My previous post on extracting an English-Chinese dictionary garnered a fair amount of attention, I got reddit‘ed (on their frontpage for a short time), solidot‘ed, mentioned on the Wall Street Journal blog, and more. Very fun. About 10,000 page views in three days, and a bunch of comments, both here and at Reddit. It was [...]

Image via Wikipedia Peter Suber’s Open Access News has recently posted on two Norway-related Open Access developments. In both cases, the actual policies were in Norwegian, and in PDF files. I thought I’d try to ferret out some of the details and share them with the readers of this blog, and of Open Access News. [...]

Background Although there are some great Chinese dictionaries out there, I often encounter cases when they are not enough. I might either be looking for a specific concept, like “open access” (in scholarly publishing) and want to know how that is written in Chinese, so that I can google for articles about it in Chinese. [...]

Why use Slideshare?A lot of people have began posting their slides to Slideshare for sharing with others. In many ways, Slideshare makes more sense to me than for example Scribd – it’s fairly easy for me to download a PDF and view it in my local viewer, but it’s a pain to have to start [...]

Last week, I attended the Connexions/OpenCourseWare Consortium conference at Rice University, and I gave a presentation on OpenCourseWare in China (see abstract). The presentation roughly touches on three different aspects: The translation and use of MIT OpenCourseWare in China, the Chinese Ministry of Education led OpenCourseWare project, and the research on OpenCourseWare in Chinese. This [...]

I love seeing material in multiple languages, even languages I don’t understand. As populations have become more diverse around the world, public libraries have risen to the challenge, and whether you visit the Public Library in Oslo, or in Toronto, they have wonderful collections of children and adult books (and often films, DVDs, magazines and [...]