Open Password – Wednesday January 26, 2022
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Dr. Bassam Mokbel – AI-SDV 2021 – Semalytix – Rene Deplanque – TU Berlin – FIZ CHEMIE Berlin – AI-SDV 2022 – Metaverse – Digital Revolution – Andreas Dripke – Marc Ruberg – Detlef Schmuck – Facebook – Meta – Diplomatic Council – Gaming – Non- Fungible Tokens – Business Opportunities – OpenSea
Cultural Secretariat NRW Gütersloh – Summer club for all libraries in North Rhine-Westphalia – Anna Sophie Rosenhayn – Westphalia-Lippe – Municipal cultural work – Ministry of Culture and Science – Teen Reading Club – Brilon City Library – Junior reading club – Specialist office for public libraries – Creative work – Few readers – Third place – Digital challenges – Reading skills – Media skills – Reading Oscars – Project coordination – Team approach – Team constellations
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Bassam Mokbel, Chief Data Scientist at Semalytix
Rene Deplanque has been at TU Berlin for 21 years
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Christophf Haxel: Good opportunities for the AI-SDV 2022
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Metaverse
Before the next digital revolution – more important than printing and the Internet combined
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Kultursekretariat NRW Gütersloh: A summer reading club for all libraries
in North Rhine-Westphalia – By Anna Sophie Rosenhayn
Corrigenda
Dr. Bassam Mokbel is Chief Data Scientist
at Semalytix GmbH
To: Dr. Bassam Mokbel, experience report AI-SDV 2021: On the fronts of search, data analysis, visualization and knowledge processing, in: Open Password, January 21, 2022.
In the article mentioned above, we mistakenly assigned our author to the company Symantec. However, it is true that Dr. Bassam Mokbel is Chief Data Scientist at Semalytix GmbH. Please excuse the mistake.
FIZ CHEMIE Berlin
Rene Deplanque has been at TU Berlin for 21 years
The long-standing cooperation partner of Password and Open Password and former scientific director of FIZ CHEMIE Berlin has been teaching at the TU Berlin for 21 years. Time to look back and congratulate at the same time.
Dr. Christoph Haxel Congress and Event Management GmbH
Good chances for the AI-SDV 2022
To: Dr. Bassam Mokbel, experience report AI-SDV 2021: On the fronts of search, data analysis, visualization and knowledge processing, in: Open Password, January 21, 2022
Dear Mr. Bredemeier,
Thank you very much for the nice article in Password. Please also pass on my thanks to the author, Dr. Bassam Mokbel continues.
I would be very happy if you took part in the next AI-SDV again this year with “Password online”. The plan is October 2022, but I’m still waiting for a few days of omicron incidence with the exact date and location…
Wish you and Password Online a good start into the new year.
Many greetings from Heidelberg Christoph Haxel
Metaverse
Before the next digital revolution
More important than printing and the Internet combined
“Metaverse – What it is, how it works, when it comes”, Andreas Dripke, Marc Ruberg, Detlef Schmuck, 256 pages, ISBN 978-3-947818-87-7
Ever since the largest social network in the world, Facebook, renamed itself Meta, the Metaverse has been on everyone’s lips. However, the idea of what the metaverse is about is very vague. The new book “Metaverse – What it is, how it works, when it comes” (ISBN 978-3-947818-87-7), which was published by the UN think tank Diplomatic Council, aims to shed light on the darkness.
In their book, the authors Andreas Dripke, Marc Ruberg and Detlef Schmuck describe the metaverse – or metaverse, as it is also called – as “a revolution that will be more important than printing and the Internet combined”. Chapter by chapter they justify their assessment and predict a market worth trillions.
Marc Ruberg, who is responsible for the university network in the state of Baden-Württemberg in his day job, explains: “The Metaverse may still be difficult to imagine today. But who could have imagined the Internet ten years before it became widespread?” The completion of the Metaverse is still many years in the future, admits Ruberg, who has studied computer science, mathematics, nuclear physics and music. But he also says: “The development of the Metaverse begins now.”
Marc Ruberg, who is considered one of the Internet pioneers in Germany alongside Michael Birkenbihl, Klaus Landefeld, Prof. Michael Rotert and Harald A. Summa, explains: “For a long time it was unclear what the Internet should be, what components it consists of, who owns it, who regulates it and what you can do with it. Today the Internet is omnipresent and most of us can hardly imagine life without the Internet. The Metaverse can be classified in a similar way. Today it is still difficult to figure out exactly what it will be, who the players will be, how it can be useful, what dangers it poses, where exactly the journey will take us. But there is much to suggest that the Metaverse will be the next digital revolution that will shape our everyday lives, our economy and our society in the future just as much as the Internet does today.”
The book contradicts the popular notion that the Metaverse is just a three-dimensional virtual world populated with avatars. In addition, it is wrong to ridicule the Metaverse because a large part of it comes from the gaming sector. Says Ruberg: “It is true that the most popular Metaverse platform at the moment is a computer game that is predominantly populated by children barely older than twelve years old. But that is just one perspective among many other aspects. The Metaverse also includes the mobile Internet, social networks, virtual realities, crypto technologies, artificial intelligence, digital identities, the Internet of Things and the convergence of people and machines.”
