Archive for November, 2002
November 22, 2002
Open Source CMS Conference
Spotted via drupal.org:
Third Open Source Content Management Conference
Due to the great success of the first and second conference we are organizing another conference at Harvard University, Cambridge/Boston in April 2003. To stay informed please subscribe at our Participants mailing list.
I may try to attend that one next year.
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November 19, 2002
Drupal Taxonomy Support
The Drupal group weblogging software (open source) appears to have excellent taxonomy support. I need to dig into this further and get a demo up and running but it looks very promising.
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November 15, 2002
Weblog MetaData Initiative
Check out The Weblog MetaData Initiative: Next Step: HTML [meta] Experiment. I missed this effort until now for some reason.
I think a standardized metadata model for weblogs will be very useful for indexing klog clusters within companies or among a dispersed community of practice. Not sure how useful it will be for the overall blogging community. We’ll see what happens!
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November 14, 2002
XML on the Hill
Drafting Legislation Using XML at the U.S. House of Representatives
At this point, the House has been using the XML authoring environment for House-only resolutions since January 2001 and began drafting bills in XML in September 2002. The House plans to draft over 95% of introduced bills in XML by January 2003.
Check out xml.house.gov to see what the U.S. legislature has been up to with XML. If you are in DC, there is a presentation next week about their efforts as well.
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November 14, 2002
Article on Scholarly Publishing and Copyright
Below is a link and abstract for an article in First Monday that explores the potential paths for scholarly publishing vis-a-vis the Web and copyright.
Coming from the publishing side, it is hard to imagine not extracting subscription income for access to archives of journal content. However, I can definitely see the value of free access for both the authors and the overall research community. When you throw in tenure calculations it becomes a very complex situation.
Whatever your point of view, the article is definitely worth a read if you are involved in academic publishing.
Copyright Contradictions in Scholarly Publishing
This paper examines contradictions in how copyright works with the publishing of scholarly journals. These contradictions have to do with the protection of the authors’ interest and have become apparent with the rise of open access publishing as an alternative to the traditional commercial model of selling journal subscriptions. Authors may well be better served, as may the public which supports research, by open access journals because of its wider readership and early indications of greater scholarly impact. This paper reviews the specifics of publishers’ contracts with editors and authors, as well as the larger spirit of copyright law in seeking to help scholars to better understand the consequences the choices they make between commercial and open access publishing models for the future of academic knowledge.
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November 13, 2002
Rick Klau’s Klog Pilot Report
Rick Klau has written up a K-Log Pilot Recap.
Bottom line: we learned a lot about how we want to share information internally. Noone in the company had a bad experience with their weblog. Some gravitated to it, while others found themselves more as a “consumer” of information rather than a “producer”. This experience provoked a number of excellent conversations about what kind of information would be valuable inside the company. Sales people started thinking about what they did that might be useful for product management; development started thinking about what marketing was working on that might make them more effective.
Thanks for writing up your experience!
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November 6, 2002
Selected Bibliography on Web Navigation
Found via pixelcharmer: Important Works for Web Navigation. Nice collection of references.
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