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Tag Archives: personal api
Personal APIs and Academic Libraries
Roger Schonfeld’s “Improving Privacy by Rethinking Architecture” post on The Scholarly Kitchen blog does an excellent job of exploring the question of privacy and third-party data collection for researchers and academic libraries: By having comparatively little user activity data on their own … Continue reading
Domains as Ground Zero for the Struggle over Agency
I was really pleased with Marguerite McNeal‘s article in edSurge on Brigham Young University’s Personal API experiment. It can be hard to explain (at least for me), but she does an excellent job providing an accessible frame for the project by … Continue reading