Hot on the heels of the “7 Things You Should Know About Zotero” post comes this news.
For those using Zotero 1.5, you can now browse your Zotero library on your iPhone or iPod Touch. (Or from any web browser on a computer or phone.)
Read the full story on Dan Cohen’s Digital Humanities Blog.
The latest in the Educause “7 Things You Should Know About… ” series.
7 Things You Should Know About Zotero
Zotero is a research tool, developed by the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, that provides users with automated access to bibliographic information for online resources. Zotero “senses” bibliographic information contained in a web page and—when the user clicks an icon—gathers that information and places it in the user’s library of sources, where users can manage and search those sources. By automating the tasks of gathering, managing, and citing online references, Zotero facilitates a more efficient research process.
The “7 Things You Should Know About…” series from the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) provides concise information on emerging learning technologies. Each brief focuses on a single technology and describes what it is, where it is going, and why it matters to teaching and learning. Use these briefs for a no-jargon, quick overview of a topic and share them with time-pressed colleagues.
The new issue of the Code4Lib Journal is hot off the… um… journal management system. This issue has some interesting articles including:
I’ve done some similar work with the ISI data, but the method described in this article looks like it would produce some additional, interesting information.
This is unbelievably cool. Google Audio Indexing let you search for text or phrases within a video. It’s part of the YouTube Politicians Channel so you can find incidences of phrases from within political speeches.
See the announcement on the Google Blog.
“This ECAR research bulletin provides a context for the current state of academic libraries and the issues they face in a Web 2.0 world. The literature suggests that library services in higher education will continue to be crucial to the core processes of learning, teaching, and research as long key library structures, processes, services, and staff roles evolve to accommodate the epochal changes occurring in publishing and communications. The bulletin discusses how disintermediation is affecting the academic library in higher education and the toll it is taking on traditional library collections, operations, and librarians themselves.”
You may need to register to get to the report.
Google has started scanning newspapers and is including them in the Google News Archive. This expands on their earlier efforts to index existing digital news archives like the New York Times and Washington Post.
Read more:
Google Blog - Bringing history online, one newspaper at a time
CNet News - Google raising newspaper morgues from the dead
For some time now I’ve been looking for a project to use Simile Exhibit. It has some performance limitations that make it less than ideal for displaying large datasets.
With the recent redesign of the Libraries web pages, and our own redesign of the Foster Business Library home page, I decided it was time to do something about our big long list of business related databases. The design of this page hadn’t really changed much in probably eight or ten years and the addition of so many new databases over the years has made it unwieldy. Simile Exhibit seemed like the perfect tool for the job. It would allow us to create facets or groupings of databses based on type of information or use and having only the single JSON file to edit would make for easier maintenance.
It took a couple days to do everything from copying and pasting the information from the big long list into the JSON file, tagging each database with the facets, and building the page and futzing with the CSS. The result is a much cleaner databases list page that will hopefully much easier for our students to use. You can see the result at:
Artful Blogging … a print magazine about … blogging?
In the immortal words of Tom Hanks in Big, “I don’t get it.”
Delicious launched a complete redesign of their site a couple days ago. There are a lot of new features and better navigation. And, you can now get there using the delicious.com url.
There’s a rundown of all the new features in the What’s New page on delicious, and ReadWriteWeb has a pretty good writeup of the changes.
The latest in the Educause “7 Things You Should Know About …” series.
7 Things You Should Know About Wii
The Wii is a video game system that uses a wireless controller capable of sensing position and motion, allowing users to interact with the game applications through physical movements. The controller has captured the interest of academic researchers and hackers, who have used the technology to create applications such as a collaborative choreography tool and an inexpensive, interactive whiteboard. Wii technology is used as an input device in virtual worlds and as a training tool that allows learners to perform physical tasks in a digital, risk-free environment.
There’s some very cool videos of what on researcher did to turn the Wii-mote into a lowcost interactive whiteboard and a multi-touch finger tracking device. The discussion boards for this project can be found at: http://www.wiimoteproject.com/