikipedia and other reusable content
 
What other implementations do people know?
 
= Sensebase =
 
https://github.com/vid/SenseBase MIT license
 
* An annotating system featuring a teams of computer and humans
* Designed for science research (Proxiris) and health systems (PatientSense)
* Amenable to be distributed and support personal databases
 
[[Image:Proxiris.png]]
 
= Problems  =
 
== Problems it can solve==
 
* Augments publicly available data as you browse across the web
** Research tool
*** Health systems
*** Science
*** Journalism
* less sinister, more constructive
* Link useful information
* Ask questions
** How many articles about Cuba mentioned politicians
 
== Problems it can create ==
 
* Bad information
** Especially in computer systems (80% accuracy at best)
* Signal to noise
* Sensationalism vs subtle details
* Favouring the favoured
 
= Sensebase design =
 
* ElasticSearch
* NodeJS
* Bayueux (Faye)
 
 
; Text oriented data store
* supports fuzzy search, ranges, "more like this," resilient and scalable
* Team of specialized distributed software agents that are loosely coupled
** Uses pubsub
* Triage process - validated and unvalidated
 
;Proxy approach, indexes content as you browse
* Provides an in-page annotation and insight tool
* Re-annotate content based on new information
 
; Scraper
* Start from current link
* re-run as required
* Continue scrape based on relevance
* Browser based
 
;Dashboard
* Drag and drop content
* Triaging process for annotations
* Advanced searches
* Select annotators, status display
* Manage team
* Chat
 
; Annotators
* AFINN sentiment
* DBPedia Spotlight
* Classifier
* Genozymes pipeline (Proxiris)
* Structural
 
; Open Annotation
* Exchange annotations between bases
 
= Next steps =
 
* Annotators it's easy and useful to add
* Connecting projects
* Developers
*Front end (Semantic UI), back end (NodeJS)
* Applications
 
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[[Category:Presentations]]

Revision as of 21:06, 17 February 2014

Type: Policy

Status: Adopted on 4/22/04 and revised in January 2007

Source File: http://www.ecohusky.uconn.edu/policystate.html

Text:

University of Connecticut
Environmental Policy Statement

In fulfilling its mission as Connecticut’s land grant, public research university and its corresponding obligation to protect and preserve natural resources for an environmentally sustainable future, the University of Connecticut commits to the following principles of environmental leadership:

Performance: The University will institutionalize best practices, comply with environmental laws, regulations and standards, and continually monitor, report on and improve its environmental performance.

Responsible management and growth: The University will endeavor to design, construct and maintain its buildings, infrastructure and grounds in a manner that ensures environmental sustainability and protects public health and safety.

Outreach: The University will promote environmental stewardship in Connecticut and embrace environmental initiatives in partnership with its surrounding communities.

Academics: The University will advance understanding of the environment through its curriculum, research and other academic programs, and will employ an ethic of environmental stewardship in all intellectual pursuits.

Conservation: The University will conserve natural resources, increase its use of environmentally sustainable products, materials and services, including renewable resources, and prevent pollution and minimize wastes through reduction, reuse and recycling.

Teamwork: The University will encourage teamwork and provide groups and individuals with support, guidance and recognition for achieving shared environmental goals.

In March 2007, the University of Connecticut adopted an additional Sustainable Design & Construction Policy, which specifies the University's objectives to plan, design, construct, renovate and maintain sustainable, energy- and water-efficient buildings.