tiistai 1. marraskuuta 2011

Interested of freedom of speech? Then say no to ACTA!

keskiviikko 14. syyskuuta 2011

Museums, images and non-institutional digital heritage

What do people want from museums? Better metada, better search algorithms? Nope. They want to download images, videos and sounds. Don't believe me? Well, have a look at the Europeana survey 2011: Over 90% of respondents agree that ability to download materials would be "useful" or "very useful".
I gave a little provocative presentation in CIDOC 2011 about museums, images, Google and people outside heritage institutions. My main point was that people want to participate in creating of digital heritage in their own terms, not museums. There is already a very active digital heritage field outside of heritage organisations which often overrules official digital heritage in search engine visibility, usability and coverage. And since search engines (Google) are the main entry points to the internet, official digital heritage is struggling with its visibility. Non-institutional digital heritage is here to stay and museums must decide if they want to be part of that or not.
You can find my slides and full paper from here: http://opendimension.org/ida/papers.php

tiistai 1. maaliskuuta 2011

Are you sure?

Mendeley shows the right way to ask if you want to remove your data!

perjantai 11. helmikuuta 2011

Nokia and Microsoft, it's a deal!

Oh, this is a sad day!
Probably there is no Nokia in future. It might be called Microsoft's mobile unit...

As a Finn, I'm so sorry.

keskiviikko 2. helmikuuta 2011

VIM code completion

Hidden treasure: Ctrl + n in insert mode completes variable names etc. Oh joy!

keskiviikko 26. tammikuuta 2011

Disabling auto exposure in Logitech 9000 pro

Auto exposure was ruining my attempts to use OpenCV successfully. Then I found guvcview. It gives option to disable auto exposure and set values manually.

Installation
In Debian based systems:
sudo apt-get install guvcview