Posts Tagged ‘web’
CLASM: Mashing up Moodle and repositories
Posted by: Richard M. Davis on: 17th March, 2009
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We were pleased to learn today that the JISC has agreed to fund our proposal to the Rapid Innovations strand of the recent call, for a project called CLASM: Copyright Licensing Application with SWORD for Moodle! This will be a six-month project with a double-edged purpose: to develop a SWORD plugin for Moodle, so that [...]
Hot off the preservation press: JISC-PoWR and the Beagrie Survey
Posted by: Richard M. Davis on: 21st November, 2008
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We were pleased to have finally made available version 1.0 of the JISC PoWR Handbook. The Handbook is the result of our extensive work with UKOLN on the JISC Preservation of Web Resources project, which included three hugely valuable workshops, and extensive discussion on the PoWR blog. In the Handbook we’ve tried to cover a [...]
Digital preservation in a nutshell (Part I)
Posted by: Richard M. Davis on: 23rd May, 2008
One of the goals of PoWR is to make current trends in digital preservation meaningful and relevant to information professionals with the day-to-day responsibility for looking after web resources. Anyone coming for the first time to the field of digital preservation can find it a daunting area, with very distinct terminology and concepts. Some of [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
“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
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