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Wednesday, March 31, 2004 The Hindu Subject Tracers™ Article http://www.hindu.com/biz/2004/03/29/stories/2004032900311900.htm Subject Tracers were featured in the March 29, 2004 NetSpeak article in the Business Monday Section of The Hindu (Online Edition of India's National Newspaper). The Astronomy Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog was shown with discussion of the many other latest Subject Tracer™ Information Blogs created by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A.. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:30 AM Digital Library Construction Tools http://www.bcdlib.tc.ca/ A guide to digital library collections, primarily text-based ones, and digital library construction technology in BC and around the world: Digital Library Construction Tools: Standards Digital Library Construction Tools: How-To Courses Digital Library Construction Tools: How-To Manuals Digital Library Construction Tools: Preservation Digital Library Construction Tools: Software posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:20 AM New Applications of Knowledge Organization Systems http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/?vol=4&iss=4 Knowledge Organization Systems/Services (KOS), such as classifications, gazetteers, lexical databases, ontologies, taxonomies and thesauri, model the underlying semantic structure of a domain. They can support subject indexing and facilitate resource discovery and retrieval, whether by humans or by machines. New networked KOS services and applications are emerging and we are reaching the stage where we can prepare the work for future exploitation of common representations and protocols for distributed use. A number of technologies could be combined to yield new solutions. The papers published here are concerned with different types of KOS, discuss various standards issues and span the information lifecycle. This has been added to Knowledge Discovery Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM Finders, Keepers? The Present and Future Perfect in Support of Personal Information Management by William Jones http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_3/jones/index.html To keep or not to keep? People continually face variations of this decision as they encounter information. A large percentage of information encountered is clearly useless — junk e–mail, for example. Another portion of encountered information can be "used up" and disposed of in a single read — the weather report or a sports score, for example. That leaves a great deal of information in a middle ground. The information might be useful somewhere at sometime in the future. Decisions concerning whether and how to keep this information are an essential part of personal information management. Bad decisions either way can be costly. Information not kept or not kept properly may be unavailable later when it is needed. But keeping too much information can also be costly. The wrong information competes for attention and may obscure information more appropriate to the current task. These are the logical costs of a signal detection task. From this perspective, one approach in tool support is to try to decrease the costs of a false positive (keeping useless information) and a miss (not keeping useful information). But this reduction in the costs of keeping mistakes is likely to be bounded by fundamental limitations in the human ability to remember and to attend. A second approach suggested by the theory of signal detectability is relatively less explored: Develop tools that decrease the likelihood that "keeping" mistakes are made in the first place. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM The Tensions of Securing Cyberspace: The Internet, State Power & The National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace by Michael T. Zimmer http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_3/zimmer/index.html The National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace exposes a growing tension between the nature of the Internet and the regulatory powers of the traditional nation–state. The National Strategy declares, with all the strength and authority of the United States government, the desire to secure a space many consider, by its very nature, chaotic and beyond the reach any organized or central control. This paper will argue that both the structural architecture of the Internet and the substantive values codified within it clash with governmental efforts to "secure cyberspace." posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM Web Pages Search Engine Based on DNS by Wang Liang, Guo Yi-Ping, and Fang Ming http://arxiv.org/pdf/cs.NI/0403035 Search engine is main access to the largest information source in this world, Internet. Now Internet is changing every aspect of our life. Information retrieval service may be its most important services. But for common user, internet search service is still far from our expectation, too many unrelated search results, old information, etc. To solve these problems, a new system, search engine based on DNS is proposed. The original idea, detailed content and implementation of this system all are introduced in this paper. This has been addded to Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Tuesday, March 30, 2004 Agriculture Resources http://www.AgricultureResources.info/ Agriculture Resources is a Subject Tracer™ Information Blog developed and created by the Virtual Private Library™. It is designed to bring together the latest resources and sources on an ongoing basis for agriculture. We always welcome suggestions of additional sites and resources to be added to this comprehensive listing and please submit by clicking here. This site has been developed and is maintained by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A.. Additional links and resources by Marcus are available by clicking here. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:25 AM IBM Releasing Free Tools for Java, XML, Unix by Paul Krill http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/03/29/HNibmalpha_1.html http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/ BM on Monday is unveiling seven free developer tools intended to provide software engineers with advanced resources for developing and accessing applications based on Java, XML, and Unix. The tools will enable developers to perform tasks such as searching sequential data, accessing distributed Unix systems, querying views on XML data, and standardizing queries for deployment in an XQuery environment, according to IBM. This has been added to Biological Informatics Subject Tracer Information Blog. [InfoWolrd News 3-20-04] posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:20 AM Influential Scholar Distributes Book Online for Free http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techpolicy/2004-03-26-lessig-book_x.htm http://free-culture.org/freecontent Lawrence Lessig, an influential scholar who advocates greater consumer rights to use copyright works, is making his latest book available free on the Internet. The book, Free Culture, explores technical and legal restrictions that publishers and other large media corporations use to control information and keep it from the public domain. Lessig says the process limits creativity. Lessig, a law professor at Stanford University, argues that making information more widely available can make business sense. His publisher, The Penguin Press, agreed to make the book available online to demonstrate the point. [USA Today - Associated Press] posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM WisStat http://www.wisstat.wisc.edu/ For many decades, the University of Wisconsin has been known for its work in the fields of demography and sociology, so the appearance of the WisStat website is quite welcome, though not a surprise. Developed by the Applied Population Laboratory at the university, and drawing on a number of reliable data sources (including the 2000 Census), the WisStat server allows visitors to view various demographic data about a vast array of units (including by census tract, city, village, country) throughout the state of Wisconsin. First, visitors will need to select a unit of geography to examine (such as county, village, etc.), then select an appropriate search filter. This is probably the most powerful aspect of the site, as visitors can search by subject, keyword, data source, and year range. Upon completing these first two steps, visitors may then view the data in a table format, and they may also download this data for future use. This has been added to Statistics Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.[From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2003. http://scout.wisc.edu/] posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM Spam Being Rapidly Outpaced By Spim http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994822 While the torrent of unsolicited spam emails continues to rise, it is being far outpaced by the surge in unwanted messages sent to the users of instant messaging programs, analysts have warned. The volume of so-called "spim" is set triple in 2004, according to a new report from the Radicati Group, a technology market research firm in Palo Alto, California. The company projects that 1.2 billion spims will be sent, 70 per cent of which are porn-related. This is a mere trickle compared to the 35 billion spams expected, but the researchers warn that spim is growing at about three times the rate of spam, as spammers adapt their toolkit to exploit a rapidly rising number of new instant messaging (IM) users. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM W3C Launches XML Binary Characterization Working Group http://www.w3.org/XML/Binary/ http://www.w3.org/XML/ W3C is pleased to announce the creation of the XML Binary Characterization Working Group in the XML Activity. Robin Berjon (Expway) chairs. Chartered for a year, the group will analyze and develop use cases and measurements for alternate encodings of XML. Its goal is to determine if serialized binary XML transmission and formats are feasible. Participation is open to W3C Members. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Monday, March 29, 2004 Library Link of the Day http://www.tk421.net/librarylink/ My interview by Robin Hood titled The Future Of News: The Digital Information Librarian was the featured site at the Library Link of the Day on Sunday March 28, 2004. posted by Marcus Zillman | 5:00 AM This edition of Current Awareness Happenings on the Internet by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. (March 29, 2004 V2N13) is dedicated to the current freely available Subject Tracer™ Information Blogs. Click on the below audblog link to hear a two minute audio describing these resources. These Subject Tracer™ Information Blogs are available from the following URL: Virtual Private Library http://www.VirtualPrivateLibrary.org/  audblog audio post
