Adelle Frank's blog

A list of district-specific elected offices for DeKalb County, GA. Find Your Districts.This detailed follow-up to my entries on County-wide elected offices and on election research tools, this post begins with a table of only those offices for which we'll be voting in the 2010 election. If you want to be able to vote in all of the special and primary elections (primaries held on July 20), be sure to register by June 21, 2010.

A list of elected offices for which EVERYONE in DeKalb County, GA votes, regardless of where they live in the county. A detailed follow-up to my entry on election research tools, and district-specific elected offices, this post begins with a table of only those offices for which we'll be voting in the 2010 election. If you want to be able to vote in the primary elections (primaries held on July 20), be sure to register by June 21, 2010.

Why should I care about RDF?

Computers can help YOU find stuff easier on the web, because RDF gives computers a better "understanding" of that information.

I'm lucky enough to be using Archivists' Toolkit (AT) at my internship with the Atlanta University Center. AT is an open source archival data management system that allows archivists (or graduate interns) to enter the finding aid data for a collection without knowing how to code EAD.

Being a curious person, and a glutton for punishment, I thought I'd try to install and use AT on my Windows Vista laptop and connect to a test MySQL database in my shared web hosting account (at bluehost). I discovered a few gotchas and have, I hope, explained the installation process in a clear, linear way that will help others perform this installation more quickly. Mind you, I came to the realization that AT currently doesn't work on Vista, but the steps are the same for XP.

Need to get users' attention for your web site? Worried about giving boring presentations? Read these helpful ideas from chapter 4 of Medina's book, "Brain Rules" for ideas on getting people's attention in the web development, IA and UX fields. 

So much of your website is WORDS. Can brain science insights help you to use words better on the web? Read these summaries from chapters 17-21 of Michael Eysenck's book on Fundamentals of Cognition, for a few ideas that are relevant to the web development, IA and UX fields.