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SIMILE seeks to enhance inter-operability among digital assets, schemata/vocabularies/ontologies, metadata, and services. A key challenge is that the collections which must inter-operate are often distributed across individual, community, and institutional stores. We seek to be able to provide end-user services by drawing upon the assets, schemata/vocabularies/ontologies, and metadata held in such stores.
SIMILE will leverage and extend DSpace, enhancing its support for arbitrary schemata and metadata, primarily though the application of RDF and semantic web techniques. The project also aims to implement a digital asset dissemination architecture based upon web standards. The dissemination architecture will provide a mechanism to add useful "views" to a particular digital artifact (i.e. asset, schema, or metadata instance), and bind those views to consuming services.
To guide the SIMILE effort we will focus on well-defined, real-world use cases in the libraries domain. Since parallel work is underway to deploy DSpace at a number of leading research libraries, we hope that such an approach will lead to a powerful deployment channel through which the utility and readiness of semantic web tools and techniques can be compellingly demonstrated in a visible and global community.
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Virtual Ph.D.
Your Virtual Ph.D. - Popular Science
Want to master a new computer language? Brush up on your calculus? Learn how to fix your car? No sweat. With the vast array of college courses and podcasts available online, the apple of knowledge is ripe for the clicking. Here, we've narrowed the options to our favorites—the best of the geeky best, from free podcasts and lectures to accredited distance-learning programs from major universities.
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'Top Ten New Jobs Created by Connectivity' List
This list is really a mashup of the work done by others - see shoutouts (references) below:
- 1. Gold Farmer
- 2. New Media Producer
- 3. Professional Reviewers
- 4. Video Syndication, RSS, Photo, VoIP, Consultants
- 5. Clothing Label Crafter
- 6. Senior Interface Hacker
- 7. Micro Investor
- 8. Community Curator
- 9. Ruby on Rails Developer
- 10. PHP Ninja
shoutouts (references)
webworkerdaily.com
technologyevangelist.com
fastcompany.com
oreillynet.com
..And where can you get started training for one of these positions?
more later
What about finding a position?
more later
Interesting Snippets - a photoset on Flickr
Interesting Snippets - a photoset on Flickr This is a fantastic set of images related to the state of the web, communications, and new media. Each image is accompanied by a thought provoking quote. I thought this would be perfect for an anticipatory set for a new media presentation, or an introductory visual for a shared discussion on topics related to new media or web 2.0. Enjoy!
