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Thursday, September 30, 2004 Astronomy Resources http://VirtualPrivateLibrary.BlogSpot.com/Astronomy Resources.pdf The above is the associated white paper link compilation of the Astronomy Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. It is a 23 page .pdf document 450KB. [Updated 12-05-05] Other white papers are available by clicking here. 
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%209%2023%202004%206%2039%2013%20PM.jpg) Open Access News Blog Open Access News Blog http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html The main purpose of the blog is to gather and disseminate news about the open-access movement, and to harness the energy and knowledge of a wide group of contributors in doing so. If you are interested in the open-access movement then this is the blog to place in your news aggregator. This has been added to Academic Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM Internet Public Library: Pathfinders http://www.ipl.org/div/pf/entry/48463 "This guide provides a number of resources to help make decisions about digitizing a collection. There are both print-based and Internet-based resources that provide information about scanning, preservation, copyright, metadata and file formats. This is a rapidly developing area of technology that continues to change every few years." There are six books cited and reviewed, a tutorial, several background papers, a glossary, copyright information and sample sites for starters. More miscellaneous and specialized relevant information is also touched on in this brief, but comprehensive site. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM 1588 Welsh Bible Now Online http://snipurl.com/9ajx One of the most important books ever published in Welsh has been digitized and is now available on the National Library of Wales' Web site www.llgc.org.uk/1588bible. The 1588 Bible, translated by Bishop William Morgan, contains 1,110 pages and is the first complete Welsh-language version of the Bible. Its printing produced a far-reaching effect on Wales and its citizens, and proved instrumental in the establishment of loyalty to the Protestant Church of England in Wales. "When the Bible was originally published it marked a revolution in the status of the Welsh language," says Lyn L wis Dafis, the library's metadata manager. "Digitization is ushering in a revolutionary period in the way the library works today and it's only fitting that a volume of such immense influence should also be part of this new revolution" In addition to the 1588 Bible, the library has digitized "A Bible for Wales" by Dr. Prys Morgan, which relates the story of Morgan's translation and its significance in the religious and social context of 16th century Wales. This has been added to Theology Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM Biomedical Digital Libraries http://www.bio-diglib.com/home/ Biomedical Digital Libraries is 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 the discussion of 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. Publication of research articles by Biomedical Digital Libraries is dependent on either scientific validity or analytical coherence, as judged by their reviewers. Biomedical Digital Libraries provides a legitimate alternative to traditional print journals in the field, which have subscription fees and assumption of copyright by the publisher. This journal will stress Open Access to research and practice in biomedical libraries, and will permit rapid and unimpeded dissemination of knowledge. Tis has been added to Biological Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM FRED® II - Federal Reserve Economic Data http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/ FRED® II (Federal Reserve Economic Data) , a database of over 3000 U.S. economic time series. With FRED® II you can download data in Microsoft Excel and text formats and view charts of data series. A new category FRB-St. Louis District Data has been added. This category includes over 1800 regional population, employment, and income data series for the states, counties, and MSAs in the Federal Reserve Bank of St.Louis District. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Business Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM FRASER™ - Federal Reserve Archival System for Economic Research http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/ The Federal Reserve Archival System for Economic Research is the newest project by the Research Division of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis to expand on its mission to provide economic information and data to researchers interested in the U.S. economy. On this web site you will find links to scanned images (in Adobe® Acrobat® PDF format) of historical economic statistical publications, releases, and documents. When used in connection with data contained in FRED® (Federal Reserve Economic Data), FRASER™ allows the researcher to create uninterrupted data series by accessing sources previously available only in printed form and those currently available electronically (on FRED®). In addition, the ability to retrieve series presented in preliminary, revised, and final releases provides a powerful tool in recreating and evaluating previous economic research and policy. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Business Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Wednesday, September 29, 2004  Web Data Extractors Web Data Extractors  http://VirtualPrivateLibrary.BlogSpot.com/Web Data Extractors.pdf Research white paper link compilation titled "Web Data Extractors" is a 13 page research paper listing many resources both new and existing that will help anyone who is attempting to find information and knowledge research about web data extraction on the Internet. It is freely available as a .pdf file (499KB) at the above link from the Virtual Private Library™ and authored by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. It was updated 10-19-06. Other white papers are available by clicking here.   This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. posted by Marcus | 9:53 PM  Using the Internet as a Dynamic Resource Tool for Knowledge Discovery Using the Internet As a Dynamic Resource Tool for Knowledge Discovery http://virtualprivatelibrary.blogspot.com/Knowledge Discovery Resource Tools.pdf Research white paper titled "Using the Internet As a Dynamic Resource Tool for Knowledge Discovery" is a 18 page research paper listing many resources both new and existing that will help anyone who is attempting to perform information and knowledge research and discovery on the Internet. It is freely available as a .pdf file (1.26MB) at the above link from the Virtual Private Library™ and authored by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. It was updated 09-12-06. Other white papers are available by clicking here. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. posted by Marcus | 9:42 PM Searching the Internet White Paper http://virtualprivatelibrary.blogspot.com/Searching the Internet.pdf Buscando en Internet (Spanish Translation 8 Page) http://virtualprivatelibrary.blogspot.com/Buscando en Internet.pdf Searching the Internet Web Site including Audio and Video http://www.SearchingTheInternet.info/ Annotated white paper titled "Searching the Internet" by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. is a primer for those new to searching the Internet or those using only one search source. It is freely available as a 14 page .pdf document (777KB) from the above link from the Virtual Private Library™. It was updated 09-12-06. Other white papers are available by clicking here. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. posted by Marcus | 9:29 PM  Online Social Networking Online Social Networking http://VirtualPrivateLibrary.BlogSpot.com/Online Social Networks.pdf Internet MiniGuide Annotated Link Compilation white paper titled "Online Social Networking" is a 16 page research paper listing many resources both new and existing that will help anyone who is attempting to find information and knowledge research about online social networks available on the Internet. It is freely available as a .pdf file (1.04MB) at the above link from the Virtual Private Library™ and authored by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. It was updated 10-02-06. Other white papers are available by clicking here. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. posted by Marcus | 9:21 PM LLRX January 2005 Issue Deep Web Research Featured Article http://www.llrx.com/features/deepweb2005.htm The January 2005 Issue of LLRX has a feature article written by Marcus P. Zillman titled Deep Web Research 2005. The guide extensively documents resources that include articles, books, websites, presentations, search engines, and technology applications that facilitate the challenging task of accessing information, published in many formats, that encompass the hundreds of millions of pages comprising the "deep web." [Published January 17, 2005]. Other white papers and subject tracers by Marcus P. Zillman are available by clicking here.
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 Current Awareness Discovery Tools On the Internet Current Awareness Discovery Tools on the Internet http://virtualprivatelibrary.blogspot.com/Current Awareness Discovery Tools.pdf Research white paper titled "Current Awareness Discovery Tools on the Internet" is a 22 page research paper listing many resources both new and existing that will help anyone who is attempting to find information and knowledge research about current awareness discovery tools available on the Internet. It is freely available as a .pdf file (1.44MB) at the above link from the Virtual Private Library™ and authored by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. It was updated 09-11-06. Other white papers are available by clicking here. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. posted by Marcus | 8:10 PM Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators http://virtualprivatelibrary.blogspot.com/BotsBlogs.pdf Research white paper link compilation titled "Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators" is a 22 page research paper listing many resources both new and existing that will help anyone who is attempting to find information and knowledge research about bots, blogs and news aggregator tools currently available on the Internet. It is freely available as a .pdf file (1.41MB) at the above link from the Virtual Private Library™ and authored by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. It was updated 09-10-06. Other white papers are available by clicking here. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. posted by Marcus | 5:36 PM Tutorial Resources http://VirtualPrivateLibrary.BlogSpot.com/Tutorial Resources.pdf The above is the associated white paper link compilation of the Tutorial Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. It is a 15 page .pdf document 487KB. [Updated 01-02-06] Other white papers are available by clicking here.
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Student Research Resources http://VirtualPrivateLibrary.BlogSpot.com/Student Research.pdf The above is the associated white paper link compilation of the Student Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. It is a 18 page .pdf document 531KB. [Updated 01-02-06] Other white papers are available by clicking here.
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ShoppingBot Resources http://VirtualPrivateLibrary.BlogSpot.com/ShoppingBot Resources.pdf The above is the associated white paper link compilation of the ShoppingBots Subject Tracer™ Information Blog by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. It is a 20 page .pdf document 410KB. [Updated 12-01-05] Other white papers are available by clicking here.
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Privacy Resources http://VirtualPrivateLibrary.BlogSpot.com/Privacy Resources.pdf The above is the associated white paper link compilation of the Privacy Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. It is a 18 page .pdf document 527KB. [Updated 01-01-06] Other white papers are available by clicking here.
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Healthcare Resources http://VirtualPrivateLibrary.BlogSpot.com/Healthcare Resources.pdf The above is the associated white paper link compilation of the Healthcare Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. It is a 21 page .pdf document 426KB. [Updated 12-13-05] Other white papers are available by clicking here.
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Grid Resources http://VirtualPrivateLibrary.BlogSpot.com/Grid Resources.pdf The above is the associated white paper link compilation of the Grid Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. It is a 18 page .pdf document 383KB. [Updated 12-12-05] Other white papers are available by clicking here.
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Grant Resources http://VirtualPrivateLibrary.BlogSpot.com/Grant Resources.pdf The above is the associated white paper link compilation of the Grant Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. It is a 12 page .pdf document 302KB. [Updated 12-12-05] Other white papers are available by clicking here.
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Games Resources http://VirtualPrivateLibrary.BlogSpot.com/Games Resources.pdf The above is the associated white paper link compilation of the Games Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. It is a 15 page .pdf document 342KB. [Updated 12-12-05] Other white papers are available by clicking here.
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Finding People Resources http://VirtualPrivateLibrary.BlogSpot.com/Finding People.pdf The above is the associated white paper link compilation of the Finding People Subject Tracer™ Information Blog by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. It is a 18 page .pdf document 363KB. [Updated 12-12-05] Other white papers are available by clicking here.
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Financial Sources http://VirtualPrivateLibrary.BlogSpot.com/Financial Sources.pdf The above is the associated white paper link compilation of the Financial Sources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. It is a 22 page .pdf document 441KB. [Updated 12-12-05] Other white papers are available by clicking here.
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Employment Resources http://VirtualPrivateLibrary.BlogSpot.com/Employment Resources.pdf The above is the associated white paper link compilation of the Employment Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. It is a 13 page .pdf document 332KB. [Updated 12-10-05] Other white papers are available by clicking here.
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Elder Resources http://VirtualPrivateLibrary.BlogSpot.com/Elder Resources.pdf The above is the associated white paper link compilation of the Elder Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. It is a 14 page .pdf document 335KB. [Updated 12-10-05] Other white papers are available by clicking here.
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eCommerce Resources http://VirtualPrivateLibrary.BlogSpot.com/eCommerce Resources.pdf The above is the associated white paper link compilation of the eCommerce Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. It is a 15 page .pdf document 344KB. [Updated 12-01-05] Other white papers are available by clicking here.
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Data Mining Resources http://VirtualPrivateLibrary.BlogSpot.com/Data Mining Resources.pdf The above is the associated white paper link compilation of the Data Mining Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. It is a 19 page .pdf document 400KB. [Updated 12-10-05] Other white papers are available by clicking here.
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ChatterBot Resources http://VirtualPrivateLibrary.BlogSpot.com/ChatterBot Resources.pdf The above is the associated white paper link compilation of the ChatterBots Subject Tracer™ Information Blog by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. It is a 13 page .pdf document 326KB. [Updated 12-09-05] Other white papers are available by clicking here.
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Business Intelligence Resources http://VirtualPrivateLibrary.BlogSpot.com/Business Intelligence Resources.pdf The above is the associated white paper link compilation of the Business Intelligence Subject Tracer™ Information Blog by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. It is a 24 page freely available .pdf document 466KB. [Updated 12-09-05] Other white papers are available by clicking here. Purchase 81 Page Professional Internet MiniGuide titled Market Intelligence Resources 2006 by clicking here.
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Finding Internet Experts Resources http://VirtualPrivateLibrary.BlogSpot.com/Finding Experts.pdf The above is the associated white paper link compilation of the Internet Experts Subject Tracer™ Information Blog by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. It is a 16 page .pdf document 372KB. [Updated 12-13-05] Other white papers are available by clicking here.
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Artificial Intelligence Resources http://VirtualPrivateLibrary.BlogSpot.com/AI Resources.pdf The above is the associated white paper link compilation of the Artificial Intelligence Subject Tracer™ Information Blog by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. It is a 16 page .pdf document 355KB. [Updated 12-05-05] Other white papers are available by clicking here.
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Agriculture Resources http://virtualprivatelibrary.blogspot.com/Agriculture Resources.pdf The above is the associated white paper link compilation of the Agriculture Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. It is a 16 page .pdf document 356KB. [Updated 12-03-05] Other white papers are available by clicking here.
