http://sunsite.utk.edu/ Better Living Through Emerging Technologies en-us hodge@sunsite.utk.edu 2005-01-13T13:20:03-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://sunsite.utk.edu/archives/2005/01/000165-distributed_classification.html Ulises Ali Mejias has just published a paper on distributed classification, also known as free tagging, open tagging, ethnoclassification, folksonomy, and faceted hierarchy, and associated with such services as flickr, del.icio.us and furl. Mejias' main focus is on how users... 165@http://sunsite.utk.edu/ Interaction & Collaboration 2005-01-13T13:20:03-05:00 http://sunsite.utk.edu/archives/2005/01/000160-the_importance_of_being_permanent.html      Without permanence you slip off the search engines. Without permanence, bold ideas like 'news as conversation' fall away, because you're shutting down the conversation before it has barely started. Without permanence, you might be on the web, but you're certainly... 160@http://sunsite.utk.edu/ Information Studies 2005-01-10T14:58:04-05:00 http://sunsite.utk.edu/archives/2004/11/000156-is_it_time_for_a_moratorium_on_metadata.html Ramesh Jain has some interesting comments regarding an article published by Dick Bulterman in the Oct-Dec 04 issue of IEEE Multimedia. Bulterman's agenda: Issue a joint proclamation that the DCMI, MPEG-7 and Semantic Web initiatives are all Official Successes and... 156@http://sunsite.utk.edu/ Information Studies 2004-11-08T12:02:17-05:00 http://sunsite.utk.edu/archives/2004/10/000152-are_data_and_metadata_interchangeable.html David Weinberger writes: "So, in the Third Age of Order, all data is metadata. Contents are labels. Data is all surface and no insides. It's all handles and no suitcase. It's a folder whose content is just another label. It's... 152@http://sunsite.utk.edu/ Information Studies 2004-10-25T11:30:17-05:00 http://sunsite.utk.edu/archives/2004/10/000149-intellectual_property_rights_ipr_in_networked_elearning.html Copied from elearnspace: Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) in Networked E-Learning: "This guide aims to provide a user-friendly introduction to IPR issues for e-learning content developers and managers. It is intended to act as a point of entry to the field... 149@http://sunsite.utk.edu/ Information Studies 2004-10-05T12:05:40-05:00 http://sunsite.utk.edu/archives/2004/09/000146-emerging_face_of_information_search.html New from K-Praxis: Emerging Face of Information Search: Initial focus on two key issues: (1) How well does a search engine understand the users’ intention? and (2) What are the challenges and questions that arise while interpreting the users’ intent?... 146@http://sunsite.utk.edu/ Information Studies 2004-09-29T13:32:31-05:00 http://sunsite.utk.edu/archives/2004/09/000139-refining_the_search_engine.html An interview wth Ramesh Jain from Georgia Tech. "Current search engines like Google do not give me a 'steering wheel' for searching the Internet.....The search engines get faster and faster, but they're not giving me any control mechanism. The only... 139@http://sunsite.utk.edu/ Information Studies 2004-09-24T11:49:28-05:00 http://sunsite.utk.edu/archives/2004/08/000134-congressional_budget_office_report_copyright_issues_in_digital_media.html The Congressional Budget Office has just released a report, Copyright Issues in Digital Media. According to the report's summary, Congress has three options with regard to the current situation regarding copyright: Congress would do nothing and allow market forces to... 134@http://sunsite.utk.edu/ Information Studies 2004-08-24T12:24:29-05:00 http://sunsite.utk.edu/archives/2004/08/000129-four_reasons_to_be_happy_about_internet_plagiarism.html Just got around to this year-old article, Four Reasons to be Happy about Internet Plagiarism. They are: The institutional rhetorical writing environment (the "research paper," the "literary essay," the "term paper") is challenged by this, and that's a good thing.... 129@http://sunsite.utk.edu/ Information Studies 2004-08-02T13:16:49-05:00 http://sunsite.utk.edu/archives/2004/08/000128-lessig_video.html A video of Lawrence's Lessig's presentation, The Future of Copyright, Culture and Creativity, delivered on 21 May 2004 in Helsinki.... 128@http://sunsite.utk.edu/ Information Studies 2004-08-02T13:09:39-05:00 http://sunsite.utk.edu/archives/2004/07/000114-integrating_metadata_with_the_desktop.html There is an interesting article over at the The Useful Information Company describing ways in which the integration of metadata with the desktop may be an inevitable and useful direction. The author argues that as the amount of information stored... 114@http://sunsite.utk.edu/ Information Studies 2004-07-04T18:20:03-05:00 http://sunsite.utk.edu/archives/2004/07/000113-interamerican_workshop_on_access_to_environmental_data.html A summary of an Inter-American workshop on access to environmental data, just released, provides a good survey of regional and global initiatives and scientific, technical, policy and institutional issues. "Scientists in many Latin American countries already have significant capabilities and... 113@http://sunsite.utk.edu/ GIS & Geotemporal Research 2004-07-02T11:40:07-05:00 http://sunsite.utk.edu/archives/2004/06/000112-new_institutional_repository_software_digital_commons_.html From ProQuest.... 112@http://sunsite.utk.edu/ Information Studies 2004-06-29T14:49:33-05:00 http://sunsite.utk.edu/archives/2004/06/000111-federal_depository_library_program_broken.html "The Federal Depository Library Program has fallen behind in cataloging and preserving access to government documents published only on the Web. As a result, public access to those publications is spotty at best." [More]... 111@http://sunsite.utk.edu/ Information Studies 2004-06-29T12:30:07-05:00 http://sunsite.utk.edu/archives/2004/06/000110-interview_with_tim_brody_on_digitometrics.html Sara Kjellberg interviews Tim Brody on Digitometrics, which combines the results from citation analysis with web logs to rate individual articles. Brody is the creator of Citebase Search, which enhances OAI-harvested metadata with linked references harvested from the full-text [in... 110@http://sunsite.utk.edu/ Information Studies 2004-06-29T10:59:27-05:00