Archive for March, 2007

Software for building digital libraries

March 31, 2007 at 5:33 pm · Filed under Free Software

Software for building digital libraries

Ten years ago the creation of a digital library was something relegated to specialists and top flight IT people. But today the situation have changed considerably that online repositories can be created by anyone with fast internet connection and basic internet experience with one of these digital library technologies:

www.wordpress.org

www.plone.org

www.drupal.org

www.greenstone.org

www.postnuke.org

www.rubyonrails.org

www.turbogears.org

And these technologies have been tried and tested for the creation of the following digital libraries:www.digitalpast.org  www.westernsprinshistory.org

Sources: Computers In Libraries, March 2007 and The Library Journal, July 2006.

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A retail outlet without a cashier

March 24, 2007 at 7:03 pm · Filed under Business Tools

The initiative of lafermdedusart.com is a turning point in the use of technology because all the buyer has to do, is to live in proximity to lafermedusart, sign-up as a customer, and accomplish the following procedures during every visit to the boutique:

-runs his/her credit card within a terminal(RFID) and do the necessary password, to activate his/her account.

-take an electronic device that the customer will run on the product label of every item to be purchased.

-at the end of the customer shopping, the electronic device is swiped again through another terminal, that displays all the items in the client shopping basket with a list of the total price.

-at this stage, the transaction is completed when the client hits the “validate,” button to enable him walk out of the boutique with the items in his shopping basket. The technology that is powering the products of www.lafermedusart.com:

-50 FRID terminals developed by Pygamlyon, a french high tech company and

-wifi-access point and application servers.

Source: Micro Hebdo 465, March 16 2007.

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Technology and sports

March 17, 2007 at 6:34 pm · Filed under Blogroll, Free Software

Technology and sport events

Much has been said about how technology will take over most of the little things we do at home and for the moment, technology is part of managing sport infrastructure and events. For instance, with the use of StratFix(a web service) ticket agents can monitor in real time the seating arrangement in a stadium, many days before the events just with the aid of a web browser. Events can be filmed for training, stored,  retailed and used as a decision making tool during any event.

Source:  FT Digital Business, February 28, 2007

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High tech in the newsroom

March 10, 2007 at 7:06 pm · Filed under Blogroll

www.france24.com.  high tech in the newsroom

The new french television station started transmission many months ago and the new station newsroom (www.france24.com)  is equiped with the following materials:

Two  computer screens for every journalist,  a headset and each computer runs on the Windows operating system. The first screen is mainly for word processing work and the second screen is  for video editing, as video files come from TF1, France Television and other partners participating in the project  in different formats. Avid and Clipway are widely used software in France24.

Source : 01 Informatique, 15 decembre 2006

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iiccd.or

March 3, 2007 at 7:03 pm · Filed under Institutional

The international institute for communication and development

Technology is now in the corporate place, part of government policy making process but not within the reach of all, either in the western world or in underdeveloped countries. And that challenge to bring technology to the rural areas of the world is one of the tasks been tackled by www.iicd.org, a dutch-based not for profit body. The work of iicd is mainly in the form of teaching people how to use technology in eight countries, at the moment and there are plans to extend this project to other parts of the world.

Source: www.plone.org (see link on sites powered by plone)

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