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April 2004
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Presentations from the Digital Library Forum Spring Forum 2004
http://www.diglib.org/forums/Spring2004/ springforum04abs.htm Thanks to Dr. Tom Carey for passing on the reference to the presentation archive for the DLF’s 2004 Spring Forum. There’s lots of interest here; in particular, one of the 9.00am-10.30am sessions from April 21, titled “Digital Repository Interoperability with Learning Systems” gives some insight into how the library/archives world is approaching the [...]
Personal Bugaboo – no pointers to online map services
This is not an edtech related post but I felt the need to rant and well, it’s my blog so I’ll rant if I want to… It is beyond me how there still exist any institutional websites that offer ‘Contact Pages’ with their address but that don’t also use one the myriad online maps services [...]
Harmoni PHP Project
http://sourceforge.net/projects/harmoni Also from the NITLE site, a reference to this OKI-related open source project, which consists of three major components: 1) A PHP application framework and architecture, offering, e.g. authentication, DBC, file storage 2) PHP OKI OSID (service definitions) conversion system 3) PHP implementations of those OSIDs This is the result of a collaboration of [...]
Introduction to Latent Semantic Indexing
http://javelina.cet.middlebury.edu/lsa/out/cover_page.htm This paper, titled “Patterns in Unstructured Data: Discovery, Aggregation, and Visualization” is offered by the National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education as a “layman’s introduction to latent semantic indexing.” It does start to go into the specifics of how LSI works, but fortunately at an introductory enough level that most of us can [...]
FEDORA Wiki – FedoraImplementations
http://www.fedora.info/wiki/bin/ view/Fedora/FedoraImplementations According to this list on the Fedora Wiki site, last updated October 26, 2003, there were only 2 known FEDORA installations. FEDORA’s own website lists around a dozen ‘registered deployment partners’ which would seem to indicate more actual deployments, but I was hard pressed to find URLs for working ones when going through [...]
CMU LSAL Paper on "LO-Tec" Tools (and Toys) for Creating Learning Objects
http://www.lsal.cmu.edu/lsal/expertise/ papers/notes/lotec05052003/lotec05052003.html This paper, from Dan Rehak and others at the renowned Learning Systems Architecture Laboratory at Carnegie Mellon University (which now has a new RSS feed), asks how authors actually create learning objects, and whether the current tools are supporting these actual processes or instead getting in the way. To investigate this they take [...]
More RSS feeds from Repositories
It seems like the idea of using RSS as a means to syndicate new items in learning object repositories is steadily catching on. The page I’ve set up to aggregate a number of these feeds now has three more, two of them thanks to Ian Winship from Northumbria University. The new feeds are: – latest [...]
Another open source course management system comparison
http://www.atutor.ca/atutor/files/VLE_comparison.pdf Stumbled across this through a tangential google search. Another comparison of 3 open source CMS, Moodle, Claroline and Atutor, this time by a European training firm. As in the case of the other main comaprison of late, Atutor seems to come out on top. – SWL
University of Denver Portfolio Community
https://portfolio.du.edu/pc/about While I expect it is not news to folks thoroughly immersed in ‘eportfolio’ projects, I found this site from the University of Denver to be very helpful in illustrating some of what one can accomplish through these systems. As a member of the public one can get a free account which opens up some [...]
LionShareWiki
http://lionshare.its.psu.edu//cgi-bin/twiki/view Announced with no little fanfare at the end of last year, the Lionshare project has since been quietly chugging along. In addition to the above Wiki pages, which give some insight into what they are actually working on, you can follow the project’s latest news through their RSS feed (another one to add to [...]
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