Furl http://www.furl.net/ http://backend.userland.com/rss http://www.furl.net/member/rakerman.rss Furl archive. Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:29:29 GMT http://www.furl.net/item/41512735/forward http://www.furl.net/item/41512735 Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:13:30 GMT Institutional Repository Wiki Scholarly Communication SPARCSpaces is a center for community discussion and development in areas related to scholarly communication. The Repositories space will be a sandbox for repository champions and challengers to work together to identify best practices, resource gaps, opportunities to collaborate, and new paths to explore. Discussion threads are inspired by program themes at the SPARC Digital Repositories Meeting 2008. 3 http://www.furl.net/item/41494431/forward http://www.furl.net/item/41494431 Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:26:41 GMT Links to Video Mapping As a sought after speaker and advisor on the Geospatial Web, Sean Gorman has been featured in Wired, Der Spiegel, ABC, Washington Post, Business 2.0 or CNN. To bring advanced geospatial technologies to market, he founded FortiusOne in 2005, a company that was spun out of George Mason University. 3 http://www.furl.net/item/41491473/forward http://www.furl.net/item/41491473 Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:31:39 GMT Music Digital Rights Management most previously purchased songs are now upgradable for the same old price of $0.30 a song... 8 million songs from all the major labels will indeed be DRM free, with a full ten million planned by the end of the quarter 3 http://www.furl.net/item/41488527/forward http://www.furl.net/item/41488527 Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:53:56 GMT Links to Presentations Conference Academic Library Future Reinventing Science Librarianship: Models for the Future, October 2008 Proceedings from the ARL/CNI Fall Forum October 16-17, 2008 Arlington, Virginia 3 http://www.furl.net/item/41487461/forward http://www.furl.net/item/41487461 Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:45:33 GMT innovation Corporate history shows that companies which avoid slaughtering their R&D budgets when the economy goes into the tank improve their odds of becoming future champions. The pleasant byproduct of such innovation, of course, is a healthier economy. 3 http://www.furl.net/item/41464607/forward http://www.furl.net/item/41464607 Mon, 05 Jan 2009 19:00:59 GMT Publishing Scholarly Communication The idea of having our scholarly output properly characterized is not out of reach, since the articles we write are already identified uniquely by a Digital Object Identifier (DOI; discussed further below). A book or journal is identified by an ISBN, and citations are identified by PubMed identifiers, and so on. The ideas discussed here simply take this identification process for individual publications and citations to the point of providing unique descriptors for each author and to uniquely identify all of each author's scholarly work. 3 http://www.furl.net/item/41464580/forward http://www.furl.net/item/41464580 Mon, 05 Jan 2009 18:59:47 GMT Data Management In bioinformatics, we are familiar with the idea of curated data as a prerequisite for data integration. We neglect, often to our cost, the curation and cataloguing of the processes that we use to integrate and analyse our data. Programmatic access to services, for data and processes, means that compositions of services can be made that represent the in silico experiments or processes that bioinformaticians perform. Data integration through workflows depends on being able to know what services exist and where to find those services. 3 http://www.furl.net/item/41415678/forward http://www.furl.net/item/41415678 A reasonable set of technology challenges for 2009: Do-it-yourself DNA, The 3-D revolution, The age of avatars, Grow your own tissue, Reality check for social networks. Sat, 03 Jan 2009 14:58:31 GMT Technology Foresight 3 http://www.furl.net/item/41415430/forward http://www.furl.net/item/41415430 Sat, 03 Jan 2009 14:43:10 GMT Science Workflow Unsurprisingly, it is among a younger generation of researchers where these tools are having the biggest impact. Paul Fisher, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Manchester, uses myExperiment (www.myexperiment.org) to find out what other people in his field are working on as well as to keep up to date with current trends. "I can extend my research with that already established by other labs ... I can replicate what someone else has done in an experiment without having to build it from scratch," he said, adding that he also uses it as a "single interface" to access his research items from anywhere. 3 http://www.furl.net/item/41104333/forward http://www.furl.net/item/41104333 Sun, 21 Dec 2008 11:09:12 GMT Social Networking 31 October 2008 3