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Monday, February 28, 2005  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. First Presbyterian Church Men's Club 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 White Papers by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. http://www.WhitePapers.us/ 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: 10:30am Date: Monday February 28, 2005 Location: First Presbyterian Church, Naples, Florida posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:35 AM  Become: Be Smart, Be Thrifty, Just Be This mp3 broadcast edition of Current Awareness Happenings on the Internet by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. February 28, 2005 V3N9 discusses Become.com. Click on the below audio mp3 broadcast to hear Marcus P. Zillman describing this unique resource by Michael Yang on the Internet. View this site at: Become: Be Smart, Be Thrifty, Just Be http://www.become.com/   
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 The Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education (CIESE) The Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education (CIESE) http://www.ciese.org/ To catalyze and support excellence in teaching and learning of science, technology, engineering, mathematics (STEM) and other core subjects through innovative, research-based instructional strategies and use of novel technologies. CIESE collaborates with K-12 and university educators, researchers, policymakers and educational organizations to develop curriculum materials, conduct professional development programs, and research new methodologies to strengthen STEM education. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:25 AM RSS for Journalists By Jonathan Dube http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=32&aid=78383 As the Web keeps growing, tracking the latest information related to our jobs and interests gets harder every day. We need a butler to surf the Web for us, find the headlines we crave and hand them to us on a silver platter. That butler is RSS. RSS will save you time and make your Web surfing much more efficient. Rather than tediously checking dozens of Web sites for new information, RSS enables you to go to one place and find all the latest content from each of those sites. RSS makes it easy to read lots of sites -- from weblogs to major media ? in very little time. You simply decide which Web sites or topics you want to track, tell your RSS reader and then it will continually download all the latest headlines for you, saving you time by collecting them in one place for you to scan quickly. This has been added to Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators presentation links. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:20 AM Think Engineering http://www.ciese.org/engineering/ Bridges, bones, and beach preservation…what’s the connection? Think Engineering! CIESE's science and mathematics curriculum materials have been recognized by the U.S. Department of Education, the White House Office of Science and Technology, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and others. Now, CIESE expands it curriculum focus to include engineering design and problem-solving for middle and secondary school students. From familiar icons like the Brooklyn Bridge, to futuristic applications in biomedical engineering, to preserving the shoreline, engineers play an important role in improving the quality of life for millions of people around the world. Launched to coincide with National Engineers Week, February 20-26, this site is designed to increase awareness of the impact that engineers and engineering have on the world around us. Inside you’ll find a wealth of online resources for K-12 engineering, along with opportunities to learn about cutting edge technologies envisioned through Stevens Technogenesis. Visit these pages to learn about the exciting world of engineering. Discover important research taking place at Stevens and other universities to solve pressing problems through multidisciplinary engineering approaches. Connect with practicing engineers and engineering researchers in an online discussion board. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM The Role of Peer to Peer File Sharing in Law Firm Marketing by Andy Havens http://www.llrx.com/columns/marketing7.htm Andy Havens describes how a popular P2P application can be leveraged as an innovative tool when used to accomplish specific marketing objectives. This has been added to the P2p section of Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to the Advertising, Marketing and Public Relation Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM Semantic Email by Luke McDowell, Oren Etzioni, Alon Halevy, and Henry Levy http://eprints.osti.gov/cgi-bin/dexpldcgi?qry1107100557;18 Abstract By Authors: This paper investigates how the vision of the Semantic Web can be carried over to the realm of email. We introduce a general notion of semantic email, in which an email message consists of an RDF query or update coupled with corresponding explanatory text. Semantic email opens the door to a wide range of automated, email-mediated applications with formally guaranteed properties. In particular, this paper introduces a broad class of semantic email processes. For example, consider the process of sending an email to a program committee, asking who will attend the PC dinner, automatically collecting the responses, and tallying them up. We define both logical and decision-theoretic models where an email process is modeled as a set of updates to a data set on which we specify goals via certain constraints or utilities. We then describe a set of inference problems that arise while trying to satisfy these goals and analyze their computational tractability. In particular, we show that for the logical model it is possible to automatically infer which email responses are acceptable w.r.t. a set of constraints in polynomial time, and for the decision-theoretic model it is possible to compute the optimal message-handling policy in polynomial time. Finally, we discuss our publicly available implementation of semantic email and