Category Archives: Web Infrastructure

An infrastructure service anti-pattern

Posted on December 7, 2009 by paulwalk

Last week I outlined an idea, that of the service anti-pattern, as part of a presentation I gave to the Resource Discovery Taskforce (organised by JISC in partnership with RLUK). The idea seemed to really catch the interest of and … Continue reading →

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Not ready to wave goodbye to email

Posted on October 7, 2009 by paulwalk

Last week I posted a remark on Twitter: Can’t help thinking that the idea that Google Wave will replace email rather misses the point…. The first response to this echoed my view on this suggesting that the real nature of … Continue reading →

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HEIs Get Facebook Fever (again)

Posted on June 14, 2009 by paulwalk

Facebook rolled out its ‘usernames‘ function today. This is a new feature at Facebook which allows a user to claim their little bit of the Facebook namespace, along the lines of: http://www.facebook.com/[preferred_name]/ The process started at 05:00 am UK local … Continue reading →

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OpenID and name authority

Posted on January 22, 2009 by paulwalk

In his Science in the Open blog Cameron Neylon has written an interesting post, A Specialist OpenID Service to Provide Unique Researcher IDs? in which he asks: Good citation practice lies at the core of good science. The value of … Continue reading →

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Push or pull?

Posted on January 8, 2009 by paulwalk

A brief comment, as I hop across the North Sea back to Bristol. With the news that arXiv will now accept deposits from institutional repositories, Dorothea Salo continues her theme about a deposit flow which goes from author, to institutional … Continue reading →

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Europeana, numbers and scalable architectures

Posted on December 9, 2008 by paulwalk

I just got around to reading the press release issued after the collapse of Europeana (previously the more easily pronounced ‘European Digital Library’) following its launch a couple of weeks ago. If you go to the site now, you are … Continue reading →

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Library hackers FTW

Posted on November 28, 2008 by paulwalk

Yesterday I went along to Mashed Library UK 2008 in London. Quickly abbreviated to ‘mashlib’, the event was the brain-child of Owen Stephens. Owen did most of the organising, aided by David Flanders who provided the space at BirkBeck college, … Continue reading →

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Infrastructure

Posted on November 26, 2008 by paulwalk

I was recently invited to join the JISC Resource Discovery Infrastructure Taskforce – the first meeting was yesterday. We had been given some background material, and a couple of people (Owen Stephens and Paul Miller) were asked to present ideas … Continue reading →

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One-way bridges and interim solutions

Posted on October 28, 2008 by paulwalk

In my previous post about QR codes I made a couple of points which, after receiving some interesting comments, I’d like to expand on. “I see them [QR codes] occasionally on blogs/web-pages but I just don’t much see the point … Continue reading →

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“Any any any old data”

Posted on October 7, 2008 by paulwalk

Over on ZDNet, Paul Miller has blogged some thoughts about what he calls the ‘Data Cloud’. He points out that in the evolution of the ‘cloud computing’ paradigm, the: …emphasis for much of this wider discussion remains firmly rooted in … Continue reading →

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