Portable reading lists
Reading lists are an interesting site for discussion about interoperability
between library and learning management systems, and one where one
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Systems
Doing things with software and data.
1058 postsEducause view of evolving technologies 2004
The new issue of Educause Review [EDUCAUSE REVIEW | November/December 2004,
Volume 39, Number 6 [https://www.educause.edu/apps/
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Learning object metadata
A couple of recent studies have provided some rich data about the use of
IEEE-LOM metadata. Jean Godby [https://www.
Adobe, Yahoo and service recombination
There is a growing desire to provide service at the point of need, or “at the
point of inspiration” as
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Collection and service description update
Juha Hakala and Pete Johnston give a useful update
[https://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/dcmi/dc2004/nisomi/intro_files/
Bookmarklets, xISBN and Find in a Library
Corey Murata notes some nice lookup features
[https://faculty.washington.edu/murata/worldcat/] for OpenWorldCat on Web4Lib
today.
This prompts
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Google desktop and library collections
Art Rhyno has an interesting discussion of using Google Desktop to integrate
search of library collections into Google.
> This
Common information environment
The Common information environment is a multi-agancy initiative in the UK to
help coordinate development activities towards more ‘well-seamed’ information
One, two, three: the trajectory of search
In my current Update column
[https://www.cilip.org.uk/publications/updatemagazine/archive/archive2004/november/lorcan.htm]
, I suggest that
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Google and clustering
Several brief accounts have appeared of Peter Norvig’s presentation at the Web
2.0 conference where he spoke about
Outsourcing and web services
An entry on the Zapthink website discusses the relationship between outsourcing
and service oriented architecture (SOA).
> The combination of
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