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April 27, 2007
U Wisc CMS: Xythos
U Wisconsin Expands Content Management to 7 Campuses
...The University of Wisconsin recently expanded its licensing agreement with Xythos, developer of content management software, to include seven campuses...
...According to Xythos, the content management technology was used to create My WebSpace for faculty to manage research projects and share materials for the classroom. Other ways the university used Xythos include:
* Student hosted websites and e-portfolios;
* Processing job applications;
* Coordinating K-12 charter programs; and
* Assisting visually impaired students with accessing information...
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IT Literacy
Report Profiles IT Training at U.S. Universities
"Dublin, Ireland-based research firm Research and Markets has released a new report that tracks how various institutions of higher learning in the United States are trying to improve the computer literacy of their faculty and students."
Some universities' approaches:
1) design a major that is more than IT training, but not hard-core CS
2) integrate IT into every course
3) haave workshops for faculty and students together
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April 26, 2007
CONF: Res and training Perspectives: Canadian Digital Infor Strategy
Workshop on Research and Training Perspectives on the Canadian Digital Information Strategy
http://www.gin-ebsi.umontreal.ca/stra_num/index1.htm
The blog for discussion and postings on these topics is at:
http://blogues.ebsi.umontreal.ca/stra_num/
"The aim of this meeting is to discuss and integrate the academic perspective on digital information and also to present both Canadian and Québec major projects in this field...This workshop will:
■ inform the participants of key priorities that were identified at the national Summit (content, preservation and access to numerical information);
■ identify research initiatives concerning the priorities;
■ identify concerned research groups and create a Canadian research community working on the national priorities;
■ discuss academic and training programs necessary to meet the various needs in the field of digital information.
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April 24, 2007
Book: Computing in Humanities Education
Fully Online Book:
Computing in Humanities Education: A European Perspective
http://helmer.hit.uib.no/AcoHum/book/
Edited by: Koenraad de Smedt, Hazel Gardiner, Espen Ore, Tito Orlandi, Harold Short, Jacques Souillot, William Vaughan
Chapters include:
1. Introduction
2. European studies on formal methods in the humanities
3. European studies on textual scholarship and humanities computing
4. European studies on computational linguistics
5. European studies on computing for non-European languages
6. European studies on computing in history of art, architecture and design
7. Conclusion
Includes background, conclusions and recommendations in each chapter.
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April 18, 2007
LMS: Outsourcing CMS in Iowa
Outsourcing CMS in Iowa
4/18/2007
By Linda L Briggs
The Iowa Community College Online Consortium (ICCOC), made up of seven community colleges, is using an outsourced learning management system to offer its online courses to students across Iowa. The learning management system, eCollege, is specifically designed for managing online learning programs, and helps makes course development and management far easier for colleges within the consortium.
eCollege's learning management system differs from products like Blackboard or WebCT in that it is offered as an outsourced service. That means colleges don't buy and install the product on their own computers; rather, they license use of eCollege from the company, which maintains the application remotely on its own servers. That allows schools to avoid heavy upfront capital costs, as well as the cost of adding technical support staff, since eCollege handles all support issues. The company says eCollege is run from computers in various locations, to ensure fast and continual service, and includes multiple levels of redundancy, backups, and an up to date database infrastructure.
Complete article at:
Outsourcing CMS in Iowa
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April 5, 2007
CFP: Xtreme Markup Language
Extreme Markup Languages®: a friendly, technically challenging, intensive, thought-provoking, argumentative, welcoming, obstreperous conference on markup, managing information, and information structures
THE MARKUP THEORY & PRACTICE CONFERENCE
August 7-10, 2007 Montréal, Canada
http://www.extrememarkup.com/
Extreme is the leading international conference on markup theory and practice. If you have interesting markup applications, difficult markup problems, or intriguing solutions to problems related to the design and use of markup, markup languages, or markup tools; if you want to know what the leading theorists of markup are thinking; if you are the house markup expert and want to spend time with your kind, then you should plan on attending Extreme Markup Languages® 2007.
About the Conference
Extreme is an open marketplace of theories about markup and all the things that they support or that support them: the difficult cases in publishing, linguistics, transformation, searching, indexing, and storage and retrieval. At Extreme, markup enthusiasts gather each year to trade in ideas, not to convince management to buy new stuff. At Extreme we push the edges of markup theory & practice.
* WHEN: August 7-10, 2007
* WHERE: Montréal, Canada
* HOST: IDEAlliance
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Ockham Alerting Service
Ockham Alerting Service
Ockham Alerting Service is a current awareness service based on National Science Foundation Digital Library content. It demonstrates a standards-based method for collecting content, providing access to it, and disseminating it on a regular basis in the form of an alerting service. The method includes:
1. identifying OAI repositories with content of interest
2. using OAI to harvest content and store it in a central pile
3. indexing the content of the central pile
4. providing an SRU interface to the index
5. allowing users to save the SRU URL's as "profiles" (RSS feeds)
6. allowing users to have the profiles executed on a regular basis
7. making the results of searches available as HTML, email, RSS, etc.
8. returning to Step #1
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