Internet Happenings, Events and Sources
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| Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker/Consultant Internet Happenings, Events and Sources |
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Tuesday, November 30, 2004 
The Digital Toolbox The Digital Toolbox http://www.lib.calpoly.edu/toolbox/ The Digital Toolbox is designed to help you find tools and resources which will enable you to create digital content easier, faster, and smarter. This has been added to World Wide Web Reference Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:25 AM Will Microads Save Online Content? by Mathew Honan http://www.ojr.org/ojr/business/1015015782.php The next big thing could be quite small ... Origins of the Microad. In the fourth quarter of last year, Google launched a new advertising service. The ads were no more than text and links contained in small boxes that appear on the right side of the screen when users search on certain keywords. They're unobtrusive, and highly targeted. And even better, they work. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:20 AM hex HTML Color Codes http://html-color-codes.com/ Here are 216 hexadecimal HTML color codes arranged by hue. These hex codes are used inside web pages. Bob Stein of VisiBone designed this arrangement of colors for the swatch libraries in Adobe ImageReady and Photoshop. They are now available for Paint Shop Pro, HomeSite and many other tools. If you use those swatches, this table helps you see all the codes at once. Cards, Charts and Mouse Pads using a special 8-color printing process that matches computer screen color are also available. This has been added to World Wide Web Reference Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM Archival Meta Index http://www.tulane.edu/~lmiller/ArchivesResources.html This service is an archival "meta index," or index of archival indexes. That is, from here they refer you to the major indexes, lists, and databases of archival resources. From them you can link to almost every archives and archival resource in the metaverse. For ease of organization, they have divided the resources into broad, general categories, but researchers should note that specific resources can apply to more than one general category. The categories correspond to the discussion of Internet archival resources in the Society of American Archivists workshop Cyberspace for Archivists. 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 Zillman | 4:10 AM OCKHAM Initiative http://ockham.org/ The OCKHAM Initiative seeks to promote the development of digital libraries via collaboration between librarians and digital library researchers. By promoting simple, open approaches and standards for digital library tools, services, and content, the gap between digital library development and the adoption of digital library systems by the traditional library community will be bridged. This has ben added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM Archives Canada http://www.archivescanada.ca/english/index.html In homes, schools and libraries across Canada, people are looking for evidence of what it means to be a Canadian. Archives Canada is a gateway to archival resources found in over 800 repositories across Canada--it's your gateway to Canada's collective memory! Archives Canada is an official archival portal maintained by the Canadian Council of Archives (CCA), and is a joint initiative of CCA, the Provincial – Territorial Archival Networks, and Library and Archives Canada. All archival descriptions and links contained in the searchable database are provided by provincial – territorial councils, their members, and Library and Archives Canada. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Monday, November 29, 2004 
World Wide Web Reference Subject Tracer™ Information Blog This edition of Current Awareness Happenings on the Internet by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. November 29, 2004 V2N48 discusses the latest Subject Tracer™ Information Blog World Wide Web Reference. Click on the below audio posting to hear an audio by Marcus P. Zillman on this latest Subject Tracer™ discussing reference resources and sites about the world wide web. View this Subject Tracer™ Information Blog at: World Wide Web Reference Subject Tracer™ Information Blog http://www.WWWReference.info/  
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Inside Einstein's Universe Inside Einstein's Universe http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/seuforum/einstein/ In 1905, Albert Einstein published four revolutionary papers about the world we live in. Among the ideas that would come from his work were three predictions about space and time so extraordinary that even Einstein himself refused to believe they could be true — a time when time itself could not exist, a space that could generate yet more space, and a bizarre intersection of space and time at the center of a black hole. Now, one hundred years later, not only do we have actual evidence for all three phenomena, but the study of these once-wild ideas — the Big Bang, “Dark Energy” and Black Holes — is at the cutting edge of science in the 21st century. Joining the worldwide celebration of the centennial of Einstein’s miracle year, the NASA-Smithsonian UniverseForum is creating a portfolio of highly visual, dramatic interactive learning resources especially for use by museums, science centers, planetariums and other science education organizations. This site is also sponsored by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. This has been added to Astronomy Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:25 AM Deal Coupon - Web Coupons from A - Z http://www.DealCoupon.com/ Bargain hunters can use this page to check out their favorite merchants, browse by category, or type in the coupon, product or vendor you're looking for and let their search engine do the work. They deliver the most recent and most popular coupons. This has been added to ShoppingBots Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:20 AM CodeBreakers-Journal http://www.codebreakers-journal.com/ CodeBreakers-Journal publishes original research articles in all aspects of computational methods used in the working fields Algorithms, Virus-Research, Software-Protection and Reverse Code Engineering and Cryptanalysis as well as all other areas of security analysis. It offers the possibility to publish grey articles/papers too. They are publishing research articles after full peer review. All articles are published, without barriers to access, immediately upon acceptance. This has been added to Script Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM World Report on Knowledge for Better Health http://www.who.int/rpc/meetings/pub1/en/ The Report focuses on bridging of the "know do" gap, the gulf between what we know and what we do in practice, between scientific potential and health realization. The bridging of this gap is central to achieving the health-related Millennium Development Goals (MDG’s) by 2015. The gap exists for each of the MDG’s and represents a fundamental and pragmatic knowledge translation challenge that must be addressed to strengthen health systems performance towards achieving the MDG’s. The Report will expound the message that we must turn scientific knowledge into actions, which improves people’s health, and that health improvement through knowledge applications is a critical factor in human development and alleviation of ill-health and poverty worldwide. This will be added to Healthcare Rersources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM Yahoo Shopping Holiday Gift Center http://www.shopping.yahoo.com/holiday Looking for a memorable gift for everyone on this year's list? The Yahoo! Shopping Holiday Gift Center makes gift giving simple and special by offering great ideas for the perfect gift. With Top 10 product lists in a variety of categories, and gift guides for a multitude of personalities, including the "trendy wife," "tech-savvy sister," "trendy brother," "the Creator," "the Rebel" and more, consumers can find a desirable gift for anyone on their giving list this year. Yahoo!'s powerful Product Search engine recently expanded the ability to narrow by attribute, which makes it simple to search and sort through millions of "soft goods" products. Type "shoes" into Yahoo! Shopping, for example, and users can quickly and easily narrow tens of thousands of results by selecting various attributes -- gender, age, shoe style, brand, store, price, and special deals. This has been added to ShoppingBots Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM CivicSpace Labs http://www.civicspacelabs.org/ CivicSpace Labs is being built with the needs of distributed organizations in mind. It will give you and the supporters within your community a solid framework for organizing and engaging those around you in action. But it also will allow you to plug your community into a network of other communities where you can share your ideas, knowledge, relationships, and organizational information. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Sunday, November 28, 2004 
