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D-Lib May 2005 Seales & Landon |
The Museum and the Media Divide: Building and Using Digital Collections at the Instituto de Cultura Puertorriquena A look at the challenges involved in acquiring, organizing and accessing museum collections to make them meaningfully available within typical budgetary and technical constraints. |
D-Lib Mar/Apr 2009 George V. Landon |
Toward Digitizing All Forms of Documentation Techniques to digitize numerous forms of documentation, including deteriorated manuscripts and photography. |
Chemistry World September 23, 2014 Katrina Kramer |
One-shot tomography gives atomic-scale 3D images Researchers from Germany and China have developed a method to obtain a 3D image of a nanocrystal, with atomic resolution, using just a single 1D snapshot. |
D-Lib May/Jun 2015 Xu & Wang |
Semantic Description of Cultural Digital Images: Using a Hierarchical Model and Controlled Vocabulary We propose a semantic description framework for content description, based on information needs and retrieval theory. The framework combines the semantic description with a domain thesaurus. |
Technology Research News June 1, 2005 Kimberly Patch |
Camera Sees Behind Objects Researchers have put together a projector-camera system that can pull off a classic magic trick: it can read a playing card that is facing away from the camera. |
D-Lib May/Jun 2007 Saidis & Delis |
Type-consistent Digital Objects This article provides an overview of the Digital Object Prototype framework and highlights its type-conformance capabilities and shows how heterogeneous digital material can be treated in a uniform manner without resorting to custom developments. |
D-Lib August 2003 Gladney & Bennett |
What Do We Mean by Authentic? What's the Real McCoy? Authenticity is among digital document security properties needing attention. Literature focused on preservation reveals uncertainty -- even confusion -- about what we might mean by authentic. This article provides a solid, useful definition that spans vernacular usage of "authentic." |
D-Lib June 2001 John S. Erickson |
A Digital Object Approach to Interoperable Rights Management Fine-grained policy enforcement enabled by a digital object infrastructure... |
D-Lib Nov/Dec 2012 Joan E. Beaudoin |
Context and Its Role in the Digital Preservation of Cultural Objects In discussions surrounding digital preservation, context -- those properties of an object related to its creation and preservation that make the object's origins, composition, and purpose clear -- has been identified as a critical aspect of preservation metadata. |
Chemistry World December 17, 2009 Lewis Brindley |
Nanoscale 3D imaging in a single shot The process works by bouncing a single beam of x-rays off an object, then collecting the scattered wave pattern using a curved detector. |
JavaWorld November 2001 Michael J. Rettig |
Reflection vs. code generation You can use the power of Java's Reflection API to reduce tedious code writing, and use active code generation to overcome reflection limitations... |
D-Lib Jan/Feb 2010 Reilly & Tupelo-Schneck |
Digital Object Repository Server: A Component of the Digital Object Architecture This paper introduces the Digital Object Repository Server, the most recent instantiation of the Corporation for National Research Initiatives' repository work. |
Technology Research News July 30, 2003 Eric Smalley |
VR accommodates reality Virtual reality systems could use a bigger dose of reality to cure their tendency to leave users empty-handed. A system that makes real objects players in virtual environments creates a hands-on experience. |
JavaWorld March 2001 Brian Goetz |
Design for performance, Part 3: Remote interfaces Many common Java performance problems stem from class design decisions made early in the design process, long before most developers even start thinking about performance. This article examines performance issues specific to remote applications... |
D-Lib October 2006 |
An Interoperable Fabric for Scholarly Value Chains It is possible to build scholarly value chains across heterogeneous, distributed repositories. It is also possible to record audit trails of scholarly value chains into the very foundation of the scholarly communication system. |
PC Magazine March 2, 2004 Christine Saucier |
Add a 3D Atmosphere to Your Web Site Adobe is looking to extend its digital content creation franchise with a brand new tool for creating 3D environments for the Web. |
Technology Research News June 15, 2005 |
Single Camera Measures Speed Researchers have improved a method of determining depth information using a single camera. The advance allows a single camera to detect the speed of objects and could be used anywhere robotic vision is needed. |
Linux Journal May 8, 2003 Anthony W. Kay |
Lighting Simulation with Radiance Radiance is a physical lighting simulation system written primarily by Greg Ward Larson. The package produces great-looking images that are output in a special format that records both the texture and physical lighting of a scene, much like the professional products LightScape and VIZ 4 by Autodesk. |
