By sleslie on February 21, 2005
There was no way I could pass up attending the Northern Voices blogging conference given that it was only a ferry ride away, and for the most part I came away glad to have made the effort. Here are some reflections, in no particular order. The High Points – Dinner with Brian, D’Arcy and other [...]
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By sleslie on February 8, 2005
http://www.incommonfederation.org/ I’ve known about Shibboleth for a few years now, but to be honest haven’t followed it that closely, in part because, as important as issues of authentication and authorization are, they typically bore the *!#$ out of me. So I had Shibboleth filed in the back of my mind as ‘hey neat idea, I’ll [...]
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By sleslie on February 8, 2005
(Clearly of only limited interest to anyone not on Vancouver Island, but hey, it’s my blog!) The Northern Voices blogging conference is fast approaching – I am driving over from Victoria the night before, catching the 3pm ferry and have room for 2-3 others. I am returning the next day likely on the 7 or [...]
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By sleslie on February 7, 2005
http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/publications/reports/ 2005/top10.html This isn’t an educational technology post, but if it has any relevance in that regard it is to keep things in perspective. Click on the past years’ reports only makes it worse to realize how ongoing some of these issues have been. And count the number in Africa. – SWL
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By sleslie on February 5, 2005
http://dublincore.org/educationwiki/ DC_2dEducation_20Application_20Profile Possibly of interest to some of you metadata mavens out there is this wiki where you can find ongoing work of the Dublin Core Education Working Group, including this early draft of an application profile of Dublin Core to apply to educational materials. It’s not exactly ‘knock your socks off’ kind of stuff [...]
Posted in Elearning Standards | Tagged metadata, standards
By sleslie on February 4, 2005
http://www.computer.org/multimedia/mu2004/promo1.pdf Raymond Yee helpfully points out this great article by Dick Bulterman titled “Is it Time for a Metadata Moratorium” from which Raymond extracts this true nugget: “For nontext data – such as video, images, audio, and so on – direct mining is difficult, but exactly at the point that metadata might be useful, manual [...]
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