Intel Starts Delivering on Wireless at IDF
I'm sure it's a very good processor, but what about the name? The new Intel product - characterized as the internet on a chip - has been called 'Manitoba.' For those of you who don't know, that's the name of a Canadian province, a place where I used to live, in fact. More...

Eligibility For Dot-Edu Internet Addresses To Be Expanded
A wider range of educational institutions in the United States will not be able to obtain .edu domains, according to this report. More...

Dublin Core
Whew. You've just finished tagging your thousands of items in Dublin Core. Now you can relax, right? Wrong. There is a great deal afoot with Dublin Core. I confess, I'm not clear on all of it (and information on the web is basically impossible to obtain). More...

Copyright Issues Relevant to the Creation of a Digital Archive: A Preliminary Assessment
If you are feeling overwhelmed by the complexities of modern copyright issues, this clearly written and relatively brief report might be just the tonic for you. Though written for a U.S. audience, it contains clear overviews of the concepts (for example, types of copyring, typical exceptions). More...

Happy Birthday, XML!
This week marks the fifth anniversary of XML. The specification was published as a 25 page document on the W3C site on February 10, 1998. Things, as they say, have become more complex since then. " Five years ago, XML tools could be developed by a good programmer in a week; now it may take full-time teams of the best programmers to keep up. More...

The Practical Realities of the New Copyright Laws: A Librarian's Perspective
Just now available online, this talk from last December outlines a series of concerns faced by libraries in the face of increasing restrictions being placed by copyright legislation on degital materials. "Recent changes in copyright law have been insufficiently careful to protect the 'fair use' of copyrighted materials. More...

Metadata Interchange Standards

I'm putting this item into the newsletter because it's important and I don't want to lose the link. More...

Computers Take Over the Classroom
"We learnt the inner workings of a computer. In fact it's an electronic machine, through which we can send and receive letters," said student Kamar Kumar. Well in fact they're learning a lot more than that in Indian schools as the country works hard to teach computing in its schools. More...

.Net Patent Could Stifle Standards Effort
Just as .Net was generating steam as a platform for web services, it has emerged that Mocrosoft holds some key patents and may use them to "dictate how, or whether, developers of software and devices can link to the .Net initiative." It's no surprise that Microsoft holds patents, but it is a surprise that the company would not release them to the standards initiatives building up around web services. More...

CIPD: E-learning 'Shows Potential not Performance'

People have been saying this for a while, but now it has been officially discovered. More...