More on the Microsoft .Net patents, discussed yesterday. As the title suggests, this article expresses the concern that the Microsoft patents cut a wide swatch through web services, threatening the entire standards effort. More...
4 mai 2018
4 mai 2018
My Short Life As An Unintentional Spammer
My Short Life As An Unintentional Spammer
The event described in this article has happened to me as well - it's one of the things that happens when your email address is widely posted. More...
4 mai 2018
Intel Starts Delivering on Wireless at IDF
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...
4 mai 2018
Eligibility For Dot-Edu Internet Addresses To Be Expanded
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...
4 mai 2018
Dublin Core
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...
4 mai 2018
Copyright Issues Relevant to the Creation of a Digital Archive: A Preliminary Assessment
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...
4 mai 2018
Happy Birthday, XML!
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...
4 mai 2018
The Practical Realities of the New Copyright Laws: A Librarian's Perspective
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...
4 mai 2018
Metadata Interchange Standards
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...
4 mai 2018
Computers Take Over the Classroom
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...
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