As an ex-librarian, I can give you a professional's answer. You need a professional.
But - if that's not possible, then what you are aiming for is a dream, and a huge data entry task to boot. And you will be creating a system that he will never be able to maintain. Aim lower. Ask him - does he want to keep the paper copies or move them all onto computer. Not both. If he wants to keep the paper - it's simple. Weed weed weed. 60% of what anyone holds is rubbish, and if's available online (and I mean in a proper source not a dissapearing link) he'll find it when he needs it. (I'm thinking he can't be using much of it given the difficulty of finding it). So that will leave you with about 20 three-rings out of the hundreds. Number each document, put them in a filing cabinets by MAIN SUBJECT. If you want to spend your life typing then, by all means, use incite, the word referencing system or some simple library freeware to create a db with author, title, journal etc and main subject (or maybe two).
If he wants them all digital - same deal. Scan the ones that aren't there. Forget any sort of magic software that will catalogue for you, you crazy dreamer. The best you can do is use incite or some other referencing software to search for and make a record of the ones that have the record available on line. And then type the rest in.
Personally, he sounds like a hoarder, so he will probably resist both suggestions. If this is the case then sort the folders into main subject and type a list (bib reference) and stick it to the front of each. At least that will cut down on his search time - but again, it's a lot of typing.
Yup - here's an email I recieved a couple of days ago from the university (in Australia):
Thu, 05 Mar 2009 16:35:38 +1000 5 of 202
To all QUT Students: Advice and warning about music files on the QUT network
1. Warning about music files and the QUT network
2. What about using P2P software?
3. What happens if I get caught with infringing music files?
1. Warning about music files and the QUT network
It is not legal to copy your music CDs to use on QUT equipment, despite recent changes to Australian copyright law. These changes have made it legal for individuals to copy sound recordings without the permission of the copyright owners in some circumstances only. (Copyright Act 1968 Section 109A). Those circumstances are: You must own a legitimate copy of the source recording from which you make your copy, You may use the copy you make only for private and domestic purposes, You may play the copy only on a device that you own.
If you do not abide by all these conditions, the copy you make will be infringing, unless you have obtained permission from the copyright owners. It is against the QUT Information Facilities Rules to store or play infringing files on University equipment. So do not use University equipment to store or play music that you might have copied from your own CD's, unless you can prove (1) that you have permission from the copyright owners and (2) that the music is for QUT- related purposes. Even if you have paid for the music from a legitimate site like Telstra's BigPond Music or Apple iTunes, or you have the permission of the copyright owner, you may still be in breach of QUT Information Facilities Rules if the music is not for QUT-related purposes. If you use your own equipment at QUT, such as a personal music player, to play or store your copied recordings purely for your own enjoyment, then that would not infringe the IF Rules.
2. What about using P2P software?
You are cautioned against using University networks and machines to deal with music in digital form, either by ripping, burning, peer-to-peer networking, file-sharing, file-swapping or downloading from sites offering MP3 or other file formats of copyright music. If done without the express permission of the copyright owners, these activities are against QUT's Information Facilities Rules and may also result in an infringement of Australian copyright law. Even if your actions are done with the permission of the copyright owner, you may be in breach of the IF Rules if the music is not for QUT-related purposes.
3. What happens if I get caught with infringing music files?
QUT logs network activity at all connected locations, including off-campus. These logs are used to manage IT resources, including detecting security breaches and resolving faults, and to investigate possible unlawful activity or breaches of QUT statutes and rules (see MOPP F/1.2.7 and Schedule 1 of QUT's Information Facilities Rules). If in the course of system maintenance, music files are discovered on university equipment, you will be asked to prove that you have the permission of the copyright owner and that the music is for QUT-related purposes.
Penalties for students for breaches of the QUT IF Rules can include suspension of your QUT Access account.
