Posts Tagged ‘computing’
Ex archivis: Electronic Texts: The Last Word?
Posted by: Richard M. Davis on: 31st October, 2006
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Ten years since I wrote this short essay for my computing course at Birkbeck, Autumn 1996. Seems old hat now, and a bit quaint in places (we now have that HHGG: it’s called Wikipedia!) but I think it was good enough in its day. Covering (however briefly) 500 years of history in a short Computing [...]
In search of an e-portfolio
Posted by: Richard M. Davis on: 16th October, 2006
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We’ve been discussing E-Portfolios as part of the E-Learning course, and had a look at several examples of same, and considered the different purposes to which they might be put. Skipping over the interesting and complex issue of “high stakes” uses to which they might be put within education (i.e. for cumulative learning or assessment [...]
Psychotic redaction
Posted by: Richard M. Davis on: 2nd May, 2005
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In case anyone missed it, redaction’s in the news, as part of the tussle between Italy and the USA over the killing of Nicola Calipari in Iraq: http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D89R8NR80.htm http://www.repubblica.it/2005/d/sezioni/esteri/niccal3/rror/rror.html The US Army appears to have issued what it thought was a “redacted” PDF (copy attached). Unfortunately the text behind the censor’s black boxes is still [...]
Crash course in GML
Posted by: Richard M. Davis on: 5th April, 2005
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GML is the XML language for geography developed by the Open GIS consortium. It is an implementation/encoding of OpenGIS in XML. In its current version (3) it appears to exist as a specification from the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC), and also as a draft ISO standard. In its simplest sense, GIS data is built around [...]
XSLT Scrapbook
Posted by: Richard M. Davis on: 12th June, 2004
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Turning the tables It can often be useful to grab data from web pages, then do more with it in XML. If the data is in a table, this XSLT stylesheet may help. Table2xml.xsl is designed to create XML from an HTML table. With a bit of tweakery, it should be possible to identify the [...]
End of a Century (C20 CV)
Posted by: Richard M. Davis on: 30th March, 2004
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This discursive CV was originally published in 1999 in the online newsletter of The National Digital Archive of Datasets. I left school in 1985 and started work at the Metropolitan Police Department of Computer Services in Putney, which benevolent organisation kindly undertook to school me in the use of ICL mainframes and databases. On arrival [...]
“Ask the audience” with Google
Posted by: Richard M. Davis on: 29th March, 2004
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I don’t generally travel with all the reference books I’d need to make a reasonable stab at writing anything complicated in any of the languages I’m vaguely familiar with (French, Italian, Russian). There are lots of online resources, but they can be time consuming to lookup and use. The good news, for anyone who’s already [...]
Usability of GUI/HCI
Posted by: Richard M. Davis on: 3rd February, 2004
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Here are a few useful starting points for taking usability seriously: UsabilityNet: usability resources for practitioners and managers Usability requirements: how to specify, test and report usability Guerrilla HCI Gary Perlman’s Home Page : Welcome Computer System Usability Questionnaire
eBay feedback
Posted by: Richard M. Davis on: 9th January, 2004
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Some great little narratives emerge from feedback left by eBay buyers and sellers. In this example, banwo2k has bought something off bobmas, but has obviously overstepped the limits of the customer-merchant relationship: Praise : Great Transaction. BUT THERE IS NO GOD… Response by banwo2k – YES THERE IS GOD.God is what you want him to [...]
Dustrial inaction
Posted by: Richard M. Davis on: 3rd October, 2003
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Captions are mine; lots more excellent antique office photos at Officemuseum.com.
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