outline research challenges in this realm. This has been added to the Semantic Web Research section of Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM Practical Semantic Analysis of Web Sites and Documents by Thierry Despeyroux I.N.R.I.A. http://eprints.osti.gov/cgi-bin/dexpldcgi?qry1107100557;20 Abstract: As Web sites are now ordinary products, it is necessary to explicit the notion of quality of a Web site. The quality of a site may be linked to the easiness of accessibility and also to other criteria such as the fact that the site is up to date and coherent. This last quality is difficult to insure because sites may be updated very frequently, may have many authors, may be partially generated and in this context proof-reading is very difficult. The same piece of information may be found in different occurrences, but also in data or metadata, leading to the need for consistency checking. This has been added to the Semantic Web Research section of Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Sunday, February 27, 2005 Computer Recycling 1) BBC News: PC Ownership to 'Double by 2010' http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4095737.stm 2) Oasis: Waste from Electrical and Electronic Equipment http://snipurl.com/d32z 3) PC World: How to Dispose of an Old Notebook http://www.pcworld.com/howto/article/0,aid,119445,00.asp 4) Tech Soup: Ten Tips for Donating a Computer http://www.techsoup.org/howto/articlepage.cfm?articleid=524&topicid=1 5) CompuMentor: Computer Recycling & Reuse Program http://www.compumentor.org/recycle/default.html 6) Vnunet: Refurbished PCs http://www.vnunet.com/features/1155286 7) Refurbished Computers Buyers Guide http://www.realise-it.org/buyersguide.asp 8) About.com: Bill to Curb Electronic Waste Introduced http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/technologyandresearch/a/ewastebill.htm Given current rates of computer consumerism and technological advances, one might expect to find a lot of computers out there in the world. What happens to these old computers? This Topic in Depth explores this issue, reviews some options for recycling computers, and provides tips for anyone considering purchasing a refurbished computer. The first article from BBC News (1) reports on research which suggests that "the number of personal computers worldwide is expected to double by 2010 to 1.3 billion machines." The second article from Oasis, a project of the Irish eGovernment initiative, (2) reviews some of the issues surrounding waste from electrical and electronic equipment. This next article from PC World (3) gives some ideas for how to dispose of an old notebook computer. One option, of course, is to donate your notebook, which is discussed in this article from Tech Soup (4). Another resource for information on computer recycling and reuse is this website from CompuMentor (5). Given the current market for computers, many are considering refurbished computers. This article from Vnunet (6 ) explains what a refurbished computer is while the next website provides some tips for buying a refurbished computer (7 ). Finally, this article from About.com reports on the recently introduced National Computer Recycling Act (8).[From The NSDL Scout Report for Math, Engineering, and Technology, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2005. http://scout.wisc.edu/] posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:25 AM Theoretical Librarian http://theoretical-librarian.blogspot.com/ Theoretical Librarian is the blog of Gerry McKiernan, Associate Professor and Science and Technology Librarian and Bibliographer at Iowa State University Library, Ames, IA 50011. Theoretical Librarian, in general, will include announcements of past, present, and future personal publications and presentations as well as postings on current and emerging technologies and their actual and potential application for enhanced information and library services. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:20 AM Business-Higher Education Forum http://www.bhef.com/ The Business-Higher Education Forum (BHEF) is a non-profit membership organization of leaders from American businesses, colleges and universities, museums, and foundations. The purpose of the group is to join together to examine issues of national importance and, when appropriate, to speak with one voice by issuing reports, white papers, and policy positions, and by sponsoring roundtable discussions with elected public officials, representatives from both the corporate and the academic communities, and with the general public. Founded in 1978, the Forum was hosted by the American Council on Education until it became an independent organization in September 2004. February 16, 2005 Press Release: Systematic Failures in U.S. Math and Science Infrastructure Threaten Global Leadership A Commitment to America’s Future; Responding to the Crisis in Mathematics & Science Education How can business, higher education, and policy leaders contribute to the improvement of the mathematics and science competency of all of America’s students? In A Commitment to America’s Future; Responding to the Crisis in Mathematics & Science Education, the BHEF Mathematics and Science Initiative outlines a plan-of-action, to be undertaken in each state by a coalition of education, business, and policy leaders, which focuses on system-wide improvement of the teaching and learning of mathematics and science. It also calls for national and state-specific public information programs that make mathematics and science education a public priority. This will be added to Education and Distance Learning Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM The People's Network - Online Services From England's Public Libraries http://www.peoplesnetwork.gov.uk/ The lottery funded People's Network provides access to the internet from all public libraries across England. With further support from the Big Lottery Fund, MLA is now developing online services for the People's Network. The vision is to create a new web-based resource which complements and builds on the services of public libraries in England. It will bring easy access to knowledge, information, the