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Easy Topic Maps - Page Index http://www.easytopicmaps.com/wakka.php?wakka=PageIndex&v=dhw An excellent resource on topic maps and related information architecture sources. This has been added to Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:20 AM MSN Shows BlogBot http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsoft/archives/002505.html?wbfrom=rss This is taken from March 26, 2004 SeattlePI.com: An interesting Microsoft-related development today for the weblogging community: MSN Blogbot. It's essentially a tool for searching weblogs, set to debut later this year. MSN exec Yusuf Mehdi showed it briefly on screen during a conference on the Redmond campus today, along with MSN Newsbot, a news search engine also in development. Mehdi was pressed for time and moved on quickly, so he didn't share many details about Blogbot. It's not yet clear, for example, if it will be based on RSS feeds, a la the popular Feedster, although that would make sense..... I have been searching with bots and blogs for the last three years and in fact I have been presenting through my presentations for the last year .... see Bots, Blogs and New Aggregators. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM OSTI GrayLIT Network : Full-Text Scientific Report Literature http://www.osti.gov/graylit The GrayLIT Network is a portal for technical report information generated through federally funded research and development projects. Developed by the Department of Energy's Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), in collaboration with DOD/DTIC, NASA, and EPA, the unique cross-searching capability called Distributed Explorer has been applied to some of OSTI's other major Web sites, including the EnergyFiles Virtual Library, the E-print Network and Federal R&D Project Summaries . Each of these sites applies the Distributed Explorer tool in a slightly different manner based on the unique attributes of site content. Since the GrayLIT Network search utilizes the capability of each individual site search, results may vary. For example, in the case of the DOE Information Bridge, the full text of each technical report is searched and the results are returned accordingly. In some of the other full-text databases only the bibliographic information is searched at the site. In these cases, the full text is accessible and may be downloaded. This has been added to Academic Resources 2004 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM Dictionary of Nomenclature of Celestial Objects http://vizier.cfa.harvard.edu/viz-bin/Dic "Designations of astronomical objects are often confusing. Astronomical designations (also called Object Identifiers) have been collected and published by Lortet and collaborators in Dictionaries of Nomenclature of Celestial Objects outside the solar system". This is the web-based look-up version of that text, with full references and usages for nearly 14,000 different acronyms and various (nonstandard) numbering-schemes and coordinate-systems. This has been added to Astronomy Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM Institute of Nanotechnology http://www.nano.org.uk The Institute of Nanotechnology has been created to foster, develop and promote all aspects of science and technology in those domains where dimensions and tolerances in the range of 0.1 nm to 100nm play a critical role. This web-portal provides information to the public; these resources at this portal-style website are available free: Latest -- the latest nanotech news worldwide; Events -- upcoming meetings, conferences, and seminars; Courses -- Universities that offer degree programs in nanotech; Links -- Universities, Research centers, Companies, and more; Books -- bibliography of books available on nanotechnology; Images -- SPM Scanning Probe Microscope images and movies and SPIP Pioneers in nanotechnology; and Nanotechnolgy: What is it? Which countries are doing nanotech research? posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Sunday, March 28, 2004 Global Legal Information Network Gets a Makeover http://www.aallnet.org/press/press040318.asp The Law Library of Congress is revamping its Global Legal Information Network -- a massive database containing statutes, regulations and related legal materials originating from countries in the Americas, Europe, Africa and Asia. "This major system re-design will keep in step with 21st century expectations for GLIN performance," says Law Librarian of Congress Dr. Rubins Medina. New features will include the capability to input documents such as court decisions and legislative records, expanded multilingual options, and an improved user interface designed for "user friendly" access. Virginia-based Advanced Technology Systems has been selected to upgrade the system, which will be open to the public except where copyright restrictions or distribution agreements of particular countries preclude this. GLIN was recently cited by the Worldwide Forum on e-Democracy as an organization that "has made outstanding e-political and e-government achievements that have forever changed the political process." The GLIN database offers newly emerging democracies such as Afghanistan a ready-made system for organizing, processing, preserving and retrieving their laws. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:20 AM Syllabus for a Course On the Semantic Web http://polaris.gseis.ucla.edu/pagre/is277.html This is a course by Phil Agre "on the semantic web, an important new document-centered computing technology in which web pages and other online resources are provided with metadata that can be automatically processed by computers." posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:18 AM Dictionary Of Occupational Titles Index http://theodora.com/dot_index.html Following is the alphabetical index to the Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOT) revised fourth edition, as supplied electronically by the US Dept. of Labor, provided, as a public service, by ITA, makers of DOT and ONET software. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM The Spread of the Witty Worm http://www.caida.org/analysis/security/witty/ An analysis by Colleen Shannon and David Moore of the spread of the Witty Internet Worm in March 2004. The network telescope and associated security efforts are a joint project of the UCSD Computer Science and Engineering Department and the Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis. On Friday March 19, 2004 at approximately 8:45pm PST, an Internet worm began to spread, targeting a buffer overflow vulnerability in several Internet Security Systems (ISS) products, including ISS RealSecure Network, RealSecure Server Sensor, RealSecure Desktop, and BlackICE. The worm takes advantage of a security flaw in these firewall applications that was discovered earlier this month by eEye Digital Security. Once the Witty worm infects a computer, it deletes a randomly chosen section of the hard drive, over time rendering the machine unusable. The worm's payload contained the phrase "(^.^) insert witty message here (^.^)" so it came to be known as the Witty worm. In this document we share a global view of the spread of the Witty worm, with particular attention to somw worrisome features. This will be added to Security Resources 2004 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM The CAIDA Web Site http://www.caida.org/home/ CAIDA, the Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis, provides tools and analyses promoting the engineering and maintenance of a robust, scalable global Internet infrastructure. The website offers information on: papers, presentations, background, faq, program plan and joining. This will be added to Security Resources 2004 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM NET Institute http://www.netinst.org/ The Networks, Electronic Commerce and Telecommunications ("NET") Institute is a non-profit institution devoted to research on network industries, electronic commerce, telecommunications, the Internet, "virtual networks" comprised of computers that share the same technical standard or operating system, and on network issues in general. Of particular interest is research on innovation and introduction of new technology in network industries. The NET Institute functions as a world-wide focal point for research and open exchange and dissemination of ideas in these areas. The NET Institute competitively funds cutting edge research projects in these areas of research. It organizes conferences and seminars on these issues. This has been added to eCommerce Resources Subject Tracer Information Blog and will be added to Business Resources 2004 Internet MiniGuide/. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Saturday, March 27, 2004 Managing Information in the Digital Age http://www.sis.pitt.edu/~dlwkshop/report.pdf The National Science Foundation's (NSF) workshop on the future of digital library research has just published its final report, which is available online. The workshop brought together a team of educators, researchers, librarians and technologists to consider the future research agenda for digital libraries. The 57-page report recommends that, in order to maintain national expertise and achieve necessary gains in research and education, the NSF should provide $20 million per year for innovative and exploratory research to address challenges in the creation, collection, organization, use and long-term availability of digital resources of all sorts in a rapidly evolving global information infrastructure. The report also suggests that $40 million per year be budgeted for transformative change to infrastructure and practice. The danger facing digital libraries is an abundance of information paired with insufficient information management. As a result, individuals and communities risk losing the ability to control and manage their own data. (Knowledge Lost in Information: Report of the NSF Workshop on Research Directions for Digital Libraries June 2003) posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:25 AM e-Encyclopedia http://www.dke-encyc.com/ e-Encyclopedia combines the best of a traditional encyclopedia with an extra digital dimension. The book's dedicated website has been created with Google, the world's leading search engine. It guides the reader to the most helpful, appropriate and amazing sites the web has to offer. When you look up a subject in the book, the article gives you key facts and displays a keyword that links you to a wealth of extra information online. The e-Encyclopedia is grouped thematically, in nine subject areas: Space; Earth; Nature; Human Body; Science and Technology; People and Places; Society and Beliefs; Arts and Entertainment; History. Links include: animations, videos, sound buttons, virtual tours, interactive quizzes, databases, timelines, and realtime reports. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:20 AM The Web Library: Building a World Class Personal Library with Free Web Resources http://www.ccsu.edu/library/tomaiuolon/theweblibrary.htm This is the resource list that is updated for the book The Web Library: Building a World Class Personal Library with Free Web Resources by Nick Tomaiuolo. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM The Universal Library http://www.ulib.org/ The mission of The Universal Library hosted by Carnegie Mellon University is to create a Universal Library which will foster creativity and free access to all human knowledge. As a first step in realizing this mission, it is proposed to create the Universal Library with a free-to-read, searchable collection of one million books, primarily in the English language, available to everyone over the Internet. Within 10 years, it is our expectation that the collection will grow to 10 Million books. The result will be a unique resource accessible to anyone in the world 24x7, without regard to nationality or socioeconomic background. The first major project of Universal Library is the Million Book Digital Library project. Typical large high-school libraries house fewer than 30,000 volumes. Most libraries in the world have less than a million volumes. The total number of different titles indexed in OCLC’s WorldCat is about 48 million. One million books, therefore, is more than the holdings of most high-schools, and is equivalent to the libraries at many universities and represents a useful fraction of all available books. One of the goals of the Universal Library is to provide support for full text indexing and searching based on OCR (optical character recognition) technologies where available. The availability of online search allows users to locate relevant information quickly and reliably thus enhancing student's success in their research endeavors. This 24x7 resource would also provide an excellent testbed for language processing research in areas such as machine translation, summarization, intelligent indexing, and information retrieval. This will be added to Academic Sources 2004 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM Index of Learning Styles (ILS) http://www.ncsu.edu/felder-public/ILSpage.html The Index of Learning Styles is an on-line instrument used to assess preferences on four dimensions (active/reflective, sensing/intuitive, visual/verbal, and sequential/global) of a learning style model formulated by Richard M. Felder and Linda K. Silverman. The instrument was developed by Richard M. Felder and Barbara A. Soloman of North Carolina State University. The ILS may be used at no cost for non-commercial purposes by individuals who wish to determine their own learning style profile and by educators who wish to use it for teaching, advising, or research. This will be added to Education and Distance learning Resources 2004 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM FreeFullText.com http://www.freefulltext.com/ FreeFullText.com provides direct links to over 7000 scholarly periodicals which allow some or all of their online content to be viewed by ANYONE with Internet access for free (though some may require free registration). The issue(s) which are available for free are indicated for each title on the alphabetical periodical lists. The design of this site is optimized for users seeking specific articles for which they already have the citation. This site does not attempt to list ALL periodicals on the Internet, only those which offer free full-text content. Titles will be removed from this list if they cease to offer any free full-text content. This will be added to Academic Resources 2004 Internet MiniGuide. [Thanks to Gary Price's ResourceShelf for disocvering this fine resource] posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Friday, March 26, 2004 AwarenessWatch™ Newsletter V2N4 April 2004 http://virtualprivatelibrary.blogspot.com/Awareness Watch V2N4.pdf Awareness Watch™ Newsletter http://www.AwarenessWatch.com/ The April 2004 V2N4 Awareness Watch™ Newsletter is available as a 26 page .pdf document (476KB) from the above URL. The Awareness Watch Featured Report this month covers an in depth and extremely comprehensive listing of research tools and research resources available on the Internet. The Awareness Watch Spotters cover many excellent and newly released current awareness and research sources as well as the latest identified Internet happenings and alerts. The book review highlights a newly released book on agent mediated knowledge management and the Subject Tracer™ Information Blogs have been updated with two new subjects: Information Quality Resources and Outsourcing/Offshoring Information and Resources. posted by Marcus Zillman | 6:00 AM Older Americans and the Internet http://www.pewinternet.org/reports/toc.asp?Report=117 The Pew Internet & American Life Project release their latest report: Older Americans and the Internet. The percent of seniors who go online has jumped by 47% between 2000 and 2004. In a February 2004 survey, 22% of Americans age 65 or older reported having access to the Internet, up from 15% in 2000. That translates to about 8 million Americans age 65 or older who use the Internet. By contrast, 58% of Americans age 50-64, 75% of 30-49 year-olds, and 77% of 18-29 year-olds currently go online. Summary: Older Americans and the Internet [click to see chart] posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:25 AM GlobalSpec - Engineering Search Engine http://search.globalspec.com/Search/WebSearch http://www.globalspec.com/News/WhatsNew GlobalSpec - The Engineering Web is designed to meet the demands of engineers and technical professionals. They have crawled, filtered and indexed the World Wide Web to focus your search on engineering-related information - filtering out what you don’t want and delivering only the relevant results you do. GlobalSpec gives you access to the hidden Web - exclusive content not available on any other search engine: Application Note Search - the largest searchable application note index. Using proprietary software, GlobalSpec has collected and categorized more than 50,000 application notes searchable by keyword or phrase. Material Properties Search - the largest material property database - critical information for designers. Standards Search - the world's largest file of active and historical standards, specifications, drawings, handbooks and related technical documents. Patents Search - a digital collection of patents, patent applications and grant information from around the world. This has been added to the Search Engine section of all the Internet MiniGuides. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:20 AM An Expert Helps You Search the Internet http://www.newmediamusings.com/blog/2004/03/an_expert_helps.html J.D. Lasica's New Media Musings featured my latest white paper Searching the Internet. Thanks for the nice words JD ..... posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM Working Draft: VoiceXML 2.1 http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-voicexml21-20040323/ http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-voicexml20-20040316/ http://www.w3.org/Voice/ The Voice Browser Working Group has released the First Public Working Draft of the "Voice Extensible Markup Language (VoiceXML) 2.1." Fully backwards-compatible with VoiceXML 2.0, the draft's purpose is to standardize eight additional features implemented by VoiceXML platforms. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM The Portal Factory http://iesl.mit.edu/ The Portal Factory is a new platform based architecture for information products. It allows many different kinds of information systems to be deployed from a single code base. The Portal Factory Manager can manage 100's of portals across an enterprise. This results in considerable savings in maintaining portals. Each portal can take advantage of the central Web Services, such as Content Stores and Registration Services. The platform has its own development SDK that allows the end user to extend both the Web Services and the Web Component library that allows dynamic rendering of the UI. We provide templates for different types of portal ranging from Course Management to Knowledge Repositories and Grid Computing. Our architecture is .NET Web Services based and exposes its interfaces using WSDL and SOAP. We use WS-Security and other GXA standard protocols that allow easy extension. This will be added to Education and Distance learning Resources 2004 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM The Digital Scriptorium http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Scriptorium/ The Digital Scriptorium was conceived as an image database of dated and datable medieval and renaissance manuscripts, intended to unite scattered resources into an international tool for teaching and scholarly research. It has evolved into a general union catalog designed for the use of paleographers, codicologists, art historians, textual scholars and other researchers. As a visual catalog, it allows scholars to verify with their own eyes cataloguing information about places and dates of origin, scripts, artistic styles, and quality. It documents visually even those manuscripts that traditionally would have been unlikely candidates for reproduction. It provides public access to fragile materials otherwise available only within libraries. Because it is web-based, it encourages interaction between the knowledge of scholars and the holdings of libraries to build an ever-enriched and corrected flow of information. This will be added to Academic Resources 2004 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Thursday, March 25, 2004 Interview: The Future of News - The Digital Information Librarian http://www.masternewmedia.org/2004/03/24/the_future_of_news_the.htm Robin Hood interviewed me on The Future of News: The Digital Information Librarian and the complete interview including my answer to his ten questions is now online at the above URL. Robin has an excellent site and is a tremendous resource of information on the Internet. posted by Marcus Zillman | 5:00 AM Social Informatics http://www.social-informatics.org/ Social Informatics includes comprehensive sections on relevant fields, infrastrctures, news, journals, associations, study programs and research centers. Social Informatics is an interdisciplinary perspective that uses both, the tools of the social science and the tools of the computer science to analyze the interaction between technology (usually information technology) and society. In other words we can say that SI takes into account social aspects of computerization. SI analyses consider an array of relevant factors, including social, cultural, organizational, and other contextual components. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:20 AM Opera And IBM Team UP To Develop Voice Browser http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20040323S0005 Opera Software is teaming up with IBM to develop speech-recognition technology for Opera's future, upgraded browser. Opera said the technology will be initially developed for its desktop browser, but it will appear later in its software for cell phones and PDAs. “By making this technology available today for the wider Web audience, the serious work of voice-enabling the Web can commence,” said Opera's VP of engineering Christen Krogh in a statement. Opera is utilizing IBM's Embedded ViaVoice speech technology in developing the voice features of the browser. The Norwegian firm said that by building on standard XHTML+Voice (X+V) technology, developers can add voice input and output to existing graphically based Web pages to achieve natural voice functionality. At first, Opera expects the voice browser to be available in English for Windows users, although the firm plans to offer it later in additional languages posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM Center for Internet Security http://www.cisecurity.org/ The Center for Internet Security mission is to help organizations around the world effectively manage the risks related to information security. CIS provides methods and tools to improve, measure, monitor, and compare the security status of your Internet-connected systems and appliances, plus those of your business partners. CIS is not tied to any proprietary product or service. It manages a consensus process whereby members identify security threats of greatest concern, then participate in development of practical methods to reduce the threats. This consensus process is already in use and has proved viable in creating Internet security benchmarks available for widespread adoption. On Tuesday March 23, 2004; the Center for Internet Security released an updated Windows Security Scoring Tool along with the Windows XP Benchmark for Secure Configuration. The XP scoring capability has four levels that correspond with Microsoft's security levels. You can test your system to see how safely configured it is, get a numerical score, and then see what needs to be done to raise the score. This will be added to Security Resources 2004 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM RepCheck' http://www.RepCheck.com/ In this electronic age, where face-to-face meetings are few and far between, reputation is becoming progressively more difficult to ascertain, but no less important. RepCheck allows users to review, rate and search our database of people's reputations for both business and social purposes. Using RepCheck will allow users to gain a consensus insight into someone's social and business reputation instantly. It will also allow communication between its members when further info is required, and offers monitoring, search and reference services. RepCheck generates each individual's "RepScore" from the input of other users, and allows users to check someone's reputation with a simple mouseclick. RepScores are calculated using RepCheck's patent pending technology that attempts to simulate how you judge a person's reputation in real life. This will be added to eCurrent Awareness Resources 2004 Business Intelligence Report. [Robin Good 3-24-04] posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM Wrightman ChatBot http://overstated.net/04/03/22-my-chat-with-a-nanniebot.asp The Wightman Chat Bot (NannieBot) has many wondering if it is real or a hoax. This one deserves some very close scrunity to determine the source of it linguistic abilities i.e. algorithms used in the structure of its neural linguistics. Well worth a revisit from time to time to determine the latest findings on this interesting resource. This has been added to ChatterBots Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Wednesday, March 24, 2004 April 2004 Zillman Column - Survey Resources on the Internet http://virtualprivatelibrary.blogspot.com/Survey Resources.pdf http://www.zillmancolumns.com/ The April 2004 Zillman Column is now available and is titled Survey Resources on the Internet. This April 2004 column is a comprehensive listing of online survey resources currently available on the Internet. These include individual websites and sources that supply the latest technology and information about online surveys and how it relates to your business and/or association and the Internet. With a number of free web applications you can have your survey up and published in a matter of minutes! Learn what your constituents have to say and what they want! A must resource to stay ahead of the curve with the latest survey resources available over the Internet. posted by Marcus Zillman | 5:00 AM OAIster http://www.oaister.org/o/oaister/ OAIster is a project of the University of Michigan Digital Library Production Services, originally funded through a Mellon grant (see the final report). Our goal is to create a collection of freely available, difficult-to-access, academically-oriented digital resources (what are digital resources?) that are easily searchable by anyone. 3,045,063 records from 268 institutions (updated 5 March 2004). This will be added to Academic Resources Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:25 AM Spam Reporting Addresses http://banspam.javawoman.com/report3.html Marjolein Katsma's excellent site Ban Spam offers a number of worthwhile resources including a section on Spam Reporting Addresses. This makes it a truly valuable resource for those who need to have the correct address to report Spam. This has been added to the Anti-Spam section of Internet Hoaxes Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:20 AM WebSM - Web Survey Methodology http://www.websm.org/ The page is located at the Center for Methodology and Informatics at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. The core research team (Katja Lozar Manfreda, Zenel Batagelj, Gašper Koren, Vesna Dolnièar), lead by dr. Vasja Vehovar, studied the Web survey methodology for three years. They work on two Web surveys, the national RIS (Research on Internet in Slovenia) project and the RINE (Research on Internet in New Europe) project. They actively participate at conferences, and their results are available on the Web. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM Survey Research Resources http://members.bellatlantic.net/~abelson/ Survey research for social issues, policy analysis, and marketing with all links evaluated monthly. This site includes the following sections: Poll and Survey Findings and Data Primary locations; the place to begin Other Research Resources Foundations, government sources, statistical, demographic, and social science archives. Research Practice Data collection, survey analysis, report prep, plus a few realities like FEDEX and Purdue's Reference Desk. Survey Research Centers Academic and nonprofit. Diverse content and presentation. The Establishment Associations and societies, for survey research and related disciplines. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM StudyResponse Research Panelist System http://www.studyresponse.com/ The StudyResponse project facilitates the online research efforts of behavioral, social, and organizational science researchers by distributing email participation requests to volunteer research participants. The StudyResponse project accumulates the characteristics and outcomes across multiple research studies in order to explore the characteristics of studies that encourage quality responses. The StudyResponse project is hosted by the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University and has received institutional review board approval (#02165). posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM Andreessen: High on Offshore Outsourcing http://www.ajc.com/business/content/business/0304/23outsourcing.html Marc Andreessen, celebrated for creating the first Web browser a decade ago, is an enthusiastic supporter of "offshoring" because it "fundamentally reduces the cost of goods and services for Americans." He points out: "If I can get my tax return prepared for less money because the offshore labor is cheaper than the domestic labor, then as an American consumer, I'm better off. At the same time, when American companies engage in offshoring, they increase their own competitiveness worldwide -- delivering the same product or service at a lower cost. That increases their ability to win in the world market... The process of offshoring creates both jobs and consumer demand in countries. If you look at what's happening in India and China today, there's an incredibly rapid creation of a middle class. And of course, many of the goods and services they are going to buy are going to come from American companies. So they will be buying iPods from Apple and drinking Coke and wearing Nike shoes and getting their financial services from Merrill Lynch." Andreessen calls the desire of some members of Congress to restrict the use of offshore labor "the silliest, dumbest thing I've ever heard of in years. It's just nuts." (Atlanta Journal-Constitution 23 Mar 2004) [Copyright 2004. NewsScan Daily] This has been added to Outsourcing/Offshoring Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Tuesday, March 23, 2004 Internet Sources™ Manual is a 378 page manual listing all the very latest and greatest sources and sites (URLs) on the World Wide Web by Marcus P. 