Technologies For Dummies
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Technologies for Dummies
The principal technologies used to create the infrastructure of the Tibetan & Himalayan Library are diverse. The list below provides simple explanations of these technologies, as well as descriptions of how they are used within THL. For more information, read the Introduction to THL Technologies.
- AJAX
- Avatar
- Blogging
- Bot
- Character Encoding
- Database
- Fedora
- Folksonomies
- GIS
- Humanities Computing
- HTML
- Immersive Object
- Java
- JavaScript
- MYSQL
- PHP
- Podcasts
- Programming
- QTVR
- RSS feeds
- Ruby on Rails
- SAKAI
- SGML
- Social Uses of Web: social networking, social software, social bookmarking.
- Unicode
- Virtual Reality
- VRML
- Web 2.0
- Webcam
- Wikis
- XML