Category: Web/Tech
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Librarycasting SE
Chad at Library Voice points to Librarycasting SE (the SE is for Sciences and Engineering). This is a wonderful collection (blogged) of screencasts and podcasts put together by Pete Kirlew at Virginia Commonwealth University. A sampling of some of the recent posts include: Tutorials for Engineering Village, PubMed Video Tutorials, Finding Online Tutorials at VCU…
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Statistics Canada to make all electronic publications available for free
I couldn’t find this announcement on the StatsCan website, but this press release was sent to the Data Liberation Initiative listserv on Monday: As of April 24, 2006, all electronic publications available on the Statistics Canada website will become free of charge. The purpose of this message is to inform you about this change in…
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VideoEgg – tiny screencasts
Want to see what your library screencast might look like on a video iPod? Head over to VideoEgg, which appears to be the latest in line along with YouTube and Google Video for sharing videos online. This one looks pretty nice, and I haven’t had time to do more than upload a test screencast to…
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Creating RSS feeds where none exist
Is there something magic about the number 20? Why don’t individual wiki pages offer RSS feeds? These are two of the questions I’ve been forced to ponder this week. Here’s my story. A month ago I blogged about the launch of the COPPUL Animated Tutorial Sharing (ANTS) Project. We’re using a wiki (MediaWiki) to track…
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Writely aquired by Google
Huh, I had seen speculation in the tech blogs that this was about to happen, but didn’t think I’d actually seen it reported, but I just visited Writely and saw on their front page that they have indeed been acquired by Google. They assure us that it’ll be business as usual, but eventually better. My…
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Documentation from the TAL Federated Search Symposium
A month ago I wrote a summary of my thoughts on a Federated Search Symposium I had attended, and that post generated a lot of comments. The sponsor of the Symposium, The Alberta Library, has just announced that all the documentation from the symposium is now available on their website, and there’s some really useful…
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Jon Udell’s Screencasting Advice
Jon Udell, who coined the term screencasting, has some advice for those who are using Camtasia Studio to precisely edit narrated video. Technorati Tags: screencasting
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Access Copyright And Creative Commons Canada Launch Public Domain Registry
As brought to my attention by colleagues here, here and here, Access Copyright (our version of the US Copyright Clearance Center) and Creative Commons Canada have announced a partnership to establish a public domain registry. They’re going to use MediaWiki to "create an online, globally searchable catalogue of published works that are in the Canadian…
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Podcasting at the U of Calgary
Nope, not me, but D’Arcy pointed me to this press release that announces the U of Calgary is going to introduce podcasting to four courses this summer and fall, involving about 700 students. Apparently we will the first university in the country to officially integrate podcasting into the curriculum this way. Not sure if we’re…
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European Digital Library announced
Any readers in Europe should be pleased about the just announced European Digital Library: The European Commissions’ plan to promote digital access to Europe’s heritage is rapidly taking shape. At least six million books, documents and other cultural works will be made available to anyone with a Web connection through the European Digital Library over…