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This volume explores alternative cultural encounters with and around information technologies, encounters that counter dominant, Western-oriented notions of media consumption. The contributors include media practices as forms of cultural resistance and subversion, 'DIY cultures', and other non-mainstream models of technology production and consumption. The contributors - leading thinkers in science and technology studies, anthropology, and software design - pay special attention to the specific inflections that different cultures and communities give to the value of knowledge.

This presentation at the annual BCNET 2018 conference describes the work towards developing Portage, a national network of sustainable, shared services for research data management (RDM) in Canada. A description of the RDM context in Canada will be provided, including an overview of major Portage initiatives. We will also cover the heightened expectations around the Government of Canada's Open Science plans, Tri-Council work towards the Research Data Management Policy. After providing this introductory background, we will specifically focus on the Federated Research Data Repository (FRDR) — a scalable, federated platform for digital research data management and discovery of Canadian research data, collaboratively developed by Compute Canada and Portage. We will discuss the discovery and harvesting mechanisms for FRDR, metadata standards used, storage options, and digital preservation pipelines to Archivematica software. Moreover, we will review the strengths and limitations of the current platform and cover expected future developments. ; Library, UBC ; Non UBC ; Unreviewed ; Faculty ; Other

The last decade in Indonesia has seen the emergence of localized militia groups. In Bali, these groups are now particularly prolific. Conventional wisdom in international relations thought is that these organizations constitute a threat to the authority of the state (its monopoly on the legitimate use of force) and may require national security measures to deal with them. Yet these organizations ultimately define their own role in terms of the provision of security, claiming that they act to preserve or advance core values of their communities. In this sense, their security role with reference to the state is ambiguous: they often enjoy legitimacy at the local level and perform important security functions for their local communities, even while constituting an alternative site of security practice and challenging the (exclusive) security role of the Indonesian state. Drawing on ethnographic research, this article examines these actors as security agents and employs a framework of security contestation to make sense of the manner in which they engage with and redefine the provision of security in Bali. In this context, the emergence and practices of Balinese militia groups challenge the way we view non-state actors in the security space and, more generally, the way we conceive security agency in international relations.

The Federated Research Data Repository (FRDR), developed through a partnership between the Canadian Association of Research Libraries' Portage initiative and the Compute Canada Federation, improves research data discovery in Canada by providing a single search portal for research data stored across Canadian governmental, institutional, and discipline-specific data repositories. While this national discovery layer helps to de-silo Canadian research data, challenges in data discovery remain due to a lack of standardized metadata practices across repositories. In recognition of this challenge, a Portage task group, drawn from a national network of experts, has engaged in a project to map subject keywords to the Online Computer Library Center's (OCLC) Faceted Application of Subject Terminology (FAST) using the open source OpenRefine software. This paper will describe the task group's project, discuss the various approaches undertaken by the group, and explore how this work improves data discovery and may be adopted by other repositories and metadata aggregators to support metadata standardization.

The Federated Research Data Repository (FRDR), developed through a partnership between the Canadian Association of Research Libraries' Portage initiative and Compute Canada, improves research data discovery in Canada by providing a single search portal for more than 100,000 metadata records indexed from over 40 Canadian governmental, institutional, and domain-specific data repositories. While this national discovery layer helps to de-silo Canadian research data, challenges in data discovery remain due to a lack of standardized metadata practices across repositories. In recognition of this challenge, a Portage working group, drawn from a national network of experts, has engaged in a project to map subject keywords to the Online Computer Library Center's (OCLC) Faceted Application of Subject Terminology (FAST) using the open source OpenRefine software. This presentation will describe the working group's project, provide a demonstration of preliminary results and examples of how this work improves data discovery, and discuss how this approach may be adopted by other repositories and metadata aggregators to support metadata standardization.

Purpose. Explore the role of the neighborhood environment in supporting walking. Design. Cross-sectional study of 10,286 residents of 200 neighborhoods. Participants were selected using a stratified two-stage cluster design. Data were collected by mail survey (68.5% response rate). Setting. Brisbane City Local Government Area, Australia, 2007. Subjects. Brisbane residents aged 40 to 65 years. Measures. Environmental: street connectivity, residential density, hilliness, tree coverage, bikeways, and streetlights within a 1-km circular buffer from each resident's home; and network distance to nearest river or coast, public transport, shop, and park. Walking: minutes walked in the previous week: <30 minutes, ≥30 to <90 minutes, ≥90 to <150 minutes, ≥150 to <300 minutes, and ≥300 minutes. Analysis. The association between each neighborhood characteristic and walking was examined using multilevel multinomial logistic regression, and the model parameters were estimated using Markov chain Monte Carlo simulation. Results. After adjustment for individual factors, the likelihood of walking for more than 300 minutes (relative to <30 minutes) was highest in areas with the most connectivity (odds ratio [OR] = 1.93; 99% confidence intervals [CI], 1.32–2.80), greatest residential density (OR = 1.47; 99% CI, 1.02–2.12), least tree coverage (OR = 1.69; 99% CI, 1.13–2.51), most bikeways (OR = 1.60; 99% CI, 1.16–2.21), and most streetlights (OR = 1.50; 99% CI, 1.07–2.11). The likelihood of walking for more than 300 minutes was also higher among those who lived closest to a river or the coast (OR = 2.06; 99% CI, 1.41–3.02). Conclusion. The likelihood of meeting (and exceeding) physical activity recommendations on the basis of walking was higher in neighborhoods with greater street connectivity and residential density, more streetlights and bikeways, closer proximity to waterways, and less tree coverage. Interventions targeting these neighborhood characteristics may lead to improved environmental quality as well as lower rates of overweight and obesity and associated chromic disease. (Am J Health Promot 2011;25[4]:e12–e21.)