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Asia Currents http://coombs.anu.edu.au/SpecialProj/ASAA/asian-currents.html "Asian Currents" ISSN 1449-4418 is published, since 23 March 2004, by the Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA), thanks to a grant from The Myer Foundation made to assist the ASAA promote the study of Asia in Australia. "Asian Currents" aims to connect Australia's academic experts on Asia with journalists, policy makers, business people, artists and other educators. By telling you what is happening in the research world, we hope you will be able to make better use of the wealth of knowledge available and that you will recognize the importance of fostering Australia's Asia knowledge. This will be added to eCurrent Awareness Resources 2004 Business Intelligence report posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:25 AM SourceSeries Internet Research Workshops http://www.SourceSeries.com/ SourceSeries Internet Research Workshops by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. are now available on the following subjects as one day workshops. These research and business intelligence workshops offer both the newbie to the Internet as well as the seasoned Internaut the latest Internet research sources to stay current and to keep ahead of your competition. 1) Advertising, Marketing and Public Relations Research Sources on the Internet. 2) Articles, Abstracts, Documents, Papers, Reports, and Literature Research Sources on the Internet. 3) Business Research Sources on the Internet. 4) Competitive Intelligence Research Sources on the Internet. 5) Education and Distance Learning Research Sources on the Internet. 6) Healthcare Research Sources on the Internet. 7) International Trade Research Sources on the Internet. 8) Legal Research Sources on the Internet. 9) Security Research Sources on the Internet. The typical one day workshop schedule is as follows: 8:45 - 9:00 Introduction and Overview of the Internet Research Workshop. 9:00 - 10:00 Historical perspectives of the Internet to current day happenings. 10:00 - 10:15 Online live examples of above . 10:15 - 10:30 Coffee Break - CyberBreak 10:30 - 12:00 Listserv®, NewsGroups, Chat Channels, Bulletin Boards, Forums, Blogs, News Aggregators, Intelligent Agents and Bots . 12:00 - 1:15 Lunch Break (On Your Own) 1:15 - 1:45 Online live examples continued . 1:45 - 2:30 Online examples of the workshop "Sources". 2:30 - 2:45 Coffee Break - CyberBreak 2:45 - 3:45 Tools necessary to build Business Intelligence including Browser ToolKit and Searcher ToolKit to discover additional 2004 resources. 3:45 - 4:30 Current Awareness Resources and what the future holds.... 4:30 - 5:00 Question and Answers For additional information including upcoming dates and locations, registration or partnering an upcoming SourceSeries Workshop, please contact us by clicking here. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:20 AM Google PageRank Value Report http://www.top25web.com/pagerank.php The Google PageRank Value Report will return the Google PageRank values for the list of urls you enter into a form. Put one url per line, and include the 'www.' in the domain for best results. Very useful if you're using any browser other than Internet Explorer posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM Earliest Printed Book Put Online By British Library http://www.managinginformation.com/news/content_show_full.php?id=2515 A website allowing anyone interested in the history to explore in detail the British Library's rare copies of the Gutenberg Bible, the oldest surviving printed book produced in the Western World. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM Additional Algorithms and Identifiers for RSA Cryptography for use in the Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-pkix-rsa-pkalgs-03.txt The IESG has received a request from the Public-Key Infrastructure (X.509) WG to consider the following document: Additional Algorithms and Identifiers for RSA Cryptography for use in the Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Certificate and Certificate Revocation List (CRL) Profile 's a Proposed Standard. The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits final comments on this action. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Monday, March 22, 2004 This edition of Current Awareness Happenings on the Internet by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. (March 22, 2004 V2N12) is dedicated to one of my latest Subject Tracer™ Information Blogs: Outsourcing/Offshoring Information and Resources. Click on the below audblog link to hear a two minute audio describing this new resource. This Subject Tracer™ resource is available from the following URL: Outsourcing/Offshoring Information and Resources http://zillman.blogspot.com/2004_03_01_zillman_archive.html#107944650861196171 audblog audio post
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posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:25 AM Loggia : Exploring the Arts and Humanities http://www.loggia.com "The collections at Loggia explore select areas of study in art and art history, architecture and design, the decorative arts, industrial design, classical studies such as Greek, Roman, and Celtic mythology." A virtual library of the arts and humanities, the site presents weblinks as well as encyclopedia-style information on many topics. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:20 AM Google Connects Searchers with Local Information http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/040317/175282_1.html http://local.google.com/ Find local businesses and services on the web with Local Google. Google Inc. announced the integration of local search results into Google.com with the availability of Google Local. This new feature enables users to find relevant local information with neighborhood business listings, maps, directions, and useful web pages. Google Local represents the next step in local search technology. Now, users can search beyond traditional sources of local information, such as the yellow pages and local business listings, to reach a greater diversity of local resources drawn from the web at large. This innovation demonstrates Google's commitment to developing products that make it faster and easier for people to search across diverse sources of information from a single search box. "Google's goal is to connect searchers with the information they need whether it's half-way around the world or in their neighborhood," said Sergey Brin, co-founder and President, Technology of Google Inc. "Google Local combines a wide array of sources including Google's more than 4 billion web page index, to produce the deepest local search." Google Local search functionality is integrated into Google.com so relevant local information for specific keywords or locations is automatically presented to users at the top of search results pages. When these results are available, they are marked by a small compass icon which, when clicked, connects users to a Google Local search results page. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:18 AM Political Advocacy Groups : A Directory of United States Lobbyists http://www.csuchico.edu/~kcfount "This site lists lobbying groups by issue. Entries include contact information and a brief description of the group. Selected entries also indicate the number of times 'news articles across the country quoted, mentioned, or cited each group'...and whether the group rates the performance of members of Congress." posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM Astronomy Picture of the Day http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html "Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer." An archive of daily images is also available, starting from June 1995. A glossary of astronomy terms is offered. Each day's photo caption includes keywords that link to older images from the archive with a similar subject. This is in Astronomy Resources 2004 Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM International Access to Research Data Critical to Advancing Science for the Public Good, Report Says http://www.nsf.gov/od/lpa/newsroom/pr.cfm?ni=59 Open access to data resulting from publicly funded research is essential to advance science and the public good, but lack of consistency in government policies and within the scientific community hinders the open-access ideal, according to a report in the March 19 issue of the journal Science. Open access leads to greater long-term economic benefits, to better-informed government decision-makers and to accelerated progress in science itself, the report states. The report's international team of authors studied data-access issues on behalf of the 30-nation Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). "Countries around the world have invested heavily in the promise of e-science and the emerging cyberinfrastructure, which will allow researchers to access data archives, instruments, computers and expertise without regard to geographic location," said Peter Arzberger, director of life sciences initiatives at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), and lead author on the report. "On the other hand, the technological capabilities bring the social and political challenges to the forefront." The report's U.S. authors were supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the independent federal agency that supports fundamental research and education across all fields of science and engineering. At a recent meeting of the OECD Committee for Science and Technological Policy at Ministerial level, national science ministers, including John Marburger, director of the U.S. Office of Science and Technology Policy, adopted a Declaration on Access to Research Data from Public Funding. The declaration is based on the authors' full report to the OECD, on which the Science paper is based, and invites the OECD to develop a set of guidelines to ensure "optimal, cost-effective access" to digital research data resulting from publicly funded research. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM M@n@gement : An International Review on Management Research http://www.dmsp.dauphine.fr/management "The purpose of M@n@gement is to represent the wealth and the diversity of management research at an international level. M@n@gement offers to authors and readers place to express and exchange ideas on management research, strategy, organizational theory..." Available free online, and also by email subscription. Coverage: Vol. 1, n. 1, 1998 - Vol. 7, n. 1, 2004, ongoing. This will be added to Business Resources 2004 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Sunday, March 21, 2004 The Web Engineering Community Portal http://www.webengineering.org/ Web Engineering - The application of systematic, disciplined and quantifiable approaches to the cost-effective development and evolution of high-quality applications in the World Wide Web. In this way, the objective of the WebEngineering.org site is to provide latest information on Web Engineering, push WebEngineering as a discipline by providing information about existing or upcoming methods, tools, models, and related approaches. The vision of this site is to become the forum for all parties interested in WebEngineering. This will be added to Business Resources 2004 Internet MiniGuide and eCommerce Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 5:00 AM Unleashing the Power of RSS http://www.sls.lib.il.us/infotech/presentations/2004/cil-rss.pdf An excellent presentation by Jenny Levine on the awesome power of RSS! I have added this to my presentation resources site for my speech on Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:20 AM The State of the News Media 2004 http://www.stateofthemedia.org/ The State of the News Media 2004 is an inaugural effort to provide a comprehensive look each year at the state of American journalism. Their goal is to put in one place as much original and aggregated data as possible about each of the major journalism sectors. For each area, they have produced original research and aggregated existing data into a comprehensive look at many of the pressing issues facing the news media. In addition, they have collected the statistical data in an interactive area called Charts & Tables where users can customize their own charts. The study is the work of the Project for Excellence in Journalism, an institute affiliated with Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. The study is funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts, and was produced with a number of partners, including Rick Edmonds, Andrew Tyndall, Esther Thorson, and Princeton Survey Research Associates International. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM The Virtual Technical Reports Center http://www.lib.umd.edu/ENGIN/TechReports/Virtual-TechReports.html The Virtual Technical Report Center offers EPrints, Preprints, & Technical Reports on the Web. The Institutions listed here provide either full-text reports, or searchable extended abstracts of their technical reports on the World Wide Web. This site contains links to technical reports, preprints, reprints, dissertations, theses, and research reports of all kinds. Some metasites are listed by subject categories, as well as by institution. This site will be updated monthly. This will be added to Academic Resources 2004 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM National Cyber Security Partnership (NCSP) http://www.cyberpartnership.org/ The National Cyber Security Partnership (NCSP) is led by the Business Software Alliance (BSA), the Information Technology Association of America (ITAA), TechNet and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in voluntary partnership with academicians, CEOs, federal government agencies and industry experts. Following the release of the 2003 White House National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace and the National Cyber Security Summit, this public-private partnership was established to develop shared strategies and programs to better secure and enhance America’s critical information infrastructure. The partnership established five task forces comprised of cyber security experts from industry, academia and government. Each task force is led by two or more co-chairs. The NCSP-sponsoring trade associations act as secretariats in managing task force work flow and logistics. The task forces include: * Awareness for Home Users and Small Businesses * Cyber Security Early Warning * Corporate Governance * Security Across the Software Development Life Cycle * Technical Standards and Common Criteria This wil be added to Security Resources 2004 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM Getting to the Hows and Whys of Electronic Research http://www5.oclc.org/downloads/design/abstracts/03012004/researchgrant.htm http://www.oclc.org/research/projects/imls/default.htm "We know a lot about who is using these electronic resources, when they are using them and where," says Brenda Dervin, a professor of communication at Ohio State University and principal investigator for a new study on electronic research. "But there is just a dabbling of research on the hows and whys. We want to know how people are choosing their electronic resources, why they are choosing some resources over others, and how they are fitting them into their personal and professional lives." Researchers hope their study will help librarians develop user-centered services, resources and systems by discovering (among other goals) how well system design features meet users' needs and their use of those systems. The project will include telephone and online interviews, and focus group meetings with undergraduate students, graduate students and faculty members at 44 central Ohio colleges and universities. In addition, 32 of the participants will be observed while they use electronic resources. The $1-million study -- a collaboration of Ohio State, the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) and the Institute of Museum and Library Services -will conclude Dec. 31, 2005. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Saturday, March 20, 2004 UDEF - Universal Data Element Framework http://www.udef.org/ UDEF - Universal Data Element Framework - e-Business, ebXML & Web Services: The Missing Semantic Link. The future of automated data, application and process integration: The Universal Data Element Framework (UDEF) is a cross-industry metadata identification strategy designed to facilitate convergence and interoperability among e-business and other standards. The objective of the UDEF is to provide a means of real-time identification for semantic equivalency, as an attribute to data elements within e-business document and integration formats. There is a distinction to be made between the document standards, core components, ontological and taxonomical efforts underway as a result of the wide ranging integration and application collaboration activities on the net: The UDEF seeks only be an attribute in the data element. There are no process, validation or handling requirements, it only seeks to communicate in a standard and repeatable way, the exact concept that the data element represents. There is very little about context, just enough to identify the data element exactly. The UDEF can be seen as the "Dewey Decimal System" across standards. This will be added to Business Resources 2004 Internet MiniGuide and eCommerce Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 7:11 AM Comm-Org: The On-Line Conference on Community Organizing and Development http://comm-org.utoledo.edu With origins in a 1994 online seminar on the history of community organizing led at the University of Illinois at Chicago, COMM-ORG has grown into a fine resource for persons interested in the current field (and history) of community organizing, both in the United States, and with an international perspective. COMM-ORG is currently under the direction of Randy Stoecker at the University of Toledo, and brings together a host of materials related to the field of community organizing, including a moderated listserv, various syllabi from courses about community organizing, and a collection of papers about this broad theme. The COMM-ORG Discussion listserv area allows visitors to view archives of the many interesting electronic listserv topics, and to join up to become a member of the listserv. The papers section is also worth a look, as it contains approximately 80 papers dating back to 1995 on the various subfields of community organizing, such as faith-based movements and social justice. [From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2003. http://scout.wisc.edu/] posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM IPEDS College Opportunities On-Line http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/cool/index.asp IPEDS College Opportunities On-Line is your direct link to nearly 7,000 colleges and universities in the United States. If you are thinking about a large university, a small liberal arts college, a specialized college, a community college, a career or technical college or a trade school, you can find them all here. College Opportunities On-Line is brought to you by the National Center for Education Statistics in the U.S. Department of Education. NCES was authorized by Congress in 1998 to help college students, future students, and their parents understand the differences between colleges and how much it costs to attend college. College Opportunities On-Line helps you find out about a specific college or set of colleges, if you have some in mind. You can name the colleges and obtain information about them. This will be added to Education and Distance Learning Resources 2004 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM Library Instruction for Diverse Populations Bibliography http://www.ala.org/ala/acrlbucket/is/publicationsacrl/diversebib.htm The Instruction for Diverse Populations Committee of the Association of College and Research Libraries' Instruction Section is pleased to announce the publication of the Library Instruction for Diverse Populations Bibliography.The Committee has compiled this bibliography to meet the need of librarian-instructors for information about teaching diverse populations within college and university settings. The Committee hopes that librarians needing to teach a class to students of a particular group can turn to the relevant section of the bibliography, find an overview of issues and strategies relating to that population, and locate informational resources that will give them immediate help in preparing teaching methods and materials. The Bibliography includes print and electronic resources key to the development of effective methods and materials for providing library instruction and teaching information literacy competencies to diverse student groups. