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15 octobre 2018

The Global Digital Format Registry

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. More...

15 octobre 2018

The Dynamic Dissemination of Complex Digital Objects

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. More...

15 octobre 2018

Venture Capital Markets Sink to Lowest Level in Seven Years

Venture Capital Markets Sink to Lowest Level in Seven Years
I have been hearing variations on this theme for a number of years, and its a trend that is advancing, not declining. It seems to me odd tha Canadian firms - with the advantage of a strong scoial infrastructure and some of the best talent in the world - cannot obtain venture capital. More...

15 octobre 2018

ADL to make a 'repository SCORM'

ADL to make a 'repository SCORM'
As reported in OLDaily in January, ADL is planning a 'repository SCORM' known as the "lovely named" CORDRA. More...

15 octobre 2018

The Blizzard of 2004

The Blizzard of 2004
Snow is piling up outside my door and the entire city of Moncton is shut down as the worst storm of the year continues to hammer the city. It's not a 'state of emergency' - yet - but it's as rough a storm as I've seen in a while. More...

15 octobre 2018

Proposals for DC Rights-related Terms

Proposals for DC Rights-related Terms
Some new proposals for Dublin Core element descriptions, including isAvailableAt and Provenance, along with the rights related terms mentioned in the title. I could not find a place to offer feedback on the rights terms, but it's OK, as the method Dubmlin Core proposes, to link to an external rights metadata file (such as a Creative Commons file) works for us here; we do exactly the same thing, linking to an external ODRL file from the rights description fiel;d in elarning object metadata. More...

15 octobre 2018

Real Player

Real Player
This item was sent to me through the grapevine: "In case anyone was interested; There is a version of Real Player, available through the BBC, that is add free and ready for download. The BBC has strict guidelines on advertising (being a gov't run non-profit news agency) and therefore they provide this special version of real player. More...

15 octobre 2018

TechKnowledge

TechKnowledge
Jay Cross offers coverage of the TechKnowledge conference almost as good as being there. Day One, Day Two and Day Three. Best bit: "People today want to be doing things. They want control. They want tools. Along with the book review, add a button for buying the book. More...

15 octobre 2018

Two Boyds on YASNSes

Two Boyds on YASNSes
I've had one of those days where attention to agreements and intellectual property and licensing prevented any real work from getting done. So I'll leave it to Seb Paquet to refer this quote from Marc Canter: "The business sector is floundering around - trying to 'wrap their arms' around something - that is un-wrappable. Since social software is not a single market or even single trend - the VCs wanna know "where's the beef?" "What's the business model?" "Who do we invest in?" But the thing about it is - social software is more than a trend or fad. It's a raising of the bar - bringing humans into the equation of software. More...

15 octobre 2018

Oats-Based Initiative

Oats-Based Initiative
As I've said before, "Apple uses music to sell iPods..." and today, Quaker uses learning to sell oats... Yes, of course it is, as Joho points out, an abdication of our responsibility to teach children. More...

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