It’s not just about our digital everyday life, but also about “big business”, as the book shows. According to the authors’ research, over $100 million was spent on virtual land in the Metaverse for the first time in 2021. The authors name non-fungible tokens, or NFT for short, as a key technology not only for business in the metaverse. The book states: “An NFT is a forgery-proof certificate that is stored on a blockchain. It is a unique feature in the digital world, comparable to DNA in the physical world, and at the same time as trustworthy as a notary.” Last year, for example, the auction house Sotheby’s auctioned off the original program code for the World Wide Web from the WWW inventor Tim Berners-Lee via NTF notary for 4.8 million euros. The world’s largest marketplace for NFTs, the crypto platform OpenSea, exceeded the ten billion dollar mark in transaction volume in 2021.
The authors also address the dangers of the new virtual computer world. Given more than a billion cyberattacks in 2021, “a pandemic in the metaverse is just as unthinkable as Corona.” What this means is that a general attack on the Metaverse is certainly within the realm of possibility
Cultural Secretariat NRW Gütersloh
A summer reading club for all libraries
in North Rhine-Westphalia
By Anna Sophie Rosenhayn
Anna Maria Rosenhayn
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- History of origin: The summer reading club as a project of the Cultural Secretariat NRW Gütersloh (KS NRW GT)
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The Cultural Secretariat NRW Gütersloh is an association that has existed since 1980 and currently consists of 80 cities and municipalities in North Rhine-Westphalia, the Westphalia-Lippe Regional Association and the Lippe State Association. The cultural policy intention is to intensify cooperation between its member cities in all areas of municipal cultural work.
Project funding and implementation is carried out exclusively through the use of funding from the Ministry of Culture and Science of North Rhine-Westphalia. The cultural education funding programs and projects are grouped under the “Young Cultural Secretariat” division and form one of the core activities of the Cultural Secretariat NRW Gütersloh.
As the largest reading promotion project in North Rhine-Westphalia, the Summer Reading Club (SLC) in the literature category has been carried out by the NRW Gütersloh Cultural Secretariat for its member cities, but also for municipalities that are not members of the KS NRW GT, for more than ten years.
The idea of the SLC was based on the “Teen Reading Club” project from America. A first pilot project was carried out in the Brilon city library in 2002. In 2005, the SLC was taken over by the NRW Gütersloh Cultural Secretariat as a model project and the concept was spread across municipalities throughout North Rhine-Westphalia and other federal states. As “the little brother” of the SLC, the NRW Gütersloh Cultural Secretariat established the Junior Reading Club (JLC) in 2008, which was aimed at primary school children and offered early extracurricular reading support.
Through continuous collaboration with the libraries, both reading clubs have developed into an established cultural educational offering throughout North Rhine-Westphalia.
In recent years, further developments of the two reading clubs have become essential – in view of advancing digitalization, the changing lives of children and young people and the changing mission of libraries. These are increasingly repositioning themselves as multimedia meeting places. In 2017 and 2018, the original concept was further developed in collaboration with twelve selected pilot locations and with the support of the Department of Public Libraries and the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia and introduced nationwide in 2019. The JLC was held for the last time in 2019. Since then, the new SLC has appealed to all age groups equally.
In the first year of comprehensive implementation of the new concept, municipalities with 211 library locations took part. In 2019, the SLC reached 34,000 readers, almost doubling the number compared to the previous year (19,000 young readers in 2018). There was similar growth across all SLC event areas.
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- Main focus of the summer reading club since 2019
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Creativity and one’s own creative work play an increasingly important role in today’s “Do it Yourself” culture. Knowledge and know-how have become easily available goods. Libraries play an important role in this social development as a lively meeting place, as a cultural and educational place, as a place for communication and participation. Since developing the new concept, the SLC has increasingly focused on creativity, teamwork and communication. Readers of all ages can participate together as a team. The intergenerational summer reading club becomes a shared activity between families and friends. Getting together with other interested people, exchanging ideas, meeting each other, both virtually and in a real sense – the SLC connects all of this across generations.
In the team and/or online logbook, the members of the team or the individual readers collect impressions of books they have read and audio books they have listened to during the summer holidays. They attend literary events in the library. To ensure successful participation, each team member takes part in at least one activity, so that even “light readers” can be motivated to take part in the summer reading club. The printed logbook contains creative and analog tasks that can be solved as a team or individually. Equipped with various topic pages, it offers creative challenges, playful tasks and opportunities for discussion within the team.