Awareness Watch™ Newsletter V2N12 December 2004 Awareness Watch™ Newsletter V2N12 December 2004 http://virtualprivatelibrary.blogspot.com/Awareness Watch V2N12.pdf Awareness Watch™ Newsletter Blog and Archives http://www.AwarenessWatch.com/ The December 2004 V2N12 Awareness Watch™ Newsletter is a freely available 29 page .pdf document (497KB) from the above URL. The Awareness Watch Featured Report this month highlights a comprehensive listing of online Data Mining Resources. 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 paper review covers Marcus P. Zillman's Web Data Extractors and the Subject Tracer™ Information Blogs have been updated with the latest subjects: Script Resources and World Wide Web Reference. posted by Marcus Zillman | 1:08 PM Fiber Optics Recent news coverage describes a collaboration between SBC Communications and Microsoft to combine telephone, television and internet access under one highspeed network connection. This Topic in Depth explores fiber optic technology, its history and implications. SFGate: SBC and Microsoft http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/06/23/MNGVR7AI711.DTL SBC Communications Inc. http://www.sbc.com/gen/press-room?pid=5838 How Stuff Works: How Fiber Optics Work http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/fiber-optic.htm Fiber Optic Reference Guide: A Brief History http://www.fiber-optics.info/fiber-history.htm PC World: Has Your Broadband Had Its Fiber? http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,117684,00.asp Telephony Online http://telephonyonline.com/ar/telecom_breaking_meg_barrier/index.htm This article from SFGate reports on the recent negotiations between SBC and Microsoft (1) and the implications of the new technology for Internet and television access. This website from SBC (2) provides video footage and background information on their initiative called Project Lightspeed. This initiative is based largely on fiber technology, which is described further on this website from How Stuff Works (3). This website (4) provides a brief history of fiber optics technology along with links to sections on the applications of fiber optics and more basics on transmission. This article from PC World (5) discusses how fiber optics became a viable option. This article from Telephony Online 6)reviews some of the challenges that remain. [From The NSDL Scout Report for Math, Engineering, and Technology, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2004. http://scout.wisc.edu/] posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:25 AM Big List of Blog Search Engines http://www.aripaparo.com/archive/000632.html A listing of blog search engines by Ari Paparo with instructions on where to submit your blog in each search engine. Ari also has Big List of International Blog Search Engines that is available by clicking here. This has been added to my Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators presentation as well as to the search engine section of all the 2005 Internet MiniGuides. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:20 AM Code Style Web http://www.codestyle.org/ The Code Style Web site aims to answer key questions for Web developers. Which Web fonts are most common? What is the best way to use media dependent stylesheets? How can I design more robust, accessible Websites? This has been added to Script Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and World Wide Web Reference Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM RedLightGreen - Search for Books and Research Materials http://www.redlightgreen.com/ RedLightGreen helps you locate the most important books and other research materials in your area of interest, and find out whether what you need is available at your favorite library. Sign in, and you can format and send citations any way you want: MLA, APA, Chicago, Turabian. Just click - and it's done. Founded as the Research Libraries Group in 1974, RLG is a nonprofit membership corporation of universities, national libraries, archives, and other memory institutions with remarkable collections for research and learning. They collaborate on projects that bring these collections online, help deliver them around the world, and support their preservation in digital form. RedLightGreen is one of their newest projects. It is designed specifically for undergraduates using the Web—and the libraries that support them. RedLightGreen.com delivers information from RLG members about more than 130 million books for education and research; and it links students back to their campus libraries for the books they select. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM EthicsWeb - Ethics Resources on the World Wide Web http://www.ethicsweb.ca/ The EthicsWeb is a collection of ethics-related websites, run by philosopher-ethicist Chris MacDonald. Chris has been administering respected ethics-related websites since 1994. The style and function of the various EthicsWeb websites varies, but each strives to present a selected range of high-quality ethics-related resources on a particular topic. Most of the EthicsWeb sites have a Canadian "slant," but all provide information that will be of interest to international visitors. This has been added to Information Quality Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and Refernece Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM WAICENT Information Finder http://www.fao.org/waicent/search/ FAO World Agricultural Information Centre - WAICENT Information Finder is part of FAO's commitment to improve access to timely and relevant technical information on agriculture and food security. This has been added to Agriculture Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Saturday, November 27, 2004 
December 2004 Zillman Column December 2004 Zillman Column - Holiday Shopping: ShoppingBots and Virtual Malls http://virtualprivatelibrary.blogspot.com/Holiday Shopping Dec04 Column.pdf http://www.zillmancolumns.com/ The December 2004 Zillman Column is now available and is titled Holiday Shopping: ShoppingBots and Virtual Malls. This December 2004 Zillman Column is a comprehensive list of shopping resources and sites on the Internet. I have been writing about and listing various shopping resources and tools to be used on the Internet since 1995 and this continues my tradition. Download this excellent 18 page free .pdf (356KB) column today and shop with your bot til you drop! posted by Marcus Zillman | 3:35 PM 
TRN - Latest Technology Research News Software Sorts Out Subjectivity By Kimberly Patch, Technology Research News http://snipurl.com/as7m Associated Technical Paper http://arxiv.org/abs/cs.CL/0409058 It's easy for people to tell whether a review is positive or negative. It's much harder for computers because they have neither feelings nor understanding. Software that leaves out objective sentences is better at the task than systems that churn through whole documents. One of the fundamental challenges in getting computers to sort and analyze text is finding ways to automatically classify information. Applications like search engines that group similar documents do so using topic-based categories. Sentiment analysis techniques add another dimension by determining the author's attitude about a topic rather than just identifying a topic. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:25 AM BotBall Educational Robotics Program http://www.botball.org/ Botball is a workshop and competition presented by the KISS Institute for Practical Robotics. The program offers hands-on learning in robotics and is "designed to engage students in learning the practical applications of science, technology, engineering and math." Registered teams receive KISS Institute's kit of robotics equipment, but teams must have access to a laptop computer and the Internet. Following a workshop, students are given seven weeks to create a team of robots and a weblog documenting their robot-building process. The robots then compete in a field where they must play the game by themselves without being guided by remote control. Details about the program as well as possible ways to obtain financial aid and raise funds are posted on this website. Video footage and news clippings provide some background information on previous Botball tournaments. [From The NSDL Scout Report for Math, Engineering, and Technology, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2004. http://scout.wisc.edu/] posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:20 AM SOAP Performance: Three W3C Proposed Recommendations W3C is pleased to announce the advancement of three technical reports to Proposed Recommendations offering an optimal way to transfer binary data like images in Web services messages. Produced by the XML Protocol Working Group, SOAP Version 1.2 is a lightweight protocol for exchanging structured information in a decentralized, distributed environment such as the Web. * Using an XML Schema datatype, "XML-binary Optimized Packaging (XOP)" allows efficient serialization of XML element content. http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/PR-xop10-20041116/ * Using a XOP-based selective encoding, the "SOAP Message Transmission Optimization Mechanism" optimizes hop-by-hop exchanges between SOAP nodes. http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/PR-soap12-mtom-20041116/ * The "Resource Representation SOAP Header Block" allows applications to carry a representation of a resource in a SOAP message. http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/PR-soap12-rep-20041116/ Visit the Web services home page: http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/ posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM Mabliki http://freshmeat.net/projects/mabliki/?branch_id=54141&release_id=179361 Mabliki is a bliki (a cross between a blog and a wiki) implementation that uses HTML::Mason. It allows multiple blikis with a single installation and implements several wiki formating options, including numbered and unnumbered lists, bold, italic, and monospace fonts, code blocks, headlines, and mathematic formulas. It is internationalized and themable, and includes three themes. This will be added to Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators White Paper. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM Mooter Search http://www.mooter.com/ The Mooter Search Engine employs artificial intelligence based on psychological modelling to process and understand the information users seek. Mooter analyses the choices you make while searching, then reorders the results based on what you are actually looking for at that moment without you having to go back and rephrase your exact needs. So instead of giving users long lists of scrambled results, Mooter displays simple, sensible categories of information. As users search, the algorithms shuffle the results in the background, ensuring that more relevant results are displayed.Mooter Search is the leading provider of intelligent clustering, search and media personalization software. Millions of searchers, including consumers, businesses, government agencies and academia, use Mooter's clustering technology to better organize and navigate massive amounts of information. Mooter has pioneered search result clustering and now provides enterprise customers a visually intuitive way to navigate through sometimes very confusing amounts of information. Mooter also provides personalization technology to media publishers and advertisers without profiling; enabling them to target audiences based on their behaviors and not just which pages they visit. This enables them to provide highly relevant advertising to their target audience no matter what. The result? No more ad impressions wasted on the wrong audience, and a greater return on advertising dollars. Mooter serves its global client base from its headquarters in Sydney, Australia, and partners throughout the world. This has been added to Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and to the search engine section of all 2005 Internet MiniGuides. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM InnoCentive Challenge http://www.innocentive.com/ InnoCentive® is an exciting web-based community matching top scientists to relevant R&D challenges facing leading companies from around the globe. They provide a powerful online forum enabling major companies to reward scientific innovation through financial incentives. An InnoCentive Challenge is a unique scientific problem that is posted by Seeker companies looking to find the "best" solution for their problem. If a solution is selected as "best" by the Seeker Company, the Solver receives a financial award, which varies per InnoCentive Challenge. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Friday, November 26, 2004 EEVL's Ejournal Search Engines http://www.eevl.ac.uk/eese/eese-eevl.html Search the content of over 250 freely available full-text ejournals, selected for relevance and quality. Academic journals, professional and trade publications, and Society journals are covered. All sites are also listed in the EEVL catalogue of Internet Resources. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer&Trade; Information Blog, Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and Academic Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. This will be added to the search engine section of all the 2005 Internet MiniGuides. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:25 AM Beyond the ePortfolio - Lifetime Personal Web Space http://www.educause.edu/apps/eq/eqm04/eqm0441.asp The electronic portfolio is higher education's new "must have" tool. Hundreds of academic institutions are variously studying, using, or innovating e-portfolio systems. Instructional designers say constructing e-portfolios stimulates students to engage in reflective thinking. E-portfolios provide accreditation agencies with tangible evidence that students achieved standards-based outcomes. New graduates will use e-portfolios to showcase their creativity and gain an edge in the job market. But why stop there? Educause Quarterly suggests that every citizen, at birth, should be granted a cradle-to-grave, lifetime personal Web space that will enable connections among personal, educational, social, and business systems. This lifetime personal Web space (LPWS) will be engineered to be available anywhere, any time. Some cells may be off-limits (even invisible) to all but the primary user. Moreover, the user will decide which cells connect to others and which do not. The LPWS will seamlessly link individuals to larger communities, thereby facilitating interpersonal connectivity versus fostering social isolation. Within an academic setting, for example, the LPWS could link students to their research mentor's electronic laboratory network or to a global learning space. It could also serve as a one-stop shop for electronic activities by housing and linking personal content libraries, work spaces, communication networks, and public areas. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:20 AM A Framework of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections http://www.niso.org/framework/Framework2.html This Framework has two purposes. First, to provide an overview of some of the major components and activities involved in the creation of good digital collections. Second, to provide a framework for identifying, organizing, and applying existing knowledge and resources to support the development of sound local practices for creating and managing good digital collections. It is intended for two audiences: cultural heritage organizations planning projects to create digital collections, and funding organizations that want to encourage the development of good digital collections. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM Science Commons http://science.creativecommons.org/ Science Commons is a new project of Creative Commons and will launch on January 1, 2005. The mission of Science Commons is to encourage scientific innovation by making it easier for scientists, universities, and industries to use literature, data, and other scientific intellectual property and to share their knowledge with others. Science Commons works within current copyright and patent law to promote legal and technical mechanisms that remove barriers to sharing. This has been added to Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog, Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and Academic Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM Scirus - Search Engine for Scientific Information http://www.scirus.com/srsapp/ Scirus is a comprehensive science-specific search engine on the Internet. Driven by the latest search engine technology, Scirus searches over 167 million science-specific Web pages, enabling you to quickly: 1) Pinnpoint scientific, scholarly, technical and medical data on the Web, 2) Find the latest reports, peer-reviewed articles and journals that other search engines miss, and 3) Offer unique functionalities designed for scientists and researchers. Scirus science search engine allows you to: a) Filter out non-scientific sites. For example, if you search on Dolly, Google finds Dolly Parton, Scirus finds the cloned sheep, b) Find peer-reviewed articles such as PDF and PostScript files, which are often invisible to other search engines, and c) Searche the world's largest database of scientific, technical and medical journals and Scirus goes deeper than the first two levels of a Web site, thereby revealing much more relevant information. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer&Trade; Information Blog, Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and Academic Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. This will be added to the search engine section of all the 2005 Internet MiniGuides. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM A Nation Online: Entering the Broadband Age http://www.ntia.doc.gov/reports/anol/NationOnlineBroadband04.htm A Nation Online: Entering the Broadband Age dated September 2004 by the U.S. Department of Commerce - Economics and Statistics Administration - National Telecommunications and Information Administration. A Nation Online: Entering the Broadband Age is the sixth report released by the U.S. Department of Commerce examining the use of computers, the Internet, and other information technology tools by the American people. Based on the U.S. Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey of 57,000 households containing 134,000 persons, this report provides broad-based and statistically reliable information on the ways that information technologies in general, and broadband more specifically, are transforming the way we live, work, and learn. This year, we have chosen to focus on broadband technologies because now, more than ever before, high-speed connections promise to enhance our Nation’s productivity and economic competitiveness, improve education, and expand health care for all Americans. High-speed networks provide the power to erase geographic, economic, and cultural gaps. With high-speed connections, American workers can find jobs; small businesses can have global markets; rural doctors can consult with specialists; and students can take classes that are taught from across the country. Because of the significant promise of this technology, President Bush has set out a bold vision for broadband in America, establishing a national goal for “universal, affordable access for broadband technology by the year 2007.”1 Detailing the many benefits of the technology, the President noted that “the spread of broadband will not only help industry, it [will] help the quality of life of our citizens.” We hope that this report and its successors will contribute to the ongoing discussion surrounding this important goal by highlighting the growing use of high-speed access across the Nation. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Thursday, November 25, 2004 
