Hello Colleagues, Has your U.S. university or college begun to plan or implement the retrospective digitization of older (non-ETD) theses or dissertations? If so, you are enthusiastically invited to assist in a research study on the WHY of retrospective digitization. A brief survey on the reasons, perceived benefits and unexpected challenges of retrospective digitization is now underway. It is expected that at least the preliminary ...
Author Archives: robinna
Wikispaces free for higher ed
Like | robinna | Mar 5, 2011 | Libraries, publishing, web 2.0+, webdesign
Wikispaces for Higher Education – FREE!http://www.wikispaces.com/content/for/highered We are giving away all of the features of our Plus wikis (normally $50/year).No fine print, no usage limits, no advertising, no catches. * Post, Publish, and Share with Ease Unlimited pages let you and your students share text, images, files, and more. * Set Privacy You can decide who has access to your wiki’s content. * Create Student ...
This is my brain on mindmap
Like | robinna | Mar 4, 2011 | my projects, social media, that's cool
So I was looking at a way to visualize my web presence, but even beyond that, some of my interests. Mainly this was for fun (yes, I do things like this for fun) but also to help me “see” where my interests are as I explore potential PhD programs.Here is a start (which you can see at mindomo):
Ebooks, e-lending, overdrive, & Harpercollins
Like | robinna | Mar 1, 2011 | Libraries
Info about the controversial decision by HarperCollins to limit Overdrive e-books to 25 checkouts. Essentially this turns overdrive into a rental service.——————————–Library journal articlehttp://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/home/889500-264/harpercollins_overdrive_respond_as_26.html.csp NYT posthttp://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/27/a-limit-on-lending-e-books/ HC’s response to librarians here:(shortened to:)http://is.gd/CMcBdO ..and the ebook users bill of rights:http://librarianbyday.net/2011/02/28/the-ebook-user%E2%80%99s-bill-of-rights-hcod-ebookrights/
Ipads and Google maps (humor from xkcd)
Like | robinna | Feb 25, 2011 | Uncategorized
heh!from http://xkcd.com/728/
PhD programs in the Semantic Web ?
Hey there,I’m still looking around at PhD programs. A colleague suggesting looking for a program that specifically highlights semantic web stuff. Any suggestions? Ideas? Digital humanities is still high on my list, but I’m still investigating. thanks!
Professional CV (a Jquery experiment)
Like | robinna | Feb 21, 2011 | Libraries, my projects
So, when I did my dossier for promotion (I go through a rank and promotion process which is somewhat similar to tenure but *not* tenure) , I did it in Jquery. I wanted something that represented my skills as well as meet the format of the dossier.You can see it live embedded below or go to http://www.robinfay.net/cv/ <br><p>Your browser does not support iframes.</p><br>
Managing API Security in SaaS and Cloud (webinar)
Like | robinna | Feb 15, 2011 | Train, Training
Managing API Security in SaaS and Cloud February 23, 2011 9:00AM PST | 12:00PM EST | 5:00PM GMT Presented by Layer 7 Technologies and the Cloud Security Alliance Overview:Opening SaaS applications and cloud services to outside developers is becoming critical to achieve cloud-enterprise integrations, information sharing across affiliate Web sites and enabling mobile / tablet access to data. Controlling how API’s get securely exposed to ...