Thursday, July 30, 2009
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
What is the future of vinyl music?
Met dank aan de weblog van het onvolprezen Incubate festival (voormalig ZXZW), dat van 13 tot 20 september in Tilburg zal plaatsvinden, een driedelige video bijdrage over de future of vinyl music.
Monday, July 27, 2009
Handboek Social Media in Learning
Jane Hart, auteur van de weblog Jane's E-Learning Pick of the Day, heeft een toegankelijk handboek en toolkit voor beginners samengesteld over Social Media in Learning. De moeite waard!
Friday, July 24, 2009
Journalbase
Michèle Dassa et Christine Kosmopoulos presenteren in het tijdschrift Cybergeo: European Journal of Geography de resultaten van een uitgebreide inventarisatie van tijdschriften op het gebied van Sociale Wetenschappen en Humaniora in JournalBase. A Comparative International Study of Scientific Journal Databases in the Social Sciences and the Humanities (SSH) (PDF, 721 pagina's!).
Hierbij hebben ze gebruik gemaakt van de databases Web of Science (Thomson Reuters), Scopus (Elsevier), ERIH; European Reference Index for Humatities (European Science Foundation) en AERES; French Agence pour lÉvaluation de la recherche et de l'Enseignement Superieur.
Maar liefst 20.00 tijdschriften zijn opgenomen!
Hierbij hebben ze gebruik gemaakt van de databases Web of Science (Thomson Reuters), Scopus (Elsevier), ERIH; European Reference Index for Humatities (European Science Foundation) en AERES; French Agence pour lÉvaluation de la recherche et de l'Enseignement Superieur.
Maar liefst 20.00 tijdschriften zijn opgenomen!
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Article of the Future
Elsevier kondigt het Article of the Future project aan, waarin samen met de wetenschappelijke gemeenschap gepoogd wordt de presentatie van het wetenschappelijke artikel in het digitale, online tijdperk te herdefiniëren.
Een tweetal prototypes (I en II) worden gepresenteerd, waarbij een aantal zaken opvallen:
1. A hierarchical presentation of text and figures so that readers can elect to drill down through the layers of content based on their level of expertise and interest. This organizational structure is a significant departure from the linear-based organization of a traditional print-based article in incorporating the core text and supplemental material within a single unified structure.
2. A graphical abstract allows readers to quickly gain an understanding of the main take-home message of the paper. The graphical abstract is intended to encourage browsing, promote interdisciplinary scholarship and help readers identify more quickly which papers are most relevant to their research interests.
3. Research highlights provide a bulleted list of the key results of the article.
Author-Affiliation highlighting makes it easy to see an author’s affiliations and all authors from the same affiliation.
4. A figure that contains clickable areas so that it can be used as a navigation mechanism to directly access specific sub-sections of the results and figures.
5. Integrated audio and video let authors present the context of their article via an interview or video presentation and allow animations to be displayed more effectively.
6. The Experimental Procedures section contains alternate views allowing readers to see a summary or the full details necessary to replicate the experiment.
7. A new approach to displaying figures allows the reader to identify quickly which figures they are interested in and then drill down through related supplemental figures. All supplemental figures are displayed individually and directly linked to the main figure to which they are related.
8. Real-time reference analyses provide a rich environment to explore the content of the article via the list of citations.
Eigenlijk niet zo veel nieuws onder de zon. De hier reeds eerder genoemde en geroemde JoVE en SciVee zetten een vergelijkbaar concept al enige tijd neer. Wel van belang is het feit dat zo'n grote speler als Elsevier zich openstelt voor de verworvenheden van deze tijd. Met een scheef oog kijken naar bijvoorbeeld Nature of PloS ONE kan ook geen kwaad!
Een tweetal prototypes (I en II) worden gepresenteerd, waarbij een aantal zaken opvallen:
1. A hierarchical presentation of text and figures so that readers can elect to drill down through the layers of content based on their level of expertise and interest. This organizational structure is a significant departure from the linear-based organization of a traditional print-based article in incorporating the core text and supplemental material within a single unified structure.
