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2021-01-04: Redundant.
2015-11-10: Scratching an itch: my software for formating song-sheets into, *gasp* PDF!
2015-04-14: Implementing ORCID and other linked-data metadata in repositories
2015-02-16: A quick open letter to eResearch@UTS
2015-01-07: Letter of resignation
2014-07-04: Trip report: Peter Sefton @ Open Repositories 2014, Helsinki, Finland
2014-06-26: We are not dinosaurs
2014-05-28: Elitist geeks considered hurtful (sic)
2013-11-01: Introducing next year's model, the data-crate; applied standards for data-set packaging
2013-08-14: Another student project – crossing the curation boundary
2013-07-26: 4A Data Management: Acquiring, Acting-on, Archiving and Advertising data at the University of Western Sydney
2013-05-21: Research Data @ the University of Western Sydney (Introducing a data deposit management plan to the research community at UWS)
2013-03-25: Running an Open Source project from a university dev team
2013-03-01: Repositories! (What are they good for?)
2013-01-31: CAIRSS – CAUL Australasian Institutional Repository Support Service
2012-11-18: Receding Repository Software?
2012-11-12: Culture and climate
2012-10-16: Tip: Arrange dock icons by shape, colour to reduce seek-time
2012-10-08: NeCTAR Über Dojo, Reproducible Research (UWS eResearch team in Cloud Land II)
2012-09-12: Virtual Infrastructure and Research Support: Fostering collaboration across institutions
2012-09-05: Open Repositories Developer Challenge. DRAFT manifesto v0.1
2012-08-09: Reading in the new Word? Really?
2012-07-24: Think local, act global: Institutional Data Repositories being built in Australia with lessons learned from Institutional Publications Repositories
2012-06-29: The tyranny of the file?
2012-06-22: Research Data Australia down to Earth
2012-03-02: Did you say you own this data? You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
2012-02-14: An Australian Research Data Repository
2012-02-06: 2011
2011-12-18: Draft eResearch diagram/map
2011-10-18: WordDown: Word to HTML5 conversion tool
2011-09-12: Scholarly HTML5: experimenting on myself with microdata and Schema.org vocabs
2011-08-03: Template design issues for word processors and (possible future) EPUB export
2011-07-14: The end of files might be inconvenient for scholarship
2011-06-07: Mustering
2011-05-25: Making EPUB from WordPress (and other) web collections
2011-05-11: WordPress [and the jiscPUB project]
2011-05-06: How to add EPUB support to EPrints
2011-05-03: Scholarly HTML website up at http://scholarlyhtml.org
2011-04-14: Introducing Epub2Html - adding a plain HTML view to an EPUB
2011-04-12: Some questions about EPUB, WordPress, tools
2011-04-12: Metadata in word processing monographs
2011-04-10: EPub for word processing users
2011-03-23: Onwards
2011-03-17: Scholarly HTML: Fraglets of progress
2011-03-12: Scholarly HTML: new approaches to authoring Scientific Papers
2011-03-12: Beyond the PDF: Some ideas for document formats and authoring tools
2011-03-09: Hacking towards Scholarly HTML
2011-02-16: Another look at desktop repositories
2011-02-08: Beyond the PDF workshop trip report
2010-12-09: Beyond the PDF proposed session : Bring the web to the researcher : Mainly on authoring tools
2010-11-14: Before Beyond the PDF: Authoring tools for document semantics
2010-11-05: Towards Beyond The PDF - a summary of work we've been doing
2010-10-08: Like a version? No thanks, I'll have a revision.
2010-08-31: I'm not going fundamentalist on you, but let's look at the fundamentals of Open Courseware licensing
2010-08-13: EPub as a way of packaging scholarly resources?
2010-08-12: My fave two reasons not to release OpenCourseware
2010-08-11: ICE to DocBook? Yes, but I wouldn't bother.
2010-08-07: The next wave in scholarly word processors?
2010-07-15: Open Repositories 2010 - Learning and Culture
2010-07-07: AWE - Presentation for Open Repositories 2010
2010-06-22: Names (but not IDs) for Name Authority Services
2010-06-18: What should we call this name-authority, vocabulary-server, linked-data URI factory service we are building for ANDS?
