Our name has changed, so what happens with this blog

Hi there

Kindheart Research has changed its name. We are now Software Innovation Research & Management (SIR-M).

Our work will be the same, but the blog will change its name obviously. Please follow us from now on at our new blog.

Thank you all for your comments and ideas shared. We hope you will follow us also at the new blog.

16/7

Not 24/7 ??

Yes!

I have to admit that we work a lot but that we sleep at least oe quarter of our time. Might be snoaring... I don't know.

But the 3/4 part of our day we are working; for different reasons. Office, research funding, students' projects, and other things that don't show your generic "gedanke". You will see some of our work in the next months conf and journals. Don't be too shy to ask.

.djvu - déjà vu?

The pic shows the office of our president at the right, the newly erected Buddha shrine in the middle of a pond at the left, and the central building with the red roofs.

djvu (or djv) seems to be a smart format for larger texts with line graphics; find out more on the Wikipedia. Unfortunately, it lacks support for the mobile devices unlike the PDF.

One way to make djvu files accesible on mobile platforms is by converting them into PDF files. Most of you guys have the Adobe Acrobat already at hand. If not, you can download the freeware FreePDF.

For the view-and-convert step I use the free Windjview, which you can download here. You can run it straight away, no installation needed. Open the file you want to convert and click on FILE>PRINT and choose the PDF application on your machine to start the conversion process and store the resulting file at a location at wish. This may take a while, so make sure you have other things to do than just watch the windmill rotating.

Maybe, some of you have other ways of making djvu accessible on mobile devices. Tell us.

The invisible web - partly revealed

Most of us know about the so called "invisible web", that part of the WWW that is not indexed and is difficult to search. In cases where Google does not do the job there has to be found a different way - or maybe many different ways - to the desired solution, that is appropriate search results with good recall and precision.

A recently updated page in the blogs by the Virtual Private Library offers a lot of resaources to search the invisible web, amongst others the 99 ways of Jessica Hupp.

Communications in Information Literacy

The CIL is a new online journal covering broad aspects of information literacy. Vol. 1 is from 2007.

As an online journal it fosters the free access to knowledge. An archive helps in finding such topics as interviews (the first one here with Patricia S. Breivik), conference reports and articles.

Kindheart goes on

After a sort of anti-hibernation (it was summertime in Thailand with not so high temperatures this year, only 36 to 38 °C) we are back again.

And we got some good news last month. Our member Janjira will go to Amsterdam this summer (European summer, I mean) with one of our papers, maybe two.

We will talk about name matching for Geographical Information Systems (GIS).

IEEE DEST in Phitsanulok & FOODS and PHASES

With an impressive inauguration ceremony was started this morning at the Amarin Lagoon Conference Center in Phitsanulok. Keynote speakers are amongst others, Michael L. Brodie, Chief Scientist of Verizon, and Swiss Bertrand Meyer.

Kindheart will present two research projects on e-learning and Semantic Web applications. Will talk about that later.

In the meantime we've got the notification of online publication for our PHASES paper in the International Journal of Biological and Medical Sciences. This paper is in fact the successor of the earlier FOODS project, which will be presented here at the Digital Ecosystems Conference this week. So you see, sometimes online journals can be faster than conference proceedings!

My wife has taken the camera to her home, some 600 kilometers away, so I cannot take photos. So, I'll update later with stuff from my colleagues.