Digital Preservation Coalition – JISC, the DPC and the UK Web Archiving Consortium Workshop – missing links: the enduring web is a free one-day workshop at the British Library on July 21st.
Internet of Things — An action plan for Europe is an EU document describing the EU’s response to “The Internet of Things” (IoT), as technologies such as RFID, Near Field Communication (NFC), and wireless sensor/actuators now allow objects to be tagged and linked to information. The EC is financing “research projects in the area of IoT, putting an emphasis on important technological aspects such as microelectronics, non-silicon based components, energy harvesting technologies, ubiquitous positioning, networks of wirelessly communicating smart systems, semantics, privacy- and security-by-design, software emulating human reasoning and on novel applications.” As well as obvious information management issues, there... Read more »
I’ve given the conference a whole page as there were so many fascinating presentations. The conference website has all the proceedings: papers, abstracts, slides, etc., so my write-up is just some of my personal observations. There were two tracks, so I didn’t hear every presentation. I would like to thank everyone who looked at my poster and for all your support and kind comments.
Science Daily: “Carl Linnaeus is most famous as the father of modern taxonomy. What’s not so well known is that in his effort to manage vast amounts of data, he came up with a revolutionary invention: the index card.” via boingboing.
Journalism.co.uk :: Do publications need style guides for data? That would be nice – can we tidy them all up and semantic webify everything while we’re at it?
Content Strategy – a knol by Jeffrey MacIntyre – it sounds like I’ve been being a content strategist without realising it too!
Understanding Computers and Cognition: A New Foundation for Design is another classic I should almost certainly have read ages ago. It gives very straigthforward explanations of why language and cognition are complex social processes and how this presents huge challenges for designers and for the whole field of AI. I also enjoyed the wonderful predictions that by 1988 we would have “thinking computers” and advertisements from 1982 offering “programs that understand you so that you don’t have to understand them”. Technology progresses, hype remains a constant! It is also interesting that “not having to understand” was promoted, rather than “being... Read more »
Is Google Wave a Twitter Killer? heralds the new kid soon to be on the block. Facebook seem to fall into the “so over” category a while back, and now Twitter has hit the mainstream, clearly it is next to go. Google Wave: Five Things You Must Know says a bit more about what Wave will do. The combination of easy transfer of time-invested work – such as carefully written documents – with instant communication should appeal to businesses but will present some records management challenges, I’m sure. I can’t decide whether we need social media coalescence – just give... Read more »
Do tags work? is a detailed informal study of tagging on flickr, via Taxonomy Watch: Tags – Not so Useful.
I liked the way this Pasta&Vinegar post highlighted the different information sources used to generate different measures of technology adoption. It also reminded me of Dave Snowden‘s emphasis on the importance of detecting weak signals. At the “prophecy/fantasy” stage the important signals will inevitably be weak, and surrounded by a lot of noise. Spotting trends once they have happened is one thing, but the prediction game is quite different.