LOC Business Reference Services Business Reference Services - Indexes, Bibliographies, and Guides http://www.loc.gov/rr/business/ The Business Reference Services of the Library of Congress offers Indexes, Bibliographies, and Guides including Guide to Finding Business Information at the Library of Congress, Specialized Business Guides, Subscription Databases for Business and Economics Research, and Subject Guides to Internet Resources. Well worth the visit as an excellent business research resource. This will be added to Business Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide and has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:25 AM International Centre of Excellence in Asia-Pacific Studies http://iceaps.anu.edu.au/ The Australian Government has awarded the Australian National University the contract to establish the International Centre of Excellence in Asia-Pacific Studies. The primary objective of the Centre is: To raise the profile of Asia Pacific Studies in Australia through a program of new, sustainable and collaborative activities. The Centre will therefore extend collaboration between relevant organisations within Australia to build on existing capabilities and develop links and connections with international organisations of world repute to attract an international visibility and reputation for Australia as the leading expert in Asia-Pacific Studies. The ANU has commenced appointing staff for the Centre which is temporarily co-located with the National Institute for Asia and the Pacific in the Menzies Library where the ANU has its major Asia Pacific collections. The new Director, Professor John Fitzgerald, will take up his position in mid January, 2005. This website provides introductory information on the Centre, its objectives and plans. Preliminary guidelines for project funding are provided and proposals that meet the broad criteria are called for. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:20 AM The Mentats Are Coming http://www.itworldcanada.com/Pages/Docbase/ViewArticle.aspx?ID=idgml-3096d338-30c2-40f5-be3d-3eb53ea254f4 Andrew Rowsell-Jones, vice president and research director for Gartner's CIO Executive Programs predicts that managing the infoglut of the future will be done by "mentats" (a name derived from Frank Herbert's classic sci-fi novel "Dune" but used by Rowsell-Jones to mean computer programs that will analyze data, spot patterns, and make decisions). "Mentats don't exist yet, but they are appearing. Use a search engine and you're using a baby mentat. Yahoo!'s information hierarchies, for instance, are a well-known example of an I-filter. They organize information and screen or demote stuff that's supposedly less relevant. But search engines have two agendas, one overt, the other covert. The overt agenda is to present information that's precisely relevant to the user's interests. The covert agenda is to present information that's relevant and for which advertising fees have been paid." As a result, mentats and I-filters are both "necessary and dangerous." posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM World Index of Molecular Visualization Resources http://www.molvisindex.org A very comprehensive index of worldwide molecular visualization resources by Eric Martz and Trevor D. Kramer and maintained/updated by Josh Polterock, Ray Bean, and Andrew Sanderson at SDSC. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM RLIB Report Engine http://freshmeat.net/projects/rlib/?branch_id=43834&release_id=179223 RLIB is a reporting engine that makes it possible to easily create professional reports in PDF, HTML, text, and CSV from one simple XML report definition file. It supports direct input from MySQL, PostgreSQL, ODBC, and programmable pluggable inputs. It is written in C and has PHP and Python language bindings built in. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM Science Journals from Russia http://www.turpion.org/ Turpion Limited is a company owned by Pion Ltd and the Institute of Physics Publishing. The intention is to produce high-quality English translations of leading Russian scientific journals, as a result of an effective cooperation between the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Physics, the London Mathematical Society and The Royal Society of Chemistry. This will be added to Academic Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Wednesday, November 24, 2004 
World Community Grid World Community Grid for Health Research http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org An IBM project called World Community Grid will apply the untapped computing power of millions of personal computers to the study of AIDS, Alzheimer's, malaria, cancer and other diseases. Dr. Eric Jakobsson of the National Institutes of Health says, "This program is both a sizable commitment of computing resources and an encouraging sign of progress in moving toward a community model for biomedical computing." The new networks's first mission will be the Human Proteome Folding Project of the Institute for Systems Biology, which seeks to identify all the proteins in the human body and their functions. People who want to join the grid project and donate computer time will be able to download software from the above Web site. This has been added to Grid Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. [Copyright 2004. NewsScan Daily® is a publication of NewsScan Inc.] posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:26 AM Swarm Intelligence Resources http://glmrc.ie.ncit.edu.tw/simon/SIHompage.htm An extensive and comprehensive site listing significant sources and sites on the Internet covering Swarm Intelligence by the Swarm Intelligence Resource & Research Group in Taiwan. This has been added to Artificial Intelligence Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:20 AM Googolizer http://freshmeat.net/projects/googolizer/?branch_id=45613&release_id=179106 The Googolizer is a simple product that retrieves AdSense statistics from Google and stores them in an HTML file. This will be added to Advertising, Marketing and Public Relations Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM Site Search Pro http://freshmeat.net/projects/site-search-pro/?branch_id=54533&release_id=179103 Site Search Pro is a comprehensive search script. It provides complete, customizable, effective, and fully-functional site searching for any type of Web site. It supports PDF, DOC, XLS, PPT, and Flash files. It can perform indexing according to a schedule, and supports indexing multiple Web sites. It supports destination rules, full detailed statistics, and many more features. It can be integrated with both small and large Web sites. This has been added to the search engine section of 2005 Internet MiniGuides. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM Wikinews http://demo.wikinews.org/ Wikinews is a free content news source. They started in November 2004, and have written 24 articles, some of which are still in development. Their mission is to create a world where citizen journalists report the news on a wide variety of subjects small and large. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM Internet Learning Tutor http://www.score.org/cgi/third_party.cgi?url=http%3A//www.superpages.com/ilt The Internet Learning Tutor is designed to help you use the Internet more effectively in the way you work, play and live. The program is organized into three levels, beginning with the basics at Level 101. To learn about multimedia and how to shop online, go to Level 102. Small business owners should visit Level 103 to learn how to market their businesses online. Premier Partners of the Internet Learning Tutor are ASBDC (Association of Small Business Development Centers), Internet Education Foundation, SCORE (Service Corps of Retired Executives), The Welfare to Work Partnership and our newest partner--Center for Workforce Preparation. This has been added to Tutorial Resources Subject Tracer™ Infotrmation Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Tuesday, November 23, 2004  World Wide Web Reference http://WhitePapers.VirtualPrivateLibrary.net/WWWReference.pdf The above is the associated white paper link compilation of the World Wide Web Reference Subject Tracer™ Information Blog by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. It is a 57 page .pdf document 1.35MB. [Updated June 12, 2009] Other white papers are available by clicking here.
