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March 2005
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Integrating Library Reserves and Course Management Systems: Aleph, RSS, and Sakai
http://www.educause.edu/LibraryDetailPage/ 666?ID=MWR0566 Hey, I’m as excited about the potential of service-oriented architectures and the ‘loosely coupled’ appproach as the next guy, but on a regular basis I find myself lamenting the seeming lack of real world working examples one can currently point to. Yet every time I feel this way, along comes another presentation like [...]
WebCT announces participation in IMS Tools Interoperability Working Group
http://www.webct.com/service/ ViewContent?contentID=25561480 I’m sure the chattering masses (hey, I don’t exclude myself from this grouping) will have something to say about this one – yea, as the prophets foretold, in the year of the mark of the sign of the beast, the ‘evil empire’ took control, yada yada yada – but from where I’m sitting, [...]
SunGard Data Systems to be Acquired by Private Equity Group
http://tinyurl.com/5nhll Many of you will have run into Sunguard through one of their fairly recent acquisitions, SCT Banner, the SIS on many higher ed campuses. Not sure entirely what the implications of this acquisition are. but it seems like more and more acquisitions and consolidations are afoot. – SWL
Yellowtail and Curly – some fun from my dusty old bookmarks collection
http://www.flong.com/yellowtail/ There’s an essay here about the virtues of ‘bookmark gardening,’ but late on this Friday afternoon I’ll give that a rest and instead just point to this delightful ‘interactive art’ piece found hiding in the dingy corners of my local bookmarks file. Have a good break over Easter if you take one! – SWL
Center for the Study of Digital Libraries
http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/ I know the “professionals” who work on search, taxonomies, the semantic web and the like will all know about this resource, but many who are interested in topics like “folksonomies” could do worse than spend a bit of time reading some of the papers published in the CSDL’s online library of publications. If you [...]
Seen on Amazon – "Statistically Improbable Phrases"
http://www.amazon.com/gp/search-inside/sipshelp-dp.html Seems like an interesting idea in regards to generating automatic metadata – generate keyword phrases by analyzing the text and picking out phrases which occur regularly only in that work but not in others. – SWL
Thin-Client Desktop Viewing with VNC
http://www.tightvnc.com/doc/java/README.txt This will likely not come as a surprise to any of you who actually read manuals, but for the rest of us, you may be as surprised as I was to learn that you can share a view of your desktop (and any running applications) with multiple other users simultaneously using the VNC server [...]
Report on "Achieving Success in Internet-Supported Learning"
http://www.a-hec.org/e-learning_study.html This report by Rob Abel aims to detail some of the “Common Factors and Best Practices of Institutions that have Been Successful at e-Learning” and serve as a counterpoint to last year’s more negative “Thwarted Innovation” report by Zemsky and Massy. I’m sure some will take issue with it, but many of its findings [...]
Grand Central Communication's Business Services Network
https://network.grandcentral.com/en/home/index.jsp Via Loosely Coupled – this has got to be significant, a company seems to think it can make a go of “application integration as a hosted service.” The current list of service providers is relatively small but a start – the well-known suspects like Amazon.com, eBay, Google, and PayPal but others like gelco, salesforce.com [...]
ELATED – Front End to Fedora
http://elated.sourceforge.net/ Seeming to prove out the model of ‘repository as service’ is this front end to the Fedora repository system. And also seeming to provide a good example to back up Charlie Lowe’s recent point on how open source can itself provide learning opportuniites within educational institutions, this was built as part of the Associated [...]
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