Representatives of MIPI (Music Industry Piracy Investigations) carry out surveillance of internet sites and traffic, looking for instances of illegal music use, with a view to possible prosecutions. In November 2003, three young Sydney men were found guilty of criminal offences for online music infringement although they did not make any money out of their activities. Two of them received jail sentences. In 2004, a court order permitted MIPI to raid several universities in Australia as part of the legal action against the owners of the Kazaa file-sharing software. The music industry in the USA has taken legal action against the filesharing software Limewire.
The QUT Information Facilities Rules can be found at: http://www.mopp.qut.edu.au/Appendix
What is the past tense of "copyright"? Copyrighted? Or is there no past tense? (The Australian Concise Oxford - the only dictionary I have handy - doesn't have the answer).
To me, google is providing a framework that allows people to self-publish their videos. It is the person themselves who is responsible for the legality of the content. I think the comparison with a newspaper or magazine is false - newspapers and magazines either write their own content or approve submitted material. Never-the-less, I do find most of this discussion very US-centric. The US consitution protects free speach (? so I've heard) - well good for you. I personally don't have any problem with the fact that Australia has curbed free speech with racial vilification laws, false advertising laws, restricted content laws and so on. Cultures differ.
If the article is correct, the video was removed within 24 hours of the complaint. The central point is that "Under EU legislation incorporated into Italian law in 2003, Internet service providers are not responsible for monitoring third-party content on their sites, but are required to remove content considered offensive if they receive a complaint about it." So google seems to have done what it needed to do. "Nonetheless, Milan public prosecutor Francesco Cajani decided that by allowing the 191-second clip onto its site, Google executives were in breach of Italian penal code." This ability to prosecute is because "Cajani is prosecuting Google as an Internet content provider. Unlike Internet service providers, Italian penal code states that Internet content providers are responsible for the third-party content posted to their sites. This is essentially the same law regulating newspaper and television publishers." So the question to be decided is technical - are they an ISP or a content provider? Seems pretty clear to me that the people who are uploading are responsible for the legality of the content of their videos. After all, the post office can't be held responsible for the content of a letter I write.
"Maybe that's a better way of describing what I meant about "books need some imagination":)"
Yes, it is. You need to learn to use convoluted, elaborate and sciency-sounding language to express yourself. "Books need some imagination". Indeed.
Agreed, and what I said wasn't meant to extend to some prudish, Victorian attitude about sex. And I have nothing against porn being made that shows women as playthings for men - any man who doesn't know the difference between how women act in the fantasy porno world and how real women respond sexually is... well limited. But children don't know this - they see is what they see - they have no context to put it in.
Besides that, I would have thought that the reason adults wouldn't want to see porn in front of children is simply beacuse it is pornographic - it's meant to arouse or at least titillate. Surely this introduces a certain awkwardness to the family lunch? Recognising that sex is essentially private act and not wanting it to be commodified to sell whatever isn't the same as prudishness.
There's a difference between sex and porn, though. Sure children shouldn't be taught that sex is somehow wrong or taboo. But the way sex is presented in a lot of porn pandering to male adolescent fantasies that have nothing to do with sex with a real live woman. I have nothing against porn, but children don't need to see women moaning with pleasure when nothing particularly pleasurable is happening to them - it wrong information that leads to urealistic expectations.
Heterosexual taboos are documented as going way back to. "Documentation of the taboo appears in ancient Hebrew religious texts, for example." Ever read the Bible? The Koran?
A contributing factor may be the length of annual leave of Australian's versus US. I get 7.3 weeks a year (5 weeks annual, 1.3 weeks long service and 1 week paid shut-down). I met someone who held an equivilant position to me in the US who got TWO weeks annual leave per year, and they told me this was pretty standard. If this is true, then people in the US probably stick closer to home for their hols.
C'mon. Roxanne rocked. And ruled. Feeling like your musician status is under threat? Hmmmm? Well, too bad boy-o, it's equal opportunity time for the likes of little old atonal meeee!
IMO the difference between film and books is that with film the parts of the perceptual system that are involved (visual and aural) are the same as the ones that you would if you were witnessing someone being stabbed. This may give a film more immediacy and realism than with books. With books, though, there is more psychological involvement - you are hearing an account which requires you to make more cognitive effort. As to which is more salient - surely this depends on the film or the book. A film stabbing which involves a corny plastic knife and buckets of miscoloured blood will never match a graphic account that you read. But vica versa as well.
