Aankondiging: de Slag bij Winter
Een korte film met één camera, één bouwlamp, één aggregaat en een nog totaal onbekend script.
Felix en Maurice tonen 15 januari 2012 weer een ongekend cinematografisch hoogstandje dat in twee dagen tot stand is gekomen.
De locatie van de shoot staat vast: de oude mijnfabriek Beringen in het Belgische Wallonië.
De première is op zondag 15 januari 2012 om 22:00u op de Jupiterstraat 15 in Utrecht. Iedereen is van harte welkom.
Ben je geïnteresseerd om een of twee dagen van je leven toe te wijden aan de totstandkoming van …

The Age of Man, or the Anthropocene. As cultural philosopher Peter Sloterdijk wrote in his book “You have to change your life“, we are living in an age where mankind itself now is a factor of change in the Terrestrial Ecosystem Model. Peter wrote that this is the age where the human mindset for the first time is thinking globally, and is realising more and more that his actions have a global impact on many factors. These factors are part of complex intertwined global systems. These sysems can be Economic …

From 2007 until 2009 I was running a very successful film making platform with a friend, Leendert Oostlander (see the picture below in the video stream), in Utrecht. This platform was to offer Film makers a stage where they could make short films and show it to interested visitors in a real cinema. After 2009 we realised we couldn’t manage this with continuing our day job. It was either this or nothing.

So we decided to hand the platform over to the community that increasingly grew. They continued in Eendags_, a …

Connecting datasets and publications automatically
Wouldn’t it be great for a scientific data archive to know what publications made use of their data sets? Pingback mechanisms, used in blog systems, can send citation notifications automatically. Can the same be applicable for online journal systems, notifying each other and data archives about citations? It all comes down to agree on using a really simple standard.
This blog article describes  very drafty the Ping-back mechanism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pingback) used in blogs, now used in repositories, data archives and journal systems.
This idea is just giving an …

Last weekend  Google, Microsoft’s BING and Yahoo! agreed to use the MicroData format as a common standard and schema.org as a common vocabulary to make search even more efficient.  Will this also be the answer for describing inter-related scholarly work, aka Enhanced Publications?
The standard the Big3 have announced can be found on http://www.schema.org/ . With this HTML pages can be enriched, by simply making semantic annotations to your current HTML markup. For Institutional repostitories, who are already being crawled by search engines, this means they can finaly rely on a standard that makes sense …

Lieve Allemaal,
 
Graag nodigen we jullie bij deze uit voor een filmavondje op zondag 29 Mei, om 20:30 @Maurice (Biltstraat 99, Utrecht)
In Maurice’s tuinbios wordt Tweedagsfilm gelanceerd: korte filmpjes waarvan de productie de dag ervoor is begonnen. Scriptschrijven, casten, filmen en montage vinden in één weekend plaats.
Bekijk online: http://vimeo.com/groups/tweedagsfilm/
 
Aansluitend vertonen we de Vlaamse film “Frits en Freddy“. (… van de makers van de serie “Van Vlees en Bloed”!)
Wees er bij! Het wordt geniaal! Zet het in je agenda… NU! (zo 29 mei 2011, v.a. 20:30, @biltstraat99 utrecht,)
Liefs,
Maurice & Felix

“Page not found” nowadays in the dynamic information society a common phrase when you use your old bookmarks. To find your beloved document you have to “Google” it. A web-crawling search engine is by far the most reliable resolver of the documents, but there is no guarantee. This is fine, you get some, you loose some. However when considering working in a academic arena, this really gets annoying. New Knowledge is build  on older knowledge to reject or refine this knowledge, to answer new questions. when you cannot read back …

The speed of alt-metrics presents the opportunity to create real-time recommendation and collaborative filtering systems: instead of subscribing to dozens of tables-of-contents, a researcher could get a feed of this week’s most significant work in her field. This becomes especially powerful when combined with quick “alt-publications” like blogs or preprint servers, shrinking the communication cycle from years to weeks or days. Faster, broader impact metrics could also play a role …

What if the newspaper of tomorrow was invented today?
News+ is such concept, created by Bonnier a Swedish publishing organisation, to show what happens when old paradigms are left behind and shifting towards new possibilities.
News+ combines the depth and editorial choices of a daily newspaper with the web’s possibilities for interaction and quick updates, keeping the user in mind.
Watch the video below and give you opinion.
News+ concept live from Bonnier from Bonnier on Vimeo.
 
Another on Digital Text Books: http://www.ted.com/talks/mike_matas.html
 
What about using ePub standard using this technology with HTML5+Javascript?

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The Future of the Book. from IDEO on Vimeo.