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Strategic IT for Government
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February 15, 2004 |
Cubicleware: Sun's JDS vs. Ximian XD2. 16 Feb 2004: Newsforge brings us: Cubicleware: Sun's JDS vs. Ximian XD2."Chris GulkerSun JDS and Novell Ximian XD2 are not touted as general-purpose soup-to-nuts Linux distros. They are meant to be efficient and usable productivity desktops that can be quickly mastered by the non-technical workers who do the administrative heavy lifting in government offices, large universities, and in some big corporation settings. Both distros offer streamlined GNOME desktops with features reminiscent o... [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service]
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OCLC refines its ISBN-clustering service. Python hacker and OCLC chief scientist Thom Hickey has updated me on the xISBN project:
Just thought I'd let you know that we've put up a new version of the ISBN database. We've done a lot of work to pull works with variant titles together (which helps with The Innovator's Dilemma) and made the retrievals consistent, so that any ISBN in a group retrieves that same ISBN group (which also helps with I's D). We've learned a lot about how ISBNs are used (and misused). Thanks for the update, Thom. Sure enough, my original examples now work as advertised. Here's what Thom was referring to:
There are a few caveats here. First, the one-to-many algorithm doesn't seem to be fully bi-directional. In the example above, we'd like to get from 0066620694, a paperback, to 0875845851, a hardcover. But although we can get from 0875845851 to 0066620694, we can't get from 0066620694 to 0875845851. [Jon's Radio: Multi-ISBN LibraryLookup] Those two links didn't used to yield the same set of ISBNs. Now they do. Cool! ... [Jon's Radio]
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