5 Years of Firefox (and the web)

Submitted by lcadmin on Tue, 11/10/2009 - 13:39
Very interesting (and short) review of the last 5 years for Firefox and web in general....
“All of our servers melted instantly,” Vukićević says. “We spent an hour trying to get the downloads back up.”
(on the day Firefox launched)....and looking to the future:"“We always ask, ‘What is it that people on the open web can’t do right now?
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5 Years of Firefox (and the web)

Submitted by lcadmin on Tue, 11/10/2009 - 13:39
Very interesting (and short) review of the last 5 years for Firefox and web in general....
“All of our servers melted instantly,” Vukićević says. “We spent an hour trying to get the downloads back up.”
(on the day Firefox launched)....and looking to the future:"“We always ask, ‘What is it that people on the open web can’t do right now?
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Life
life 2.0+
Search engines/browsers

NYT project / Mapping name subject headings (semantic web)

Submitted by lcadmin on Mon, 11/09/2009 - 19:32
I am so excited about this NYT project -- just the kind of thing needed to start moving the semantic web forward ... By the way, DBPedia is an attempt to take Wikipedia data and semanticize it... I am kind of in love with linked in data at the moment.Article athttp://tinyurl.com/yhdayvr "Over the last several months we have manually mapped more than 5,000 person name subject headings onto Freebase and DBPedia.
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semantic web

NYT project / Mapping name subject headings (semantic web)

Submitted by lcadmin on Mon, 11/09/2009 - 19:32
I am so excited about this NYT project -- just the kind of thing needed to start moving the semantic web forward ... By the way, DBPedia is an attempt to take Wikipedia data and semanticize it... I am kind of in love with linked in data at the moment.Article athttp://tinyurl.com/yhdayvr "Over the last several months we have manually mapped more than 5,000 person name subject headings onto Freebase and DBPedia.
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semantic web

Institutional Repository News

Submitted by lcadmin on Sat, 11/07/2009 - 22:19
... the group will offer repository-related services, including personnel to scan physical media to digital formats, to check on rights for publishing materials, assist in content submission and offer the opportunity to store research materials in the MetaArchive Cooperative, a collaborative repository effort between Emory University, Georgia Tech and 13 other research institutions.
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Institutional Repository News

Submitted by lcadmin on Sat, 11/07/2009 - 22:19
... the group will offer repository-related services, including personnel to scan physical media to digital formats, to check on rights for publishing materials, assist in content submission and offer the opportunity to store research materials in the MetaArchive Cooperative, a collaborative repository effort between Emory University, Georgia Tech and 13 other research institutions.
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Libraries
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