Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker/Consultant Internet Happenings, Events and Sources

Friday, April 30, 2004   Institute for Social Network Analysis of the Economy (ISNAE) http://www.isnae.org/index.html The purpose of ISNAE is to study social networks and use the resulting knowledge to promote economic growth and social well-being. In order to fulfill this purpose ISNAE will conduct and support basic and applied research on social networks, collect and disseminate knowledge about social networks, and engage in activities aimed at acquiring the resources to fulfill its mission. I posted a list of Online Social Networks a few weeks ago and it is available by clicking here. I also listed the posting in my latest V2N5 May 2004 Awareness Watch™ Newsletter available at the Awareness Watch Newsletter home page. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   Center for Information Policy http://www.cip.umd.edu/ This University of Maryland research center "analyzes and provides solutions to current policy issues relating to the convergence of information and technology." The site offers news and analysis about information issues, publications, and links to Web sites on information policy. Covers topics such as copyright, records management, intelligence, and immigration systems. [Copyright 2004 by Librarians' Index to the Internet, LII] posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   Federal Document Repositories http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/fdlp/pubs/decisionmatrix.pdf The draft Decision Framework for Federal Document Repositories (prepared by the GPO's Center for Research Libraries (CRL) for creating the specifications for a system of regional repositories for tangible federal government documents) will enable the Superintendent of Documents to evaluate the qualities, resources and capabilities of potential repository facilities and their governing organizations, and identify the configuration of light (accessible by many authorized users) and dark (secure, back-up) repositories most appropriate to ensure the persistent archiving and public availability of tangible federal documents. "Formation of such archives would enable Federal depository libraries to consolidate or reduce their local tangible collections secure in the knowledge that copies will be perpetually available from the GPO Collection." This will be added to Academic Resources 2004 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   Search Engine Meeting 2004 Hague, The Netherlands - White Papers and Presentations http://www.infonortics.com/searchengines/sh04/04pro.html An excellent resources for all the papers and presentations just given at the Search Engine Meeting April 19 - 20, 2004 at Hague, The Netherlands. Many papers discussing the hidden web and the semantic web. This has been added to the article section of Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:07 AM   Common Information Environment Seeks To Reveal the Hidden Web http://society.guardian.co.uk/e-public/story/0,13927,1195901,00.html Most searches conducted on general-use search engines such as Google deliver a plethora of irrelevant results -- like links to Leonardo DiCaprio when the keyword is "Titanic." But for those seeking historical information, it's often better to start with specialized Web sites, such as those hosted by the National Archives or a maritime museum. Paul Miller, director of Common Information Environment (CIE), says there's a wealth of information on organizational Web sites, but most people never think to look there. "There's an awful lot of stuff there that's not being used to its full potential. Too much remains hidden among the low-quality information that clutters the Web and behind technical, commercial and administrative barriers." The goal of the CIE is to open up this treasure trove of data held on publicly funded Web sites -- the so-called "hidden Web" -- to non-specialist researchers. The effort is sponsored by the British Library, the National Electronic Library of Health, the Joint Information Systems Committee and Resource, the council for museums, archives and libraries. To date, the CIE has created two demonstration projects that illustrate the organization's premise: one is for location-based information and the other for health. The project is now working on additional projects, but must deal with copyright issues while underway. "Digital rights management is a big issue," says Miller, who adds that the solution is for public organizations to move more aggressively to procure content for use across different domains. This has been added to the articles section of Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   US City & Town Official Web Sites http://www.citytown.info/ This site is a directory of "reliable and stable [online] sources of city and town information. Namely city sites, chamber of commerce sites, convention and visitor bureau sites, etc. Stable sites usually will have obtained their own .com, .org, .net, .info, .us, [or] .gov" domain name. Also includes information for Canada. Browsable by state or province. Also includes a discussion forum. [Copyright 2004 by Librarians' Index to the Internet, LII] posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Thursday, April 29, 2004   SenderBase http://www.senderbase.org/ SenderBase is an email reputation service designed to help email administrators research senders, identify legitimate sources of email and block spammers. You may view a report on the top senders of email on the Internet based on data provided from over 28,000 organizations that receive email. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   FyberSearch http://www.fybersearch.com/ Another web and image search engine but created by a nineteen year old who understands search and you quickly recognize that when you visit his advanced search page. Take a look and you will see some very interesting and much needed search systems that the big search engines could use!! This has been added to Bot Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   European Geosciences Union http://www.copernicus.org/EGU/EGU.html The European Geosciences Union (EGU), founded in 2002, is a dynamic, innovative, and interdisciplinary learned society devoted to the promotion of the sciences of the Earth and its environment and of planetary and space sciences; and cooperation between scientists. This will be added to Academic Resources 2004 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   Office 2003 vs. OpenOffice.Org by Jason Brooks http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1570801,00.asp In recent years, open-source alternatives to Office have matured to the point where IT managers are beginning to investigate the viability of moving from the Microsoft Corp. suite to a license-free alternative. So when eWEEK Corporate Partner Ed Benincasa shared his desire to perform a user-based comparison between the OpenOffice.org project's OpenOffice.org suite and Microsoft's Office 2003, we saw a perfect opportunity to compare the suites under real-world conditions. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   Innovation Network http://www.innonet.org/ They provide program planning and evaluation consulting, training, and Web-based evaluation tools to nonprofits and funders across geographic and programmatic boundaries. They want to make evaluation accessible to all nonprofits, so they have the knowledge and skills to: * Manage their internal matters, programs, and services effectively; * Gain a stronger understanding of what is happening in their programs, and how those programs are affecting people and communities; and * Collectively raise a strong voice in funding and policy decisions. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   W3C Math Activity Launched http://www.w3.org/Math/ W3C is pleased to announce the relaunch of the Math Activity. The W3C Membership approved the Math Interest Group and its charter. The group will maintain the MathML W3C Recommendation and continue its task of facilitating the use of mathematics on the Web, for use in science, technology and education. Participation is open to W3C Members. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Wednesday, April 28, 2004   AwarenessWatch™ Newsletter V2N5 May 2004 http://virtualprivatelibrary.blogspot.com/Awareness Watch V2N5.pdf Awareness Watch™ Newsletter http://www.AwarenessWatch.com/ The May 2004 V2N5 Awareness Watch™ Newsletter is available as a 31 page .pdf document (539KB) from the above URL. The Awareness Watch Featured Report this month covers an in depth and extremely comprehensive listing of business intelligence 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 an Internet MiniGuide titled Competitive Intelligence Resources 2004 and the Subject Tracer™ Information Blogs have been updated with two new subjects: Agriculture Resources and Theology Resources. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   Medical Libraries in Europe http://www.pubmed.nl/libeur.htm A comprehensive listing of medical libraries in Europe. This will be added to Healthcare Resources 2004 Internet MiniGuide and has been added to Healthcare Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   The Semantic Grid http://www.semanticgrid.org/ e-Science offers a promising vision of how computer and communication technology can support and enhance the scientific process. It does this by enabling scientists to generate, analyse, share and discuss their insights, experiments and results in a more effective manner. The underlying computer infrastructure that provides these facilities is commonly referred to as the Grid. At this time, there are a number of grid applications being developed and there is a whole raft of computer technologies that provide fragments of the necessary functionality. However there is currently a major gap between these endeavours and the vision of e-Science in which there is a high degree of easy-to-use and seamless automation and in which there are flexible collaborations and computations on a global scale. Our vision of the infrastructure that is needed to support the full richness of the e-Science vision draws on research and development in both the Grid and the Semantic Web, and adopts a service-oriented approach. We call it the Semantic Grid. This has been added to the Semantic Web Research section of Deep Web Research Subject Tracer Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   Institutional Archives Registry http://archives.eprints.org/eprints.php?action=browse Tim Brody has created a Registry of Institutional OA Archives that lists the known archives by Country, Type, and Software (Eprints, Dspace, or other), harvested from celestial. It also displays the all-important graph of the number of items in each archive, and tracks the growth of each archive across time. Graphs charting the growth of total number of archives and total number of archive items are also available. This will be added to Academic Resources 2004 Internet MiniGuide and has been added to Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   CENDI STI Management Reference Collection http://www.dtic.mil/cendi/sti_mgr/index.html The CENDI STI Manager is a reference collection being developed by CENDI to provide access to high-quality materials (primarily web-based) related to the management of scientific and technical information, particularly within the U.S. government. The collection is intended for researchers, students, information scientists, policy makers, educators, and members of the public interested in the creation, dissemination, use, and preservation of scientific and technical information world-wide. This site is maintained by the CENDI Secretariat. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and will be added to Academic Resources 2004 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   Whatever Happened to Gopher? http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,62988,00.html Answer: the Gopher protocol developed in the 1990s at the University of Minnesota may have been eclipsed by the World Wide Web, but it's alive and kicking (even if somewhat underground). Floodgap.com shows that more than 250 active gopher servers are currently online (almost half of affiliated with American colleges and universities) and can be found on every continent but Africa and Antarctica. Gopher-enthusiast John Goerzen believes that gopher is an excellent alternative to PDA and smartphone Web browsers, and says: "Consider this example: Port-a-Goph, a gopher client in development for Palm OS. Cameron Kaiser wrote this in his spare time and got it working quickly on his own Palm," he said. "Contrast that with the state of Web browsing on handheld devices: Despite many years to improve them, I still regularly run across Web sites that simply do not render at all, or render so poorly that they are unusable." My LinkSeries Internet Guides were written in 1992 - 1994 that list all the gopher sites for academic research and were used in academic libraries around the world in search of scholarly information from the Internet. These have been replaced and updated with my latest 2004 Internet MiniGuides. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Tuesday, April 27, 2004   SocialText - Enterprise Social Software http://www.socialtext.com/ Socialtext Workspace adapts wikis and weblogs for enterprise productivity and scale. Communication, collaboration and publishing for: IT and Consulting Project Management, Research and Analysis, Product Management and Events. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   Web Service Modeling Ontology http://www.wsmo.org/ The SDK WSMO working group, part of the SDK Cluster aligns the research and development efforts in the areas of Semantic Web Services between the SEKT, DIP and Knowledge Web research projects. Members of this working group include key participants with expertise in Semantic Web-related research areas. It is the mission of the SDK WSMO working group to, through alignment between key European research projects in the Semantic Web Service area, further the development of Semantic Web Services and works toward further standardization in the area of Semantic Web Service languages and to work toward a common architecture and platform for Semantic Web Services. WSMO working group includes the WSML working group, which aims at developing a language called Web Service Modeling Language (WSML) that formalizes the Web Service Modeling Ontology (WSMO). This has been added to the Semantic Web Research section of Deep Web Research Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   Personal Currency Assistant by XE.com http://www.xe.com/ At xe.com they have a simple mission statement: to facilitate the globalization of commerce. Early in 1995, when the company went by the name "Xenon Laboratories", they launched their flagship service, the Universal Currency Converter ® -- creating one of the web's very first useful dynamic sites. Since then, they have grown to become the world's favorite provider of Internet foreign exchange tools and services. Independent industry rankings consistently confirm that more people -- and websites -- use their wide variety of simple and powerful currency tools than any others. They are committed to continuing our role as leaders and innovators. They are always working to add new and powerful services to your old favorites. This will be added to International Trade Resources 2004 Internet MiniGuide as well as to the Reference section of all Internet MiniGuides. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   Fourteen Percent of Internet Users No Longer Donload Music Files http://www.pewinternet.org/reports/toc.asp?Report=122 The recording industry campaign against those who download and swap music online has made an impact on several major fronts, but the number of Americans downloading music and sharing files online has increased, according to the most recent survey of the Pew Internet & American Life Project. The Project’s national phone survey of 1,371 adult Internet users conducted between February 3 and March 1, 2004 shows that 14% of online Americans say that at one time in their online lives they downloaded music files, but now they no longer do any downloading. That represents more than 17 million people. However, the number of people who say they download music files increased from an estimated 18 million to 23 million since the Project’s November-December 2003 survey. This increase is likely due to the combined effects of many people adopting new, paid download services and, in some cases, switching to lower-profile peer-to-peer file sharing applications. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   National Electronic Records Archive Project Underway http://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/spring_2004_archivist.html Just when you think you've got the hang of preserving the delicate papers of historic documents, along comes electronic parchment -- as fragile as the real thing because rapidly changing technologies can render its content as unreadable as crumbing paper records. What's a government archive to do with the electronic records of, say, active military folks who will need documentation in 30 years to claim veterans' benefits or Food & Drug Administration records that document adverse reactions to drugs -- long after today's hardware and software are replaced by unimaginable innovations? The U.S. National Archives & Records Administration is in the midst of a plan to archive millions -- billions -- of electronic government documents "so that anyone, anywhere, anytime, far into the future, can access these records with the technology in use then," says outgoing NARA director John W. Carlin. In addition to making a great leap forward in government archiving, he predicts the new products and processes will benefit other archivists -- including colleges and universities, libraries and archives, small businesses and large corporations. The first installment of an operational ERA is scheduled to be up and running in 2007. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   Nationwide Gravesite Locator http://gravelocator.cem.va.gov/j2ee/servlet/NGL_v1 Most of the 120 Department of Veterans Affairs' national cemeteries may be searched for burial locations. There are four cemeteries that have not completed their records. They include: Long Island; Los Angeles; Ft. Rosecrans; and the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific. Some interments, therefore, will not be listed. Arlington National Cemetery records are also available for interments that occurred after 1999. As more records are added to the database, more burial information will become available. Some state veterans cemeteries can also be searched. This has been add to the Genealogy Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Monday, April 26, 2004   This edition of Current Awareness Happenings on the Internet by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. (April 26, 2004 V2N17) is dedicated to LLRX's feature article Deep Web Research by Marcus P. Zillman. Click on the below audblog link to hear an audio by Marcus P. Zillman on this article. Read the entire feature article available at the below listed URL: LLRX Feature Article Deep Web Research http://www.llrx.com/features/deepweb.htm audblog audio post posted by Marcus | 9:11 AM   Tips on Finding Manuscripts and Archival Material http://www.historians.org/Perspectives/Issues/2004/0403/0403pre1.cfm Yale University research archivist Judith Schiff says in an interview with AHA president-elect Jonathan Spence that "one of the most rewarding experiences for an archivist is to have an e-mail dialogue with a distant researcher, providing instruction so the researcher can independently find all of the relevant sources entered in an online database." In addition, Manuscripts and Archives staff members Diane Kaplan and William Massa, with the assistance of others, have developed an online tutorial for researchers that has become a model in the field: "Using Manuscripts and Archives: A Tutorial -- An Instructional Tool for Finding Manuscripts and Archival Material at Yale and Beyond." This will be added to Academic Resources 2004 Internet MiniGuide and has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   Vietnamese Online Dictionary (VDict) http://vdict.com/ VDict is a powerful Vietnamese online dictionary. It indexes many Vietnamese dictionaries, including Vietnamese-English, Vietnamese-French and Vietnamese-Vietnamese dictionaries posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports Search Engine http://zfacts.com/p/576.html The Congressional Research Service (CRS) is the public policy research arm of the US Congress. With its $80 million budget and 800 employees, it issues about 3,000 briefs, reports, short issue papers and longer position papers per year. An arm of the Library of Congress, CRS is renowned for its non-partisanship and in-depth analysis, but it does not make its reports available to the public. However, it cannot prevent members of Congress from giving them out individually and some government agencies from posting reports they find relevant. Perhaps 1000 have become available on the web. This search looks into every* CRS report on the Web and only into CRS reports. This will be added to Academic Resources 2004 Internet MiniGuide and has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   Pacific Trade and Development Conference (PAFTAD) Papers http://apseg.anu.edu.au/paftad/papers.php PAFTAD Conference Papers. These papers are for information only. They being revised for publication and the authors must be contacted before any citation is made. The authors can be contacted through the PAFTAD Secretariat. [...] PAFTAD promotes policy-oriented academic research and discussion of Asia Pacific economic issues, serves as the most authoritative source of economic analysis in the Pacific area, and generates high-quality publications on international economic and development issues. Almost every year since 1968 many of the Pacific's leading economists have gathered under the banner of the Pacific Trade and Development Conference (PAFTAD) to debate and discuss fundamental economic issues facing the region. This will be added to Academic Resources 2004 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   Worm Radar http://www.WormRadar.com/ The web site is still rudimentary, but the graph is generated every 30 minutes, and is interesting to watch, and WormRadar.exe is available for download from there. It is essentially a distributed Windows honeypot that listens on known wormy ports (or ports that are likely to become wormy), and crcs, or scans, anything that comes along. Its purpose is to both measure the frequency of known, current worms and to alert us all when something new becomes active. It is free provided you allow it to report to the central site. This has been added to Internet Alerts Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   Center for Information Policy (CIP) - University of Maryland http://www.cip.umd.edu/ CIP is a multidisciplinary research center that analyzes and provides solutions to current policy issues relating to the convergence of information and technology. Our advantageous location allows us to merge the university’s recognized academic strength with the unique array of national and international experts available in the nation’s capital. Privacy, intellectual property and information security are just a few of the areas where CIP offers independent, unbiased quality analysis, advice and proposals for action. This has been added to Privacy Resources Subject Tracer™ information Blog and will be added to Security Resources 2004 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Sunday, April 25, 2004   SourceSeries™ Legal Internet Research Workshop http://SourceSeriesLegal.BlogSpot.com/ This professional one-day Legal Internet Research Workshop presented by Internet expert and guru Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. is fast paced, competency based and designed both for the newbie to the Internet as well as the seasoned veteran with loads of excellent legal sources examples and bookmarks! Each workshop participant will receive a comprehensive source manual of the most competent legal resources available through the Internet allowing them to take back and to immediately use these powerful sources within their legal organizations. WHEN: May 26, 2004 TIME: 8:30am - 5:00pm WHERE: Wesley Foundation at the University of Miami, 1210 Stanford Drive, Miami, Florida Additional information including registration and fees are available by clicking here. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   MSN Sandbox http://sandbox.msn.com/ The MSN Sandbox is the place to play with some new technologies at MSN. It is a chance to experiment and peek behind the scenes at some new ideas. Included are: NewsBot http://uk.newsbot.msn.com/ MSN Toolbar http://toolbar.msn.com/ Three Degrees http://www.threedegrees.com/ NetScan http://netscan.research.microsoft.com/ TerraServer and TerraService http://terraserver-usa.com/ It seems like the corporate giants of the information retrieval field are allowing the public to "see" what they are doing. Google started with Google Labs, then MSN Sandbox ..... will Yahoo Research Institute be next?? The Google Labs and MSN Sandbox have been added to Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   LOC Prints and Photographs Online Catalog (PPOC) http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/catalog.html The Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs Division is pleased to announce that between January and March 2004, it added thousands of catalog records and images to the Library's Prints and Photographs Online Catalog (PPOC) bringing the number of images in the catalog to nearly 1 million. This will be added to Academic Resources 2004 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   OpenIndex - Creating a Public Internet Index http://www.openindex.org/index.php Although the largest Internet search engines and indexes like Google and AltaVista are commercial property, there are ambitious efforts to create open-source alternatives to them. No one is yet providing a serious threat to Google, but these efforts represent a very serious presumption that the resources of the Internet are public, and that the public should have open access to them. Indexes can be set up on a small scale, or globally. They can be operated by corporations, individuals, or communities. This website is especially interested in global, community-level, grassroots, cooperative - distributed - systems. That's our bias - developing an index by the people, for the people, of the people, as it were. This is a place for people interested in building, designing, or just talking about open source Internet indexes, search engines and spiders and robots. This has been added to Directory Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog as well as Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   Forum Zilla http://www.forumzilla.com/ Forum Zilla helps web users find online forums for virtually any topic! Each forum listed on Forum Zilla is hand checked and contains information on the number of users, the year it launched and the software it uses. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   H-Invitational Database (H-Inv DB) http://www.jbirc.aist.go.jp/hinv/index.jsp H-Invitational Database (H-InvDB) is a human gene database, with integrative annotation of 41,118 full-length cDNA clones currently available from six high throughput cDNA sequencing projects. This database represents 21,037 cDNA clusters describing their gene structures, functions, novel alternative splicing isoforms, non-coding functional RNAs, functional domains, sub-cellular localizations, metabolic pathways, predictions of protein 3D structure, mapping of SNPs and microsatellite repeat motifs in relation with orphan diseases, gene expression profiling, and comparative results with mouse full-length cDNAs in the context of molecular evolution. This has been added to Biological Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Saturday, April 24, 2004   eCurrent Awareness Resources 2004-05 Business Intelligence Report http://www.eCurrentAwareness.com/ http://www.CurrentAwareness.net/ eCurrent Awareness Resources™ 2004-05 Business Intelligence Report is a forty page report listing all the very latest current awareness resources and sites(URLs) on the World Wide Web that have been compiled over the last ten years by Internet Expert and Guru Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. . eCurrent Awareness Resources™ 2004-05 Business Intelligence Report is considered to be one of the most comprehensive reports on current awareness sources and sites on the Internet available today. It was updated July 7, 2004. Purchase eCurrent Awareness Resources™ 2004 Business Intelligence Report for $69.95 by clicking below: posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   theStatus.com http://www.thestatus.com/ theStatus.com strives to be the premier web brand for the creation of secure private web pages with the purpose of maintaining communication between family and friends. Using the advances in Internet technology, we are helping family and friends to stay connected. This has been used quite effectively as a hospital status communicator between patients and their immediate family members and friends throughout the world. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   Peter's Booklist-Proxy http://hypatia.slis.hawaii.edu/~jacso/extra/picks-pans/ALA/booklist-proxy.htm In honor of National Library Week, Peter Jacso has posted a special gift for the National Day of Library Workers. His proxy script searches the 6,000+ full text reviews of Booklist left behind when the ALA Web site was reorganized and therefore, not accessible through the ALA search engine. The ALA help desk and the Booklist site seem to be unaware of the presence of the reviews in the ALA archive and steer you to the print version (see related story on Peter's website). This will be added to Academic Resources 2004 Internet MiniGuide and Research Resources Subject™ Tracer Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   mod_oai Project - Getting OAI-PMH For Free http://www.modoai.org/ The aim of the project is to create the mod_oai Apache software module that will expose content accessible from Apache Web servers via the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH). The mod_oai project is generously funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Apache is an open-source Web server that is used by 63% - approximately 27 million - of the Websites in the world. The OAI-PMH is a protocol to selectively harvest from data repositories. The protocol has had a considerable impact in the field of digital libraries but it has yet to be embraced by the general Web community. The mod_oai project hopes to achieve such broader acceptance by making the power and efficiency of the OAI-PMH available to Web servers and Web crawlers. For example, the planned OAI-PMH interface to Apache Web servers should allow responding to requests to collect all files added or changed since a specified date, or all files that are of a specified MIME-type. The Apache Web server defines an extensible module format that allows specific functionality to be incorporated directly into the Web server. The mod_oai project will build such an Apache module that is able to respond to OAI-PMH requests pertaining to files made accessible by the Apache server. The mod_oai module will be developed under the GNU Public License (GPL) and distributed through sourceforge.net upon completion. This has been added to Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and will be added to Academic Resources 2004 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   Journal of Neuroinflammation http://biomedcentral.com/1742-2094/ http://www.jneuroinflammation.com/home/ Journal of Neuroinflammation ISSN: 1742-2094 is the latest addition to BioMed Central's constantly expanding universe of Open Access journals. In the coming weeks, a mirror site for Journal of Neuroinflammation will be created at PubMed Central , ensuring long term access to the material, regardless of the vicissitudes of the economic models of publishing. Fulltext v1+ (2004+) This will be added to Healthcare Resources 2004 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   Getting Close to the Customer: Quantitative vs. Qualitative Approaches http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/971.cfm After adapting information technology to develop ever more sophisticated research methods, marketers are taking a second look at more human, qualitative approaches to tapping into the hearts and minds of consumers. As one Wharton marketing professor says: "We can put each customer's order on a microchip, but as far as having a sense of what's inside making him tick," the answers remain elusive. He and others suggest that companies use both qualitative methods - such as data mining - and quantitative methods, ranging from "concept banks" to "brand communities" to customer advisory boards, always keeping in mind the cost effectiveness of these varied approaches. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Friday, April 23, 2004   May 2004 Zillman Column - eCommerce Resources on the Internet http://virtualprivatelibrary.blogspot.com/eCommerce Resources.pdf http://www.zillmancolumns.com/ The May 2004 Zillman Column is now available and is titled eCommerce Resources on the Internet. This May 2004 column is a comprehensive listing of online electronic commerce resources currently available on the Internet. These include associations, indexes, search engines as well as individual websites and sources that supply the latest technology and information about electronic commerce and how it relates to you and your business. A must resource to stay ahead of the curve with the latest sources available on eCommerce over the Internet. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   SourceSeries™ Healthcare Internet Research Workshop http://SourceSeriesHealthcare.BlogSpot.com/ This professional one-day Healthcare Internet Research Workshop presented by Internet expert and guru Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. is fast paced, competency based and designed both for the newbie to the Internet as well as the seasoned veteran with loads of excellent healthcare sources examples and bookmarks! Each workshop participant will receive a comprehensive source manual of the most competent healthcare research resources available through the Internet allowing them to take back and to immediately use these powerful sources within their healthcare organizations. WHEN: May 25, 2004 TIME: 8:30am - 5:00pm WHERE: Wesley Foundation at the University of Miami, 1210 Stanford Drive, Miami, Florida Additional information including registration and fees are available by clicking here. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   AIfIA opens IA Library http://aifia.org/library/ The Asilomar Institute for Information Architecture (AIfIA) is pleased to announce the opening of the Information Architecture Library, an international collection of the best articles, books, blogs, guides, reports, and other resources related to the field of information architecture. The IA Library was developed by Joanna Markel and Jeff Tang, two graduate students at the University of Michigan's School of Information. Chiara Fox, Austin Govella, and Peter Morville provided support and served as mentors. "Jeff and Joanna designed and built a fully-functional user interface and content management system for the Library. That's quite an accomplishment for a single-semester independent study project!" says AIfIA's president, Peter Morville. The IA Library's collection is still very much under development. We are adding new resources, particularly in languages other than English, to create a more well-rounded collection. In addition, AIfIA is actively seeking a volunteer Library Director to oversee the continued development of this important public service. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   Swedish MeSH Tree Tool http://mesh.kib.ki.se/swemesh/swemesh.cfm Enter a medical term in English or Swedish or explore the MeSH tree by following the hypertext links. This will be added to Healthcare Resources 2004 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   Lockergnome Blogging Network http://www.lockergnome.net/ Introducing the Lockergnome Blogging Network - an easy way for you to start down the path of publishing online. Weblogs, also known as blogs, are nothing more than online journals. What's more, NO prior knowledge of geeky abbreviations is required to start one! Blogs have been used for informing people faster than the mainstream press, since the news can break anywhere and bloggers write with few limitations. A blog can be about movies, collecting, politics, art, giant monkeys attacking orphans... whatever you feel like sharing! Keep your family and friends up-to-date, or demonstrate business expertise. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   Internet Scrabble Club http://www.isc.ro/ The best place to play live online scrabble ! The ISC is the best place on the Internet to play Scrabble in a relaxed friendly environment. You can compete at your own level in English, French, Romanian, Italian, or Dutch while meeting new people and making friends from around the world. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   Proposed Rule Deals with Research Misconduct http://snipurl.com/5t45 The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services wants to revise existing rules that govern how universities investigate and handle cases of research misconduct. Published Friday in the Federal Register, the revision would define misconduct "as involving fabrication, falsification, or plagiarism of research findings." It would also clarify procedures concerning whistle-blowers, set standards of proof, impose time restrictions and establish an appeal process. [(News tip from Pete Weiss) from TVC Alert 4-20-04] SEE, Public Health Service Policies on Research Misconduct; Proposed Rule Federal Register, 16 April 2004 http://snipurl.com/5t47 posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Thursday, April 22, 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. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. that he has compiled over the last ten years by surfing, browsing and using his Subject Tracer Bots™. Listed are many sites not available from search engines and called the "invisible" web. Click here to download the Table of Contents of Internet Sources™ Manual. This 378 page manual is available as a portable document format (.pdf) download from this site through a secure shopping cart for the sum of $39.95. Internet Sources™ Manual is the source for the most relevant information on the Internet with many sources not found by using search engines. AVAILABLE NOW For $39.95: For Immediate Manual Download Click on Purchase Button: posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   British Library - Services for Researchers http://www.bl.uk/welcome/researchers.html Whether you are working in a university, in a company, or in an individual capacity The British Library can help you in your research. There's a range of catalogues, databases and guides. This is an excellent resource for research sources and services and has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   Broadband Penetration on the Upswing: 55% of Adult Internet Users Have Broadband at Home or Work http://www.pewinternet.org/reports/pdfs/PIP_Broadband04.DataMemo.pdf The number of Americans with access to high-speed Internet connections either at home or work is growing. As of March 1, the Pew Internet & American Life Project finds that 68 million adult Americans log on via broadband either at home or work. Fully 48 million adult Americans have broadband connections at home. This is the first time the Project has tried to capture the total broadband universe and the relatively high figures suggest that broadband use is much greater than is widely presumed. Impatience with tiresomely slow dial-up connections seems to tip home users into the broadband column, and this impatience plays a larger role than price of service in home adoption. Broadband in the home is increasingly the norm for the wealthier and better educated in America, as well as long-time Internet users. But there is evidence that relatively novice Internet users are moving from dial-up to broadband more rapidly than before. Rural users lag in broadband adoption, and infrastructure availability is a reason for this. Here are some highlights from the Pew Internet Project’s February 2004 survey:1 - 55% of all adult Internet users – or 34% of all adult Americans – have access to high-speed Internet connections either at home or on the job. - 39% of adult Internet users – or 24% of all adult Americans – have high-speed access at home, an increase of 60% since March 2003. - A surge in subscription to DSL high-speed Internet connections, which has more than doubled since March 2003, is largely behind the growth in broadband at home. - DSL now has a 42% share of the home broadband market, up from 28% in March 2003. - For the first time, more than half (52%) of a key demographic group – college educated people age 35 and younger – has broadband connections at home. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   Turning the Pages http://www.bl.uk/collections/treasures/digitisation1.html Discover the British Library's award winning system - Turning the Pages. Just click on the links, wait a few minutes, then actually turn the pages of great books! Interesting concept and presentation ..... posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   YouThink! http://youthink.worldbank.org/ Here you'll find information about global issues that matter to young people today. Explore the research, knowledge and experience gathered by World Bank experts on issues like poverty, development, and conflict. This has been added to Student Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   Health Education Assets Library (HEAL) http://www.healcentral.org/index.jsp This site presents the Health Education Assets Library (HEAL), "a digital library of freely accessible, web-based multimedia teaching materials that meet the needs of today's health sciences educators and learners." Titles of some of the materials available at HEAL include MedlinePlus Interactive Health Tutorials, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland llustrations, and NeuroLogic Exam: An Anatomical Approach. To assist site users in locating health sciences files, the site provides a search engine with multiple search options like media type, keywords, contributor information, and more. Site users can also browse indices by subject or collection. Additionally, the site offers information about HEAL, including history, team members, and publications. This will be added to Healthcare Resources 2004 Internet MiniGuide. [From The NSDL Scout Report for the Life Sciences, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2003. http://scout.wisc.edu/] posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Wednesday, April 21, 2004   Each Professional Internet MiniGuide is written by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A.; Internet author, speaker, consultant and expert and is loaded with hundreds of the very best links to relevant and competent resources. All links are listed with complete URLs and verified for activation. The various sections of each miniguide have all links listed alphabetically for quickness and ease of use. Each miniguide comes with a section on research resources, reference resources, search engine resources, directory and database resources, and a resource(s) listing targeted at the subject of the miniguide. This allows the Professional Internet MiniGuides to literally become your private library with all the latest sources to keep you on top of your profession or at the leading edge of your business. Security Resources 2004 - Internet MiniGuide By Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. ISSN: 1539-9885 Copyright 2004 © Marcus P. Zillman 48 Pages .pdf Format Table of Contents: Introduction Research Sources Reference Sources Search Engine Sources Directory and Database Sources Security Resources URLs Personal Computer Security and Analysis Personal Computer Hard Drive Cleaning Personal Computer Firewalls Secure Havens Secured Documents and eMail Transmission "I'm personally recommending this MiniGuide to representatives of several US government agencies that are concerned with Internet health. ...Great work, Marcus!" Best, Steve Thaler Imagination-Engines.com Security Resources 2004 AVAILABLE NOW For $19.95: For Immediate Internet MiniGuide Download Click on Purchase Button: For other selected Internet MiniGuides click here. © 2004 Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   SemText - Semantic Hypertext - Making Latent Semantics Blatant http://semtext.org/ Human languages allow you to express meaning in text for other humans to read. Semantic Web technologies let you express the meaning of data in a computer-readable form. SemText is a community-oriented project that aims to help bridge the gap. This has been added to the Semantic Web Research Resources section of the Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   Computer Cops http://www.ComputerCops.biz Computer security is a vitally important and progressive field, in Information Technology and our daily lives. To stay ahead, Computer Cops Security Professionals, features updated security information through the use of News Summaries and Staff Articles, Forum Communities, downloads, and much more without user fees. This has been added to Internet Hoaxes Subject Tracer Information Blog and will be added to Security Resources 2004 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   Reference - Question/Answer Transaction Protocol http://www.loc.gov/standards/netref/ http://www.niso.org/committees/net-ref-protocol.html http://www.loc.gov/standards/netref/qatp-trial.pdf NISO Standards Committee AZ -- Networked Reference Services -- is developing a Question/Answer Transaction Protocol (QATP) to support exchange between digital reference systems collaborating in the processing of a question. A draft Question/Answer Transaction Protocol that supports Q&A between library patrons and reference sources has been released for a one-year trial use period April 5, 2004-April 5, 2005. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   SecurityDocs http://securitydocs.com/ SecurityDocs - Directory of Security White Papers offers 1755+ information security white papers in 91 categories as of April 21, 2004. This will be added to Security Resources 2004 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   A Study of Concepts of Knowledge Management by Anna Dening http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~kimble/teaching/students/Anna_Dening/Anna_Dening.html Abstract by Author: Knowledge management has come to the forefront of the business world surrounded by an air of publicity and a degree of scepticism. However in recent years, this label has been removed, and managers and employees are now discovering the real value of knowledge and knowledge management to their organisations. Globalisation and the spread of multinational organisations are demanding the use of cross cultural management and working practices across several language groups. This leads to the question of whether knowledge management should be practiced in the same way across nations. This project aims to investigate, by the use of a conversational study and questionnaire, whether differences exist in the opinions of knowledge management across two specific language groups: French and English. The hypothesis that language affects thought is discussed with a view to linking the language spoken to differences in opinions held by an individual. The first outcome of the study was that the hypothesis 'language affects thought' was substantiated. Secondly, the hypothesis that differences exist in the opinions of French and English speakers in the field of knowledge management was unable to be confirmed as correct. A copy of the full report can be found here. This has been added Knowledge Discovery Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Tuesday, April 20, 2004   Each Professional Internet MiniGuide is written by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A.; Internet author, speaker, consultant and expert and is loaded with hundreds of the very best links to relevant and competent resources. All links are listed with complete URLs and verified for activation. The various sections of each miniguide have all links listed alphabetically for quickness and ease of use. Each miniguide comes with a section on research resources, reference resources, search engine resources, directory and database resources, and a resource(s) listing targeted at the subject of the miniguide. This allows the Professional Internet MiniGuides to literally become your private library with all the latest sources to keep you on top of your profession or at the leading edge of your business. Legal Resources - Internet MiniGuide By Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. ISSN: 1538-4209 Copyright 2004 © Marcus P. Zillman 41 Pages .pdf Format Table of Contents: Introduction Research Sources Reference Sources Search Engine Sources Directory and Database Sources Legal Resources URLs Legal Forms and Documents "I recently purchased your internet guide for use by my law firm in Florida. Although I had heard of your high reputation and bought the guide with expectations, I must say that (almost from my first use of the materials) your work has exceeded these expectations. I recommend your guide to anyone in the legal profession who wants to increase their productivity using the internet. The wealth of material, organization and ease of use are commendable. Keep up the good work." James L. Karl II Legal Resources 2004 AVAILABLE NOW For $19.95: For Immediate Internet MiniGuide Download Click on Purchase Button: For other selected Internet MiniGuides click here. © 2004 Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   Squeak http://www.Squeak.org/ With the Squeak programming system, they have made some delightful and powerful educational applets. If you are a student, parent, or teacher, please jump over to their newly redesigned SqueakLand.org website, and download some great educational projects. Squeak is an open, highly-portable Smalltalk-80 implementation whose virtual machine is written entirely in Smalltalk, making it easy to debug, analyze, and change. The image above was created in Squeak, and illustrates several of Squeak's abilities, including the ability to scale and rotate bitmap images at any colour depth, anti-aliased TrueType fonts and vector graphics. Squeak has many more features..... Squeak comes under an open source license, meaning that you can download and use it for free. What are you waiting for? posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   AccessLaw http://lawir.iii.com/ AccessLaw is a unified catalog of participating academic libraries designed to allow authorized users of participating libraries to search materials from other AccessLaw libraries. This will be added to Academic Resources 2004 Internet MiniGuide and Legal Resources 2004 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   Media Monitoring to Promote Democratic Elections by Robert Norris and Patrick Merloe http://snipurl.com/5sy9 Media Monitoring to Promote Democratic Elections: An NDI Handbook for Citizen Organizations, by Robert Norris and Patrick Merloe (2002). This handbook takes a step-by-step approach to media monitoring. It covers: the importance of determining who controls the media and the difference between state-controlled versus private and broadcast versus print media; issues to address in deciding what media and what subjects to monitor; planning and organization of a media monitoring project; monitoring methodology, including specific instructions for monitoring different types of media; and considerations for the presentation of findings and recommendations. All available online from the above URL. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   Trends in Blog Searching, by Christina K. Pikas http://www.sla.org/division/dite/bite/MarApr2004/TrendInBlog.pdf Trends in Blog Searching, by Christina K. Pikas, a Techical Services Librarian at JHU's Applied Physics Laboratory, provides a valuable resource on the effective use of general search engines and blog search engines. [beSpacific 4-16-04] posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   International Trade in Agricultural Products: A Research Guide by Lee Peoples http://www.llrx.com/features/agproducts.htm Trade in agricultural products accounts for less than ten percent of world merchandise exports but is perhaps the most volatile of trade issues. A former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture characterized agricultural trade as ?enigmatic, often inexplicable, always exasperating? and the most distorted segment of the global economy. Disagreements over trade in agriculture have been blamed in part for the recent breakdown of the World Trade Organization?s negotiations in Canc?n, Mexico and the less than ideal agreement produced during the Free Trade Area of the Americas negotiations in Miami Florida. Conducting legal research into international agricultural trade may appear as daunting as the subject itself. The topic involves aspects of international and domestic law including: intergovernmental and nongovernmental organizations; treaties and agreements; dispute resolution; customs; tariffs; domestic trade law and policy; and, statistics. This guide aims to make researching international agricultural trade law less overwhelming by providing an introduction to the sources and methods involved in the research process. This has been added to Agriculture Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and will be added to International Trade Resources 2004 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Monday, April 19, 2004   This edition of Current Awareness Happenings on the Internet by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. (April 19, 2004 V2N16) is dedicated to my freely available monthly Zillman Columns on the Internet since 1997. Click on the below audblog link to hear a ten minute audio by Marcus P. Zillman on these columns. Read all the columns back to 1997 or just read the latest April 2004 column available at the following URL: Zillman Columns by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. http://www.ZillmanColumns.com/ audblog audio post posted by Marcus | 10:06 AM   Each Professional Internet MiniGuide is written by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A.; Internet author, speaker, consultant and expert and is loaded with hundreds of the very best links to relevant and competent resources. All links are listed with complete URLs and verified for activation. The various sections of each miniguide have all links listed alphabetically for quickness and ease of use. Each miniguide comes with a section on research resources, reference resources, search engine resources, directory and database resources, and a resource(s) listing targeted at the subject of the miniguide. This allows the Professional Internet MiniGuides to literally become your private library with all the latest sources to keep you on top of your profession or at the leading edge of your business. International Trade Resources 2004 - Internet Miniguide By Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. ISSN: 1538-8875 Copyright 2004 © Marcus P. Zillman 43 Pages .pdf Format Table of Contents: Introduction Research Sources Reference Sources Search Engine Sources Directory and Database Sources International Trade Resources URLs International Business Information Directories International Trade Bulletin Boards International Trade Journals, Newsletters & Reports International Trade Resources 2004 AVAILABLE NOW For $19.95: For Immediate Internet MiniGuide Download Click on Purchase Button: For other selected Internet MiniGuides click here. © 2004 Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   MindSwap http://www.mindswap.org/ The Semantic Web Research Group is a group of people working with Semantic Web technology inside the MIND LAB at University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies. This has been added to the Resources - Semantic Web Research section of the Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   America's Best Graduate Schools 2005 http://snipurl.com/5rxt In addition to rankings of graduate programs, USNews offers a detailed school directory, search and comparison tools, articles, and more. New in Best Graduate Schools 2005: mini-directories and mini-searches for Fine Arts, Health, Library Science, and Public Affairs! posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   Photo Recognition Software Gives Location By James Randerson http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994857 "You are lost in a foreign city, you don't speak the language and you are late for your meeting. What do you do? Take out your cellphone, photograph the nearest building and press send. For a small fee, photo recognition software on a remote server works out precisely where you are, and sends back directions that will get you to your destination. That, at least, is what two researchers at the University of Cambridge in the UK hope their software will one day be used for. Roberto Cipolla and Duncan Robertson have developed a program that can match a photograph of a building to a database of images. ... The software can match two images even when they are taken at a different times of day, from different angles and with clutter such as pedestrians and vehicles in the way. 'That's an easy problem for a human, but it's very difficult for a computer,' says Robertson." posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/ The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), established in 1962, is an integral part of the infrastructure of social science research. ICPSR maintains and provides access to a vast archive of social science data for research and instruction, and offers training in quantitative methods to facilitate effective data use. To ensure that data resources are available to future generations of scholars, ICPSR preserves data, migrating them to new storage media as changes in technology warrant. In addition, ICPSR provides user support to assist researchers in identifying relevant data for analysis and in conducting their research projects. A unit within the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan, ICPSR is a membership-based organization, with over 500 member colleges and universities around the world. A Council of leading scholars and data professionals guides and oversees the activities of ICPSR. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   Best Reference Sources 2003 by Brian E. Coutts with Tamara McConnell http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA408332 A listing of Best Reference Sources for 2003 featuring both the traditional written publications as well as web sites. