R.E. Lee Log

26 Feb 2002
Grid Computing
I'm forever running across things that look like they might be portentious, and looking for places to put them so I'll be able to locate them again later. Today's catch is Grid Will Hunting (Steve Gillmor) InfoWorld 25 Feb

Plugging into the Global Grid (August 2001)

A Future When Grid Computing, Web Services Are One By Paul Shread

IEEE Distributed Systems Online

www.globus.org and papers

6 March
galdosinc.com is one of the players in GML, and underlines the XML connection we need to be thinking about.

24 June
Some of the things I've been doing should have been entered here... so that they don't escape entirely, I'll note them and hope to be more systematic about riding herd on developments:

It's probably important to make a link to the Digilib log file too, since some of the recent materials are cached there (at the bottom)

26 June
Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting is a standard we should keep in mind.

This initiative... aims to transform scholarly communication by taking full advantage of thoroughly networked communication systems... scholars can themselves disseminate information and results quickly on a wide scale, avoid giving up the rights to their work, and bypass the rigidity of peer review and expensive journal costs...
(Pottenger et al. 2001:93)

Maly et al. Smart Objects, Dumb Archives: A User-Centric, Layered Digital Library Framework. D-Lib Magazine March 1999 (see also Metadata and Buckets in the Smart Object, Dumb Archive (SODA) Model (IEEE Metadata Conference)

27 June
Access Control for Collaborative Environments (HongHai Shen, Prasun Dewan)

QuestMap and 'wicked problems'

The W3C Collaborative Web Annotation Project ... or how to have fun while building an RDF infrastructure (Marja-Riitta Koivunen, Dan Brickley, José Kahan, Eric Prud'Hommeaux, Ralph R. Swick)

Semantic Web Activity: Advanced Development

Web-Ontology (WebOnt) Working Group

Collaboration, Knowledge Representation and Automatability

1 July
Amaya binaries This browser suggests a way to distribute the functionality we're trying to create: not only are there annotation tools, but there's also a graphics environment. I haven't been able to get Amaya to do some of the things I'm imagining, but the idea of a browser with built-in creation functions is quite interesting. It's the closest thing I've seen so far to a Web environment for making presentations incorporating the graphics devices I've been thinking about, but it may be a much bigger deal than I think to create the features I want.

Digital Library records are nodes in an information management system, and they can be

Presentation is often a matter of building and publishing a structuring of nodes: they gain value by being put into context. The persistence and distributability of such contexts is a large part of the added value.

Nodes can be 'structured' in various ways: bunches, lists, hierarchies, trees, webs... and more elaborate conceptual mappings are also possible