2. A graphical abstract allows readers to quickly gain an understanding of the main take-home message of the paper. The graphical abstract is intended to encourage browsing, promote interdisciplinary scholarship and help readers identify more quickly which papers are most relevant to their research interests.
3. Research highlights provide a bulleted list of the key results of the article.
Author-Affiliation highlighting makes it easy to see an author’s affiliations and all authors from the same affiliation.
4. A figure that contains clickable areas so that it can be used as a navigation mechanism to directly access specific sub-sections of the results and figures.
5. Integrated audio and video let authors present the context of their article via an interview or video presentation and allow animations to be displayed more effectively.
6. The Experimental Procedures section contains alternate views allowing readers to see a summary or the full details necessary to replicate the experiment.
7. A new approach to displaying figures allows the reader to identify quickly which figures they are interested in and then drill down through related supplemental figures. All supplemental figures are displayed individually and directly linked to the main figure to which they are related.
8. Real-time reference analyses provide a rich environment to explore the content of the article via the list of citations.
Eigenlijk niet zo veel nieuws onder de zon. De hier reeds eerder genoemde en geroemde JoVE en SciVee zetten een vergelijkbaar concept al enige tijd neer. Wel van belang is het feit dat zo'n grote speler als Elsevier zich openstelt voor de verworvenheden van deze tijd. Met een scheef oog kijken naar bijvoorbeeld Nature of PloS ONE kan ook geen kwaad!
Monday, July 20, 2009
WatchKnow
Larry Sanger (mede-initiatiefnemer Wikipedia en tegenwoordig Citizendium) lanceerde onlangs de betaversie van een nieuwe video directory voor lerenden, genaamd WatchKnow.
Doel:
1. Students will be able to consult the database for "instant tutoring" on almost any topic taught. This would help students who didn't understand an in-class explanation of a topic, who are studying for a test, who missed a class due to illness, or who want to explore related topics that aren't taught in class. By hosting multiple video explanations of the same topics, we hope to accommodate many different learning styles. The project could also be a useful free resource for unschoolers and home schoolers.
2. Teachers will be able to use the database to get fresh ideas about how to approach material, and classes could be assigned to watch certain videos. We hope that teachers would examine the variety of successful teaching styles and learn from the models how to improve their own teaching. Finally, we hope that, if the project is successful, it might raise the public awareness of good teacher training and technique, and help the public to recognize and honor good teachers.
Hier gaan we ongetwijfeld meer van horen ... en zien.
Doel:
1. Students will be able to consult the database for "instant tutoring" on almost any topic taught. This would help students who didn't understand an in-class explanation of a topic, who are studying for a test, who missed a class due to illness, or who want to explore related topics that aren't taught in class. By hosting multiple video explanations of the same topics, we hope to accommodate many different learning styles. The project could also be a useful free resource for unschoolers and home schoolers.
2. Teachers will be able to use the database to get fresh ideas about how to approach material, and classes could be assigned to watch certain videos. We hope that teachers would examine the variety of successful teaching styles and learn from the models how to improve their own teaching. Finally, we hope that, if the project is successful, it might raise the public awareness of good teacher training and technique, and help the public to recognize and honor good teachers.
Hier gaan we ongetwijfeld meer van horen ... en zien.
Bb 2.0 (definitely not Blackboard!)
In Bb 2.0 is a collaborative music and spoken word project conceived by Darren Solomon from Science for Girls , and developed with contributions from users.
The videos can be played simultaneously -- the soundtracks will work together, and the mix can be adjusted with the individual volume sliders.
Kijk ook eens naar de FAQ
The videos can be played simultaneously -- the soundtracks will work together, and the mix can be adjusted with the individual volume sliders.
Kijk ook eens naar de FAQ
Friday, July 17, 2009
Aspen Ideas Festival 2009
Voor het vijfde achtereenvolgende jaar organiseerde The Aspen Institute het Ideas Festival, waar meer dan 175 vooraanstaande en geengageerde denkers en doeners afkomstig uit de kunstwereld, wetenschap, cultuur, religie, filosofie, economie en politiek spreken over "ideas that work".
