Internet/Intranet
- Digital Repositories: A Global Work Effort
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10/10/2007
Stanford University librarian Michael Keller will join other leading digital archiving experts November 14-16 in Paris for the inaugural meeting of the Sun Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group, a group dedicated to working on the unique problems of storage and data management, workflow, and architecture for very large digital repositories. The Sun PASIG brings together a large group of organizations for an ongoing global discussion of their research and sharing of best practices for preservation and archiving. Here, CT asks Keller for his perspectives on the effort and the goals of the Sun PASIG.
- INTEC Adopts Jenzabar ERP Suite
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10/2/2007
Instituto Tecnologico de Santo Domingo (INTEC) in the Dominican Republic is deploying an ERP solution from Jenzabar called Jenzabar EX Total Campus Management. INTEC, a non-profit university, had previously been using systems developed in house. The university will implement the Jenzabar EX student suite, as well as the Jenzabar Internet Campus Solution, over the next two years.
- 9 Best Practices for Implementing a CMS
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9/26/2007
Giving people the ability to update their slice of the campus website doesn't sound like a revolutionary idea--at least not in an era ruled by mass participation in social networks, the sharing of mashups, and the craze to add widgets to personal websites.
- A Foundation for Digital Repositories
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9/26/2007
The new DSpace Foundation is fostering open access to scholarly works with the open source DSpace platform for storing, managing, and distributing digital collections. Here, Campus Technology interviews Michele Kimpton, executive director of the nascent nonprofit created this past July by MIT and HP as a successor to their joint DSpace project begun in 2002.
- Folding@home Passes Petaflop Mark
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9/25/2007
The distributed computing project known as Folding@home (FAH) last week passed one of its long-anticipated milestones: more than a petaflop of computational power, reached Sept. 16. The group, run out of Stanford University's Department of Chemistry, placed credit for the surge beyond its 1 Pflops goal on the Playstation 3 and the latest PS3 client app, which is designed to take greater advantage of the floating point power of the PS3's Cell B.E. processor.
- RIAA Moves Against More Colleges
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9/24/2007
The Recording Industry Association of America last week targeted students at 22 American universities, sending out 403 of its "pre-litigation settlement letters," according to the group, which represents major record labels. As in the past, the letters were not sent directly to those accused of copyright infringement, but to administrators, who were then expected to "forward the letter to the appropriate network user."
- Free Document Exchange Connects High Schools to Colleges
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9/19/2007
College and career-planning services provider ConnectEdu has released its C!Doc college admissions tool for free to help high schools more easily connect students with higher education institutions.
- Western Oklahoma Serves Up Blended Math
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9/19/2007
At Western Oklahoma State College, students in a single classroom, with one instructor present, can be taking either of two introductory algebra classes. That's just one of the advantages the college has discovered in offering computerized online instruction to augment several of its developmental mathematics courses.
- Stanford Hosts Course on Designing Apps in Facebook
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9/18/2007
Social Web hotspot Facebook is the focus of a new course at Stanford this semester designed to teach both techies and non-science majors how to build "engaging Web applications." In fact, the name of the course is called--in Learning Annex-style--"Create Engaging Web Applications Using Metrics and Learning on Facebook."
- Georgia Tech Librarian, Prof To Loan Land in Second Life
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9/17/2007
Georgia Tech librarian Brian Matthews has teamed up with GT computer science professor Blaire MacIntyre to develop a space in the Second Life virtual world from which students could "check out" land parcels in order "to hang out, explore, and learn the basics of the software."
- Storm Warning: Botnet Gearing Up To Attack Defenders
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9/14/2007
The Storm worm, a massive botnet that its developers have been amassing over the last several months, is starting to attack computers that have been set up to defend against it. The botnet is set up to launch a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against any computer that is scanning a network for vulnerabilities or malware, IW reported.
