with us, so let's start this community call. Many thanks for joining, we will wait to see if more people join, but as you saw from the previous comment from Briana, so we were free to join, to put questions, to comment, so we always have a topic in the discussion in these community calls, but we have always our specific moments that you can address your questions or even collect your feedback regarding the different services from open air, specifically targeting content providers, so repository managers, key system managers, journal editors, etc, so let's start with this community call, so today the focus will be on the open air users counts service, to have a more detailed presentation about this service, now that we can say that, so all the main features from this service are in production, in a stable and scalable way, so we thought that it was important to present it to you, and also the upcoming plans for the development of this service, but we would like also just to dedicate three or four minutes also to a new project, open air nexus project, that will in fact manage some of the open air services and integrate these services in the European open science cloud, so I will do this brief presentation about open air nexus project, and then my colleague Dimitris Piracos from the Athena Research Center that is the manager of user statistics service in open air nexus will detail to you this service, in our presentations where you can put your questions but at the end we have a specific moment, about some novelties usually we always have this slide in the beginning of our calls just to highlight some things from the let's say the recent developments and the different services under the umbrella of provide, open air provide, so just two highlights from the services, the ones related with the users counts Dimitris will detail it, but for you to be aware that we finally have all the graphs from the user statistics updated in production and not only in the explore service but also in the provide dashboard, but Dimitris will detail that, about the broker service, if you remember we did a presentation one month ago and you can also watch the recordings presenting the service that was developed specifically for this space and this space cruise solutions in order to integrate the broker events in the, in automatically in those platforms in repositories or cruise systems using this space cruise or this space software and we presented in that call the developments that we are doing regarding a broker public API so the information is completely available already, I think quite well documented so Andrea is already my colleague Andrea Vieira that is also in charge of these community calls is already sharing the link we also sent out in the newsletter in the last two days an article about this so if you want to use be aware that we have this public API of course so it can be easily managed and integrated based on the implementation presented one one month ago related to this space cruise and in this space seven when released but but it can be also implemented in different software platforms so be aware of that and then in check and do whatever you want you can contact us in order to to get more support but this is quite important and then we just want to highlight also I as already mentioned be aware that we do we do every month the community call so if you think that there are some topics that you may revisit or see see the recordings as I am mentioning the previous call you can see the recordings usually we put it available in YouTube in the open air YouTube channel and they are the links are in this page of the provide community calls and also the same if you want to know more about open air nexus we did a public launch event last month and all the recordings and slides are available in this in this link that we will also put in the chat be aware of that because I will just now do a really brief introduction just for you to be aware that and some of the services and specifically those services that we are mentioning here today from from bro from the the provide dashboard the broker the validator and also the statistics are under development and the and the integration in the osc within the the duration of open air nexus project so open air nexus project it's a new project it's an horizon 2020 project that they've started early this year it's a 30 months project basically it's focused on on the on the integration of some of the open air services in a usk and the type of services that we are integrating in us can deliver in the services via us are organized in three portfolios published monitoring discover and the different services that we have are a part of the publish or the monitor or the discovery portfolio it's important to say that the majority of the services that we are talking about are those that are being developed and improve it over the last years in open air 2020 or in open air advance but we are also connecting with additional with additional services you can see links here like api sciences or open citations that that were not developed by open air in the last years but now we have a connection and we will integrate in the open air services ecosystem and then the usual suspects that you are aware of our graph provide the zinodal monitor connect are those that already developed and now we are making this onboarding process in usk via the development of this project this project is is is one of the five projects that are part of of the projects that contribute to this onboarding process of usk so there are other projects also developed by other institutions or infrastructures research infrastructure in europe like agi or others that are also that have developed also projects under the same call in 07 to deliver this process of integration so open air nexus is one of those services okay just two more slides just for you to understand i think it's this community calls our community so you are part of the community i think it's always good to share with you share with you so the open air nexus have a normal structure with a work package related with the coordination and one with dissemination but i just want to highlight because here you will see work package three four five and six they are really related with the the core activities of this project so the core activity is the integration with usk to provide virtual access to these services and this is what we are going to develop in the open air nexus and then we have a specific work package for for each components of the portfolio one virtual access to publish portfolio the one related with monitor portfolio and discovery portfolio and then another slide just for you to understand what are the services that are under these portfolios that we are talking about and here i like to also that for the different portfolios we are also targeting different stakeholders and adding stakeholders to this ecosystem of services from usk and specifically the open air ecosystem and so publish we are you are aware of the nodo amnesia and arcos that were developed within open air advance and open air 2020 and now epic sciences that we will also integrate it and linking to to our infrastructure under monitor we we talk about of course the the the uses counts service that the meters will present also the open observatory that is something that uh were really finalized over the last period of open air advance and we will make it publicly also uh but then we we are talking about the monitor service for funders and for research institutions or for or for research infrastructures but i think you are aware of the monitor service for funders uh and then the also um services like open citations on open apcs will be uh part are part of this monitor portfolio the other uh it's the one that where provide is uh integrated is the discover so where we have the the community's gateway so the connect the open air connect service the open air explore is the our discovery service and the open air provide uh development that will be under this umbrella of discover and the end here of course we focus on different services but the the focus will be on the validator on the broker the statistics that are part of provide our our service itself integrated in the in the monitor so and uh and what is important to say is that all the features that we have in open air provide so the validation the registration process as bianna already asked if so i registered new repositories if we are going to be able to reply yes we are we are going after Easter and the the enrichment's based it on the on the broker the the major based it on the users counts and then the collection monitoring the notifications and all the improvements that we want to do in the the monitor collection the collection monitoring also on the notifications integrating also with the with other kinds of alerts so we'll be developed within the the coming two two years in open air nexus to what is the main objective is just to to to have provide as a gateway to the european open science cloud so it's important to highlight that open air nexus is doing this work for different services of open air one of the services is open air provide and here the the idea is that provide the can play a can can play a key role here on the development of european open science cloud integrating the different content providers of open air also in the a osc scientific product catalog we will not be the only way to integrate content but we are a gateway that are already that are mature enough to contribute to this to this process so it's a clear gateway uh and they're in production already and having your content your data source is registered invalidated in open air part of open air provide via open air provide you can be part of european open science