James McGovern: Practical Guide to Enterprise Architecture, A
Scott A. Bernard: An Introduction to Enterprise Architecture: Second Edition
Jeanne W. Ross: Enterprise Architecture as Strategy: Creating a Foundation for Business Execution
Ralph Whittle: Enterprise Business Architecture: The Formal Link Between Strategy and Results
CBC is reporting that upon the retirement of the current (as well as first and only) National Science Adviser, Arthur Carty, the position will not be re-filled and will be phased out. Dr. Carty was formerly the President of the National Research Council.
The video of the Ig Nobel 2007 Ceremony is now available. The Ig Nobel's are awarded yearly for research that first makes you laugh, and then makes you think. The Ig Nobel's are sponsored by the journal Annals of Improbable Research.
OCLC plans to launch a new developer network and WorldCat Grid early in the new year. Essentially it seems that it's geared toward providing and developing new library web services/API's, toolkits, resolvers and registries and a network of library technology developers.
Here's hoping for success! And hopefully for some SOA basis behind the API's.
- Via Richard Akerman, via Bess
Many months back we'd started CISTI Lab, a website for CISTI developers to expose some beta applications and to illustrate some of the more experimental work that's not yet ready for prime time, but that could use some exposure and a few more eyes.
The Lab has recently been revamped, and now includes some of the work being done by the CISTI Research group, as well as a wiki that explains some of the work. As time goes on we hope to be adding some new additions, hopefully including some SOA-based architecture and related services, tools and applications. For one, I'm hoping to revamp or replace the CISTI Toolbar application I wrote with something a bit better... most likely LibX based.
From the CISTI Lab site:
CISTI Lab visitors and collaborators will be able to test and evaluate Web-based experimental applications for science libraries. It is a place for CISTI to demonstrate prototypes, collaborate with researchers within NRC as well as Universities, libraries and the private sector and to obtain feedback from early adopters.
CISTI Lab has at its disposal a significant collection of electronic documents and meta-data about these documents as well as a collection of software tools and APIs for building Web applications and Web Services.
From an architecture perspective, it's a place that we hope we can use to help prove architecture and technology concepts, expose some experimental web services, and to encourage innovation in the area of libraries and technology. More generally, CISTI is hoping to encourage collaboration and interest from like minded individuals and organizations.
The Encyclopedia of Life is a project that proposes to catalogue all of Earth's 1.8 million species and make them available via the web.
...will include species descriptions, pictures, maps, videos, sound, sightings by amateurs, and links to entire genomes and scientific journal papers.
Sounds like a huge, but worthwhile project. I wonder what encoding they will use for species, and what services/API's they might make available? I can imagine some useful linking that could be done between scientific papers, references within this database, and publisher and library services that could make good use of this set of data.
- via Digg, via Daily News
Andre Vellino, newly appointed to CISTI's Research section, has started a new blog -- Synthèse -- about his experience and work at CISTI and areas of particular interest to library technology and scientific research.
I intend to present some thoughts about information retrieval, logic and cognitive science as well as electronic libraries and information management. I hope it will cover a broad spectrum of subjects and live up to its name.
The architecture group expects to be working closely with the research group and with Andre. It's not often that I've heard of a close link between architecture and research, but I can imagine some good and positive possibilities from such interactions, particularly with the small teams and organization here at CISTI. I wonder if others have engaged in an architecture process in collaboration with a research group.
Our current expectation is that research would be looking farther outward - say 5-10 years in timeframe, whilst architecture usually sets it's targets closer to the 2-5 year span. Both groups are forward looking, but in different timeframes and contexts.
Welcome Andre.