- UCSD Computer Scientists Follow Spam-Scam Trails
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9/14/2007
In a study of more than 1 million spam e-mails, computer scientists at the University of California, San Diego have concluded that most scams are hosted by individual Web servers even though thousands of compromised computers might be used to relay spam to end users.
- Victoria U Honeypot Tech Leads to Net Attack Study
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9/13/2007
The international Honeynet Project, a research consortium formed to share computer threat information and solutions, is using a behavioral analysis tool developed at New Zealand's Victoria University to study Web-based security attacks.
- Distributed Learning Expands Med School's Reach
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9/12/2007
A shortage of physicians in rural areas isn't a problem unique to Canada, but the highly sophisticated technology solution that the University of British Columbia has set up to solve it may well be.
- Kansas Community College Refines Administration Data, Admission Site
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9/12/2007
Kansas City Kansas Community College (KCKCC) will use a variety of solutions from Datatel to provide a centralized student finance and HR database and to create an online application and registration system. The community college will use Datatel's Colleague Student, Financing, and Human Resources to centralize its data to improve efficiency in enrollment, student services, financial management, financial aid, and human resources.
- Duke Enlists Tizra To Sell eBooks
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9/12/2007
Duke University will use Tizra's Agile PDF hosted white label service to repackage, deliver, and sell textbook content in electronic formats.
- AccessMyLibrary Offers 30 Million Free Articles
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9/12/2007
AccessMyLibrary is now providing students and educators returning to school with free Web access to almost 30 million online articles from a collection of more than 4,000 publications.
- Judge Deals Setback to Ohio U Computer Hacking Victims
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9/11/2007
A lawyer for two Ohio University alumni who sued the school over losing their personal data in a computer security breach said that a judge's decision to throw out the case is typical of how courts are dealing with the growing problem of computer data theft.
- Drexel Hosts 'PodCamp Philly' on New Media Apps
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9/11/2007
Drexel University hosted a conference last week on new media applications, a "PodCamp" to "promote the use of new media to television, newspapers, radio, businesses, educators, and individuals." The conference was free to "podcasters and listeners, bloggers and readers, and anyone interested in new media."
- [Your College Here] Wants to Be Your 'Friend'
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9/6/2007
In the past five years, social networking has rocketed from a leisure activity to a "phenomenon that engages tens of millions of internet users," according to the Pew Internet & American Life Project, a nonprofit that follows the impact of the internet in differing social environments. In a recent national survey on teenagers and social networking conducted by Pew, more than half of all online American youth ages 12 to 17— 55 percent to be precise—are heading to online social networking sites. What does this mean for higher ed? Simply this: Your incoming students are now expecting a presence of your college or university on social networking sites.
- The Fox and the Hedgehog
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9/6/2007
There's a business management principle known as the "hedgehog concept." The whole thing apparently comes from a Greek poet, Archilochus, who wrote: "The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing." Okay, so right away I think, "I want to be a fox!" But, no. Apparently, in the business world, the thing to be is a hedgehog.
- C-Labs Digital Library Now Supports High Definition
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9/6/2007
Digital media service provider Cdigix has added HD capabilities to its C-Labs solutions. C-Labs are designed to provide tools for higher education faculty and institutions to maintain and post online digital media while complying with copyright laws.
- Nottingham Trent U To Deploy D2L Virtual Learning Environment
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9/5/2007
Nottingham Trent University in the United Kingdom has signed on with Desire2Learn to deploy that company's learning management system. The goals of the deployment will be to enhance student learning and allow the university to expand into new markets domestically and internationally, supporting online and blended learning.
- Queen's U Project To Render 'Touch Over IP'
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9/5/2007
Researchers at Northern Ireland's Queens University are working on a project to approximate the sensation of touch via the Internet.
- Drexel Upgrades Internet Library as Learning Lab
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9/4/2007
Drexel University will collaborate with the University of Michigan and Florida State University to help transform its 10-year-old Internet Public Library (IPL) into a "virtual teaching and learning laboratory for digital reference," the university announced.
