Monthly Archives: February 2011

PhD programs in the Semantic Web ?

robinna/ February 23, 2011/ semantic web, my projects/ 2 comments

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)

robinna/ February 21, 2011/ Libraries, my projects/ 0 comments

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

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Managing API Security in SaaS and Cloud (webinar)

robinna/ February 15, 2011/ Training, Train/ 0 comments

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

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Institutional Repository Conference (Free!)

robinna/ February 15, 2011/ Digital Libraries, Libraries, open access/ 0 comments

The Digital Commons @ Kennesaw State and the Horace W. Sturgis Library arepleased to announce “Giving Undergraduate Research a Worldwide Voice:Institutional Repositories as Publishers,” a free one-day conference oninstitutional repositories and their place in undergraduate education. Date: Tuesday, March 15, 2011Location: KSU Continuing Education The keynote speaker will be Nancy Hensel, Executive Officer for the Councilon Undergraduate Research. This free

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Historic Newspapers online

robinna/ February 10, 2011/ History of Technology, that's cool/ 0 comments

Very cool resource of athens newspapers & historic info: ———–The Digital Library of Georgia is pleased to announce the availability of a new online resource: The Athens Historic Newspapers Archivehttp://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/athnewspapers The Athens Historic Newspapers Archive provides online access to five newspaper titles published in Athens from 1827 to 1922. Consisting of over 57,000 newspaper pages, the archive provides historical images

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The Smartest Machine on Earth (Ai, machine learning & more)

robinna/ February 10, 2011/ Technology/ 0 comments

Last night I watched Nova’s Smartest Machine on Earth program.Really fascinating stuff as it explored how machine learning happens (it is essentially a weighted relevance ranking dependent upon data and rules, but then it makes decision based upon specific bits of information including pattern seeking). It also touched on what makes us human, our peopleness and how our experiences shape

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Logi Insight for Libraries with Voyager ILS (Webinar)

robinna/ February 7, 2011/ software, Libraries, productivity/ 0 comments

Logi Insight for Libraries with Voyager ILSFeaturing Kevin Kidd, Manager of Libraries, Boston College Date & Time: Tuesday, February 15, 2011 at 1pm EST Duration: 45 minutes Presenters: Kevin Kidd, Manager of Libraries, Boston College Matt Hoffman, Director of Library Solutions, LogiXML Who Should Attend: Deans, Systems Librarians, Electronic Resources Librarians, etc. Join us for a webinar on our new

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