OK, so now the discussion about automobile drivers being distracted while on the road has reached a fevered pitch. Many states have some sort of law forbidding the use of cell phones while driving; many other have them under consideration. Hardly a week passes without some news item on the subject.
Here’s [...]
Distracted Drivers
Tom, October 3rd 2009
An Update on the Open Archives Initiative Object Re-Use and Exchange Project
Michael Lloyd Nelson
OAI-PMH deals with repositories.
OAI-ORE deals with objects.
Approach: Simple things should be understandable, complex things should be possible.
Need an html splash page for humans and indexing robots, but also need pointers to the real object for indexing and grabbing. Different repositories handle this linking in different ways (e.g., referenced in metadata with different [...]
Tom, April 17th 2007
CNI Opening Plenary
Stephen Murray, Prof. Of Art History and Architecture, Columbia University
Established one of the first new media centers.
Digital Technology in the Humanistic Quest: Production and Representation of Space in the Romanesque Churches of the Bourbonnais
Academics endlessly represent things; we write books about things that are not there, but there are limits to representation. There is a [...]
Tom, April 16th 2007
Report from the 2007 Spring Task Force Meeting of the Coalitiion for Networked Information
I’ll be reporting from the CNI meeting in Phoenix this next couple of days.
Tom, April 16th 2007
Slipping into the Mainstream: Where Science Meets Policy
Donald Kennedy, Editor-in-Chief, Science
Notion that science might have some influence on policy.
Lively time for the congruence of science and policy.
Metaphor:
canal, with locks along the way.
each lock represents a barrier or hurdle.
Lock 1
scientific publication
Lock 2
interpretation by science writers
distrust among scientists and science writers
writers consider scientists unnecessarily obtuse
scientists consider writers shallow
writers are not evenly distributed or abundant
not [...]
Tom, March 7th 2007
Libraries in the Age of Cyberinfrastructure-enhanced Knowledge Communities
Dan Adkins, Director, Office of Cyberinfrastructure, NSF
Emerging Libraries in the Content of “x” in Transition
Libraries=institutions that will step up to provide services for participatory communities in the digital age
Institutional forms:
libraries in transition
universities in transition
research/discovery in transition
learning/education in transition
Context: openess, cultures of contrbution, open participatory infrastructure, CI-enabled knowledge communities
Threads of opportunity (inflection point)
International e-science movement
Openness movement
Concepts, [...]
Tom, March 7th 2007
Scientific Discovery in the Information Age
Michael Turner, Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics
Exponential thinking
Four exponentials:
compute power
storage capacity
bandwidth
sensors/capture (ccd)
previously intractable problems can be solved/addressed because of the advancement of these exponentials
distributed sensors to gather data, small and large scales
GEOSS, EOS NASA 24 sattelites, generating petabytes of data
LIGO
Sloan Digital Sky Survey
big science requires big collaborations
simulations
more, faster, complex
still nowhere near a sustainable infrastructure
unexpected consequences [...]
Tom, March 7th 2007