cloud and integrate the osc scientific product catalog that will benefit from the research graph of open air okay i think this is the message that i want to highlight and that we have presented in the in the open air nexus launch that if you are interested you know more i invite you to check some recordings i know that we always have in our list of in our to do the least several recordings to watch but if you are interested in in in no more about nexus be aware that we have that information that can i can also reply to your to your questions if needed uh if you have questions you can put it in the chat and try to reply but at the end uh we can we can address those those questions so now i invite the mithis pierakos to to to present to the community all the recent developments and the features from from the user statistic service that we have in production so and thank you for your your availability the images thank you for the introduction let me share my screen yeah okay um i'm the mithis pierakos from i work for a finna reset center i'd like to welcome you on the open air 13th community call um the subject of this community call is the open air usage counts service which is a user statistic service of open air research graph during the call we will present another service the ways that you can participate the benefit that you can receive from using the service and some future enhancements that will be available uh soon uh in our uh service so uh another view the users count service what is the service that is about uh the users count service simply collects uh raw users data or user statistics reports for um open air content providers for for open air research graph products and from the distributed network of open air content providers and this is realized using open standards and protocols and the outcome of this service is the generation of reliable consolidated and comparable use of metrics which are compatible with a countercode of practice standard um some indicators that show the performance of the service which is now in a very stable uh phase um so for until for until March 2021 we have collected statistics information for 3.5 million research products from two content providers and all this information has been manifested in 110 million views and 400 million downloads um let's see how the service is functioning inside open air infrastructure so in one end we have the open air uh content providers like institutional depositors aggregator that archives software depositors etc that provide content to open air infrastructure and to this corner a number of functions are applied like the duplication harvesting mining talent etc in order to produce um uh what is called the open air uh research graph the main entity of an open air research graph is the open air uh research product which could be uh publication the research data software a fund the project etc so what the users count service does is simply counts the usage of these um uh research products and by usage we mean the number of items this is the number of uh this uh the number of times this product has been viewed or the number of times the product has been downloaded and how are we how are we doing this we have um two approaches in order to achieve this and the first approach is called the push approach is presented in the top of the side of the graph so the the push approach collects uh anonymized raw users activity from content providers like repositories guys journals or repositories or the journals and this is achieved by deploying a set of um patches plugins uh or a generic tracker in the in the content provider side that records usage activity in real time this usage activity is a transfer to our analytics platform which is made which is based on open source matomo analytics platform and then from there information is transferred and is aggregated using our metadata index in our user statistics uh database so this is the first approach with the push approach and the second and the second approach is called uh pull is depicted the bottom of the graph um using this approach we gather consolidated statistics reports from uh aggregation services for example iris uk using uh uh protocols uh like sushila these reports are following the standard counter code of practice so we gather these reports we again we aggregate them and we process them and we store it in our user statistics database and from there the user statistics are deployed either in the open errors uh portal for example explore provide or new users counts service portal or um they are available for retrieval using an api endpoint that also follows the sushila protocol in order to use uh user scouts you have first uh you have to register in the provide the platform and uh if you perform all these registration tasks you can view we start collecting information and then you can view the statistics in open infrastructures like provide explore uh uh portals or the new service port of the users counts dot open air dot u and of course you can get counter reports by sushila and the di following the by using the endpoint that is described in the in the slide so in order to register and for the service first of all you have to register via provide you have to register your your data source either it's a literature repository or a data repository or it's an applicator and uh after register the the data source you can you have the option to enable the users count service and on your side you have to download the tracking code for your repository platform you have to configure the tracking code according to the instructions that are provided and finally you have to deploy the tracking code in in the in the platform from our side as soon as all these tasks are completed we will validate the installation of the tracking code and inform the repository manager that everything is okay and we have started uh collecting the information so when you enable this service the users count service you will receive more detailed information on how to configure the software the the links for the software and how you can configure it for example what kind of which id you should put in the in the in the practice and an authentication token etc so as soon as you have completed all the registration and we have started collecting all this information and what are the benefits of using this service we consider the user statistics a measure of of scholar impact we provide indicators that that complement other traditional and alternative biometric indicators that in order to provide a comprehensive and most importantly a most recent most recent view of the impact of academic resources just to mention that for some research products like um uh for example uh data sets or or software user statistics is the only available indicator um you have a metadata duplications a duplication enables accumulation of users for the same research outputs and i will provide a more concrete example later and of course users can provide all the required standardization since it follows the countercode of practice directives who can benefit from the service authors institutions open science platforms funders uh and other stakeholders and all these can find uh replies to questions like which funder has the biggest engagement in europe or give me the evolution of the popularity of the publications or or data of the project within a period of time for example within the last five years so if you have the service you can have for your repository for your content for data source in provides you can have information like the total number of views and the total number of downloads that can be collected you can see the evolution the monthly evolution of the users activity for your repository or you can use um you can ask for a particular countercode of practice release for reports like the article report the item report etc and so if you decide to to get a user statistics for that follows the countercode of practice you can select for example day one report you can specify the parameters for example the date the date range that you require for the reports and you will get a list of of users activities of your statistics for your repository in we will provide sooner a way to download this this information from the provider interface the similar information is also available in explore for example for the repository the repository that we presented in the previous slide we have this similar information available in explore in explore we have also apart from uh information in the repository level we have also information in the item level increases the data the duplication that i mentioned before for example for this publication we have we can see that we have accumulated information from two different repositories and for example for this item this item has been downloaded and viewing two different repositories this information apart from showing this interface is also accumulated in use of counterportals you will provide more generic results for the service for example you can have you can see how many repositories how many users how many downloads have been collected worldwide we also have the option to to select information for a particular country not only from europe but also for countries like around the world for example for as a dns since we have since we are collecting uh users activity from la referencia aggregator and then you can also see monthly views monthly views and downloads evolution for the last for this year for the last three years in the last five years all this information provided the usage counts uh portal and we are also planning to add more advanced analytics for example the number of downloads for its funder or the number of downloads that are related to a particular topic for example in this slide we