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How Co-Authoring Addresses the Limitations of File Sharing
Are standard document management and desktop publishing tools falling flat for your collaboration? Learn how this new approach can improve your strategy.
Big data - Wikipedia
Growth of and digitization of global information-storage capacity [1] Big data is data sets that are so voluminous and complex that traditional data processing application software are inadequate to deal with them. Big data challenges include capturing data , data storage , data analysis , search, sharing , transfer , visualization , querying , updating and information privacy . There are five dimensions to big data…
Ten simple rules for collaboratively writing a multi-authored paper
¶‡ MAF is the lead author. All authors contributed equally to this work. Besides for MAF, author order was computed randomly. Affiliation Australian Rivers Institute, Griffith University, Nathan, Queensland, Australia ⨯ ⨯ ⨯ ⨯ Marieke A. Frassl, Figures Citation: Frassl MA, Hamilton DP, Denfeld BA, de Eyto E, Hampton SE, Keller PS, et al. (2018) Ten simple rules for collaboratively writing a multi-authored paper. PLoS Comput…
Reach your customers at the right time with these social media scheduling tools
If you want to reach your customers on social media, then you need to post new content consistently. Social channels are getting increasingly busy, making it more and more difficult to get customers’ attention; what this means is, you need to post quality content consistently if you want them to see your updates – and act. Here is an in-depth look at some of the best social media scheduling tools for helping you reach your customers at the right time. Why schedule your…
Web Design from Scratch
One of the toughest things about being a web designer is keeping on top of all the marketing tools we have now, for publishing, tracking, emailing etc. etc. That’s a problem that’s only getting worse over time, because there are great new platforms and libraries popping up daily. So, to help, I thought I’d add a post to let you know ONLY the latest tools I’m using to design and publish amazing websites amazingly fast! I won’t go into long discussions on the…
COLLABORATION & SOCIAL STRATEGY: Part One
Collaboration & Social Strategy: Part One- Contemporary Collaboration Tools Collaboration & Social Strategy: Part One- Contemporary Collaboration Tools Katie Kurz Two or more people working together toward shared goals Collaboration is understood by the above definition, but the new technologies enabling collaboration can be confusing. This first in a series of blog posts attempts to define and give examples of various technologies that enable collaboration in…
Sharing science: Searchability, accessibility, and the future of academic publishing // Cogsci
Across these 38 journals, 14.544 articles were published in 2010. Not up until 2010, mind you: in 2010 alone. It is estimated that there are approximately 25.000 journals. Of course, not all journals publish the same number of articles. But still … So what does this mean? Firstly, it means that a journal is not really a journal anymore, and a paper is no longer really a paper. We are far removed from the times when eminent scientists published lengthy monographs in printed…
Creative Commons
“Overregulation stifles creativity. It smothers innovation. It gives dinosaurs a veto over the future. It wastes the extraordinary opportunity for a democratic creativity that digital technology enables.” Lawrence Lessig The simple way to explain intellectual property is to understand that all great expressions and products have an origin. A work of music, art, writing, film, or computer software belongs to its creators. Your creative expressions and…
CONTENT STRATEGY FOR INTRANETS: Part One—Metadata
Content Strategy for Intranets: Part One—Metadata Content Strategy for Intranets: Part One—Metadata ascendum Metadata is “data about data,” which is a confusing definition. This term is used frequently in content management. Whenever metadata is used, efforts should be made to remove this jargon from anything a consumer of information may use, such as an employee. Instead, refer to “types of content” and “descriptions of content.” Using…
SharePoint Consulting Services: Add Flattering Value to your Business
Are you confused with exclusive SharePoint features? Do you discover any issues while attempting to comprehend a fundamental file sharing process? Hunting down a master direction in web publishing …
Interview: Tim O’Reilly
Meet Free Software, internet and publishing visionary, Tim O’Reilly There are many memorable quotes attributed to Tim O’Reilly. Which isn’t surprising. He’s been talking for decades about open data, the internet and the direction technology is taking us. Like Arthur C Clarke, much of what he’s predicted, talked about and written has proven incredibly judicious. He popularised the ideas behind ‘Web 2.0’, as well as the…
Blockchain formation. The main chain (black) consists of the longest series of blocks from the genesis block (green) to the current block. Orphan blocks (purple) exist outside of the main chain. A blockchain, [1] [2] [3] originally block chain, [4] [5] is a continuously growing list of records , called blocks, which are linked and secured using cryptography . [1] [6] Each block typically contains a…
Building a Simple Geodata Service With Node, PostGIS, and Amazon RDS
This post describes the construction of a simple, lightweight geospatial data service using Node. You can use whatever workflow you prefer to load your spatial data. I downloaded the Natural Earth 1:10M country polygons for this effort. Once downloaded, I used the DB Manager extension to QGIS to import the data to PostgreSQL. I also did a test import with OGR . Both worked fine so it’s really a matter of preference. Building the Application I chose to use Node.js because it is…