Sociopathy isn't selected out because it doesn't prevent people from reproducing. In fact, judging what I've read about "The Game" it may even increase a male's chances of scoring casual sex. Still, we get our revenge - sociopaths (even high functioning ones) are miserable. They can't bond with other people properly so they fail at relationships and their lives are dominated by feelings of impotence and jealousy. This explains their need for positions of power, flashy cars and trophy partners. Our envy feeds their fragile egos. Psychologically, you are much better off being lowly and empathetic.
Agreed. I have never met a manager who spends his time behaving like the guy in the article who actually did their job properly. The way I'm reading it, he's mildly sociopathic and that sort of person is too much into gratifying their ego and getting ahead to think long-term or to even focus on their actual job. Think of people like that you have worked with (shouting at you, smirking, spreading false gossip and taking credit for your work) - I'm betting you'll be remembering a muddled thinker. They have an underdeveloped emphatic instinct, and it comes at a cost where cognition is involved.
Yup - Kelly needs to go. The fact that the company jerk was uncontrolled shows that something was very wrong. And, inevitably, subordinates find a way to pay jerks back - there is no way that productivity will lift under that type of management, except temporarily.
So many of these things are ambits - they talk about introducing some utterly unworkable law. And it gets rejected. BUT minor amendments to other laws or residual policies from government departments are seen as "reasonable" compromises. Because people have been convinced by the media hoo-ha that there is some small seed of truth in the original suggestion. And the net tightens a little bit more.
You said: The correlation between conscientiousness (a personality trait) and JP (job performance) is usually around.2-.3 - but it's better than nothing.
Better than nothing? I woudn't agree to publish a simple correlation that low. If the sample is big enough to allow the results to be generalised, then that's too too marginal. I'd want much better than that, particularly since you are measuring two wooly constructs that are known to have pretty wide measurement errors. So you can round down the correlation by at least.05-.09 in my book.
And even it weren't likely to be artificial - you are going to conclude that a correlation of.2-.3 between conscientiousness and JP (job performance) is "better than nothing"? Me, I'd be changing either the way that job performance is asssessed or chucking the personality measure out the window to save the trees and the consulting fees.
Anyone who studies psychological testing and measurement is told that the personality tests are not a valuable tool. Specifically - they are and invalid and unreliable measure of something that doesn't really hold water as a construct. Embedded in the conxt of other types of testing (i.e. for damage to a particular brain area or the presence of symptoms assessing psychopathologies) - they really are wonky. The ethical code (here in Australia) specifies that psychologists must indicate the limits of the assessment techniques' applicability. They are a crock. There you go.
Agreed. And I'm surprised that so many people here seem to have accepted the notion of "personality" as a measurable construct for which there could be a valid and reliable test. Although we see ourselves and others as having continuous, stable identities, this is largely illusional. Human behaviour is highly situation specific - you'd have to be fairly mentally disordered to be as stable in your behaviours as these tests suggest.
Well our stats differ - the American Psychological Association has the rate of depression for women as twice that of men and BPD as three times. Or perhaps they just mean "diagnosed more often" since I remember reading that there was a biasis in diagnosis. But, yes, you are right about bipolar - apparently there is no gender differences in rates.
As to why men suceed more often - there's a summary paper here: http://www.mfdowns.com/Writing/WebMD_files/webmd_0304_mensuicide.pdf which offers a few explanations. The most likely might be that suicide is an agressive act and men are generally better at aggression than women. It suggests that in countries where there is no easy access to health care, the sucess rates for men and women are more comparable. So, in developed countries, perhaps the rates would be the same if not for the fact that men are choing fast, violent deaths while the women - who would have died slowly - are saved by doctors. Maybe? I'm sure, like everything else, it's a whole lot of factors interacting.