present the topics that are for that follow the archive classification scheme you can also retrieve um statistics user statistics using our apis endpoints we if you go to the users counts service you will report that you will find a link to the endpoints and you can get reports that follow the countercode of practice release four and these reports are available in producing results in json format so you can retrieve information and process it in your site um the final and for me the most important development is the release of the counter code of practice the counter code of practice release five reports which are available in our beta system for testing you can visit this site and check the the available reports for example you can see the the status of the service this is one of the reports that are offered by countercode that are offered by countercode of practice release five you can see the levels that are participating in the usage count count service you can see the reports list that are available for example we have the platform master report the platform users reported platform item report all these reports are following the erectives the erective of countercode of practice release five and finally we are offering the counter data sets report which is the the report that is recommended by the rta data usage metrics working group for um for reporting uh users activity for data sets so just to recap and close this short presentation uh usage count sets provide standards for your statistics exchange for almost all type of content providers and platforms it complies to countercode of practice for reliable and comparable reports i mentioned that we are collecting um anonymized uh usage activity so we are following gbdr guidelines we offer global coverage recover uh uh repositories not only from europe but uh from uh other uh countries like uh south america we support analysis by apis and um visualizations and if you need further information you please visit users accounts of an entity you and you will find uh information about the architecture the apis and the analytics that we are offering so thank you uh and uh if you have any questions please let me know thank you the matrix um yes the idea was to to do this um short uh overview i think it was uh quite good and quite clear don't think you for that um so if you have questions please put your questions uh i can see yes um i didn't ask are stats only accumulated from different sources or can be this aggregated from for single sources i don't think i understand exactly what since the stats are for each for each source i think it's good so the the users statistics service alexander in in in provided so they are um they are um for each source you can have the all the the views and the downloads for each source um of course the we have generic numbers uh we have also generic numbers in explore we have public information in explore in the discovery service but we have um specific the possibility to um request for specific reports in the in the provide dashboard for each of the the sources of for each repository or each service yes if i understood well yes yeah in in provide you can have um statistics for individual data sources and in explore you can have accumulated uh uh statistics on the item level for example i don't know if if i have uh replied yes all our ip's are anonymized this is a a question from ariel and all our ip's are anonymized and they are anonymized that the at this platform side we do not anonymize it after we receive this information that is the user's records and then all these boards are filtered out using the countercode of practice set of uh of robots that are available that are updated to uh continue yeah thank you for your questions alexander and cardiel we also have one question in the in the local talk it's a big question about the crease okay can you ask the question and andre it's a big question it's about crease systems um can you read it yes let me see how i can resume it oh it's a big question it's just show the screen okay let's see we can reply also the okay thank you pablo yeah the you can you can jump in pablo if you want and and and enable your audio if you want to ask a question yeah i'm i'm happy to thank you um so yeah it's a very long question of all of you for us i'm happy to join this kind of monthly uh open app provider course this is the first time i ever managed to make it i see quite a number of uh um yeah close colleagues and friends um this is a question about crease systems um ask uh certified providers for open app we have an increasing number of them listed in this url i have posted on on the google dog uh it's a better yes um web page within the explorer environment for open app it contains 515 or so different crisis system from a eurochrist perspective we're closely working with uh andreas chatnets team arts university of billyfields in order to kind of identify suitable crease systems harvest their feeds and validate them um it is a kind of test uh environment yet because we are you know in production functionalities not yet available i think on the provides website for open app but my question is to what extent uh crease systems are envisioned to become a truly relevant uh source of metadata for the open air research graph in areas like funded projects where where crease systems are collecting a lot of information quite comprehensive information about all kinds of projects possibly beyond the kind of project information gathering that is taking place uh through the NOAA network with regard to major national funders so you can find all sorts of projects in there uh kind of privately funded small organizations uh i mean i was once discussing with nasalia how wonderful it would be if open air could provide a bit of a wider snapshot of where the funding is coming from for projects crisis might uh enable a way to get in to get in this snapshot the other area where crease systems could be relevant for the open air research graph is research datasets specifically in the domain of the usk because many institutions among them my own one uh the university of crosslading last year are keeping their research datasets in their crease systems and because these are not data repositories they tend not to be registered in uh directories like 3d data uh effectively for a dataset aggregation like open app if we managed to get uh the input from crease systems into uh the open air research graph beyond publications and into these other areas like research datasets or funded projects um services like uh the open air broker for enriching repository records could become far more effective i would expect because you would have all these metadata that are otherwise upset from the current aggregation so this is a question about what the plans may be for integrating the input from uh crease systems into the open air research graph so that we can use this information to promote uh registration and uh validation of crease systems with the open air provides uh base yeah thank you then many thanks paul for your question and for your for being part of this community calls also um which is good uh one previews previews i can i can if andreas then want to to head something but i can just uh give some some highlights for this for this for this talk with you um one important thing is that okay for sure crease systems are part of open air and we want them to be part of of open air uh we uh also as a result of the collaboration with you and the or crease uh so we also want to have an alternative um directory for the registration of crease systems and uh in fact we we we took already the decision about that having three um your directory as the alternative source and this is the first step i think which is important uh what we really need to do is to put this in production in the in the workflow of registration of crease systems and this is something that we really want to do with as soon as possible and we have already started to with the first steps for that uh it's important to say that in in in some of the provide the management team meetings that we have be weekly we have already discussed that we should have one call one of the upcoming calls dedicated only to crease systems but we want to have that when we want when we release the registration workflow in in in in provider because then we formally can say that please be part of this directory to be part of open air and follow this step um and we want to have that so be aware that we will have a call dedicated and for sure you will be invited also to say some words so the first the first reply from my side is that okay let's put in place this formal way to integrate crease systems in open air having a proper workflow in an alternative directory that will be released and then let's formally say to the world we count on crease systems to be part of open air then i think this is the first and the easier answer than the rest is important being part of open air uh is uh so which means that you can you you can register crease system providing metadata from publications or data without being registered in in in the re3 data so we need them to solve that that part but we are we are in fact doing that in open air for other reasons but so you have this issue of crease systems that also have data and we have the same for other repositories that are becoming institutional repositories that are becoming hybrid repositories and where we can have software publications, thesis and and data so we have the same issue and we need we want to avoid having the like two registrations processes to have the same repositories providing publications literature and providing data so we will have the same situation for crease we need to solve it but we are going to solve it but having the workflow