CODENAME: FILNET

Filipiniana.net was featured today in Manila Bulletin's Youth and Campus section where it considered the site as the next Digital Alexandria. In an interview, our publisher Gus Vibal talk of the current undertakings we have with this project. Truly, this project is already being recognized as the leading site that promotes and advocate digital preservation. "More than just digitizing books, what we’re doing here by publishing all these is not only reviving a particular milleu in time, but also preserving them," he says. "You don’t have to go to the library any longer, the library goes to you. We want to think of Filipiniana.net as more than just as a site but a movement, part of the global movement to preserve all of these things before they get destroyed. We want to be a digital library of Alexandria." Read the full story of this entry

Philippine education goes to cyberspace. Sixty percent of the countries' enrolled population are now using the Information Gateway for research because it is fast, easy, accessible and affordable to students and the masses. As government agencies now interlinks their basic services, the educational system is now taking advantage of the present technology to provide students, teachers and parents with the basic information and services through their websites. Colleges and universities can gain access to their class schedules, grades and enrolment process online and this would evolve in years to come. With the popularity of the Internet, students have become dependent and reliant to whatever information the Internet feeds them. But the problem here in our country is the scarcity of information of some websites about the Philippines. Books and related writings about the Philippines often can be found in foreign schools and universities. Most of the students turn to these sites to g...

As debate continues on whether I should start the groundwork of the wiki project. Editorial board are still hesitant to push through not because they lack of manpower but I think, it is because they never know where to start and how they go about with the process. I made it more simple. First, we have the option to aggregate contents from Wikipedia because of its free licensing scheme. Second, we will use same technology, method and taxonomy, and Third, we will use Filipiniana.net content categorization for our outline structure. The mediawiki tools that was used by Wikipedia was already stable and I know this is the best platform to use to come up with our conceptual encyclopedia. I have reminded them that this tool can be use in any form and we can offer more than that. I thnk they don't get what open source is all about and what is the advantage of developing sites based on open source. Most of the world's successful websites comes from open source and most of today...

Last February 8, 2007, an overnight discussion was push through on FilNet project. They said, it was a Strategy Meeting but for me, it is a sort of Planning Meeting for another months of production and launching schedules. We discussed more on the publication plan and other criticism of the site. Debate on contents and task assignments created a much active participation of the group. The editors and consultants criticized our digilib and are asking for improvements. We ask them to write down their wish list so we can streamline the process in between and we can come up with a plan and necessary requirements. My contribution was supposed to be a presentation on the Wiki project but my interest fades away when our publisher wants to remove all non performing parts of the site. Though it was not my fault, I want them to realized that I have provided them the facility on their request and its no longer my jurisdiction to fill up its contents. I have made initial copy and contents ...