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As an ex-librarian, I can give you a professional's answer. You need a professional. But - if that's not possible, then what you are aiming for is a dream, and a huge data entry task to boot. And you will be creating a system that he will never be able to maintain. Aim lower. Ask him - does he want to keep the paper copies or move them all onto computer. Not both. If he wants to keep the paper - it's simple. Weed weed weed. 60% of what anyone holds is rubbish, and if's available online (and I mean in a proper source not a dissapearing link) he'll find it when he needs it. (I'm thinking he can't be using much of it given the difficulty of finding it). So that will leave you with about 20 three-rings out of the hundreds. Number each document, put them in a filing cabinets by MAIN SUBJECT. If you want to spend your life typing then, by all means, use incite, the word referencing system or some simple library freeware to create a db with author, title, journal etc and main subject (or maybe two). If he wants them all digital - same deal. Scan the ones that aren't there. Forget any sort of magic software that will catalogue for you, you crazy dreamer. The best you can do is use incite or some other referencing software to search for and make a record of the ones that have the record available on line. And then type the rest in. Personally, he sounds like a hoarder, so he will probably resist both suggestions. If this is the case then sort the folders into main subject and type a list (bib reference) and stick it to the front of each. At least that will cut down on his search time - but again, it's a lot of typing.
Yup - here's an email I recieved a couple of days ago from the university (in Australia): Thu, 05 Mar 2009 16:35:38 +1000 5 of 202 To all QUT Students: Advice and warning about music files on the QUT network 1. Warning about music files and the QUT network 2. What about using P2P software? 3. What happens if I get caught with infringing music files? 1. Warning about music files and the QUT network It is not legal to copy your music CDs to use on QUT equipment, despite recent changes to Australian copyright law. These changes have made it legal for individuals to copy sound recordings without the permission of the copyright owners in some circumstances only. (Copyright Act 1968 Section 109A). Those circumstances are: You must own a legitimate copy of the source recording from which you make your copy, You may use the copy you make only for private and domestic purposes, You may play the copy only on a device that you own. If you do not abide by all these conditions, the copy you make will be infringing, unless you have obtained permission from the copyright owners. It is against the QUT Information Facilities Rules to store or play infringing files on University equipment. So do not use University equipment to store or play music that you might have copied from your own CD's, unless you can prove (1) that you have permission from the copyright owners and (2) that the music is for QUT- related purposes. Even if you have paid for the music from a legitimate site like Telstra's BigPond Music or Apple iTunes, or you have the permission of the copyright owner, you may still be in breach of QUT Information Facilities Rules if the music is not for QUT-related purposes. If you use your own equipment at QUT, such as a personal music player, to play or store your copied recordings purely for your own enjoyment, then that would not infringe the IF Rules. 2. What about using P2P software? You are cautioned against using University networks and machines to deal with music in digital form, either by ripping, burning, peer-to-peer networking, file-sharing, file-swapping or downloading from sites offering MP3 or other file formats of copyright music. If done without the express permission of the copyright owners, these activities are against QUT's Information Facilities Rules and may also result in an infringement of Australian copyright law. Even if your actions are done with the permission of the copyright owner, you may be in breach of the IF Rules if the music is not for QUT-related purposes. 3. What happens if I get caught with infringing music files? QUT logs network activity at all connected locations, including off-campus. These logs are used to manage IT resources, including detecting security breaches and resolving faults, and to investigate possible unlawful activity or breaches of QUT statutes and rules (see MOPP F/1.2.7 and Schedule 1 of QUT's Information Facilities Rules). If in the course of system maintenance, music files are discovered on university equipment, you will be asked to prove that you have the permission of the copyright owner and that the music is for QUT-related purposes. Penalties for students for breaches of the QUT IF Rules can include suspension of your QUT Access account. Representatives of MIPI (Music Industry Piracy Investigations) carry out surveillance of internet sites and traffic, looking for instances of illegal music use, with a view to possible prosecutions. In November 2003, three young Sydney men were found guilty of criminal offences for online music infringement although they did not make any money out of their activities. Two of them received jail sentences. In 2004, a court order permitted MIPI to raid several universities in Australia as part of the legal action against the owners of the Kazaa file-sharing software. The music industry in the USA has taken legal action against the filesharing software Limewire. The QUT Information Facilities Rules can be found at: http://www.mopp.qut.edu.au/Appendix
Thanks.