for registration we have the first the first step to solve this issue solved let's say um what is missing from my reply ah project information funder project information yes crease systems are will be quite important to enrich our information from from funders from projects etc and and having your registry following the guidelines we will also do the first step to improve our our our our graph based on your input to what concerns project information and I think this is quite important and even organization also information etc that is will be also helpful to improve our our research graph so for this I don't have a clear reply for the project information the way that we are going to collecting to enrich our graph to collect is easy to follow guidelines we will collect the metadata but then use that information also to enrich our our graphing to populate our let's say alternative sources of information for projects that we now on have based on me on the data that we receive from funders okay it's it's it's we need we need to to work on that but for sure uh we will we will solve because this is important so the information that we are going to collect from you are you happy with my reply or not feel free to to ask or to to ask for more information this is what we can say and I think it's important if we I really want to have my idea and I'm pushing for that is to have a call dedicated to Cree system one of these calls dedicated to Cree systems in the first semester it will be difficult to have in May but in June if possible we should have it which means that we should have by the first Wednesday of June the registration workflow already solved and working with your API from Dries if it is possible we can do the the the call in June okay thank you Pablo okay thank you and then for statistics I don't know if we if we what can we can we do for for for in terms of statistics for Cree systems but we can we can discuss also in that call specifically we I think this call will be also helpful to let's say to discuss all issues from from from the integration of Cree systems in open air regarding metadata but also but if Andreas and Dimitris want to join in to say something more than Andreas do you want to I agree with you regarding that we have that we should have dedicated call to the integration of Cree systems and the fifth your Cree systems from open air regarding the user statistics the d-space Cree's implementation that are at github integrates the user statistics add on from Dimitris so this is in the d-space Cree's part of out of the box let us say so so this integrated and can also directly used in the other cases we should take a closer look with our techniques and tools tool sets that we have could fit these cases or issues thank you thank you one of the things that I missed I was I took a note in the in the in the comments to Pablo question but I think it's also useful for a for all not only for those that are managing Cree systems it's that open areas in contact also with the directories as we have directories as alternative source for registration currently we free data for that the repositories and open door for publications but we are being contact by others and we want to have trees the the directory of Orocreas I don't know if I can mention like this so Pablo you can say and for example fair sharing that also have contact open air so the open air is in contact with these directories also to provide feedback and to work with them in order to to improve the the the processes of ingesting information the improvements are regarding ABI's improvements also to have a kind of common framework of metadata that we can share because open air will be the entry point to the gateway to AOSC and we also want to have the directories following like the same framework that we are following in order to to make this more easier and simple so be aware that we are also working with open door and and and free data and be aware that I know that they are also aware of the the needs of the community and so regarding when we are talking about Cree systems having having data information that set free data is is for sure is aware of that and it is also and I know that they are taking that into consideration in some changes that they are doing that they are presented to us in in a in a meeting that we have recently important to say that regarding this that open air now is is also part of the open door stirring committee and that open door is really a community driven service is becoming a community driven service and so all these directories that are the alternative sources for open air are quite relevant and it's quite important that open air also be in touch with them and the same four trees are the same and breathe it out in the open door okay and we are coming to the end okay thank you bubble to share this because I was talking about the reason three is something new so thank you for sharing the link here so probably already share the link to the directory of Cree systems available which was good and they have also now a way to be integrated and with open air so hopefully we will manage that in the coming the coming months is and presented publicly in a community call that we'll for sure prepare in advance. Dimitris do you want to say something more about the statistics any any must any additional information before we close the call? I'm just replying to Viljana from the University of Belgrade about the Serbian Repositories and regarding the list of Serbian Repositories I have provided the link to the list of all members in our new countercode of practice list five at point but unfortunately the countercode of practice for this particular report does not specify the country so I will send you the list by mail. Okay thank you before we finish just two two informations be aware as I know that every time we organize a call we have new newcomers and sometimes we have more than 60 or 50 participants today we only have a little bit more than 20 but be aware that if you have any issue accessing the provide based on any problem with the login you are not sure about who did the registration etc just contact you can contact the help desk but in order to solve it quickly my colleague Andre will share the mail we always do the same in every call so you can contact him directly and we will solve it quickly if you have any issue with accessing because we are aware that sometimes there are issues because people change from the the ones that did first time the registration in open air so be aware of that my colleague Andre you can contact him and of course join the the community calls also subscribe the newsletter because I mean with the newsletter I think it's good if we if you if you just want to share here the slides so it's good if you also subscribe the newsletter because every every first Monday or Tuesday of the month we send out this newsletter just before the community call with the usually the with the novelties so subscribe the newsletter have all emails that are part of of provide service they receive this but you can also subscribe individually if you want and though the recordings are in them in the provided community calls page so be aware of that you can also look to previous presentations and recordings and slides so many things for your if you don't have any other question or comment I'm going to close the call and many things for joining Dimitris many things for your contribution to this call you are part of the team but it's also also good how it's good to say thanks and thank you all for your questions and the presence here and wait for you in the first Wednesday of May we are going to do another another call so if you have any any any needs any requests so you can contact us via mail or via the the office service many things bye bye


Good morning and welcome to this week's edition of Encompass Live. I am your host, Krista Burns, here at the Nebraska Library Commission. Encompass Live is Commission's weekly online event.  We'll recover anything that may be of interest to libraries and librarians. The show is free and open to anyone to watch. We do them live on Wednesdays at 10 a.m. Central Time, but if you're unable to join us on Wednesday mornings, that's fine. All of our recordings are available on our website, so you can go there and see everything that we've done over the years. Watch recordings, get the PowerPoint presentations available, and the interesting links that were related to shows, handouts, we put all of that there on our archives. We do a mixture of things here, presentations, book reviews, mini-training sessions, interviews. As I said, if it's library related, we are happy to have it on the show. And we have an Encompass Library Commission staff that come on the show and do presentations. We sometimes have guest speakers as we have this morning, which is some we have next to me, someone from another commission, Nebraska Library Commission. We are from the Nebraska Public Service Commission. Colin Robbins is here, and I don't have one here. What your title is? Well, it's kind of long. It's IT, Telecom, GIS Analysts for the Commission. So I work in the Telecommunications Department of the Commission. Cool, okay, great. And he's going to share with us this great broadband map that I've looked at before, that they're trying to put together for Nebraska to see what's going on with broadband across the state, and a new mobile app, too, that is the same kind of info. So I'm just going to hand over you to take it away and tell us all about what we're doing with Nebraska. Thanks, Krista. I'll just, yeah, start by kind of telling you what we're going to go over. We'll start with a broadband map, and I'll show you kind of how that was developed, and how it works, and some of the features that it has that will potentially be useful. And then after that, I'll go on to our mobile phone app, and why we have that, and how we can use help from the public for that. So we're kind of trying to spread the word on what that is, and I'll go into detail on that a little later. So I thought to start, I'd first define what broadband is, because sometimes there's kind of a misconception about what we're talking about when we talk about broadband. And really, what it is, is the ability to transmit a lot of data or information from place to place. A lot of people kind of get mixed up with the internet, and I kind of like to think of broadband as kind of an analogy would be like the road system. You know, highways and interstates are used to move a lot of different things quickly and more efficiently than say a single road or a city road. So for broadband, it's moving that those larger amounts of information from place to place, and the internet is really just something that utilizes the broadband network.  