CMSreORG

The CMSreORG project combines two projects in one. It is a re-evaluation of our current web authoring methods with the view of adopting a Content Management System (CMS). It is also, more importantly, a re-organization (reORG) of the current website, exploring how it can be best shaped to allow our diverse user audience to [...]

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Sid’s blog

Our very own Sid has his very own blog, on which he recently explained in a simple fashion what flash and virtual memory are and how a USB can improve the performance of your PC.
http://sidlid.blogspot.com/2008/04/new-use-for-usb-stick.html
Is this why I should refrain from pulling my USB out without following the safely remove hardware procedure?

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Janet Talk: Instant Collaboration and voice over IP for HE

At UCISA conference June and I were talking over lunch one day with a sales representative from Damovo, a business communications company specialising in voice of IP services. We got onto discussing telephony systems, messaging and voice over IP. I mentioned that one of my colleague is keen to set up skype for phone calls [...]

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Blogs and wikis…

Discussion at a meeting earlier this week about whether something would be best communicated to Library staff via a blog, wiki or even old-fashioned email, reminded me of this post on the Ubiquitous Librarian’s blog about using Clearspace software for this very purpose. Clearspace is enterprise collaboration/knowledge management software, and incorporates blogs, wikis, [...]

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dapper is the online web scraper

What a wonderful tool dapper is. This is apparently web 3.0, the webs new phase of maturity that will blossom eventually to the semantic web. It’s all about re-using open data from large and famous sites in a more structured and intelligent context. Here is a good but old article on such:

Web 3.0: When Websites [...]

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Drift through the music!

Here’s an interesting one: Musicovery. Give it a think: can you imagine something like this applied to a library/information browse scenario?

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Systems: III Encore

There seems to be quite a lot of discord on the SirsiD lists in the US Unicorn world regarding iLink, EPS (SirsiD’s portal frontend) and futures. A number of them have referred to something called Encore, from Innovative, which I’d not come across (http://www.iii.com/encore/main_index2.html).
Looks like Encore is not included in III’s standard OPEC but has [...]

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New breed of OPACs

Rummaging around the web - as you do - I came across a company called Endeca offering new ways of searching and presenting data in a whole range of industries. This led me to look at the NCSU catalogue and I liked what I saw. Easy searching and results presented in a way that allows [...]

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mediaWiki for subject guides

Meredith Farkas relates how she and her colleagues have used media wiki to present subject guides to their users. She makes an interesting point that students use a task-based approach rather than a general subject approach. I certainly identify with this as a perpetual student myself; whether learning about web technologies or languages.
Meredith Farkas
…I [...]

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JIBSUG seminar

Last year Kathy, Alain and I attended a JIBSUG seminar on web 2.0. I just wanted to list a ppt from talks I found interesting. It was a talk by Dave Pattern, who I believe is a computer scientist at Huddersfield.
Making the catalogue a good place to be - lipstick, cowbells and serendipity, Dave [...]

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