2010-05-17: Cheap laugh #1. Suggest opening up courseware just a little.
2010-05-14: ICE and word processor / HTML interop, the ugly, uglier, ugliest
2010-05-14: ICE and word processor / HTML interop, the ugly, uglier, ugliest
2010-04-25: Repositories post 2010: embracing heterogeneity in AWE, the Academic Working Environment
2010-04-23: Making things happen to the book
2010-03-30: My obsession with WordPress
2010-03-24: Publishers, Authors, what's stopping you all from just using HTML
2010-03-19: OpenOffice.org branding
2010-03-09: Back to the wordprocessor
2010-03-04: More details on a metdata store for data in/alongside VITAL
2010-02-23: ANDS metadata stores: Describing metadata collections in VITAL
2010-02-23: ANDS Metadata Stores: Integrating VITAL with the NLA's Party Infrastructure Project
2010-02-02: ANDS Metadata store: starting point
2010-01-14: New Project: Metadata for data collections
2009-12-23: Bye Bye Word 2007 Custom XML ?
2009-12-09: DRFIC, Tokyo
2009-11-25: ICE Week, background
2009-11-18: Promising developments in the Australian Access Federation
2009-11-17: Showing off presentation-to-html-to-blog using The Fascinator
2009-11-17: Wave as a scholarly document editor: not promising at this stage
2009-11-11: Boundaryless eResearch: Use Linked Open Data
2009-11-10: Second post powered by The Fascinator, with pictures
2009-11-06: First Post!
2009-11-02: A bit more on Wave as a Scholarly HTML editor
2009-10-22: Some thoughts for our BoF session on boundaryless eResearch for #eraust09
2009-10-22: Wave as a Scholarly HTML editor
2009-10-08: Lesson learned from the Australian IR experience, we should recognize that some institutions will need hosted software
2009-08-27: Shared metadata, self-serve
2009-08-24: ICE for theses (ThesICE) , where we are we up to?
2009-08-20: Article of the future? Let's talk about scholarly communications.
2009-08-19: Towards Scholarly HTML
2009-08-19: A few discoveries
2009-08-17: More progress on exploded PowerPoints in a desktop repository
2009-08-05: I'm beginning to hate the word 'repository'
2009-07-08: ADFI collaboration and documentation tools
2009-07-08: Wanted: someone to actively sell open repository solutions in Australia
2009-06-20: Living Holding Hands?
2009-06-18: Very Early Career Researchers (Engineering)
2009-06-18: eResearch happiness in Australia?
2009-06-13: Desktop Repositories: Smashing up PowerPoint
2009-06-11: Trip report: visit to Microsoft
2009-06-03: eResearch at ADFI as summary and potential projects
2009-05-25: Open Repositories 2009 trip report
2009-05-13: Should I click the button?
2009-05-09: Stop saying 'Protect our IP' in educational contexts?
2009-05-05: Three big hairy audacious goals for an open USQ
2009-04-19: Ontologize me! First demo
2009-04-08: Journal 2.0: Embedding semantics in documents
2009-04-07: Scholarly HTML: Simple, rational modern citations using links
2009-04-01: Some ideas for rapid innovation projects: jiscri
2009-03-31: Scholarly HTML
2009-03-31: Trip report: Intersect and University of Sydney
2009-03-27: More on Microsoft Collaboration and word processor interop
2009-03-24: Linda Octalina
2009-03-17: More on Microsoft Word and non-interoperable standards compliance
2009-03-16: Opening up Microsoft
2009-03-16: The Desktop Fascinator AKA #DTeRrev
2009-03-10: Developer happiness and associated meetings
2009-03-05: Desktop eResearch revolution
2009-02-12: The path to developer happiness: Unit testing in Python & XSLT
2009-02-12: The path to developer happiness: Beyond PDF
2009-02-06: Still no sympathy for IBM Lotus Symphony
2009-02-05: OpenOffice.org is bad for the planet
2009-02-02: Gimpowerment
2009-01-06: Potential projects: #2 Integrating ICE with the Open Journal Systems
2009-01-05: Potential projects: #1 A general purpose document annotation system
2008-12-12: Old Slides
2008-12-11: Scholarly Publishing using the Integrated Content Environment
2008-12-08: More thoughts on thesis embargoes
2008-12-01: Embargoes on bits of theses: skating on thin ICE?
