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This paper analyzes a shifting landscape of intellectual freedom (IF) in and outside Florida for children, adolescents, teens and adults. National ideals stand in tension with local and state developments, as new threats are visible in historical, legal, and technological context. Examples include doctrinal shifts, legislative bills, electronic surveillance and recent attempts to censor books, classroom texts, and reading lists. Privacy rights for minors in Florida are increasingly unstable. New assertions of parental rights are part of a larger conservative animus. Proponents of IF can identify a lessening of ideals and standards that began after doctrinal fruition in the 1960s and 70s, and respond to related occurrences to help mitigate the impact of increasingly reactionary social and political currents. At the same time, progressive librarians can resist erosion of professional independence that comes when censorship pressures undermine core values. This paper is a post-imprint of an article originally published in the Journal of Intellectual Freedom and Privacy (Winter, 2017), with minor edits from the original published article. Some end notes (1, 30, 41 and 51) have been added – re-ordering original numeration to link the reader to subsequent articles, websites and/or occurrences.

This poster presentation from the May 2015 Florida Library Association Conference, along with the Everglades Explorer discovery portal at http://ee.fiu.edu, demonstrates how traditional bibliographic and curatorial principles can be applied to: 1) selection, cross-walking and aggregation of metadata linking end-users to wide-spread digital resources from multiple silos; 2) harvesting of select PDFs, HTML and media for web archiving and access; 3) selection of CMS domains, sub-domains and folders for targeted searching using an API. Choosing content for this discovery portal is comparable to past scholarly practice of creating and publishing subject bibliographies, except metadata and data are housed in relational databases. This new and yet traditional capacity coincides with: Growth of bibliographic utilities (MarcEdit); Evolution of open-source discovery systems (eXtensible Catalog); Development of target-capable web crawling and archiving systems (Archive-it); and specialized search APIs (Google). At the same time, historical and technical changes – specifically the increasing fluidity and re-purposing of syndicated metadata – make this possible. It equally stems from the expansion of freely accessible digitized legacy and born-digital resources. Innovation principles helped frame the process by which the thematic Everglades discovery portal was created at Florida International University. The path -- to providing for more effective searching and co-location of digital scientific, educational and historical material related to the Everglades -- is contextualized through five concepts found within Dyer and Christensen's "The Innovator's DNA: Mastering the five skills of disruptive innovators (2011). The project also aligns with Ranganathan's Laws of Library Science, especially the 4th Law -- to "save the time of the user."

A full year's intake of 38 Aboriginal children and 198 non-Aboriginal children referred for a new out-of-home placement in South Australia were studied as part of the first phase of a 3-year longitudinal study into the outcomes of alternative care. The baseline profile of this cohort revealed a number of significant racial and geographical differences between the children. Among the most important of these was an interaction between race and geographical location on length of time in care which indicated that Aboriginal children from metropolitan areas and non-Aboriginal children from rural areas had the longest histories of alternative care. In addition, Aboriginal children in metropolitan areas were the least likely to be referred into care for reasons of emotional abuse or neglect, no doubt because so many of them were already in alternative care at the time of the referral. Metropolitan Aboriginal children were also the unhealthiest and, together with rural non-Aborigines, the most likely to be under a court order at the time of placement. Overall, results are consistent with the proposition that metropolitan Aboriginal children and rural non-Aboriginal children are the most reliant on the formal alternative care system.

We thank George Themistocleus, who conducted preliminary research on the indentation technique as part of his M.S. project. This work was funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) project "Rhizosphere by Design" (BB/L026058/1, BB/J000868/1, and BB/J011460/1) with support from a Royal Society University Research Fellowship, EPSRC EP/M020355/1 and ERC Consolidator Grant DIMR 646809. The James Hutton Institute receives funding from the Scottish Government. ; Peer reviewed ; Publisher PDF

Acknowledgements L.J.C., N.K., I.S. and T.R. are funded by BBSRC SARISA BB/L025620/1. K.R.D. is funded by ERC 646809DIMR. L.K.B., P.D.H., T.S.G., M.N. and A.R. are funded by BBSRC BB/J00868/1 and A.G.B. is funded by BB/L025825/1. The James Hutton Institute receives financial support from the Rural & Environment Science & Analytical Services Division of the Scottish Government. I.S. and T.R. are also funded by EPSRC EP/M020355/1. T.R. is also funded by ERC 646809DIMR, BBSRC SARIC BB/P004180/1 and NERC NE/L00237/1. The authors acknowledge the use of the I13 beamline at Diamond Light Source, Oxfordshire, UK (session ID: MT9659). We would like to thank beamline scientist Dr Mirian Garcia Fernandez, who provided considerable help during our beamtime. Additionally, Diamond Light Source funded travel for three people. The authors acknowledge the use of the IRIDIS High Performance Computing Facility, and associated support services at the University of Southampton, in the completion of this work. All data supporting this study are available on request from the University of Southampton repository at https://doi.org/10.5258/soton/d0116. ; Peer reviewed ; Publisher PDF

This is the final version. Available from Elsevier via the DOI in this record. ; All data held in the form of draft and final ontologies produced by the Ontologies CoP are accessible online on public repositories managing versioning—mainly in GitHub repositories. Final versions of the ontologies are published with a cc-by license. ; Heterogeneous and multidisciplinary data generated by research on sustainable global agriculture and agrifood systems requires quality data labeling or annotation in order to be interoperable. As recommended by the FAIR principles, data, labels, and metadata must use controlled vocabularies and ontologies that are popular in the knowledge domain and commonly used by the community. Despite the existence of robust ontologies in the Life Sciences, there is currently no comprehensive full set of ontologies recommended for data annotation across agricultural research disciplines. In this paper, we discuss the added value of the Ontologies Community of Practice (CoP) of the CGIAR Platform for Big Data in Agriculture for harnessing relevant expertise in ontology development and identifying innovative solutions that support quality data annotation. The Ontologies CoP stimulates knowledge sharing among stakeholders, such as researchers, data managers, domain experts, experts in ontology design, and platform development teams. ; National Science Foundation (NSF) ; Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) ; Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) ; Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) ; Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) ; Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) ; Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) ; Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) ; French National Research Agency ; European Union ; European Union Horizon 2020