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Molimo Wiki-Based Open Market Molimo - Wiki-Based Market Place http://www.molimo.de/ Molimo: A wiki-based market place created by Marcus Schiesser. Molimo releases a market place that is inspired by a wiki. The market place is free to use, the software is open source and the wiki database is released under the free GNU document license. This means you can add or change product descriptions, make comments on products, add points-of-sale for these products, contact other market participants and much more. Unlike other known market places this one is built using a wiki. In a wiki everyone may change everything. A new wiki software has been programmed for fitting the special needs of the structure of products. This software is released under the open source GPL license. Everyone may change every product description and as the resulting product catalogue is released under the free GNU document license it is owned by the community that has built it. This all makes market@molimo.de a really open market place. And unlike commercial market places, no fees are requested to participate. A very interesting truly open market place. This has been added to eCommerce Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:25 AM AIPS (Astronomical Information Processing System) http://freshmeat.net/projects/aips/?branch_id=168&release_id=179046 AIPS (Astronomical Information Processing System) handles the processing and display of data from radio interferometers. Data can be collected from any radio telescope array. Images can be exported in FITS format. The Astronomical Image Processing System is a software package for calibration, data analysis, image display, plotting, and a variety of ancillary tasks on Astronomical Data. It comes from the National Radio Astronomy Observatory. It is primarily for Radio Astronomy. This has been added to the radio astronomy section of Astronomy Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:20 AM Advanced Bash Scripting Guide http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/ http://freshmeat.net/projects/advancedbashscriptingguide/?branch_id=130&release_id=179011 The Advanced Bash Scripting Guide by Mendel Cooper is both a reference and a tutorial on shell scripting. This freely available comprehensive book (the equivalent of about 612 print pages) covers almost every aspect of shell scripting. It contains 300 profusely commented illustrative examples (including such goodies as an anti-spammer script), and a number of tables. Not just a shell scripting tutorial, this book also provides an introduction to basic programming techniques, such as sorting and recursion. It is well suited for either individual study or classroom use. This tutorial assumes no previous knowledge of scripting or programming, but progresses rapidly toward an intermediate/advanced level of instruction . . . all the while sneaking in little snippets of UNIX® wisdom and lore. It serves as a textbook, a manual for self-study, and a reference and source of knowledge on shell scripting techniques. The exercises and heavily-commented examples invite active reader participation, under the premise that the only way to really learn scripting is to write scripts. This has been added to Script Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM Free After Rebate http://www.FreeAfterRebate.info/ Everyone loves to get free stuff. Free After Rebate will point you to stores that sell products that end up being free after you send in for a rebate. You will have to pay for the item up front, then submit the rebate materials. Some time later (usually six to eight weeks) you will receive a rebate check. They only list products with 100% rebates, but those rebates usually do not reimburse for shipping and sales tax. This has been added to ShoppingBots Subject Tracer Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM Internet Resources for Nonprofits http://www.uticapubliclibrary.org/non-profit/directory.html Internet Resources for Nonprofits - Online sites, Links and Directories of Free Resources for Nonprofits. No official endorsement or content guarantees accompany this directory, but several web sites have been reviewed for their apparent benefit to nonprofits and judged to be a Best Bet. Sites on Topic Lists with Slightly Larger Red Titles are particularly good places to begin. They welcome site suggestions. 1150 web links included. Our Virtual Private Library's 41 Subject Tracer Information Blogs are included as a "Best Bet" listing and also listed with slightly larger red title as a particularly good place to start under their Helpful Resources and Tools section. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM Insurance Research Resources http://www.iso.com/links/ ISO is the premier source of information for and about the property/casualty insurance industry. But insurance is a complex topic, and many organizations have valuable data and interesting points of view. That's why they are pleased to offer this classified list of links for people doing research on insurance and related topics. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Monday, November 22, 2004 
Lockergnome This edition of Current Awareness Happenings on the Internet by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. November 22, 2004 V2N47 discusses Lockergnome. Click on the below audio posting to hear an audio by Marcus P. Zillman reviewing this excellent site. View this resource site at: Lockergnome - Your Top Technology Information Resource http://www.Lockergnome.com/
posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:30 AM Life Begins at Eighty ... On the Internet http://www.bdb.co.za/shackle/ Eric Shackle's eBook: Late in 2000, an Australian writer and a South African computer expert, who had first met on the Internet, combined talents to publish what they believe is the world's first multi-national electronic book. Now they have discovered, to their surprise, that they were both born in Essex - in different generations. The free eBook, "Life Begins at Eighty ... On the Internet" by veteran Sydney journalist Eric Shackle, can be found on Barry Downs's Kimberley Web site,listed above, linked to other sites in the United States, England, Scotland, Australia and Bangladesh. Articles from the various sites cover a wide range of topics: the world's biggest turkey and largest hailstones, computer-generated anagrams, mysterious lights in Texas and Queensland, 15 towns named Rugby, Global English, and how to cultivate a herb said to ease arthritic pains. This is very well worth the read not only for elders but for all those interested in many cuurent and exciting happenings on the Internet! This has been added to Elder Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:25 AM IM Smarter™ http://www.imsmarter.com/ IM Smarter™ is a new kind of instant messaging enhancement. IM Smarter empowers all of the major messaging services with a rapidly expanding set of cool, new features. It's not a "bot". It's not a plugin for AIM. It's not a program that you run instead of your existing IM client. Using IM Smarter can be understood as hiring a secretary for your IM; IM Smarter, like a secretary, sits between you and the rest of the world and helps you manage your messages. Using IM Smarter is pretty cool; imagine having one place you can search and visualize your instant message chats with anyone you've chatted with using any of the major IM networks. Imagine being able to update your blog as easily as sending an IM, and getting an IM whenever any of your buddies update their blogs. IM Smarter keeps you in the loop with things that you told it to remember and things you told it to keep an eye out for. Nearly all modern instant messaging clients have the ability to "proxy", or to connect to the official servers by way of another server. This is usually only used in very fancy corporate environments; most home users don't use a proxy. To use IM Smarter, all you have to do is to tell your IM client to use our servers as your "proxy" and you're all set! With our autoconfiguration available for AIM, Yahoo, and MSN, you can be ready to go in seconds! Robin Good has an excellent review of IM Smarter and his review is available by clicking here. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:20 AM WIKINDX http://freshmeat.net/projects/wikindx/?branch_id=47947&release_id=178843 WIKINDX is a multi-user, Internet-based bibliographic management system that allows users to search and share quotes, notes, and bibliographies. Bibliographies can be formatted for a variety of style guides (MHRA, Harvard, APA, etc.). The program can export to RTF and BibTeX and import BibTeX files. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM 
