NPR story about online courses
NPR's "Morning Edition" show this morning had a feature about online courses and how faculty cope with the differences between teaching "live in person" and online. Not a word, however, about how...
View ArticleDeutsche Grammophon opens classical music download site
The grandaddy of all high-class classical music recording companies, Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft has today opened up their online download site, which features non-DRM mp3 files encoded at a...
View ArticleLC to begin converting images to JPEG 2000
An article at Libraryjournal.com describes a new collaboration between the Library of Congress and Xerox to convert as many as a million digital images, photographs and maps from the TIFF format to the...
View ArticleChandos to sell DRM-free mp3s on Amazon.com
I was browsing through the growing mp3 download site on amazon.com the other day, looking at the upcoming new releases, and I discovered that beginning on January 8th, the entire Chandos catalog will...
View ArticleAsk and you shall receive: Warner Music drops DRM
Only yesterday I was complaining that Warner Music was still using Digital Rights Management protections on its music downloads sold through iTunes. Today's New York Times has a report that Warner will...
View ArticleKelvin Smith Library closed Saturday, March 8 due to weather
The Kelvin Smith Library is closed today, March 8, due to the weather. Online tools are available through the library web site.
View ArticleLive Blogging from KSL GIS Symposium
I am reporting live today from the Kelvin Smith Library biennial symposium GIS Technology: Sustaining the Future, Understanding the Past. The symposium, funded by an anonymous donor is taking place...
View ArticleLive Blogging from KSL GIS Symposium--Clifford Lynch keynote address
Cliff Lynch, Executive Director of the Coalition for Networked Information, spoke about the notion of cyberinfrastructure as related to scientific inquiry: high performance computing; sensors connected...
View ArticleLive Blogging from KSL GIS Symposium--Plenary Session #1 Charles H. King
Joseph Koonce, CWRU biology professor, introduced Charles H. King, MD, from the Center for Global Health and Diseases and Dept. of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, at Case Western Reserve University....
View ArticleLive Blogging from KSL GIS Symposium--Plenary Session #2 Uriel Kitron
Uriel Kitron, Dept. of Environmental Studies, Emory University "West Nile Virus in Chicago: Considering the past, Understanding the present, Predicting the Future" Prof. Kitron pointed out the...
View ArticleLive Blogging from KSL GIS Symposium--Lunch break and poster sessions
We're now on lunch break until 1:15, with poster sessions spread around the 2nd floor of KSL. Although lunch is limited to symposium registrants, the posters are available for all to view. Back for the...
View ArticleLive Blogging from KSL GIS Symposium--Breakout session--Peter Tuckel on the...
Peter Tuckel, from the Dept. of Sociology at Hunter College, CUNY. "The Diffusion of the Influenza Pandemic of 1918 in Hartford, Connecticut" Why Hartford? Hartford was hard hit by the pandemic and had...
View ArticleLive Blogging from KSL GIS Symposium--Breakout session: Dave Wagner on...
Dave Wagner, Center for Microbial Genetics and Genomics, Northern Arizona University "Using GIS to Understand the Ecology,Dispersal and Evolutionary History of Diseases: Examples using Anthrax, Plague...
View ArticleLive Blogging from KSL GIS Symposium--Breakout Session: Andrew Curtis on...
Andrew Curtis, GIS Research Laboratory, Dept. of Geography, University of Southern California "Using GIS to Reveal Spatial Patterns in the 1878 Yellow Fever Epidemic of New Orleans."...
View ArticleLive Blogging from KSL GIS Symposium--Closing panel discussion
Joe Koonce moderated a closing panel discussion with several of the earlier speakers: Andrew Curtis, Nina Lam, Daniel Janies, Uriel Kitron, Dave Wagner Preservation of data sets Open access issues...
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