Allison Brown

In late 2009, a series of follow up interviews were conducted to update the descriptions of New Zealand Institutional Repository projects in From The Beginning. - Allison Brown

The following is a crosswalk between core MARC 21 bibliographic data elements and elements in the Dublin Core Element Set. It may be used in conversion of metadata from MARC into Dublin Core. Since MARC is richer in data than Dublin Core, it differs from the Dublin Core to MARC Crosswalk in that multiple MARC fields are mapped to a Dublin Core element. The Dublin Core to MARC crosswalk maps a Dublin Core element to a single MARC field. In both crosswalks there are different mappings for Dublin Core simple or qualified. Not all possible MARC fields are included in this mapping, but only those considered useful for broad cross-domain resource discovery. Applications may wish to include other MARC elements that are prevalent in their data but are not listed here, or they may not include all that are listed. - Allison Brown

Web 2.OhMyGod to Web 2.OhNo - Allison Brown

Last week Facebook rolled out a new version of their privacy settings to all users. Privacy settings are something that many Facebook users are regularly confused about. That’s why we published our original Facebook privacy guide back in February. After millions of people visited our privacy guide, we realized how important privacy is to Facebook users. With the new settings rolled out, we thought that now would be a great time to update the guide with the latest changes. In this guide we present a thorough overview of the most important privacy settings which includes previous settings that are still relevant as well as new privacy settings that have been added by Facebook. The majority of the old privacy settings are still relevant, however there’s a chance that you may now be sharing much more information with the whole world. Make it through our new Facebook privacy guide and you’re guaranteed to be safe. - Allison Brown

Bronwyn Holloway-Smith is an Artist and Arts Administrator based in Wellington. She graduated with Bachelor of Fine Arts, First Class Honours from Massey University in 2006 and currently works at the Litmus Research Initiative, Massey University. Her work has been exhibited at galleries throughout New Zealand including City Gallery, Wellington; Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt; Enjoy Public Art Gallery, Wellington; The Physics Room, Christchurch; and Rm103, Auckland. Her works are represented in both private and public collections and she is actively involved in the local arts community as a trust member for Enjoy Public Art Gallery, Wellington. Holloway-Smith is also one-half of the band Elbow vs. Knee and occasionally freelances as a writer. - Allison Brown

Artists' lawsuit: major record labels are the real pirates Between $50 million and $6 billion may be owed to musicians and artists in Canada, but not from your run-of-the-mill file sharers. The Canadian recording industry itself is being accused of massive copyright infringement, and the list of miffed artists just keeps getting longer. - Allison Brown

Policies and Regulations All official statutes, regulations, policies, guidelines and codes of conduct applicable to the University, its staff and students, may be found in this Policy Database. The documents in the Database are both the official and most recent versions of these documents and are accessible to staff, students and visitors to the University, via alphabetical, keyword, or administrative category searches. Any University of Otago staff member wishing to provide feedback on any existing policy should contact the sponsor of the policy in the first instance. - Allison Brown

Delgirl Three singers. Three songwriters. One voice . . . “For the past seven years, a trio of Dunedin women have practised a seductive sonic art. Augmenting honey-dipped harmonies with acoustic guitars, ukulele, trumpet and drums, they’ve conjured many a mood-altering spell…with a repertoire of original compositions that reflect a shared talent for finding the remarkable in the everyday, the trio appear to revel in the pleasure of performance.” Jeff Harford, Otago Daily Times 3/11/07 Ask Deirdre Newall, Erin Morton and Lynn Vare to describe the Delgirl sound and they’ll scratch around for the right words. Acoustic, country-blues? Harmony-rich folk-reggae fusion? It is what it is, they say. Ask them to play, and their songs do the talking, revealing musical roots nourished by the warm waters of the Tropics, the cool mountain streams of North America and the fertile soils of their New Zealand homeland. - Allison Brown