Archive for July, 2007

Memory preservation and technology

July 26, 2007 at 3:49 pm · Filed under Institutional

 Ahmed Baba Institute-Timbuktu

Thousands of manuscripts covering human rights, legislations, music and astronomy are some of the records of the people of Timbuktu stored in primitive formats and difficult to make available to an international audience.

As from next year, it will be very easy to consult some of these documents online as the Ahmed Baba Institute in Timbuktu, plans to make their collections available online, after many years of scanning and storage in a database with the assistance of the government of south africa.

Source :  The Guardian Weekly, 13 July 2007

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Technology adds value to journalism

July 21, 2007 at 4:19 pm · Filed under Institutional

The advent of typewriters was a big progress in the history of newspaper publishing and personal computers and word processing software made newspaper reporting easier. Now news editors in their desire for active readership introduced the principle of breaking news on the spur of the moment. By suppling laptops, digital cameras and audio recorders to local correspondents for quicker, effective and a better coverage of local news.

 Once local correspondents are able to write their stories, send it to the newspaper intranet editor, the story is edited and made available to online readers in a couple of minutes. It may not even be mentioned in the print edition of the same paper and directly or indirectly, newspaper readers are developing online reading habits.

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Translation and technology

July 11, 2007 at 8:15 am · Filed under Business Tools

Electronic record management is now part of memory preservation in the corporate world. Just like  the use of technology in law, business research and library sciences. And in a sector like translation, trados, a translation software, is fast becoming an essential component of the tool kit of any professional translator.

www.translationzone.com

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Patient information and technology

July 2, 2007 at 1:41 pm · Filed under Business Tools

Some people call it, better doctor-patient relations, some describe  this, as the use of technology to disseminate clinical information and specialists dubbed it as translational medicine.

Whatever the classification people give to it, this is simply the process, where a patient is diagnosed with a particular disease, treatment and the provision of information relevant to the side effects of the treatment recommended.

-usually by retriving information related to the risks and therapy decisions from people with similar social and medical characteristics, from a database and in this case, it’s the oracle database10 g.

Source Oracle Magazine : May 2007

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