Systems Ontologies JISC announces the publication of Latest TechWatch report: role of ontologies in teaching and learning [https://www.jisc.ac.uk/ Lorcan Dempsey Aug 29, 2004
Books UKOLN focus and POIs A very nice roundup of news and progress reports in the inaugural issue of UKOLN focus [https://www.ukoln.ac. Lorcan Dempsey Aug 27, 2004 1 min read
Systems More on RSS Wired magazine on the growth and diversifying appeal of RSS. > “RSS is at the edge of a huge acceleration Lorcan Dempsey Aug 26, 2004
Books Reading RSS Steve Gillmor makes an interesting observation about the uptake of RSS. I wonder what proportion of readers of popular blogs Lorcan Dempsey Aug 24, 2004
Systems Google as a platform again Steve Gillmor extends the notion of Google as a platform. Some extracts: > One way to handicap Google is to Lorcan Dempsey Aug 24, 2004 1 min read
Systems Trendwatching Via Neil Beagrie I came across TRENDWATCHING.COM: global source for hot consumer trends and related new business ideas in Lorcan Dempsey Aug 21, 2004 1 min read
Systems FRBR and other cataloging issues Powerpoints from the UK Cataloguing and indexing group annual meeting are available [https://www.cilip.org.uk/groups/cig/events. Lorcan Dempsey Aug 20, 2004
Research ∕ Learning Hal Abelson on copyright and intellectual commons The journal Transformations: liberal arts in a digital age [https://www.colleges.org/transformations/index.php] has an interview with Lorcan Dempsey Aug 19, 2004
Systems What's the catalog for David Weinberger noted Tim Bray’s nice post about the Bodleain library a while ago. He discussed the catalog and Lorcan Dempsey Aug 18, 2004 1 min read
Misc Sun blogs ZDNet on the Schwartz phenomenon. The COO and President of Sun is using his blog to go straight to a Lorcan Dempsey Aug 10, 2004 1 min read
Research ∕ Learning Portal landscape PEPC 2004: The Conference [https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/pepc2004/] provides a good snapshot of institutional portal developments. Increasingly, the Lorcan Dempsey Aug 9, 2004 1 min read
Systems Adam Bosworth on keeping it simple Adam Bosworth discusses how the user focus changes in moving from BEA to Google, and how this influences thinking about Lorcan Dempsey Aug 8, 2004 1 min read