Author: Craig
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The Semantic Web for Museums
Description Project Context: Mr Tom Worthington presented a week long workshop on the use of technology for museums of the Pacific islands region in July 2005. One of the recommendations made following the workshop was to investigate building an on-line repository of materials from across the Pacific. In second semester 2005, Kwok Chung, a computer…
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Game Activism
Some ten thousand Chinese protestors staged a demonstration on the weekend after a motif resembling a Hinomaru or “rising sun” Japanese flag was seen on a wall at a government office. Such large protests last took place in China two years ago when government-sanction anti-Japanese demonstrations broke out around the country after Japan approved school…
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Free and Opensourse Alternative to DreamWeaver
I designed my very first web page on the DreamWeaver and have been trapped in the DreamWeaver world ever since. I have tried other web authoring tools, but none seem to have the same designer friendly functions as DreamWeaver. I’m glad that there is finally an opensourse alternative to DreamWeaver with many of the same…
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Wikepedia founder launches political site
Wikipedia founder Jimmy “Jimbo” Wales this week announced the opening of a wiki devoted to hot-button political topics such as gay marriage and environmental protection (link).
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UNESCO: Charter on the Preservation of the Digital Heritage
UNESCO has recognised that as an increasing amount of the World’s cultural output is digitised and placed on mediums such as the web, that there is also an increasing need to preserve this culture for future generations. This is from UNESCO’s Charter on the Preservation of the Digital Heritage: “The Charter on the Preservation of…