This was a workshop recently given at EDUCAUSE 04 Conference. There are some interesting ideas here that I'm interested in looking at to server the Internet2 community with.
Customized collections of learning objects from multiple repositories are achieved with simple, existing RSS protocols, creating access to a wider range of objects than a single source. This provides discipline-specific windows into collections, contextual wrappers via blogging tools, and a system for connecting objects and implementations via Trackback.
XFN(tm) (XHTML Friends Network) is a simple way to represent human relationships using hyperlinks. In recent years, blogs and blogrolls have become the fastest growing area of the Web. XFN enables web authors to indicate their relationship(s) to the people in their blogrolls simply by adding a 'rel' attribute to their tags..
A comparison of hyperstructures
This page has a link to the full text of the paper submitted to the ACM and presented this year by M.J. McGuffin and M.C. Schraefel.
Hypermedia applications tend to use simple representations for navigation: most commonly, nodes are organized within an unconstrained graph, and users are presented with embedded links or lists of links. Recently, new data structures have emerged which may serve as alternative models for both the organization, and presentation, of hypertextual nodes and links. In this paper, we consider zzstructures, mSpaces, and polyarchies from the perspective of graph theory, and compare these models formally. The novel aspects of this work include: providing a sound, graph-theoretic analysis of zzstructures; the identification of a new class of polyarchies associated with mSpaces; and the comparison and classification of these and other structures within a taxonomy. The taxonomy that results from our comparison allows us to consider, first; what the distinct characteristics of each model are at a fundamental level, and second; what model or attributes of a model may be most appropriate for the design goals of a given hypermedia application.
A Graph-Theoretic Introduction to Ted Nelson's Zzstructures, by McGuffin
Zzstructure is the generic name for Ted Nelson's ZigZag(tm) [13,6,23,10], an unusual way of linking and organizing information. Zzstructures are one aspect of Nelson's vision of what hypertext should be (see, for example, Xanadu [11,12,5]). Many uses for zzstructures have been proposed, from organizing personal schedules [14], to visualizing genealogical family "trees" [26], to "cell programming" [22] (an example of a cellular programming language is Clang [25]).
You've Got Hypertext: schraefel et al.: JoDI
The paper considers possible "future everyday hypertext systems". To ground the discussion, we look first at the functional and conceptual definitions of hypertext that have evolved in the hypertext research community. We then consider these definitions against the Web, the best known current everyday hypertext, but one that the hypertext community has regarded as only partially a hypertext system at best. We propose, however, that a full, rich hypertext is alive and well and living in an equally successful everyday system: that system is email. We look at how email meets the criteria, both functionally and conceptually, for rich hypertext. We then use email-as-hypertext as our touchstone for assessing future hypertext systems. In particular, we consider the newest system on the Web event horizon, the Semantic Web, and show how the potential hypertextness of the Semantic Web has been anticipated by pre- and co-Web hypertext research systems. We consider how, if informed by the attributes of our email model, the Semantic Web may be able to break away from the limited hypertext model of the Web to become a rich, everyday hypertext system like email. We present three current hypertext research efforts that use the Semantic Web platform to show how these may be seen to embody such email-like hypertext qualities.
Unified Hyperstructures for Bioinformatics: Moore and Brailsford: JoDI
The Next Big Thing in hypertext will be unifying different applications in bioinformatics through the ZigZag paradigm, allowing this field to live up to its promise of revolutionising the pharmaceutical industry. The paper outlines ZigZag, Ted Nelson's unique hyperstructural paradigm, and illustrates how, by examining a current bioinformatics task such as structure/binding prediction, the application of this novel paradigm has the potential to revolutionise bioinformatics completely by allowing a unified approach to a task currently fulfilled by fragmented data and applications.
Rover Owners Association of Virginia
Every Fall the ROAV sponsors a rally -- a gathering of Land Rovers. Here are couple links to share fotos from the event.
My index page of images from this year's event.
Here's the ROAV page with links to a couple different sets of images.
-- Got Mud!
OpenSIMS - The Open Source Security Infrastructure Management System
OpenSIMS provides a way for tying together the open source tools used for security management into a common infrastructure. It leads toward the development of new SIMS technologies that allow different networks using risk metrics to collaborate on attacker profiling and remediation.
Webnote - an online tool for taking notes
Yet another collaborative two-way-web tool. This is one where you make post it notes. Like a wiki it permits other users to make notes in your space too, if you tell them where it is. And as with wikis there is version control so earlier states can be restored.
Check out my sandbox
Webnote is a tool for taking notes on your computer. It allows you to quickly write something down during a meeting, class, or any other time that you have a web browser available.
From the folks, or at least the department, that brought us Pad++. As we work with smaller screens on phones and PDA's ZUI's are gonna be more important.
Piccolo is a toolkit that supports the development of 2D structured graphics programs, in general, and Zoomable User Interfaces (ZUIs), in particular. A ZUI is a new kind of interface that presents a huge canvas of information on a traditional computer display by letting the user smoothly zoom in, to get more detailed information, and zoom out for an overview. We use a "scene-graph" model that is common to 3D environments. Basically, this means that Piccolo maintains a hierarchal structure of objects and cameras, allowing the application developer to orient, group and manipulate objects in meaningful ways.
Ubuntu Linux - Welcome to Ubuntu Linux
I've read in one online community that Ubuntu could be a Windows killer. Not too sure about that, but the fact that they'll mail you for free installation CD's might help a lot. Oh, the installation disks are for 3 CPU bases. I ordered Intel and Power PC. I have a couple of people and CPU's in mind.
Ubuntu is a complete desktop Linux operating system, freely available with both community and professional support. The Ubuntu community is built on the ideas enshrined in the Ubuntu Manifesto: that software should be available free of charge, that software tools should be usable by people in their local language and despite any disabilities, and that people should have the freedom to customize and alter their software in whatever way they see fit. These freedoms make Ubuntu fundamentally different from traditional proprietary software: not only are the tools you need available free of charge, you have the right to modify your software until it works the way you want it to.
Massive Change - What Is Massive Change?
Here's an important activity. I think Victor Papanek would approve.
Design has emerged as one of the world's most powerful forces. It has placed us at the beginning of a new, unprecedented period of human possibility, where all economies and ecologies are becoming global, relational, and interconnected.
In order to understand these emerging forces, there is an urgent need to articulate precisely what we are doing to ourselves and to our world. This is the ambition of Massive Change.
Procedures and Treatments Used for Book Repair and Pamphlet Binding
Found this site referenced from another and took a quick spin. Create place to go find out how to repair damaged books and pamphlets. We have a lot of books and such sitting around the house. Now I know where to go find good suggestions on the particular problems.
Google SMS (Short Message Service) enables you to easily get precise answers to specialized queries from your mobile phone or device. Send your query as a text message and get phone book listings, dictionary definitions, product prices and more. Just text. No links. No web pages. Simply the answers you're looking to find.
What was that quote - "They're everywhere! They're everywhere!"