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 Developing Nations Creative Commons License Developing Nations Creative Commons License http://creativecommons.org/license/devnations The Developing Nations Creative Commons license allows you to invite a wide range of royalty-free uses of your work in developing nations while retaining your full copyright in the developed world. For the detailed terms, see the Commons Deed and Legal Code: The Developing Nations license allows, for the first time, any copyright holder in the world to participate first-hand in reforming global information policy. The fact is that most of the world's population is simply priced out of developed nations' publishing output. To authors, that means an untapped readership. To economists, it means "deadweight loss." To human rights advocates and educators, it is a tragedy. The Developing Nations license is designed to address all three concerns. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM JURIST Paperchase http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/ JURIST is the legal news and research portal at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, the Internet's real-time gateway to the latest legal developments and materials worth thinking about. JURIST is the only law school-based comprehensive legal news website, using academic criteria to select stories, highlighting expert commentary on emerging legal issues by law professors, and actively run by a law professor and law students. JURIST is entirely non-commercial, and is dedicated solely to the advancement of legal awareness and understanding. This will be added to Legal Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM The Online Speech Bank http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speechbank.htm The Online Speech Bank by American Rhetoric is an index to and growing database of 5000+ full text, audio and video (streaming) versions of public speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, lectures, debates, interviews, other recorded media events, and a declaration or two. There are currently [468] active links in this site area. Links are arranged alphabetically by first name and checked for errors at least once every two weeks. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM Ask Jeeves Gets More Personal, More Local and More Relevant http://www.irconnect.com/askjinc/pages/news_printer.html?d=64162&print=1 Ask Jeeves, Inc. (ASKJ), a leading provider of information retrieval brands, technologies, and advertising services, today announced a series of new products for its flagship search engine, Ask Jeeves (www.Ask.com). The new products include the MyJeeves personal search system, robust local search, and the next generation of its proprietary Teoma search technology. In conjunction with these announcements, the company debuted a sleeker, more contemporary Jeeves butler, whosece on Ask Jeeves. (See related release, Jeeves Receives Makeover. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM Agent Model Yields Leadership http://snipurl.com/99mh Developing teams of robots or software agents that have efficient collective behavior is an emerging field of research. One avenue involves letting agents receive advice from their acquaintances. A simulation shows that when agents have limited knowledge, the process of seeking advice causes a small minority of leaders to emerge. This has been added to Bot Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM Alice ChatBot Wins for Third Time http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3672424.stm Alice chatbot wins for third time - People can chat with Alice on the web A computer chat program called Alice has won a prestigious prize for human-like conversation for the third time. "It was judged to be chattiest bot out of the four finalists in the Loebner Prize for artificial intelligence held in New York on Sunday. British hopeful, Jabberwacky, came second in the annual competition. The event is based on the Turing Test, which suggests computers could be seen as intelligent if their chat was indistinguishable from those of humans." For additional information about ChatterBots see the complete listing available at ChatterBots Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. Congratulation to Dr. Richard Wallace and staff!! posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Tuesday, September 28, 2004  Awareness Watch™ Newsletter V2N10 October 2004 Awareness Watch™ Newsletter V2N10 October 2004 http://virtualprivatelibrary.blogspot.com/Awareness Watch V2N10.pdf Awareness Watch™ Newsletter http://www.AwarenessWatch.com/ The October 2004 V2N10 Awareness Watch™ Newsletter is available as a 28 page .pdf document (509KB) from the above URL. The Awareness Watch Featured Report this month highlights a comprehensive listing of Resources for Finding Experts. The Awareness Watch Spotters cover many excellent and newly released annotated current awareness research sources and tools as well as the latest identified Internet happenings and resources. The book review is a report review that highlights Ten Years, Ten Trends just released report by USC Annenberg School Center for the Digital Future and the Subject Tracer™ Information Blogs have been updated with the latest subjects: Elder Resources and Tutorial Resources. posted by Marcus | 4:30 AM  The World-Wide Media eXchange (WWMX) The World-Wide Media eXchange (WWMX) http://wwmx.org/ The World-Wide Media eXchange (WWMX) is a centralized index of digital photos, where photos are tagged by the geographic location where they were shot. It's an experimental research project run by the Interactive Visual Media Group at Microsoft Research. The project explores possibilities with digital photographs and geographic location. The location where a photo was taken provides clues about its semantic context and offers an intuitive way to index it, even in a very large collection. The combination is powerful, but still not supported well by either the photo-software or camera-hardware industries. They are trying to establish a strong case for these features, and you can help them -- try the downloads, and tell them about your experience. Your feedback can make a difference! posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM Textpresso http://www.textpresso.org/ Textpresso is information retrieval and extraction system for biological literature -- C. elegans version. The Textpresso search engine for C. elegans abstracts and fulltexts was developed at Wormbase to service the C. elegans community, and is being expanded to serve other communities. This has been added to Biological Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM WatchCow http://www.WatchCow.net/ You want to keep an eye on your Amazon.com wishlist or a particular Amazon.com/de/co.uk item, want to be informed whether and how much the price has been changed, but don't have the time? Watchcow.net to the rescue! This simple and handy service allows you to passively watch single Amazon products and entire wishlists in your newsreader, such as Bloglines (web), NetNewsWire (Mac), NewsFire (Mac) or FeedDaemon (Windows), just to name a few. It works with every newsreader/-aggregator that supports ATOM feeds. This has been added to ShoppingBots Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM U.S. Federal Government Agencies Directory http://www.lib.lsu.edu/gov/fedgov.html The LSU Libraries offers a complete U.S. Federal Government Agencies Directory offered in hierarchical and alphabetical order. The directory is a partnership of Louisiana State University and the Federal Depository Library Program. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM California Digital Library (CDL) http://californiadigitallibrary.org/ This site was created by the California Digital Library (CDL). The CDL is a collaborative effort of the ten University of California campuses. Drawing upon expertise from across the UC system, it selects, designs, builds, and manages systems for the use and preservation of high-quality digital content. The California Digital Library also works together with California's libraries, archives, museums, and other memory organizations to provide access to the cultural and historical resources of California. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM ClinicalStudyResults.org http://www.clinicalstudyresults.org The pharmaceutical industry announced that it would inaugurate a central, easily accessible database to better communicate the results of clinical studies of marketed drugs. The database will contain the results of all controlled clinical trials (mainly Phase III and IV studies), both positive and negative, completed since October 2002 for PhRMA-member company drug products approved in the United States. This will include both published articles and unpublished study summaries. The free, comprehensive Internet database will be publicly available beginning October 1, 2004. This has been added to Healthcare Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Healthcare Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Monday, September 27, 2004  LLRX.com This edition of Current Awareness Happenings on the Internet by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. September 27, 2004 V2N39 discusses an excellent research resource LLRX.com. Click on the below audio posting to hear an audio by Marcus P. Zillman on this comprehensive and award winning site. View this site at: LLRX.com http://www.LLRX.com/  Previous audio editions of the weekly Current Awareness Happenings on the Internet available by clicking here. posted by Marcus | 10:13 AM  October 2004 Zillman Column October 2004 Zillman Column - Student Research Resources on the Internet http://virtualprivatelibrary.blogspot.com/Student Research Resources.pdf http://www.zillmancolumns.com/ The October 2004 Zillman Column is now available and is titled Student Research Resources on the Internet. This October 2004 Zillman Column is a comprehensive listing of online resources and sites to aid the student in performing research for their independent research projects as well as undergraduate and graduate subject research. Download this excellent 13 page free .pdf column today and stay current in the ever changing exciting world to assist the student in their independent research. posted by Marcus | 4:30 AM Alzforum: Alzheimer Research Forum http://www.alzforum.org/ This is a resource with a technical approach to Alzheimer's Disease. "The web site creates and maintains web-based resources for researchers and produces discussion forums to promote debate, speed the dissemination of new ideas, and break down barriers across the numerous disciplines that can contribute to the global effort to cure Alzheimer's disease." This has been added to Elder Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Healthcare Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM ProteinDBS http://proteindbs.rnet.missouri.edu/ A Web search utilizing engines such as Yahoo and Google can potentially produce thousands of results in less than a second. University of Missouri-Columbia researchers have developed a similar database search engine that will accelerate and improve the process and development of new protein-based drugs that combat diseases such as cancer and AIDS. The database is featured in the Sept. 3 edition of Science. The database consists of more than 50,000 3D chains of protein structures. These 3-D structures are critical to understanding the function of proteins in cells and how they interact with drugs. This knowledge can help researchers see how particular mutations or variations in genes that encode a particular protein lead to changes in the protein’s behavior, which can result in disease or explain differences in a person’s reaction to certain drugs. “This search engine is the world’s first and only real-time 3-D protein structure retrieval system,” said Chi-Ren Shyu, assistant professor of computer science engineering at MU. “The system, called ProteinDBS, can provide researchers with high retrieval accuracy and an efficient search from a complete protein tertiary structure database.” Before ProteinDBS was developed, Shyu said, it would take hours for researchers to retrieve protein structures from databases for short queries and days for long queries. ProteinDBS allows people to enter a protein structure or a Protein Databank ID number and retrieves the most similar database structures that researchers have studied. The ProteinDBS search produces in seconds the 50 proteins that most resemble the search subject and allows for visual and statistical comparisons. For example, Shyu said, someone could superimpose 3-D portraits of two proteins or examine their sequences by individual amino acids. “ProteinDBS’s unique ability to perform real-time structure comparison will invite substantially more scientists to partake in protein structure analysis in life science research,” Shyu said. This has been added to Biological Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM M/C Journal http://www.media-culture.org.au/ M/C Journal was founded (as "M/C - a journal of media and culture") in 1998 as a place of public intellectualism analysing and critiquing the meeting of media and culture. As such, it is fully blind peer-reviewed, but also open to submissions and responses from anyone on the Internet. They take seriously the need to move ideas outward, so that our cultural debates may have some resonance with wider political and cultural interests. Each issue is organised around a one word theme (see our past issues), and is edited by one or two editors with a particular interest in that theme. The editors change for each issue. Each issue has a feature article which engages with the theme in some detail, followed by several shorter articles. A major problem with Internet publications is that of usage and citation of online sources. Without pagination, long articles are awkward to read and individual quotes and references difficult to locate. In terms of length, M/C articles are deliberately shorter than articles in printed academic journals, functioning as interventions into media and culture. In terms of reference, individual paragraphs are numbered as "bits", so that instead of guesses like "about three screens from the end" or a mere "no pagination given", when you cite M/C articles you can refer directly to the bit you're interested in. Additionally, at the end of each piece they provide a reference citation of the article line in MLA and APA styles, which you can copy and paste into your own list of references. There are still no universally accepted ways of citing Internet sources, but they hope this will help. This will be added to Academic Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM MedlinePlus http://www.medlineplus.gov/ MedlinePlus is a goldmine of good health information from the world's largest medical library, the National Library of Medicine. Health professionals and consumers alike can depend on it for information that is authoritative and up to date. MedlinePlus has extensive information from the National Institutes of Health and other trusted sources on over 650 diseases and conditions. There are also lists of hospitals and physicians, a medical encyclopedia and a medical dictionary, health information in Spanish, extensive information on prescription and nonprescription drugs, health information from the media, and links to thousands of clinical trials. MedlinePlus is updated daily and can be easily bookmarked at the URL: medlineplus.gov. There is no advertising on this site, nor does MedlinePlus endorse any company or product. This has been added to Healthcare Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This also has been added to Directory Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Healthcare Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM Web Based Learning Resources Library http://www.knowledgeability.biz/weblearning/ This site by Robert H. Jackson is one of three pages in the series and is an educators' resource for delivery and management of education via the Internet. It focuses on web based learning for higher education, especially for at-distance, adult learners but has application for web based learning in general. This web site attempts to informally catalog (and occasionally compare, contrast and editorialize on) the tools, topics and issues of interest to those developing for web-based learning initiatives. The three areas cover: 1) Issues and Resources for Web Based Learning, 2) Software Tools for Web Based Courses, and 3) Distance Education course catalogs and other off-campus learning opportunities. This will be added to Education and Distance Learning Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Sunday, September 26, 2004  The National Institute on Aging (NIA) The National Institute on Aging (NIA) http://www.nia.nih.gov/ The National Institute on Aging (NIA), one of the 27 Institutes and Centers of the National Institutes of Health, leads a broad scientific effort to understand the nature of aging and to extend the healthy, active years of life. In 1974, Congress granted authority to form the National Institute on Aging to provide leadership in aging research, training, health information dissemination, and other programs relevant to aging and older people. Subsequent amendments to this legislation designated the NIA as the primary Federal agency on Alzheimer’s disease research. NIA sponsors research on aging through extramural and intramural programs. The extramural program funds research and training at universities, hospitals, medical centers, and other public and private organizations nationwide. The intramural program conducts basic and clinical research in Baltimore, MD and on the NIH campus in Bethesda, MD. This has been added to Elder Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:30 AM E-voting Given the accomplishments of computer technology, it may seem strange that the U.S. has not migrated to e-voting systems, which are used in other countries. This issue of Topic in Depth reviews some of the e-voting systems currently in use and explores some of the political, legal, and scientific issues surrounding this transition. 1) How Stuff Works: E-voting http://computer.howstuffworks.com/e-voting.htm 2) Diebold Election Systems http://www.diebold.com/dieboldes/default.htm 3) Wired News: Machine Politics http://www.wired.com/news/evote/ 4) Electronic Voting in Ireland http://evoting.cs.may.ie/ 5) Australian Capitol Territory (ACT) Electoral Commission http://www.elections.act.gov.au/Elecvote.html 6) Analysis of an Electronic Voting System http://avirubin.com/vote.pdf 7) EFF: Legal Archive http://www.eff.org/Activism/E-voting/ 8) First Society in Computing http://www.acm.org/usacm/Issues/EVoting.htm The first website from How Stuff Works (1) gives an overview of e-voting systems. Diebold, one of the foremost providers of e-voting systems, posts this website (2)on its system, which also includes an online demonstration. The third website (3)archives articles from Wired that relate to e-voting, providing an overview of some of the key issues raised as scientists, the government and the public debate the decision to use e-voting. Of course, the U.S. is not the only country making this transition. For example, this fourth website (4) tracks current developments in e-voting in Ireland. In addition, the Australian government posts this website (5) with information on that country's e-voting system and even posts the open source code for the software. This recent article (6) by IEEE computer scientists reviews the technological difficulties involved in secure e-voting systems. Meanwhile, EFF (7) archives legal cases on e-voting from over the years on its website along with related materials. Finally, the First Society in Computing (8) reviews its activities and desire to "ensure the integrity and reliability of our nation's election process" on this last website. [From The NSDL Scout Report for Math, Engineering, and Technology, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2003. http://scout.wisc.edu/ posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM AGORA -- Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture http://www.aginternetwork.org/en/ The AGORA site provides access to over 500 journals from major scientific publishers in the fields of food, agriculture, environmental science and related social sciences. AGORA is available to students and researchers in qualifying not-for-profit institutions in eligible developing countries. This has been added to Agriculture Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM Health InterNetwork http://www.healthinternetwork.org/ The Health InterNetwork was created to bridge the "digital divide" in health, ensuring that relevant information - and the technologies to deliver it - are widely available and effectively used by health personnel: professionals, researchers and scientists, and policy makers. Launched by the Secretary General of the United Nations in September 2000 and led by the World Health Organization, the Health InterNetwork has brought together public and private partners under the principle of ensuring equitable access to health information. The core elements of the project are content, Internet connectivity and capacity building. This has been added to Healthcare Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Healthcare Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM Tibetan and Himalayan Digital Library http://iris.lib.virginia.edu/tibet/index.html The Tibetan and Himalayan Digital Library is an international community using Web-based technologies to integrate diverse knowledge about Tibet and the Himalayas for free access from around the world. Serving a wide range of communities, we publish multilingual studies, multimedia learning resources, and creative works concerned with the area's environments, cultures, and histories. This has been added to Theology Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM The Seventh Asia Pacific Web Conference (APWeb05) http://apweb05.csm.vu.edu.au/index.asp APWeb'05 is the seventh in a series of international conferences on WWW Technologies. APWeb’05 aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners from both academic and industry to exchange knowledge on WWW-related technologies and new advanced applications. Previous APWeb conferences were held in Beijing (1998), Hong Kong (1999), Xi'an (2000), Changsha (2001), Xi'an (2003) and Hangzhou (2004). This has been added to Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and Data Mining Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Saturday, September 25, 2004  Hurricane Jeanne Preparing now for our 4th hurricane in the last 4 weeks! We should start to feel its presence within the next few hours. Everything is boarded up and ready to ride out the storm during the balance of the day and all night. Weather will determine internet connectivity as well as loss of power. Upcoming blog postings may be affected .... We are preparing for the worst case scenario and praying for the best case scenario. posted by Marcus | 11:23 AM  Subject Pathways from the EnergyFiles Subject Pathways from the EnergyFiles http://energyfiles.osti.gov/ Within each Subject Pathway you will find diverse resources hosted by a variety of agencies and organizations. Each Subject Pathway