Bibliophile http://bibliophile.sourceforge.net/ Bibliophile is an initiative to align the development of bibliographic databases for the web. It aims to promote standards, discussion among users on necessary features and a variety of specific solutions for different fields of research. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM DonBusca Meta Search Engine http://www.donbusca.com/ DonBusca 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, DonBusca currently offer a directory based on data from The Open Directory Project. Beside each result you can find our quick tools: "FUrl It", "Yahoo It" and "Simpy It" add the selected url to your favorite bookmark manager. "Site info" gives you the opportunity to quick access for handy tools for the selected url such as : google pagrank, alexa rating, link popularity, keyword density, geo info, DMOZ category and WHOIS information. "Cached" get Google cached copy of the page. "Archive" takes you back in time. This has been added to the search engine section of all the 2005 Internet MiniGuides. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM Sunday, November 21, 2004 Research at the Interface of Chemistry and Biology 1) Biomimetic Synthesis Applied to Chemistry and Biology http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~shair/research.html 2) The Baldwin Group http://www.chem.ox.ac.uk/oc/jebaldwin/index.htm 3) Biological and Biomolecular Chemistry http://snipurl.com/am5z 4) Donald Lab - Computational Biology and Chemistry http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/brd/Research/Bio/ 5) The Bradley Group http://www.soton.ac.uk/~bradley/ 6) New York University Chemistry http://www.nyu.edu/pages/chemistry/research/chemical.html 7) CBIT: Chemistry - Biology Interface Training Program http://www.biochem.wisc.edu/cbit/ 8) The University of Delaware Graduate Program at the Chemistry/Biology Iterface http://www.udel.edu/chem/chembio.htm First, chemist Matthew Shair at Harvard University presents his lab's research in "the development of biomimetic target-oriented and diversity-oriented synthesis of complex molecules and the use of these approaches to discover new molecules for studying cell biology" (1). The descriptions are equipped with figures and images to help users understand the complex research. The second website features Professor Sir Jack Baldwin group's research in bio-organic and synthetic organic chemistry at the University of Oxford (2). Users can download many of the group's publications related to its research activities in penicillin, biomimetics, parallel, and total synthesis. Next, the University of Nottingham displays its investigations "to define the chemical interactions that determine the specificity and control of biological processes" (3). Visitors can discover the individual projects and publications of the fourteen main researchers involved with the group. The fourth website addresses the research of Bruce Donald's lab at Dartmouth in the use of Physical Geometric Algorithms (PGA) to better understand computational molecular biology (4). Researchers can find information on the group's software, funding, research, and downloads to many of the group's publications. Next, visitors can discover the University of Southampton chemistry Professor Mark Bradley's use of combinatorial chemistry to synthesize many compounds efficiently (5). The website features concise summaries, lists of publications, and information on the collaborators involved with the group's numerous research projects. At the sixth website, New York University discusses the ever-expanding range of topics available to scientists utilizing biomolecular tools, including the exploration of new chemical strategies for the control of gene expression and the creation of new approaches for combinatorial synthesis and high-throughput screening (6). Users can learn about the division's emphasis on experimental and computational approaches in dealing with research problems and also its involvement in training students in biological phenomena from a physical organic perspective. The seventh website describes the courses, student projects, and grants of the interdisciplinary Chemistry-Biology Interface (CBI) Training Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (7). This site offers a great example of educational opportunities available for students to learn how to merge chemical and biological research. Lastly, the University of Delaware features its multidisciplinary graduate program where students perform research in bioochemistry, biochemical engineering, bioorganic chemistry, molecular biology, cell biology, virology, bioanalytical chemistry, structural biology, bioinorganic chemistry, materials science, and plant biochemistry (8). Users can find links to the group pages of the 34 researchers involved in the program. [From The NSDL Scout Report for the Physical Sciences, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2004. http://scout.wisc.edu/] posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:25 AM The Open University: Research in the Department of Physics and Astronomy http://physics.open.ac.uk/research/res01.htm The Department of Physics and Astronomy at Open University pursues research in astronomy, biomagnetism, physics education, molecular and optical physics, and quantum and statistical physics. For each of these topics, the website offers introductions to the research and links to the associated research groups and centers. At the Center for Molecular and Optical Science (CeMOS) link, visitors can learn about its current projects in global warming, astrophysics, technological plasmas, quantum optics, and more. The Planetary and Space Sciences Research presents its investigations of Mars, the Sun, near earth objects, small icy bodies, and other extraterrestrial phenomena. A database allows users to search for most of the department's publications and to view several articles. This has been added to Astronomy Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. [From The NSDL Scout Report for the Physical Sciences, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2004. http://scout.wisc.edu/] posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM WEBMASTRY by Gary Price http://www.infotoday.com/searcher/nov03/price.shtml What Google Teaches Us that Has Nothing to Do with Searching ... This column by Gary Price has not only gone through several different drafts on his word-processing program but even more versions in his mind. It's been said that good writing is often personal writing..... posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM Semantic Interpretation for Speech Recognition http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-semantic-interpretation-20041108/ http://www.w3.org/Voice/ The Voice Browser Working Group has released a Last Call Working Draft of "Semantic Interpretation for Speech Recognition." The draft describes the contents of speech recognition grammar tags used to represent natural language utterances. It is expected that the results can be integrated into the EMMA data format. Visit the Voice Browser home page. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM HTMLObserver http://freshmeat.net/projects/htmlobserver/?branch_id=45773&release_id=178744 HTMLObserver is a program that downloads a Web page at regular intervals, and searches it for regular expressions. All HTML tags are removed, and the remaining text is searched for regular expressions, which can be defined in a list. Matching rows are displayed in a panel, and different alarms may be triggered. The alarms are repeated when the result set changes. This has been added to eCurrent Awareness Resources 2005. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Indiana University: Chemical Information Sources http://www.indiana.edu/~cheminfo/index.html This fantastic Indiana University website helps individuals "find and learn how to use chemical information resources on the Internet and elsewhere." Users can find two types of resource guides. The first, SIRCh (Selected Internet Resources for Chemistry) offers numerous links to educational websites where users can find answers to many of their chemistry questions. The second, CCIIM (Clearinghouse for Chemical Information Instructional Materials), is a collection of items created by chemistry and science librarians, chemists, and publishers to help visitors learn how to use chemical information sources. Users can find links to four databases providing information on publications, references, acronyms, and crystallography. The website offers archives of the University's Chemical Information Sources Discussion List and materials on chemical information classes taught at Indiana University. This has been added to Directory Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. [Copyright 1994-2004 Internet Scout Project - http://scout.wisc.edu] posted by Marcus Zillman | 3:55 AM Saturday, November 20, 2004 
ENDECA Endeca http://www.endeca.com/ “Endeca has award-winning infrastructure software for information delivery that revolutionizes the way users search, navigate and analyze enterprise data. Endeca Search and Guided Navigation, powered by the Endeca Navigation Engine, expose the full richness and potential of large data sets by allowing users to explore knowledge bases, intranets, information portals, catalogs and other data stores with tremendous speed, precision and certainty.” This has been added to Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. [Internet Resources Newsletter Issue 122] posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:25 AM eLearning Reviews http://www.elearning-reviews.org/ elearning-reviews provides those interested in research on elearning with concise and thoughtful reviews of relevant publications. The most important goal is a well-balanced selection of seminal publications as well as interesting up-to-date publications from the various disciplinary perspectives. Their goal is to further the development of elearning as a scientific, research-oriented discipline, and as a tool for innovating higher education as well as corporate education. This will be added to Educational and Distance Learning Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:20 AM In Search Of Open-Source Experts by Larry Greenemeier http://informationweek.linuxpipeline.com/52600065 As companies ramp up open-source deployments, expertise is in high demand and short supply. The costs of developing talent can add up. Applied Industrial Technologies Inc., a distributor of fluid-power and engineered products, runs most of its infrastructure on Microsoft Windows. But two years ago Applied Industrial began running some Web, file, application, and directory servers on the open-source operating system Red Hat Linux. "Our technicians [were] saying, 'we need to have Linux servers in place--we could pull down costs,'" says IT director Bob Falkowski. "We changed out hardware, introduced new software components. But what we failed to realize is, when you do this type of process there's some added burden. You have to fall back on yourself as being the ultimate solution provider when things don't work." posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM More Corporate Librarians http://www.detnews.com/2004/careers/0410/09/d02-269743.htm The demand for corporate librarians and information managers is rising steadily -- information professionals who manage a company's information resources, including "best practices." Another new avenue is corporate intelligence to support the company's efforts to stay competitive. Mandy Baldridge of the information-management staffing company InfoCurrent explains: "We don't just live in the traditional four walls of the library anymore. We've made ourselves necessary to the organization so we can be in many different areas of the organization." Demand for corporate librarians is expected to grow. The out-placement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas says that the average annual salary of a corporate librarian is $60,000-$65,000, which is higher than the salaries of librarians overall. Challenger Gray predicts more than 100,000 new jobs for corporate librarians between 2000 and 2010. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM TeacherNet http://www.teachernet.com/ There are a number of sites out there that cater to the educational resource needs of K-8 educators, and TeacherNet is certainly one that is worth taking some time to browse through. Developed by the Highlights educational products group, the site contains opportunities for educators to join various discussion lists, classroom resources (such as lesson plans), and links to the webpages of various classrooms around the United States. One potentially entertaining (and also therapeutic) feature is the "Laugh Lines" section, were educators can submit their various humorous classroom experiences. The bulletin boards are also worth checking out, as they can offer quick answers to any number of topics, such as handwriting, use of the Internet in the classroom, and literature. The site is rounded out by a nice area set aside for discussion and resources specifically designated for student teachers. This will be added to Education Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. [From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2004. http://scout.wisc.edu/] posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM Integrating Library Records Into Search Engines http://www.infotoday.com/searcher/nov04/oNeill.shtml Imagine how many more people would use and appreciate libraries, if Google and Yahoo included local library records in their search results. OCLC's Open WorldCat Pilot (http://www.oclc.org/worldcat/pilot/) integrates library records into popular Internet search sites, and tests the effectiveness of the Web in guiding users to library-owned materials. WorldCat records began appearing in Google search results in December 2003 and in Yahoo Search results in May 2004. Results have been impressive. Inbound links from Open WorldCat search results have grown to more than 1 million in the first half of June 2004. There are several ways of searching Open WorldCat items in Google and Yahoo. The most intuitive is using the phrase "find in a library" plus the item or subject to be searched: e.g., find in a library: da vinci code. Alternatively, you can search using the phrase "worldcat libraries" and the title or subject. (Additional search tips are listed at the link below.) Approximately 12,000 libraries already participate in the WorldCat Pilot project, including the academic, public and school libraries originally included automatically, plus state, federal and special libraries that have asked to join. Enabling Web users to locate materials they need quickly and easily in libraries near them should promote library use and reinforce their value. Ultimately, even people who don't often use libraries may come to consider libraries as a first source of information. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Friday, November 19, 2004 
EduHound EduHound http://www.EduHound.com/ EduHound (Division of ETC Group LLC), is a highly specialized educational directory with built-in resource links offered free to educators, students and parents. EduHound.com seeks to harness the vast information resources of the Web, while enabling educators to use the Internet as a classroom tool. Since its launch in January 2000, the site boasts thousands of visitors per week and an ever-growing list of subscribers to their weekly newsletter, EduHound Weekly. This has been added to Directory Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and Education and Distance Learning Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:25 AM MindPixel: Digital Mind Modeling Project http://www.mindpixel.com/ Digital Mind Modeling Project by MindPixel invites Web users to contribute to the creation of the first statistical model of human thought. The Canadian scientist, Chris McKinstry, who founded the project "hopes to be able to teach a computer what it means to be human" by using an approach similar to seti@home "to extract the entire content of an average person's mind bit by literal bit from millions of different internet users." After about 10 years running, the final collection will be available for other artificial intelligence researchers. For now, visitors can register using an online form to access the Mindpixel News System, which offers the latest news pertaining to the mind and mind-related science. Internet users can also register and make their contribution to science by talking to the online system, which the author calls GAC, pronounced "Jack." Contributors earn voting rights "that will give them a say in every aspect of how the project is run, from data collection and use to the distribution of data and research funds." This has been added to Artificial Intelligence Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. [From The NSDL Scout Report for Math, Engineering, and Technology, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2004. http://scout.wisc.edu/] posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:20 AM History of the Dot-Com Era http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3750-2004Oct27.html University of Maryland professor David A. Kirsch has been collecting business plans of the dot-com era, to preserve an important piece of American business and cultural history: "How will future historians be able to understand the texture of this time? What information will they have access to, to understand the highs and lows? We can't wait 100 years for documents to wend their way into historical archives. We've got to act now." Kirsch and his students have created a digital database http://www.businessplanarchive.org listing more than 2,300 companies so far, mostly from 1997 to 2002. Kirsch says, "I call it 'Open Source History' -- history that is to be written by the people who lived it. History tends to be from the voices of the elites. I want to know what the receptionist was thinking, not just the chief executive." This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM Haystack Project http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/04/11/massave1104.asp?p=4 Computer science professor David Karger and former MIT professor Lynn Stein began work on the aptly named Haystack project back in 1995 as a way to organize computer files more intuitively, making them easier to retrieve than the typical name/type/date system. Haystack enables associations or groupings of files to be created among files of any type. For instance, e-mails can be linked with photos, Web sites, MP3 files or text documents. The Haystack project started just when search engines like AltaVista were first gaining popularity. "What really bugged me was that we suddenly had amazing tools for searching the Internet but still couldn't organize our own stuff," says Karger. "I don't think people envisioned having such a large personal repository of information that would need to be searched." Haystack's interface allows users to drag and drop files and attachments (such as photos) into collections. A right click on any item reveals its context menu, allowing immediate access to all operations that "make sense" for that object. The underlying organizational principle focuses on the information a user wants to save, not the application. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM ExcelGrid http://www.gridbus.org/excelgrid/ The Gridbus Project to Release ExcelGrid Software. ExcelGrid is a tool that helps in extending Microsoft Excel from the desktop to enterprise and global grids as they provide the benefits of improved job execution speed and result in getting processing done faster. It provides a front-end to a grid via Excel spreadsheet and performs user-defined computations on enterprise grids created using Alchemi and global grids built using Gridbus coupled with Globus, UNICORE and also Alchemi technologies. It allows users to run jobs on remote computers, using an easy-to-use GUI, and retrieve the results via the standard Excel spreadsheet interface. The ExcelGrid plug-in is developed by the Gridbus Project, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems (GRIDS) Lab., Dept. of Computer Science and Software Engineering, the University of Melbourne, Australia. The project is partially supported by Australian Research Council Discovery Project grant, Storage Technology and the University of Melbourne. This has been added to Grid Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM EIN Finder http://www.freeerisa.com/Extras/EINFinder.asp?mode=SEARCH Find the employer tax identification number you need. Nearly 5 million! Also allows you to search the entire site by EIN (Employer Identification Number) Number. Every user gets three FREE searches. Additional searches are available through a Premium subscription. This has been added to Business Intelligence Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Business Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Thursday, November 18, 2004 
