http://netvouz.com/mcswell/folder/5661559306768071256/Computing+Information+Management?feed=rss mcswell's bookmarks in folder Information Management on Netvouz http://www.artima.com/lejava/articles/contentrepositoryP.html Relational and object databases lack many data management features required by modern applications, such as versioning, rich data references, inheritence, or fine-grained security. Content repositories extend databases with such additional capabilities. The Java Content Repository API (JSR 170) defines a standard to access content repositories from Java code, and promises to greatly simplify Java database programming. This article reviews the Java Content Repository API and its open-source implementation, Apache Jackrabbit, from a developer's perspective. Computing > Information Management mcswell Thu, 18 Jan 2007 12:51:08 GMT http://www.sil.org/silewp/1998/004/SILEWP1998-004.html The humanities computing community has developed some great tools but they seem to be underused. A large segment of their target audience finds them too difficult to learn and use. This paper suggests that a significant contributing factor is the semantic gap between the specific task the user wants to do and the general functionality that the tool provides. It proposes a solution in which the developer begins with a task analysis of the work users do, and then pieces together reusable multipurpose components to construct single-purpose tools to support the various subtasks. An example is used throughout of tasks for which a lexicographer might use a concordance. The appendix gives a working demonstration of a prototype in which interactive Web documents us Computing > Information Management mcswell Thu, 18 Nov 2004 15:10:50 GMT http://www.webdav.org/ WebDAV stands for "Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning". It is a set of extensions to the HTTP protocol which allows users to collaboratively edit and manage files on remote web servers. Computing > Information Management mcswell Thu, 18 Jan 2007 12:52:10 GMT