Two words from the second half of Spotlight on Web 2.0 12-8-06 1-5-07 FridayLive! TLT Group Online Institute resonated with me: self-service disaggregation In the session, I also learned about the course ETEC 527: Technologies for Instructional Delivery. To dig deeper into digital humanities, I will read A Companion to Digital Humanities, ed. Susan Schreibman, […]
In doing some basic thinking about ERP at universities, I found the following references helpful: Enterprise resource planning – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia provides a good generic summary. Open source ERP InfoWorld Analysis 2005-08-08 By Oliver Rist: Does open source help out in the ERP space? I would think so in the long term. But […]
As I try to sort through the hype of SOA, I found the following articles useful reads over the holidays: CIO Blogs – Is SOA Another Fake Path to IT Agility? . Yes, designing reusable services is not an easy process. I think that people need to learn how be discriminating “consumers” of services before […]
CNI2006fall EDUCAUSE CONNECT has some good interviews to listen to get a feel for the national IT scene in higher education. Mashups mix data into global service : Nature is a one-year old article on mashups in scientific computation: Will 2006 be the year of the mashup? Originally used to describe the mixing together of […]
I’m rather sympathetic to the view that IT Architects Must Write Code — or at least should be capable of writing prototyping code. I find A Conversation with Werner Vogels quite an inspiring picture of what we might be able to build at UC. Rice University News & Media: Rice University and IBM will collaborate […]
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 […]