Archive for October, 2002
October 15, 2002
MS Software Subscriptions
I suspect that both individual users and corporations value control over their checkbooks — and ownership of their software — quite a bit and the subscription model will have to be built around substantial incremental value in new software, new access to additional function and support, or other customer seductions to get this idea off the ground.
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October 15, 2002
Content Thing
A new blog that tracks the experience of Adam Gaffin as he implements a CMS. (found via Column Two).
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October 15, 2002
Semantic Islands
From :Column Two: Death of keywords:
To me, this really highlights the challenges (futility?) of the so-called “semantic web”, where everything describes itself, cross-linking happens automatically and accurately, and search engines only return useful results…
If we can’t get even simple keywords tags to work in practice, what hope is there for RDF, and the rest?
My own opinion is that any acitivity or tool that requires consistent, similar, behaviors across the entire Web (such as accurate keywording of web pages) will not happen.
However, that doesn’t mean the keyword metatag is dead. It can still be an effective tool for a collection of content whose authors/owners are willing to invest time and effort into for accurate searching and indexing. The Web might evolve into small, organized, clusters of content that create semantic islands in a chaotic sea.
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October 10, 2002
Zthes in RDF
From a post on the IA-CMS list: Thesaurus::RDF — The RDF Thesaurus descriptor standard for the Zthes thesaurus format.
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October 10, 2002
Classification of Links According to Primary Function
This article by Claire Hudson in FirstMonday proposes 7 different categories of functions performed by hyperlinks within web sites:
- Authorizing
- Commenting
- Enhancing
- Exemplifying
- Mode-Changing
- Referencing/Citing
- Self-Selecting
Further definitions of each category are provided in the article. This view of links could be useful when trying to troubleshoot why certain links are not followed by users. Perhaps you intend it as a mode-changing link but your users tend to identify it as authorizing (and thus ignore it :).
Here is an interesting quote from that same article that applies to the weblogging world:
In other words, no hypertext - whether static or dynamic, explicit or implicit, and strongly or weakly authored - can be divorced from the subjectivity of human choice.
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Hypertexts, then, are a social/cultural phenomenon, based on the ideologies of the particular communities - for example, a corporation, government department, non-profit organization - from which they emerge. These ideologies work to create, enhance, and restrict users’ access to information.
This furthers the theme that collections of links in a weblog, even without explicit editorial comments, do convey the editorial opinions of the weblog author.
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October 8, 2002
Seb’s Exploration of Personal KM in Research
Seb’s Open Research has published Personal knowledge publishing and its uses in research.
In this document, I analyze an emerging form of knowledge sharing that I call personal knowledge publishing. Personal knowledge publishing has its roots in a practice known as “weblogging” that has been rapidly spreading on the World Wide Web over the last three years. It is a new form of communication that many expect will change the way people work and collaborate, especially in areas where knowledge and innovation play an important role.
I’ve scanned the article and it looks like a very detailed and thoughtful piece on what weblogs are and how they can assist in academic research. I’ll definitely be going back for a more thorough read.
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October 8, 2002
XFML Core is Final
XFML Core 1.0 is final. Congrats!
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October 8, 2002
Cloaking Defined
andersja’s blog provides a definition of cloaking:
a server-side hack that allows the webserver to serve different content to search engine spiders and visitors; for example while the visitor sees a whiz-bang flash animation, a search engine may see a plain vanilla HTML chucked full of crosslinks, keywords, meta- and header-tags — just the way they (the search engines) like it.
He points out that this approach is somewhat risky in that you might get yourself kicked out of the search engine if they discover you are trying to game it with content other than what you show to your human readers.
The other thing: how frustrating for a site to have very usable and accessible content but they only make it available to bots!
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October 6, 2002
Rick Klau Starts a Klog Pilot
From tins ::: Rick Klau’s weblog:
We’re kicking off a k-log initiative at my company tomorrow. I’ve identified a dozen people to serve as guinea pigs. IT installs the software tomorrow, and they’ll take a few days to get familiar with the software. Rather than bombard them with any formal training right away, I want them to be comfortable with what’s on the screen - at least that way they’ll figure out what questions they want to ask.
Good luck with the trial! I’m looking forward to reading about how it goes for them.
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October 5, 2002
DTD Example for Scholarly Journals
article.dtd is an XML document type definition for use with scientific and scholarly articles.
I’ve been investigating xml for publishing scholarly journals off-and-on over the past year and this was a recent find. It seems like our organization is getting close to the point where we will be able to begin moving to xml as a long-term storage format for our academic journal content. This will open up worlds of opportunity for us in the re-use and publishing of that content.
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