Abode Launches Apollo SDK Alpha

Apollo is the code name for a cross-operating system runtime being developed by Adobe that allows developers to leverage their existing web development skills (Flash, Flex, HTML, JavaScript, Ajax) to build and deploy rich Internet applications (RIAs) to the desktop.Apollo enables developers to create applications that combine the benefits of web applications – network and user connectivity, rich media content, ease of development, and broad reach – with the strengths of desktop applications – application interactions, local resource access, personal settings, powerful functionality, and rich interactive experiences.

Adobe Labs – Apollo

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Managing Faculty Publications In The Digital Age

Technology increasingly drives the evolving nature of the library’s role in managing faculty publications. Libraries not only create physical archives of faculty scholarship, but take on the active role of facilitating immediate access to content. Trends in legal scholarship, including new formats such as blogs and podcasts and the open access initiatives, compel libraries to develop creative solutions such as enhanced bibliographies, searchable databases, and digital repositories to manage access, preserve, and disseminate faculty writings.

SSRN-The Evolving Nature of Faculty Publications by Jan Novak, Leslie Pardo

Via CMLibraryBlog. Good article with an overview of the ‘state of the art’ of faculty publication in the world of blogs and didgital respositories.

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