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Geospatial Revolution Project | A Public Service Media Project
The Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat has established the Standard on Geospatial Data for the Government of Canada. The Standard on Geospatial Data supports the Policy on Information Management and the Policy on the Management of Information Technology of the Government of Canada. The Standard will facilitate interoperability across institutions and increase their ability to identify, understand, use, and share geospatial data. This standard also allows institutions to maximize the reuse of existing mapping and related products.
Modernizr
Faruk Ateş :
What makes Modernizr different from a lot of other, existing approaches is that it doesn’t use any UserAgent sniffing at all—in fact, Modernizr was partially designed and developed precisely to put an end to UA sniffing. It is a bad, unsafe and unreliable practice so the more alternatives we have to do it right, the better.
OGC Geospatial Rights Management Summit: Moving the Discussion Forward - Articles
GeoREL is now an ISO standard. The most visible efforts of the working group involved a pilot for ORCHESTRA, an effort to outline some possible licenses. The group extended the existing Creative Commons licenses with a few extra licenses to cover non-disclosure, commercial use and emergency use.
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June 2009
Digital Web Magazine - User Interface Implementations of Faceted Browsing
google-friend-connect-plugins - Google Code
LSDIS : MWSAF
MWSAF(METEOR-S Web Service Annotation Framework) is a semantic web based graphical tool that enables you to annotate existing Web service descriptions with Ontologies. It facilitates the parsing of WSDL files and Ontologies. This enables the user to annotate Web service descriptions semi-automatically.
writing | ben fry » Transit Trekkies
“They actually … attempted to downplay what the existing control center looks like, because they wanted to make it look real to the average eye as compared to… we’re pretty Star Trekky up in the new control center now.”
LESS - Leaner CSS
sfManagedCachePlugin | Recoursive
Follow the Recipe :: UXmatters
I have come to realize how few projects actually follow their companies’ intended design processes. Why is it that so many companies don’t follow their existing processes for software design?
Subtitle Editor
April 2009
m.k.ge•o•mat•ics |ˌjēəˈmatiks| › Visualizing An Existing MySQL Database
Web Cache | Gear6
sfPlayground
MIT Media Lab: Design Ecology / Information Ecology
Would you know if a dear, but seldom seen, friend happened to be on the same train as you? The proximeter is both an agent that tracks the past and future proximity of one’s social cloud, and an instrument that charts this in an ambient display. By reading existing calendar and social network feeds of others, and abstracting these into a glanceable pattern of paths, we hope to nuture within users a social proprioception and nudge them toward more face-to-face interactions when opportunities arise.
March 2009
Arc's Soy Machine: git vs mercurial
In contrast with my earlier attempts at migrating to git, mercurial was actually a joy to setup on the server. WSGI, using our existing .htusers file from Trac, a small config script, done. This contrast to git which would require some funky SSH sandboxing and/or PAM setup - yes it can be done, but such hacks shouldn't be needed.
To all our surprise "hg clone" was extremely fast even compared to subversion and especially in comparison to git.
gnome-shell under Seed (not)
Home Income Plan
Migrating an Existing Application to the Semantic Web
migrating a CDMS web application that supports quality assurance and compliance checking in the Australian building and construction industries to the semantic web.
February 2009
Temporal Scope for RDF Triples | Jeni's Musings
I’m really interested in other approaches that people have used to address the requirement of associating metadata with triples, particularly using RDFa. I’m also interested to know if anyone has existing vocabularies for periods of time with known start/end dates and included dates.
Blog on Fire » Blog Archive » Fire Eagle Location Streams
Building an XMPP-enabled Fire Eagle application is very similar to building a traditional web-based application. In fact, the XMPP componentry is intended to complement an existing application, simplifying it and imbuing it with real-time capabilities.
Piece of cake, not really. Nice usage of oAuth-over-XMPP though
swissmiss | WhatTheFont for the iPhone! YAY!!
Plurk is a social journal for your life
