Some new technologies talked about at the Horizon.au Inaugural Meeting - July 2008

It has been an interesting day down in Melbourne brainstorming many of the technologies that might impact on the higher education sector in the next 5 years. This brainstorming is forming the basis of the upcoming Horizon.Au Report - a version of the Horizon Report tailored specifically for the Australian and New Zealand community.

The North American 2008 report is available from Horizon, and there is a special Museums Report coming very very soon too.

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Posted at 3pm on 10/07/08 | 2 comments | Filed Under: geotagging & mapping, Interactive Media

A web citation tool - dealing with impermanent references

We’re all working hard to ensure that our own content is identified with persistent URLs - a referrer that will stand the test of time - but often when we are writing a paper we need to refer to someone else’s URL, most of which are not designed to be permanent.

Traditionally when we reference something on a website we put ‘accessed on X date’ but that is of little use to a reader who follows

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Posted at 10am on 09/07/08 | 5 comments | Filed Under: Tools, Metadata


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