http://folksonomy.co/?rss=3411 Folksonomy.co is a structured repository of digital culture and creative practice. en-au Creative Commons License: (cc), Simon Perkins Fri, 28 Sep 2012 18:26:00 +1000 Fri, 28 Sep 2012 18:26:00 +1000 Constellations 2.0 http://folksonomy.co/?member=1 60 http://folksonomy.co/Folksonomy.gif http://folksonomy.co/ http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2922 Creative Industries KTN will be hosting a half day event around challenge 3 of the funding competition which seeks projects that investigate the potential of Cross-Platform analytical metrics and feedback tools to help content producers better understand the consumption of their products in a converged landscape This session will provide an opportunity for potential applicants to learn more about the programme and how to apply to it Creative Industries Knowledge Transfer Network http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2922 Fri, 28 Sep 2012 18:26:00 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2846 Whilst there has been extensive research and guidance on the nature and issues surrounding text-based plagiarism in Further and Higher Education there has been relatively little research undertaken on the topic of plagiarism in non-text based media The Spot the Difference project seeks to address this gap and to undertake research on the meaning nature and issues surrounding the complex and nebulous concept of visual plagiarism as well as to investigate the potential uses and relevance that visual search technology may have to offer in this area Leigh Garrett VADS University for the Creative Arts The project is a collaboration between the Visual Arts Data Service VADS at the University for the Creative Arts and the Centre for Vision Speech and Signal Processing CVSSP at the University of Surrey The project is funded through a JISC Learning amp Teaching Innovation grant from June 2011 to May 2012 Fig 1 Giving credit poster by Pia Jane Bijkerk http www piajanebijkerk com Erin Loechner and Yvette van Boven http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2846 Thu, 26 Jul 2012 17:45:02 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2830 As Facebook and Twitter are reaching a saturation point a new form of social network has begun to capture the people s attention recently Interest based networks connect you with people whom you share interests hobbies with Though interest based networks are not completely new e forums and communities on specific topics have existed for a while e they are building a critical mass just now Pinterest Instagram Spotfiy Goodreads Quora and other interest based networks have grown significantly during the past 18 months Each of these has built up a few million strong active userbase and provides a more fine grained marketing strategy for businesses Small businesses and marketers must pay attention to these networks and utilize them in their marketing strategy Merc Strategy Group LLC http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2830 Fri, 20 Jul 2012 18:03:28 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2749 All businesses no matter what they make or sell should recognize the power and financial value of good design Obviously there are many different types of design graphic brand packaging product process interior interaction user experience Web and service design to name but a few You see expecting great design is no longer the preserve of a picky design-obsessed urban elite - that aesthetically sensitive clique who d never dare leave the house without their Philippe Starck eyewear and turtleneck sweaters and buy only the right kind of Scandinavian furniture Instead there s a new mass expectation of good design that products and services will be better thought through simplified made more intuitive elegant and more enjoyable to use Design has finally become democratized and we marketers find ourselves with new standards to meet in this new era of design To illustrate Apple the epitome of a design-led organization now has a market capitalization of 570 billion larger than the GDP of Switzerland Its revenue is double Microsoft s a similar type of technology organization but one not truly led by design just compare Microsoft Windows with Apple s Lion operating system Adam Swann 5 03 2012 Forbes Fig 1 Mille Miglia bicycle by VIVA http www vivabikes com http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2749 Wed, 09 May 2012 22:39:54 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2731 As a young academic I am reliably informed that the landscape of scholarly communication is not what it was 20 years ago But despite all that has changed it seems that we still largely rely upon the same tired and narrow measures of quality and academic impact - namely citation counts and journal impact factors As someone who has used the internet in almost every aspect of their academic work to date it s hard for me to ignore the fact that these mechanisms in predating the web largely ignore its effects By holding up these measures as incentives we appear to have our eye firmly fixed on the hammer and not the nail adjusting our research habits in order to maximise scores and ignoring issues such as why we publish in the first place Matthew Gamble 28 July 2011 Times Higher Education http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2731 Sun, 29 Apr 2012 17:11:15 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2725 Dribbble is a community of designers answering that question each day Web designers graphic designers illustrators icon artists typographers logo designers and other creative types share small screenshots that show their work process and current projects Dribbble is a place to show and tell promote discover and explore design Rich Thornett amp Dan Cederholm http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2725 Fri, 20 Apr 2012 18:43:04 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2718 Thomson Thomson Reuters makes the proprietary bibliography software EndNote and claims that Zotero is causing its commercial business irreparable harm and is wilfully and intentionally destroying Thomson s customer base In particular Thomson is demanding that GMU stop distributing the newer beta-version of Zotero that allegedly allows EndNote s proprietary data format for storing journal citation styles to be converted into an open-standard format readable by Zotero and other software Thomson claims that Zotero reverse engineered or decompiled not only the format but also the EndNote software itself Litigation which may go to a jury trial is pending so judging this case on its legal merits would be premature But on a more general level the virtues of interoperability and easy data-sharing among researchers are worth restating Imagine if Microsoft Word or Excel files could be opened and saved only in these proprietary formats for example It would be impossible for OpenOffice and other such software to read and save these files using open standards - as they can legally do Competition between open-source and proprietary software is long-running as personified by the struggle between Windows and Linux for desktop and server operating systems but also in many branches of software used by scientists Researchers tend to lean towards open sharing but they will also pay for added-value features and it s important that the playing field is level Ultimately the customer is king Nature p 708 Nature Volume 455 p 708 9 October 2008 doi 10 1038 455708a Published online 8 October 2008 Nature Publishing Group a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2718 Sun, 15 Apr 2012 20:00:12 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2716 The project had three overarching aims to improve image searching and retrieval to enable VADS images to be accessed more easily and to facilitate increased use of the collection by academics To achieve this the project has developed OAI-PMH capabilities on