[NEDBIB-L] Gebruik van bibliotheekdata

Een interessant stuk van Peter Brantley (NYPL) in Publisher's Weekly (2 Jan. 2015): Books and Browsers: Privacy for Digital Library Patrons.

Brantley gaat in op de privacy-aspecten van bibliotheekgegevens. Hij geeft voorbeelden van wat bibliotheken kunnen doen om die gegevens beter te beschermen (vooral af te schermen), maar zegt tegelijkertijd dat bibliotheken de gegevens veel beter moeten gebruiken om hun service te optimaliseren en nieuwe diensten te ontwikkelen.

Citaat: "For decades, libraries' efforts to prevent privacy breaches entailed throwing away user data as soon as possible, as a matter of policy. Now, the risk of social irrelevance requires us to use that data to develop services that will ensure our continued viability in the digital age. To do this, we have to establish the baseline data collection and privacy expectations users must accept to take advantage of Web-based library services, while educating them about other services they can opt in to if they allow additional data harvesting.

For libraries, that's the challenge: to mitigate the dangers of data collection for our users (dangers we can limit but not fully control), while balancing our data collection practices with our users privacy expectations, in order to enable valuable, innovative new services. It won't be easy-but it is necessary."

Het volledige artikel: http://publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/libraries/article/65161-check-it-out-with-peter-brantley-privacy-for-library-patrons.html

Jos Damen
Afrika-Studiecentrum, Leiden
http://www.connecting-africa.net
http://countryportal.ascleiden.nl



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