Een aantal lezingen zijn op video vastgelegd en absoluut de moeite waard. Zo spreekt Google's CEO Eric Schmidt over economie, media en Internet (duur: 55.49 min.) en discussieren de "Founding Fathers of Blogging", Jeff Jarvis (Buzzmachine), Nick Denton (Gawker Media) en Jason Calacanis (Malaho.com) over The End of Media (duur: 55.08 min.).
Vergelijkbaar, maar compleet anders: Fora.tv
Een aantal lezingen zijn op video vastgelegd en absoluut de moeite waard. Zo spreekt Google's CEO Eric Schmidt over economie, media en Internet (duur: 55.49 min.) en discussieren de "Founding Fathers of Blogging", Jeff Jarvis (Buzzmachine), Nick Denton (Gawker Media) en Jason Calacanis (Malaho.com) over The End of Media (duur: 55.08 min.).
Vergelijkbaar, maar compleet anders: Fora.tv
Monday, July 13, 2009
Friday, July 10, 2009
The State of Music Online: Ten Years After Napster
Gedegen rapport van Pew Internet over online muziek.
"In the decade since Napster’s launch, selling recorded music has become as much of an art as making the music itself. The music industry has been on the front lines of the battle to convert freeloaders into paying customers, and their efforts have been watched closely by other digitized industries—newspapers, book publishing and Hollywood among them—who are hoping to staunch their own bleeding before it’s too late."
"In the decade since Napster’s launch, selling recorded music has become as much of an art as making the music itself. The music industry has been on the front lines of the battle to convert freeloaders into paying customers, and their efforts have been watched closely by other digitized industries—newspapers, book publishing and Hollywood among them—who are hoping to staunch their own bleeding before it’s too late."
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Eternal Moonwalk
Geweldig idee van Studio Brussel: The Eternal Moonwalk. Iedereen kan zijn eigen versie van MJ's beroemde danspasje oploaden en krijgt een plekje in de Moonwalk Hall of Fame.
Naschrift: De website is wat moeilijk bereikbaar vanwege de overweldigende belangstelling.
Naschrift: De website is wat moeilijk bereikbaar vanwege de overweldigende belangstelling.
Facebook vs. Google
Wired bericht over de genadeloze concurrentiestrijd tussen Facebook en Google.
"Instead of working together to reach the promised land of online brand advertising, Facebook and Google are racing to see who can get there first".
"Instead of working together to reach the promised land of online brand advertising, Facebook and Google are racing to see who can get there first".
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Het meten van wetenschappelijke impact
In hun artikel in PLos ONE, A principal component analysis of 39 scientific impact measures weten Johan Bollen, Herbert Van de Sompel, Aric Hagberg en Ryan Chute op overtuigende wijze aan te tonen dat wetenschappelijke impact niet enkel vastgesteld kan worden aan de hand van een enkele indicator, lees de Journal Impact Factor (JIF) van Thomson.
Sterker nog, het meten van impact vraagt om een multi-dimensionale constructie, waarbij de JIF slechts een marginale rol speelt "and should thus be used with caution", aldus de auteurs.
Naschrift: Kijk ook eens naar The Keynote Equivalent? van blogger Martin Weller.
Sterker nog, het meten van impact vraagt om een multi-dimensionale constructie, waarbij de JIF slechts een marginale rol speelt "and should thus be used with caution", aldus de auteurs.
Naschrift: Kijk ook eens naar The Keynote Equivalent? van blogger Martin Weller.
Toekomst van de muziekindustrie
Trendwatcher Gerd Leonard over de ongewisse toekomst van de muziekindustrie in dit digitale tijdperk, deel I en II. Duur beide video's ca. 9 min.
