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'Making history come alive' is not likely to send shivers of anticipation down the spines of many these days, but what HP Labs is up to in the Tower of London right now might make gazing glassily at dusty old relics and ruins a thing of past. HP Labs is trialling its Mediascape technologies at the Tower during the half-term week, and visitors using a GPS- and RF-enabled iPaq handheld can get an insight into the characters and stories that make up the site's history. So what? A bunch of tourists wandering around wearing headphones and listening to a virtual tour guide. It doesn't seem exactly new, does it? But HP Labs' approach is to use technology not to help describe the places and artefacts contained within a site, but rather to enact them. For the Tower of London, this means that as you wander around the grounds, the device is tracked, and as soon as you come close to a point of interest, content is loaded from an SD card and you are given the story of one of the Tower's more famous inhabitants.
This article describes an interoperability fabric among a wide variety of heterogeneous repositories holding managed collections of scholarly digital objects. These digital objects are considered units of scholarly communication, and scholarly communication is seen as a global, cross-repository workflow. The proposed interoperability fabric includes a shared data model to represent digital objects, a common format to serialize those objects into network-transportable surrogates, three core repository interfaces that support surrogates (obtain, harvest, put) and some shared infrastructure. This article also describes an experiment implementing an overlay journal in which this interoperability fabric was tested across four different repository architectures (aDORe, arXiv, DSpace, Fedora). We detail the implementation choices made in the course of this experiment.
JACKSON - Gov. Haley Barbour has called a special legislative session for Thursday, a second try to get lawmakers to pass his proposed tax cut for modular housing, which Barbour said is crucial to rebuilding from Katrina. But the Republican governor, who has the constitutional power to call special sessions and set their agendas, is not going to allow lawmakers to consider a state-funded homeowner grant or loan program pushed by the House Democratic leadership. In a letter recently published by the Sun Herald, House Democratic leaders called for Barbour to allow them to consider such a state-funded homeowner program when he calls them back to deal with modular housing. Barbour has helped thwart House attempts to pass state-funded Katrina homeowner programs. He said a multibillion-dollar federal program he successfully lobbied Congress to pass, and the administration of which he is overseeing, should suffice.
Egenera Inc. has announced the appointment of Peter J. Manca to chief technology officer and executive vice president of engineering. Mr. Manca formerly served as Egenera's senior vice president of engineering, having spent the past five years guiding all aspects of product development, product management and program management. He has more than 20 years' experience in enterprise computing.Mr. Manca's expertise spans a wide range of critical enterprise datacenter technologies including virtualization, operating systems, large-scale architectures and open standards. In particular, his leadership and experience in virtualization technologies has led to the continued progression of Egenera's advanced PAN (Processing Area Network) architecture. As CTO, Mr. Manca will lead product planning by working directly with customers to understand their most difficult challenges and guide Egenera's architecture, hardware, and software engineering teams to translate those requirements into solutions.
Boozefighters MC Chapter 11, The Father's House Church and Hobbie Chevrolet are hosting a motorcycle toy run Oct. 21. Meet at 10 a.m., ride at 11 a.m. Bring one canned good and two toys. Call 534-4140 or 624-1834 for information. Guided Nature Walks Gray Lodge Wildlife Area hosts 'weekend wildlife walks' every weekend from Oct. 21 through Feb. 4. Join Saturdays, 10 a.m. and Sundays 1 p.m., unless raining. Information: 846-7505. At Feather Falls The Fabulous Swing Kings will be entertaining at the Feather Falls Casino in the Cascade Showroom Oct. 22 from 6-9 p.m. Dancing and listening to big band music from the swing era. No cover charge. Dinner and Line Dance VFW Post 1747 will host a dinner and line dance Oct. 28. Advance tickets are $10, at the door, $12.
Well, it may be just one of those temporary blips, or it could be that the ever-mercurial net nanny has decided that Blogspot really is too uncivilized for Chinese Internet users. At any rate it is, at least in Beijing, inaccessible again, as Danwei reports.
Such is life. We all got excited a couple of weeks ago when Wikipedia and Blogspot were suddenly accessible again. But it wouldn't be the first time that the restoration of a site is brief. To this day, the banned Technorati is prone to be suddenly accessible for a day or two from time to time. Nevertheless, I'm keeping my fingers crossed. I'd got used to being able to read Blogspot blogs without going through a proxy.
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Mark Ferelli explains how continuous data protection helps businesses meet their recovery time and recovery point objectives. An Asigra white paper.
The data backup world has changed dramatically in recent years. No change has been more dramatic or rapid than the shift from traditional tape-based backup technology to disk-to-disk (D2D) backup. Disk-based backup has enabled shorter backup windows and more rapid data recovery which has opened the way for more sophisticated backup and recovery software technologies that were not possible with tape backup systems. Software vendors have responded to the technology potential of disk-based backup with new enhanced functionality, such as point-in-time snapshots and local and remote replication in an effort to reduce the vulnerability of data loss in between scheduled backup sessions.
Prosecutors say a former Miami-Dade Water and Sewer employee took $1 million of the county's money before he was fired in a cellphone scandal. BY JACK DOLAN jdolan@MiamiHherald.com Police are seeking a former county Water and Sewer mailroom supervisor who is accused of indulging his taste for expensive German cars with $1 million stolen from taxpayers. Charles Anthony Vance, who was fired late last month for his role in a separate scandal involving millions paid by the department in unauthorized cellphone expenses, is now accused of stealing money earmarked for bulk mailing. ''The two cases are unrelated,'' said Miami-Dade County Inspector General Chris Mazzella, whose office handled the investigation. ``It's another unfortunate instance where there was a lack of sufficient oversight on some rather huge amounts of money.'' Vance could not be reached for comment.
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