2008-11-18: The Fascinator @ !dea MMVIII
2008-10-20: Towards (Australian) repository interoperability using OAI-PMH
2008-10-16: Happy Open Access day
2008-10-16: ARROW week
2008-10-14: What the OAI-ORE protocol can do for you
2008-10-08: eResearch for Word users?
2008-09-30: ICE: eResearch for Word users
2008-09-19: Is this thing working?
2008-09-09: Embedding XML in word processing documents (if you really must)
2008-09-05: More ideas about online and offline word processor integration - is anybody listening?
2008-09-02: Put on The Fascinator
2008-08-26: More thoughts on an application to find structure in word processing documents
2008-08-26: A courseware authoring dashboard using Schematron
2008-08-20: Compound documents in ICE and beyond; referencing parts of things
2008-08-11: Study shows real-world ODF/OOXML interoperability is not great
2008-08-05: Another look at the Article Authoring Add-in for Microsoft Office Word 2007
2008-07-31: Improving VALET - part 2
2008-07-30: Improving VALET - part 1
2008-07-24: More on Buzzword
2008-07-15: Some architectural changes to ICE
2008-06-27: Tim McCallum shows off Sun of Fedora
2008-06-26: A few words on magic
2008-06-23: Lemon8 XML beta released
2008-06-20: An ICE like ODF based web publishing system
2008-06-19: Adventures in Geocoding part 2: Embedding data points in documents
2008-06-16: More on negative click or net benefit repositories
2008-06-11: Deflation in repository clicks
2008-06-06: Why wasn't I using styles in diagrams?
2008-05-19: Please comment on this abstract
2008-05-13: More on ODF and OOXML
2008-05-13: Claims about ODF support are typically meaningless
2008-05-12: Some comments on OOXML, ODF and Microsoft Word
2008-05-02: Adventures in geocoding part 1: The Toowoomba BUG Cycle Hazard Investigation Team does Ruthven Street
2008-04-24: Some comments on the NLM XML plugin for Word 2007
2008-04-23: Some thoughts on vendor lock-in, from the domestic to the institutional (is Apple Mac OS X evil?)
2008-03-25: Go go gadget gauges
2008-03-14: Google Docs as a blog editor?
2008-02-27: Google claims to support ODF over OOXML but Google Docs has awful ODF support
2008-02-26: ICEify this document!
2008-02-22: Anyone know about research into what authoring tools academics use?
2008-02-22: OpenDocument Format support not as great as the cheer squad keep saying
2008-02-21: XHTML Challenge: Mozilla Seamonkey Composer is not suitable for writing academic papers
2008-02-20: Cyclone Peter Murray-Rust moves away from Toowoomba. Cleanup continues.
2008-02-06: This site is now Zotero friendly, courtesy of the unAPI plugin for WordPress
2008-02-05: Mini websites of supporting material for scholarly articles
2008-02-05: Mini websites of supporting material for scholarly articles
2008-01-29: 2008
2008-01-25: IBM Lotus Symphony word processor does not have broken HTML export like all the others!
2008-01-04: Graphing with ICE
2008-01-03: ICE Mashups, part one, take two
2008-01-02: New job: Manager Software Research and Development, in the Learning Futures Innovation Institute
2007-12-19: Hooking up authoring processes and tools to institutional repositories
2007-12-18: ICE Mashups, part one
2007-12-12: Lemon8-XML more information
2007-12-11: Clever Collections
2007-11-28: ICE considered harmful
2007-11-22: This website has changed
2007-11-23: This website is about to change
2007-11-22: If you're in Melbourne come and learn about ICE on Tuesday November 27th
2007-11-12: Crossing curation mountain
2007-11-09: ICE as a blog editor
2007-11-08: Breaking the ICE
2007-11-06: Python templates considered mostly harmless
2007-10-05: A couple of words
2007-10-05: More on shared notebook projects
2007-10-03: Buzzword bought by Adobe
2007-09-27: Yet another untitled post
2007-09-21: Open Notebook Science and Not-so-open Notebook Science
2007-09-07: Another rant about how XML underneath your word processor is not enough
2007-09-03: ICE is atomized!
