Comments for Educational Imaginations http://garymlewis.com/instchg Sat, 20 Jun 2009 15:25:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 Comment on XQuery as a Web Query Tool by Gary Lewis http://garymlewis.com/instchg/2009/06/19/xquery-as-a-web-query-tool/comment-page-1/#comment-181 Gary Lewis Sat, 20 Jun 2009 15:25:51 +0000 http://garymlewis.com/instchg/?p=980#comment-181 Hi Cefn - That sounds very cool. I hope we can stay in touch; I'd like to hear more. Thanks for the comment. ... Gary Hi Cefn – That sounds very cool. I hope we can stay in touch; I’d like to hear more. Thanks for the comment. … Gary

]]> Comment on XQuery as a Web Query Tool by Cefn Hoile http://garymlewis.com/instchg/2009/06/19/xquery-as-a-web-query-tool/comment-page-1/#comment-180 Cefn Hoile Sat, 20 Jun 2009 14:40:56 +0000 http://garymlewis.com/instchg/?p=980#comment-180 I've been looking into the use of a browser based webserver to enable ordinary people to edit and process schema-driven XML (their own data authored according to their own schema) on their local machine. Current tools are expensive and over-engineered for this job. I aim to make this open source and free. A firefox plugin acting as a webserver seems like an ideal approach - as a cross-browser and easy-to-install component which is easily hackable and extensible with widely understood HTML-oriented libraries for presentation and data entry as well as dynamic AJAX-like interactions with a backing data set which lives on the hard drive. I see this being used in order to create data-driven websites or for non-techies to hack their own personal information managers. XQuery in the browser would be a useful facility, but for now, I'm planning to use something like Saxon running XQueries, triggered by POW - David Kellogg's Plain Old Webserver. http://davidkellogg.com/wiki/Main_Page Some of the XML processing tasks are doable with XPath driven by Javascript directly in the page without any additional plugins in Firefox at least. It may be that the facilities required for this project will need direct access to the OS capabilites anyway (i.e. writing files onto the harddrive), so would not be able to run inside a browser sandbox even if XQuery was available to it. I’ve been looking into the use of a browser based webserver to enable ordinary people to edit and process schema-driven XML (their own data authored according to their own schema) on their local machine. Current tools are expensive and over-engineered for this job. I aim to make this open source and free.

A firefox plugin acting as a webserver seems like an ideal approach – as a cross-browser and easy-to-install component which is easily hackable and extensible with widely understood HTML-oriented libraries for presentation and data entry as well as dynamic AJAX-like interactions with a backing data set which lives on the hard drive.

I see this being used in order to create data-driven websites or for non-techies to hack their own personal information managers.

XQuery in the browser would be a useful facility, but for now, I’m planning to use something like Saxon running XQueries, triggered by POW – David Kellogg’s Plain Old Webserver.
http://davidkellogg.com/wiki/Main_Page

Some of the XML processing tasks are doable with XPath driven by Javascript directly in the page without any additional plugins in Firefox at least.

It may be that the facilities required for this project will need direct access to the OS capabilites anyway (i.e. writing files onto the harddrive), so would not be able to run inside a browser sandbox even if XQuery was available to it.

]]> Comment on Web Query Tools – Part 2 by Matthew Theobald http://garymlewis.com/instchg/2009/04/24/web-query-tools-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-176 Matthew Theobald Sat, 25 Apr 2009 06:50:39 +0000 http://garymlewis.com/instchg/?p=698#comment-176 You may interested in an emrging web standard for the "deep", "hidden", "invisible", "structured" or "dark" web. The Internet Search Environment Number catalogs the form based interfaces with robust metadata. See the animated "space" elevator speech video on http://blog.isen.org You may interested in an emrging web standard for the “deep”, “hidden”, “invisible”, “structured” or “dark” web. The Internet Search Environment Number catalogs the form based interfaces with robust metadata. See the animated “space” elevator speech video on http://blog.isen.org

]]> Comment on Imagining Tomorrow’s University by Bob http://garymlewis.com/instchg/2008/11/11/imagining-tomorrows-university/comment-page-1/#comment-172 Bob Thu, 13 Nov 2008 16:36:01 +0000 http://garymlewis.com/instchg/?p=253#comment-172 Nice job! I.m not involved in higher ed at all but your thoughts are certainly intriguing. I hope that this serves the purpose that you intended. Thanks for sending it to me Les. Bob Nice job! I.m not involved in higher ed at all but your thoughts are certainly intriguing. I hope that this serves the purpose that you intended. Thanks for sending it to me Les.
Bob