It's something that uses the network, but they're not really the same thing. So another way that a lot of people define broadband is by speed. So and that's kind of hard to come to a concrete definition of what broadband is by speed, because that's always changing. For a long time, it was just considered anything faster than a dial-up connection. When you're accessing the internet, the NAT network, if it was faster than dial-up, would be considered a broadband connection. But any more, you see things like three megabyte download, one megabyte up is considered broadband, or the FCC is talking about defining broadband as 10 megabyte download, and I think it was four up or something like that. So it's always changing, but really, I guess the main idea is that when you're moving large amounts of information, the broadband network is what supports that. And so most people use the internet on a broadband network, but that's not the only thing that those networks are used for. I mean, any more phone calls are made on a lot of times on a broadband network. So just wanted to find that and make sure it's kind of clear what we're talking about. Let's see, I'll advance the slide here. I'm going to make sure I keep up with the slides. So the project that we have been working on since 2010 is obviously centered around broadband, but it's a project that was developed through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act in 2010. And the project involved grants that were given to the states, and then the states were charged with helping to integrate broadband and information technology into the state and local economies. So in Nebraska, I believe the governor designated the Public Service Commission as the entity that would carry out that project. And that project really involves two separate things, a planning piece and a mapping piece. And we realized, the commission realized pretty quickly that we were not suited to be able to carry out all those things at once. So we enlisted the help of the University of Nebraska, the Department of Economic Development, AIM, and the NITC. So they're largely involved in the planning piece, and I think it was maybe a month or two ago you had Charlotte Nargis and Connie Hancock on. And they are very involved in that planning side. And we are involved in that a little bit, but we kind of take the forefront on the mapping side, which is kind of what we're here to talk about. So... Is there a similar type thing going on in other states across the country? Yeah, there are several different states that have really the same thing. Every state did it a little differently depending on who the grant was given to. It wasn't always given to Public Service Commission like it was in this state. Other entities were given that money. So each state was kind of allowed to customize it as they see fit, but some of the requirements, besides the planning side, were to have a statewide map so you can go up and see similar maps for other states as well. So in Nebraska, the mapping piece developed kind of gradually, but the way that it's done is that twice a year we request data from providers throughout the state, asking them to provide us data about where they provide broadband throughout the state, what type, what speeds, and what type of service they provide. And so we collect that information twice a year. It's collected at the census block level. So if a provider provides service in a census block, that essentially says, yes, that census block has served and we report that. And then twice a year we collect that data, put it all together, and we've developed a website to display that and make it usable for anybody to log on. So I'll show you a demonstration here of the site just for your references. Broadbandmap.Nebraska.gov. You'll see it listed on the top of the page there. Okay, let me switch over here. Is that okay on the screen? Okay. So this is the site itself.  It's just telling you kind of what you're going to be looking at. And you'll see on the left side there's a series of tabs here with features below it. And then on the right side, you see the map of the state. So the first thing that you see again is with the start here tab. And really what this whole set of features is used for is to look up by address or by a pin drop or by your city or county what who the providers are for that area. So for example, I will let's choose a town here randomly. So we chose Unidilla, Nebraska. When you do that, it brings up a list, a couple of lists on the left side of the screen there. There's a provider list and the service is available list. So under the providers list, it shows you all of the providers that say they provide service for that municipality. So for example, on this, you see Viasat. When you hover over the provider, you'll see a little window on the map pop up. It tells you what type of service they provide and also a link to their website in case you want to actually follow up and look into the information on what type of service they provide. So Viasat is satellite, for example, Zeto Media as you see there is a cable provider. Future Technologies is a fixed wireless provider. All of the mobile wireless companies that serve that area will come up. So for example, US Cellular as you see there, there's probably, there's Windstream and Verizon. You'll see on this, in this example, United Private Networks shows up and they're in a different color that's kind of highlighted. That typically means that they provide business services only. So that's something to keep in mind as you're looking through there. And Unite, for example, provides fiber based services to the user. So that's, you're talking about kind of your highest speeds available. Those aren't always available to just the general public, but businesses can often access them. So again, that's This is a good way to pick a new service provider, maybe. Yes, yeah, if you are unhappy with your service at home, this is a very good way to figure out what else is available. Wondering if there's something better, cheaper out there. Exactly. Exactly. And again, you can, you can look that up by typing in your address. If you want to drop an opinion, you're not limited to only by city or county so that's how you find out what services are available in your area. If you click on the coverage tab, you can start to investigate some of that data that was submitted to us. One thing to keep in mind is that when we collect data from the providers, we kind of, we haven't agreed with them that we don't necessarily want to show their footprint in detail, because that's kind of proprietary information. So really, the way we get around that is that it will show you when you're at a certain address what's available for that address, and then we show some generalized information that I'll show you here, but you'll never be able to say, to look up, say, Winston and see exactly where they serve throughout the state. I guess you kind of do that in a backwards way, but it would take you a very long time to figure that all out. So anyway, when you click on the coverage tab, there's a number, again, a number of options that pop up. You can look at state-wide, and again, if you, in the map piece, if you look, click on the little globe, it'll bring you all the way back out to the full state. And those sliders and magnifying glasses will help you navigate. Under coverage, you see the top piece, there's a number of different options. If you click on, for example, the wireless speed tier coverage, you can look at what the highest speeds available are for any given area. So you see for Nebraska, it shows up pretty high speeds are available, are advertised as available for most of the state. See, there's a couple of pockets in the sandals that are not covered. You can do the same thing for wired speed tier coverage. It looks a little bit different. So these are your DSL, cable, fiber providers that show up here. And again, you can always zoom in any piece at any time. And you can always toggle those selections off if you want to look at different speeds. So I give you some information about the coverage. And then if you're interested in, for example, where is fiber available throughout the state, that's always something that I find pretty interesting to look at. Fiber is really looking at the highest speeds available. Yeah, that's kind of what a lot of a lot of the providers are moving to just because the speed, the capacity for speed is so much greater than the other types. And really, you know, when you're talking cable and DSL, you're talking about copper network and copper is pretty expensive now. So it's it actually from a financial standpoint, I think makes more sense to lay fiber.  