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SciTechSociety: November 2013
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A blog looking at the world from a somewhat scientific and technological perspective. Tuesday, November 5, 2013. When Wile E. Coyote runs off a cliff, he starts falling only after he realizes the precariousness of his situation. And popularized in every possible venue. The blame game is a significant part of the process. The recording industry blamed pirates for destroying the music business. In fact, their own neglect to adapt to a digital age contributed at least as much to the disruption. The path of ...
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SciTechSociety: June 2014
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A blog looking at the world from a somewhat scientific and technological perspective. Monday, June 30, 2014. The professor who books his flights online, reserves lodging with Airbnb, and arranges airport transportation with Uber understands the disruption of the travel industry. He actively supports that disruption every time he attends a conference. When MOOCs threaten his job, when The Economist covers reinventing the university and titles it “Creative Destruction". As of this writing, Christensen has ...
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SciTechSociety: The Metadata Bubble
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A blog looking at the world from a somewhat scientific and technological perspective. Wednesday, October 1, 2014. When digital storage is cheap, why implement expensive selection processes for an archive? When search technology does not care whether information is excruciatingly organized or piled in a heap, why spend countless hours organizing and curating content? Why agonize over potential future problems with unreadable file formats? Eric Van de Velde. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Eric is a te...
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SciTechSociety: What if Libraries were the Problem?
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A blog looking at the world from a somewhat scientific and technological perspective. Friday, July 29, 2011. What if Libraries were the Problem? On July 19, Harvard University fellow Aaron Swartz was arraigned for breaking into a network closet at MIT and illegally downloading scholarly articles from a well-known database. Whatever his motivations, his approach was misguided, even bizarre. But if one understands the dysfunctional state of scholarly publishing, one cannot help but sympathize. Site license...
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SciTechSociety: May 2014
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A blog looking at the world from a somewhat scientific and technological perspective. Wednesday, May 21, 2014. Sustainable Long-Term Digital Archives. How do we build long-term digital archives that are economically sustainable and technologically scalable? We could start by building five essential components: selection, submission, preservation, retrieval, and decoding. Or the Android emulator of the HP 45 calculator (1973). Ad-hoc data management harms the longer-term interests of individual researcher...
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SciTechSociety: Hitler, Mother Teresa, and Coke
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A blog looking at the world from a somewhat scientific and technological perspective. Monday, November 5, 2012. Hitler, Mother Teresa, and Coke. Scholars submit their manuscripts to journals to expose and validate their work. They are referees because they benefit from the peer-review system or hope to benefit eventually. When they become editor of a journal, scholars advance up the prestige ladder in proportion to the reputation of the journal. Every step of the publishing process rewards sc...If journa...
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SciTechSociety: The Bleeding Heart of Computer Science
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A blog looking at the world from a somewhat scientific and technological perspective. Monday, April 14, 2014. The Bleeding Heart of Computer Science. Who is to blame for the Heartbleed bug? Perhaps, it does not matter. Just fix it, and move on. Until the next bug, and the next, and the next. Rigor in programming is the domain of Edsger W. Dijkstra, the most (in)famous, admired, and ignored computer-science eccentric. In 1996, he laid out his vision of Very Large Scale Application of Logic as the ...Or, f...
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SciTechSociety: April 2014
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A blog looking at the world from a somewhat scientific and technological perspective. Monday, April 14, 2014. The Bleeding Heart of Computer Science. Who is to blame for the Heartbleed bug? Perhaps, it does not matter. Just fix it, and move on. Until the next bug, and the next, and the next. Rigor in programming is the domain of Edsger W. Dijkstra, the most (in)famous, admired, and ignored computer-science eccentric. In 1996, he laid out his vision of Very Large Scale Application of Logic as the ...Or, f...
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SciTechSociety: October 2014
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A blog looking at the world from a somewhat scientific and technological perspective. Wednesday, October 1, 2014. When digital storage is cheap, why implement expensive selection processes for an archive? When search technology does not care whether information is excruciatingly organized or piled in a heap, why spend countless hours organizing and curating content? Why agonize over potential future problems with unreadable file formats? Eric Van de Velde. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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SciTechSociety: Sustainable Long-Term Digital Archives
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A blog looking at the world from a somewhat scientific and technological perspective. Wednesday, May 21, 2014. Sustainable Long-Term Digital Archives. How do we build long-term digital archives that are economically sustainable and technologically scalable? We could start by building five essential components: selection, submission, preservation, retrieval, and decoding. Or the Android emulator of the HP 45 calculator (1973). Ad-hoc data management harms the longer-term interests of individual researcher...