2007-08-24: Another defensive (yet not huffy) post about ICE
2007-08-22: URIs as tags
2007-08-17: Zotero bibliographic plugin released for Word and OpenOffice.org Writer
2007-08-10: Why ICE works
2007-08-09: iWork Pages - Keeping the words IN
2007-08-09: Why not HTML for online journals? People need the right tools.
2007-08-03: What I said in April about interoperability standards in educational ICT
2007-07-30: USQ joins the Open Courseware movement
2007-07-13: Identifiers should not contain semantics - except when they should
2007-07-05: Sun ODF converter for MS Word - version 1 review
2007-07-05: Challenge: Produce XHTML and print from Google Docs
2007-07-04: My impressions of the Electronic Theses and Dissertations conference series
2007-07-03: Challenge: Produce XHTML and print from a Writer document
2007-07-02: Challenge: Produce XHTML and print from a Word document
2007-06-22: CML demo
2007-06-15: ETD 2007 - paper delivered
2007-06-06: A quick test to see how an HTML editor behaves with lists, using FCKeditor
2007-06-05: OpenDocument format is not THAT widely supported no matter what Wikipedia says on any given day
2007-06-04: Bike lighting: two orders of magnitude
2007-06-04: Batch tools for repository migration: the RUBRIC solution
2007-05-22: First thoughts on Thoughtslinger: collaborative editing using the OpenDocument format spec, but not enough of it
2007-05-16: Another good use for handles: identifying items in the ICE content management system throughout thier lifecycle
2007-05-16: Zotero provides cross-platform bibliography solution for authors. Sort of.
2007-05-15: Submitting a paper to a conference using ICE
2007-04-27: Tom Worthington tries out ICE
2007-04-27: Squice?
2007-03-16: A killer app for handles
2007-03-13: Unit testing for VBA in 2 minutes
2007-03-05: RDF appears on my short-range radar
2007-03-05: A first try of Zotero's Word integration for citations and bibliographies
2007-02-27: Why not use styles for blogging in Word 2007 and really leap the chasm
2007-02-21: ODF plugin for Word is available
2007-02-19: Balanced review of word processors? I don't think so.
2007-02-16: Yet another untitled post
2007-02-09: Document converter week
2007-02-08: Which came first? The chooks (obviously)
2007-02-07: Curation boundary: the line between collaboration and preservation
2007-01-26: Posters at OR07
2007-01-25: Matt Zumwalt showed some great work on XForms and Fedora at OR07
2007-01-23: Rick Jelliffe looks at Open Office XML formats on Wikipedia
2007-01-22: Putting web content into a Fedora repository via IMS packages
2007-01-11: Adventures in self preservation: Converting legacy styles to ICE styles
2007-01-10: How to wash yourself with less than 10 litres of water
2007-01-10: Unfinished: Online authoring using ICE Styles
2007-01-10: Unfinished: Editing MODS metadata using XForms
2006-12-12: Tests on ICE
2006-12-06: Google Docs and collaboration
2006-12-06: Google Docs API
2006-12-01: Use styles: Don't bury them
2006-11-21: Adventures in self preservation: Use tables!
2006-11-09: See you at Open Repositories 2007
2006-11-08: Adventures in self preservation: Part 1 getting stuff off the Zip disc
2006-11-07: Want a longer tongue? Try ICE!
2006-11-06: ICE-RS: Day one
2006-11-06: ICE-RS: Virtual blog at http://del.icio.us/icers
2006-11-01: Does a text citation make a good persistent identifier?
