I’m looking forward to seeing how Christopher Dede, Timothy E. Wirth Professor in Learning Technologies at Harvard University, plans to relate cyberinfrastructure to learning technologies at his talk Teaching and Learning via Cyberinfrastructure on Nov 7, 2006. Much of the cyberinfrastructure discussion I’ve seen has focused on the research implications of this new tech-infrastructure. Will […]
This morning, several of my colleagues and I listened to Planning and Delivering Service-Oriented Architecture, presented by Marty Backer and Christopher De Rosa, both of UCSD. (See the accompanying Powerpoint slides. Audio is also available from the presentation page.) I will recommend this talk to my colleagues and managers — there is a lot there. […]
Just hot off the press: start Zotero Developer Documentation. Developers, start your engines! (I’ve printed them out already and am already pondering how I’m supposed to add data from an external process without directly touching the zotero.sqlite file….)
new IT architecture books Originally uploaded by Raymond Yee. Today, after receiving my book order of Understanding Enterprise SOA and Semantics in Business Systems: The Savvy Managers Guide from amazon.com, I set out to start re-reading them in earnest. I’m looking to them to help shape my understanding of service-oriented architecture and the infrastructure we […]
I often turn to Educause for a specifically higher ed take on information technology. Lately, I’ve started wondering how other universities are responding to all the talk and much hype around service oriented architectures. A good place to start is the Service-oriented Architecture section on the Educause website. I’ve printed out the slides from a […]
A friend just asked me how the trackback mechanism actually works. I’ll refer him to the trackback technical specification but want to link to an entry in my JazzUpTheWeb blog to see whether a trackback shows up. later: yes, the reference worked but I learned that it’s a pingback, not a trackback, that is being […]
I’m reading Dave McComb’s Semantics in Business Systems: The Savvy Managers Guide, thanks to my colleague Thom King. Skimming the book left me with the impression that I can grok the essential message of the book but I won’t be able to get to the real depths unless I carefully re-read the book. To that […]
As a data architect, though I’m usually focused on the backend systems, I also deal with clients. I’m also part of a larger organization that deals with with many customers beyond my area of work. I will have to refer the folks designing our customer service operation to a recent article by David Pogue, Business […]
From Are You Ready for Enterprise Architecture?, we find wise words on expressing the value of IT architecture to our constituents: The purpose of establishing IT standards is to reduce complexity and increase efficiencies through consolidation and improved collaboration. You will find that standards enable an IT team to do more with less. You can […]
On July 18, 2006, I officially took on a new role at UC Berkeley. As part of a reorganization, I became a data architect working for the Data Services Department of Information Services and Technology at the University of California, Berkeley. Only the day before, I was the Technology Architect for the Interactive University Project. […]