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Opening Up to Open Source
Gale Moore, PhD Director University of
Torontos Knowledge Media Design
Institute June 14, 2004
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Outline

• Situating KMDI
• Setting the problem
• ePresence as a case study in trans-disciplinary
  research innovation
• From FLOSS to Open Access digital resources,
  public institutions the public domain

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The University of Torontos Knowledge Media
Design Institute KMDI

• 65 faculty from gt25 disciplines from sciences,
  social sciences, humanities and professional
  schools
• Research graduate teaching (MA PhD)
• 2 areas of specialisation
• Collaboration Peoplepracticetechnology
• Public policy and Citizen engagement in the
  knowledge society
• Our practice
• Human-centred participatory
• Informed by a spirit of innovation
• Convivial
• The ability of people to pursue their own goals
  in their own way (Illich,1973)

Working at the Intersection of Social
Sciences/Technology/Design
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Re-inventing the Lecture
LOCAL ATTENDEE
LECTURER
John Domingue KMi. Open University
Source ePresence Interactive Webcasting
Archives ePresence.kmdi.utoronto.ca
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LIVE
Evolution of ePresence
DOMAINS eHealth eLearning
OS CONFERENCE
OS CONSORTIUM Community
COURSE LEARNING OBJECTS
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The most comprehensive event of its kind ever
held worldwide

• Transdisciplinary perspective legal, moral,
  political, social, commercial, technical
• Workshops on Health and Learning
• The Archives will be available free of charge on
  the public internet

ePresence Archives coming soon osconf.kmdi.utoront
o.ca Open Access
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For further information Gale Moore,
Director Knowledge Media Design
Institute gmoore_at_kmdi.utoronto.ca 416-978-4655 O
pen Source Conference Archives osconf.kmdi.utoront
o.ca
Acknowledgements Professor Ron Baecker,
co-investigator of the ePresence Lab, Peter Wolf,
System Architect, Kelly Rankin, Production
Marketing Coordinator, Maciek Kieslowski,
consulting partner, and the numerous students who
have worked on the project. Id also like to
thank the early adopters who are using ePresence,
both for teaching and research. It is working
with them that we continue to learn. I would also
like to acknowledge Bell University Laboratories
who provided the initial funding for development
of the infrastructure.