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November 29, 2004
UVM Libraries: literature and technology subject heading
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Book: Writing Machines
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November 22, 2004
T.R. Young's Syllabus
T.r. Young's wonderful syllabus for Sociology. Wonderful ideas for how to structure assignments and grading.
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November 20, 2004
UWash, collections page (& cartes de visite)
::: List of Collections with Descriptions :::
The digital collections at the U of Washington Libraries include several hundred carte de visite of American mid-19th actors as well as fashion plates from the entire century.
The entrance page is also a good model for how we might want to approach a similar page from UVMDC.
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November 19, 2004
Linen in NYC
Someone from h-costume recommends:
linen, many weights/colors:
The name of the store is Ebad Fabrics. They're in New York City, at 550 8th
Avenue. The phone number is 212-869-7826. It was still there in August,2004.
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November 18, 2004
Google Scholar
http://scholar.google.com
Google introduces a new service for academics. Weighted towards sciences now, but more to follow. Search on books and papers, including citations. What will this do to the acadmic world, I wonder?
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November 17, 2004
Book: O'Reilly, Real World Web Services
Here's an interesting O'Reilly book:
Real World Web Services
Will Iverson
Publisher: O'Reilly
ISBN: 0-596-00642-X, 222 pages, $29.95 US, $43.95 CA
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/realwws/
"The core idea behind "Real World Web Services" is simple: after years of
hype, what are the major players really doing with web services? Standard
bodies may wrangle and platform vendors may preach, but at the end of the
day what are the technologies that are actually in use, and how can
developers incorporate them into their own applications? Those are the
answers this book delivers."
"The heart of the book is a series of projects, demonstrating the use and
integration of Google, Amazon, eBay, PayPal, FedEx, and many more web
services. Some of these vendors have been extremely successful with their
web service deployments. For example, eBay processes over a billion web
service requests a month."
"Iverson focuses on building 8 fully worked-out example web applications
that incorporate the best web services available today. The book
thoroughly documents how to add functionality like automating listings for
auctions, dynamically calculating shipping fees, automatically sending
faxes to your suppliers, using an aggregator to pull data from multiple
news and web service feeds into a single format or monitoring the latest
weblog discussions and Google searches to keep web site visitors on top of
topics of interest by integrating APIs from popular web sites."
"Real World Web Services" doesn't engage in an intellectual debate as to
the correctness of web services on a theological level. Instead, it
focuses on the practical, real world usage of web services as the latest
evolution in distributed computing, allowing for structured communication
via internet protocols. As you'll see, this includes everything from
sending HTTP GET commands to retrieving an XML document through the use of
SOAP and various vendor SDKs."
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eWalk stepbystep movie
So sometimes you just have to have fun:
http://www.uvm.edu/~hag/movies/stepbystep/
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November 15, 2004
Echo online history tool center
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 18, No. 358.
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 06:59:11 +0000
From: John Unsworth
Subject: developer's wiki
From Roy Rosenzweig:
http://echo.gmu.edu/toolcenter-wiki/
ECHO TOOLS CENTER: The number of historians interested in using digital tools to facilitate their work has been rapidly expanding, as has the
number of researchers developing online tools for the humanities. In order to facilitate contact between these two groups, Echo would like to announce the beta launch of its new Tools Center, an experimental, comprehensive resource for scholars interested in the nuts and bolts of online history.
Just as Echo's Research Center offers a guide to thousands of history websites, the Tools Center is envisioned as a central directory of the myriad pieces of software and other tools available to contemporary historians. Built using the same open-source software that powers sites like Wikipedia, the Tools Center is a specifically collaborative resource, enabling developers to post descriptions of their products, and users to
apply their own expertise to build and expand its entries.
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November 11, 2004
Page Turner App
The most beautiful page turner app I've seen. I only wish it were less expensive to implement!
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Endnote installs
Here's what I did on the CTL laptops:
- installed Endnote 8 on all Dells that would boot.
- installed the 8.0.1 update on all that had SP2 (about a third of them, which means we have some general updating to do)
- copied the UVM Library Endnote connection file (U of Vermont.enz) into the Connections folder in each Endnote install
BTW, thanks to Malachi we learn that the U of Vermont.enz file provided by the library (http://library.uvm.edu/guides/tips/endnote.html) will work on a Mac as long as you delete the .enz extension.
Want to try EndNote? Software available at http://www.uvm.edu/software, guides/tips at www.endnote.com in Support/Services area.
Also, there's a link there to many resources for EndNote created by other libraries.
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November 10, 2004
Digichromatography: Restoring Prokudin-Gorskii's Photographs
Digichromatography: Restoring Prokudin-Gorskii's Photographs: 100 year old Color Photographs
According to the site:
"Born in St. Petersburg and educated as a chemist, Prokudin-Gorskii devoted his career to the advancement of photography. In the early 1900s, he developed an ingenious technique of taking colour photographs. The same object was captured in black and white on glass plate negatives, using red, green and blue filters. He then presented these images in colour in slide lectures using a light-projection system involving the same three filters."
These beautiful images have a strange effect: we are so used to seeing old B&W photos that we envision the world they depict in those sepia or grey tones. To see the same age in vibrant color makes it, in some ways, less realistic--my reaction is that this must be a modern reproduction/reenactment. But then when you really look at the images and look for the details--amazing. Even the digital reproductions found at this site are wonderful.
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