Book Review: Making Software - What Really Works, and Why We Believe It |
While acknowledging the genuine usefulness of much of its content, Emma Tonkin provides helpful pointers towards a second edition.
issue68 March 2012 |
aggregation, algorithm, api, data, framework, open source, oreilly, repositories, research, software, ukoln, university of bath |
Book Review: The Accidental Taxonomist |
Emma Tonkin takes a look at a book on the work of the taxonomist and notes both merits and disappointments.
issue65 October 2010 |
cataloguing, content management, controlled vocabularies, ontologies, research, search technology, semantic web, software, tagging, taxonomy, thesaurus, ukoln, university of bath, university of oxford, visualisation, vocabularies, z39.50 |
Towards a Toolkit for Implementing Application Profiles |
Talat Chaudhri, Julian Cheal, Richard Jones, Mahendra Mahey and Emma Tonkin propose a user-driven methodology for the iterative development, testing and implementation of Dublin Core Application Profiles in diverse repository software environments.
issue62 January 2010 |
application profile, archives, blog, cerif, cetis, data, data model, database, dcap, dcmi, digital repositories, domain model, dspace, dublin core, dublin core metadata initiative, e-government, eprints, fedora commons, framework, frbr, geospatial application profile, geospatial data, gis, gnu, higher education, identifier, iemsr, images application profile, information architecture, institutional repository, interoperability, jisc, jisc information environment, lmap, metadata, metadata model, oai, oai-ore, open access, open archives initiative, open source, opendoar, rdf, repositories, research, resource description, ruby, schema, scholarly works application profile, search technology, software, standards, sword protocol, tbmap, ukoln, university of bath, uri, usability, virtual research environment, vocabularies, wikipedia, xml |
eBooks: Tipping or Vanishing Point? |
Emma Tonkin investigates ebooks and takes a look at recent technological and business developments in this area.
issue62 January 2010 |
aac, access control, accessibility, adobe, amazon, american library association, android, apple, blog, bmp, british library, cataloguing, copyright, data, digital library, doc, document format, drm, ebook, epub, file format, flac, flash, gif, google, html, hypertext, infrastructure, international digital publishing forum, ipad, iphone, iso, itunes, jisc, jpeg, jpg, linux, massachusetts institute of technology, microsoft, mis, mobi, mobile, mobile phone, mp3, ogg, open access, operating system, plain text, png, research, rtf, search technology, smartphone, software, standardisation, standards, tiff, ukoln, university of bath, university of chicago, usb, wikipedia, windows, wireless |
Spinning a Semantic Web for Metadata: Developments in the IEMSR |
Emma Tonkin and Alexey Strelnikov reflect on the experience of developing components for the Information Environment Metadata Schema Registry.
issue59 April 2009 |
accessibility, aggregation, ansi, api, application profile, archives, copyright, d-lib magazine, data, data model, data set, database, dcap, dcmi, dissemination, dublin core, dublin core metadata initiative, framework, frbr, graphics, html, ieee, ieee lom, iemsr, ilrt, internet explorer, interoperability, iso, java, jena, jisc, jisc information environment, knowledge base, learning object metadata, learning objects, lom, metadata, metadata model, metadata schema registry, niso, open source, rdf, repositories, research, resource description, schema, search technology, semantic web, software, sparql, standardisation, standards, sword protocol, thesaurus, ukoln, university of bath, url, usability, vocabularies, w3c, web standards, windows, xml |
Book Review: Sketching Tomorrow - The Social Dynamics of Information and Communication Technology |
Emma Tonkin takes a look at an ambitious work on the relationship of modern society to information and communication technologies and observes more sins of omission than commission.
issue59 April 2009 |
data, flash, framework, gnome, ict, mobile, personalisation, research, sms, twitter, ukoln, university of bath |
Book Review: Making Sense With Metadata |
Emma Tonkin takes a look at an impressive new book on the topic of metadata design, implementation and evaluation in theory and practice.
issue58 January 2009 |
application profile, bibliographic data, dcmi, digital library, dublin core, dublin core metadata initiative, infrastructure, interoperability, metadata, namespace, repositories, research, schema, standards, ukoln, university of bath |
Persistent Identifiers: Considering the Options |
Emma Tonkin looks at the current landscape of persistent identifiers, describes several current services, and examines the theoretical background behind their structure and use.
issue56 July 2008 |
ansi, archives, ark, bibliographic data, blog, browser, california digital library, cataloguing, cnri, content management, cool uri, darpa, data, database, digital library, digital object identifier, dissemination, dns, doi, ftp, handle system, identifier, ietf, infrastructure, iso, licence, metadata, multimedia, naan, name mapping authority, namespace, national library, niso, oclc, openurl, persistent identifier, portico, preservation, purl, request for comments, research, rfc, search technology, software, standardisation, standards, ukoln, unicode, university of bath, uri, url, urn, utf-8, video, z39.88 |
Book Review: Computerization Movements and Technology Diffusion |
Emma Tonkin reviews a fascinating introduction to over two decades of research into computerisation movements.
