247 research outputs found
Rights issues for digital video
No full textAn examination of the legal, technical and policy issues surrounding digital video resources in higher education
NJVid: New Jersey Statewide Digital Video Portal
No full textPresentation to the 2008 Spring StatesNet meeting describing the development and technical functionality of the statewide digital video portal, NJVid.NJVid is funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services and is a collaboration of William Paterson, NJEdge and Rutgers University. The three year project will offer three collections, the NJVid Commons collection of freely available videos, commercial collections at participating organizations and lectures captured in the classroom by participating educators
The Rutgers Workflow Management System: Migrating a Digital Object Management Utility to Open Source
No full textThis article examines the development, architecture, and future plans for the Workflow Management System, software developed by Rutgers University Libraries (RUL) to create and catalog digital objects for repository ingest and access. The Workflow Management System (WMS) was created as a front-end utility for the Fedora open source repository platform and a vehicle for a flexible, extensible metadata architecture, to serve the information needs of a large university and its collaborators. The next phase of development for the WMS shifted to a re-engineering of the WMS as an open source application. This paper discusses the design and architecture of the WMS, its re-engineering for open source release, remaining issues to be addressed before application release, and future development plans for the WMS
Money piece by Timothy P. Agnew, chief executive officer of the Finance Author
No full textMoney piece by Timothy P. Agnew, chief executive officer of the Finance Authority of Maine, about the increased availability of credit for Maine\u27s small businesses
The Role of the Data Model
No full textOur focus is on a basic conceptual data model, the Entity-Relationship model. This data model identifies the entities that have a role in the intellectual content or purpose of the resource(s) to be described, as well as the relationships between those entities. A good data model should provide the context for the resource—why was it created, by whom, when, where, and for what purpose
DRM and the Repository
No full textThis presentation provides a state of the art overview of digital rights management technology and practice, discusses DRM within the context of the repository and recommends a research agenda and action plan for the repository community. It was presented at the Open Repositories 2008 conference in Southampton, England, 9 April 2008
J. Agnew, Making political geography
Get PDFThis book is an interesting introduction to political geography. The author gives a good idea of what political geography used to be, what it is and what it will be. First, he discusses the terms of political geography : Politics and place ? Geopolitics ?... Finally, political geography is always the meeting point of geography and politics. In a second step, Agnew explains the history of the thinkers in political geography, from the French and the German school to the postmodernist wave, wi..
The Battle of the Windmill Revisited: As recounted by Lieutenant Andrew Agnew, 93rd Highland Regiment of Foot, 8 December 1838
Get PDFThe failure of William Lyon McKenzie, Louis Joseph Papineau, and other like-minded reformers to bring about meaningful change in the political, economic, and social structure of Upper and Lower Canada in 1837 did not end the greater possibility of rebellion, and in fact a greater threat came in 1838, with widespread filibustering along the American border. On 11 November 1838, a force of about 400 men set out from New York State for Prescott, Upper Canada, its goal being the capture of Fort Wellington and the severance of communications between Upper and Lower Canada. The force, led by Nils von Schoultz, a true character in every sense of the word, landed and took up positions in a windmill and six stone house at the village of New Jerusalem, where they intended to hold out until reinforcements arrived from Ogdensburg, New York, and from Upper Canada itself. The reinforcements never arrived and the ‘sympathizers’ were left to fight a strong force of British regulars and militia.
Contemporary accounts of the Battle of Windmill are difficult to find, and are often limited in scope. Several brief accounts have been reprinted in J.A. Morris, Prescott 1810–1967 (1967), and accounts of the conflict may also be found in contemporary issues of the Kingston Chronicle and Gazette. However, the information remains somewhat cursory and limited in colour and detail. The letter reprinted below was written on 8 December 1838, the very day Nils von Schoultz was executed, by an officer of the 93rd Highland Regiment of Foot who had taken an active part in the conflict. The letter’s author, Lieutenant Andrew Agnew of Lochnaw, was the eldest son of one of southern Scotland’s prominent landed families
Ductus of the Syriac Language
No full textA noted scribe demonstrates the proper way to write Syraic according to the received calligraphic tradition
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