But that's actually not the case as you see on the map here. And actually, you know, that's it's a little bit deceptive because Lincoln Yeah, if you do zoom in, you'll see that they do have some fiber deployment. That's more on a on like, you know, they see the actual fiber lines, where they're located in those cities. And then you see Omaha. But again, statewide, you see a lot of these pretty rural areas have fiber deployed. And that's a lot of that's because these are operated by kind of local companies that have been a little bit more progressive and have decided to really take advantage of some opportunities to deploy fiber throughout their their territory. So it's pretty interesting to me that that there are some places very rural areas like, for example, Clarks, Nebraska, I think that you can get fiber that they have fiber to the home. You know, if you live within the territory that that company serves, you can get fiber service a really extremely high speed connections in that area. Whereas I live in Lincoln, in the south part of town, and I don't have that option. I don't there's no fiber provider that runs service to my house. So in a lot of ways, some of these rural areas are further ahead of even places in Lincoln, Omaha. So anyway, that's one thing that I always find is interesting to look at. You can also look at fixed wireless service, fixed wireless service is kind of like it's kind of like having Wi Fi at your home, it uses a little bit different technology, but that's at least the way to think about it. So you're not running a line into your house, you're, you're getting service from a like a tower somewhere. It's not exactly the same towers you would be from like your cell phone tower, but kind of the same idea. So you can also look at mobile wireless coverage, as a tab under there. And this is again, all the companies kind of kind of put together so you can't look at it necessarily by certain provider. And we'll get to why that's kind of interesting in a little bit when I talk about the mobile app, because this is kind of what we try to address with that mobile app is to verify, is this accurate and why or why is it not. So the other options under coverage are kind of interesting. You can turn on community anchor institutions, it'll show you where your schools, libraries, hospitals, etc. are. You can also turn on the county and region polygons, I guess I'll say if you want to show you where you're at within the state. And you can toggle the transparency on those if you want. Under community anchors, you can switch on and off whatever you want. If you're only interested in libraries, for example, you can look only at libraries. Again, this is data that we collect every twice a year. So sometimes, and I have to say sometimes our community anchor institution data is a little bit behind everything else. So it's good, but I'm not saying that it's perfect either. So keep that in mind as you look through it. If you have, you can always let me know if there's suggestions on that. So again, with the coverage tab, you can kind of look at the data a little bit more in depth and kind of investigate that. Under the speed test tab, that allows you to actually run a speed test at your location. If you're wondering, well, how fast is my connection at home? Or wherever you're at, you can do that. If you're at your home computer, you just say find an address, type in your address, and it'll find your location on the map. Otherwise, you just use the push pin so we can maybe test one here. I don't know if it requires some Java updates and stuff sometimes, but we'll test it out. I'll ask you to put in your provider, and if you don't know, I will just put other. And if you don't know your technology, you can do that as well. It'll run the speed test. So this is actually going on your computer and seeing what you are actually getting, not what your provider is telling you you can get. Sometimes that is different. Oftentimes it is different. So you can see here at the library, we have a pretty good connection, 79 megabits per second is a very good connection. And I ran it upstairs in our office, and it was over 100. So good connections here. But you can see kind of how that's used, or how you could use it if you wanted to. So that's the speed test option. Also, if you need help, obviously the help table lets you look up information. And the other feature that I kind of wanted to point out is the feedback at the top. If you click on feedback, you can basically send an email. I think it'll eventually come to me. You can type in questions, or if you have issues, we always encourage people to use that. Or if you have issues with your internet at home, that's one way to at least ensure that we'll see what's going on there. So that's really the mapping site. I have a question about it. Sure. What's the criteria to make something an anchor institution? Oh, that's a good question. I don't know that I know the answer. I mean, some of it's kind of obvious looking at those lists. If it's a school, it's a school, if it's a hospital, but are there can someone say, well, we're not on there, and we think like the government ones maybe might be more... I think there's probably a definition in that the NTIA has put forth on what is a community anchor institution. And I honestly, off the top of my head, I don't know what that is. But, you know, obviously, if it's a library hospital, school, university, it'll qualify as a community anchor. So if, you know, if you, I can find that information, I don't know off the top of my head exactly what that definition is. Yeah, because this is something that came from the NTIA saying, do this, so they had their criteria of what they wanted it to come out as. How they wanted, yeah. So that, yeah. So I'm going to click back on the mobile wireless and touch on this one more time. And the reason why we have the mobile app that I'll talk about in a couple of minutes is that we see this footprint and it, we start to kind of wonder, well, you know, when I take my phone around the state, do I really see this level of coverage when I go from place to place? And for most people, it's probably not the case. So one thing we've always struggled to do is try and validate some of this information, especially mobile wireless, because, you know, they provide you the data and you don't really have any idea if it's correct or not. So we found a way to do that using a mobile phone app. And let me switch here back to, no, let me, I'll come to that in just a second. I want to mention something else on the mapping website. The NTIA grant funding for that that site will end in January of this next year. So that part of the grant is coming to an end. That's the bad news. The good news is that the FCC is going to continue this data collection through what they call Form 477 data. And actually, we're on our last data collection for the NTIA grant right now. It should end at the end of this month. The FCC is running a concurrent one, a concurrent Form 477 collection to kind of mirror and allow that transition between the two to happen more smoothly. So the FCC is really going to kind of collect data in much the same way as what we've done before. And the good news about that is that the FCC data will eventually be publicly available once they collect it and process it. So our goal and what we plan on doing is continuing the website. We have plans to continue that and we'll just start using the Form 477 data once the FCC makes that available. So our grant will be ending, but the website will continue. So that's kind of a good news for that. And we anticipate that it'll look and operate largely the same. So back to the mobile phone app. Again, we're trying to figure out ways to validate that footprint and it's kind of difficult. And we were approached by this company named Mobile Pulse. And what they have is a phone app that you install on your mobile device. And it relies on people that install it on their device to actually kind of collect data for us. So our challenges that were pretty small. There's only a couple of us really on the telecom side that would be able to collect this data. And two people, it's very difficult to collect statewide data on where coverage is. Especially because I have one phone and it's used as one provider. So the idea is to get members of the public to download the free app, install it on their phone, and when they travel around the state they collect data for us. So the idea is kind of a crowdsourcing app on your phone. Again it's free. And the nice thing is that it runs in the background. So once you put it on your phone and start it up, it runs and you don't ever really have to see it. So when it moves, it's smart. It's a smart enough app so that it knows when you move from place to place it'll take a measurement. If you're sitting in your house it's not going to continue to take measurements. The app is available on all of the major device mobile platforms, you know Apple, Android, and Windows Mobile. And again it will run tests on whatever network you're on. So it'll run Wi-Fi tests if you're using Wi-Fi. But again the interest for us is when you're using your your mobile phone network. It'll run tests then on the speed information there. So you see in the corner there's an example of what the app looks like when you load it up and it starts your on the speed test. We do have a question about it. Hold on a sec here actually. Michael you're unmuted. Hi. So I've been running the FCC version of this. Is there a benefit to me running this one instead or alongside? That's a really good question. Well the first benefit is that we have not seen yet what the FCC data looks like. So I guess there are a few advantages and I'll try to remember them all. The first one is that I think the FCC limits the number of tests it runs to maybe a couple per day or