By Stephen Downes
February 18, 2004
The Dynamic Dissemination of Complex Digital
Objects
If you are not into complicated systems
architecture you won't get a lot out of this item. For the
rest of us, this paper demonstrates the use of the MPEG-21
DIP and the NISO OpenURL formats for the distribution of
complex objects in an OAI repository. As the authors
conclude, "OpenURL has so far only been used to deliver
services that were calculated based on metadata that
describes a referenced resource. In the proposed solution,
the services are based on the resource itself." The sort of
thing enabled by this architecture is that the designer of
a resource can code, say, a 'link' to the institution's
library services, and the link can direct to the
appropriate library depending on the context in which the
resource is being used (that is, if I understand this
correctly, and I think I do). By
Jeroen Bekaert, et.al., D-Lib Magazine, February, 2004
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The Global Digital Format
Registry
A useful initiative, the purpose of
which is to collect the various digital formats being used
to store institutional eprint and other archives. Via FOS
news. By David Seaman, CLIR Issues, January, 2004
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Internet Places to Learn Developments
Regarding the Restructuring of the Education Database of
Articles and Reports: ERIC
ERIC, as most OLDaily
readers will recall, was shut down at the end of last year.
This post provides three major links to information about
successor services: ERIC Reauthorization News, ERIC Connections, and ERIC Changes 2002. By David P. Dillard,
NetGold, February 17, 2003
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Software on the Brain
I'm not
going to recommend the report itself, since you have to pay
money for it, but you should read this summary, as it
touches on themes I've tried to explore in these pages.
Significantly, "For 40 years we've been untangling Marshall
McLuhan's insight that our media are just extensions of our
central nervous system, but we have spent most of that time
focused on the extensions and ignoring the nervous system
itself." And "memory is no longer seen as a simple problem
of storage and retrieval: Emotional states play a
significant role in how memories are captured and when they
are recalled." By Steven Johnson, Release 1.0, February,
2004
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OddPost
George Siemens wrote of my
article, The Semantic Social Network, that it was
written ahead of its time. I don't think
so. Oddpost, for example, is an email and RSS aggregator
combined into a single platform, just released. Meanwhile
on my discussion board for this item, Eurekster "shows you What's Hot with your
friends" and Zopto "is building on the idea of foaf +
rss + open APIs. It's a web-based application for creating
and managing for foaf file, and the basic framework for all
the identity and collaborative tools that can build off RSS
+ Foaf." Meanwhile, the concept of merged feeds to cover a
specific event got covered by Doc
Searles today - no, not the Merlot feed I ran six months ago, but Dave Sifry's explanation of the Demo blog aggregation page he put up at
Technorati - so now that it has been done down there, it
has been officially 'invented' - no, I think I got the
column off just in time, and I expect the A-List to
discover this concept for themselves at any time. A fully
functioning network will be in place by the end of the
year. It could even be in place by the end of winter. By
Various Authors, February, 2004
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WonderWeb
From the website: "The
aim of the WonderWeb project is to develop and demonstrate
the infrastructure required for the large-scale deployment
of ontologies as the foundation for the Semantic Web." The
site hosts free tools (click on 'software'), ontologies,
and more. By Various Authors, February, 2004
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Incorporated Subversion: the
Book
This project was started a week ago, but
now there's enough content to see it taking shape. In his
own words, "his is a project in which I'm aiming to design
and collate a ton of plans for facilitating learning online
for use by people teaching online with discussion boards,
email and email groups, weblogs and rss, chat rooms and
MOOs, IM and video conferencing." It's a good project,
especially for those who want to get away from the sterile
environment of the LMS. By James Farmer, February 18, 2004
7:01 a.m.
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TrackBack: Where Blogs Learn Their
Places
Corrected link from yesterday. By
Anonymous, February 18, 2004 7:00 a.m.
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