is preceded by a brief explanation of the types of information found under that specific subject category, followed by three distinct sets of resources. * Searchable Databases – a distributed deep Web search across subject-specific databases and Web sites; Subbect Pathways include: a) Biology and Medicine, b) Chemistry, c) Energy Storage, Conversion, and Utilization, d) Engineering, e) Environmental Sciences, Safety, and Health, f) Fission and Nuclear Technologies, g) Fossil Fuels, h) Geosciences, i) Materials Science, j) Mathematics, Computing, and Information Science, k) Physics, l) Plasma Physics and Fusion, m) Power Transmission, Distribution, and Plants, and n) Renewable Energy. This has been added to Directory Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM World Economic Forum http://www.weforum.org/ The World Economic Forum is the foremost global community of business, political, intellectual and other leaders of society committed to improving the state of the world. The Forum is an independent international organization incorporated as a Swiss not-for-profit foundation and has NGO consultative status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. Their members represent the world’s 1,000 leading companies, along with 200 smaller businesses, many from the developing world, that play a potent role in their industry or region. Their members are often innovative and inspiring individuals who challenge conventional thinking and are committed to making the world a better place. They also work closely with communities of leaders from academia, government, religion, the media, non-governmental organizations and the arts. Their members – like their staff – come from all parts of the world, and our Annual Meetings bring together people from more than 100 countries. This will be added to Business Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:22 AM Researcher Retrain Thyself http://www.infotoday.com/online/sep04/OnTheNet.shtml Of the many beauties of research on the Internet, one of the most useful is the ability to comment and correct information, says Greg R. Notess, reference librarian at Montana State University. For example, most computer software documentation -- printed or online -- is not especially well written or comprehensive. True, better documentation is well-organized and goes into some depth on the program capabilities and features, but such documentation can't include all possible errors or anticipate all questions. MySQL -- an open-source database software -- offers an interactive online manual (http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/) that invites user corrections and annotations. Notess says this and other features of online queries -- particularly the divers answers to simple queries -- mean researchers must retrain themselves to dig more deeply into the Web, look more broadly at the range of answers and search for the combination of resources that gives a more "knowledgeable" answer. "Much of that retraining involves looking at comments critically, to track links in both directions, to seek out divergent views, and to evaluate much of the content based on the Internet's information cycle rather than the print information cycle," he says. This has been added to the articles section of Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM NIH Proposes Free Access To Research Data http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64389-2004Sep5.html The National Institutes of Health has proposed a major change to its funding policy -- it would mandate that all scientists who receive grants from the agency make the results of their research available to the public for free. The policy change comes in response to a report by the House Appropriations Committee expressing concern that U.S. taxpayers are not reaping the benefits of research that they have paid for. The report urges NIH to devise a system whereby research results would be "freely and continuously available no later than six months after publication." The proposal drew swift criticism from the scientific publishing industry, which argued that if people stop subscribing to their publications because they can read about these research results for free, the journals will be unable to perform the costly process of selecting, peer-reviewing and editing the results into the reliable products now available. However, NIH Director Elias A. Zerhouni says he's concluded that publishers' estimates of how much such a system would harm them or cost the government were "way out of line" with reality. Although about 60,000 articles are published each year reporting on NIH-funded research, they constitute only a third of all biomedical journal articles. "Do you really think people are not going to subscribe to a journal because they can read 30% of the articles in it for free?" asks Richard Roberts, a research director at New England Biolabs, who strongly supports the shift to open access. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM NLM Catalog http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=nlmcatalog The National Library of Mediciane (NLM) Catalog provides an alternate search interface to the 1.2 million journals, books, audiovisuals, computer software, electronic resources, and other materials in LocatorPlus. This has been added to Healthcare Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and Directory Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Healthcare Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM SeamlessUK http://www.seamlessuk.info/ SeamlessUK is developing a one-stop citizen's gateway which integrates local and national information on health, education, employment, rights, benefits, government etc. It is funded under the NOF (New Opportunities Fund) Digitisation Programme in the UK. The project is led by Essex County Council and involves a further 8 local authorities and 14 key national information providers working together to develop a national citizens' gateway and 9 locally branded portals, one in each local authority area. It is hoped that the system will be taken up across the UK. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Friday, September 24, 2004  Online Research Tools White Paper Link Compilation Online Research Tools White Paper Link Compilation http://VirtualPrivateLibrary.BlogSpot.com/Online Research Tools.pdf A white paper link compilation is now available and titled Online Research Tools by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. . It is a comprehensive listing of online research tools that offer various downloadable as well as web applications to allow you to do your research and searching on the Internet far more effective and productive. It is a freely available 40 page .pdf document (812KB) that can be downloaded from the above URL. Other white papers and resources on information retrieval, information extraction and deep web research by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. are available by clicking here. Online Research Tools White Paper Link Compilation was updated 09-10-06. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM Library Usage Patterns In the Electronic Information Environment http://informationr.net/ir/9-4/paper187.html Abstract This paper examines the methodology and results from Web-based surveys of more than 15,000 networked electronic services users in the United States between July 1998 and June 2003 at four academic health sciences libraries and two large main campus libraries serving a variety of disciplines. A statistically valid methodology for administering simultaneous Web-based and print-based surveys using the random moments sampling technique is discussed and implemented. Results from the Web-based surveys showed that at the four academic health sciences libraries, there were approximately four remote networked electronic services users for each in-house user. This ratio was even higher for faculty, staff, and research fellows at the academic health sciences libraries, where more than five remote users for each in-house user were recorded. At the two main libraries, there were approximately 1.3 remote users for each in-house user of electronic information. Sponsored research (grant funded research) accounted for approximately 32% of the networked electronic services activity at the health sciences libraries and 16% at the main campus libraries. Sponsored researchers at the health sciences libraries appeared to use networked electronic services most intensively from on-campus, but not from in the library. The purpose of use for networked electronic resources by patrons within the library is different from the purpose of use of those resources by patrons using the resources remotely. The implications of these results on how librarians reach decisions about networked electronic resources and services are discussed. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM Swoogle http://swoogle.umbc.edu/ Swoogle is a crawler-based indexing and retrieval service for the semantic web. Swoogle has cataloged over 150K semantic web documents and indexed metadata about their classes, properties and individuals as well as the relationships among them. Swoogle also defines a ranking property for semantic web documents similar to pageRank and uses this to help sort search results. This semantic bot has been added to the semantic web research section of Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and Bot Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM Asynchronous Discussion Groups As Small World and Scale Free Networks by Gilad Ravid and Sheizaf Rafaeli http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_9/ravid/ Abstract What is the network form of online discussion groups? What are the topological parameters delineating the interaction on such groups? We report an empirical examination of the form of online discussion groups. We are interested in examining whether such groups conform to the Small World and the Scale Free models of networks. Support for these expectations provides a formal expression of growth, survival potential and preferential attachment in the connection patterns in discussion groups. The research questions were tested with a sample of over 8,000 active participants, and over 30,000 messages. We find that the social network resulting from discussion groups is indeed a Scale Free Network, based on In, Out and All Degree distributions. We also find that, for the same sample, discussion groups are a Small World Network too. As expected, the clustering coefficients for these groups differ significantly from random networks, while their characteristic path lengths are similar to random networks. Implications of the topology for the design and understanding of discussion groups include the stability and control of such groups, as well as their longevity. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM Blogs: Halting the March of Mainstream Media http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/features/story.jsp?story=561871 A revolution is sweeping the American media that will eventually spread to this part of the world. What is happening is that for the first time in decades, if not ever, the power of the mainstream media (MSM) in the United States is being seriously challenged by a mostly ragtag army of outsiders armed with little more than the Internet. The age of the blogger is upon us. A blogger is someone who keeps a web-log, updated on an almost daily basis. They offer blow-by-blow commentary on current events. They can do so at almost no cost and their sites can be accessed by anyone with an Internet connection anywhere in the world. Basically the Internet has eliminated the cost of entry into the world of media and commentary at a stroke. Last week we had a clear demonstration of blogger power. Blogs are beginning to be felt all over the world and the Internet is starting to become interactive ... what Sir. Tim Berners-Lee always wanted ...... we are living in truly exciting times!!!! posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM Jobseekers Advice http://www.JobseekersAdvice.com/ Jobseekers Advice is the original jobseekers website, setup to provide jobseekers a place to go for independent and unbiased information and free career advice. Their website states they are the largest independent free career advice website on the web run by professionals from around the world who volunteer their time to help you. This has been added to Employment Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Thursday, September 23, 2004  PeerBot PeerBot http://www.peerbot.com/ PeerBot is the new search engine based upon the "seerch different technology". The new peerbot concept is a different way of linking websites. With peerbot you will discover the web through the so called "Favicons". The name peerbot arised from the verb 'to peer', standing for explorative looking and the word 'bot', the short form of robot. This has been added to the search engine section of 2004-05 Internet MiniGuides. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM Computer History Museum http://www.computerhistory.org/ The Computer History Museum is the world's largest and most significant history museum for preserving and presenting the computing revolution and its impact on the human experience. It allows you to discover how computing became the amplifier for our minds and changed the way we work, live and play. We hope your visit will be educational and entertaining and that the legacy of these innovations live on to inspire others. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM The Canadian Encyclopedia http://www.canadianencyclopedia.ca/ With the aid of its partners and the generous support of Heritage Canada, Historica presents this site free of charge to all Canadians and to interested users around the world. The site contains the complete text of the acclaimed Canadian Encyclopedia in English and French, the text of the Junior Encyclopedia of Canada (in English only), numerous interactivities, feature articles, games, the Canucklehead Quiz, and an extensive timeline of Canadian and world events. The entire text can be searched via the simple search or advanced search and the user can switch languages at any time. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM U.S. Government Manual 2004-05 http://www.gpoaccess.gov/gmanual/index.html Covers the just released 2004-05 U.S. Government Manual. As the official handbook of the Federal Government, the United States Government Manual provides comprehensive information on the agencies of the legislative, judicial, and executive branches. It also includes information on quasi-official agencies, international organizations in which the United States participates, and boards, commissions, and committees. The Manual begins with reprints of the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM Global E-Government 2004 by Darrell M. West http://www.insidepolitics.org/egovt04int.html Executive Summary by Author: Electronic government refers to public sector use of the Internet and other digital devices to deliver services and information. Although personal computers have been around for several decades, recent advances in networking, video imaging, and graphics interfacing have allowed governments to develop websites that contain a variety of online materials. As discussed in my forthcoming book, Digital Government: Technology and Public Sector Performance (Princeton University Press, 2005), electronic government is supplanting traditional means of access based on personal visits, phone calls, and mail delivery. Governments around the world have created websites that facilitate tourism, citizen complaints, and business investment. Tourists can book hotels through the government websites of many Caribbean and Pacific island countries. In Australia, citizens can register government complaints through agency websites. Nations such as Bulgaria, the Netherlands, and the Czech Republic are attracting overseas investors through their websites. In this report, I present the fourth annual update on global e-government. I study what is online globally and how electronic government has changed over the past four years. Using a detailed analysis of 1,935 government websites in 198 different nations undertaken during Summer, 2004, I chart the variations that exist across regions and countries, and discuss the pace at which e-government is unfolding around the world. In looking at electronic government from 2001 to 2004, I find that progress is being made, albeit at an incremental pace. Governments are showing steady progress on several important dimensions, but not major leaps forward. On several key indicators, e-government performance is edging up. However, movement forward has not been more extensive in some areas because budget, bureaucratic, and institutional forces have limited the extent to which the public sector has incorporated technology into their mission. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM BlogWalk http://blogwalk.mediapedagogy.com/ BlogWalk is a series of face-to-face meetings aimed to bring together weblog researchers and practitioners for in-depth conversations about their work, possible trends, and visions. The format we strive for is an intellectual Salon where minds can meet and inspire each other in direct conversation. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Wednesday, September 22, 2004  Robin Good's Column Robin Good reports from his today's column that the Google Browser is coming and this is a "must" read for everyone. Click here to read this excellent and very timely column. posted by Marcus | 1:50 PM  WebmasterWorld News WebmasterWorld News http://www.webmasterworld.com/ They are here for their members to discuss the process of doing business. There are enough B2B and B2C sites out there. Running a website these days takes a great deal of knowledge. The design, coding, maintenance, promotion, marketing, and management of a website is almost an impossible task for one person alone without extensive training. They are here as a forum for their members to share and gain knowledge in operating and promoting a website. Think of them as part of your extended site development and process team. This has been added to eCommerce Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM GeekLogs.com http://www.geeklogs.com/ They scour the web to find the freshest, best, geekiest technology news and reviews. In addition to news, they bring you the best blogs from the ÜberGeeks of cyberspace. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM The Trust and Distrust of Intellectual Property Rights by Peter K. YU http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=578563 Abstract By Author: Abstract: In the past, intellectual property issues were considered complex, obscure, and highly technical; they were only of interest and concern to intellectual property attorneys, legal scholars, technology developers, and rightsholders. Thanks to the Internet and new communications technologies, however, intellectual property has now begun to play a more significant role in society. In December 2003, the first phase of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) was held in Geneva. While the conference affirmed the importance of intellectual property rights and free access to information and knowledge, the resulting Declaration of Principles and Plan of Action fail to address issues concerning the recent expansion of intellectual property rights. Being vague and abstract, the documents also fail to provide concrete actions as to how the international community can improve the international intellectual property regime. This book chapter examines the international intellectual property regime as it relates to the development of an inclusive global information society. Part I provides an overview of the various intellectual property rights and justifications for protecting these rights. Part II explores the increased distrust of the intellectual property system, especially among less developed countries, human rights advocates, development specialists, and those on the unfortunate side of the digital divide. Part III delineates five prerequisites for the development of a fair, balanced, and robust international intellectual property regime: (1) thorough understanding, (2) balanced debate, (3) effective dialogue, (4) fair regime, and (5) global solidarity. Part IV concludes by critically examining the intellectual property-related portions of the WSIS Declaration of Principles and Plan of Action. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM WebRing http://www.webring.org/ WebRing is the best way to find great web sites, share ideas with peers and participate in topical communities for free. Use WebRing to participate in highly focused and rich online communities. Browse or or search the Ring directory consisting of nearly 50,000 Rings and 900,000 Sites. Browse the new WebRing Forum directory with more than 7000 forums and growing fast! August 2004 statistics: 2.75 million unique visitors, 27 million hits, 46,740 Rings, 907,000 active Sites, 500,000+ registered active members, and 8,100+ contributing members. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM A Research Guide for Students by I. Lee http://geocities.com/researchguide The goal of this Web site is to provide all the necessary tools for students to conduct research and to present their findings. Site provides a Quick Click to Search Engines, annotated Research, Writing, and Style Guides (MLA, APA, Chicago, Turabian, CGOS, CBE, Harvard), and Worlds of Knowledge housing some of the best education Web sites in a Virtual Library arranged by the Dewey Decimal Classification System. The DDC was created by Melvil Dewey in 1873 and was first published in 1876. Web sites in this virtual library are organized somewhat loosely by subject according to recent editions of the DDC. The site also provides guidelines on: How to write an A+ research paper, How to effectively deliver a presentation, How to format a research or term paper, How to quote passages, How not to plagiarize, How to write Footnotes and Endnotes with examples on writing First Footnotes and Endnotes in MLA style plus a Footnotes Sample Page and an Endnotes Sample Page and much more ..... This has been added to Student Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM GlueTheos: Automating the Retrieval and Analysis of Data from Publicly Available Software Repositories by Gregorio Robles, Jesús M. González-Barahona and Rishab A. Ghosh http://opensource.mit.ed/papers/robles-barahona-ghosh_gluetheos.pdf Abstract by Authors: For efficient, large scale data mining of publicly available information about libre (free, open source) software projects, automating the retrieval and analysis processes is a must. A system implementing such automation must have into account the many kinds of repositories with interesting information (each with its own structure and access methods), and the many kinds of analysis which can be applied to the retrieved data. In addition, such a system should be capable of interfacing and reusing as much existing software for both retrieving and analyzing data as possible. As a proof of concept of how that system could be, we started sometime ago to implement the GlueTheos system, featuring a modular,flexible architecture which has been already used in several of our studies of libre software projects. In this paper we show its structure, how it can be used, and how it can be extended. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Tuesday, September 21, 2004  Sources2Go.com Sources2Go.com http://www.Sources2Go.com/ Sources2Go.com houses thousands of digitized government records that can be browsed to further your genealogical and family history research. To view the images you need to have a World Wide Web browser that is Java Script enabled. Most newer browsers come with this setting already enabled. If you find an image that you like, you can order a high quality version of the image on CD-ROM. There are currently 100508 images available for browsing on the Sources2Go.com site. This has been added to Genealogy Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM CREDO - A New Meta Search Engine for Clustering Web Results http://credo.fub.it/ CREDO (Conceptual REorganization of Documents) is based on a mathematical data representation termed a concept lattice. Compared to other systems for clustering Web results, the clusters produced by CREDO are more justifiable, are easier to navigate because they are organized in a lattice rather than a strict hierarchy, and allow discovery of causal associations between the words contained in the results. CREDO has been developed as a research prototype by Claudio Carpineto and Giovanni Romano at Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Rome. This will be added to the search engine section of 2004-05 Internet MiniGuides. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM dtSearch Version 6.4 http://www.dtsearch.com/ Press Release http://snipurl.com/90lw dtSearch Corp., a leading supplier of enterprise, end-user and developer text retrieval software, announces Version 6.4 of its dtSearch product line. dtSearch products instantly search gigabytes (and more) of text across a desktop, network, Internet or Intranet. dtSearch products also serve as tools to aid in publishing large document collections to Web sites or to CD/DVD, with instant text searching. The built-in dtSearch Spider allows Web developers and desktop/network users to add Web site content to a locally searchable database. The Spider can search Web site content to any specified level of page depth, and supports ordinary public sites, secure content (HTTPS) sites, password-accessible sites, and dynamic-content ASP and ASP.NET sites. The Spider includes integrated relevancy ranking with local searches, including WYSIWYG display with highlighted hits of HTML, PDF and XML Web-based files. In addition to "vertical" searching of pages linked from a URL, the Spider can now "horizontally" crawl all sites linked to a URL. (In keeping with the broader reach of the dtSearch Spider, the new version also adds options to limit indexed data by file size, file number, time on a Web site, etc.) The Spider also now supports forms-based authentication. Along with the Spider enhancements, dtSearch Web adds new options to the set-up wizard's search form generation, such as easy date range control, automatic generation of field searching controls, and stylesheet-based search form and search results formatting. This will be added to the search engine section of the 2004-05 Internet MiniGuides. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM Biologically-Inspired Technology 1.) WWW Resources on Biologically Inspired Research 2.) Ant Colony Optimization 3.) CS851: Biologically-Inspired Computing 4.) Biomimetics: Biologically-Inspired Technologies 5.) Welcome to the DNA and Natural Algorithms Group 6.) Biologically-Inspired Computing Approaches To Cognitive Systems: A 7.) Bio-Inspired Engineering of Exploration Systems Most people do not associate microprocessors with DNA, or aircraft design with butterflies. But scientists and researchers are increasingly looking to biological systems as models for new technologies. This trend has implications for computing, materials science and engineering, robotics, and much more. A Web site from Michigan State University (1) is a useful starting point for learning about biologically inspired technologies. In addition to briefly discussing the natural processes that are most commonly studied in the development of such technologies, there is a large collection of links to other research efforts and related material. The Ant Colony Optimization project (2) uses the behavior of ants as a model to solve optimization problems, such as how to minimize Internet traffic congestion. Several downloadable research papers are included on the project's homepage, as well as links to news stories, radio broadcasts, and conference proceedings about ant algorithms. A seminar course at the University of Virginia (3) in spring 2003 considered aspects of biologically-inspired computing. The course homepage has links to journal articles and research papers that range in topic from evolutionary programming to spacecraft designs based on living cells. Biomimetics is the focus of work being done at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (4). One of the selected publications available on the Web site will be presented at an international conference in July 2003. The paper discusses the use of artificial muscles in intelligent robots. A research group at the California Institute of Technology (5) is studying the capability of DNA and other biomolecules to process information and implement algorithms. A general overview of the group's purpose and motivation is provided, as well as a number of publications. An excellent background of some of the most significant developments in artificial life and intelligence is given in a 56-page paper from Hewlett-Packard Laboratories (6). The author discusses many different issues, including neural networks and software agents, and concludes by alluding to future application areas. (7) Discusses efforts to combine characteristics of several different species into one artificial creation to optimally serve the purposes of a mission. [From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2003. http://scout.wisc.edu/] posted by Marcus | 4:10 AMCongressional Documents: Browse http://www.gpoaccess.gov/serialset/cdocuments/browse.html To browse a current catalog of Congressional Documents available on GPO Access, click on the link for the appropriate Congress. Catalogs are available for the 104th Congress to the present. Links are included with each Congressional document listed in the catalog, which retrieve the text of the corresponding document as an ASCII text or PDF file. If a Congressional Document is not listed in the catalog, it is not available electronically via GPO Access at this time. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM MERLN - Military Education Research Library Network http://merln.ndu.edu/ The MERLN (Military Education Research Library Network) website represents United States military education libraries, United States Department of Defense Regional Center libraries and their international counterpart libraries in a comprehensive website devoted to international military education outreach * Digital Collections of full text lectures, papers, legislation. The website is organized geographically based on the location and mission of its members. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Monday, September 20, 2004  Elder Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog This edition of Current Awareness Happenings on the Internet by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. September 20, 2004 V2N38 discusses the latest Subject Tracer™ Information Blog Elder Resources. Click on the below audio posting to hear an audio by Marcus P. Zillman on this latest Subject Tracer™ discussing elder and senior resources and sites on the Internet. View this Subject Tracer™ Information Blog at: Elder Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog http://www.ElderResources.info/ posted by Marcus | 4:30 AM GISDataDepot http://data.geocomm.com/ The GISDataDepot data available from this site requires users to be proficient in GIS and may require access to GIS software. Numerous data holdings are available for free download, otherwise, data can be downloaded via our "Premium" option or written to CD-ROM. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM Brooklyn Daily Eagle Soars Onlilne http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA443919 http://eagle.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/Archive/skins/BE/about.htm The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, founded in 1841, had the distinction of being the most widely read afternoon newspaper in the U.S. during the Civil War. After it ceased publication in 1955, the paper's morgue and related files were donated to the Brooklyn Public Library, but access to this vibrant collection of stories, photos and illustrations was limited to a few microfilm editions and fewer still print holdings. In 2001 the Brooklyn Library launched an extensive digitization project encompassing the years 1841-1902, funded through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and beta testing of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle Online [www.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/eagle] began in March 2003. The site was an immediate hit, accommodating an average of 60,000 visits a month. As expected, many visitors have used the site to track down genealogical information, but the library has also used the collection to provide access to primary documents on Civil War-era Brooklyn and African-American women's history to K-12 students. The library is now considering a second project to digitize the 1902-1955 issues, but must first grapple with the copyright implications for newspapers printed after 1923, as well as the significant increase in per-issue page volume in later years. More information on the project can be found at posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM MIT: Project Oxygen http://www.oxygen.lcs.mit.edu/ MIT's Project Oxygen designs computer systems that are more "human-centered" than current systems that "have required us to interact with them on their terms, speaking their languages and manipulating their keyboards or mice." The project title alludes to the group's goal of "bringing abundant computation and communication, as pervasive and free as air, naturally into people's lives." This means developing a system that is pervasive, embedded, nomadic, adaptable, powerful, yet efficient, intentional, and eternal, according to the website These criteria are met using device, network, software, perceptual, and user technologies, all of which are described on the site. Several possible applications are presented in terms of hypothetical situations where this type of system would come in handy. Demonstration videos allow visitors to view a sampling of some of the technologies being tested by Project Oxygen researchers and their industry partners.[From The NSDL Scout Report for Math, Engineering, and Technology, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2003. http://scout.wisc.edu/] posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM CliffsNotes http://www.cliffsnotes.com/ You know what they say: Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Well, if that's true then CliffsNotes is greatly admired! But you don't have to settle for generic study notes from unknown sources — trust your grades to the real deal from CliffsNotes.com. Now that all of the CliffsNotes Literature guides are available free online, there's no reason not to study with the best! Students from junior high to grad school have been turning to CliffsNotes to save study time since 1958. Now more than ever, you need to get the most out of your busy schedule, and we're still here bringing you trustworthy study guides written by real teachers and professors. And if you think the CliffsNotes universe is limited to literature, think again! They have developed an entire family of book series to see you through all sorts of tricky classes and intimidating exams. This has been added to Student Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and will be added to Academic Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM Metadot Portal Server http://www.metadot.com/index.pl?iid=2037 Metadot Portal Server is a leading open source portal system. Its revolutionary ease of use allows non technical people to create very powerful websites and portals just with the clicks of a mouse. Its architecture makes it extremely easy to customize and deploy. It is available for free under the GNU General Public License (GPL). It provides collaboration, content management, as well as My News Page (like My Yahoo) and online database applications. Typically it is used to create web portals, intranets, extranets, organization and project websites. When it was first released in April 2000, it revolutionized the way complex websites are built by giving easy-to-use tools to non-technical users allowing them to create powerful database-backed websites without having to involve a webmaster or the IT department! It runs primarily on Linux, Apache, MySQL and Perl and supports also commercial environments like Sun Solaris, Windows OSes and Oracle database. It is available for free and it can be downloaded. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Sunday, September 19, 2004 Hurricanes 1) National Hurricane Center http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/ 2) Hurricanes http://www.fema.gov/hazards/hurricanes/ 3) Hurricanes Online Meteorology Guide http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/hurr/home.rxml 4) Hurricane: Storm Science http://www.miamisci.org/hurricane/ 5) Hurricanes http://www.usatoday.com/weather/hurricane/whur0.htm 6) 2004 Atlantic Hurricane Season http://www.met.fsu.edu/explores/tropical.html 7) Hurricanes: Just for Kids http://www.ns.ec.gc.ca/weather/hurricane/kids.html 8) Flying into the Eye of a Hurricane http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ngkids/0308/hurricane/ First, the National Weather Service addresses the work of the National Hurricane Center "to save lives, mitigate property loss, and improve economic efficiency by issuing the best watches, warnings, forecasts and analyses of hazardous tropical weather, and by increasing understanding of these hazards" (1). At this vast website, users can find satellite imagery, current and archived advisories, hurricane awareness information, and much more. FEMA created the second site to inform the public about the hazards of hurricanes (2 ). After discovering the physical characteristics of hurricanes, visitors can find information about hurricane threats and the proper steps to take before, during, and after the storm. The third website, developed by the University of Illinois, discusses a hurricane's stages of development, structure, and movement (3). Users can follow past tropical cyclone activities and explore a 3-D hurricane. Next, the Miami Museum of Science furnishes a fun site where children can essentially travel inside a hurricane (4 ). Families who have experienced a hurricane will benefit from the Healing Quilt link and the family survivor stories. The fifth website, created by USA Today, provides the general public with the latest hurricane news, storm science, and safety (5). Visitors can view graphics of how hurricanes are created and can submit their hurricane questions to the site. Next, Florida State University supplies the latest advisories and forecasts for hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean (6). Users can view images of the hurricanes and find a history of Florida hurricane landfalls. Environment Canada produced the seventh web site to educate children about how hurricanes form, how they work, and where they go (7). Students can learn how El Niño affects hurricanes. Lastly, the National Geographic presents children with an exciting article about the work of hurricane hunters (8). Users can view images of storm winds, paths, and damage. [From The NSDL Scout Report for the Physical Sciences, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2003. http://scout.wisc.edu/] posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM Simple Interactive Statistical Analysis http://home.clara.net/sisa/index.htm Simple Interactive Statistical Analysis (SISA), designed by a research consultant in the Netherlands, "allows you to do statistical analysis directly on the Internet." The program will calculate a variety of statistical procedures, including T-Tests, Poisson Distributions, and other calculations. The ability to perform analysis online provides users an opportunity to assess the software, which is also for sale. The Guide to Procedures provides helpful explanations of the different statistical procedures and guidelines for deciding on the appropriate procedure and filling out the calculation form. Numerous spreadsheets are also available to download. This has been added to Statistics Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM The Gurteen Knowledge Website - Knowledge Management http://snipurl.com/8zi5 A very comprehensive resource for information on knowledge management. This has been added to Knowledge Discovery Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM SenderBase http://www.senderbase.org/ SenderBase is a free email reporting service designed to help email administrators research senders, identify legitimate email and block spam. SenderBase does not send email - we simply provide information about email senders. You are viewing 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 | 4:10 AM Cyber Cemetery http://govinfo.library.unt.edu/ The University of North Texas Libraries and the U.S. Government Printing Office, as part of the Federal Depository Library Program, created a partnership to provide permanent public access to the Web sites and publications of defunct U.S. government agencies and commissions. This collection was named the "CyberCemetery" by early users of the site. Sites are organized both alphabetically and by category. Use the buttons in the left-side navigation bar to browse the archive. This has been added to Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM Search Federal Research and Development http://fedrnd.osti.gov/ Search Federal R&D Project Summaries that provide a portal to information about Federal research projects, complete with full-text single-query searching across databases residing at different agencies. The public may use this tool to stay better informed as to how its investment in research and development is being utilized. It also provides a unique window to the Federal research community, allowing agencies to better understand the research and development efforts of their counterparts in government. During 2004 Federal R&D Project Summaries has been expanded and enhanced to include: * Approximately half-a-million Project Summaries are searched via one query This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and Deep Web Research Subject Tracer Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Saturday, September 18, 2004  Eye Track III Eye Track III http://www.poynterextra.org/eyetrack2004/index.htm What We Saw Through Their Eyes By Steve Outing and Laura Ruel. What do people see when they view a news website or multimedia feature? Is it what the site's designers expect? ... Perhaps not. The Eyetrack III study literally looked through the eyes of 46 people to learn how they see online news. In this overview article, they review the study's key findings. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM LOCKSS Program http://lockss.stanford.edu/ The LOCKSS (Lots Of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) Program is an inexpensive, practical solution to digital preservation and access. The foundation of a library is its collections. If libraries fail to build digital collections they will cease to be libraries. Without libraries society loses one of its two memory organizations (the other being museums). If libraries don't step up to this responsibility they will, in effect, be creating a digital dark age for future generations. With a publisher's permission, the LOCKSS Program allows libraries to fulfill this societal obligation, easily and affordably building digital collections. A growing number of publishers and libraries are participating. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM An iTunes Model for Education http://www.syllabus.com/news_article.asp?id=9925&typeid=155 Matthew Pittinsky, chairman and co-founder of Blackboard Inc., thinks that e-learning should mean much more than just putting courses online. It should mean the creation of a true networked learning environment that allows students, teachers and researchers to access any learning resource anytime, anyplace -- whether that resource is a learning object, another educator or student, or a scholarly database or application. Pittinsky says, "Increasingly, providers of commercial digital content fear 'Napsterization' -- widespread copying and re-distribution of digital content -- and the industry recognizes that publishers need an adequate, affordable digital rights management (DRM) solution to maintain effective business models in the face of disintermediation. However, any kind of DRM solution, particularly as applied to educational content, must also be easy to use for both teachers and students and not create new barriers to incorporating educational content into online teaching and learning. Perhaps what we need is an Apple iTunes for digitized educational content -- a consumer-friendly approach that encourages access to a wide range of content for the end user, but, through effective application of DRM, does so in a way that preserves a business model for the commercial content providers." posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM Population Action International http://www.populationaction.org/ The Population Action International (PAI) offers reports, information, and statistics on world population, concentrating on population growth, reproductive health and family planning, population and environment, population and economic conditions, and women's health and education. "Population Action International (PAI) is an independent policy advocacy group working to strengthen public awareness and political and financial support worldwide for population programs grounded in individual rights." This has been added to Internet Statistics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM AMEDEO - The Medical Literature Guide - Scientific Information in Medicine http://www.amedeo.com/ Amedeo is a medical literature resource that enables "healthcare professionals, including physicians, nurses, pharmacists, administrators, other members of the health professions, and patients and their friends to access timely, relevant information within their respective fields. AMEDEO's core components include weekly emails with bibliographic lists about new scientific publications, personal Web pages for one-time download of available abstracts (see example), and an overview of the medical literature published in relevant journals over the past 12 to 24 months." It allows you to "select your favourite medical journals and submit the request form to receive the weekly emails, consult the weekly literature overviews for additional medical areas, and consult the medical literature of the previous 12 to 24 months grouped by journals and topics." This has been added to Healthcare Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Healthcare Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM BEN http://www.biosciednet.org/portal BEN portal site provides searchable and seamless access to the digital library collections of professional societies and coalitions for biology education to provide users with accurate and reliable biology education resources. BEN currently provides access to resources from AAAS/Science's STKE, ABLE, APS Archives, ASM Microbelibrary, ESA's EcoEdNet, and the Society of Toxicology. This has been added to Biological Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Friday, September 17, 2004  The Budget and Economic Outlook: An Update September 2004 The Budget and Economic Outlook: An Update September 2004 http://www.cbo.gov/showdoc.cfm?index=5773&sequence=0 This volume is one of a series of reports on the state of the budget and the economy that the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) issues each year. It satisfies the requirement of section 202(e) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 for CBO to submit to the Committees on the Budget periodic reports about fiscal policy and to provide baseline projections of the federal budget. In accordance with CBO's mandate to provide impartial analysis, the report makes no recommendations. This will be added to Business Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM Semantic Indexing http://www.nitle.org/semantic_search.php Semantic indexing is their name for a family of techniques for searching and organizing large data collections. The goal of semantic indexing is to find patterns in unstructured data (documents without descriptors such as keywords or special tags) and use those patterns to offer more effective search and categorization services. Semantic indexing techniques are language-agnostic, so data collections don't have to be in English, or even in any human language at all. For example, they have had good preliminary results in protein structure prediction using algorithms adapted from a text search engine. Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI or LSA, for latent semantic analysis) was originally described in a 1990 paper by Deerwester, Dumais, Furnas, Landauer, and Harshman, and is a topic of active study. You can find links to journal articles and other LSI websites on our references page. This has been added to the semantics web section of Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and Bot Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM Noisy Channels Models Provide Short Answers to FAQs http://www.economist.com/printedition/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=3127462 Eric Brill is guiding his Microsoft research team to build a system capable of providing 50-word answers to questions such as "What are the rules for qualifying for the Academy Awards?" by using an approach called a "noisy channel model." Noisy channel models, which are already used in spell-checking and speech-recognition systems, work by modeling the transformation between what a user means (such as the word he or she intended to type) and what he does (the garbled word as it was actually typed). By analyzing many pairs of correct and misspelled words using statistical techniques, it's possible to predict how such transformations work in general cases, and to design a system to work the process backwards, so that, given a misspelled word, the system can guess what that word is most likely to be a misspelling of. Brill's question-answering system works in the same general way. Many question-and-answer pairs exist on the Web in the form of FAQs ("frequently asked questions"), and Dr. Brill trained his system using a million such pairs to create a model that, given a question, can work out various structures that the answer could take, and then to use those structures to generate search queries. The matching documents found on the Web are then scanned for possible answers to the question. This has been added to the articles section of Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM Speech Synthesis Markup Language Is a W3C Recommendation http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-speech-synthesis-20040907/ http://www.w3.org/2004/09/ssml-pressrelease http://www.w3.org/2004/09/ssml-testimonial.html http://www.w3.org/Voice/2004/ssml-ir/ http://www.w3.org/Voice The World Wide Web Consortium today released the "Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) Version 1.0" as a W3C Recommendation. With the XML-based SSML language, content authors can generate synthetic speech on the Web, controlling pronunciation, volume, pitch and rate. "SSML builds on the work of the pioneers in speech synthesis to provide application developers with a powerful and flexible means to deliver a high quality mix of synthetic and pre-recorded speech as part of interactive voice response services," said Dave Raggett (W3C/Canon). Read the press release, testimonials and implementation report and visit the Voice Browser home page. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM Iraquis Seek A Voice Via Blogs By Clark Boyd http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3632614.stm Nearly all the information from Iraq is filtered by politicians or the media. But there is at least one way to get the news straight from Iraqis themselves, via online journals or blogs. Before the war in Iraq, the world had only heard of one blogger, who went by his online name of Salam Pax. Now, Pax has been joined by more than 70 other Iraqi bloggers, among them Faiza Al-Araji. Also another very interesting site is called the Future of Iraq Portal. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM Internet Marketing Articles http://submityourarticle.com/articles/articles.php A database of recently released articles on Internet marketing from the Submit Your Article folks. A quick scan shows some interesting articles that can always improve one's ability to navigate the murky waters of the Internet marketing oceanscape! This will be added to Advertising, Marketing and Public Relations Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Thursday, September 16, 2004  The Online Books Page The Online Books Page http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/index.html The Online Books Page is a website that facilitates access to books that are freely readable over the Internet. It also aims to encourage the development of such online books, for the benefit and edification of all. Major parts of the site include: * An index of thousands of online books freely readable on the Internet This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Academic Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM Agents of Change by Patrick Thibodeau http://snipurl.com/8xzn Autonomous agents could one day play a key role in everything from setting market prices to creating more resilient networks. Over the past year, NASA has been uploading software into the Earth Observing-1 satellite, turning it into a testbed for autonomous agents. The agents -- software programs that are able to learn and can function independently -- are used to manage experiments and operate the spacecraft. The effort is part of a technology initiative that researchers say will reshape IT over the course of many years. Autonomous agents have the potential to become an extraordinarily powerful technology, with the capacity to learn, experiment and act independent of human control. Agents could ultimately improve productivity, increase software reliability and change the operation of markets, particularly supply chains. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM Screenscraping the Senate by Paul Ford http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2004/09/01/hack-congress.html In this inaugural article of Paul Ford's new column, Hacking Congress, he introduces his plan to create an RDF description of the U.S. federal government. He starts by collecting data on U.S. Senators and converting it to RDF. Future columns will focus on the House of Representatives and the Executive branch. This has been added to my Web Data Extractors white paper. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM reSearcher http://www.theresearcher.ca/ reSearcher is an award-winning integrated suite of open source tools for locating and managing electronic information resources, designed for use by students and researchers in academic libraries. The four main modules of reSearcher are: * GODOT, a full-text link resolver and interlibrary holdings locator and requesting system reSearcher enables academic libraries to provide students and researchers with streamlined access to an integrated array of information resources. Together, reSearcher's components deliver rich portal-type functionality, presenting a unified interface to research databases, library and union catalogues, internet search engines, and other electronic information sources. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has also been added to Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM MedScan - Automated Scientific Text Mining Tool http://www.ariadnegenomics.com/products/medscan.html MedScan is advanced scientific text mining software tool, automatically extracting biological facts from scientific literature and MEDLINE abstracts. MedScan extracts functional associations between proteins, cell processes and small molecules, recognizes types of regulatory mechanisms involved and the effects of regulation, and can be customized to extract other information. Captured data is presented as a datasheet, an XML file or a pathway diagram. You can use MedScan to automatically extract information from: * MEDLINE abstracts and full text articles This has been added to Data Mining Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has also been added to Biological Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM Associations on the Internet http://www.ipl.org/div/aon/ An excellent guide to web sites of prominent organizations and associations compileed by the Internet Public Library. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Wednesday, September 15, 2004  Copernic: Software to Search, Find, Track and Manage Information Copernic: Software to Search, Find, Track and Manage Information http://www.Copernic.com/ Copernic offers a complete suite of search agents that do an excellent job of searching, finding, tracking and monitoring, and managing the information they generate in formats that can be readily used in your search and research. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to eCurrent Awareness Resources 2004-05 Business Intelligent Report. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM Tableau: The Visual Spreadsheet http://www.tableausoftware.com/ Visual Spreadsheets help you analyze data. Specifically, they provide a simple query and analysis interface for creating interactive summaries and reports of data. These summaries answer questions you have, for instance, questions about totals, subtotals, calculations, comparisons, rankings, outliers and trends – virtually any question you have about the information in your databases. They work on small MS Access and Excel databases, large corporate warehouses, and everything in between. If you ever work with "rows and columns" of data, you'll find Visual Spreadsheets a simple but extremely powerful analysis tool. They are used today by business line managers, consultants, finance professionals, business analysts, market researchers, scientists, engineers and data warehousing professionals in nearly every industry. This has been added to the tools section of the Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE) http://dlese.org/ The Digital Library for Earth System Education (DLESE) is a grassroots community effort involving educators, students, and scientists working together to improve the quality, quantity, and efficiency of teaching and learning about the Earth system at all levels. DLESE resources include electronic materials for both teachers and learners, such as lesson plans, maps, images, data sets, visualizations, assessment activities, curriculum, online courses, and much more. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation, DLESE is being designed, built, and governed by community members from around the country. To this end, the DLESE Steering Committee has developed the DLESE Strategic Plan. This will be added to Education and Distance Learning Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM Questia - The World's Largest Online Library of Books http://www.questia.com/Index.jsp Questia is the first online library that provides 24/7 access to the world's largest online collection of books and journal articles in the humanities and social sciences, plus magazine and newspaper articles. You can search each and every word of all of the books and journal articles in the collection. You can read every title cover to cover. This rich, scholarly content -- selected by professional collection development librarians -- is not available elsewhere on the Internet. Undergraduate, high school, graduate students, and Internet users of all ages have found Questia to be an invaluable online resource. Anyone doing research or just interested in topics that touch on the humanities and social sciences will find titles of interest in Questia. To complement the library, Questia offers a range of search, note-taking, and writing tools. These tools help students locate the most relevant information on their topics quickly, quote and cite correctly, and create properly formatted footnotes and bibliographies automatically. Questia provides a comprehensive research environment to meet students' academic needs. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and Student Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Academic Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM ZapMeta http://www.ZapMeta.com/ ZapMeta is a meta-search engine, a search tool that provide users the ability of simultaneously search multiple search engines under one interface. Meta-search engines benefit users by saving them time and effort from having to individually visit multiple search engines in order to find the desired result. Along with web search, ZapMeta currently offer a directory based on data from The Open Directory Project and Product Search powered by Pricegrabber. Please refer to the Meta-Search Engine FAQ to learn more about meta-search engines. This has been added to the search engine section of all the 2004-05 Internet MiniGuides. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM CIBER - Centre for Information Behaviour and the Evaluation of Research http://ciber.soi.city.ac.uk/ciber.php ciber's expertise lies in the mapping, monitoring and evaluating of digital information systems, platforms, services and environments, using robust and innovative research methods. ciber undertakes research on a wide subject front and this represents our strength, as each subject informs the other. However over the years we have developed particular expertise in three strategic areas, which represents significant research programmes or strands within ciber and have group status. The three areas (and groups) are: * digital consumer information & advice (Digital Health Research Group) This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Tuesday, September 14, 2004  Bots Blogs and News Aggregators Presentation Speech: Current Happenings on the Internet: Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Barry University http://www.barry.edu/ Presentation Sources: Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. http://www.BotsBlogs.com Searching the Internet - Online Streaming Video Tutorial http://www.SearchingTheInternet.info Student Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog http://www.StudentResearch.info/ Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A., Executive Director of the Virtual Private Library™, Internet expert, author, speaker, consultant and creator/founder of BotSpot.com will be speaking on the latest happenings on the Internet with emphasis on the growing areas of bots and intelligent agents, blogs (weblogs), and news aggregators. Mr. Zillman will be showing these new resources live on the Internet and how they will relate to helping you search and find the information you require for both personal and academic research. His presentations are designed both for the “newbie” to Internet searching as well as the seasoned “Internaut”. The Internet continues to change at a record pace, and discovering the latest tools to make your Internet search both easy and competent is the goal of this presentation. Will eMail soon be replaced by RSS and news aggregators? Are blogs, currently the fastest growing area of the Internet, a fad or will they change the entire Internet landscape? These and other questions will be discussed during this presentation by one of the Internet’s pioneers and bot and artificial intelligence experts, Marcus P. Zillman. His latest links and resources are available by clicking here. Time: 9:30am Date: Tuesday, September 14, 2004 Location: Garner Hall, Room 162, 11300 N.E. Second Avenue, Miami Shores, Florida 33161 posted by Marcus | 4:30 AM UK Web Archiving Consortium http://www.webarchive.org.uk/ For many, the web has become the information source of first resort. From keeping abreast of latest news and accessing online journals and datasets, through to finding information about travel and sport, the web has become the information tool of choice. However, despite our apparent dependence on this medium very little attention has been paid to the long-term preservation of websites. Indeed, with the life of an average website estimated to be around 44 days (about the same lifespan as a housefly) there is a danger that invaluable scholarly, cultural and scientific resources will be lost to future generations. To address this problem, a consortium of six leading UK institutions is working collaboratively on a project to develop a test-bed for selective archiving of UK websites. Using PANDAS software, developed by the National Library of Australia, consortium members will archive sites (once appropriate permissions have been obtained from website owners) relevant to their interests. For example, the Wellcome Library will focus on collecting medical sites, whilst the National Library of Wales will collect sites that reflect life in contemporary Wales. The British Library will focus on sites of cultural, historical and political importance. Once sites have been archived, catalogued and checked for completeness, they will be made accessible through this website. Users will be able to browse the archive – using broad subject headings – or search for specific sites and topics. This has been added t6o Deep Web Research Subject Tracer Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM STARnet, the NATO Science, Technology and Research Network http://starnet.rta.nato.int/ In order to cope with the vast diversity and tremendous amount of information available within the NATO community and the NATO nations, the RTA Information Management Committee (IMC) is developing a science, technology and research network (STARnet). This network brings together common information elements in terms of science, technology and overall research, by providing a virtual library with special emphasis on topics of collective international security within the NATO area of interest. STARnet is designed as a system that can be adapted to address specific information needs as they arise within the NATO community. For example, the recent past has demonstrated a heightened awareness toward global terrorism. The need for information on this subject has warranted a development phase for STARnet in which a Defense Against Terrorism node has been added. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM Feed-Directory.com http://www.Feed-Directory.com/ Feed-Directory.com is a complete directory of syndicated feeds. With over several thousand feeds in its database, Feed-Directory.com is one of the biggest feed directories on the web, and every day several thousand more are added. The complete internet is crawled by a special feed spider that tries to identify RSS and Atom feeds. This process takes several weeks, and is never finished. This has been added to Directory Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM Privacy Rights Clearinghouse http://www.privacyrights.org/ The Privacy Rights Clearinghouse is a nonprofit consumer education, research, and advocacy program. Our publications empower you to take action to control your personal information by providing practical tips on privacy protection. This has been added to Privacy Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM ePodunk http://www.epodunk.com/ ePodunk provides in-depth information about more than 25,000 communities around the country, from Manhattan to Los Angeles, Pottstown to Podunk. Our listings also include geocoded information about thousands of parks, museums, historic sites, colleges, schools and other places across America. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Monday, September 13, 2004 This edition of Current Awareness Happenings on the Internet by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. September 13, 2004 V2N37 discusses one of my latest white paper link compilations titled Web Data Extractors. Click on the below audio posting to hear my audio describing this excellent resource. Download this resource at: Web Data Extractors http://zillman.blogspot.com/2004_08_01_zillman_archive.html#109250380875057586 posted by Marcus | 10:43 AM  Mobius Analytics Mobius Analytics http://www.mobiusanalytics.com/ Mobius Analytics is a global organization specifically focussing on Datamining and Analytics solutions for preventive and reactive intelligence for global anti-terrorism. Consultants at Mobius Analytics have practical experience in cutting edge mathematical models and datamining techniques to create early warning proactive as well as reactive counter-terrorism intelligence networks. Mobius Analytics helps governments and organizations to create the next generation of IIA (Information Intelligence Architecture). Mobius Analytics provides end-to-end consulting in conceptualizing the Architecture, technical implementation and creating Anatytics ecosystems from combination of internal and external data sources. This has been added to Data Mining Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM HUD USER Bibliographic Database http://www.huduser.org/bibliodb/pdrbibdb.html The HUD USER Database is the only bibliographic database exclusively dedicated to housing and community development issues. It contains more than 10,000 full-abstract citations to research reports, articles, books, monographs, and data sources in housing policy, building technology, economic development, urban planning, and a host of other relevant fields. