Monthly Archives: August 2005

Thanks to Peter Suber for calling attention to Peter Kirby, Open Access Translation (The OAT Bible), Christian Origins, August 7, 2005. Excerpt: TLAs (Three Letter Acronyms) are popular for Bible translations, so I’ve come up with one. The “Open Access … Continue reading →

from InformationWeek: IBM plans to make its enterprise search middleware, designed to facilitate searches of unstructured data, available as open-source code. It’s called Unstructured Information Management Architecture, and IBM says more than 15 knowledge-management companies intend to support it as … Continue reading →

With its DRM’d textbook program, Princeton University demonstrates how not to use educational technology. Update: Plan now being duly savaged on Slashdot.

Cornell researchers developed a process called X-ray fluorescence imaging to recover faded text on stone by “zapping and mapping” the inscriptions. The group built a machine that generates X-rays a million times more intense than what the doctor uses to … Continue reading →

The Scout Report on ETANA (Electronic Tools and Ancient Near Eastern Archives): A number of interesting digital projects have recently been sponsored by the National Science Foundation, and the Electronic Tools and Ancient Near Eastern Archives (ETANA) is one such … Continue reading →

From Jesse James Garrett, “Ajax: A New Approach to Web Applications” (February 18, 2005): Ajax isn’t a technology. It’s really several technologies, each flourishing in its own right, coming together in powerful new ways. Ajax incorporates: standards-based presentation using XHTML … Continue reading →

Wired on AJAX (“The name is shorthand for Asynchronous JavaScript + XML, and it represents a fundamental shift in what’s possible on the Web.”): Software experts say recent innovations in web design are ushering in a new era for internet-based … Continue reading →

Marc Goodacre makes a useful point about funding for open-access biblical studies: If the essential proposal is: how can we get a big project financed?, then there is still a large part of me that just sighs. I have felt … Continue reading →

… experts describe the project as the most ambitious undertaking in the history of human language technology. If it is developed as planned, the first-of-its-kind machine will be able to recognize speech in multiple languages, translate it into English, and … Continue reading →

Interesting comments on measures of success for Wikipedia by Jimbo Wales, guest-blogging at Lawrence Lessig’s site: So, how are we doing? What are the odds of this goal being accomplished in the next 20 years? First, it can be argued … Continue reading →

More on the potential of games in education, from James L. Morrison, Editor-in-Chief, Innovate: The August/September 2005 of Innovate’s special issue on the role of video game technology in educational settings is now available at http://www.innovateonline.info Innovate is a peer-reviewed, … Continue reading →

Several articles collected by CIT: “Meet the Gamers” By Kurt Squire & Constance Steinkuehler Library Journal.com, April 15, 2005 http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/ca516033.html “In the past, librarians have often been perceived as gatekeepers, arbiters of access to information. The digital cultures now emerging … Continue reading →