Are all the children in their bed?

Derek Law

Information Resources Directorate,

University of Strathclyde

Welcome to Glasgow

City of Culture City of Architecture City of deep fried Mars Bars Strathclyde - A Place of Useful Learning The home of WWW

chappin’ }knockin’ }keekin’ }

speirin’ }keekin’ }checking}

eight o’ clock}ten o’ clock }

Wee Willie Winkie runs through the townUpstairs and downstairs in his nightgown

at the windows,

at the locks,

“Are all the children in their beds?

It’s past ”

W3, Urban myth,authentication and censorship

Themes An internal tool or an external propaganda weapon? Information and quality assurance

Are we responsible? Censorship and curfews

Napster, spam and MUD Version control Ownership

Anon – or William Miller? Centralisation versus decentralisation

A pointless argument?

MLE’s, VLE’s and teaching for dummies A single standard or interoperability? Who is responsible for e-learning strategies?

The Vesalius conundrum Holding forth or holding the jackets? Have academic services ANY role in forcing

change?

Research Infrastructure

How can web services support research? Data mining OAI Webmail Document Management

Student centred systems

Happy days Happy hours Sad anoraks Sado masochists

Monitoring usage

MIS

We know where you live Data Protection, RIP and policing the

boundaries Who “owns” data? and therefore can change

it

Conclusions

Who wants web-based services? Who needs web-based services but doesn’t

know it? Who is responsible for originating change? Who is responsible for delivering change?