What activity do both The Owl Service and Sigur Rós have in common?
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The Owl Service (band) The Owl Service was an English alternative folk music collective formed in 2006 by multi-instrumentalist Steven Collins (who led the band for its entire 10 year duration), named after the 1967 novel by Alan Garner.
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Sigur Rós Sigur Rós (] ) is an Icelandic post-rock band from Reykjavík, who have been active since 1994. Known for their ethereal sound, frontman Jónsi's falsetto vocals, and the use of bowed guitar, the band's music is also noticeable for its incorporation of classical and minimalist aesthetic elements. The band is named after Jónsi's sister Sigurrós Elín.
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Hlemmur (soundtrack) Hlemmur is a soundtrack from 2002 composed and performed by the Icelandic band Sigur Rós. It is an instrumental electronic score to the Icelandic documentary "Hlemmur", which is named after Reykjavík's main bus terminal.
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Hvarf/Heim Hvarf/Heim is a compilation album by Sigur Rós. Its original CD release comprises two discs: "Hvarf" contains studio versions of previously unreleased songs (with the exception of "Hafsól", which was released as the B-side of "Hoppípolla" in 2005), while "Heim" contains live acoustic versions of songs already released. The songs on "Heim" are the same recordings found in the documentary "Heima". In 2008 EMI released a single-disc version in which "Heim" is simply tracklisted to follow "Hvarf". In 2012, the albums were issued on vinyl for the first time to be sold on Record Store Day.
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Security token service Security token service (STS) is a cross-platform open standard core component of the OASIS group's WS-Trust web services single sign-on infrastructure framework specification. Within that claims-based identity framework, a secure token service is responsible for issuing, validating, renewing and cancelling security tokens. The tokens issued by security token services can then be used to identify the holder of the token to services that adhere to the WS-Trust standard. Security token service provides the same functionality as OpenID, but unlike OpenID is not patent encumbered. Together with the rest of the WS-Trust standard, the security token service specification was initially developed by employees of IBM, Microsoft, Nortel and VeriSign.
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Hrafntinna "Hrafntinna" (Icelandic for "Obsidian", ) is a song written and recorded by Icelandic post-rock band Sigur Rós for their seventh studio album "Kveikur". It appears as the second track on the album. The song appeared on the Icelandic Tónlist chart in the week of the release of "Kveikur", thanks to strong digital sales of the album, which debuted at #1 on the Tonlist album charts. The song peaked at #29.
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Service layer pattern Service Layer is a design pattern, applied within the service-orientation design paradigm, which aims to organize the services, within a service inventory, into a set of logical layers. Services that are categorized into a particular layer share functionality. This helps to reduce the conceptual overhead related to managing the service inventory, as the services belonging to the same layer address a smaller set of activities.
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Online Contest (gliding) The aerokurier Online Contest (OLC), a worldwide decentralized soaring competition for glider, hang glider, and paraglider pilots. The OLC is operated by Segelflugszene Gemeinnützige GmbH, a German not-for-profit founded in 2000. "Segelflugszene" translates as "gliding scene" in English.
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OpenLayers OpenLayers is an open source (provided under the 2-clause BSD License) JavaScript library for displaying map data in web browsers as slippy maps. It provides an API for building rich web-based geographic applications similar to Google Maps and Bing Maps.
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Playment Playment is a mobile crowdsourcing platform which helps businesses offload large scale data operations to players(users). It breaks down large problems into micro-tasks and distributes among its large community of players(users). It works on the principle of Microwork, where a series of small tasks which together comprise a large unified project, and are completed by many people over the Internet.
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Assessment Open Service Interface Definition The Assessment Open Service Interface Definition (OSID) is an O.K.I. specification which supports creating, organizing, administrating, evaluating, storing and retrieving assessment information. OSIDs are programmatic interfaces which comprise a Service Oriented Architecture for designing and building reusable and interoperable software.
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Event-driven SOA Event-driven SOA is a form of service-oriented architecture (SOA), combining the intelligence and proactiveness of event-driven architecture with the organizational capabilities found in service offerings. Before event-driven SOA, the typical SOA platform orchestrated services centrally, through pre-defined business processes, assuming that what should have already been triggered is defined in a business process. This older approach (sometimes called SOA 1.0) does not account for events that occur across, or outside of, specific business processes. Thus complex events, in which a pattern of activities—both non-scheduled and scheduled—should trigger a set of services is not accounted for in traditional SOA 1.0 architecture.
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Renewables Obligation (United Kingdom) The Renewables Obligation (RO) is designed to encourage generation of electricity from eligible renewable sources in the United Kingdom. It was introduced in England and Wales and in a different form (the Renewables Obligation (Scotland)) in Scotland in April 2002 and in Northern Ireland in April 2005, replacing the Non-Fossil Fuel Obligation which operated from 1990.
