Monthly Archives: August 2006

Blackboard, Microsoft and Wikipedia

Posted on August 31, 2006 by Josh

I don’t usually write about elearning environments, but there’s something fishy happening right now in the elearning world. Blackboard was recently awarded a broad patent covering a lot of elearning tech., most of it with prior art. Tim O’Reilly has … Continue reading →

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Distributed Storage and Libraries

Posted on August 21, 2006 by Josh

A recent post on distributed file systems got me thinking about their use in academic environments. Found via Slashdot, the article was about Cleversafe, a distributed file system licensed under the GPL. Libraries would be a perfect environment for distributed … Continue reading →

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Microsoft Office Research Service for Shrew

Posted on August 18, 2006 by Josh

David Walker created a SRU Interface for III servers called Shrew. I first read about it in Ryan Eby’s post SRU Interface for the III XML Server. It didn’t take much to modify my Microsoft Office interface for OAI servers … Continue reading →

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