something like that or run one in the afternoon and run one at night or something like that. And ours will run, I think it's set to run every 10 or 15 minutes or something like that. So that's the first advantage. The second advantage is like I said we haven't seen the FCC data so we get this data and we always have access to that. And then eventually we kind of plan on putting this some of this information possibly out on our mapping website. Well I guess it's not really an issue anymore but for a long time the FCC app would only run on Android. I think they've come out with an Apple iOS version now but for a long time that was the case. So that's never been an issue with our app. Really the main advantage is that we get access to the to the mobile pulse information where we still haven't seen any of the FCC data yet. So okay great quick follow-up question if it's running the test that often what sort of impact on my like you know data usage is that going to be? That's an excellent question and I will get to that in just a minute here. Okay great thank you. Sure no that's an excellent question. Let's see I'll just go right to that I guess. There really what I would call two versions of the of the app. There's the public app which is what we encourage people to download and then there's a what we call an advanced app and I'll get to what that is in just a minute. First of all again another thing I want to mention about the app is that the data that it collects with that public app is anonymous so you know there's no way that it can be used to track people or to you know figure out any information about them. What it really collects is runs a speed test so obviously collects what speed information you get and the provider that you're using of course that's important and then a general location I think the location is within like a quarter mile so you know you're not getting tracked down to the to the you know street level or anything like that it's very granular I guess I'd say and again there's no way for the it's not like it's a live upload I think the mobile pulse your phone will collect the information live and then I think it's maybe once or twice a day it'll upload that information to the mobile pulse server so again there's a time delay so anonymous information there's no no way that we can that you can be tracked or anything using that the app let's see advanced here again bottom right hand part of the screen there's also there's another example of your kind of a history of tests that will give you a history of your your tests that you run so here's where I'll I'll address your question that you asked before there on the public version of the app that we're talking about in general again free anonymous collect limited data and then the amount of data it will collect a month is capped at a hundred megabytes I haven't looked lately at what what the you know what some of the provider offerings are but most people I think they typically have two gigabyte per month data plans so we're talking about about five percent of that would be the maximum that the app would use you can if you're concerned about that hundred megabytes a month you can also go into the settings the app and adjust that downward you cannot adjust it upward but you can adjust it downward if there are people that are interested in in collecting more data there we also have what we call the advanced app and again it's still free but what we would need to do to have to get access to that advanced app would be to contact me you would I send you an email that invites you to to the advanced app and then you get a log in and you can log in through your app on your phone and become a more what we call an advanced user and really what that involves is that that data cap is raised I think it becomes I'd have to check what it's set up but I think it's about two gigabytes per month so if you're on an unlimited plan or something and don't really care about here that data cap and that's not an issue it also collects a lot more detailed information so again with the public app everything's anonymous with the advanced app that you started to provide a little more information you know looks at what tower you're using what address did you collect it from and a lot more information but it allows us to do a little bit more detailed analysis but you know really I'm just as interested in people downloading the public app that's just as useful for us so but if you have again if you have questions about the advanced app or might be interested in using that please feel free to contact me I'm happy to put you on that yeah just looking at the FAQ on the page for it to see if it said anything about that Michael and it does even give a little warning about the data use that residents the data plans less than one gigabyte should not install it yeah at all because then that would be like I said most people are kind of going right so yeah one gigabyte plan to be ten percent of your monthly usage and again you can adjust it down and also the question about what you didn't ask but I was wondering to battery impact and it says that it actually has a protection thing that if the battery if your device is very it's low it shuts itself off yeah right it won't run your your phone out of battery which is nice I can't remember I think it's 15 or 20 percent of remaining battery life I think we can adjust yeah so the idea is that I have enough to running my phone down myself I don't know so do I this gives you kind of a just a visual look at what we're talking about so in the center we were talking about that public app we we have access to a dashboard we can look at all the all the tests that have run and then when it if you were to happen to be interested in that in that advanced app we are I also have access to a dashboard where I can look at our tests that have run off of that but I you know again I can't see the detail any detailed information from the public app so I'll back up a little bit this we started this program with mobile pulse almost a year ago so we've been we've already been collecting information for about a year you see on the map kind of the results of what we've got over the past year this is tests that have been run from all the providers so we those are all kind of combined you can see that excuse me these part of the state we've got pretty good information pretty good distribution a lot of it again follows major highways and stuff which we would like to prefer to get some information off those off the beaten path a little bit about where the coverage exists and then we do have some out west but you can see some pretty big holes where where we can still use a lot better information and since we've been doing this for a year I'd actually have some results that I'll go over here show you kind of what we're how we're trying to analyze the data so for example here is our AT&T measurements over the past year you can see again when you look at a by provider there's you'll see that we can use a lot more data from some of the other providers besides Verizon and believe me if you have Verizon we're still happy to get that information so don't let that dissuade you at all but I actually my phone is AT&T so if you when you look at this map I can tell you that there are a lot of these that are tested right off of my phone and it's a little bit hard to see on the screen but I probably should have changed the graphics a little bit but you can see speed information on the on the map so if you can see red dots that means we're talking about higher speed and as you go from red to yellow that's still pretty good when you go all the way down the blue blue is kind of lower end speed information and in fact some of that wouldn't even qualify as as a broadband level speed connection at that point. AT&T you see it's maybe it's kind of hard to see but speed is okay when you start to get out on like on highway to you there that's what that kind of northern piece is looking at speeds drop off quite a bit you know that's not unexpected we'll go through the other carriers here but again when you see that map there's a lot of places that we don't have tests for AT&T so if you have an AT&T device we would really love it for you guys to help us collect data in those areas. US cellular even fewer tests a lot along I-80 and that and the Lincoln Omaha areas but otherwise not not a lot of coverage information so again would encourage people to download if you have US cellular. Verizon of course they're kind of the dominant provider in the state they have really the largest footprint you can see that we're getting some pretty good information for Verizon. Still some holes again that when you look in the sandhills for example but and even in the southeast kind of down around Beatrice and in between Beatrice falsity area you can see there's some holes there so again we would like to collect more information for those areas too. VRO they're a larger provider in the western part of the state you can see they have I think they have a pretty good network of towers along the I-80 and their their speeds are okay for for those areas so it's again a little hard to see but again more more tests in the eastern part of the state would be good for that for VRO as well. Sprint, Sprint's pretty concentrated around Lincoln and Omaha areas there's a couple tests otherwise but not a lot so again you can use more tests for Sprint. And then so the second thing that we started to do besides just looking at speeds was that we started to compare the speed information that we received from the test with what the providers advertise as their speeds for an area. So for example you see AT&T here where we only look at tests that are within that those coverage areas of what they provide and the colors I