2006-11-01: Administration overheads for repository maintainers: remapping old names
2006-10-24: Workflow 2.0
2006-10-23: A first look at the ODF Add-in for Word 2003
2006-10-20: I told you the lists in OpenOffice.org Writer were wacky!
2006-10-20: New Weblog plugin for OpenOffice.org Writer: Won't connect to wordpress.com
2006-10-19: Another ICE-RS-like project
2006-10-18: This site is broken
2006-10-06:
2006-09-23: Publish Everywhere? Not from word processors...
2006-09-22: Learning to live with NeoOffice: applying styles via the keyboard
2006-09-19: Ultra cheap DIY bike trailer made from a moving trolley
2006-09-07: ICE for lady novelists
2006-09-05: A bout the RUBRIC project Trac wiki
2006-09-01: Agility on ICE
2006-08-22: Yet another untitled post
2006-08-21: ICE-RS in the USQ news
2006-08-11: Come and see us at IDEA 2006
2006-08-10: Trek 520: 2000km update
2006-08-02: Auswebify me
2006-08-02: ICE, now with added Research and Scholarship
2006-07-26: Comparing XML word processing formats
2006-07-14: Fez Wiki is up
2006-07-14: More news on Word to HTML export
2006-07-13: Sun Microsystems, meet ICE
2006-07-07: Yet another untitled post
2006-06-22: Webmonkey knows nothing about HTML
2006-06-13: Some sample lists using styles
2006-06-13: Word 2007 bibliographies and XSLT
2006-06-09: Yet another untitled post
2006-06-07: Word lists without tears
2006-06-06: The Affiliation Issue in Institutional Repository software
2006-06-04: Better news about lists in Microsoft Word. Microsoft is listening.
2006-05-29: Lists in Office 2007. Not pretty.
2006-05-24: First post using Word 2007 Beta 2
2006-05-23: Presenting Slidy ICE
2006-05-16: Hey Gartner, how about telling people to use styles
2006-05-16: ICE is getting more famous
2006-05-15: Missed opportunities in opening up Microsoft Word
2006-05-14: Blogging about repository software
2006-05-13: Beyond blogging: style-driven HTML export from 2007. Please.
2006-05-11: A word plugin for OpenDocument? Maybe.
2006-05-03: Adventures in ePrintsland
2006-05-03: Learning about 'The Learning Edge'
2006-04-25: Virtual computing - I'm finally catching on
2006-04-25: Welcome to two new RUBRIC bloggers
2006-04-04: Use UTF-X unit testing if you're writing XSLT
2006-03-21: Writely, meet the ICE template
2006-03-13: Bibliographic Software: a biased summary
2006-03-09: How the ICE Python came to be
2006-03-09: ICE: Agile Publishing (with a long snout)
2006-03-09: Project management is like pedalling a bike
2006-02-13: ICE: Content Management with a long tongue
2006-02-07: New bike: Trek 520
2006-01-12: Don't invent your own word processing template
2005-12-12: How not to lose or forget a Mac DVI to VGA adaptor
2005-12-12: ICE: Interchange Comes Easily
2005-12-12: ICE mailing lists created
2005-12-08: Getting the Alt key working for OpenOffice.org on Mac OS X
2005-11-22: Microsoft XML formats to be standardized, allegedly
2005-11-17: The RUBRIC website is live
2005-11-17: Work on word processing formats by Ian Barnes
2005-11-10: Cutting off your word processor's tail
2005-11-06: Yet more about XHTML export: sustainability
2005-11-02: More about ICE and why XHTML is important
2005-10-31: Why do I keep going on about HTML export from word processors?
2005-10-20: OpenOffice.org 2 released (but not for the Mac)
2005-10-03: Word documents on the web: still happening and still a very, very bad idea
2005-09-20: Hacks to get bibliographic support in OpenOffice.org Writer
2005-09-18: Styles clarified
2005-09-13: How to set up del.icio.us and bloglines accounts
2005-09-13: OpenDocument or not you still need to Use Styles.
