Multimedia Markup Tools for OpenKnowledge

OpenKnowledge is a peer-to-peer system for sharing knowledge and is driven by interaction models that give the necessary context for mapping of ontological knowledge fragments necessary for the interaction to take place. The OpenKnowledge system is agnostic to any specific data formats that are used in the interactions, relying on ontology mapping techniques for shimming the messages. The potentially large search space for matching ontologies is reduced by the shared context of the interaction. In this paper we investigate what this means for multimedia data on the OpenKnowledge network by discussing how an existing application that provides multimedia annotation (the Semantic Logger) can be migrated into the OpenKnowledge domain

Before-Commit Client State Management Services for AJAX Applications

Heavily script-based browser applications change the manner in which users interact with Web browsers. Instead of downloading a succession of HTML pages, users download a single application and use that application for a long period of time. The application is not a set of HTML pages, but rather a single page that can possible modify its own presentation based on data exchanged with a server. In such an environment, it is necessary to provide some means for the client to manage its own state. We describe the initial results of our work in providing client-side state management services for these script-based applications. We focus on browser-based services that can help the user before any data is committed on the server. Our services include state checkpointing, property binding, operation logging, operational replay, ATOM/RSS data updates, and application-controlled persistence

WS-ARC service configuration manual

The central component of AR

The AliEn system, status and perspectives

AliEn is a production environment that implements several components of the Grid paradigm needed to simulate, reconstruct and analyse HEP data in a distributed way. The system is built around Open Source components, uses the Web Services model and standard network protocols to implement the computing platform that is currently being used to produce and analyse Monte Carlo data at over 30 sites on four continents. The aim of this paper is to present the current AliEn architecture and outline its future developments in the light of emerging standards.Comment: Talk from the 2003 Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics (CHEP03), La Jolla, Ca, USA, March 2003, 10 pages, Word, 10 figures. PSN MOAT00

IP round-up: Recent decisions from the courts (July 2012)

This article discusses Trade Marks, Fair Trading, Copyright & Patent Infringement cases(respectively): “Mars New Zealand Ltd v Heinz Watties Ltd” [2012, NZHC 591]; “GeoSmart Maps Ltd v GoSmart Foundation Ltd” [HC Auckland CIV 2011-404-003119, 2 September 2011], “Fisher & Paykel Financial Services Ltd v Karum Group LLC (no. 2)” [2012, NZHC 240], “Hamilton Maps Ltd v Hamilton News Operating as a division of APN News & Media Ltd” [DC Hamilton CIV 2011-019000874, 9 March 2012], “BayCity Technologies Ltd v Uttinger and DairySense LLC” [HC Auckland CIV 2006-404-7709, 21 March 2012] and “ Stewart v Franmara Inc” [2012, NZHC 548]