don't didn't have a legend didn't put a legend up but the more red you get that means that their their speeds are above what their advertised advertised speeds are you start to get to green and blue that means that they're are actually I think it's gray and black you those are speeds that are below their advertised speeds for those areas. So I'll show you some more information on that U.S. seller you kind of see what there what they claim as their footprint there I think they see speeds I think I have a little spreadsheet at the bottom here that shows the information in that way but you get an idea of what the what the data tests are starting to look like when you compare it to their advertised speeds. Verizon is actually quite good I mean we see you know if you I don't know how easy it is to see again but they're they usually perform pretty close to or or even above what they advertise as their speeds there are a couple holes where that's not the case if you see gray and black that's that's where that is and that's usually in smaller pockets but by and large that we see pretty good speed information from them the arrow is kind of interesting that a lot of their dots are gray and black and it's not necessarily because the speeds are bad but again we're comparing it with what they advertise so they advertise a pretty high speed and people aren't necessarily seeing those speeds when they when they run the test so that's kind of interesting but yet I'm kind of trying to figure out how to look at that a little more closely because when I look at their speeds they're not not bad they just look bad in comparison to what they're advertising so Sprint has a pretty small footprint for where they actually have towers kind of again concentrated around Lincoln and Omaha and and you see what they're showing for how they compared their their advertised speed tiers there are not too not too bad here's the kind of the graphic look at that another thing that we've started to look at is how do speeds compare in urban areas versus rural areas we've I should mention I don't think I mentioned this we have about 20 over 23,000 tests statewide now you can see the urban and rural distribution about 13 and 13,000 have tests have been run in in areas outside of city limits and in about almost 11,000 have been run in in urban urban areas or in the city limits that's kind of how we defined rural and urban in that setting so you see on the on the chart there how these providers have performed so for example on top AT&T their their speed in urban areas is about five megabytes per second download we're all talking we're talking download speeds here sorry I probably should have specified that but in rural areas it's about 4.1 megabytes per second and then the last column shows how over all of their all of their measurements how they perform against what they advertise so typically AT&T performs slightly higher than what they advertise so their average speed here is about is less than a speed tier higher than what they advertise so positive number means that they're typically meeting what they advertise negative number means they're not so you see for example bureau they have a negative number which means that their speeds are usually below what they advertise in the same first print but it's you know minus point six you're pretty they're pretty close to what they're advertising so that gives you some idea of what we're trying to do and how how we're using the app um let's see I think that pretty much covers what I wanted to cover on the mobile pulse app again the success of the app really depends on how many people we can get low get to download it and use it and how many people we can get to that use it throughout the state so I think it kind of at this point our goals to really get more statewide distribution you know we have like you saw pretty good info um link in an Omaha that area but we need people with different providers besides Verizon um and then people that are more distributed throughout the state so um again not if you have questions or need more information or if you are interested in becoming an advanced user please uh contact me my phone number and email are up there on the on the screen um and I think that pretty much covers broadband for now cool um anybody have any other questions we had some you know during the show um while you were talking so if anybody has any other last-minute questions um go ahead and type them in or if you want to be unmuted let me know and I can unmute you well we do uh I think we've got three of our commission staff are watching in another meeting room upstairs as I mentioned earlier um and two of them just installed the app to their phones while we were here so and I was actually going to do that on mine too as well as the FCC one um I've got my phone here I wasn't going to do it while I was doing this I'll get to it you know I will say that third person just doesn't have a phone with her so oh that's fine I will say that um I was it was interesting to hear that you're downloaded the FCC app because that's one thing that we're not really sure about is how many people have actually downloaded that app so I added a link to the show notes um in our delicious account too that I looked up the FCC one so if anyone's interested in that one as well um I've got a link to the mobile pulse for Nebraska but also the FCC speed yeah I think they call it FCC speed test and again you know it's it's it we've we've talked with the FCC and they do plan on making that data available uh but again it's been I don't know eight or nine months since they uh released that speed test app and we still haven't seen anything typically that are a little slower releasing that information Michael says you also have the FCC Sam knows router at home what is I'm gonna I'm not familiar with that Michael what is that I needed you that was a program that the FCC was basically doing the same thing the mobile router was or the mobile app was doing but for home access so the the FCC was collecting data they installed a customized firmware on the router they're still collecting the data but I don't think they're sending out the routers anymore oh okay and and it's like Sam knows dot FCC dot gov or something like that where you can get the data do you know how long they've been doing that is that been I've had that router for probably a good four years now it's been several years you know that the FCC is kind of well the the NTIA I think that was maybe the goal of the NTIA project was the kind of collect similar data to what you'd you'd be providing with that router on a you know a lot a lot wider what do I want to say on a on a nationwide scale you know so you're I don't know I guess that's just that's sort of my my first instinct is that the the project that we've been working on is kind of an extension of that of whatever they were trying to accomplish with that to collect in other words to collect information about where broadband is available and what types and that sort of thing yeah I I like it because I've I mean I've been contributing data but they also send me my own personal monthly report on how my home broadband is doing so I've used that for troubleshooting cool very good all right anybody else have any other questions comments thoughts okay cool all right then I think that will wrap it up for today's show thank you very much for being here with us today for coming down two floors up yeah yeah yeah I had to climb down the stairs so that was great yeah shows being recorded it'll be available afterwards I've got his slides as well so for all those maps and things you want to zoom in better on those we'll have the slides up available as well and I've added to the delicious links that we have here the mobile broadband map information about the mobile pulse and the FCC one there so that you can access those as well so I'm going to steal back the here and that will wrap it up for today's show and I said it'll be recorded and put on to our website here in our archives probably by later this afternoon okay next week and I'm going to get help for this so hopefully join us next week when it is our monthly tech talk with Michael Sowers who you've just been listening to on asking questions here the Michael Sarge Technology Innovation Librarian and he has a show coming up where all I know is the name of it I don't know anything more about it so Michael can you tell us what's happening on the show next week yes we're going to have two guests one from an organization mobile beacon dot org and from a library that's participating in this I think you have an R in there Chris mobile beacon supplies 4g wireless hot spots to libraries and nonprofits and then libraries can get them and check them out to patrons so that if patrons have computers at home but no internet access they can get a kind of a mobile internet access so we're going to be talking about that program okay yeah I've heard of libraries doing that loading the hot spots out yeah okay I'm on too many computers here cool all right so if you're interested in learning more about that getting that hot spot hot spots that will be the topic of our tech talk next week and you can just show that for any of our other shows coming up also if you are a Facebook user and Compass Live is on Facebook we have a Facebook page there you can like us on Facebook you get notifications of when our recordings are available I'll give reminders of when our current show is starting up so you can log in on the fly if you didn't pre-register for a show so if you are big on Facebook please do go ahead and like us there um other than that that will wrap it up for today's show thank you very much for attending and we'll see you next week bye


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