public

International Conference on Semantic Web and Digital Libraries

Submitted by admin on

From February 20 -23 I participated in the ICSD in Bangalore, organized by ARD Prasad from the Documentation, Research and Training Center of the Indian Statistical Institute in Bangalore. My group presented the Ontology based electronic FNA journal and the proposal for an AGRIS OAI architecture. I was furthermore Theme Speaker in the session on "Institutional Repositories and Case Studies" and participated in the concluding Panel discusion on "Semantic Web and Digital Libraries:Research & collaborations".

Keynote Speech at the eFarmer central Europe conference

Submitted by admin on

I was invited to deliver a keynote at the Central Europe Conference of the eFarmer project (eFarmer Central European Conference 2007). The title of my presentation is "Knowledge Exchange Infrastructure for Agricultural Research and Technology" (see attached file). The eFarmer project has been granted by the EC in the context of the eContent Program.

Pat Manson, Head of Unit Cultural Heritage and Technology Enhanced Learning

Submitted by Keizer on

Pat Manson, Head of Unit Cultural Heritage and Technology Enhanced Learning outlines the workprogram

Pat Manson, Head of Unit Cultural Heritage and Technology Enhanced Learning
outlines the workprogram

Increase availability of content
creation mamagement and reuse of content

Digital Libraries
Large scale European wide digital libraries
Radically new approache to digital preservation

Technology enhances learning
Powerpoint at:
Medium term 3/7 years
Longer term 5 -10 years

Ongoing activities should be consulted

Speech of Mr. Horst Forster

Submitted by Keizer on

It is taking a new approach. Focussed on building the European Digital Library. Preservation at the moment relatively small part, but it needs to grow because very many research questions to cope with in the area of digital content.

Technology enhancend learning. Different approach than elearning upto now. Elaerning was about remote access to learning. That is not a research topic anymore. NO WE should look how technology will support those who are teaching.

FP7 in Motion: Cognitive Systems, Interaction, Robotics, Digital Libraries and Content.

Submitted by admin on

Luxembourg, 2007-01-23

I am participating in the Information days of the Directorate e of the IST area of the European Commission. The Director Harald Forster, and the 2 Unit heads, Pat Manson (Digital Libraries and Technology enhanced Learning) and Roberto Cencioni (Intelligent Content and Semantics) have organized this meeting to inform about the possibilities and constraints to present projects to be funded within FP7. There are more than 300 participants from throughout Europe.
We have been invited to present a project within the "proposals clinic".

Scandalo!

Submitted by admin on

Hongkong is still on the first place,  Germany on an egregious 19, just behind Japan,  Italy is on place 60, much behing Thailand (50)------ who did expect better?



The problem is not globalization! A new distribution campaign in the industrialized world is necessary..

Submitted by admin on

There are new reasons for a traditional leftist approach to social politics!  Reasons to defend globalization and capitalism!   If globalizations leads to the impoverishment of the lower middle classes and to the outrageous enrichment of the upper 10%, the consequence will be that the rage of the impoverished will  not go against the rich, but against the developing countries which are taking their place in the world economy. So the "struggle of class" becomes new sense in the developed world.

The Paper Route

Submitted by Keizer on

This chapter is mostly about his experiences in the States, but very interesting as an Indian view on the USA

p.69

..My school was 80% "white" when I arrived and 80 percent black" when I left three years later"..
..

p.70
The classroom was filled eith lathes, tools and machines, and we learned to work with our hands. We learned to repair a window, make a table, unclog a sink. At the end of the year , we ha lost our fear of technology.

...

Pages

Subscribe to public