February 21, 2008 – 8:20 am
By happy coincidence Mike mentioned the OpenDSM release yesterday on this blog. Paul Darby saw enough possibilities in the technology to blog about it himself. That was fortunate, because it reminded me that we haven’t mentioned the NRMToolbar site’s use of DSM.
The NRMToolbar site is a “set of online tools and databases to make it […]
February 20, 2008 – 2:25 pm
One thing I’ve been working on over the past few month has been preparing OpenDSM for release as an open source product (See Jerry’s blog for more details). It’s been an interesting task - DSM is a mature product with years of development behind it. That has the benefit that it is stable and well […]
November 28, 2007 – 8:51 am
As part of a recent leadership program here at education.au Simon (no blog), Will (no blog) and myself took the opportunity to develop a concept for a new style of search engine, designed to supplement the edna distributed search engine with better support for querying structured metadata.
We designed a new type of search interface, using […]
September 20, 2007 – 4:37 pm
Those who read this blog via an aggregator are probably not aware that we’ve just pushed out a refreshed front page for the blogs.educationau.edu.au site:
You’ll note that this now exposes blog post categories in the now-traditional tag-cloud interface, backed by a sophisticated search built using the open source Solr search engine. This implementation allows search […]
September 7, 2007 – 9:49 am
Google Books now enables you to embed fragments from books scanned by the Google book scanning project on your website.
Further details are available on the Inside Google Book Search blog.
There was a great post today on O’Reilly Radar referencing a post by Jo Guldi: “How Google Books is Changing Academic History”.
To quote:
I was idly trying a search on “roads” to see what sort of a literature would turn up for the period of my dissertation research, 1740-1850. I didn’t expect much. I’ve […]
February 9, 2007 – 1:23 pm
There’s no doubt that the set of bloggers we have here at education.au are a wonderful resource who’s collective wisdom would enhance the day of any person.
That’s why I’ve enabled OpenSearch on the blogs.educationau.edu.au website: now you can search our collected writing directly from your browser.
The next time you visit the blogs.educationau.edu.au site you’ll see […]
February 7, 2007 – 11:10 am
No-one should think what follows is anything but a prototype built to outline some directions we are considering for future development.
Click To Play
October 25, 2006 – 9:08 am
The blogs.educationau.edu.au site has now been going for nearly 2 months, and has been quite successful. There have been over 80 posts by 9 different authors, over 10,000 pageloads and around 40 subscribers according to FeedBurner (as well as many subscribers who subscribe to individual blogs).
This success has caused a few problems, most notably the […]
September 20, 2006 – 3:17 pm
Danny Sullivan is a long time commentator on the search industry. If you’ve read John Battelle’s The Search you’ll know how important he was to Google’s early development.
Danny recently wrote a post called Why Search Sucks & You Won’t Fix It The Way You Think which argues that most UI innovations in search (such as […]