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM Discontinueditem.com™ http://www.Discontinueditem.com/ This is a special Directory listing companies that carry discontinued products, hard to find items, and classic articles. Discontinueditem.com™ has been created to help you in finding those "hard to get" products, or parts, that have been discontinued or limited in their production. They do not sell the products, but they list the companies who sell the products. They also show their addresses, phone and fax numbers, brief descriptions, contact names, e-mails, and establish links directly to their websites. This has been addded to eCommerce Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and ShoppingBots Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM Vault - Career Information http://www.vault.com/ Job seekers and professionals have discovered that Vault is the Internet's ultimate destination for insider company information, advice, and career management services. This has been added to Business Intelligence Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and to Employment Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM Conference Alerts - Academic Conferences Worldwide http://www.conferencealerts.com/ Conference Alerts brings together two groups of people - conference organizers, and academics who need to stay informed about conferences. They work with both small first-time conference organizers and established professional societies to ensure that notification of their conferences reach specifically interested parties. Both individual academics and a wide range of 'knowledge brokers' - such as journal editors, web site administrators and discussion list moderators - rely on our searchable online database and on Conference Alerts Monthly to remain informed about upcoming academic and professional events. They are based in South Africa, but operate as a global organization maintaining an extensive, constantly updated database of conferences and subscribers all over the world. Their internet-based automated process enable them to provide this service at no cost to subscribers and at no cost (for a basic listing) or at a nominal fee (for the Featured Event service) to conference organizers. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer Information Blog. This will be added to Academic Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM Intellectual Property Links Compiled by European Patent Attorney Ralph Beier http://www.ip-links.de/ Intellectual Propert links covering Intellectual Property Offices, Intellectual Property Organizations, Database Providers, Official Registers and Databases, Official Gazettes, Official Examination Guidelines and Publications, Classifications Courts, Legal Regulations and Case Law Databases. This will be added to Legal Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Sunday, September 12, 2004 Suicide Continues As a Public Health Issue Around the World 1) Suicide around the world every 40 seconds http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5942235/ 2) Global suicide toll exceeds war and murder http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996373 3) International Association for Suicide Prevention http://www.med.uio.no/iasp/ 4) WHO: Suicide Prevention http://snipurl.com/907s 5) National Strategy for Suicide Prevention http://www.mentalhealth.samhsa.gov/suicideprevention/ 6) NPR: Clues to Depression Sought in Brain's Wiring http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=3866330 7) Suicide http://www.relst.uiuc.edu/durkheim/Summaries/suicide.html A report with disturbing implications was released this week by the World Health Organization indicating that suicide claims close to one million lives each year, and that this figure could rise to 1.5 million by 2020. The report also noted that suicide kills more people each year than road traffic accidents in most European countries, and that worldwide, suicide claims more lives than homicide and warfare combined. The report was released in anticipation of World Suicide Prevention Day, which happens to fall on September 10 this year. The report also contains suicide rates for different parts of the world, including the finding that the highest rates are found in Eastern Europe, and that the rates tend to be relatively low in Muslim countries. Not surprisingly, firearms tend to be the preferred instruments of suicide, primarily due to the fact that "few people survive attempts to shoot themselves." On a slightly more upbeat note, Lars Mehlum, the president of the International Association for Suicide Prevention commented this week that suicide "…is largely preventable if the public is made more aware of the problem and governments show the political will to tackle it." The first link leads to a news report from MSNBC about the report on suicide issued by the World Health Organization this week. The second link will take visitors to additional coverage of this subject from this Wednesday's New Scientist online edition. The third link leads to the homepage of the International Association for Suicide Prevention where visitors can learn about the group's activities and also about World Suicide Prevention Day. The fourth link leads to a very thorough site on suicide prevention created by the World Health Organization. Here visitors can read suicide reports on many countries around the world, learn about advocacy efforts, and look over empirical research on the subject of suicide. The fifth link will take visitors to the very pragmatic and helpful site created by the National Strategy for Suicide Prevention program (contained within the Department of Health & Human Services) that offers a number of resources for suicide prevention and numerous materials in Spanish and English. On a related note, the sixth link leads to a recent report from National Public Radio on current genetic research that is helping reveal what causes depression and what the best options for treating this condition may be. The final link provides a brief outline of Emile Durkheim's famous study of suicide that may pique visitors' interest in this emotional and sensitive topic. [From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2003. http://scout.wisc.edu/] posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM Creative Commons RDF-Enhanced Search http://search.creativecommons.org/index.jsp The Creative Commons RDF-Enhanced Search engines searches over 1 million pages with Creative Commons license info in them. An excellent resource for content discovery. This has been added to Knowledge Discovery Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to the search engines section of 2004-05 Internet MiniGuides. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM Government Information Clearinghouse http://www.search.gov/ The Government Information Clearinghouse site covers resources for government information including documents, notices of meetings, example component demonstrations, example reference, and Other Pages including Discussion List, Next Meeting (to be scheduled), Recap of Meetings, and Organizations involved in design of Clearinghouse and the Partnership Agreement. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM NLM Funds Forty Health Information and Access Projects http://www.nlm.nih.gov/news/nnlmelectronic04.html The U.S. National Library of Medicine recently announced that 40 projects designed to improve access to electronic health information for the general public have been funded through the National Network of Libraries of Medicine. Projects, scattered among 24 states, range from disseminating information on rare disorders, to maintaining Web sites for specific groups, to ratcheting up existing healthcare information Web sites. For example, the Periodic Paralysis Association of Monrovia, Calif., plans to use its grant to develop a Web-based video library to enhance the diagnostic knowledge base for this class of rare neurological disorders. The Florida Gulfcoast North Area Health Education Center and two other partners will expand and support the Florida School Nurse Project, which will include training and access to health information for school nurses and related professionals. And the Mississippi Valley State University James Herbert White Library and partners from local Golden Age Club and Boys and Girls Club will establish a program to train youth and senior adults in locating and using electronic health information. All projects will last up to 18 months. (National Library of Medicine 23 Aug 2004) posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM Cornell University: Curious About Astronomy? Ask An Astronomer http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/index.php At this website, volunteers in the Astronomy Department at Cornell University provide great educational materials about astronomy for educators and students. Visitors can find links to outside resources which cover many different aspects of astronomy and space science. The site provides links to biographies of the scientists who answer the many questions received each week. Users can find a huge archive of questions and answers divided into four main categories: the solar system, universe, observational astronomy, and miscellaneous. Visitors can also view a list of all the questions or search the archives by key words. If individuals can't find answers to their questions at this site, they can send their questions to the scientists. This has been added to Astronomy Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. [From The NSDL Scout Report for the Physical Sciences, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2003. http://scout.wisc.edu/] posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM Recommendation for Search Interoperability http://www.cio.gov/documents/ICGI/recommendation.html The U.S. Federal Government should adopt a search service standard to enhance interoperability among networked systems that aid in the discovery of and access to government information. The adopted search service standard should be the ISO 23950 international standard, thereby providing a high degree of interoperability across many communities of practice and types of data and information holdings (see section 5, ISO 23950 Overview , below). This recommendation follows existing law and policies of the U.S. Federal Government, positioning the standard search service as a supplement to other search mechanisms as may be needed for reasons other than broad scale interoperability. [ beSpacific 09-02-04] posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Saturday, September 11, 2004  Science Project Encyclopedia Science Project Encyclopedia http://www.cpet.ufl.edu/sciproj/ An excellent resource just for students from the Center for Precollegiate Education and Training of the University of Florida titled Science Project Encyclopedia that will supply many resources to the students working at creating a project for their science fair. This has been added to Student Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM SRW - Search/Retrieve Web Service http://www.loc.gov/z3950/agency/zing/srw/ SRW defines a web service for searching databases containing metadata and objects, both text and non-text. The SRW Initiative builds on Z39.50 along with web technologies. Building on Z39.50 semantics enables the creation of gateways to existing Z39.50 systems; web technologies reduce the barriers to new information providers allowing them to make their resources available via a standard search and retrieve service. SRU, Search and Retrieve URL Service, is a companion service to SRW, whose primary difference is its access mechanism. This has been added to Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM Early English Books Online (EEBO) - TCP (Text Creation Partnership) http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=coll_eebo&src=alpha EEBO Early English Books Online (EEBO) makes available online more than 125,000 titles published between 1473 and 1700, starting with the earliest printed works in the English language. It reproduces the works listed in the Short-Title Catalogue I (Pollard & Redgrave, 1475-1640); the Short-Title Catalogue II (Wing, 1641-1700); the Thomason Tracts, a compendium of broadsides on the English Civil War printed between 1640 and 1661; and the Early English Books Tract Supplements. The works can be searched by author, title, printer, publication date, type of illustration, LC subject headings and other fields. Bibliographic records are linked to high-resolution facsimile images of the works, downloadable in Adobe PDF format. The EEBO database comprises TIFF images and their accompanying bibliographic data. TCP The EEBO-TCP project is an international scholarly collaboration and partnership between the British Library, Oxford University, the University of Michigan, JISC, the Council on Library and Information Resources, and ProQuest Information and Learning. This exceptional partnership has proposed to create 25,000 searchable and readable editions that link immediately to the corresponding Earley English Books Online image files. In combination, the text and image editions of these works provide a powerful research and instructional tool of unquestioned enduring value. These have been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and will be added to Academic Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM Search Engines 2 http://www.search-engines-2.com/ Looking for a search engine or web directory? Search Engines 2 offers over 12,500 links to local, regional, national, and foreign internet search engines, web directories, pay per click search engines and meta search engines, many of which accept free/paid web site submissions and advertising. Nice site by Michael Wong. This has been added to the tool section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to the search engines section of all 2004-05 Internet MiniGuides. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM The Inquiry Page http://inquiry.uiuc.edu/ The Inquiry Page is more than a website. It's a dynamic virtual community where inquiry-based education can be discussed, resources and experiences shared, and innovative approaches explored in a collaborative environment. Here you can search a growing database of inquiry units, and you can also build your own inquiry units. You can see pictures of inquiry-based activities and learn more about some of their partners who use inquiry methods. Learn how to assess and evaluate inquiry-based education or look for more inquiry resources to support what you're doing. This has been added to the tool section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Education and Distance Learning Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM Web Design Reference http://www.d.umn.edu/itss/support/Training/Online/webdesign/ The Web Design Reference is a huge mega-reference (over 3,000 links) of information and articles about web design and development. It is dedicated to disseminating news and information with emphasis on elements of user experience, accessibility, web standards, cascading style sheets, events, books, information architecture, color, navigation and more. This site is created by the Information Technology Systems and Services of the University of Minnesota Duluth Campus. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Friday, September 10, 2004  Grid Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog Grid Resources http://www.GridResources.info/ Grid Resources is a Subject Tracer™ Information Blog developed and created by the Virtual Private Library™. It is designed to bring together the latest resources and sources on an ongoing basis from the Internet on Grid and Distributed Computing. We always welcome suggestions of additional sites and resources to be added to this comprehensive listing and please submit by clicking here. This site has been developed and maintained by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. . Additional links and resources by Marcus are available by clicking here. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM Yahoo Search Blog http://ysearchblog.com/ A good resource to discover the happenings at Yahoo Search. Also lists a number of tricks to make your yahoo searching easier and more productive. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM U.K.'s National Archives Gathering Steam http://www.kablenet.com/kd.nsf/Frontpage/08C4FD17BABE24DA80256EF6003D4B78?OpenDocument The U.K.'s National Archives has pledged to put 1,000 years of history on the Web by 2007, creating a single "gateway" that will enable other archives, museums, libraries and universities to find information online 24 hours a day. The National Archives was created last year by merging the Public Record Office and the Historical Manuscripts Commission. "In its first year, National Archives has created the first ever online archives of government Web sites and made over 3.5m documents available online," says National Archives chief executive Sarah Tyacke. In pursuing its ambitious goal the National Archives plans to improve the way records are managed and selected and will launch a campaign to raise public awareness and understanding of archives. Eventually, the organization will provide digital archive services to anyone who's a history buff, says Tyacke. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM Science Daily http://www.sciencedaily.com ScienceDaily -- the Internet's premier science news portal -- brings you the latest discoveries in science, health & medicine, the environment, space, technology, and computers, from the world's leading universities and research institutions. Updated three times a day, Monday to Friday, ScienceDaily also offers free search of its archive of more than 15,000 stories, as well as related links, books, encyclopedia articles, jobs, and more, in hundreds of different topics, including astronomy, biology, chemistry, engineering, geology, mathematics, physics, and more. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and Student Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM Avibase http://www.bsc-eoc.org/avibase/avibase.jsp Avibase is an extensive database information system about all birds of the world, containing over 1.4 million records about 10,000 species and 22,000 subspecies of birds, including distribution information, taxonomy, synonyms in several languages and more. This has been added to Directory Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM Achieving Open Access: Alternatives To Author Charges http://www.library.yale.edu/science/oa.html There probably isn't a researcher or scholar alive who wouldn't love to see true open access to scholarly journals -- freely available, immediate electronic access to published, peer-reviewed research articles. And while some open access does exist -- in a limited way to some journals -- the author proposes some ideas for making open access a more universal reality. One plan being implemented by some publishers calls for "author charges" as an alternative to traditional subscriptions. The assumption is that those with vested interests should pay for the distribution of the material, and that government grants and other sources of income will fund these direct payments. Noting that this model is flawed for a variety of reasons, the article suggests instead that alternatives can provide the desired access without destabilizing the system. One interesting idea is to reconsider the entire "publish or perish" focus of the promotion and tenure process. The existing system encourages unlimited scholarly publication, and enormous numbers of editorial boards with little guarantee of quality control from many commercial operations. Ideally, if papers were only being written and published because their authors truly had something to say, everybody would benefit. (Yale University Science Libraries) posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Thursday, September 09, 2004  Grant Resources STIB Grant Resources http://www.GrantResources.info/ Grant Resources is a Subject Tracer™ Information Blog developed and created by the Virtual Private Library™. It is designed to bring together the latest resources and sources on an ongoing basis from the Internet on Grants. We always welcome suggestions of additional sites and resources to be added to this comprehensive listing and please submit by clicking here. This site has been developed and maintained by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A.. Additional links and resources by Marcus are available by clicking here. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM Campaign Radar 2004 http://politics.blogpulse.com Through the Nov. 2 Presidential election, Campaign Radar 2004 delivers daily analysis on politics and campaign-specific issues and trends among blog writers. Every day, the system analyzes a large set of blog postings that contain political opinion to determine buzz and trends about presidential and vice-presidential candidates. The system also tracks select campaign issues, such as the war in Iraq, the economy, the environment, and health care. Campaign Radar 2004 identifies relative buzz on each issue as well as the top links and key phrases found in the context of these issues. Campaign Radar 2004 is an example of what BlogPulse is capable of performing from Sundar Kadayam and his excellent research staff at Intelliseek. posted by Marcus | 4:23 AM Wikitravel http://wikitravel.org/en/article/Main_Page Wikitravel is a project to create a free, complete, up-to-date and reliable world-wide travel guide. So far we have 2353 destination guides and other articles written and edited by Wikitravellers from around the globe. The project was begun in July of 2003 by the two founders, Evan and Maj. It was inspired by Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, and by the needs of travellers for timely information that long book-publishing cycles can't seem to meet. Wikitravel is built with the spirit of sharing knowledge that makes travel so enjoyable. Whenever travellers meet each other on the road, they swap info about the places they came from and ask questions about places they're going. We want to make it easy to share that knowledge and let others share it; our copyleft license means that the facts you know can spread far and wide. To create Wikitravel we use a tool (or a process, or a technology) called WikiWiki which lets any Internet reader create, update, edit, and illustrate any article on the Web site. We all share our pieces of knowledge, edit them, distill them, and assemble them into a pleasing and cohesive whole. The more people that use the Edit This Page link, the better Wikitravel becomes. This has been added to Directory Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM Identity Commons http://www.idcommons.net/ * you could navigate the Web using one easy-to-remember password? * you could enter your personal data once and use it on many Web sites? * you had a simple way of determining how information about you is used and disclosed by others? * you could ensure that your personal information and identity was controlled by one person -- you? At Identity Commons, they are striving to make this possible by creating the framework for trusted electronic communications. These tools will make your communications simple and convenient, secure yet verifiable. Individuals will be able to decide just how persistent, portable and private their online identity is, relationship by relationship; organizations that support this form of communication will derive greater value from their customer/member relationships while enhancing their reputation with customers. Serving as the backbone for this new technology are data sharing agreements that establish the parameters for the exchange and use of personal information between users. This has been added to eCommerce Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM PBCore - The Public Broadcasting Metadata Dictionary http://www.utah.edu/cpbmetadata/ Intrinsic to digital technology is the ability for each piece of content to carry with it some data describing that content in a useful way. This descriptive data is called metadata. To address the need to manage metadata within public broadcasting’s diverse community, version 1.0 of PBCore (the Public Broadcasting Metadata Dictionary) has been developed by a cross-organizational team of public radio and television producers and managers, archivists and information scientists. PBCore is designed to provide—for television, radio and Web activities—a standard way of describing and using this data, allowing content to be more easily retrieved and shared among colleagues, software systems, institutions, community and production partners, private citizens, and educators. It can also be used as a guide for the onset of an archival or asset management process at an individual station or institution. Such a standard is pivotal to applying the real power of digital technology to meet the mission of public broadcasting. This has been added to Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM Wide Open Spaces: Wikis, Ready or Not by Brian Lamb http://www.educause.edu/pub/er/erm04/erm0452.asp In 1999, the World Wide Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee looked back on the previous decade and lamented: “I wanted the Web to be what I call an interactive space where everybody can edit. And I started saying ‘interactive,’ and then I read in the media that the Web was great because it was ‘interactive,’ meaning you could click. This was not what I meant by interactivity.” That vision of a genuinely interactive environment rather than “a glorified television channel”—one in which people not only would browse pages but also would edit them as part of the process—did not disappear with the rise of the read-only Web browser.1 It’s churning away more actively than ever, in a vivid and chaotic Web-within-the-Web, via an anarchic breed of pages known as “wikis.”