Feb 19, 2008 | Technical
Barbara Fister has posted some interesting thoughts regarding the intersection of privacy and open-access in our networked world. As large-scale social-networking websites begin to ingest our personal information for free and then distribute it back at a price, Fister...
Feb 18, 2008 | Technical
At the Synergies meeting last week, John Willinsky mentioned a Harvard initiative around sharing datasets. The Dataverse Network enables scholars to share the data developed through their research, instead of just their analysis of that data, and encourages those who...
Feb 8, 2008 | Technical
Wikia is a new open source search engine that relies on human input rather than algorithmic processing to provide relevant search results to end users. The active areas of research include: Social Lab – sources for URL social reputation, experiments in wiki-style...
Jan 29, 2008 | Technical
http://www.sesamevault.com/sesameseeds/about This could be a great resource for us: “The SesameVault API lets you easily integrate online video into your web or desktop applications. The API’s core functionality includes video uploading, encoding, tagging,...
Jan 28, 2008 | Technical
The ‘Rogue Librarian’ Carrie Bickner has a lot of interesting things to say about digital archiving, particularly on the topic of digital preservation and legacy (podcast), but she’s also managed the development team for the NYPL Digital gallery and similar digital...
Jan 17, 2008 | Technical
The good news is that now that it’s 2008, what was released as beta hopefully should now have some new developments… Anyway, interesting web app list here, many of them relating to visualization. Of particular note: – circaVie http://www.circavie.com/ Slick...
