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A Third Industrial Revolution | The Economist
Digital manufacturing as a third industrial revolution
Everything in the factories of the future will be run by smarter software. Digitisation in manufacturing will have a disruptive effect every bit as big as in other industries that have gone digital, such as office equipment, telecoms, photography, music, publishing and films…
Core : Three Access Levels To Underpin Open Access
Digital libraries beyond search and access
...going "beyond search and access" while not ignoring these functions has already been explored in Lagoze, et al. (2005). The authors argue that digital libraries need to add value to web resources by extending current metadata models to allow establishing and representing…
Open access means reuse, not just reading
The Budapest Open Access Initiative clearly identifies, in its original definition of Open Access from 2001, that OA is not only about making research outputs freely available for download and reading. The aspect of reuse, which includes being able to index and pass OA content…
Designing A Url Structure For Bbc Programmes | Smethurst
Versions and publication events
Attached to a version there might be “publication events”: broadcasts and “ondemands”. A version might have zero, one or many broadcasts. Each of which might be on a different radio network or TV channel (e.g. Eastenders on BBC One and BBC Three). Networks and channels are…
Iannotate — Whatever Happened To The Web As An Annotation System? | The Scholarly Kitchen
Sharing and portability of annotations
The question of sharing is also fraught with complexity. How can one choose to share their annotations selectively — only for some works but not others, or only with some people and not others, or only in certain situations or circumstances? A book club may only want to share…
Mendeley, Connotea, And The Perils Of Free Services « The Scholarly Kitchen
The perils of relying on free services
The fate of Mendeley and Connotea should serve as reminders of the dangers of relying on free services. The users’ needs and desires come secondary to the real customers — in Google’s case, the advertisers; in Facebook’s case, those purchasing data and access to users. When a…
Decoupling services for authors and readers
These economic realities stand in stark contrast to the notion of the “decoupled journal,” a vision of the future where each aspect of academic publishing is separated out and purchased by the author in an a la carte fashion. So far these services are not providing much…
National Data Service
National data service
..the nation urgently needs an open framework that supports an integrated set of national-scale services to individually and collectively enable the efficient, convenient, and secure storage, sharing, publication, discovery, verification, and attribution of data by individuals…
Open Definition
Open data
The Open Definition sets out principles to define ‘openness’ in relation to content and data and can be summed up in the statement that: “A piece of content or data is open if anyone is free to use, reuse, and redistribute it — subject only, at most, to the requirement to…
Osx Dictionary
Quango (dictionary definition)
noun ( pl. quangos ) Brit. chiefly derogatory a semipublic administrative body outside the civil service but receiving financial support from the government, which makes senior appointments to it. ORIGIN 1970s (originally US): acronym from quasi (or quasi-autonomous)…
Punning - Owl
Punning
People often want to use a class to specify the value of some property. An example originating at the University of Karlsruhe[1] is in service modeling. Services are modeled as instances of the a:Service class. For each concrete service (i.e., for each instance of a:Service)…
Reframe It Retreads Web Annotation As A Browser Add-on | Techcrunch
Reframe It: web annotation in a side pane
Reframe It is a browser plug-in for Firefox or Internet Explorer that lets you highlight passages of text on a Web page and add your own comments in a side pane. Comment can be private, public, or visible only to certain groups. Anyone with the Reframe It plug-in can then see…
The Power Of Semantics
Silverchair offers semantic enrichment project tools..
Silverchair offers semantic enrichment project services and tools. These include strategic semantic planning services and a taxonomy/ontology manager (Totem). The company also provides taxonomy development services, an automated semantic enrichment engine that tags content down…
Waldensians - Wikipedia
A traveling waldensian preacher was known as a barba
Waldo and his followers developed a system whereby they would go from town to town and meet secretly with small groups of Waldensians. There they would confess sins and hold service. A traveling Waldensian preacher was known as a barba. The group would shelter and house the…
What Is A Digital Library Anymore, Anyway ?
A graph information model for a digital library
This paper describes an information model for digital libraries that intentionally moves "beyond search and access", without ignoring those basic functions, and facilitates the creation of collaborative and contextual knowledge environments. This model is an information network…
What Is Microservices Architecture?
Understanding microservice achitecture
Just as there is no formal definition of the term microservices, there’s no standard model that you’ll see represented in every system based on this architectural style. But you can expect most microservice systems to share a few notable characteristics. First, software built…
‘renationalise The Railways. Cut Military Spending. Argue With Whoever Says It Can’t Be Done’ Interview In The Observer (admin)
How can you expect people not to be radicalised?
Such policies are partially responsible for the terrorist attacks in Paris and Copenhagen, the rise of Islamophobia and antisemitism, he argues. “State security services know this better than our political leaders. Did you know more young Muslims are employed by the state…