FuseCal - The Web's Events in Your Calendar. Introducing djatoka: A Reuse Friendly, Open Source JPEG 2000 Ima. Abstract The ISO-standardized JPEG 2000 image format has started to attract significant attention. Support for the format is emerging in major consumer applications, and the cultural heritage community seriously considers it a viable format for digital preservation.
So far, only commercial image servers with JPEG 2000 support have been available. They come with significant license fees and typically provide the customers with limited extensibility capabilities. 1. The Digital Library Research & Prototyping Team at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) enjoys tackling challenging problems.
Around the same time, we anticipated a concrete need to introduce a solution to disseminate high-resolution images stored in our aDORe repository [3,4]. 2. There are hardly any challenges involved in disseminating sizeable images on the Web. There are many image dissemination platforms available, including Lizardtech's GeoExpress, Luna Imaging's Media Manager, the eRez Imaging Server, and Zoomify. Library Application Program Interfaces (APIs) | TechEssence.info. Playdar - Music Content Resolver. XMind - Social Brainstorming and Mind Mapping. Main Page - FreeMind - free mind mapping software.
Creative Spaces | Home | British Museum. Open Source Graph or Network Visualization Written in Java. R.E.M. Releases New Videos Under Open Source License - ReadWrite. R.E.M. today released 11 videos for the first song from their forthcoming album, all in MP4 format in HD and under an open source license. “Supernatural Serious,” is the first single from the band’s next album, “Accelerate,” due to be released April 1st. Viewers are encouraged to remix the videos and share them on the song’s YouTube page. The band will not be doing a Radiohead and offering the album for free, but this is an interesting twist somewhere in between that approach and the standard industry practice. The HD format will allow remixers to pan and scan within the video, but it also makes for a monster file size to work with.
R.E.M. is big-time stuff though, so presumably there’s a healthy number of production artists just waiting to work their magic on the file. R.E.M.’s primary site is here, where you can – as they say – “Hear the Song/Buy the Ringtone.” The license selected for the project seems a bit unclear. No such thing as an OPEN lunch? We throw around the word ‘open’ quite a bit these days. Occasionally we try to be clear about our use. We all know ‘open’ is good, but we don’t all mean the same thing when we say it. Sometimes we think of ‘open’ as being transparent (in terms of public processes/participation), impartial (non-proprietary), available (easily accessed), and without restrictions. Sometimes it also means free. XML and TCP/IP are examples with all these characteristics. But not all ‘open’ things have all of those characteristics – or even any of them. Open doesn’t always mean free. Many uses of the word ‘open’ have very specific meanings.
Open system can refer to software which can interact via publicly available interfaces, but is not itself necessarily ‘open’. Open source is a set of principles for software, primarily indicating that the source code is freely available and manipulable. Open content describes published creative works that explicitly allow copying and modification of the information. Top Web Apps & Sites of 2007 - ReadWriteWeb. It's the end of the year and so time for 'best of' and prediction posts, which are a lot of fun. Today I've been re-organizing my Firefox bookmarks, which made me reflect on which web apps and sites I've used the most this year.
I encourage you all to add your own most used web apps in the comments. I've experimented with and tested many more, but in the final analysis you can't go past the usage metric. In no particular order, but loosely categorized, my favorites of '07 were: RSS Reader: Google Reader (with an ongoing interest in Bloglines Beta, Newsgator, and fav.or.it) I used to be Bloglines' biggest fan. I still love what they're doing, especially since Eric Engleman came on board and re-energized development.
One new RSS Reader to watch is fav.or.it, which is doing some innovative work including integrating comments. See 2007: The Year in RSS for more details on this market. Start Page: Pageflakes, Netvibes Tech News: Techmeme, Original Signal Online Music: last.fm Web Email: Gmail. Sexy Librarians of the Future Will Help You Upload Your Videos t. A new poll from Harris Interactive was released this morning, finding that US respondents are more excited about watching mainstream, commercial content like full length TV shows and movies online than are about watching User Generated Content, news or sports video. While hardly surprising, I don't think it has to be this way forever.
Who could help improve this landscape by maximizing the impact of the read/write web? Super sexy librarians, that's who! The Harris poll provoked two trains of thought in my mind. First, would these numbers change if high-quality and relevant videos were easier to find on sites like YouTube? Harris Poll on Feelings About YouTube The second thought this study brought to mind is that even these numbers don't look too bad for amateur or user generated video. Finding good stuff online is going to be a huge market opportunity in the near-term future. Would that be great, or what?