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Sunday, April 18, 2004   Each Professional Internet MiniGuide is written by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A.; Internet author, speaker, consultant and expert and is loaded with hundreds of the very best links to relevant and competent resources. All links are listed with complete URLs and verified for activation. The various sections of each miniguide have all links listed alphabetically for quickness and ease of use. Each miniguide comes with a section on research resources, reference resources, search engine resources, directory and database resources, and a resource(s) listing targeted at the subject of the miniguide. This allows the Professional Internet MiniGuides to literally become your private library with all the latest sources to keep you on top of your profession or at the leading edge of your business. Healthcare Resources 2004 - Internet MiniGuide By Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. ISSN: 1538-330X Copyright 2004 © Marcus P. Zillman 49 Pages .pdf Format Table of Contents: Introduction Research Sources Reference Sources Search Engine Sources Directory and Database Sources Healthcare Resources URLs Top 10 Best Consumer Medical WWW Sites "I want to thank you for making Healthcare Resources Internet Miniguide available for those of us practicing medicine and surgery. I am an orthopedic Surgeon and find it a valuable time-saving internet resource available at home or at the office for scientific research, risk management structuring, and for composing professional presentations." Edward J. Nebel, M.D., Port Huron, Michigan Healthcare Resources 2004 AVAILABLE NOW For $19.95: For Immediate Internet MiniGuide Download Click on Purchase Button: For other selected Internet MiniGuides click here. © 2004 Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   Magnet Link http://www.MagnetLink.org/ Magnet links allow users to directly download large media files saving website creators and bloggers money on bandwidth costs and effectively propagating files on p2p networks that attract millions of users per day. They are supported by the most popular p2p applications including: Kazaa Media Desktop, Limewire, Morpheus, Shareaza, Bearshare, Xolox. Magnet links can also be used to initiate searches. Magnet links are an open standard: http://magnet-uri.sourceforge.net. Use and contribute to the open source Magnet Handler to make sure users get a great experience when thy click on magnet links. Contribute to the Magnet URI project. Discuss at Yahoo! Group. This has been added to the new section in Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   InfoEyes http://www.infoeyes.org/ InfoEyes is a pilot virtual reference and information community for the visually impaired. This is a pilot project which will run from March to August 2004. The purpose of the pilot is to test the OCLC e-mail, text chat, and Question Point Enhanced software for providing information services for the visually impaired. Your feedback is important to us. The project includes 12 libraries in 10 states and is coordinated by the Illinois State Library Talking Book and Braille Service. Resources for the project were provided by OCLC. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   Children's Literature Research Resources http://ibiblio.org/zealot/ChildrensLitResources.html The following annotated bibliographies are for the children's literature mavin who needs a helping hand on the road to research: Reference Books, Critical and Historical Resources and Academic Journals Including Critical Analyses of Children's Literature. This has been added to Student Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   ibiblio - The Public's Library and Digital Archive http://ibiblio.org/ Home to one of the largest "collections of collections" on the Internet, ibiblio.org is a conservancy of freely available information, including software, music, literature, art, history, science, politics, and cultural studies. ibiblio.org is a collaboration of the Center for the Public Domain and The University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill. This has been added to Directory Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   Lyceum - The Open Source Blogsphere http://lyceum.ibiblio.org/ Lyceum is the blogging inititative of ibiblio.org, the public's library. Revolution is born of enabling technologies; this is their experience with the Internet. Technologies that facilitate the sharing of information, in ways both remarkable and intuitive, enables users fundamentally. For this reason, they embrace weblogging technology conceptually, for they see its potential as a revolutionary tool and enabler of information share. It is in this spirit they take on the Lyceum project. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Saturday, April 17, 2004   Each Professional Internet MiniGuide is written by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A.; Internet author, speaker, consultant and expert and is loaded with hundreds of the very best links to relevant and competent resources. All links are listed with complete URLs and verified for activation. The various sections of each miniguide have all links listed alphabetically for quickness and ease of use. Each miniguide comes with a section on research resources, reference resources, search engine resources, directory and database resources, and a resource(s) listing targeted at the subject of the miniguide. This allows the Professional Internet MiniGuides to literally become your private library with all the latest sources to keep you on top of your profession or at the leading edge of your business. Education and Distance Learning Resources 2004 - Internet MiniGuide By Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. ISSN: 1538-9693 Copyright 2004 © Marcus P. Zillman 43 Pages .pdf Format Table of Contents: Introduction Research Sources Reference Sources Search Engine Sources Directory and Database Sources Education Resources URLs Distance Learning Resources URLs Online Tutorials "I'm personally very impressed with the Education and Distance Learning Resources 2004 Internet MiniGuide since I finished 3 years of distance learning without any guide or guidance. The guide that Marcus has produced would have made my learning experience so much faster and less frustrating. As an ambassador to my University, I will recommend this guide to the Education and Distance Learning Deans, for their students to use as a resource. Amazing information! Betsy Glass, Ph.D. uniquegenes.us Education and Distance Learning Resources 2004 AVAILABLE NOW For $19.95: For Immediate Internet MiniGuide Download Click on Purchase Button: For other selected Internet MiniGuides click here. © 2004 Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   Open Source Metadata Framework (OMF) http://www.ibiblio.org/osrt/omf/ The OMF aims to collect data about Open Source documentation, or metadata, that will be used to describe the documentation. The idea is that the OMF will act as a sophisticated card catalog type of system for the numerous Open Source documentation projects that exist. The OMF offers a number of advantages over standard card catalog type systems, however. Chief among these is the fact that the OMF has been designed from the ground up to be completely open, standards based, and sharable. We will accomplish this by using pre-defined standards (XML and the Dublin Core description for metadata) and allowing all metadata generated to be accessed by anyone that wants it. Because the metadata itself is to be stored in XML files, anyone should be able to use it. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   Google PageRank Algorithm Explained by Harjot Kaleka http://www.isedb.com/news/index.php?t=print&id=796 PageRank is Google’s measure of importance assigned to a web page on a scale of 1 to 10. You can check the PageRank value of any page by downloading the Google Toolbar. This article is intended at understanding PageRank and providing an insight into its different aspects. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   Digital Library of the Commons (DLC) http://dlc.dlib.indiana.edu/ The Digital Library of the Commons (DLC) provides free access to an archive of international literature on the commons, common-pool resources and common property. Features for authors and readers include advanced searching; browsing by region, sector, and author name; an author submission portal for uploading a variety of document formats; and a service that uses email to alert subscribers to new documents in their area of interest. This will be added to Academic Resources 2004 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   WebSM - Web Survey Methodology http://www.websm.org/ This 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, Ga?per Koren, Vesna Dolni?ar), 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. This is listed in my April 2004 column Survey Resources on the Internet. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   A9.com http://www.A9.com/ A9.com, Inc. researches and builds innovative technologies to improve search experience for e-commerce applications. A separately branded and operated subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc., A9.com opened its Palo Alto, California, doors in October 2003. A9.com’s technology will power search on Amazon.com and other web sites. This has been added to the Search Engines section of all the Internet MiniGuides. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Friday, April 16, 2004   Each Professional Internet MiniGuide is written by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A.; Internet author, speaker, consultant and expert and is loaded with hundreds of the very best links to relevant and competent resources. All links are listed with complete URLs and verified for activation. The various sections of each miniguide have all links listed alphabetically for quickness and ease of use. Each miniguide comes with a section on research resources, reference resources, search engine resources, directory and database resources, and a resource(s) listing targeted at the subject of the miniguide. This allows the Professional Internet MiniGuides to literally become your private library with all the latest sources to keep you on top of your profession or at the leading edge of your business. Competitive Intelligence Resources 2004 - Internet MiniGuide By Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. ISSN: 1538-6953 Copyright 2004 © Marcus P. Zillman 39 Pages .pdf Format Table of Contents: Introduction Research Sources Reference Sources Search Engine Sources Directory and Database Sources Competitive Intelligence Resources URLs "I have been in technology for 45 years and consult in business strategy and marketing. In that capacity I have used a variety of sources to conduct competitive analyses and was extremely interested in finding out how the Competitive Intelligence Resources Miniguide might help me in my next assignment. I found that the list of URLs that it contained far exceeded my expectations; as well as containing sites that I already know to be valuable, it contained many, many more that I had not seen before. I expect to be using it on my next project in the coming months and believe that it will be an extremely valuable resource." Peter Gregory Competitive Intelligence Resources 2004 AVAILABLE NOW For $19.95: For Immediate Internet MiniGuide Download Click on Purchase Button: For other selected Internet MiniGuides click here. © 2004 Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   The Nature of Meaning in the Age of Google by Terrence A. Brooks http://informationr.net/ir/9-3/paper180.html Abstract By Author: The culture of lay indexing has been created by the aggregation strategy employed by Web search engines such as Google. Meaning is constructed in this culture by harvesting semantic content from Web pages and using hyperlinks as a plebiscite for the most important Web pages. The characteristic tension of the culture of lay indexing is between genuine information and spam. Google's success requires maintaining the secrecy of its parsing algorithm despite the efforts of Web authors to gain advantage over the Googlebot. Legacy methods of asserting meaning such as the META keywords tag and Dublin Core are inappropriate in the lawless meaning space of the open Web. A writing guide is urged as a necessary aid for Web authors who must balance enhancing expression versus the use of technologies that limit the aggregation of their work. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   Mobile Research Forum (MRF) http://mrf.ecdc.info/index.php The Mobile Research Forum (MRF) is a knowledge repository for people involved in mobile communications research. The MRF is a site that links to high quality research papers and other reports, facilitating dissemination of research and in the process bringing together people interested in similar research questions. Areas of investigation include questions about mobile business models and economic changes, usage and development of mobile devices, roll out of networks and standardization, and social impact questions. Bringing together people in the mobile research community, the MRF acts as a knowledge repository containing articles, opinion pieces, numbers and diagrams, links and other resources. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   PubSub Link Ranks http://www.pubsub.com/linkranks/ Link ranks are the way of measuring the strength, persistence, and vitality of links appearing in weblogs. When PubSub reads a new weblog entry, they pull out any URIs they find and attach them to the entry in a separate field. This allows their users to include domain names or linked file types when creating subscriptions. From this set of URIs, it's easy to find the most popular domains. Link ranks take one more step and calculate scores for each linking site; domains are then scored based on the values of the sites that link to them. The theory is basically that these are the links you're most likely to click on, if you read a weblog at random. Unlike Google's PageRank system, link ranks are not iterative. Rather, they base link ranks on a simple formula that only looks at local links - links which are within one or two steps of any target site. Also, it's important to note that they only look at links which are in weblog entries - they don't read any of the other links on the page, like the side bars or blogrolls. The intent of this system is not to measure the strength of any particular domain, but rather the relative likelihood that you'd find and follow a link to that domain. As such, the links are what's really important, not the pages themselves. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   Open Archives Initiative Data Providers - Part I http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/OAI-DP-I.pdf Gerry McKiernan announced the availability of his latest eProfile column from the Library Hi Tech News V21 N3 (April 2004) 11-19 titled "OPen Archives Initiative Data Providers - Part I". Definitely an excellent resource and bookmark. This will be added to Academic Resources 2004 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   Web Inventor Berners-Lee Wins Big Technology Award http://snipurl.com/5q74 World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee won one million euros ($1.23 million) on Thursday, the largest single amount of money he has made from an invention that has made many others very rich. Berners-Lee, 48, was named the first winner of the world's largest technology award -- the Millennium Technology Prize -- by the Finnish Technology Award Foundation at a ceremony in the Finnish city of Espoo. Berners-Lee launched the World Wide Web in 1991 and gave the world easy access to information, revolutionizing the way it worked and communicated. (HELSINKI (Reuters) Thu Apr 15, 2004 03:08 AM ET] posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Thursday, April 15, 2004   Each Professional Internet MiniGuide is written by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A.; Internet author, speaker, consultant and expert and is loaded with hundreds of the very best links to relevant and competent resources. All links are listed with complete URLs and verified for activation. The various sections of each miniguide have all links listed alphabetically for quickness and ease of use. Each miniguide comes with a section on research resources, reference resources, search engine resources, directory and database resources, and a resource(s) listing targeted at the subject of the miniguide. This allows the Professional Internet MiniGuides to literally become your private library with all the latest sources to keep you on top of your profession or at the leading edge of your business. Business Resources 2004 - Internet MiniGuide By Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. ISSN: 1538-5604 Copyright 2004 © Marcus P. Zillman 67 Pages .pdf Format Table of Contents: Introduction Research Sources Reference Sources Search Engine Sources Directory and Database Sources B2B Vertical eMarketplaces URLs Business Bids Resources URLs Business Resources URLs Business Intelligence Resources URLs Economic Resources URLs Electronic Commerce Resources URLs Entrepreneurial Resources URLs Small Business Resources URLs “This is the most comprehensive internet business resource publication available anywhere. The Guide is my primary tool in assisting our over 1,700 members with questions regarding internet sources for data, intelligence and business start-up assistance.” Dennis Grady - President Chamber of Commerce of the Palm Beaches Business Resources 2004 AVAILABLE NOW For $19.95: For Immediate Internet MiniGuide Download Click on Purchase Button: For other selected Internet MiniGuides click here. © 2004 Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   GRDDL Coordination Group Note Published http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/NOTE-grddl-20040413/ http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/ http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/ Through joint efforts, the RDF in XHTML task force of the Semantic Web Coordination Group and the HTML Working Group has published a Coordination Group Note. "Gleaning Resource Descriptions from Dialects of Languages (GRDDL)" is a mechanism for encoding RDF statements in XHTML and XML to be extracted by programs such as XSLT transformations. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   Information Integration on the Web (IIWeb-04) http://cips.eas.asu.edu/iiweb.htm Workshop on Information Integration on the Web (IIWeb-04) to be held in conjunction with VLDB 2004 - Royal York Hotel - 30 August thru 3 September 2004 - Toronto, Canada. The explosive growth and popularity of the world-wide web has resulted in a huge number of information sources on the Internet and the promise of unprecedented information-gathering capabilities to lay users. Unfortunately, the promise has not yet been transformed into reality. While there are sources relevant to virtually any user's query, the morass of sources presents a formidable hurdle to effectively accessing the information. One way of alleviating this problem is to develop web-based information integration systems or agents, which take a user's query or request (e.g., monitor a site), and access the relevant sources or services to efficiently support the request. The purpose of this workshop is to bring together researchers that are working in a variety of areas that are all related to the larger problem of integrating information on the Web. This includes research in the areas of machine learning, data mining, automatic planning, constraint reasoning, databases, view integration, information extraction, semantic web, web services, and other related areas. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   Observer Research Foundation - New Delhi, India http://www.observerindia.com/ Visualised and supported by a cross-section of India's leading intellectuals, academics, public figures, social activists, business leaders and institutions of higher learning, Observer Research Foundation was established on September 5, 1990 as a non-profit, public policy think-tank. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   X-Bone http://www.isi.edu/xbone/ The X-Bone dynamically deploys and manages Internet overlays to reduce configuration effort and increase network component sharing. The X-Bone discovers, configures, and monitors network resources to create overlays over existing IP networks. Overlays are useful for deploying overlapping virtual networks on shared infrastructure and for simplifying topology posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   BlogBusiness http://www.seedwiki.com/page.cfm?wikiid=5030&doc=BlogBusiness The BloggerCon wiki for Making Blogs Make Money. Here's a starting point for the Bloggercon discussion (Saturday, April 17) on blogs as business. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Wednesday, April 14, 2004   Each Professional Internet MiniGuide is written by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A.; Internet author, speaker, consultant and expert and is loaded with hundreds of the very best links to relevant and competent resources. All links are listed with complete URLs and verified for activation. The various sections of each miniguide have all links listed alphabetically for quickness and ease of use. Each miniguide comes with a section on research resources, reference resources, search engine resources, directory and database resources, and a resource(s) listing targeted at the subject of the miniguide. This allows the Professional Internet MiniGuides to literally become your private library with all the latest sources to keep you on top of your profession or at the leading edge of your business. Articles, Abstracts, Documents, Papers, Reports, and Literature Resources 2004 - Academic Resources Internet MiniGuide By Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. ISSN: 1540-1995 Copyright 2004 © Marcus P. Zillman 55 Pages .pdf Format Table of Contents: Introduction Research Sources Reference Sources Search Engine Sources Directory and Database Sources Articles, Abstracts, Documents, Papers, Reports and Literature URLs Articles, Abstracts, Documents, Papers, Reports and Literature Bots Dissertations, Theses and Lectures Sources Technical Reports and Manuals Research Papers, Terms Papers and Essays Articles, Abstracts, Documents, Papers, Reports, and Literature Resources 2004 AVAILABLE NOW For $19.95: For Immediate Internet MiniGuide Download Click on Purchase Button: For other selected Internet MiniGuides click here. © 2004 Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   Cooperative Linux (CoLinux) http://www.colinux.org/ http://www.linuxworld.com/story/44466.htm Cooperative Linux is the first working free and open source method for optimally running Linux on Microsoft Windows natively. More generally, Cooperative Linux (short-named coLinux) is a port of the Linux kernel that allows it to run cooperatively alongside another operating system on a single machine. For instance, it allows one to freely run Linux on Windows 2000/XP, without using a commercial PC virtualization software such as VMware, in a way which is much more optimal than using any general purpose PC virtualization software posted by Marcus | 4:22 AM   mozDex http://www.mozdex.com/ mozDex is a search engine seeded from the dmoz.org directory. mozDex uses open source search technologies to create an open and fair index. Their goal is to index the entire web in html content. They want to be able to provide an open service to the community. While they do offer paid inclusions to help pay for their service, they pride ourselves on fair and honest results. This will be added to the search engines section of all the Internet MiniGuides. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   Top 40 - DayPop Archives http://www.daypop.com/archive/top/ What are the hot topics in the weblogging community today or yesterday or last year? The Daypop Top 40 Archives is a list of links that are currently and previously popular with webloggers from around the world. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   OSVDB - OPen Source Vulnerability Database http://www.osvdb.org/ OSVDB is an independent and open source database created by and for the security community. The goal of the project is to provide accurate, detailed, current, and unbiased technical information on security vulnerabilities. The project will promote greater, more open collaboration between companies and individuals, eliminate redundant works, and reduce expenses inherent with the development and maintenance of in-house vulnerability databases. This will be added to Security Resources 2004 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   Pew February Tracking Poll http://www.pewinternet.org/reports/pdfs/PIP_April2004_Data_Memo.pdf In their poll in February, they recorded their highest readings ever on the number of Internet users who participate in online auctions, and the number of Americans who use computers. In addition, they received their first reading ever on wireless connectivity. * 17% of Internet users have logged on using a wireless device. This is the first reading they have ever attempted on wireless connectivity. Members of Gen Y (those ages 18-27) are far and away the most likely to have used wireless devices - 28% have done so. * 23% of U.S. Internet users have participated in online auctions. This is the highest reading on online auctions they have ever recorded. This online activity is still the province of men more than women, the relatively well-to-do, and those who have lots of online experiences. * 65% of Internet users have purchased a product online. This is their highest reading on e-commerce. * 73% of American adults (those 18 and over) use computers. This is the highest computer-adoption rate they have ever measured. This file has a table of the basic demographics of computer users. * 63% of American adults use the Internet - that translates to 128 million people. This file has a table of the basic demographics of Internet users. * 55% of Internet users go online during a typical day. * 53% of Internet users have six or more years of experience. The full report contains a demographic breakdown of computer users and Internet users and is available for downloading at the above listed URL. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   Haystack - The Universal Information Client http://haystack.lcs.mit.edu/ Haystack is a tool designed to let every individual manage all of their information in the way that makes the most sense to them. By removing the arbitrary barriers created by applications only handling certain information "types", and recording only a fixed set of relationships defined by the developer, we aim to let users define whichever arrangements of, connections between, and views of information they find most effective. Such personalization of information management will dramatically improve each individual's ability to find what they need when they need it. This has been added to the "tools" section of the Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Tuesday, April 13, 2004   Each Professional Internet MiniGuide is written by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A.; Internet author, speaker, consultant and expert and is loaded with hundreds of the very best links to relevant and competent resources. All links are listed with complete URLs and verified for activation. The various sections of each miniguide have all links listed alphabetically for quickness and ease of use. Each miniguide comes with a section on research resources, reference resources, search engine resources, directory and database resources, and a resource(s) listing targeted at the subject of the miniguide. This allows the Professional Internet MiniGuides to literally become your private library with all the latest sources to keep you on top of your profession or at the leading edge of your business. Advertising, Marketing and Public Relations Resources 2004 - Internet MiniGuide By Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. ISSN: 1538-9456 © Copyright Office Registration Number TX 5-492-854 38 Pages .pdf Format Table of Contents: Introduction Research Sources Reference Sources Search Engine Sources Directory and Database Sources Advertising Resources URLs Marketing Resources URLs Public Relations Resources URLs Advertising, Marketing & Public Relations Resources 2004 AVAILABLE NOW For $19.95: For Immediate Internet MiniGuide Download Click on Purchase Button: For other selected Internet MiniGuides click here. © 2004 Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. posted by Marcus | 11:23 AM   After "Dating Mining", Try a Little "Reality Mining" http://www.techreview.com/articles/wo_pentland033104.asp At the MIT Media Labs, the Human Design research group is working on "reality mining" projects that use commonplace wearable technology to identify a company's de facto organization chart (as opposed to the theoretical and often-ignored one on the wall). The group is using two approaches: The first provides an Expert and Collaborator Locator, which uses speech recognition technology to generate profiles of individuals based on the words they use in conversations; the second offers Collaboration Tools, which makes it possible to query a database of employee profiles of interests, skills, or even recently used vocabulary, in order to find people who might work well together. The researchers say: "We expect that by aggregating this information, interpreting it in terms of work tasks, and modeling the dynamics of the interactions, we will be better able to understand and manage complex organizations." There are privacy issues, of course, and here the key is to make the system transparent and to allow employees to scrutinize their bosses' behavior. This could be interesting. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   The Makings of a Do-It-Yourself Supercomputer by Linda Leung http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0412widernetsupercomputer.html http://www.flashmobcomputing.org/ Making a supercomputer these days is a lot easier than you might think. I even helped build one myself in just one day earlier this month. The call to create the processing beast came from a group of University of San Francisco graduate students whose goal was to entice hundreds of computer enthusiasts like myself to unite their laptop and desktop systems into a megacomputer powerful enough to crack the list of the Top 500 fastest supercomputers on Earth. Topping that list is Japan's 40-teraflop Earth Simulator. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   Search Engines -- The Future by Gary H. Anthes http://snipurl.com/5o0u Most information junkies would be hard-pressed to name anything that has transformed their professional lives as much as Internet search engines have. The miraculous devices can take your hot topic of the day, scan millions of Web pages and in seconds bring back product announcements, research papers, the names of experts and more—things that would be difficult or impossible to find otherwise. But as powerful as they are, search engines have huge weaknesses. For example, a recent Google search on the word Linux took just 0.4 seconds, but it had 95 million hits. Too bad if the one you need is No. 10,000 on the list. But researchers are poised to revolutionize search technology over the next few years. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   Inside the Searcher's Mind: It's a Jungle in Here! By Gord Hotchkiss http://www.searchengineguide.com/hotchkiss/2004/0405_gh1.html In search marketing, there are many more questions than answers, particularly when it comes to how people search. We know how we search and we assume everybody searches in a similar way. Also, because searching has become such an intuitive function, we tend not to really give the actual search process much thought. If many of us actually looked at what we did in a search process, we’d probably surprise ourselves. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   Voice Activated Search Engine http://vgsse.searchlimo.com/ SearchLimo.com announces that it has integrated its internal soft-ware applications with Netscape?s Internet browser, clearing the way for the launch of ?the Voice Generated Super Search Engine.? (VG-SSE*). The patent pend-ing VG-SSE* technology allows users to conduct web searches by speaking into their PC microphones and allowing the meta engines to locate the relevant search results, just as the user would expect from a standard ?type and search? engine. The components are built around XPCOM which assists in the modularizing of the platforms code and data. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   British Library Prepares for the Future http://www.researchinformation.info/rijanfeb04lynne_brindley.html The British Library has done extensive research on the needs of tomorrow's networked knowledge society and has made recommendations for how librarians can adapt to provide users with the new kinds of service and support they will need. "At the British Library, we have introduced a market-facing approach to ensure that we align our services with the needs of our five key audience groups: researcher; business; library and information sector; learner; general public. We have also restructured internally to support our market-led strategy, and appointed a head of marketing for each audience group," writes British Library chief executive Lynne Brindley. The British Library has actively canvassed its patrons for suggestions, conducting focus groups and surveys with businesses and individual visitors. In response, it's developed a service geared toward the secure electronic delivery of documents to users' desktops, providing access to more than 100 million items under a copyright-compliant arrangement. In terms of managing digital resources, the British Library has focused on guaranteeing the integrity of the national published archive, says Brindley, "not least of which has been our work with publishers and other U.K. legal deposit libraries to secure the extension of legal deposit legislation to cover e-publications… (to) ensure the long-term preservation of our digital heritage." In addition, the British Library is planning to build a digital storage system that "will take any form of electronic material, and be highly scalable." In an effort to incorporate lessons learned from other institutions facing similar challenges, the British Library is active in a consortium that examines best practices in long-term preservation and is working with the Library of Congress and the Dutch National Library to share that knowledge. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Monday, April 12, 2004   This edition of Current Awareness Happenings on the Internet by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. (April 12, 2004 V2N15) is dedicated to the latest freely available audio on Searching the Internet. Click on the below audblog link to hear a ten minute audio by Marcus P. Zillman on Searching the Internet. An eleven page white paper, this ten minute audio as well as a soon to be released video are all available from the following URL: Searching the Internet by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. http://www.SearchingTheInternet.info/ audblog audio post posted by Marcus | 11:27 AM   Agencies to Organize Digital Records http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2004/0329/web-nara-03-31-04.asp The Electronic Records Archives (ERA) program of the National Archives and Records Administration is telling federal agencies that by 2007 they must have their digital records organized for inclusion in an operational archive. The finished system will include features such as online access to an archivist, perhaps using live-chat technology. As part of the project implementation activities, managers will be shown how to communicate effectively with information technology personnel in charge of the systems that officials use to create digital records. "We need to start coming together and speaking the same language," says Adrienne Reagins, a communications specialist with the program. An ultimate goal of the project will be to make it possible for researchers to access nearly all of the services that they could obtain if they were to do their research in a physical library. posted by Marcus | 11:00 AM   Equilibrium Solutions http://www.equilibriumsolutions.net/ Equilibrium Solutions is dedicated to the development of advanced decision-making solutions to drive transparent, dependable value-creating processes. Their technology and methods are specialized to meet the investment management and risk management needs of industrial, financial and trading companies. Consistent success in investment management and risk management is ultimately determined by the quality of management decisions. The process of analyzing and interpreting information, making correct judgments and taking the right decisions at the right time is a perpetual challenge. This has been added to Business Intelligence Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 10:55 AM   Offshore Outsourcing Center http://www.oocenter.com/ The mission and goal of this site is for your opinions and comments on Offshore Outsourcing. Whether you are for or against, your voice is important! They have included new news releases on the left side of this page for you to peruse and keep up-to-date. This has been added to Outsourcing Offshore Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 9:58 AM   The State of Copyright Activism by Siva Vaidhyanathan http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_4/siva/ Abstract from Author: One of the great hopes I had while I researched and wrote Copyrights and copywrongs (New York: New York University Press, 2001), a cultural history of American copyright, during the late 1990s was that copyright debates might puncture the bubble of public consciousness and become important global policy questions. My wish has come true. Since 1998 questions about whether the United States has constructed an equitable or effective copyright system frequently appear on the pages of daily newspapers. Activist movements for both stronger and looser copyright systems have grown in volume and furor. And the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in early 2003 that the foundations of American copyright, as expressed in the Constitution, are barely relevant in an age in which both media companies and clever consumers enjoy unprecedented power over the use of works. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   Google Print http://print.google.com/print/faq.html Google's mission is to provide access to all the world's information and make it universally useful and accessible. It turns out that not all the world's information is already on the Internet, so Google has been experimenting with a number of publishers to test their content online. During this trial, publishers' content is hosted by Google and is ranked in our search results according to the same technology we use to evaluate websites. On Google Print pages, we provide links to some popular book sellers that may offer the full versions of these publications for sale. Book seller links are not paid for by those sites, nor does Google benefit if you make a purchase from one of these retailers. In addition, these pages show contextually-targeted AdWords ads that are served through the Google AdSense program. During the initial phase of this beta test, advertisers will not be charged for clicks they receive on these pages, and neither Google nor the publishers with whom we work profit from these ads. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM Sunday, April 11, 2004   Artificial Intelligence (AI) 1) Stanford University: What is Artificial Intelligence? http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/whatisai/whatisai.html 2) The History of Artificial Intelligence http://library.thinkquest.org/2705/history.html 3) The Turing Test Page http://cogsci.ucsd.edu/~asaygin/tt/ttest.html 4) The Singular Institute http://singinst.org/intro/AI.html 5) New Scientist: AI and A-Life http://www.newscientist.com/hottopics/ai/ 6) IBM: Deep Blue vs. Kasparov http://www.research.ibm.com/deepblue/ 7) Ai Research: The HAL Nursery http://www.a-i.com/show_tree.asp?id=110&level=2&root=115 The science and engineering of Artificial Intelligence has come a long way since 1950, when scientists began to explore the link between human intelligence and machines. Since then, computer scientists have made advances in creating machines that can engage in human-like behaviors, mimic human thought, understand speech, and beat the best human chessplayer. Applications are far and wide, from military technology to personal cell phones. This Topic In Depth reviews some of the past accomplishments, current research and future challenges in AI. John McCarthy from the Computer Science Department at Stanford University has posted this article answering some common questions people have about Artificial Intelligence, including the implications of this work for the meaning of intelligence. (1). This next website (part of a ThinkQuest website competition) gives a history of AI among other interesting tidbits about different approaches and applications (2). The Turing Test Page elaborates on Alan Turing's conditions for considering a machine to be intelligent, which he outlined in a 1950 article that is also available from this website (3). The Singularity Institute describes itsambitious plan to develop "real AI" (4). The New Scientist highlights some applications for AI which range from the traditional to new wave (5). On a lighter note, this webpage by IBM is dedicated to Deep Blue and the event that captured the attention of chess and computer fans -- the rematch between the supercomputer, Deep Blue, and Kasparov (6). Ai Research has made their HAL Nursery available to the public -- a collection of "Virtual Children" you can interact with online. (7). [From The NSDL Scout Report for Math, Engineering, and Technology, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2003. http://scout.wisc.edu/] Another resource is the ChatterBots Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 5:00 AM   Linguistic Tools for Knowledge Discovery http://www.montague.com/abstracts/discovery.htm The gaps between subject and functional boundaries are one of the best sources of breakthrough innovation. Yet for a variety of reasons — managerial, technical, and editorial — it's often difficult to exploit them. In this article they use an example from their own research and experience to show how linguistic tools such as thesauri, glossaries, and navigation schemes can promote knowledge discovery by exposing potential linkages between seemingly unrelated subjects. The full text of the article is free, but registration is required. The demo shows how parallel taxonomies can be created for two very different stakeholder groups and linked through cross references. This has been added to Knowledge Discovery Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   The Internet in Developing Nations: Grand Challenges by Larry Press http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_4/press/ Abstract by Author: This is a call for a "Grand Challenge" project for achieving truly global connectivity. For over a decade, we have hypothesized that the Internet could raise the quality of life in developing nations. We have conducted hundreds of studies of the state of the Internet and "e–readiness," done extensive training of technicians and policy makers, run pilot studies, and held local, regional and global conferences and workshops. After all of this activity, Internet connectivity is nearly non–existent in rural areas of developing nations, and far below that of developed nations in the urban areas of developing nations. This is not to say the activity of the past decade has been a waste. We have demonstrated the value of the Internet and raised awareness. The United Nations and the administrations of nearly all nations have acknowledged the potential of the Internet. The way has been paved, and it is time to act on what we have learned. After outlining the work of the last decade, we explore one possible Grand Challenge: Connecting every village in the rural developing world to the Internet using a strategy similar to that used in building the NSFNet. We speculate on wireless technologies that might play a role in working toward that goal: Terrestrial, high–altitude platform, and satellite. We conclude with a brief discussion of alternative Grand Challenges and a call for action. The time is ripe for an audacious project. What could we achieve with US$15 billion and ten years time? posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   Corpus of Electronic Texts (CELT) http://www.ucc.ie/celt/index.html Developed at University College Cork, the Corpus of Electronic Texts project is intended "to bring the wealth of Irish literary and historical culture (in Irish, Latin, Anglo-Norman French, and English) to the Internet in a rigorously scholarly project." Additionally, the project is designed to be utilized by a wide group of interested parties, including students, academics, and the general public. Visitors may peruse the documents by language of original publication, or by viewing a complete list of all the works currently available (many in HTML or pdf format) from the project's website. Some of the rather compelling works available here include the complete works of Oscar Wilde, the political writings of Michael Collins, and various historical documents regarding the struggle for Irish independence. [From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2003. http://scout.wisc.edu/] posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   VT Survey - Open Source Web-Based Survey Tool http://opensource.isc.vt.edu/products/survey/ VT Survey is an open source web-based tool which allows users to autonomously create and run online surveys, feedback or registration forms. At Virginia Tech we use this software to implement survey.vt.edu which is currently serving over 3000 Virginia Tech students, faculty and staff. This has been added to my April 2004 Zillman Columns titled Survey Resources on the Internet. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM   The White House: National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace http://www.whitehouse.gov/pcipb/ The White House and Office of the President of the United States has posted this website with information on the National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace, "an implementing component of the National Strategy for Homeland Security," which is meant to complement a National Strategy for the Physical Protection of Critical Infrastructures and Key Assets. They describe ways Americans can "secure the portions of cyberspace that they own, operate, control, or with which they interact." Several documents are posted, including a Letter from the President and an executive summary of the report, which addresses Cyberspace Threats and Vulnerabilities, National Policy and Guiding Principles, and lays on out the four key priorities in light of the report findings. [From The NSDL Scout Report for Math, Engineering, and Technology, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2003. http://scout.wisc.edu/] posted by Marcus | 3:55 AM Saturday, April 10, 2004   Spaced Out on the Interplanetary Internet By David Pescovitz http://www.thefeature.com/article?articleid=100521 Interplanetary telecommunication needs an upgrade. That's the aim of the Interplanetary Internet, an effort to extend the capabilities of cyberspace to outer space. And while a ".mars" address is quite a few years off, the latest InterPlaNet research may have a dramatic impact on Earth-based connectivity as well. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   Google Teams Up with 17 Colleges to Test Searches of Scholarly Materials By Jeffrey R. Young http://chronicle.com/free/2004/04/2004040901n.htm Google, the popular search engine, has teamed up with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and 16 other universities around the world to provide a way to search the institutions' collections of scholarly papers, according to university officials. A pilot test of the project is just getting under way. If all goes as planned, the search feature could appear on Google in a few months, said MacKenzie Smith, associate director of technology for MIT's libraries. She said the search would probably be an option on Google's advanced-search page. This has been added to Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and will be added to Academic Resources 2004 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   google.public.support.general FAQ http://www.geocities.com/googlepubsupgenfaq/ This article includes answers to questions that appear especially frequently in the newsgroup google.public.support.general. It is not intended to replace Google's official FAQs and information for webmasters. Please read them if you haven't already done so: http://www.google.com/help/faq.html http://www.google.com/googlegroups/help.html http://www.google.com/webmasters/ This will be added to the search engines section of all the Internet MiniGuides.[Thanks tp Tara ResearchBuzz] posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   Etch-A-Search http://news.com.com/2100-1038-5182775.html Researchers at Purdue University have developed a search engine that enables users to simply sketch what it is they're looking for and retrieves all images that match the drawing. The new search engine is geared toward industrial and manufacturing users, with the goal of avoiding redesign costs by enabling them to quickly find existing widgets. However, the concept of generall image searches on the Internet should be viable in 10 to 15 years, says Purdue mechanical engineering professor Karthik Ramani. "You can search on something that you have in your mind. A shape has so many details in it." Currently, image searches remain largely a text-based activity, with tools based primarily on keywords. That means images must be tagged with metadata in order to match up with users' queries. But companies such as Virage, Vima Technologies and LTU Technologies are working on technologies much closer to what the Purdue researchers are developing. And while Vima CEO David Telleen-Lawton says he's not convinced that a hand-drawn search is really what people want, ImgSeek offers a downloadable tool that allows users to search photo collections by drawing a rough sketch of what it is they're looking for. It then displays the best matches in a thumbnail format. Ramani says studies have shown that design engineers cumulatively as a whole spend about six weeks a year looking for lost parts -- his search engine could cut that time by 80% and help companies gravitate toward standardized components with fewer in-house designs. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   eBay RSS Listings http://www.ebaylistings.net/ Create your own RSS feed for your favourite eBay search... This will be added to Business Resources 2004 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   Faith Online: 64% of Wired Americans Have Used the Internet for Spiritual or Religious Purposes http://www.pewinternet.org/reports/toc.asp?Report=119 64% of the nation’s 128 million Internet users have done things online that relate to religious or spiritual matters: - Nearly two-thirds of the adults who use the Internet in the United States have used the Internet for faith-related matters. That represents nearly 82 million Americans. Among the most popular and important spiritually-related online activities: 38% of the 128 million Internet users have sent and received email with spiritual content. - 35% have sent or received online greeting cards related to religious holidays. - 32% have gone online to read news accounts of religious events and affairs. - 21% have sought information about how to celebrate religious holidays. - 17% have looked for information about where they could attend religious services. This figure represents a substantially higher number of online religious faith seekers than the Pew Internet & American Life Project has measured before. We used a new battery of questions to prompt Internet users’ recollections of the things they do online related to spiritual activities. Those who use the Internet for religious or spiritual purposes are more likely to be women, white, middle aged, college educated, and relatively well-to-do. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Friday, April 09, 2004   Scientists Seek Map of Science by Dr David Whitehouse http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3608385.stm Scientists need new ways to monitor the progress of science in the digital age, according to reports in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Science is the most interconnected of all human activities, they say, and requires a new series of maps to chart the changing scientific landscape. Knowledge has left books and libraries and is now changing more rapidly than ever before, say researchers. New ways of mapping science offer the prospect of new discoveries, they add. Examples of this type pf mapping can be seen in my just updated posting on Research Browsers by clicking here or scrolling down on the links on the right side of my personal blog and click on Research Browsers. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   Modelling and Mining of Network Information Systems http://www.mathstat.dal.ca/~mominis/index.html A library, no matter how vast, is limited by the efficiency of its cataloguing and searching system. So it is with the World Wide Web. With the emergence of the Web as the pre-emininent information storage and retrieval system, the need for better organization and searching systems has become pressing. Between the pin-prick of desire for information and the fruition of a screen full of relevant links lies the latency of intelligent web search. We are getting used to seeing the world through the Web; the time has come to see every world as a web. Every collection of interlinked data (a networked information space) can be organized and searched like the Web. Networks of phone calls, networks of financial transactions, networks of social interactions can all be analyzed by the techniques used for the Web. The secret to successfully searching the web has been known to the builders of better search engines. On the web, as in other networked information spaces, the required information about the information lies in the link structure. Understanding this link structure mathematically and being able to translate this knowledge into applications is the point of this project. The theorems, tools and techniques of graph theory are at our disposal. This has been added to Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and Bot Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   MySpiders http://myspiders.informatics.indiana.edu/ MySpiders are threads in a Java applet implementing intelligent, autonomous, adaptive software agents that will crawl the Web on your behalf. MySpiders are a prototype of the InfoSpiders project, bringing artificial life to the Web. MySpiders were mainly developed by Gautam Pant under the direction of Filippo Menczer. If you have any questions, please see their FAQ. Filippo presented this project at my BOT2000 and BOT2001 Conferences. Filippo has moved from the University of Iowa to the University of Indiana. This will be added to eCurrent Awareness Resources 2004 Business Inteligence Report and Bot Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   NewsKnife http://www.newsknife.com/index.html They regularly rate the world's top news sites for quality. Newsknife just checked out 55,000+ listings at Google News and came up with a list of No. 1 sites. It's the first example of their new way of rating: by relevance. This has been added to the Reference Section of Internet MiniGuides. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   Net Plan Builds in Search by Kimberly Patch http://snipurl.com/5kn0 http://www.arxiv.org/abs/cs.IR/0311015 There is a wealth of information available on the Internet and in separate repositories like university library databases. It would save time to be able to search all digital resources using one interface. Researchers from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in China have come up with a distributed information retrieval system that promises to help. The system could eventually become part of the Internet infrastructure as an extension of the domain name service. This has been added to Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   W3C Link Checker Released http://validator.w3.org/checklink http://www.w3.org/Status http://www.w3.org/QA/ W3C is pleased to announce the first standalone release of the W3C Link Checker. Started by Hugo Haas in 1999, the project is now managed by Ville Skytta and the W3C Quality Assurance (QA) Activity. Documentation and source code are available. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Thursday, April 08, 2004   Book Arts on the Web: An Introduction to Selected Resources by Cynthia L. Gregory http://snipurl.com/5k6g In today’s Internet-driven world, handmade books might seem like things of the past. For book arts enthusiasts, however, the fine art of the book, in all its evolving forms from scroll to sculptural artist’s book, is alive and kicking. In fact, within the last decade, interest in workshops, programs, and societies dedicated to promoting book arts has increased worldwide. Not surprising then is book arts’ ever-growing presence on the Web. In the digital age, the once solitary book artist can now connect to a worldwide online community of artists and ideas. So what exactly is book arts? Ask this to any group of artists or bookmakers and it is likely no two answers will be the same. In the art world, there has been ongoing discussion about what defines a book.1 For purposes of this Webliography, book arts is “an all-encompassing term used to describe bookbinding, paper making, paper marbling, calligraphy, letterpress printing,” as well as artists’ books, altered books, and mail art.2 The resources collected in this guide highlight a selection of book arts resources available online. [ [C&RL News, April 2004 Vol. 65, No. 4 ] posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   CRS Reports Search Engine http://zfacts.com/p/576.html The zFacts folks have created a Google based search engine using the data from the web as well as data from the Memory Hole to search for Congressional Research Serice (CRS) Reports. I will be adding this to Academic Resources 2004 Internet MiniGuide and this has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. For up-to-date info on obtaining "CRS reports" search beSpacific. [Thanks to Sabrina for pointing this one out] posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   Explore the Red Planet http://link.abpi.net/l.php?20040406A7 NASA's M2K4 Web site launched an interactive program giving any citizen of cyberspace the chance to drive NASA's Mars Rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, across the red planet. Explore Gusev Crater and Meridiani Planum, without the 300-million-mile trek. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   Microsoft Releases Source Code on SourceForge By Mary Jo Foley http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1561989,00.asp On Monday, Microsoft released some of its code under an open-source license, and posted it on SourceForge, the open-source code repository. To date, Microsoft has made its source code available under a variety of licensing mechanisms, all under its "shared source" umbrella. But until today, the company had not released code under what is commonly considered a true open-source license. Microsoft made available an internally developed product called the Windows Installer XML (WiX) to SourceForge. The code is downloadable here. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States http://www.9-11commission.gov/ The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, an independent, bipartisan commission created by congressional legislation and the signature of President George W. Bush in late 2002, is chartered to prepare a full and complete account of the circumstances surrounding the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, including preparedness for and the immediate response to the attacks. The Commission is also mandated to provide recommendations designed to guard against future attacks posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   Research Browsers http://zillman.blogspot.com/2003_09_01_zillman_archive.html#106241931557183353 I have updated my September 1, 2003 posting on Research Browsers with a number of new visualization browsers both in the search as well as in the business areas. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Wednesday, April 07, 2004   Streaming AudioBook of Lessig's "Free Culture" http://www.turnstyle.org/FreeCulture/ On Thursday, March 25, 2004; Lawrence Lessig's new book "Free Culture" was released to the world as a printed hardcover as well as a free download, under a Creative Commons license. On Friday, A. K. M. Adam asked a simple question: "Anyone feel like recording a chapter of Lawrence Lessig's new book?" By Saturday, contributions were coming in from around the world. Inspired by Eric Rice, Scott Matthews whipped up this site with his MP3 juke/server software, Andromeda. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   China Vitae http://www.chinavitae.com/ China Vitae is an online biographical database that provides more than 2500 biographies of current Chinese political, military, economic, business, and academic leaders. The China Vitae database offers state-of-the-art searches of its biographies, including advanced tools for learning about the backgrounds and careers of senior Chinese officials. China Vitae's database is extensively cross-referenced. Employing an array of search tools, users can easily create lists of officials who have similar career paths, organizational affiliations, education, and places of origin. The cross-referencing allows users to follow the lives and careers of Chinese officials, individually or in groups, from birth to the present, facilitating background studies of officials in politics, military, business, and academia. This will be added to Business Resources 2004 and International Trade Resources 2004 Internet MiniGuides and has been added to Business Intelligence Resources Subject Tracer Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   EconomicIndicators.gov http://www.economicindicators.gov/ The Economics and Statistics Administration (ESA) is the bureau within the U.S. Department of Commerce where economic and social change is chronicled, understood, and explained. Many political and business decisions are based upon the economic and demographic information produced by the Bureau of Economic Analysis, US Census Bureau, and STAT-USA. ESA has three primary missions: 1) maintain the highest possible quality Federal statistical system and make improvements where warranted and feasible, 2) communicate a vision of the key forces at work in the economy and of the opportunities they create for improving the well-being of all Americans, and 3) support the information and analytical needs of the Department and the Executive Branch. This will be added to Business Resources 2004 Internet MiniGuide and has been added to Statistics Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   Biomedical Digital Libraries http://www.bio-diglib.com Biomedical Digital Libraries will be an Open Access, peer-reviewed online journal that considers manuscripts on all aspects of digital library content and usage in biomedical settings, including academic medical centers, research and development institutes, and health care institutions. Biomedical Digital Libraries will provide a forum for discussion of the unique considerations of biomedical information needs, and both opportunities and constraints presented by health care settings. The research results of collaborative initiatives with information technology and informatics partners are appropriate and encouraged. This has been added to Biological Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   Multisubject Guides To Specialized Search Engines http://www.searchability.com/ A list of multi-subject guides (with descriptions) to thousands of search engines covering hundreds of subjects. Listed in approximate order of size, specificity of subject categories, and some aspects of search engine collection quality. This has been added to Directory Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   Transmembrane Structure Prediction Servers http://split.pmfst.hr/split/4/others.html Here is the alphabetic list of web servers for membrane protein secondary structure prediction. This has been added to Biological Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Tuesday, April 06, 2004   SourceSeries™ Healthcare Internet Research Workshop http://SourceSeriesHealthcare.BlogSpot.com/ This professional one-day Healthcare Internet Research Workshop presented by Internet expert and guru Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. is fast paced, competency based and designed both for the newbie to the Internet as well as the seasoned veteran with loads of excellent healthcare sources examples and bookmarks! Each workshop participant will receive a comprehensive source manual of the most competent healthcare research resources available through the Internet allowing them to take back and to immediately use these powerful sources within their healthcare organizations. WHEN: May 25, 2004 TIME: 8:30am - 5:00pm WHERE: Wesley Foundation at the University of Miami, 1210 Stanford Drive, Miami, Florida Additional information including registration and fees are available by clicking here. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   SourceSeries™ Legal Internet Research Workshop http://SourceSeriesLegal.BlogSpot.com/ This professional one-day Legal Internet Research Workshop presented by Internet expert and guru Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. is fast paced, competency based and designed both for the newbie to the Internet as well as the seasoned veteran with loads of excellent legal sources examples and bookmarks! Each workshop participant will receive a comprehensive source manual of the most competent legal resources available through the Internet allowing them to take back and to immediately use these powerful sources within their legal organizations. WHEN: May 26, 2004 TIME: 8:30am - 5:00pm WHERE: Wesley Foundation at the University of Miami, 1210 Stanford Drive, Miami, Florida Additional information including registration and fees are available by clicking here. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   Computing Technology Policy Bibliography http://home.ix.netcom.com/~technology_policy/ The bibliography covers the popular press and computing magazines, but not research or scholarly publications. The ACM Digital Library is the best source for the latter. Why provide this bibliography when a more complete and less idiosyncratic search could be done with a search engine such as Google? Using this bibliography has several advantages: categorization into a taxonomy that groups like articles together, a chronological presentation and a selective number of hits. Entries in this bibliography could then be used to generate a more complete search with a search engine. It would be convenient if the directory entries were links to each citation entry, but to save space and download times, the actual bibliography pages are plain text with no formatting or other information in them. The user can of course paste directory entries into the browser search function and move to citation entries that way. Perhaps in the future the pages will be HTML formatted and include features such as internal links. Directory entries consist of a date (yy-mm-dd) followed by a title. The title is not necessarily the title of the article but has been chosen to be concise and descriptive. The bibliographic entry starts with the directory entry, usually the URL, citation information and the first 2-3 lines of the article. Due to copyright restrictions we cannot provide the full text of cited articles. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   ABA/ICC Global Internet Jurisdiction Study http://shorl.com/hosaladrifrite This just released survey of nearly 300 companies in 45 different countries found that U.S. companies were far more concerned and pessimistic about Internet jurisdiction risk than European and Asian companies. It also found that an "Internet jurisdiction risk toolkit" is emerging where companies target low risk jurisdictions and take steps to avoid doing business in perceived high risk jurisdictions. No surprise with who was most affected by Internet jurisdictional issues -- in light of cases such as Yahoo! France and Gutnick -- it was media companies that were most likely to have responded to jurisdictional issues. It was also quite troubling that respondents in developing countries, particularly in Latin America, experienced significant difficulty in completing the survey as many organizational representatives candidly admitted that they were unfamiliar with Internet jurisdiction risks and with their organization's approach to the issues. Michael Geist's Law Bytes column in the Toronto Star discussed this study and is available by clicking here. This will be added to Legal Resources 2004 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   Gray Literature: Resources for Locating Unpublished Research by Brian S. Mathews http://snipurl.com/5i3b Gray or grey literature has long been considered the proverbial needle in the haystack. It is commonly defined as any documentary material that is not commercially published and is typically composed of technical reports, working papers, business documents, and conference proceedings. The greatest challenges involved with these items are the process of identification, since there is limited indexing, and acquisition, since availability is usually marred with uncertainty. Added to this is the absence of editorial control, raising questions about authenticity and reliability. Yet despite these considerations, gray literature is continually referenced in scholarly articles and dissertations and therefore remains an issue that academic librarians must contend with. While the search for these eclectic materials is not new, the development of the Web has increased opportunities. Gray literature is now freely available on many Web sites and is selectively indexed by numerous commercial database vendors. Many organizations and individuals are also providing access to their works online. While all these factors present a new optimism, they also raise expectations that everything is available quickly, if not instantly, creating unrealistic perceptions. Included in this section are Web sites that aid in understanding the nature of gray literature as well as various search tools. The focus is upon freely available resources that offer some full-text coverage. While the majority of these selections concentrate upon scientific and technical literature, other resources have been included to illustrate the wide range and variation of gray literature. This will be added to Academic Resources 2004 Internet MiniGuide and has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and Deep Web Research Subject Tracer&trade' Information Blog. [ [C&RL News, March 2004 Vol. 65, No. 3 ] posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   Library Blogs What's Happening Listing http://www.blogwithoutalibrary.net/index.shtml?links.html A listing of library blogs and what they are doing with blogs. This site is constantly updated and is a fine example of what is currently happening with libraries and blogs. For a complete listing of library blogs from LibDex click here. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Monday, April 05, 2004   This edition of Current Awareness Happenings on the Internet by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. (April 5, 2004 V2N14) is dedicated to his latest freely available publications on the Internet. Click on the below audblog link to hear a two minute audio describing these resources. A complete listing has been posted to his personal blog and is available from the following URL: Latest Freely Available Publications from Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. http://zillman.blogspot.com/2004_04_01_zillman_archive.html#108087169285304956 audblog audio post posted by Marcus | 9:08 AM   Knowledge Management: A Guide to Resources on the Internet by Michael M. Smith http://snipurl.com/5i2z Knowledge Management (KM) is one of many important topics being addressed by companies in today’s complex business environment. KM has spawned a new legion of consultants, it has provided a new direction for many software companies, and it has given purpose to many technologies that previously appeared to be only expensive executive toys. However, KM is nothing new. It is a synthesis of many ideas which when brought together create an exciting new paradigm of research. KM is multidisciplinary and draws from communications theory, organizational dynamics, and information organization. KM incorporates the concepts of Senge’s Learning Organization, builds on the foundation of intellectual capital management, and draws from business intelligence practices. This has been added to Knowledge Discovery Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. [C&RL News, February 2004 Vol. 65, No. 2] posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   NewsMap - News Visualization Tool http://www.marumushi.com/apps/newsmap/index.cfm I reported on this site with the other information visualization browsers last year including an article in my V1N1 Awareness Watch Newsletter and now it has grown to encompass Google News. Newsmap is an application that visually reflects the constantly changing landscape of the Google News news aggregator. A treemap visualization algorithm helps display the enormous amount of information gathered by the aggregator. Treemaps are traditionally space-constrained visualizations of information. Newsmap's objective takes that goal a step further and provides a tool to divide information into quickly recognizable bands which, when presented together, reveal underlying patterns in news reporting across cultures and within news segments in constant change around the globe. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   ClusterMed http://vivisimo.com/clustermed Our ClusterMed tool helps you easily navigate PubMed's extensive inventory of medical research articles by organizing the search results into categories. Search in a highly intuitive and personalized manner by clustering your results by author, mesh headings, and date. Vivísimo's ClusterMed solution is designed to help life sciences and healthcare researchers find information fast and make more informed decisions. ClusterMed organizes the long list of PubMed search results into categories, letting users find and focus on relevant information easily. Because Vivísimo's clustering is performed on-the-fly, the categories are always fresh and represent the latest content, without requiring any pre-processing. This will be added to Healthcare Resources 2004 Internet MiniGuide as well as now added to Healthcare Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   Kinja - The WebLog Guide http://www.kinja.com/aboutsite.knj Kinja is a weblog portal, collecting news and commentary from some of the best sites on the web. Visitors can browse items on topics, everything from food to sex. Or they can create a convenient personal digest, to track their favorite writers. Weblogs are much talked about, but still challenging to navigate for the average web user. Kinja is designed to bring weblog writers to a broader audience, by making it easier to explore topics, posts and writers. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   GEsource http://www.gesource.ac.uk/home.html GEsource is the geography and environment hub of the Resource Discovery Network (RDN). GEsource provides access to high quality Internet resources for students, researchers and practitioners in geography and the environment through five distinct subject gateways: Environment, General Geography, Human Geography, Physical Geography, and Techniques and Approaches. Each of these main headings is further divided into a series of sub-sections that together make up the browse structure of GEsource. Each resource in the main GEsource catalogue has been selected by information professionals and subject specialists to ensure relevance and quality (see guidelines). A full description of each resource is provided, together with a range of other information and direct access to the resource itself. Due to the interdisciplinary nature of geographical and environmental studies, GEsource includes in its catalogue resources originating from other hubs within the RDN providing a single access point to this information. [Thanks to Shirl Kennedy for pointing out this excellent resource] posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   KMWorld's 100 Companies that Matter in Knowledge Management 2004 http://www.kmworld.com/100.cfm KMWorld's Top 100 companies in the Knowledge Management 2004 field is now available and I am delighted to see that the excellent folks at Intelliseek are continuing in the group! This has been added to the Knowledge Discovery Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. (Thanks to Sabrina for finding this resource.) posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Sunday, April 04, 2004   University of New Mexico: Institute of Meteoritics http://epswww.unm.edu/iom/home.htm The University of Mexico's Institute of Meteoritics (IOM) claims to be the first institution in the world dedicated to the study of meteorites. The website features the Institute's Electron Microbeam Facility, Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry Laboratory, and the High Pressure and High Temperature Experimental Petrology Laboratories. Users can search through an online database of the Meteorite Museum's meteorite collection, which contains samples of over 600 meteorites. Researchers can discover the Institute's current research ventures such as the geochronology of planetary materials and studies dealing with planetary magmas at high pressure. Students and educators can learn the six identifying characteristics of meteorites. [From The NSDL Scout Report for the Physical Sciences, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2003. http://scout.wisc.edu/ ] posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   Electronic Snoops Tackle Copiers by Randy Dotinga http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,62906,00.html New markets are finally opening up for plagiarism-detection software, a mainstay of academia that has struggled to expand its reach beyond term papers. The scandal-plagued newspaper industry is considering whether to adopt the technology to crack down on copycats, while the New York Police Department is testing it as an investigative tool. But experts say the biggest potential market might be the publishing industry, which one day may find itself coping with the same kind of piracy that bedevils movie makers and music producers. posted by Marcus | 4:16 AM   Georgetown University Medical Center-Protein Information Resource: Non-Redundant Reference Protein Database http://www-nbrf.georgetown.edu/pirwww/search/pirnref.shtml Created at Georgetown University Medical Center, this website hosts the Protein Information Resource: Non-Redundant Reference Protein Database (PIR-NREF), a comprehensive source for protein sequence data that keeps current with the genome sequencing projects. Free for downloading and updated biweekly, PIR-NREF contains 1,581,210 entries in its current release. The site "provides direct entry retrieval (based on protein IDs), text search (protein or species names), and sequence search (BLAST, peptide match, and pattern match) for full-scale and species-based protein identification. Species-based browsing and searching are supported for about 100 organisms, including over 70 complete genomes." This site links to background information about PIR and other PIR Databases as well. This has been added to Biological Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. [ From The NSDL Scout Report for the Life Sciences, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2003. http://scout.wisc.edu/ ] posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   The Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation (JASSS) http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/JASSS.html The Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation published issue 2 of Volume 7 on 31 March 2004. JASSS is an electronic, refereed journal devoted to the exploration and understanding of social processes by means of computer simulation. It is freely available, with no subscription. In this issue, there are 5 papers selected from the 72 presented at the third European Meeting on Applied Evolutionary Economics held in Augsburg, Germany in April 2003. There are also papers on terrorism, haggling and opinion dynamics. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   Access To Literature: The Debate Continues http://www.nature.com/nature/focus/accessdebate/ The Internet is profoundly changing how scientists work and publish. New business models are being tested by publishers, including open access, in which the author pays and content is free to the user. This ongoing web focus will explore current trends and future possibilities. Each week, the website will publish specially commissioned insights and analysis from leading scientists, librarians, publishers and other stakeholders, as well as key links, and articles from our archive. All content is available free. This will be added to Academic Resources 2004 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM   Center for Applied Research in Educational Technology http://caret.iste.org/ Funded with a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Center for Applied Research in Educational Technology (CARET) is a project of the International Society for Technology in Education, with collaboration with Education Support Systems and the Sacramento County Office of Education. The primary function of CARET is to bridge "educational technology research to practice by offering research-based answers to critical questions." To that end, one of the primary goals of the Center is to offer critical reviews of articles and studies related to educational technology. Fortunately for interested academics and practitioners, these reviews are archived here, and in many cases include links to the full-text of the reviewed article in question and other relevant documents. The site also contains a Helpful Resource" section, which offers a list of thematically organized weblinks (in such areas as curriculum and instruction and policy) and a glossary of terms that is intended to help users of the site as the read the research reviews. This will be added to Education and Distance Learning Resources 2004 Internet MiniGuide. [ From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2003. http://scout.wisc.edu/ ] posted by Marcus | 3:55 AM Saturday, April 03, 2004   Online Social Networks: Friendster (beta) http://www.friendster.com/ Friendster is an online community that connects people through networks of friends for dating or making new friends. Institute for Social Network Analysis of the Economy (ISNAE) http://www.isnae.org/index.html The purpose of ISNAE is to study social networks and use the resulting knowledge to promote economic growth and social well-being. LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/ Find the people you need through the people you trust - Your trusted friends and colleagues can help put you in touch with many more people than you expect; and those people can refer you to thousands of contacts. Orkut http://www.orkut.com/ Orkut is an online community that connects people through a network of trusted friends. They are committed to providing an online meeting place where people can socialize, make new acquaintances and find others who share their interests. PeopleAggregator http://www.PeopleAggregator.com/ An Open Source Social Network Spoke - Extending Business Relationships http://www.spoke.com/ Delivering insight, influence and access through relationships for greater business advantage. Tribe http://www.Tribe.net This site is devoted to tapping the power of social networks. Their goal is to provide tools that help make your network most useful. Visible Path http://www.visiblepath.com/ Visible Path delivers unprecedented reach into companies and access to decision-makers by allowing sales teams to discreetly leverage the relationship capital of the enterprise throughout the sales cycle. Zaibatsu http://community.alwayson-network.com/ Listing for this social networked received from a Slashdot posting .... Zero Degrees™ - The People Network Company http://www.zerodegrees.com/ ZeroDegrees (ZDI) automates Milgram's process. ZDI replicates the social process we use when we ask colleagues with an introduction. If no one knows the person directly, they ask others on our behalf. If all parties along the way, agree-an introduction is made and discreet contact information shared. The Slashdot article that discusses PeopleAgreggator an Open Source Social Network is available by clicking here. Social Networks are gaining great popularity and we will be hearing and seeing many new and niched networks in the near future. Please send me listings of social networks that I have not listed and I will continue to keep this posting up to date. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   In the latest CompetiaTools Digest Number 32 Newsletter March 2004 the topic was finding experts. The following articles were listed: Articles How To Find Experts Finding Experts and Sources Online by Paul Grabowicz http://www.ojr.org/ojr/technology/1017969142.php Finding Experts on the Internet 2004 by Marcus P. Zillman http://tinyurl.com/37ldl My article was taken from my January 2004 Zillman Columns. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   Visualizing the Answer http://www.techreview.com/articles/wo_sherman031904.asp Gnooks.com offers a new twist on affinity searches for people interested in tracking down book recommendations. First, type in the name of an author that you like. Then, instead of arranging its search results in a scrollable list, Gnooks sprinkles the names around the browser window where they jiggle as though jockeying their way toward the center. The closer another work is to the name you typed in, the more likely it is that you'll enjoy it, too (at least, that's what Gnooks thinks). The mastermind of all this is Marek Gibney of Hamburg, Germany, who has also developed Gnoovies (for movies) and Gnoosic (for music) sites. All three sites connect to a central Gnod.net site (Gnod stands for global network of dreams). "If 90% of the readers of Douglas Hofstadter also like [Stephen] Hawking, the distance between these two writers in the Hofstadter-Hawking dimension is 0.1," says Gibney. The graphic representation of that information makes it easy to process, says Phil H. Goddard, a director at Human Factors International. "Human beings are spatial processors. [Such tools] are capitalizing on the effect that we see patterns and learn patterns and parse patterns faster than we process text." posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   The Web Won't Topple Tyranny - Dictatorship.com http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?pt=oGG%2BvQEIjJRNjHGlOJiX4X%3D%3D As a tool to disseminate popular culture, the Internet has had spectacular success, even in "authoritarian nations" such as Laos, China, Singapore and Saudi Arabia. But, the author points out, its political impact has been negligible and, in some cases, "the Internet actually may be helping dictatorships remain in power." This in spite of the fact that pundits have been touting the political potential of the Net since it became more or less a mass medium in the mid-90s. Although "Internet usage has surged in many authoritarian nations," it has had little impact on "the political climate." Why? Because, the author says, it is not particularly useful "for expressing and organizing dissent," and technologically -- "it has proved surprisingly easy for authoritarian regimes to stifle, control, and co-opt." The author points out that the Internet is mainly used for individual rather than group activities. As one Laotian researcher quoted here observes, the Internet "is about people sitting in front of a terminal, barely interacting." Also, using the Net requires a relatively high level of literacy. [ Current Cites March 2004] posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   Federated Searching: A Viable Alternative to Web Surfing By Barbara Fiehn http://www.technewsworld.com/perl/story/33160.html A possible solution to the Google-only research approach is making its way into schools via library media center automation systems. Imagine searching your local library media center and other library collections, Web sites, and subscription databases with a single click of the mouse. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   Digital Information in the Information Research Field http://informationr.net/fr/freejnls.html The journals and newsletters listed here all include at least a sample of papers or news items that are freely accessible. Sites that simply provide the contents lists of journals that are not freely accessible are not listed. Note that only journals that still appear to be 'live' at the time this list was compiled are included. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Friday, April 02, 2004   The last two weeks have been extremely busy for me as I have been in the content creation mode. I have listed some of the freely available content that I have created. I also appreciate comments, suggestions and resources! Searching the Internet White Paper http://www.SearchingTheInternet.info/ Awareness Watch™ April 2004 V2N4 Newsletter http://zillman.blogspot.com/2004_03_01_zillman_archive.html#108026523689394364 Zillman Column April 2004 Survey Resources on the Internet http://zillman.blogspot.com/2004_03_01_zillman_archive.html#108009550550657147 Current Awareness Discovery Tools On the Internet White Paper 8-09-04 Update Using the Internet As a Dynamic Resource Tool for Knowledge Discovery White Paper 8-09-04 Update http://zillman.blogspot.com/2004_02_01_zillman_archive.html#107564288680988251 Robin Good Interview of Marcus P. Zillman: The Future Of News: The Digital Information Librarian http://zillman.blogspot.com/2004_03_01_zillman_archive.html#108014993785312446 An Expert Helps You Search the Internet http://zillman.blogspot.com/2004_03_01_zillman_archive.html#108017086604698130 The Hindu Subject Tracers™ Article tp://zillman.blogspot.com/2004_03_01_zillman_archive.html#108067641111150178 Subject Tracer™ Information Blogs: (All of my 30 Subject Tracer™ Information Blogs may be viewed at the Virtual Private Library) Outsourcing/Offshoring Information and Resources http://www.OutsourcingOffshore.us Agriculture Resources http://www.Agriculture Resources.info/ Theology Resources http://www.TheologyResources.info/ Zillman Blog http://www.Zillman.us Also I will be creating a 30 minute video titled "Searching the Internet" which will be available in mid to late April, 2004 from http://www.SearchingTheInternet.info/ posted by Marcus | 4:30 AM   Do We Want or Need Metasearching? by William J. Frost http://snipurl.com/5ghu There's no question that Internet users love Google—it's been my favorite since it was operating out of Stanford. Wouldn't users also love a similar system that allows them to search across subscription databases, their OPAC, and perhaps free web sites as well? We don't know. There have been no satisfaction studies published yet on metasearching, a new technology that lets users search across databases from different vendors by using common search standards. Metasearching (a.k.a. federated searching or broadcast searching) is considered by some to be the next evolutionary step of database searching. posted by Marcus | 4:18 AM   Computers in Libraries 2004 - Presentation Links http://www.infotoday.com/cil2004/presentations/ This page features links to World Wide Web sites, PowerPoint slideshows, and other electronic resources used in support of presentations at Computers in Libraries 2004. Links are provided at the discretion of presenters. More links will be provided as they become available. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   American Mathematical Society (AMS) Books Online by Subject http://www.ams.org/online_bks/online_subject.html The titles are organized by the subject classification. Your can also browse AMS Books Online by author. The books are in PDF format which is viewable with the Adobe Acrobat Reader?. Browse AMS Books Online by Subject Classification: Algebra and Algebraic Geometry, Analysis, Applications, Differential Equations, Geometry and Topology, Logic and Foundations, Mathematical Physics, Number Theory, and Probability. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   Lists Related to The Open Access Movement http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/lists.htm Lists o Disciplinary differences relevant to open access o Discussion forums devoted to open-access issues o Incomplete realizations of open access o Institutions that support open access o Journal declarations of independence o Open-access archives o Open-access policy statements by learned societies and professional associations o Tools to support online archives and journals o What you can do to help the cause of open access o Lists maintained by others The above lists are excellent resources by Peter Suber and should be continuously revisted to obtain the latest information on the open access movement. This will be added to Academic Resources 2004 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   Marketer's Portal http://www.marketersportal.com/index.cfm A comprehensive portal of over 5000 marketing resources by ZenithOptimedia. An unique classification and index system leads you to the active links. This will be added to Advertising, Marketing and Public Relations Rersources 2004 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Thursday, April 01, 2004   Analyzing the Role of Knowledge Organization in Scholarly Communication http://www.db.dk/dbi/samling/phd/jackandersen-phd.htm A new publication on the foundation of knowledge organization, "Analyzing the role of knowledge organization in scholarly communication: An inquiry into the intellectual foundation of knowledge organization". This has been added to Knowledge Discovery Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM   Web Resources for International Trade http://www.fita.org/webindex/ FITA's comprehensive searchable database of International Trade Web Resources on the Internet. More than 7000 links to International Trade / Import-Export Web sites are annotated and indexed. This has been added to International Trade Resources 2004 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM   EIN News - World News Media Monitoring http://www.einnews.com/ EIN provides you access to breaking news that is organized within 260+ country, regional, U.S. States and specialized topic sections. EIN's content is derived from monitoring over 4,500 different online sources and is designed to save you money by reducing time needed for your online research. More than one million people turn to EIN for breaking news each year. This will be added to Business Resources 2004 Internet MiniGuide and Business Intelligence Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   All Eyes on Google By Steven Levy http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4570868/ "Google has made such eureka moments as common as sneezing. Who hasn't had such a revelation on Google, whether the discovery was an old girlfriend's whereabouts or a cutting-edge treatment for a rare disease? Amazing to consider that less than a decade ago, search was a backwater, deemed not very interesting and certainly not very profitable. ... 'Search is the ultimate killer online app,' says Bob Davis, former CEO of Lycos. 'The Internet without search is like a cruise missile without a guidance system.' ... 'Search is not a solved problem,' says Udi Manber, CEO of A9, a new search company formed by Amazon.com that will focus on e-commerce. 'Ten years from now, what we're doing now will look pretty primitive.' ... Indeed, over the next few years search will evolve in a number of key areas, and Google faces big competition in all of them. ... MULTIMEDIA. Google has an Image Search function with almost a billion pictures. Microsoft researchers in China are going full blast to create software that searches through pictures -- possibly identifying faces and locations. Meanwhile, a Washington, D.C., start-up called Streamsage has created breakthrough technology that searches audio and video broadcasts by analyzing speech. ... ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE. 'The ultimate goal is to have a computer that has the kind of semantic knowledge that a reference librarian has,' says Google's director of technology Craig Silverstein. But truly smart search engines are probably decades away." [ Newsweek / available from MSNBC] posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   Council of Public Relations Firms: Resources: Research and White Papers http://www.prfirms.org/resources/research/default.asp A primary objective of the Council of Public Relations Firms is to become the authoritative source of information about the public relations industry. To that end, the Council recognizes strong, conclusive research that helps to build the case for public relations as a strategic business tool. This will be added to Advertising, Marketing and Public Resources 2004 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM   ALA RUSA BRASS Professional Tools http://www.ala.org/BRASSTemplate.cfm?Section=brassprotools A page dedicated to professional tools from the American Library Association (ALA) Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) Business Reference and Services Section (BRASS). 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