issue55 April 2008 |
content management, framework, information today, infrastructure, interoperability, open source, provenance, repositories, research, semantic web, social software, software, ukoln |
Collaborative and Social Tagging Networks |
Emma Tonkin, Edward M. Corrado, Heather Lea Moulaison, Margaret E. I. Kipp, Andrea Resmini, Heather D. Pfeiffer and Qiping Zhang gather a series of international perspectives on the practice of social tagging of documents within a community context.
issue54 January 2008 |
aggregation, amazon, blog, citeulike, cloud computing, college of new jersey, controlled vocabularies, d-lib magazine, data, data set, digital library, framework, google, hypertext, information architecture, information retrieval, interoperability, iso, knowledge management, long island university, metadata, mobile phone, multimedia, new mexico state university, ontologies, research, rutgers university, search technology, social networks, software, standards, subject heading, tag cloud, tagging, technorati, thesaurus, ukoln, university of cambridge, university of illinois, usability, video, vocabularies, web 2.0, wiki |
ECDL 2007 |
Mahendra Mahey, Emma Tonkin and Robert John Robertson report on the 2007 European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, held in Budapest, Hungary, over 16-22 September, 2007.
issue53 October 2007 |
accessibility, aggregation, cetis, controlled vocabularies, data, database, dcc, dcmi, digital curation, digital library, digital preservation, digital repositories, dspace, ebook, framework, identifier, information retrieval, infrastructure, interoperability, iso, jisc, jisc information environment, library management systems, linux, medical subject headings, metadata, multimedia, ocr, ontologies, operating system, preservation, repositories, research, search technology, software, tagging, thesaurus, ukoln, university of bath, university of glasgow, university of liverpool, university of strathclyde, university of wales, vocabularies, web 2.0, windows, wireless, xml |
Book Review: Mastering Regular Expressions, 3rd Edition |
Emma Tonkin and Greg Tourte take a look at the new edition of an O'Reilly classic.
issue53 October 2007 |
archives, ascii, csv, data, database, digital library, eprints, google, html, interoperability, java, metadata, oreilly, perl, php, programming language, search technology, software, text mining, ukoln, university of bristol, url |
Video Streaming of Events |
Greg Tourte and Emma Tonkin describe the set-up and use of video streaming technology at the IWMW 2006 event.
issue49 October 2006 |
algorithm, apache software foundation, apple, asf, avi, bbc, cache, codec, data, dvd, file format, flash, flash video, gpl, graphics, h.263, h.264, ieee, infrastructure, interoperability, iwmw, licence, linux, mac os, microsoft, mp3, mpeg, mpeg-1, mpeg-2, mpeg-4, multimedia, ogg, ogg theora, preservation, quicktime, research, software, standards, streaming, theora, ukoln, university of bath, usability, video, video codec, video encoding, web development, wikipedia, windows, windows media, wireless, wmv |
Book Review: Ambient Findability |
Emma Tonkin reviews a book with interesting content despite a few rough edges.
issue49 October 2006 |
bibliographic data, blog, framework, georgia institute of technology, git, harvard university, identifier, interoperability, lemur, metadata, microsoft, mobile, oreilly, python, research, rfid, search technology, semantic web, university of bath, video, wikipedia, wireless |
Folksonomies: The Fall and Rise of Plain-text Tagging |
Emma Tonkin suggests that rising new ideas are often on their second circuit - and none the worse for that.
issue47 April 2006 |
access control, algorithm, amazon, amazon web services, apple, archives, ascii, blog, browser, controlled vocabularies, copyright, d-lib magazine, data, data set, database, digital repositories, document management, doi, dublin core, eprints, exif, google, institutional repository, interoperability, jisc, linux, massachusetts institute of technology, metadata, microformats, mobile, mp3, operating system, provenance, rdf, repositories, research, resource discovery, search technology, semantic web, semiotic, simple dublin core, software, standardisation, standards, tagging, ukoln, uri, usability, vocabularies, web 2.0, web services, windows, xhtml |
Making the Case for a Wiki |
Emma Tonkin examines wikis and considers the feasibility of their deployment - and the danger of the 'tumbleweed' syndrome.
issue42 January 2005 |
access control, archives, authentication, blog, content management, data, database, html, hypertext, interoperability, intranet, knowledge base, perl, php, python, repositories, research, rss, ruby, search technology, soap, software, syndication, ukoln, university of oxford, web development, wiki, wikipedia, xml |
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