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM Script-ed: An Online Journal of Law and Technology http://www.law.ed.ac.uk/ahrb/script-ed/index.asp SCRIPT-ed is an online, international, interdisciplinary and multi-lingual forum for articles, reports, commentaries, analysis, case and legislation critiques, and book reviews pertaining to law and technologies in the broadest sense. This will be added to Legal Resources 2004 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Friday, March 19, 2004 The High Cost of Not Finding Information http://www.kmworld.com/publications/magazine/index.cfm?action=readarticle&Article_ID=1725&Publication_ID=108 Businesses generally have a pretty good on handle on how much they spend to acquire information, but sometimes it's what they *don't* know that really trips them up. For instance, in 1999 NASA's Mars Climate Orbiter spacecraft traveled 416 million miles without a hitch only to crash on impact because a contractor had submitted acceleration data in pounds of force rather than its metric equivalent, newtons. Studies by IDC, AIIM, Reuters and others have shown that knowledge workers spend from 15% to 35% of their time searching for information, but searchers are only successful in finding what they're looking for about 50% of the time. Forty percent of corporate users report that they can't find the information they need to do their jobs on their intranets. And recent research shows that knowledge workers spend more time recreating existing information than they do turning out new information. A 1999 IDC study of the phenomenon they dubbed "knowledge work deficit" estimated that the cost of intellectual rework and inability to find knowledge resources worked out to about $5,000 per worker per year. IDC research VP Susan Feldman says, "The quest for information systems that deliver the right information -- and only the right information -- at the right time to the right people is by no means over. But companies like iPhrase, Inxightk, InQuira, Mindfabric, Siderean, Endeca, ClearForest, Verity, Autonomy, FAST or Convera have made great strides in developing the next generation of search and other more advanced finding tools." posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:25 AM WebFountain Takes Search To a Higher Plane http://battellemedia.com/archives/000428.php#more Tucked away at IBM’s remote Almaden research campus, researchers with alarmingly sophisticated PhDs are refining WebFountain, an analytics engine with search capabilities well beyond anything available on the public Web today. WebFountain came about, writes John Battelle, "because IBM noticed that large companies were drowning in information, that broad search engines like Google were not providing relief, and that corporate IT departments at large companies were trying to invent a new kind of mousetrap… Enter IBM. WebFountain is a classic IBM solution to the search problem. Instead of focusing on the consumer market and serving hundreds of millions of users/searches a day, WebFountain is a platform -- middleware, in essence -- around which large corporate clients connect, query and develop applications. It serves a tiny fraction of the queries Google does, but my, the queries it serves can be mighty interesting… A user could, for example, search for ‘all the places on the Web where 'The Passion of the Christ' is discussed that also mentions one of the top five box office movies that is not 'Lord of the Rings,' and throw out all sites that either are in Spanish, or are in the Southern hemisphere. Oh, and translate the ones that are not in English when you return results.'" Built on 256 dual-processor blades, WebFountain's throughput puts it in the top 50 supercomputers on earth, capable of scarfing up, tagging and re-tagging the entire Internet in less than 24 hours. With the corporate information marketplace currently at $18 billion a year, WebFountain may help IBM not only redefine it, but ultimately own it. [John Battelle's Searchblog 8 Mar 2004] posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:20 AM Top Medical And Scientific Societies Commit To Providing Free Access To Medical And Scientific Research http://www.dcprinciples.org/ Representatives from the nation’s leading not-for-profit medical/scientific societies and publishers have announced their commitment to providing free access and wide dissemination of published research findings. Their commitment was conveyed today by the American Academy of Pediatrics, American Cancer Society, the American Diabetes Association and others, during a news conference in Washington at which they released Washington DC Principles for Free Access to Science—a statement representing 48 not-for-profit publishers, over 600,000 scientists and clinicians, and more than 380 journals. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM PIP Data Memo: Use of the Internet in Places Other Than Home or Work http://www.pewinternet.org/reports/toc.asp?Report=115 As use of the Internet becomes more appealing and more essential to Americans, a growing number are using multiple locations to go online. And significant numbers are moving beyond the tradition places of access – home and work. The Pew Internet & American Life Project has found that 23% of adult U.S. Internet users have gone online from a place other than home or work. That is close to 30 million people. In that group of online Americans, 27% have used the Internet at school, 26% have used it at friends’ or neighbors’ homes, and 26% have used it at libraries. On any given day more than 4 million Americans are accessing the Internet from some place other than home or work. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM PIP Data Memo: The CAN-SPAM Act Has Not Helped Most Email Users So Far. http://www.pewinternet.org/reports/toc.asp?Report=116 The distress of Internet users at spam has increased in recent months and growing numbers of Internet users are becoming disillusioned with email, despite the first national anti-spam legislation which went into effect on January 1. A new survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project between February 3 and March 1, 2004 shows the following: 29% of email users say they have reduced their overall use of email because of spam. That figure is an increase from last June, when we found that 25% of emailers were reporting a reduction in their email use; 63% of email users said that the influx of spam made them less trusting of email in general. That figure is higher than the 52% of email users who reported declining trust in email in June; 77% of emailers said the flood of spam made the act of being online unpleasant and annoying. That is an increase from the 70% of those who said in June that spam was making online experiences unpleasant and annoying; 42% of email users said they were aware that Congress and the Administration had approved anti-spam legislation and that it had gone into effect at the beginning of the year. In all, 86% of email users reported some level of distress with spam. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM SISA - Simple Interactive Statistical Analysis http://home.clara.net/sisa/ SISA allows you to do statistical analysis directly on the Internet. Click on one of the procedure names below, fill in the form, click the button, and the analysis will take place on the spot. Study the user friendly guides to statistical procedures to see what procedure is appropriate for your problem. This has been added to Statistics Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Thursday, March 18, 2004 I have just completed my latest white paper titled "Searching the Internet" a primer for those new to searching the Internet or those using only one search source. It is freely available as a 12 page .pdf document (728KB) from the below link from the Virtual Private Library™: [updated 09-22-04] Searching the Internet a White Paper by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. http://virtualprivatelibrary.blogspot.com/Searching the Internet.pdf Buscando en Internet (Spanish Translation 8 Page) http://virtualprivatelibrary.blogspot.com/Buscando en Internet.pdf Searching the Internet Web Site including Audio and Video http://www.SearchingTheInternet.info/
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Perfect Information http://www.perfectinfo.com/ Perfect Information, established in 1991, is the premier online global provider of financial information. Investment banks, brokerage firms, consultancies and law firms use Perfect Information solutions. This will be added to Business Resources 2004 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:20 AM Working Draft: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-WCAG20-20040311/ http://www.w3.org/WAI/ The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Working Group has released a Working Draft for "Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0." Version 2.0 widens the range of technologies covered and simplifies wording. Following WCAG checkpoints makes Web content accessible to people with disabilities and to users of a variety of Web-enabled devices. Read about the Web Accessibility Initiative. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM W3C Launches Phase 2 of Semantic Web Activity http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/ W3C is pleased to announce the launch of phase two of the Semantic Web Activity. The W3C Membership approved two new Working Groups, the Best Practices and Deployment and RDF Data Access. They join the existing RDF Core and Web Ontology Working Groups and the Semantic Web Interest Group and Coordination Group. Participation is open to W3C Members. A continuation of the World Wide Web, the Semantic Web gives data precise meaning, allowing people and computers to cooperate fully. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM Fotosearch http://www.Fotosearch.com/ Fotosearch Stock Photos allows users to search from more than fifty quality stock photography vendors at one site. They can also find clipart pictures, royalty-free illustrations, royalty-free motion stock video clips, royalty free vector maps, and background clip art imagery. Fotosearch Stock Photos is the #1 stock photography portal as measured by Alexa.com. This has been added to ShoppingBots Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM Communications-related Headlines http://www.benton.org Communications-related Headlines is a free online news summary service provided by the Benton Foundation. Posted Monday through Friday, this service provides updates on important industry developments, policy issues, and other related news events. This will be added to eCurrent Awareness Resources 2004 Business Intelligence Report. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Wednesday, March 17, 2004 Trend Watching http://www.TrendWatching.com/ TRENDWATCHING.COM and its 1,500+ trendspotters scan the US, Canada, European Union, Japan, South Korea, India, South Africa, Australia, Brazil and 50 other nations & regions for hot, emerging consumer trends and related new business ideas. They report on their findings in free, opinionated newsletters, combining global observations, insights and new business ideas into trends like 'POP-UP RETAIL', 'MASSCLUSIVITY', 'ONLINE OXYGEN' and 'EASY-ASIA', all colorfully explained and illustrated. Their 45,000 subscribers in 120 countries worldwide use these trends and real-world examples to stay in the know, and to dream up new profitable services, products and ventures. This will be added to eCurrent Awareness Resources 2004 Business Intelligence Report. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:25 AM Beyond Google by Laurianne McLaughlin http://www.pcworld.com/resource/printable/article/0,aid,114725,00.asp The Web is so full of useful info that no search engine can find it all. But a multitude of specialty sites deliver shopping advice, reference databases, leisure-time ideas, and more--fast. This article mentions many of the Internet searching experts including Genie Tyburski of Virtual Chase ... congrats Genie on the nice quotes ..... I have added this under the reference section of all the Internet MiniGuides. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:20 AM Onfolio http://www.onfolio.com Fully integrated with Microsoft Internet Explorer and Office, Onfolio has tools for capturing a wide range of content including links, text snippets, images, web pages, and documents. Onfolio lets you organize and find captured content quickly and easily. And with Onfolio, you can easily share your research in documents, presentations, emails, and research reports. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM BlogAds http://www.BlogAds.com/ You need to woo the early adopters that traditional media can't reach. You need to impress 100,000 opinion makers with a colorful pitch, not pester 100,000,000 nobodies with a soulless textad or banner. You need Blogads. Read by fanatics, pundits and journalists, blogs increasingly set the insider agenda. Use blogads to start advertising where opinions are made. Could this be in the near future? Interesting time ahead for blogs! posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM Library of Congress and National Library of Brazil Launch Joint Web Site Dedicated to U.S.- Brazil Interactions http://international.loc.gov/intldl/brhtml/ Librarian of Congress James H. Billington and President of the National Library of Brazil Foundation Pedro Correa do Lago have launched a collaborative Web site that explores the historical similarities and contrasts, ethnic diversity and interactions between Brazil and the United States. "The United States and Brazil: Expanding Frontiers, Comparing Cultures," part of the Library of Congress's Global Gateway collaborative digital library initiative [http://international.loc.gov/intldl/find/digital_collaborations.html], includes some 9,800 images from the rare book, manuscript, map, print and photographic collections of the Library of Congress and the National Library of Brazil. The site represents the first phase of a continuing project by the National Library of Brazil and the Library of Congress that is being carried out under a cooperative agreement signed by Billington and Correa a do Lago. The project focuses on five main themes related to the history of Brazil and its interactions with the United States: "Historical Foundations," "Ethnic Diversity," Culture and Literature, "Mutual Impressions" and "Biodiversity. " Among the items available on the site in digital form are letters by President Thomas Jefferson about Brazil's independence movement, illustrations of 19th century Brazil by the French artist Jean Baptiste Debret, drawings by Maria Graham, Lady Calcott, documents relating to the reigns of the Emperors Pedro I and Pedro II, 18th century maps, and the text of "O Guarani," Brazil's earliest heroic poem. "The United States and Brazil: Expanding Frontiers, Comparing Cultures" is bilingual, in English and Portuguese, and is intended for use in schools and libraries and by the general public in both countries and around the world. The project grew out of a visit to Brazil in 1999 by Librarian of Congress Billington and subsequent discussions between the two libraries about the numerous parallels in the histories of the two largest countries in the Americas. Support for the project was provided by the Vitae Foundation of Sao Paulo, Brazil, directed by José Mindlin, and the Library of Congress. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM Using Dublin Core http://www.dublincore.org/documents/usageguide/ This document is intended as an entry point for users of Dublin Core. For non-specialists, it will assist them in creating simple descriptive records for information resources (for example, electronic documents). Specialists may find the document a useful point of reference to the documentation of Dublin Core, as it changes and grows. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Tuesday, March 16, 2004 Outsourcing/Offshoring Information and Resources http://www.OutsourcingOffshore.us Outsourcing/Offshoring Information and Resources is a Subject Tracer™ developed and created by the Virtual Private Library™. It is designed to bring together the latest resources and sources on an ongoing basis on Outsourcing/Offshoring. We always welcome suggestions of additional sites and resources to be added to this comprehensive listing and please submit by clicking here. This site has been developed and maintained by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A.. Additional links and resources by Marcus are available by clicking here. posted by Marcus Zillman | 9:15 AM Recall http://recall.archive.org/ Recall is a search engine at the Internet Archive that indexes the text of over 11 Billion pages. The archive has pages dating way back to 1996 through the present day. A presentation about this technology can be downloaded. This will be added to Search Engines chapter in Internet MiniGuides. [Thanks for this resource Sabrina beSpacific 3-15-04] posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:25 AM Blogs Go Commercial http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB107930372750054907,00.html (sub req'd) It didn't take long for advertisers to zero in on the latest Internet phenomenon -- a new breed of "bloggerpreneurs" whose weblogs cover the gamut from politics to personal poetry. The trend is still in its early stages -- blue chip firms like Procter & Gamble aren't yet lining up to buy blogger ad space -- but analysts point out that other Internet phenomena such as eBay had very modest beginnings as a market space for trading Pez dispensers and Beanie Babies. Statistics are sketchy, but most observers agree a popular blog can attract more than a million readers a month, with one study estimating that roughly 4% of the 126 million adult Internet users report visiting blog sites for information. Much of the current advertising is connected to the upcoming national election, but a few of the more well-known names are beginning to attract mainstream advertisers (Xerox on Slashdot and AOL and CNN on the Drudge Report). "They said nobody would want to advertise on personal diaries. Even my wife thought I was crazy," says Henry Copeland, founder of Pressflex, whose Blogads service connects advertisers with a network of bloggers. He's now expanded his business and has three programmers working for him in Hungary. (Wall Street Journal 15 Mar 2004) [NewsScan Daily] posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:20 AM BlogDigger Groups http://www.blogdigger.com/groups/ Blogdigger Groups allows you to create a "group blog", which is basically a directory of blogs on any topic you like. The feeds are aggregated, and an RSS feed of the content is made available. The group page allows filtering of the posts by feed or, if available, by subject/category. In addition, the members of the group are available in OPML and OCS. Once they get a larger number of groups (there's around 75 now), they are going to look into a meta-taxonomy that will organize the Groups into a directory. The application is in Beta now, available at the above URL. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM The Post-Google Generation http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/blog.asp?blogID=1318?trk=nl Several new players have emerged in the competition to provide next-generation Web search, putting pressure on Google to innovate faster if it intends to stay dominant. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM Choosing and Using Open Source Software: A Primer for Nonprofits http://www.nosi.net/ Choosing and Using Open Source Software: A Primer for Nonprofits describes what open source software is and what impact this type of software may have on the nonprofit sector. It includes: * several case-studies of nonprofits of various sizes that are using open source software, * a process for evaluating whether or not open source is right for an organization, * and useful resources and information. Written primarily in non-technical language, the Primer is accessible to a wide audience, including nonprofit managers with little hands-on technical expertise. Choosing and Using Open Source Software: A Primer for Nonprofits has been generously supported by a grant from the IBM International Foundation. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM Language Observatory http://www.language-observatory.org/ Although over 6,000 languages are currently spoken on the globe (see footnote 1), only a few of them has been properly represented in the virtual universe of the Internet. This situation we call "Digital Divide among Languages" or just "Language Digital Divide" (see footnote 2). We share the same concerns with UNESCO on this point when the latter stressing the importance of "the preservation of a balanced use of languages in cyberspace". Here, objectives of the Language Observatory Project can be stated as; 1) To raise public awareness on "Digital Divide among Languages" issues and 2) To encourage support to the processing of those languages now falling through the net. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM |
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