http://www.madcreek.com/nsdl/ en-us Copyright 2012 Sat, 02 Jul 2005 10:21:18 -0500 Mon, 21 May 2012 12:56:21 -0500 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.16 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Google's War on Hierarchy, and the Death of Hierarchical Folders - - Microcontent News, a Corante.com Microblog Google's War on Hierarchy, and the Death of Hierarchical Folders by John Hiler Hierarchical Folders have dominated info organization since they first appeared over 40 years ago. But in industry after industry, a strange thing is happening: hierarchy is under severe attack, and even dying out. Just take a look at some of the most successful info-based businesses of all time: * Yahoo's Web Directory * Microsoft Outlook's email folders * Microsoft Window's file system All three businesses have achieved enormous success using... http://www.madcreek.com/nsdl/archives/2005/07/the_death_of_hi.html http://www.madcreek.com/nsdl/archives/2005/07/the_death_of_hi.html Search Sat, 02 Jul 2005 10:21:18 -0500 TagCloud - Home TagCloud is an automated Folksonomy tool. Essentially, TagCloud searches any number of RSS feeds you specify, extracts keywords from the content and lists them according to prevalence within the RSS feeds. Clicking on the tag’s link will display a list of all the article abstracts associated with that keyword. The technology behind TagCloud.com was created just for fun by IonZoft developer John Herren, and word quickly spread through the blogosphere. After numerous requests for his source code, we decided to produce this service based on John's original idea.... http://www.madcreek.com/nsdl/archives/2005/07/what_is_tagclou.html http://www.madcreek.com/nsdl/archives/2005/07/what_is_tagclou.html Metadata Sat, 02 Jul 2005 10:17:08 -0500 Joel on Software - Don't Let Architecture Astronauts Scare You "...one sure tip-off to the fact that you're being assaulted by an Architecture Astronaut: the incredible amount of bombast; the heroic, utopian grandiloquence; the boastfulness; the complete lack of reality. And people buy it! ...Remember that the architecture people are solving problems that they think they can solve, not problems which are useful to solve... "... http://www.madcreek.com/nsdl/archives/2005/06/joel_on_softwar.html http://www.madcreek.com/nsdl/archives/2005/06/joel_on_softwar.html Sat, 18 Jun 2005 09:11:21 -0500 Creating e-Portfolios using Atom and FOAF "There has been a lot of interest recently in e-Portfolios, and in particular the relationship with feeds and blogs. Having been involved in a lot of work recently in the area of standards for e-portfolios, I think we're quite close to achieving some very simple de-facto solutions. In this post I'll describe a very basic approach using Atom and FOAF..."... http://www.madcreek.com/nsdl/archives/2005/06/creating_e-port.html http://www.madcreek.com/nsdl/archives/2005/06/creating_e-port.html Tue, 14 Jun 2005 09:08:05 -0500 CETIS-It's a LOM binding, Jim, but not as we know it "...In most community's metadata practice, you'd make an application profile to determine which elements to use and define community specific vocabularies. All the grubby business of constructing the records in interoperable ways could be taken care of by using all the documents from the IMS specification. That gave the datamodel, binding instructions and a schema to validate records against. The latter was crucial, because that's what most developers used to build tools with and check them. Now, the IMS Meta-Data spec continues to provide best practice, and the two... http://www.madcreek.com/nsdl/archives/2005/06/cetis-its_a_lom.html http://www.madcreek.com/nsdl/archives/2005/06/cetis-its_a_lom.html Tue, 14 Jun 2005 09:01:59 -0500 http://www.madcreek.com/nsdl/archives/2005/06/google_sitemaps.html http://www.madcreek.com/nsdl/archives/2005/06/google_sitemaps.html iVia-Infomine Sat, 04 Jun 2005 07:04:55 -0500 Wikipedia:WikiProject Librarians - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia "We librarians flatter ourselves that we know a thing or two about organizing information. It's time we stepped up and contributed to Wikipedia: not just to its content but to its structures and technologies. This project page is intended to provide a rallying point for these activities."... http://www.madcreek.com/nsdl/archives/2005/06/wikipediawikipr.html http://www.madcreek.com/nsdl/archives/2005/06/wikipediawikipr.html Fri, 03 Jun 2005 10:37:10 -0500 Delicious Library "Get your Mac, a webcam, and Delicious Library and rediscover your home library. Just point any FireWire digital video camera, like an Apple iSight ™, at the barcode on the back of any book, movie, music, or video game. Delicious Library does the rest. The barcode is scanned and within seconds the item's cover appears on your digital shelves filled with tons of in-depth information downloaded from one of six different web sources from around the world. Once your whole library is cataloged, you can find and use your items like never before. Browse, sort, and search through... http://www.madcreek.com/nsdl/archives/2005/05/delicious_libra.html http://www.madcreek.com/nsdl/archives/2005/05/delicious_libra.html Tue, 31 May 2005 14:28:40 -0500 http://www.madcreek.com/nsdl/archives/2005/05/pintlock_a_lock.html http://www.madcreek.com/nsdl/archives/2005/05/pintlock_a_lock.html Tue, 31 May 2005 10:17:29 -0500 http://www.madcreek.com/nsdl/archives/2005/05/sajax_simple_aj.html http://www.madcreek.com/nsdl/archives/2005/05/sajax_simple_aj.html Wed, 25 May 2005 17:05:21 -0500 http://www.madcreek.com/nsdl/archives/2005/05/simile_piggy_ba.html http://www.madcreek.com/nsdl/archives/2005/05/simile_piggy_ba.html Tue, 24 May 2005 22:50:57 -0500 Powerpoint slides on ePortfolios Interesting discussion of e-portfolios and how they might be assembled by aggregating parts from different institutional repositories. Scott has talked about this before, but this presentation brings a lot of his ideas together. Remember this?... http://www.madcreek.com/nsdl/archives/2005/05/scott_wilson_on.html http://www.madcreek.com/nsdl/archives/2005/05/scott_wilson_on.html Mon, 23 May 2005 14:27:07 -0500 Working Drafts: Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) 2005-05-10: The Semantic Web Best Practices and Deployment Working Group released three First Public Working Drafts: SKOS Core Guide, SKOS Core Vocabulary Specification, and a Quick Guide to Publishing a Thesaurus on the Semantic Web. The drafts explain how to express classification schemes, thesauruses, subject heading lists, taxonomies, terminologies, glossaries and other types of controlled vocabulary in RDF. Previous SKOS work was supported by the European project SWAD-Europe.... http://www.madcreek.com/nsdl/archives/2005/05/w3c_working_dra.html http://www.madcreek.com/nsdl/archives/2005/05/w3c_working_dra.html Thu, 19 May 2005 05:28:45 -0500 http://www.madcreek.com/nsdl/archives/2005/05/more_outfoxed.html http://www.madcreek.com/nsdl/archives/2005/05/more_outfoxed.html Search Tue, 17 May 2005 10:37:56 -0500 http://www.madcreek.com/nsdl/archives/2005/05/trusted_metadat.html http://www.madcreek.com/nsdl/archives/2005/05/trusted_metadat.html Mon, 16 May 2005 19:18:51 -0500