Category: social media
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What is Internet 2
Ok, you have heard of Web 2.0, but what about Internet 2.0? Internet 2 is a new style of high-capacity networking. Internet2 is working with Level 3 Communications to provide the U.S. research and education community with a dynamic, innovative and cost-effective hybrid optical and packet network. The new network is designed to provide next-generation…
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Ten Major Issues in Providing a Repository Service in Australian Universities
By mid 2006, all Australian universities had established, or were partway to establishing, institutional repository services. The development of institutional repository services can often be related to the open access movement, which seeks to make valued research outputs openly available by encouraging academics to place their publications into repositories, enhancing their availability and bypassing the…
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What is myExperiment?
myExperiment makes it really easy for the next generation of scientists to contribute to a pool of scientific workflows, build communities and form relationships. myExperiment enables scientists to share, re-use and repurpose workflows and reduce time-to-experiment, share expertise and avoid reinvention (link).
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Arts and Humanities Research Council and the AHDS part ways
(strange…I thought that a ‘centralised service’…like the AHRC itself, would be the most efficient means of storing digital data…and the last 2 sentences are just plain dumb…as if ‘making websites’ has had anything to do with the Digital Humanities or the AHDS…and ‘HEIs understanding the issues involved in the storage of long term data’…like sure;…
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Web 2 Business ideas
Australian companies are starting to twig that Web 2.0 isn’t just the latest trend for designing web pages – it can be a vital business tool. Brad Howarth reports (link)
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Map of Online Communities
Most of the actual tests are open to anyone who has passed 70-270. A small number needs 646-204 to their credit as well, in order to sit for 642-901 later. This is why no one usually pays attention to 220-601. __________________________ here is a map of online communities (web 2.0) complements of xkcd