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E x t r a: O t h e r N e w s: A s i d e s: F a v o r i t e s: LEAD STORIES S1000D - Five reasons whyMay 24th, 2005, DCLnews
Fueling up your content management systemMay 24th, 2005, DCLnews
Installing a new content management system is only half the story; the other half is loading the content you’re going to manage. DCL’s Don Bridges reports. EXTRA The power of content re-useApril 20th, 2005, DCLnews>>> Data Conversion Laboratory/e-JITI Webinar - June 2nd, 1:00PM EST DCL and e-JITI are joining forces to present an exciting webinar about content re-use and its benefits. If you are serious about managing your organization’s data and content, do not miss this informative webinar. Studies show most document collections contain more than 50% redundancy, meaning that most companies maintain twice the content they need at twice the expense. The result is the waste of thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours each year. With content reuse, you can:
In this webinar Don Bridges from DCL will show how DCL’s tool, Harmonizer, can easily help you eliminate redundant content. Please join us June 2nd at 1:00PM Eastern (10:00AM Central). Register here for webinar: http://www.dclab.com/eJITIWebinar.asp OTHER NEWS U.S. Navy throws paper overboardMay 20th, 2005, PilotOnline.com
“It’s really historic,” says Capt. Zdenka Willis, deputy navigator of the Navy. “I tell people it’s like going from sail to steam - it’s that big of a difference.” By 2009, all of the Navy’s approximately 290 ships are to have the new electronic chart system. But it will be some time before paper charts are dispensed with completely, partly because it will take time for the service to become confident with the system.
Willis notes that the Navy continued to keep a set of sails aboard steam-powered ships for 32 years, just in case steam propulsion proved useless. “If I can get rid of paper in something less than that, I’ll consider it a victory,” she says.
Utah federal court condemns paper and saves 24 trees per monthMay 7th, 2005, Salt Lake Tribune
One of the major advantages of the change is it will save storage space. About 1,200 civil cases and 800 to 900 criminal cases are filed in Utah's federal court each year, according to Louise York, the chief deputy clerk. Legal actions that start out as thin files usually grow. "It's not uncommon to have a filing with exhibits that are three to four inches thick," York says. Electronic filing will change that.
Another bonus is it will save trees. According to the Forest Products Association of Canada, one tree is cut down for every 12,500 sheets of paper. Ikon Office Solutions, which handles copying and printing for more than 30 law firms in Salt Lake City, says its legal clients go though 300,000 sheets of paper each month - theoretically, 24 trees.
Oxford University Press expands open access trialMay 9th, 2005, Managing Information
The drive to make scientific, medical and academic research freely available on the Internet got a boost earlier this month as Oxford University Press (OUP) widened its trial of open access publishing. Oxford Journals, part of OUP, will begin its new Oxford Open project this July. It will give authors in participating journals the option to pay for articles to be freely available online as soon as they are published. It has also changed the rules so published authors can put their articles on their own websites a year after publication. "[The move] will allow us to collect valuable, first-hand data on the demand for open access," says Martin Richardson of Oxford Journals.
Oxford Open is a further addition to the current Oxford Journals open access experiments. These include the Journal of Experimental Botany, eCAM and Nucleic Acids Research, the latter being the first major science journal from OUP to move to a full open access model.
Printed textbooks "primitive", says high school junior
May 2nd, 2005, Rockford Register Star
Kinetic Books, a producer of digital physics textbooks, recently tested a new product in 90 high schools and got an enthusiastic response. In Diane Riendeau's physics classes at Deerfield High School in North Chicago, for example, students were sold on it. "They liked the scenarios they had to solve, shooting cannon balls at a castle," she relates. "Many of the labs involved competitions between two students or the computer. I think it felt like they were playing a video game instead of doing a physics lab." Larger textbook publishers McGraw-Hill also recognize the popularity of online learning materials and are beginning to offer electronic textbooks in CD-ROM and online form. They are also building the technology to keep the material available online. The company offers electronic textbooks in most subjects to districts that want to use them, and say that costs are similar to regular books - $14 to $66 apiece.
Maryland squad cars wired for results
May 4th, 2005, The Capital
Via a wireless modem, police officers can conduct warrant checks and view mug shots without radioing to dispatch - or even seeing the driver commit an infraction. "It gives immediate data to the officer on site," says Owens. "It allows the officers to be far more proactive." Police officer David O'Toole, who got his $8,700 machine a month ago, says it can take up to 30 minutes to run a single tag or name through a dispatcher - "Now we're just taking a couple of minutes." EU backs massive digital library
May 4th, 2005, The Guardian
EU officials and cultural commentators have voiced concern that Google's ambitious plans to build a virtual library, announced last December, could result in important European literary works missing out and being lost to future generations. Putting 4.5 billion pages of key works from Europe's libraries online would benefit researchers, as well as give disadvantaged nations access to global learning, they added. Among the works held by the libraries are a 1687 first edition of Isaac Newton's The Principia, at Stanford, and Charles Darwin's 1871 work, The Descent of Man, which resides in Oxford's Bodleian library. ASIDES Flying high - hilarious (but true) airline announcementsMay 24th, 2005, DCLnews
An airline pilot wrote that on this particular flight he had hammered his ship into the runway really hard. The airline had a policy which required the first officer to stand at the door while the passengers exited, smile, and give them a "Thanks for flying our airline."
FAVORITES Popular articles from recent issuesMay 24th, 2005, DCLnews
S1000D's cost saving potential grabs Pentagon's attention
Converting From PDF: Issues in Converting to XML & MS Word Meeting the FDA’s Emerging SPL Requirements
Quark to XML Conversion - Converting Quark to XML & HTML
Adobe PDF Conversion: How, For Whom, And When?
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The S1000D specification for technical documentation brings global interoperability for joint and allied organizations in the defense industry, writes DCL's Mikhail Vaysbukh.
The Norfolk, Virginia-based guided missile cruiser Cape St. George has just become the first surface warship and crew certified to use only digitized navigation charts to sail the world’s oceans. The 12,000 paper charts that have filled dozens of drawers, filing cabinets and lockers aboard the cruiser have been reduced to 29 computer discs. Eventually this will be slimmed down to one DVD.
Utah federal court has started the first phase of its switch to electronic filing, with clerks scanning new lawsuits and indictments into computers to create electronic files. (The original papers will be recycled after 30 days). In around a month, after any bugs have been resolved, attorneys will file all new cases and subsequent documents directly by e-mail.
High school junior, Tim Doherty, was quoted in the press earlier this month as saying, "More people would be more apt to try using a CD-ROM at home [to do homework] than they would a textbook that can be a hassle to bring home." His comments are yet another indication that an e-textbook revolution is breaking out in schools and colleges across America.
Annapolis (Maryland) Police Department is pushing to expand its use of laptops in squad cars; such has been the success of the project, which began in 2002. Currently the Department has 31 car-mounted terminals and seven hand-held PDAs. But county executive Janet Owens is including $2 million in her proposed fiscal 2006 to install them in the rest of the Department's 479 squad cars next spring.
A plan to create a vast digital library to preserve Europe's cultural heritage has received strong backing from European Union (EU) culture ministers. Six EU nations said they supported the initiative at culture talks, which were also attended by more than 800 artists. It is planning a 10-year digitization project to make works from Harvard, Stanford and Oxford university libraries freely available online.
Every so often, airline attendants make an effort to make the in-flight "safety lecture" and announcements a bit more entertaining. Here is one example:
