Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 11, 2013

In the first installment of this series, I described the Bookshare International library and where we hope to take it next. The second blog post looked at our growing Bookshare Spanish-language program. Digitally processing Arabic-language content is no easy task.

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United Arab Emirates Qatar eBook Language 162

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 18, 2012

Data archeology: recover data from ancient files in odd formats. Familiarity with python, R, and JavaScript libraries for charting, mapping, and vis is helpful. Interest or experience with other technologies we use, including Java, LaTeX, HTML/CSS, JavaScript, bash scripting, make, SWeave, BibTex, Weka, svn, Django, and xml processing.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

AUGUST 11, 2006

Aptana provides code-assist for html, CSS ,and JavaScript, including your own JavaScript functions and libraries. Syntax checking in all three languages. An outliner that shows you the structure of your HTML, CSS, or JavaScript file, and lets you jump right to an element or function. Take a look at their little demo video.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

AUGUST 3, 2006

Since XML puts the X in AJAX, and the J is for Javascript, the most obvious approach is getting the data as a textbook XML data file and using Javascript to display the data elements wherever you wish. Charles Toepfer has posted a nice cross-browser library that implements this straightforward approach to xpath for the Mozilla browsers.

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