Thursday, October 28, 2010

Re: CDF (Channel Definition Format)

The README of file-5.04-1 say's Microsoft Compound Document File

On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 4:04 PM, Stan Hughes <hughes.stan@gmail.com> wrote:
http://www.fileinfo.com/extension/cdf

The above link says that it is 'Content Definition File'.  

XML-based data format designed for storing and sharing abstract Enterprise Content  Management (ECM)


On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 3:32 PM, Stan Hughes <hughes.stan@gmail.com> wrote:
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/C/CDF.html

XML specification developed by Microsoft that allows Web publishers to push content to users.


Re: CDF (Channel Definition Format)

http://www.fileinfo.com/extension/cdf

The above link says that it is 'Content Definition File'.  

XML-based data format designed for storing and sharing abstract Enterprise Content  Management (ECM)

On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 3:32 PM, Stan Hughes <hughes.stan@gmail.com> wrote:
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/C/CDF.html

XML specification developed by Microsoft that allows Web publishers to push content to users.

OPM - Office of Personnel Management

http://www.opm.gov/

USPTO - United States Patent and Trademark Office

http://www.uspto.gov/

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

ATE (Advanced Evasion Techniques)


http://gcn.com/articles/2010/10/26/hacker-advanced-evasion-techniques.aspx?s=gcndaily_271010

Found a reference here.  This article is not too good but it lead me to the article below, which is much better.


Hasn't this been around for awhile?  It would be funny if the technique is patented.  The above link include a you tube video.

Friday, October 8, 2010

sfk (Swiss File Knife)

http://stahlworks.com/dev/swiss-file-knife.html

Used for removing or adding DOS CRs.  

DOS (Disk Operating System)
CR (carriage return)

ESRI (Environmental Systems Research Institute)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esri

Started as Environmental Systems Research Institute in 1969 specializing in land-use.  Main product in ArcGIS.  The hold a user's conference in San Diego.  Estimated over 14,500 users world wide.

Thursday, October 7, 2010

GIS (Geographic Information System)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographic_information_system

A set of tools that captures, stores, analyzes, manages, and presents data that are linked to locations.

NARA TPAP (Transcontinental Persistent Archive Prototype)

http://www.renci.org/focus-areas/data-information-management/nara-tpap

A data preservation environment using the Storage Resource Broker (SRB) and "/i/ Rule Oreinted Data Systems" (iRODS) data grid technology to develop, implement, and test a seamless, nationwide data management infrastructure.

iRODs is a successor to SRB.

renci (reSEARCH\EngAGEMENT(North Carolina)\iNNOVATION

TPAP/iRODS data grid.

DICE (Data Intensive Cyber Environments Center)

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Debian Release Cycle

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Debian-package-cycl.svg

We could use this with our iROD update releases.


Looks like Ubuntu using the 'Unstable' version of Debian (sid).

Speech Acts

http://changingminds.org/explanations/theories/speech_act.htm

Speech Act Theory


Towards a History of Speech Act Theory


CARLA (Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition)


What is a speech act?
  • illocutionary
  • perlocutionary 
  • propositional
  • utterance
SIL (Summer Institute of Linguistics)


Work at Stanford


Levels of speech acts.


Wiki on Speech act



Grammars

Head Driven Phrase Structured Grammar (HPSG)


BNF (Backus-Naur Form)


Languages and Context-Free Grammars



Advanced Language Processing

GATES (General Architecture for Text Engineering)

http://gate.ac.uk/overview.html




Research at GTRI in Advanced Language Processing



Bill Underwood

Advanced Language Processing Applied to Digital Records

Advanced Decision Support for Archival Processing of Presidential Electronic Records

Presidential Electronic Record Pilot System (PERPOS)

DROID (Digital Record Object Identification)


GNU (Gnu is Not Unix)


NARA (National Archives and Records Administration)


UDFR (Unified Digital Format Registry)


ERA (Electronic Records Archive)


Part of NARA.

IAD (Information Access Division)


Part of NIST

NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology)


DARPA TIDES (Translingual Information Dectecton, Extraction and Summarization)



ARL (Army Research Laboratory)


NOVA Emerald (Electronic Library and Information Systems)


iRODS (Integrated Rule-Oriented Data System)


Part of NCAST (National Archives Center for Advanced System and Technologies) which is part of NARA.


Currently at release 2.4


The book I am reading.

CDF (Channel Definition Format)

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/C/CDF.html

XML specification developed by Microsoft that allows Web publishers to push content to users.

ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange)


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascii

A character-encoding scheme based on the ordering of the English alphabet.