Monday, July 6, 2009
Een tweede leven voor Second Life
TechCrunch stelt, aan de hand van een rapport over het bedrijf achter Second Life, Linden Lab, vast dat Second Life de hype inmiddels voorbij is en wel degelijk leeft. Dit ontlokt George Siemens in zijn weblog elearnspace de opmerking:
"with all new technology, it first needs to go through an insane hype cycle, be declared dead by a prominent theorist/writer, fade into obscurity (i.e. acknowledged by those who hyped it in the first place), and then quietly emerge as a viable tool".
Dat Second Life echter nog een lange weg te gaan heeft als platvorm voor onderwijs en zakelijke conferenties, een doel dat SL zichzelf gesteld heeft, laat Fuzzysoul weten in zijn boekbespreking Linden Lab needs to read Snow Crash again.
Friday, July 3, 2009
Ontsluiting videomateriaal
Chirag Shah over het toegankelijk maken van het explosief gestegen aantal digitale video's, met behulp van de zgn. ContextMiner, in zijn artikel Mining Contextual Information for Ephemeral Digital Video Preservation.
"For centuries the archival community has understood and practiced the art of adding contextual information while preserving an artifact. The question now is how these practices can be transferred to the digital domain. With the growing expansion of production and consumption of digital objects (documents, audio, video, etc.) it has become essential to identify and study issues related to their representation. A curator in the digital realm may be said to have the same responsibilities as one in a traditional archival domain. However, with the mass production and spread of digital objects, it may be difficult to do all the work manually. In the present article this problem is considered in the area of digital video preservation. We show how this problem can be formulated and propose a framework for capturing contextual information for ephemeral digital video preservation. This proposal is realized in a system called ContextMiner, which allows us to cater to a digital curator’s needs with its four components: digital video curation, collection visualization, browsing interfaces, and video harvesting and monitoring. While the issues and systems described here are geared toward digital videos, they can easily be applied to other kinds of digital objects".
In: International Journal of Digital Curation 2009, vol.4, issue 1, p. 175-192.
"For centuries the archival community has understood and practiced the art of adding contextual information while preserving an artifact. The question now is how these practices can be transferred to the digital domain. With the growing expansion of production and consumption of digital objects (documents, audio, video, etc.) it has become essential to identify and study issues related to their representation. A curator in the digital realm may be said to have the same responsibilities as one in a traditional archival domain. However, with the mass production and spread of digital objects, it may be difficult to do all the work manually. In the present article this problem is considered in the area of digital video preservation. We show how this problem can be formulated and propose a framework for capturing contextual information for ephemeral digital video preservation. This proposal is realized in a system called ContextMiner, which allows us to cater to a digital curator’s needs with its four components: digital video curation, collection visualization, browsing interfaces, and video harvesting and monitoring. While the issues and systems described here are geared toward digital videos, they can easily be applied to other kinds of digital objects".
In: International Journal of Digital Curation 2009, vol.4, issue 1, p. 175-192.
Impact Factor en Eigenfactor
Alan Fersht over de meest invloedrijke wetenschappelijke tijdschriften, de wijze waarop deze kwalificatie tot stond komt en een mogelijk alternatief.
"Bibliometricians have introduced various scales of ranking journals; some based on publications, some based on usage as well, including the internet, using social networking analysis. Bollen et al. (1) recently concluded that no single indicator adequately measures impact and the IF is at the periphery of 39 scales analyzed. But there is a new parameter, the Eigenfactor™, which attempts to rate the influence of journals (www.eigenfactor.org). The Eigenfactor™ ranks journals in a manner similar to that used by Google for ranking the importance of Web sites in a search".
PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America) 2009, vol.106, issue 17, p.6883-6884.
"Bibliometricians have introduced various scales of ranking journals; some based on publications, some based on usage as well, including the internet, using social networking analysis. Bollen et al. (1) recently concluded that no single indicator adequately measures impact and the IF is at the periphery of 39 scales analyzed. But there is a new parameter, the Eigenfactor™, which attempts to rate the influence of journals (www.eigenfactor.org). The Eigenfactor™ ranks journals in a manner similar to that used by Google for ranking the importance of Web sites in a search".
PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America) 2009, vol.106, issue 17, p.6883-6884.
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