Slate (disambiguation)

Slate is a type of rock, often used for roofing.

Slate may also refer to:

Places

Electronic devices

Internet

Music

Slates (EP)

Slates is an EP by The Fall, released on 27 April 1981 through Rough Trade Records.

Background

The track "Middle Mass" is in part a play on words of George Eliot's 1871 novel Middlemarch.

Release

Slates was released on 27 April 1981. Containing six tracks and pressed onto 10" vinyl, it was eligible for neither the single nor album charts, being too long for the former and too short for the latter. However, it was included in the UK Independent Album chart, where it reached No. 3.

Slates made its first appearance on CD in 1992 on the Dojo label, where it was coupled with live album A Part of America Therein, 1981. This pairing was re-pressed with amended artwork in 1998 by Castle Music. Slates was finally given a proper remastered CD edition from the original master tapes in 2004, with seven additional tracks being added to bolster the brief running time. The first three additional tracks formed the group's fourth session for John Peel; the next two tracks were issued as a single in December 1981; and track 13 was an outtake from 1981, previously featured on a budget compilation titled The Collection (Castle, 1993).

SLATES

SLATES is an initialism that describes the business impacting capabilities, derived from the effective use of Web 2.0 technologies in and across enterprises. It stands for Search, Links, Authorship, Tags, Extensions, Signalling.

Origin of the term

This acronym refers to the key elements in the phenomena often referred to as Enterprise 2.0, which was defined by Professor Andrew McAfee as “the use of emergent social software platforms within companies, or between companies and their partners or customers”

Search

Traditionally defined as

A web search query is a query that a user enters into web search engine to satisfy his or her information needs. Web search queries are distinctive in that they are unstructured and often ambiguous; they vary greatly from standard query languages which are governed by strict syntax rules.

The term in the context of SLATES refers to effective use of such search queries in and across enterprise boundaries, for example being able to enhance the "discoverability of information which drives re-use, leverage and ROI" [2]