OU staff will be browsing and discussing future scenarios in which the university will be operating via an intranet site powered by the latest version of KMi's D3E technology. D3E stands for the Digital Document Discourse Environment. It is now being developed in collaboration with LTS and AACS, and provides integrated document discussion tools via…
30 January 2003: Knowledge Media Institute, Open University, UK Compendium Institute releases Compendium software for free distribution www.CompendiumInstitute.org The Compendium Institute is pleased to announce that v1.2 of its Compendium software is now available for free download. This is the long-awaited first public release of the tool. Compendium is the semantic hypertext concept mapping tool…
The Hazard Alley Safety Centre based in Milton Keynes has worked with KMi on a number of interesting new media projects. Late in 2002 the Centre joined with the Local Education Authority Drugs Advisory team to commission the KMi Centre for New Media to work with them on a drug safety education project. Together, we…
We invite you to become one of the first participants in an exciting global experiment of modelling and prediction world’s climate in the coming century – the largest experiment of its kind ever undertaken! And to make the invitation real, yesterday saw our brand new web and application server coming online with a fully-qualified domain…
WebSafari is latest top-secret CNM project to test our new Macromedia MX Communication server. Yes, it is all about wandering the jungle or veldt of the world wide web with a tour group. Anyone can lead a safari in this simple model – and can go pretty much anywhere. And yes, it has taken us…
The US headquarters of Macromedia today showcased KMis first Xtreme webcast on their main website. Keen to promote their new multi-user “communications server”, part of the most recent release of Flash, a telephone conference was held between Macromedia’s head office and Peter Scotts office to explain the features and technology behind the webcast. Related Links:…
The first version of ClaiMaker has now been released for interested parties to begin modelling and visualizing their literatures. ClaiMaker is a prototype next generation technology for scholarly publishing. It enables researchers to model the claims made by research documents, and the arguments/debates about those claims. Visualization and analysis tools enable you to navigate and…
UPDATE: Lorenzo and Scott reached the summit around 09:30 BST, 10:30 local time, and sent their final audio message before the descent. Several people tuned in to the webcast from around the world including one from Florida.Unfortunately, due to a problem dialling into the Internet account, Lorenzo was unable to send any photos using the…
Version 1 of the installer for our news disemination system Rostra was today made available on a single CD for evaluation as a possible full product release. The CD contains not only the Rostra system, written in the common server-side scripting language PHP, but all the necessary servers required to run it on an NT,…
KMi’s ‘BuddySpace’ experimental prototype for messaging, gaming, and group collaboration has now moved from an unofficial ‘skunkworks’ project to something that has caught the attention of Open University course teams, UK funding agencies, and international industry leaders in presence and messaging. BuddySpace began as a summer intern project, looking at ways of using maps and…
