Identification of Network Accessible Documents: Problem Areas and Suggested Solutions
Document identification may seem like a no-brainer - just give each document a unique number, right? But because documents have multiple versions, because some versions develop in parallel, because documents disappear, because documents are composed of multiple parts, and because the document presented may be only a representation of a document stored, document identification becomes tricky. More...

The Paradigma Web Harvesting Environment
Overview of an architecture for a document harvesting system. This paper is a good description of such systems and provides a good vocabulary. More...

Inside Baseball: The RSS Backlash
It was predictable, it was inevitable, and it has arrived: the backlash against RSS and against blogging in general. More...

SCORM Resources
A poster on the ITForum asked for resources about SCORM and the results have flooded in. More...

Preview of Next Release of DSpace
Content archiving software development continues to progress as a list of new features anticipated in DSpace 1.2 is announced, including support for sub-communities, delegated administration of communities and collections, and items with METS metadata. More...

Purposely Dumbing Down and Mythic Education?
Perhaps prompted by the flurry of back-to-school articles, there has been a renewed interest in the concept of the dumbing-down of education (or whatever you want to call it). More...

Reed Elsevier Interim Results 2003
From the Open Access News, Peter Suber writes, "Elsevier has put some PowerPoint slides on the web summarizing its interim results for 2003. Slide #16 shows that there were 4.5 million full-text articles in ScienceDirect on June 30, 2003, and slide #15 shows that there were 124 million article downloads in the 12 months preceding that date. More...

Fame vs Fortune: Micropayments and Free Content
In this article sure to make the rounds, Clay Shirkey has two major points to make. First, he argues that a micropayment system for online content will never work because of "mental transaction costs," the hestitation caused by considering whether it's worth half a cent to read an article. More...

Leveraging Mobile and Wireless Internet
Good overview of the trend toward the use of mobile and wireless devices in learning, along with a set of changes developers should expect as a result of this trend. More...

The State of the E-Learning Market
We are well into the e-learning doldrums, writes the author, but the depressed market and consolidations (and failures) mean it's easier to pick between solutions. All true, but this article suggests to me that we are still in one of the early stages of the doldrums: denial. More...