. This has been added to my Wikis section in Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators web page. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Wednesday, September 08, 2004  Games Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog Games Resources http://www.GamesResources.info/ Games Resources is a Subject Tracer™ Information Blog developed and created by the Virtual Private Library™. It is designed to bring together the latest resources and sources on an ongoing basis from the Internet on games. We always welcome suggestions of additional sites and resources to be added to this comprehensive listing and please submit by clicking here. This site has been developed and maintained by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A.. Additional links and resources by Marcus are available by clicking here. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM OCLC Research Publications Repository http://www.oclc.org/research/publications/about.htm This repository contains works produced, sponsored, or submitted by OCLC Research. In general, the works are research-oriented and are in the subject area of library and information science. Many items describe OCLC Research projects, activities, and programs and were originally published by OCLC, while others are from peer-reviewed scholarly journals. The repository contains metadata (MARC, Dublin Core) about publications and, whenever available and permitted, a link to the full digital text of items described. The repository is under construction. At present the repository contains: * 507 metadata records (out of 913 items published by OCLC staff since 1979) It contains current publications back to 2001, all "born digital" publications, and at least 40% of OCLC Research's corpus of work. A complete bibliography of OCLC Research publications is available here. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has also been added to Directory Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog under Information and Information Science Directory Classification. This will be added to Academic Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM Computers: Scientific Friend or Foe? By Dan Vergano, USA TODAY http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/2004-08-30-research-and-puters_x.htm It's an old joke among techie types: To err is human. To really screw up, you need a computer. Now scientists are learning that lesson, too. But they don't think it's funny. As computers extend their reach into the research laboratory, they are making possible new kinds of science, but they're also creating pitfalls along the way. Some computer programs are causing problems on their own, wreaking unexpected havoc with scientific data. In other cases, scientists are using computers — either on purpose or out of ignorance — to deceive. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) Central Bank Research Hub http://www.bis.org/cbhub/index.htm The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has established this facility to promote the search and dissemination of economic research published by central banks. The facility is built on the principle of crawlers that search research content from selected central banks websites on a daily basis. The Research Hub e-mail alert will keep its users informed about new research published on any of the websites of the participating central banks. Subscribers to the free e-mail alert can select specific topics and reception frequencies to keep their e-mail volumes under control. The BIS hopes that this facility will make research work on central banking topics more widely accessible to the central banks and the academic community at large. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.This will be added to Academic Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM Search Engine Radio http://www.seoradio.com/ Search Engine Radio is the only Internet talk radio show 100% dedicated to Search. From the best strategies for optimizing your site, to the best software tips for tracking pay-per-click campaigns, to the latest news about Google, tune in to SEORadio.com to keep up on everything about Search. Each week, host Brad Fallon talks with guests from the search engine industry about the latest news, optimization strategies, software tools, and more. Search Engine Radio is on every Tuesday at 9 AM Pacific / 12 Noon Eastern time. Previous shows are available in the Show Archives section. You can listen to the audio archives for each show and comment on the show in the forum. The Search Engine Radio Forum is open to all discussions about search engines and related topics. For more information about search engine radio, be sure to tune into the Search Engine Radio Blog. This will be added to the search engine section of all the Internet MiniGuides 2004-05. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM Hitwise Real-Time Competitive Intelligence http://www.hitwise.com/ Each day Hitwise reports on how 25 Million Internet users interact with over 500,000 websites across 160+ industries. Only Hitwise can provide marketers with timely and applicable information on how their online presence compares with their competitors. A valuable compeitive intelligence resource mainly for large companies with large budgets for CI information. This has been added to Business Intelligence Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Competitive Intelligence Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Tuesday, September 07, 2004 %20%20Rich%20Site%20Services%209%206%202004%203%2024%2019%20PM.jpg) RSS(sm): Rich Site Services This edition of Current Awareness Happenings on the Internet by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. September 7, 2004 V2N36 discusses Gerry McKiernan's RSS(sm): Rich Site Services. Click on the below audio posting to hear an audio by Marcus P. Zillman describing this excellent resource. View this resource at: RSS(sm): Rich Site Services http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/RSS.htm posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM Intellisearch http://www.intellisearchnow.com/ Finding information with Intellisearch isn't like anything you've ever used. The professional tools provided by Intellisearch will help you gather and use the information you need for success. Intellisearch is the only professional tool that provides you with 1) Prime Content - 3,000 trusted sources, 2) E-Mail Search Agent Alerts, 3) Progressive Cross-Referencing and 4) NO Ads. Intellisearch accesses a large database of publications and news sources such as newspapers, magazines, business publications, trade and professional journals, and wire services. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to eCurrent Awareness Resources 2004-05 Business Intelligence Report. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM Scoop http://www.netcontentinc.com/products/scoop.asp Scoop is a simple, easy-to-use business information service that pulls competitive intelligence, company research reports business news to your personal e-mail and website accounts. It can also push key information to your work group, website or marketing audience. Scoop saves time. It delivers actionable information for executives in sales, marketing, product development -- jobs where focus on the competitive business world is essential. Use Scoop for affordable competitive intelligence, company research, trend monitoring and marketing communications. *Full-text access to 2,500 print publications This will be added to eCurrent Awareness Resources 2004-05 Business Intelligence Report. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM Quote Finder http://blog.outer-court.com/quotefinder/ Philipp Lenssen's new Quote Finder checks possible sources or quotations for every sentence of a text using Google. This could be used for a variety of reasons, one of them to check if a text is really original, or copied from another work. You could also find out if you have used a very common sentence, or an idea someone else had before. Finally you may just check how often parts of a text of yours have been quoted online. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM People Finder Guide http://www.virtualchase.com/people/index.html This guide created by Genie Tyburski of the Virtual Chase will help you find online sources of public records as well as other Web-based people finding tools. When searching public records such as court filings, property records or the records of a government agency, understand that you will often find details in the supporting paper documentation, which is not available online. This has been added to Finding People Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM The Copyright WebQuest http://www.edsupport.cc/mguhlin/artifacts/consulting/copyright/ To develop an understanding of copyright law and how it applies to you, you need to develop a thorough understanding of what you are allowed to do under copyright, and, what you are not allowed to do. One way for you to get there is to critically analyze a number of copyright scenarios and discuss them from multiple perspectives. That's your task in this exercise. If you're short on time, patience, or want to try a different way, you may want to review the presentation and then take the online quiz. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and Student Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Monday, September 06, 2004  2002 Economic Census 2002 Economic Census http://www.census.gov/econ/census02/ The Economic Census profiles the US economy every 5 years, from the national to the local level. First 2002 Economic Census Reports ... The reports listed are the first of over 1600 publications from the 2002 Economic Census to be issued during the next 2 years. (See schedule.) This has been added to Statistics Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Business Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM Alexa Web Search http://www.Alexa.com/ Founded in April 1996, Alexa Internet grew out of a vision of Web navigation that is intelligent and constantly improving with the participation of its users. Alexa Related Links and Traffic Rankings are the embodiment of this vision, growing and getting better as more people join the Alexa community of smart Web surfers. Alexa could not exist without the participation of the Alexa Toolbar community. Each member of the community, in addition to getting a useful tool, is giving back. Simply by using the toolbar each member contributes valuable information about the web, how it is used, what is important and what is not. This information is returned to the community with improved Related Links, Traffic Rankings and more. This is the web in the "eyes" of ten million Alexa toolbar community. We must remember that the Internet is made up of close to one billion people now so this is just a very small snapshot....also that Alexa origins in the form of adware/spyware and that it’s now owned completely by Amazon.com. This has been added to Business Intelligence Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and eCommerce Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Business Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM Web Ranking Tool http://www.microsoft-watch.org/cgi-bin/ranking.htm This web ranking tool accepts a URL for a web page and fetches three numbers. The first number is Google's PageRank on a scale of 0 to 10. This scale is a low-resolution version of the actual PageRank. The second number is Alexa's traffic rank for a domain on the web. This is based on a sampling of actual traffic to that domain, and it comes from the "phone home" feature on Alexa's toolbar. The third number reported by this web ranking tool is a count of total external backlinks from Yahoo. An external backlink is a link to a specific page from outside of that page's own domain. This has been added to Business Intelligence Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and eCommerce Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Business Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM OJOSE (Online JOurnal Search Engine) http://www.ojose.com/ OJOSE (Online JOurnal Search Engine) is a powerful free scientific search engine enabling you to make search-queries in different databases by using only 1 search field. With OJOSE you can find, download or buy scientific publications (journals, articles, research reports, books, etc.) in up to 40 different databases. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Academic Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM KnowledgeTree™ - Open Source Document Management System http://kt-dms.sourceforge.net/ KnowledgeTree™ is an Open Source document management system. The product provides a content repository, workflow and routing of content, content publication and content metrics definition and analysis. Open Source enterprise knowledge management with no price tag! KnowledgeTree™ is one of the most rapidly-adopted open source document management systems, with downloads currently running at several hundreds per month. It was originally developed for the South African Medical Research Council; so it has all the code quality, functionality and architectural rigour that you would expect of a top-of-the-range enterprise application. The only thing it misses is the million-dollar price tag: being Open Source, it’s licence cost free. The product includes advanced document version control, full text search capabilities, multiple search types and extensible metadata fields for documents. Some of the more advanced functionality includes a customizable dashboard and workflow for document authoring. This has been added to Knowledge Discovery Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Academic Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM Business People Search http://www.eliyon.com/PublicSite/public/default.asp Eliyon Technologies provides a comprehensive source of information on business professionals. Their growing database currently contains over 21 million executives, managers and professionals in 1,408,870 companies -- all instantly searchable to meet your needs. This has been added to Business Intelligence Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and Finding People Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Business Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Sunday, September 05, 2004 Geology of Earth's Moon 1) Lunar Seismology http://mahi.ucsd.edu/rbulow/lunars.html 2) Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS)Planned Missions http://home.cwru.edu/~sjr16/advanced/near_isas.html 3) PDS Map-A-Planet http://pdsmaps.wr.usgs.gov/PDS/public/explorer/html/moonpick.htm 4) Volcanism on the Moon http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/planet_volcano/lunar/Overview.html 5) Moon Rocks through the Microscope: A Web Gallery of Images http://www.cas.usf.edu/~jryan/moonrocks.html 6) Science Channel video clips http://media.science.discovery.com/convergence/planets/video/video.html 7) Understanding the Moon http://www.nasm.si.edu/research/ceps/research/moon/moon.cfm 8) Historical Lunar Data Archive http://astrogeology.usgs.gov/Projects/LunarConsortium/ First, researchers at the University of California, San Diego discuss the importance of studying earthquakes on the moon, also known as moonquakes, and the Apollo Lunar Seismic Experiment (1). Users can discover the problems scientists must deal with when collecting the moon's seismic data. The students at Case Western Reserve University created the second website to address three missions the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS) has planned between now and 2010, including a mission to the moon (2). Visitors can learn about the Lunar-A probe that will be used to photograph the surface of the moon, "monitor moonquakes, measure temperature, and study the internal structure." Next, the Planetary Data Service (PDS) at the USGS offers users four datasets that they can use to create an image of a chosen area of the moon (3). Each dataset can be viewed as a basic clickable map; a clickable map where users can specify size, resolution, and projection; or an advanced version where visitors can select areas by center latitude and longitude. The fourth site, produced by Robert Wickman at the University of North Dakota, presents a map of the volcanoes on the moon and compares their characteristics with those on earth (4). Students can learn how the gravitational forces on the Moon affect the lava flows. Next, Professor Jeff Ryan at the University of South Florida at Tampa supplies fantastic images and descriptive text of the lunar rocks obtained by the Apollo missions (5). Visitors can find links to images of meteorites, terrestrial rocks, and Apollo landings as well. At the Science Channel website, students and educators can find a video clip discussing the geologic studies on the moon along with videos about planets (6). Users can learn about how studying moon rocks help scientists better understand the formation of the earth. Next, the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum presents its research of "lunar topography, cratering and impacts basins, tectonics, lava flows, and regolith properties" (7). Visitors can find summaries of the characteristics of the moon and the main findings since the 1950s. Lastly, the USGS Astrogeology Research Program provides archived lunar images and data collected between 1965 and 1992 by Apollo, Lunar Orbiter, Galileo, and Zond 8 missions (8). While the data is a little old, students and educators can still find valuable materials about the moon's topography, chemical composition, and geology. [From The NSDL Scout Report for the Physical Sciences, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2003. http://scout.wisc.edu/ posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM XML Activity Chartered Through June 2006 W3C is pleased to announce the relaunch of the Extensible Markup Language (XML) Activity. The Activity's Working, Interest and Coordination Groups given below have been chartered through 30 June 2006. New in March, the XML Binary Characterization Working Group is chartered through March 2005. XML Activity statement: http://www.w3.org/XML/Activity XML Binary Characterization Working Group chaired by Robin Berjon (Expway) http://www.w3.org/2003/09/xmlap/xml-binary-wg-charter.html XML Coordination Group chaired by Michael Sperberg-McQueen (W3C) http://www.w3.org/2003/09/xmlap/xml-cg-charter.html XML Core Working Group chaired by Paul Grosso (Arbortext) and Norman Walsh (Sun Microsystems) http://www.w3.org/2003/09/xmlap/xml-core-wg-charter.html XML Plenary Interest Group chaired by Michael Sperberg-McQueen (W3C) XML Query Working Group chaired by Paul Cotton (Microsoft), Andrew Eisenberg (IBM), and Jim Melton (Oracle) http://www.w3.org/2003/09/xmlap/xml-query-wg-charter.html XML Schema Interest Group chaired by Michael Sperberg-McQueen (W3C) XML Schema Working Group chaired by David Ezell (NACS) http://www.w3.org/2003/09/xmlap/xml-schema-wg-charter.html XSL Working Group chaired by Sharon Adler (IBM) http://www.w3.org/Style/2000/xsl-charter.html Participation is open to W3C Members. Learn about "XML in 10 Points" and visit the XML home page. http://www.w3.org/XML/1999/XML-in-10-points http://www.w3.org/XML/ posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM Classics Resources on the Internet http://duke.usask.ca/~porterj/resourcesurls.html Classics Resources on the Internet by John Porter, University of Saskatchewan, is a vast amount of material related to the study of Classics is available on the Internet, in a variety of forms — photographs of objects, art work, sites, papyri, and manuscripts, often with scholarly annotations; ancient texts in translation; indices to ancient works; study guides; drills; bibliographies; electronic journals; and electronic mailing lists. In fact, so much is available, and the body of material is growing so rapidly, that no listing can hope to be comprehensive. What follows is intended as a starting point for those interested in looking into Classics on the Internet. This has been added to Directory Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM Best Companies List http://www.greatplacetowork.com/best/index.php Each year, the Great Place to Work® Institute produces various Best Companies lists in the U.S. including Fortune's "100 Best Companies to Work For"® in America. They use the same selection methodology for the U.S. lists as for their over 20 international lists, including "Best Companies to Work for" lists in all 15 countries of the European Union, Brazil, Korea, and a number of other countries throughout Latin America and Asia. Companies are selected for the Best Companies lists primarily on the basis of their employees' responses to the Great Place to Work® Trust Index®, a proprietary employee survey developed by the Great Place to Work® Institute. Further information used for selection to the list is provided by completion of the Great Place to Work® Culture Audit©, a two part management questionnaire, also developed by the Great Place to Work® Institute. They take pride in maintaining the highest level of integrity in their evaluation process. Great Place to Work® Institute and its media partners will only publicize information about companies that make the list and, in addition, only publicize positive aspects of each company. This has been added to Employment Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM Software First for African Languages http://www.sdnp.undp.org/perl/news/articles.pl?id=6835&do=gpage Two years of computer programming will culminate with the launch of the first word processing software to run in Zulu, Sepedi and Afrikaans. Its developers claim that this is the first word processor to be released in African languages, beating a project by Microsoft SA to convert its own software into native languages. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM The Internet at 35: Still Evolving http://snipurl.com/8qfg Thirty-five years after computer scientists at UCLA linked two bulky computers using a 15-foot gray cable, testing a new way to exchange data over networks, what would ultimately become the Internet remains a work in progress. University researchers are experimenting with ways to increase its capacity and speed. Programmers are trying to imbue Web pages with intelligence. And work is underway to re-engineer the network to reduce spam and security troubles. All the while threats loom: Critics warn that commercial, legal and political pressures could hinder the types of innovations that made the Internet what it is today. Stephen Crocker and Vinton Cerf were among the graduate students who joined UCLA professor Len Kleinrock in an engineering lab on September 2, 1969, as bits of meaningless test data flowed silently between the two computers. By January, three other "nodes" joined the fledgling network. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Saturday, September 04, 2004  Posting could be interrupted for the next several days depending upon the consequences of Hurricane Frances that is now immediately approaching. They are saying that we will be experiencing hurricane winds for the next 24 hours...... posted by Marcus | 9:40 AM  Nutra Sanus - Natural Health Care and Nutrition Nutra Sanus - Natural Health Care and Nutrition http://www.nutrasanus.com/ Nutra Sanus is a noncommercial, evidence-based, natural healthcare and nutrition information site dedicated to empowering consumers to make informed choices about nutritional supplements, including vitamins, minerals, herbs, antioxidants and nutraceuticals. It is their primary mission to provide health conscious consumers with the best, most reliable guidance, information and resources available relating to the most important aspect of their lives -- their health. They recognize that qualify of life is directly related to qualify of health. At NutraSanus they strongly believe that by harnessing the natural power of the earth that you can live a longer, happier and healthier life. This has been added to Healthcare Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Healthcare Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM AFFORD - Database of African Organizations http://www.afford-uk.org/resources/database/ AFFORD maintains an online Database of UK based African civil society organizations engaged in development activities both in the UK and in Africa. We are also building the contents of the Database to include agencies and organisations whose work is of relevance to UK-based African organisations (for example donors, organisations in Africa, Pan-African institutions). The Database is one stage in a strategic effort to document and assist increased partnerships and linkages between African organisations in the diaspora and civil society organisations in Africa. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM Last Call: Architecture of the World Wide Web http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-webarch-20040816/ http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/ The W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG) has released a second Last Call Working Draft of the "Architecture of the World Wide Web, First Edition." The document is written for Web developers, implementers, content authors and publishers. It describes the properties that are desired of the Web and the design choices that have been made to achieve them. Comments are welcome through 17 September. Visit the TAG home page above. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM BinaryBiz Data Recovery Software & Tools http://www.binarybiz.com/ Data Recovery Software - BinaryBiz Data Recovery Software & Tools featuring data recovery software, data recover 'Insurance', remote drive repair, drive failure monitoring as well as free communications and other crucial tools you need to make your digital life easy. This will be added to Security Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM Medical Online Dictionaries & Glossaries http://www.interfold.com/translator/medsites.htm The most comprehensive multilingual listing of online medical dictionaries & medical glossaries on the Internet. Over 1,707 links to useful informative medical and health-related web sites and medical dictionaries in twenty languages; compiled by André Fairchild. The text of this Long web portal (about 175 pages, if you print all components, e.g., medsites.htm, medlinks.htm, index.html and medbooks.htm) is MOSTLY in ENGLISH, but many of the links below are to sites in languages other than English. This has been added to Healthcare Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Healthcare Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM GMDH - Group Method of Data Handling http://come.to/GMDH Group Method of Data Handling was applied in a great variety of areas for data mining and knowledge discovery, forecasting and systems modeling, optimization and pattern recognition. Inductive GMDH algorithms give possibility to find automatically interrelations in data, to select optimal structure of model or network and to increase the accuracy of existing algorithms. This original self-organizing approach is substantially different from deductive methods used commonly for modeling. It has inductive nature - it finds the best solution by sorting-out of possible variants. By sorting of different solutions GMDH networks aims to minimize the influence of the author on the results of modeling. Computer itself finds the structure of the model and the laws which act in the system. Group Method of Data Handling is a set of several algorithms for different problems solution. It consists of parametric, clusterization, analogues complexing, rebinarization and probability algorithms. This has been added to Data Mining Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and Knowledge Discovery Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Friday, September 03, 2004  Researching Philanthropy - The Literature of the Nonprofit Sector Online (LNPS) Researching Philanthropy - The Literature of the Nonprofit Sector Online (LNPS) http://lnps.fdncenter.org/ LNPS Online is a searchable database of the literature of philanthropy. It incorporates the unique contents of the Foundation Center's five libraries and contains more than 22,953 full bibliographic citations, of which more than 15,438 have descriptive abstracts. It is updated daily. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Business Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM Fed in Print http://www.frbsf.org/publications/fedinprint/index.html The Fed in Print is an index to the Federal Reserve System economic research publications including working papers, with links to the full-text documents wherever possible.. It is searchable by author, title/subject keywords, publication date, and Bank. You can search by more than one criteria in a single query. There is a Word Wheel with which you can browse all fields except keyword. This has been added to Business Intelligence Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and will be added to Business Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM NationMaster - Where Stats Come Alive http://www.nationmaster.com/ NationMaster.com, a massive central data source and a handy way to graphically compare nations. NationMaster is a vast compilation of data from such sources as the CIA World Factbook, United Nations, World Health Organization, World Bank, World Resources Institute, UNESCO, UNICEF and OECD. Using the form above, you can generate maps and graphs on all kinds of statistics with ease. We currently have 4,350 stats, and this number is increasing all the time. We want to be the web's one-stop resource for country statistics on anything and everything, whether it be soldiers, olympic medals, tourists, English speakers or wall plug voltages. You can also view profiles of individual countries including their maps and flags. You can use correlation reports and scatterplots to find relationships between variables. Integrated into these is a full encyclopedia with over 200,000 articles. This has been added to Statistics Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM U.S. and World Population Clocks http://www.census.gov/main/www/popclock.html World and United States population clocks based on Census 2000 data. Clock can be viewed and refreshed on the main page or opened as a Java popup window which runs in realtime. This has been added to Statistics Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM ThomasNet http://www.thomasnet.com/ ThomasNet, powered by Thomas Register® and Thomas Regional®, brings together industrial buyers and suppliers on a national, regional, and local level. For industrial buyers, ThomasNet is an industrial search engine that provides one source for finding the exact product, service, or supplier they need - at the exact time they need it. ThomasNet also gives buyers direct access to the detailed information they need to make a purchasing or specifying decision, including line-item product details, CAD drawings, and more. For industrial suppliers, ThomasNet is a leading provider of Internet marketing solutions. The company helps suppliers grow their business online by driving qualified industrial traffic to their Websites, and converting that traffic into customers. ThomasNet's complete range of online catalog, e-commerce, and CAD solutions help suppliers deliver the detailed information buyers expect on the Web. ThomasNet is brought to you by Thomas Industrial Networksm, a wholly owned subsidiary of Thomas Publishing Company. This has been added to ShoppingBots Subject Tracer Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology http://jbb.hindawi.com/ Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology is an open source international journal publishing original work in all areas of Biomedicine (carcinogenesis, epidemiology, gene therapy, mutagenesis, pathology, pharmacology, toxicology, etc.) and biotechnology (microbial, animal and plant biotechnology). Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology welcomes also papers from geneticists and molecular biologists covering the area of Animal, Bacterial and Plant genetics. The journal will also consider contributions about medical informatics, medical technology, and commercial biotechnology. Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology is primarily devoted to original research papers, but will also publish review articles, "forum" discussion articles, editorials, book reviews, and meeting reports. This has been added to Biological Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Thursday, September 02, 2004  ERIC Database ERIC Database http://www.eric.ed.gov/ The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC), sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education, produces the world’s premier database of journal and non-journal education literature. The new ERIC online system, released September 2004, provides the public with a centralized ERIC Web site for searching the ERIC bibliographic database of more than 1.1 million citations going back to 1966. Effective October 1, more than 107,000 full-text non-journal documents (issued 1993-2004), previously available through fee-based services only, will be available for free. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will also be added to Academic Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide and Education and Distance Learning Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM How Americans Use Instant Messaging http://www.pewinternet.org/report_display.asp?r=133 2004 Pew Internet & American Life surveys reveal that more than four in ten online Americans instant message (IM). That reflects about 53 million American adults who use instant messaging programs. About 11 million of them IM at work and they are becoming fond of its capacity to encourage productivity and interoffice cooperation. At the same time, IM usage varies widely across different age groups. Instant messengers utilize IM not only as a way to expand and remain connected their social circle, but also as a form of self-expression, through use of customized away messages, profiles and buddy icons. Instant messagers use the expressive tools of IM more frequently than the protective tools that allow them to block unwanted communications. Buddy list management also occurs relatively infrequently, with users reporting adding or deleting buddies from their list no more than a few times a month. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM SearchSpy™ http://www.dogpile.com/info.dogpl/searchspy/results.htm?fci=1?filter=0&qcat=web Ever what the rest of thw world is searching for? This feature from the DogPile® folks allows you to observe what people are searching for live from throughout the world as they make querys at Dogpile Meta Search Engine site. Available are both filtered and unfiltered live search querys. This has been added to the search engine section of the 2004-05 Internet MiniGuides. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM Audioscrobbler http://www.audioscrobbler.com/ Audioscrobbler is a computer system that builds up a detailed profile of your musical taste. After installing an Audioscrobbler Plugin, your computer sends the name of every song you play to the Audioscrobbler Server. With this information, the Audioscrobbler server builds you a 'Musical Profile'. Statistics from your Musical Profile are shown on your Audioscrobbler User Page, available for everyone to view. There are lots of people using Audioscrobbler, but you probably won't be interested in most of them. The Audioscrobbler Server calculates which people are most similar to you, based on shared musical taste, so you can take a look at what your peers are listening to. With this information, Audioscrobbler is able to automatically generate suggestions for new songs/artists you might like. These suggestions are based on the same principles as Amazon's "People who bought this also bought X,Y,Z", but because the Audioscrobbler data is what people are actually listening to, the suggestions tend to make more sense than Amazon. It's not just pure statistics and recommendations, there are active forums, groups, weekly charts... The system is being worked on full time, and they plan to roll out many more exciting features. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM Five Photons Linked By Eric Smalley, Technology Research News http://www.trnmag.com/Stories/2004/082504/Five_photons_linked_082504.html Quantum computers, which use attributes of quantum particles like atoms and photons to represent data, promise to solve certain very large problems many orders of magnitude faster than is possible using today's computers. The challenge is being able to manipulate particles well enough to carry out computing. A key step is being able to entangle five particles, which would make it possible to check computations for errors and teleport quantum information within and between computers. Researchers from the University of Science and Technology of China, the University of Innsbruck in Austria, and the University of Heidelberg in Germany have entangled five photons. "Our experiment demonstrated for the first time the ability to manipulate five-particle entanglement," said Jianwei Pan, a physics professor at the University of Science and Technology of China and a fellow at the University of Heidelberg in Germany. Error correction uses mathematical codes to detect when a bit has been accidentally flipped, and is widely used in classical computing because electronic and magnetic bits occasionally switch accidentally from a 1 to a 0 or vice versa. Quantum bits are more delicate and require an error correction method to be feasible. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM Prints and Photographs Reading Room - Library of Congress http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/ Unique in their scope and richness, the prints and photographs collections today number more than 13.7 million images. These include photographs, fine and popular prints and drawings, posters, and architectural and engineering drawings. While international in scope, the collections are particularly rich in materials produced in, or documenting the history of, the United States and the lives, interests and achievements of the American people. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Wednesday, September 01, 2004 %20%20Rich%20Site%20Services%20%20General%20Bibliography%208%2026%202004%209%2056%2018%20PM.jpg) Rich Site Services - General Bibliography Rich Site Services - General Bibliography http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/GenBib.htm An excellent general bibliography compiled and maintained by Gerry McKiernan, Science and Technology Librarian and Bibliographer, Science and Technology Department, Iowa State University Library. Ames, IA 50011. This has been added to the resource listing in my Bots Blogs and News Aggregators presentation. posted by Marcus | 4:25 AM LinkBaton http://my.linkbaton.com/ With so many ways to benefit from LinkBatons, it's no wonder that webmasters, libraries, editors, publishers, and business executives are beginning to implement them into their web sites, online catalogs and e-businesses. LinkBatons are user-customizable links that can be placed on any web site to enable user preference and to enhance website revenue. Ordinary hyperlinks take people from one web page to another. LinkBatons "learn what your users like" and are easy to use on any web site, adding value through personalization and localization. This has been added to eCommerce Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:20 AM FeedPlex - Find News Articles and Sources http://www.feedplex.com/ Feedplex is a search engine made to archive news feeds, in a purpose to create a world class scalable data index of over 12,000 news feeds, searching over approximately 2 million+ articles (currently, they are not even a quarter of the way through it!). Their goal, however, is quite different from other feed-indexing search engines. They do not specifically proclaim to have the latest articles in their index, or update feeds continuously/daily. But they do try to keep their index as fresh as possible to expand their archive alive. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to the search engine section of all the 2004-05 Internet MiniGuides. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM Personalization Can Improve Access, Boost Efficiency http://www.therightplace.plus.com/jp/ Personalization of Web sites -- from the option to turn off animated introductory pages, to "Welcome, Dr. Smith!" greetings, to automatically suggesting research sources based on users' past activities -- can broaden accessibility to users of all abilities and technologies, according to a report commissioned by the U.K.'s Joint Information Systems Committee. Although personalization is no substitute for meeting users' needs through user-requirements analysis and user-centered design, it can reveal inadequacies in business processes and allow you to more precisely target services and learning materials. Among the report's findings is the observation that narrow applications of personalization are far more likely to succeed, particularly when a clear objective has been identified, a business case can be made and control has been or will be established over the relevant, accurate data. In addition, the report says that personalization of institutional information services can offer significant efficiency gains -- for staff, if they can quickly access institutional information pertinent to their roles, and for students, if they can access information for which they would otherwise have to ask in person or in writing. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM The Wellcome Trust: The Human Genome Interactive Centre http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/en/genome/interactive.html Produced by the Wellcome Trust, an independent research funding charity, this website utilizes interactive, multimedia technologies to share discoveries of the human genome. On one virtual tour, Zoom in On Your Genome, site visitors enter the human body and travel from the liver into cells, chromosomes, genes, chromatin loops, nucleosomes, and more. The Chromosome Browser, a second tour, supplies key information about different chromosomes and profiles important genes in the human genome. This website also links to other sections of the larger Human Genome site including: related news on the internet, articles, an online survey, and an extensive glossary. This has been added to Biological Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM An Invisible Hand? - An Unexplained Effect During Solar Eclipses Casts Doubt on General Relativity http://www.economist.com/science/displayStory.cfm?story_id=3104321 “ASSUME nothing” is a good motto in science. Even the humble pendulum may spring a surprise on you. In 1954 Maurice Allais, a French economist who would go on to win, in 1988, the Nobel prize in his subject, decided to observe and record the movements of a pendulum over a period of 30 days. Coincidentally, one of his observations took place during a solar eclipse. When the moon passed in front of the sun, the pendulum unexpectedly started moving a bit faster than it should have done. Since that first observation, the “Allais effect”, as it is now called, has confounded physicists. If the effect is real, it could indicate a hitherto unperceived flaw in General Relativity—the current explanation of how gravity works. That would be a bombshell—and an ironic one, since it was observations taken during a solar eclipse (of the way that light is bent when it passes close to the sun) which established General Relativity in the first place. So attempts to duplicate Dr Allais's observation are important. However, they have had mixed success, leading sceptics to question whether there was anything to be explained. Now Chris Duif, a researcher at the Delft University of Technology, in the Netherlands, has reviewed the evidence. According to a paper he has just posted on arXiv.org, an online publication archive, the effect is real, unexplained, and could be linked to another anomaly involving a pair of American spacecraft. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM |
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