What is the past tense of "copyright"? Copyrighted? Or is there no past tense? (The Australian Concise Oxford - the only dictionary I have handy - doesn't have the answer).
To me, google is providing a framework that allows people to self-publish their videos. It is the person themselves who is responsible for the legality of the content. I think the comparison with a newspaper or magazine is false - newspapers and magazines either write their own content or approve submitted material. Never-the-less, I do find most of this discussion very US-centric. The US consitution protects free speach (? so I've heard) - well good for you. I personally don't have any problem with the fact that Australia has curbed free speech with racial vilification laws, false advertising laws, restricted content laws and so on. Cultures differ.
If the article is correct, the video was removed within 24 hours of the complaint. The central point is that "Under EU legislation incorporated into Italian law in 2003, Internet service providers are not responsible for monitoring third-party content on their sites, but are required to remove content considered offensive if they receive a complaint about it." So google seems to have done what it needed to do. "Nonetheless, Milan public prosecutor Francesco Cajani decided that by allowing the 191-second clip onto its site, Google executives were in breach of Italian penal code." This ability to prosecute is because "Cajani is prosecuting Google as an Internet content provider. Unlike Internet service providers, Italian penal code states that Internet content providers are responsible for the third-party content posted to their sites. This is essentially the same law regulating newspaper and television publishers." So the question to be decided is technical - are they an ISP or a content provider? Seems pretty clear to me that the people who are uploading are responsible for the legality of the content of their videos. After all, the post office can't be held responsible for the content of a letter I write.
"Maybe that's a better way of describing what I meant about "books need some imagination" :)"
Yes, it is. You need to learn to use convoluted, elaborate and sciency-sounding language to express yourself. "Books need some imagination". Indeed.
Agreed, and what I said wasn't meant to extend to some prudish, Victorian attitude about sex. And I have nothing against porn being made that shows women as playthings for men - any man who doesn't know the difference between how women act in the fantasy porno world and how real women respond sexually is ... well limited. But children don't know this - they see is what they see - they have no context to put it in.
Besides that, I would have thought that the reason adults wouldn't want to see porn in front of children is simply beacuse it is pornographic - it's meant to arouse or at least titillate. Surely this introduces a certain awkwardness to the family lunch? Recognising that sex is essentially private act and not wanting it to be commodified to sell whatever isn't the same as prudishness.
There's a difference between sex and porn, though. Sure children shouldn't be taught that sex is somehow wrong or taboo. But the way sex is presented in a lot of porn pandering to male adolescent fantasies that have nothing to do with sex with a real live woman. I have nothing against porn, but children don't need to see women moaning with pleasure when nothing particularly pleasurable is happening to them - it wrong information that leads to urealistic expectations.
Heterosexual taboos are documented as going way back to. "Documentation of the taboo appears in ancient Hebrew religious texts, for example." Ever read the Bible? The Koran?
Genius.
"Blade Runner 2: Wrath of the Electric Sheep". They're baaaa!
Aggh! I wrote Australian's not Australians. Must be the heat wave.
A contributing factor may be the length of annual leave of Australian's versus US. I get 7.3 weeks a year (5 weeks annual, 1.3 weeks long service and 1 week paid shut-down). I met someone who held an equivilant position to me in the US who got TWO weeks annual leave per year, and they told me this was pretty standard. If this is true, then people in the US probably stick closer to home for their hols.
C'mon. Roxanne rocked. And ruled. Feeling like your musician status is under threat? Hmmmm? Well, too bad boy-o, it's equal opportunity time for the likes of little old atonal meeee!