Google Scholar Search Engine Google Scholar http://scholar.google.com/ Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web. Just as with Google Web Search, Google Scholar orders your search results by how relevant they are to your query, so the most useful references should appear at the top of the page. This relevance ranking takes into account the full text of each article as well as the article's author, the publication in which the article appeared and how often it has been cited in scholarly literature. Google Scholar also automatically analyzes and extracts citations and presents them as separate results, even if the documents they refer to are not online. This means your search results may include citations of older works and seminal articles that appear only in books or other offline publications. This will be added to Academic Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. 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 Zillman | 6:13 AM 
Cybertimes Navigator CyberTimes Navigator http://tech.nytimes.com/top/news/technology/cybertimesnavigator/ Navigator is the home page used by the newsroom of The New York Times for forays into the Web. Its primary intent is to give reporters and editors new to the Web a solid starting point for a wide range of journalistic functions without forcing all of them to spend time wandering around blindly to find a useful set of links of their own. Its secondary purpose is to show people that there's still a lot of fun and useful stuff going on out there. The list is by its nature highly selective and constantly changing. Areas included: Net Search, Journalism, Reference, Directories, Publications, Politics, New York Region, Commerce, Travel, Entertainment, Sports, and Miscellany. This has been added to the Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.This will be added to the reference section of all the 2005 Internet MiniGuides. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:25 AM UpSNAP http://www.upsnap.com/ The UpSNAP service allows you to get free directory assistance from your cellular phone using text messaging. The service is very easy to use. All you need to do is to type the name and location of the business you are trying to find using text messaging on your phone. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:20 AM RentACoder http://www.rentacoder.com/ RentACoder is an international marketplace where people who need custom software developed can find coders in a safe and business-friendly environment. Buyers can cherry pick from a pool of 89,353 coders...enabling them to hire a coder across the country or across the globe…from the comfort of their computers. Buyers who wish to hire internationally, can take advantage of favorable overseas exchange rates, resulting in work being done for 50-90% less than if the project were done in-country. Coders are also given access to a huge pool of potential work and have the ability to work independently from their homes rather than for a company. This has been added to Script Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM K-CAP2005 - Third International Conference on Knowledge Capture http://www.kcap05.org/ K-CAP2005 - Third International Conference on Knowledge Capture - October 2-5, 2005 Banff, Canada. This conference will cover: 1) Knowledge Engineering and Modeling Methodologies, 2) Mixed-initiative Planning and Decision-support Tools, 3) Acquisition of Problem-solving Knowledge, 4) Programming-by-Demonstration Systems, 5) Knowledge Management Environments, 6) Knowledge-based Markup Techniques, 7) Knowledge Extraction Systems, 8) Knowledge Acquisition Tools, 9) Advice Taking Systems, and 10) Learning Apprentices. This has been added to Knowledge Discovery Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM CLONE3D - Artificial Intelligence and High-Resolution 3D Characters http://www.clone3d.com/ The Artificial Comedy and Chatterbots online at CLONE3D is a portfolio of 3d characters, digital art, animation and artificial intelligence created by Mark Chavez. Featuring performances by hand-crafted, real time, digital characters the site intends to blend game technology with animated character driven entertainment and original presentation. To view CLONE3D at it's fullest potential you must download and install the Haptek Player. The Haptek Character SDK is programmed with chaos theory and parametric animation techniques (as developed by a founder of Haptek, Dr. Robert Shaw); resulting in ever changing character performances. The player is only functional on Windows based systems. The player download will take about 15 seconds to load the install page ... then upon your approval, approximately 2 minutes to auto-install the player on a 56k dial-up connection. All of this is available from the CLONE3D homepage as listed above. This has been added to ChatterBots Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM Universal Business Language 1.0 http://docs.oasis-open.org/ubl/cd-UBL-1.0/ Since its approval as a W3C recommendation in 1998, XML has been adopted in a number of industries as a framework for the definition of the messages exchanged in electronic commerce. The widespread use of XML has led to the development of multiple industry-specific XML versions of such basic documents as purchase orders, shipping notices, and invoices. While industry-specific data formats have the advantage of maximal optimization for their business context, the existence of different formats to accomplish the same purpose in different business domains is attended by a number of significant disadvantages as well. The OASIS Universal Business Language (UBL) is intended to help solve these problems by defining a generic XML interchange format for business documents that can be extended to meet the requirements of particular industries. This has been added to eCommerce Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Business Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Wednesday, November 17, 2004 
KSG Research Working Papers Series KSG Research Working Papers Series http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/research/working_papers/ The Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government Faculty Research Working Paper Series provides an electronic database to disseminate works-in-progress reflecting the broad range of research activities of Kennedy School faculty members. You may search the database, view abstracts of papers, and download the full text of papers in Adobe Acrobat PDF format. In addition to the Faculty Research Working Papers Series, the Kennedy School has a wide variety of working papers and other publications available through individual research centers and programs. The KSG Faculty Research Working Papers Series is intended to complement and highlight these other important research outlets. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Boog. This will be added to Academic Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:25 AM Telson Spur Meta Links http://www.snark.ca/meta.htm The gallery or meta directory of The Telson Spur, this page is a list of links to other resource lists, subject trees, virtual libraries, and meta centres. This has been added to Directory Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:20 AM Who2 - Find Famous People Fast http://who2.com/ Who2 is a question, like a cabbie's "Where to?" They mean to be the Web's most direct guide to facts about famous people. For each famous figure, Who2 gives you the hard facts you're most likely looking for: birth and death dates, famous works, notorious trivia. Then -- in case that's not enough -- they sift the Web and pick out the four best sites for additional detail. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM Web Weaving http://www.snark.ca/web.htm#Web%20Development Web Weaving is a very comprehensive listing of web development reference resources to aid in the creation and maintenance of web sites using the latest technologies and resources. This has been added to World Wide Web Reference Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM Awesome Stories http://www.awesomestories.com/ This Internet site is a new interactive, electronic learning tool. They produce stories behind some of the world's most interesting people, places and events. Asking the questions we think our visitors might ask, they find the answers. Cutting through the maze of irrelevant and inappropriate web sites, they bring speed and convenience to the learning process. By assembling URLs to some of the most important, relevant, on-line material in one place, and organizing those links around an interesting story, they uncover for everyone what was once available only for scholars. By linking to national archives, libraries, museums and other institutional sites, they deliver the source material at the precise moment it's needed. They also help the learner to get involved with the story. This has been added to Education and Distance Learning Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM Internet Research - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_research Internet research is the practice of using the Internet for research. To the extent that the Internet is widely and readily accessible to hundreds of millions of people, in many parts of the world, and can provide practically instant information on most topics, it has a profound impact on the way in which ideas are formed and knowledge is created. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Tuesday, November 16, 2004 %2Cjava%2C%20javscript%2Cc%2C%20c%2011%209%202004%2010%2049%2035%20AM.jpg)
Plant Source Code Planet Source Code http://www.planet-source-code.com/ The largest public source code database on the Internet with 9,822,136 lines of code, articles and tutorials in 11 languages,as well as 2,178 open job postings. This has been added to Script Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:25 AM |
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