]]> Comment on Google Search and Who Knew? by Gary Lewis http://garymlewis.com/instchg/2008/07/30/google-search-and-who-knew/comment-page-1/#comment-10 Gary Lewis Wed, 13 Aug 2008 11:14:36 +0000 http://garymlewis.com/instchg/?p=45#comment-10 Hi Usmanou - Great to hear from you! I haven't done much with Cuil yet. Sounds cool though :-) Please say hi to the DA folks for me. Hi Usmanou – Great to hear from you! I haven’t done much with Cuil yet. Sounds cool though :-)

Please say hi to the DA folks for me.

]]> Comment on Google Search and Who Knew? by Usmanou Nsangou http://garymlewis.com/instchg/2008/07/30/google-search-and-who-knew/comment-page-1/#comment-9 Usmanou Nsangou Tue, 12 Aug 2008 21:47:23 +0000 http://garymlewis.com/instchg/?p=45#comment-9 Hi Gary, Great topic! Have you tried the new search engine yet? http://www.cuil.com; it's supposed to rival google. Usmanou Hi Gary,
Great topic! Have you tried the new search engine yet?
http://www.cuil.com; it’s supposed to rival google.

Usmanou

]]> Comment on Business Models of U.S. Institutions of Higher Education by Bectkemi http://garymlewis.com/instchg/2008/06/11/business-models-of-institutions-of-higher-education-in-the-us/comment-page-1/#comment-7 Bectkemi Sun, 03 Aug 2008 11:59:26 +0000 http://garymlewis.com/instchg/?p=27#comment-7 Brilliant! Brilliant!

]]> Comment on Re: The business of education by Martin http://garymlewis.com/instchg/2008/06/02/re-the-business-of-education/comment-page-1/#comment-4 Martin Tue, 03 Jun 2008 09:13:23 +0000 http://garymlewis.com/instchg/?p=26#comment-4 Hi Gary, yes you're quite right, we shouldn't take the discussion offline. I would argue that the vision of sociallearn isn't 'make the system adapt to the learner' it's more like 'enhance all your learning.' I believe in it being free for the learner, like Stephen, but I accept that given our current society, someone has to pay somewhere if we want education to survive. Quite who,and how this is done is the big question! Martin Hi Gary, yes you’re quite right, we shouldn’t take the discussion offline.
I would argue that the vision of sociallearn isn’t ‘make the system adapt to the learner’ it’s more like ‘enhance all your learning.’ I believe in it being free for the learner, like Stephen, but I accept that given our current society, someone has to pay somewhere if we want education to survive. Quite who,and how this is done is the big question!
Martin

]]> Comment on Re: The business of education by Glen Moriarty http://garymlewis.com/instchg/2008/06/02/re-the-business-of-education/comment-page-1/#comment-3 Glen Moriarty Tue, 03 Jun 2008 02:53:06 +0000 http://garymlewis.com/instchg/?p=26#comment-3 Thanks for the post and the encouragement to continue the dialog. I agree that this is too important to drop. I've added my thoughts here: http://nixty.com/blog/2008/06/02/re-the-business-of-education/ Thanks for the post and the encouragement to continue the dialog. I agree that this is too important to drop. I’ve added my thoughts here:

http://nixty.com/blog/2008/06/02/re-the-business-of-education/

]]> Comment on Re: The business of education by NIXTY» Blog Archive » Re: The business of education http://garymlewis.com/instchg/2008/06/02/re-the-business-of-education/comment-page-1/#comment-2 NIXTY» Blog Archive » Re: The business of education Tue, 03 Jun 2008 02:45:57 +0000 http://garymlewis.com/instchg/?p=26#comment-2 [...] Downes, Martin Weller, Tony Hirst, and Gary Lewis have all been having an intriguing discussion on the business of education. Martin started it off [...] [...] Downes, Martin Weller, Tony Hirst, and Gary Lewis have all been having an intriguing discussion on the business of education. Martin started it off [...]

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