the VADS database developed and applied a general top level hierarchical taxonomy to the VADS collections implemented a combination of controlled terms and free to edit user tags and enabled academic users to create annotate and publish their own image sets Amy Robinson August 2009 p 4 Fig 1 French photographer JR http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2716 Sun, 15 Apr 2012 15:10:57 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2709 Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature From one place you can search across many disciplines and sources articles theses books abstracts and court opinions from academic publishers professional societies online repositories universities and other web sites Google Scholar helps you find relevant work across the world of scholarly research Google Inc Fig 1 Uploaded by Google on 6 Jan 2012 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2709 Sat, 14 Apr 2012 22:30:50 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2698 Zootool is about collecting organizing and sharing your favorite images videos documents and links from all over the internet We are a small bootstrapped startup located in Mannheim Germany Driven by a passion for design web code and all kind of nerdery we are working hard to built the most awesome bookmark tool for geeks like us and people who love the web Bastian Allgeier Hartmut W ouml hlbier and Nicolas Cormier http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2698 Thu, 12 Apr 2012 21:38:29 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2692 Launched July 2006 discontinued July 2011 Intute as the new best of the Web service has been created in response to users needs and the changing Internet information environment It is a free national service enabling lecturers researchers and students to discover and access quality Internet resources Intute exists to advance education and research by promoting the most intelligent use of the Internet Intute works through evaluation and collaboration It has massive potential to deliver a service on a national level which responds to those fundamental principles of librarians and information professionals namely trust quality and ease of use and user empowerment in the ever-changing and complex world of education Intute is hosted by MIMAS at The University of Manchester and is a collaboration among a whole host of partners and contributors At the heart of the organisation is a consortium of seven universities bringing together a wealth of expertise and knowledge Intute is funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee JISC with support from the Arts and Humanities Research Council AHRC and the Economic and Social Research Council ESRC Caroline Williams 2006 Williams C 2006 Intute The New Best of the Web Ariadne July 2006 48 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2692 Tue, 10 Apr 2012 15:19:37 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2690 The VADS Fine Art Project aims to bring together through a distributed digitisation model artworks from across Higher Education Institutes HEIs that can serve to exemplify the history and achievement of fine art education and practice in this country since its inception in the 1850s In the initial stages of the project a survey was sent out to all the Higher Education Institutions in the UK that taught fine art in order to elicit whether or not student and staff work had been kept or documented From this survey it was found that many colleges failed or had ceased to collect artworks due to the cost implications of purchasing storing and insuring the works leading to the output of many art colleges remaining undocumented As the Fine Art Project progressed protocols for the digital capture documentation and copyright clearance of work were established These were then used to collect works from around the country to be included in the National Fine Art Education Digital Collection However given their inherent useable and easily applicable nature it was thought the same protocols could be just as useful to digitally capture document and rights-clear works within HEIs as and when they were being produced This would make it far easier and affordable for colleges to capture and maintain collections of their present and past work as well as offering additional benefits such as making them widely available on the Internet or for other publishing requirements Ed Bremner 1 September 2003 last modified 28th March 2006 Institute for Learning and Research Technology http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2690 Tue, 10 Apr 2012 13:51:05 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2689 AHDS Visual Arts is based at the Farnham Campus of The University College for the Creative Arts at Canterbury Epsom Farnham Maidstone and Rochester and is one of five Centres which together with an Executive make up the Arts and Humanities Data Service AHDS The AHDS and AHDS Visual Arts are funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council AHRC and the Joint Information Systems Committee JISC Mission AHDS Visual Arts mission is to support research learning and teaching by providing visual arts digital resources through robust systems for Internet access and long term preservation and to encourage support and facilitate engagement with visual arts digital resources through collaborative and creative endeavour primarily within UK Higher and Further Education AHDS Visual Arts 2003 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2689 Tue, 10 Apr 2012 13:35:08 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2587 Zotero is an easy-to-use yet powerful research tool that helps you gather organize and analyze sources citations full texts web pages images and other objects and lets you share the results of your research in a variety of ways An extension to the popular open-source web browser Firefox Zotero includes the best parts of older reference manager software like EndNote - the ability to store author title and publication fields and to export that information as formatted references - and the best parts of modern software and web applications like iTunes and del icio us such as the ability to interact tag and search in advanced ways Zotero integrates tightly with online resources it can sense when users are viewing a book article or other object on the web and - on many major research and library sites - find and automatically save the full reference information for the item in the correct fields Since it lives in the web browser it can effortlessly transmit information to and receive information from other web services and applications since it runs on one s personal computer it can also communicate with software running there such as Microsoft Word And it can be used offline as well e g on a plane in an archive without WiFi Dan Cohen amp Sean Takats http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2587 Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:43:35 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2586 I ve increasingly felt that digital journalism and digital humanities are kindred spirits and that more commerce between the two could be mutually beneficial That sentiment was confirmed by the extremely positive reaction on Twitter to a brief comment I made on the launch of Knight-Mozilla OpenNews including from Jon Christensen of the Bill Lane Center for the American West at Stanford and formerly a journalist Shana Kimball MPublishing University of Michigan Tim Carmody Wired and Jenna Wortham New York Times Here s an outline of some of the main areas where digital journalism and digital humanities could profitably collaborate It s remarkable upon reflection how much overlap there now is and I suspect these areas will only grow in common importance Dan Cohen s Digital Humanities Blog http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2586 Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:13:33 +1000