JavaWorld April 2001 Piet Jonas |
Secure type-safe collections A framework that overcomes the standard Java Collections Framework's main problem: its containers lack the ability to restrict themselves to storing objects of a specific type. The solution uses reflection, wrapper classes, and a collection of static factory methods... |
D-Lib June 2005 Jantz & Giarlo |
Digital Preservation: Architecture and Technology for Trusted Digital Repositories To ensure that current digital archives can be trusted to be available in the future, methods, practices, and standards need to be defined. |
Technology Research News December 1, 2004 |
Multicamera Surveillance Automated Researchers have developed a multi-camera surveillance system that allows the user to indicate an object in one view and automatically zoom to that object in all other views. |
IEEE Spectrum December 2008 Meredith Ringel Morris |
Slideshow: Tabletop Computers Forget the keyboard, mouse, and display as you take this photo tour through the development of surface computing. The desk is the computer |
D-Lib December 2007 Andrew Waugh |
The Design and Implementation of an Ingest Function to a Digital Archive During the design and implementation of public record digital archive, considerable attention was paid to the ingest function that accessions digital objects into the archive. In this article the design of the ingest function, and the lessons learned about ingest are described. |
Macworld September 2004 Ben Long |
iModeller 3D Professional 2.0 If you need to make custom 3-D models but can't spare the time or expense, VR Interactive's iModeller 3D Professional 2.0 can help. |
Popular Mechanics July 2007 Glenn Derene |
Microsoft Surface: Behind-the-Scenes First Look (with Video) An inside look at what Microsoft has been developing: a computer with no cords, no keyboards, no mouse, and no USB ports. |
D-Lib Nov/Dec 2010 Massart et al. |
Taming the Metadata Beast: ILOX Information for Learning Object eXchange, is developed as part of the IMS Learning Object Discovery & Exchange specification specification that aims to facilitate the discovery and retrieval of learning objects stored across more than one collection. |
IEEE Spectrum April 2012 Gregory L. Matloff |
Deflecting Asteroids A solar sail could use light to nudge an earthbound rock into an orbit we could live with |
HHMI Bulletin Fall 2012 R. John Davenport |
Hanchuan Peng: SmartScopes Even when he launched his career as an engineer and computer scientist, Hanchuan Peng was drawn to the beauty of biology. He is a leader in developing sophisticated ways to make sense of biological images. |
D-Lib August 2006 Robert Tansley |
Building a Distributed, Standards-based Repository Federation: The China Digital Museum Project This article presents the architecture developed for the China Digital Museum Project, a collaborative project involving the Chinese Ministry of Education, Hewlett-Packard Company and several Chinese universities, with Beihang University as the main technical partner. |
Popular Mechanics July 24, 2009 Erin McCarthy |
How Effects Wizards Transformed G-Force From 2D to 3D When Disney asked if the director could make the new movie, G-Force in 3D, he turned to VFX house Sony Pictures Imageworks, which was already creating the film's animated guinea pigs, to figure out how to do it. |
JavaWorld April 2001 Geoff Friesen |
Object-oriented language basics, Part 1 An introduction to object-oriented programming and how to declare classes and create objects from those classes... |
Technology Research News September 5, 2005 |
Finding Information on the 'Net Although the reach of today's search engines seems impressive, collectively they have indexed only about half of all publicly available Web pages. Here are ways to garner more information from the Web. |
Technology Research News February 25, 2004 |
Scans pick up object orientation Researchers in Spain have improved the process of pattern recognition with a method of mapping three-dimensional objects in a way that records every possible point of view of the object. The method could be used to inspect the orientation and shapes of manufactured goods, and also for face recognition. |
Home Toys February 2005 Terry Coffey |
Choosing a Front Projection Screen Today's projection screens are much more sophisticated than the old bedsheet on a clunky tripod your dad used to drag out of the closet to show Super-8 home movies. Here are a few choices you may face. Permanent vs. portable?... Surface mounted or recessed?... etc. |
Chemistry World January 11, 2016 Tim Wogan |
Ceramics made stronger with 3D printing A new method for 3D printing ceramic microlattices has been developed by researchers in the US. |
Technology Research News August 10, 2005 |
Textures ID paper and plastic Forgeries, however clever, could be a thing of the past thanks to a method of uniquely identifying paper and plastic surfaces. |