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Far-Play Far-Play (stylized fAR-Play, from augmented reality) is a software platform developed at the University of Alberta, for creating location-based, scavenger-hunt style games which use the GPS and web-connectivity features of a player's smartphone. According to the development team, "our long-term objective is to develop a general framework that supports the implementation of AARGs that are fun to play and also educational". It utilizes Layar, an augmented reality smartphone application, QR codes located at particular real-world sites, or a phone's web browser, to facilitate games which require players to be in close physical proximity to predefined "nodes". A node, referred to by the developers as a Virtual Point of Interest (vPOI), is a point in space defined by a set of map coordinates; fAR-Play uses the GPS function of a player's smartphone—or, for indoor games, which are not easily tracked by GPS satellites, specially-created QR codes—to confirm that they are adequately near a given node. Once a player is within a node's proximity, Layar's various augmented reality features can be utilized to display a range of extra content overlaid upon the physical play-space or launch another application for extra functionality.
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Ágúst Ævar Gunnarsson Ágúst Ævar Gunnarsson (] ; born 22 September 1976) is a founding member of the Icelandic post-rock band Sigur Rós. He was the band's drummer from their creation in August 1994 until he quit in 1999 after the band finished "Ágætis byrjun". Orri Páll Dýrason took his place as drummer. The group became internationally popular with their subsequent albums, "( )" (2002) and "Takk..." (2005). He went on to study graphic design.
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Subsea Internet of Things Subsea Internet of Things (SIoT) is a network of smart, wireless sensors and smart devices configured to provide actionable operational intelligence such as performance, condition and diagnostic information. It is coined from the term The Internet of Things (IoT). Unlike IoT, SIot focuses on subsea communication through the water and the water-air boundary. SIoT systems are based around smart, wireless devices incorporating Seatooth radio and Seatooth Hybrid technologies. SIoT systems incorporate standard sensors including temperature, pressure, flow, vibration, corrosion and video. Processed information is shared among nearby wireless sensor nodes. SIoT systems are used for environmental monitoring, Oil & Gas production control and optimisation and subsea asset integrity management. Some of the features of IoT's share similar characteristics to Cloud Computing. There is also a recent increase of interest looking at the integration of IoT and Cloud Computing. Subsea Cloud Computing is an architecture design to provide an efficient means of SIoT systems to manage large data sets. It is an adaption of Cloud Computing frameworks to meet the needs of the underwater environment. Similarly to Fog computing or Edge computing critical focus remains at the edge. Algorithms are used to interrogate data set for information which is used to optimise production.
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BirdTrack BirdTrack is an online citizen science website, operated by the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) on behalf of a partnership of the BTO, the RSPB, BirdWatch Ireland, the Scottish Ornithologists' Club and the Welsh Ornithological Society (Welsh: "Cymdeithas Adaryddol Cymru" ). It is also available though mobile apps.
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Semantic Web Stack The Semantic Web Stack, also known as Semantic Web Cake or Semantic Web Layer Cake, illustrates the architecture of the Semantic Web.
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Software as a service Software as a service (SaaS; pronounced ) is a software licensing and delivery model in which software is licensed on a subscription basis and is centrally hosted. It is sometimes referred to as "on-demand software", and was formerly referred to as "software plus services" by Microsoft. SaaS is typically accessed by users using a thin client via a web browser. SaaS has become a common delivery model for many business applications, including office software, messaging software, payroll processing software, DBMS software, management software, CAD software, development software, gamification, virtualization, accounting, collaboration, customer relationship management (CRM), Management Information Systems (MIS), enterprise resource planning (ERP), invoicing, human resource management (HRM), talent acquisition, content management (CM), and service desk management. SaaS has been incorporated into the strategy of nearly all leading enterprise software companies.
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Web Ontology Language The Web Ontology Language (OWL) is a family of knowledge representation languages for authoring ontologies. Ontologies are a formal way to describe taxonomies and classification networks, essentially defining the structure of knowledge for various domains: the nouns representing classes of objects and the verbs representing relations between the objects. Ontologies resemble class hierarchies in object-oriented programming but there are several critical differences. Class hierarchies are meant to represent structures used in source code that evolve fairly slowly (typically monthly revisions) whereas ontologies are meant to represent information on the Internet and are expected to be evolving almost constantly. Similarly, ontologies are typically far more flexible as they are meant to represent information on the Internet coming from all sorts of heterogeneous data sources. Class hierarchies on the other hand are meant to be fairly static and rely on far less diverse and more structured sources of data such as corporate databases.
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OPEN Alliance SIG The OPEN Alliance is a non-profit, special interest group (SIG) of mainly automotive industry and technology providers collaborating to encourage wide scale adoption of Ethernet-based communication as the standard in automotive networking applications.
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Ookpik An Ookpik (] ) is a popular Inuit handicraft toy. It is a small, souvenir owl with large head and big eyes, a beak, and small black talons. They are often made from wolf fur, sealskin and other traditional materials.