Monthly Archives: July 2009

Mashing up the present – Elsevier dips toe into Article of the Future

ReadWriteWeb has an article on Elsevier’s Article of the Future. As commentators sense, this appears to be a concentration of curent technologies. Also, as one commentator has mentioned, Elsevier has an expensive paywall around them and true innovation would be allowing the articles to be published for free (as in speech and beer), especially if […]

July 26, 2009 – 9:32 am | By iain_emsley | Posted in Information Retrieval | Tagged , | Comments (2)

Mining the Letters of Charles Dickens

As an aside I’ve started  a small project to begin visualising ways of searching the letters of Charles Dickens and exploring the Simile library which MIT have produced. Its originally an extension to the D-Space repository tool but Rufus Pollock used in the Open Knowledge Foundation’s Weaving History project – to which I contributed the […]

July 14, 2009 – 7:41 am | By iain_emsley | Posted in Information Retrieval, Text Mining | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Twittering RSS

The slowness or lack of real time on RSS feeds has reared its head again in terms of getting news out quickly and in “real-time”. Erick Schonfeld on Techcrunch wants to speed them up and  John Biggs has decided that RSS needs to RIP. I’ve been working on Twittering RSS feeds for the JISCMail service […]

July 13, 2009 – 11:28 am | By iain_emsley | Posted in Information Retrieval | Tagged , | Comments (0)