2005-09-07: Del.icio.us RUBRIC bookmarks
2005-09-05: Blog this button for OpenOffice.org (well half anyway)
2005-08-25: Word XML clarified a bit
2005-08-24: New job: RUBRIC Technical Manager
2005-08-23: A new project for USQ: RUBRIC
2005-08-16: Unit Testing for XSLT
2005-08-13: More on Microsoft Word vs XML Schemas
2005-08-07: OpenOffice.org for Mac - the Alt key
2005-08-06: Tags make content
2005-07-28: Homework from Open Publish 2005
2005-07-26: I'm back
2005-06-24: Installing OpenOffice v2 (beta) for Mac OS X
2005-06-19: Implementing IMS packages
2005-06-06: Waiting for Chandler
2005-05-29: Classy web templates - take two
2005-05-26: Welcome Justine
2005-05-24: Trac, RSS, Subversion, OpenOffice.org getting stuff done
2005-05-20: Improve the 'story' about Word and XML
2005-05-19: Tutorial: Enterprise content management using Word Processors
2005-05-18: What I've been up to: ICE
2005-05-18: What is StarOffice for?
2005-05-09: Pt's empire expands with a new Word Processing site
2005-05-05: New models in research and courseware publishing
2005-05-05: Word needs templates!
2005-04-26: OpenOffice.org version 2 Beta for Mac OS X
2005-04-19: OpenOffice.org Miniconf
2005-04-17: PowerPoint: Good Points
2005-04-03: Site update
2005-03-15: I love Gmail ads
2005-03-15: XHTML from Word
2005-03-10: Things that kill you don't make you stronger
2005-03-07: Trac is the answer to all our problems
2005-03-07: Why keep that $25 Linux machine?
2005-03-02: Use Styles
2005-02-25: The Agile MegaCustomer
2005-02-15: Extreme meta agility
2005-02-08: Del.icio.us as outboard memory
2005-02-05: The Portal ate my LMS
2005-01-29: Deep structure vs word processing
2005-01-27: Hacking OpenOffice article on XML.com
2005-01-20: Aggregation will be rough on Learning Management Systems
2005-01-20: Templates atrophy in Microsoft Word
2005-01-12: Pages? Not web pages.
2005-01-07: The delicious intranet, for real
2004-12-23: Agile Teaching (and Learning)
2004-12-21: Subversion for content again
2004-12-17: Subversion for content
2004-12-16: My First Blog Entry
2004-12-09: Word to XML and back in Python
2004-12-08: What is Content Management?
2004-12-03: ePublishing still important to eLearning
2004-12-01: The Horizontal University
2004-12-01: General purpose document formats, again
2004-11-24: A continuum of collaboration
2004-11-23: Learning Management Systems not great at content management
2004-11-22: Getting things done
2004-11-22: Three Chord Programming
2004-11-18: Transcending the LMS
2004-11-17: Internal Combustion Guitar
2004-11-16: Draft paper on content management for courseware
2004-11-09: WebCT Vista: First impressions
2004-11-08: Mobile future. Clear as MUD
2004-10-28: Menu for applying styles
2004-10-25: At last, a template for OpenOffice.org
2004-10-22: Adventures with Linux
2004-10-10: New computer
2004-09-22: Classy web templates using plain-old HTML
2004-09-20: WP Interop; Progress on Word to XML
2004-09-07: Update on lists
2004-08-30: Delicious recipe markup
2004-08-23: WP Interop Project: First documentation
2004-08-23: The delicious intranet
2004-08-16: Practical Word Processor Interoperability
2004-08-09: XHTML as a word processing format
2004-08-06: Links considered too difficult for online education software
2004-08-02: The best thing about blogs
2004-07-29: XML as hill 2
2004-07-20: Learning Management Systems at Ausweb
2004-07-08: Ausweb 04, the neutrality of educational software
2004-06-23: Ausweb04 Poster
2004-06-23: Phone Manor
2004-06-18: (X)HTML as a universal document format
2004-06-14: Test Driven Development; A Sort-of Rant.
2004-06-10: Recipes and Instances
2004-06-04: Don't just blog this
2004-05-17: harmful, leering face of CSS is trying to arrange containers on a page.
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