IMO the difference between film and books is that with film the parts of the perceptual system that are involved (visual and aural) are the same as the ones that you would if you were witnessing someone being stabbed. This may give a film more immediacy and realism than with books. With books, though, there is more psychological involvement - you are hearing an account which requires you to make more cognitive effort. As to which is more salient - surely this depends on the film or the book. A film stabbing which involves a corny plastic knife and buckets of miscoloured blood will never match a graphic account that you read. But vica versa as well.
Sociopathy isn't selected out because it doesn't prevent people from reproducing. In fact, judging what I've read about "The Game" it may even increase a male's chances of scoring casual sex. Still, we get our revenge - sociopaths (even high functioning ones) are miserable. They can't bond with other people properly so they fail at relationships and their lives are dominated by feelings of impotence and jealousy. This explains their need for positions of power, flashy cars and trophy partners. Our envy feeds their fragile egos. Psychologically, you are much better off being lowly and empathetic.
Agreed. I have never met a manager who spends his time behaving like the guy in the article who actually did their job properly. The way I'm reading it, he's mildly sociopathic and that sort of person is too much into gratifying their ego and getting ahead to think long-term or to even focus on their actual job. Think of people like that you have worked with (shouting at you, smirking, spreading false gossip and taking credit for your work) - I'm betting you'll be remembering a muddled thinker. They have an underdeveloped emphatic instinct, and it comes at a cost where cognition is involved.
Yup - Kelly needs to go. The fact that the company jerk was uncontrolled shows that something was very wrong. And, inevitably, subordinates find a way to pay jerks back - there is no way that productivity will lift under that type of management, except temporarily.
To expand on that: Piss on that, bastards and pricks!
So many of these things are ambits - they talk about introducing some utterly unworkable law. And it gets rejected. BUT minor amendments to other laws or residual policies from government departments are seen as "reasonable" compromises. Because people have been convinced by the media hoo-ha that there is some small seed of truth in the original suggestion. And the net tightens a little bit more.
You said: The correlation between conscientiousness (a personality trait) and JP (job performance) is usually around .2-.3 - but it's better than nothing.
Better than nothing? I woudn't agree to publish a simple correlation that low. If the sample is big enough to allow the results to be generalised, then that's too too marginal. I'd want much better than that, particularly since you are measuring two wooly constructs that are known to have pretty wide measurement errors. So you can round down the correlation by at least .05-.09 in my book.
And even it weren't likely to be artificial - you are going to conclude that a correlation of .2-.3 between conscientiousness and JP (job performance) is "better than nothing"? Me, I'd be changing either the way that job performance is asssessed or chucking the personality measure out the window to save the trees and the consulting fees.
Anyone who studies psychological testing and measurement is told that the personality tests are not a valuable tool. Specifically - they are and invalid and unreliable measure of something that doesn't really hold water as a construct. Embedded in the conxt of other types of testing (i.e. for damage to a particular brain area or the presence of symptoms assessing psychopathologies) - they really are wonky. The ethical code (here in Australia) specifies that psychologists must indicate the limits of the assessment techniques' applicability. They are a crock. There you go.
Agreed. And I'm surprised that so many people here seem to have accepted the notion of "personality" as a measurable construct for which there could be a valid and reliable test. Although we see ourselves and others as having continuous, stable identities, this is largely illusional. Human behaviour is highly situation specific - you'd have to be fairly mentally disordered to be as stable in your behaviours as these tests suggest.
Well our stats differ - the American Psychological Association has the rate of depression for women as twice that of men and BPD as three times. Or perhaps they just mean "diagnosed more often" since I remember reading that there was a biasis in diagnosis. But, yes, you are right about bipolar - apparently there is no gender differences in rates. As to why men suceed more often - there's a summary paper here: http://www.mfdowns.com/Writing/WebMD_files/webmd_0304_mensuicide.pdf which offers a few explanations. The most likely might be that suicide is an agressive act and men are generally better at aggression than women. It suggests that in countries where there is no easy access to health care, the sucess rates for men and women are more comparable. So, in developed countries, perhaps the rates would be the same if not for the fact that men are choing fast, violent deaths while the women - who would have died slowly - are saved by doctors. Maybe? I'm sure, like everything else, it's a whole lot of factors interacting.