The library becomes a meeting and resting place for the team members and thus a “third place”. The team-based solving and processing of tasks about book heroes, photo stories about your favorite book, team logos and more becomes a creative engagement with stories. A web-based online logbook takes up the content of the print logbook in a playful way and expands it to include digital “challenges” – this allows the teams and individual readers to stay connected to each other during the vacation period. In this way, not only reading skills but also media skills are promoted among the participants in the summer reading club. Within the project, libraries are encouraged to further develop as multimedia-oriented places. The digital element of the online logbook supports you in this.
At the end of the summer reading club there will be an “Oscar awards ceremony”. The particularly creative implementations are awarded “Reading Oscars” and certificates are awarded to all successful participants.
The summer reading club creates a space in which encounters and conversations between children, young people, parents and librarians are encouraged. Engaging with what you read, exchanging ideas and meeting like-minded people creates lasting relationships with libraries outside of school. The libraries open up to a lively and young audience and give them freedom. The summer reading club encourages libraries to develop their own and complementary activities for children and young people.
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3. Methodical process of the project
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The Cultural Secretariat NRW Gütersloh is responsible for the overall project coordination. The central measures include creating all print and PR materials, maintaining the project-specific homepages, implementing the online logbook instances at the individual locations and providing the libraries with technical and organizational support in implementing the project. Extensive templates, information materials and help for project organization are provided.
The measures to implement the project itself take place in the libraries and under the direction of the respective project coordinators on site and other library employees from the children’s and youth departments. The tasks and services between the Cultural Secretariat NRW Gütersloh and the libraries involved are regulated in a cooperation agreement.
The new concept is based on the team approach and addressing cross-age target groups, on the choice between different media and the possibility of collecting books, audio books and events for which there is a stamp in the team logbook. The concept is modularized so that each location can design its own summer reading club according to its own resources, requirements and strengths. There are various blocks available for this that the libraries can choose from.
The libraries have the opportunity to decide which form of implementation they choose for their location in the form of the basic module. Funding is provided through the provision of project materials:
… The analogue route is chosen as option A. An analogue logbook is introduced, which is kept by the team members together or by the individual readers.
The digital route is chosen as option B. A web-based online logbook will be introduced that will be used by the teams and will digitally network them with each other. Individual readers can also use the online logbook.
…As option C, both forms of implementation, analog and digital, are combined.
Libraries can also integrate creative components in the form of literature-based and creative events/activities.
About the project process in the libraries: Readers register for the summer reading club in the library or online around the second or third week before the start of the summer holidays.
In advance, the libraries promote the projects in primary and secondary schools by offering library tours or visits to the schools. The connection to the schools creates fruitful collaborations and interactions with the educational institutions. Libraries and schools benefit from their close collaboration. The summer reading club provides low-threshold, extracurricular access to reading that can improve readers’ reading skills.
At the beginning of the summer holidays, book loans and activities related to the summer reading club start. The libraries are encouraged to draw from the pool of ideas in the information brochure and integrate a creative component into the summer reading club in the form of a literature-based event.
The summer reading club concludes with the distribution of certificates for three or more collected media. Libraries are also encouraged to award “Reading Oscars” to the creative results from the logbooks in the form of an Oscar award. For this purpose, readers are usually invited to a final event or a reading at the end of the summer holidays. The certificate certifies the readers’ successful participation in the summer reading club.
For North Rhine-Westphalia, there is a declaration of consent from the Ministry of Education to note successful participation in the summer reading club as an extracurricular achievement on the certificate. Libraries are free to decide whether they want to use this option. _____________________________________________________
4. Outlook
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The new summer reading club aims to address as many target groups as possible and to enable the participation of families and groups with the same interests. Participation in the summer reading club should be a shared, creative, intergenerational experience and sustainably connect the participants with each other. After the introduction of the new concept, the opening to all age groups and the possibility of teams participating were rated very positively by the participating libraries. The most common team constellation is the family.
Care is taken to ensure that the initiative and creativity of the children who participate with their parents are not restricted by the involvement of individual parents.
The new concept also represents a challenge for the cultural secretariat: the project materials and speeches had to and must be designed and designed to be as appealing to all age groups as possible.
In order to establish the new concept sustainably, close consultation with the libraries by the Cultural Secretariat NRW Gütersloh is essential. This is especially true for new libraries. The intensive exchange at annual network meetings serves to further establish the concept, improve it based on criticism and suggestions from the participating libraries and further develop it flexibly.
Anna Sophie Rosenhayn completed her bachelor’s degree in psychology at the University of Bielefeld and her master’s degree in popular music and media at the University of Paderborn. She works in the scientific field of music psychology and was able to gain experience in music and cultural management as well as in cultural education and social areas during her studies. She is also active as a freelance pianist.
From 2017 – 2019 she supported the create music NRW project under the sponsorship of the Cultural Secretariat NRW Gütersloh as a project employee. As a consultant for cultural education in the Cultural Secretariat NRW Gütersloh, she has been responsible for the overall coordination of the projects Kulturstrolche, Summer Reading Club, Crazy! and (D)a thing in the almost 80 member cities of the Kultursekretariat NRW Gütersloh. She is also the contact person for the Children’s Theater of the Month and Young Theater funding series.
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