Data Deluge Swamps Science Historians. London In a vault beneath the British Library here, Jeremy Leighton John grapples with a formidable challenge in digital life.
Dr. John, the library's first curator of eManuscripts, is working on ways to archive the deluge of computer data swamping scientists so that future generations can authenticate today's discoveries and better understand the people who made them. Digication e-Portfolios: Home. ETDs from the Digital Library and Archives, University Libraries, Virginia Tech. Virginia Tech's Electronic Theses and Dissertations VT ETDs are migrating into VTech Works!
21,363 will move from the ETD Database to join the >1,380 most current ETDs already in VTechWorks. Virginia Tech has been a worldwide leader in ETD initiatives for more than 20 years. On January 1, 1997 VT was the first university to require ETDs. Open Source Portfolio. Teaching Generation Z » Blog Archive » E-Portfolio Research Wiki Finalised. Boy, this has been a bit drawn out – mainly through my own procrastination and inferior time management skills.
My report for the 2006 ICT Learning Grants is up on the wiki where I originally started my efforts. By real research standards, you wouldn’t even call what I’ve cobbled together as “research” but it does represent thinking changed and challenged over a period of time examining an idea that many people in education immediately think is good without any further clarification. The report had to be submitted in a proprietary Word document format but I’ve extracted all of the interesting stuff and pasted it (not without formatting issues) into the wiki so anyone interested or referenced can take a look.