support of library staff and opportunities to learn, enjoy and be inspired. The first of these services, allows you to have your enquiries answered by library staff just as if you spoke to a member of staff in your local library. It is currently being piloted before its launch to the public in Spring 2005. Try out the Enquiry Service. This has been added to the Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM Innovate - Journal of Online Education http://www.uliveandlearn.com/innovate/ Innovate is a leading online journal exploring the creative use of information technology (IT) to enhance educational processes in all sectors (K-12, college and university, corporate, government). It is the leading online journal exemplifying the use of IT tools to enhance professional communication about using IT in education. The Innovate-Live portal, featuring Innovate-Live webcasts and Innovate-Live discussion forums, is the interactive centerpiece of Innovate. Please take a few minutes to view a Flash Presentation on the portal. Innovate-Live webcasts offer readers an opportunity to explore with Innovate authors, in more depth than an article allows, Innovate articles, and it offers authors an opportunity to go into more detail with respect to a particular aspect of their topic. Innovate-Live forums enable participants to discuss special topics that will eventually become special issues of Innovate focusing on those topics. Once manuscripts developing from this discussion or submitted in response to a call for manuscripts, forum participants will be encouraged to use the forum to comment on the manuscripts as well as on the topic. This will be added to Education and Distance Learning Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM 2005 Economic Report of the President http://www.gpoaccess.gov/eop/index.html The Economic Report of the President is an annual report written by the Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors. It overviews the nation's economic progress using text and extensive data appendices. The Economic Report of the President is transmitted to Congress no later than ten days after the submission of the Budget of the United States Government. Supplementary reports can be issued to the Congress which contain additional and/or revised recommendations. Documents are available as ASCII text and PDF files. This will be added to Business Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Saturday, February 26, 2005  Moodle - Free Open Source Course Management System for Online Learning Moodle - Course Management System http://moodle.org/ Moodle is a course management system (CMS) - a software package designed to help educators create quality online courses. Such e-learning systems are sometimes also called Learning Management Systems (LMS) or Virtual Learning Environments (VLE). One of the main advantages of Moodle over other systems is a strong grounding in social constructionist pedagogy. Moodle is Open Source software, which means you are free to download it, use it, modify it and even distribute it (under the terms of the GNU General Public License). Moodle runs without modification on Unix, Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, Netware and any other system that supports PHP, including most webhost providers. Data is stored in a single database: MySQL and PostgreSQL are best supported, but it can also be used with Oracle, Access, Interbase, ODBC and others. Moodle has 50 language packs, including: Arabic, Catalan, Chinese (simplified and traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English (UK and US versions), Finnish, French (France and Canada versions), German, Greek, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Maori, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Portugal and Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai and Turkish. This has been added to Education and Distance Learning Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:25 AM ACME Laboratories http://www.acme.com/ ACME Laboratories states on its home page: Purveyors of fine freeware since 1972. On the net since 1991. There are a number of unique freeware applications as well as some very good tutorials. At one time they had complete code for an Internet search engine that I had listed in BotSpot® back in 1996. Worth a visit..... I have added this to Tutorial Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:20 AM KeePoint Keepad™ http://www.keepoint.com/prodinfo_personal.asp KeePoint Keepad™ is a novel concept in web research tools, which enables you to do all your web information gathering and organizing tasks, from navigating and searching to saving, categorizing and even sharing your selections, with the innovative one touch Kee-Tools. It eliminates the costs otherwise involved in printing, filing, sorting, managing, and sometimes even losing important information. Keepad, like the Keepoint it is based on, takes us beyond the search engines, making the internet a truly rich resource that it was envisioned to be. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM Internet Fosters Pseudo A.D.D. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/10/technology/circuits/10info.html You know the syndrome -- you sit down to do some work, and before you know it, you're checking e-mail, monitoring the weather report, assembling a new playlist, or filling up a shopping cart with books. A growing number of computer scientists and psychologists are studying the phenomenon of shortened attention span in the age of the Internet. Harvard Medical School professor John Ratey calls it "pseudo" attention deficit disorder or pseudo-A.D.D. Dr. Ben Bederson, head of the Human-Computer Interaction Lab at the University of Maryland, says the key is to design in a minimal amount of user distraction: "We're trying to come up with simple ideas of how computer interfaces get in the way of being able to concentrate." He notes that it all comes down to "flow" -- the state of deep cognitive engagement that people achieve when performing an activity, like writing, that requires a certain amount of concentration. Dr. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, a psychology professor at the Claremont Graduate University who's written on "flow," says interruptions do have their place. "I shouldn't knock distraction completely, because it can be useful. It can clear the mind and give you a needed break from a very linear kind of thinking." But "predictive interfaces" that try to identify those moments when a distraction, like e-mail, can safely interrupt the user's momentum are unlikely to be successful, says Bederson. "That's very, very hard for a computer system to guess." posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM Measurement Decision Theory http://edres.org/mdt/ Advocated by Wald (1947), first applied to measurement by Cronbach and Gleser (1957), and now widely used in engineering, agriculture, and computing, decision theory provides a simple model for the analysis of categorical data. It is most applicable in measurement when the goal is to classify examinees into one of two categories, e.g. pass/fail or master/non-master. From pilot testing, one estimates: 1)) The proportion of master and non masters in the population, and 2) The conditional probabilities of examinees in each mastery state responding correctly to each item. After the test is administered, one can compute (based on the examinee's responses and the pilot data): 1) The likelihood of an examinee's response pattern for masters and for non-masters, and 2) The probability that the examinee is a master and the probability that the examinee is a non-master. This tutorial provides an overview of measurement decision theory. Key concepts are presented and illustrated using a binary classification (pass/fail) test and a sample three-item test. This has been added to Education and Distance Learning Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM Power and Interest News Report (PINR) http://www.pinr.com/ The Power and Interest News Report (PINR) is an independent organization that utilizes open source intelligence to provide conflict analysis services in the context of international relations. PINR approaches a subject based upon the powers and interests involved, leaving the moral judgments to the reader. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to International Trade Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Friday, February 25, 2005  Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics http://www.mso.anu.edu.au/home.php The Australian National University's Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics and one of the Schools in the Institute of Advanced Studies - the part of the ANU devoted to research and research training. They are Australia's premier university centre for astronomical research. Their mission is to: 1) advance the observational and theoretical frontiers of astronomy and its enabling technologies; 2) provide national and international leadership; and 3) train outstanding scientists. Their headquarters are located on Mount Stromlo, a twenty minute drive from the centre of Canberra, Australia's capital city. They run Australia's two largest optical observatories: Mount Stromlo Observatory itself (damaged by the Canberra bushfires of 18 January 2003) and Siding Spring Observatory, which is located near the town of Coonabarabran, in the Western Plains of NSW. This has been added to Astronomy Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:25 AM Education Resource Organizations Directory (EROD) http://wdcrobcolp01.ed.gov/Programs/EROD/ The Directory is intended to help you identify and contact organizations that provide information and assistance on a broad range of education-related topics. The Directory was last updated on February 25, 2005 and currently includes 2940 entries. Each entry in the Directory is verified and updated at least annually. This has been added to Education and Distance Learning Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:20 AM Who Knows? Better Yet, Who Do You Trust? http://informationr.net/ir/10-2/paper216.html Why does a manager seek out a particular colleague when looking for information? Because that individual knows the most about the subject, right? Wrong, according to a recent research study. Maureen Mackenzie of the Dowling College School of Business has done three studies exploring how managers in for-profit business environments select individuals as sources of information. Her results indicate that the manager's relationship with an individual, more than his or her knowledge, is the real reason for seeking them out. Here's why. Seeking information under pressure is an uncomfortable position for most managers. They prefer to be the source, solution and provider of information. Also, because of perceptions defining their role, managers are expected to have all the answers on demand. Therefore, when a manager must reach out and ask for help, Mackenzie says they prefer someone with whom they have a trusting relationship -- despite the apparent opportunity cost. Managers will ask someone they know, like or trust more often than individuals who are the foremost subject matter experts. The results of this study offer a different perspective of how a specific user-group may deal with a bombardment of potentially relevant information. Mackenzie believes these insights could help corporate leadership and information architects develop training and orientation processes that maximize manager effectiveness, rather than systems that may not reflect real-world manager tendencies. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM Call for Participation: W3C Workshop on Frameworks for Semantics in Web Services http://www.w3.org/2005/01/ws-swsf-cfp.html http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/ http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/ Position papers are due 22 April for the W3C Workshop on Frameworks for Semantics in Web Services to be held 9-10 June in Innsbruck, Austria. Participants will discuss possible future W3C work on a comprehensive and expressive framework for describing all aspects of Web services. The workshop's goal is to envision more powerful tools and fuller automation using Semantic Web technologies such as RDF and OWL. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM Practical Assessment, Research and Evaluation http://pareonline.net/ Practical Assessment, Research and Evaluation (PARE) is an on-line journal supported, in part, by the Department of Measurement, Statistics, and Evaluation at the University of Maryland, College Park. Its purpose is to provide education professionals access to refereed articles that can have a positive impact on assessment, research, evaluation, and teaching practice, especially at the local education agency (LEA) level. Manuscripts published in Practical Assessment, Research and Evaluation are scholarly syntheses of research and ideas about issues and practices in education. They are designed to help members of the community keep up-to-date with effective methods, trends and research developments. While they are most often prepared for practitioners, such as teachers, administrators, and assessment personnel who work in schools and school systems, PARE articles can target other audiences, including researchers, policy makers, parents, and students. This has been added to Educationa and Distance Learning Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM  Item Response Theory http://edres.org/irt/ Item Response Theory is the study of test and item scores based on assumptions concerning the mathematical relationship between abilities (or other hypothesized traits) and item responses. Other names and subsets include Item Characteristic Curve Theory, Latent Trait Theory, Rasch Model, 2PL Model, 3PL model and the Birnbaum model. This has been added to Education and Distance Learning Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Thursday, February 24, 2005  Awareness Watch™ Newsletter V3N3 March 2005 Awareness Watch™ Newsletter V3N3 March 2005 http://virtualprivatelibrary.blogspot.com/Awareness Watch V3N3.pdf Awareness Watch™ Newsletter Blog and Archives http://www.AwarenessWatch.com/ The March 2005 V3N3 Awareness Watch™ Newsletter is a freely available 33 page .pdf document (608KB) from the above URL. The Awareness Watch Featured Report this month highlights a comprehensive listing of online resources and sources covering all aspects of privacy. 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 review covers Security Resources 2005 a professional Internet MiniGuide.  posted by Marcus Zillman | 11:51 AM  Academic Technology Resources Academic Technology Resources http://www.utoronto.ca/cat/clearinghouse/index.html Academic Technology Resources is a comprehensive site of resources and sites including links to the following sections: 1) Organizations, 2) Conferences and Events, 3) Funding, 4) Instructional Design, 5) Journals and Research, 6) UofT Resources, and 7) Web Development Tools. This will be added to Academic Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:25 AM Mentor Directory and Resources http://www.peer.ca/mentor.html A comprehensive directory of mentor resources including the following links: 1) Learn, 2) Take, 3) Events, 4) Links, 5) Review, 6) Tools, 7) Ask, 8) Profile, 9) Search, 10) Find, 11) WIN, 12) Read, 13) Benefits, 14) Join, 15) List, 16) Coaching, and 17) Read. This has been added to Directory Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to Tutorial Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to Educational and Distance Learning Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:20 AM A Drug Recall http://www.adrugrecall.com/ A Drug Recall site provides Celebrex, Vioxx, and Naproxen (Aleve) side effects information, news and resources on recalls and other harmful, defective drugs. Learn about the Vioxx recall and more about Celebrex side effects warnings. A Drug Recall site provides news and legal information about defective and potentially harmful drugs. This will be added to Healthcare Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM Meta Search Engine Factors In Contextual Analysis http://www.internetnews.com/ent-news/article.php/3468611 Watson, a new meta desktop search engine released by Intellext, forms contextually based queries that are designed to produce more relevant search results. "It understands the overall gist of what you're working on and selects terms of the query that you use over and over. It tempers that with what slide or paragraph you're on at that moment," says Intellext founder Jay Budzik. Once Watson figures out what the user is looking for, it goes out and rummages through indices created by other applications to offer additional suggestions. The advantage of the index-free approach is that it doesn't hog resources by creating filing systems that other applications have already produced, says Intellext CEO Al Wasserberger: "We don't want to index the Internet -- or your desktop. There are lots of people that know how to do that. We leverage all third parties; we don't do it ourselves." Watson can gather results from Web sites, desktop search applications, online news sites, as well as subscriber services and search engines. In a corporate setting, the meta search engine also culls information from a company's corporate knowledge management system, databases and intranet. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM Connotea - Social Citations and Remote Reference Management http://www.connotea.org/ Connotea is a place to keep links to the articles you read and the websites you use, and a place to find them again. It is also a place where you can discover new articles and websites through sharing your links with other users. By saving your links and references to Connotea they are instantly on the web, which means that they are available to you from any computer and that you can point your friends and colleagues to them. In Connotea, every user's bookmarks are visible both to visitors and to every other user, and different users' libraries are linked together through the use of common tags or common bookmarks. You can save links to any online content, but there is special functionality for articles from Nature journals, PubMed, HubMed or D-Lib Magazine — Connotea recognises URLs from these sites and imports the bibliographic information for the article you bookmarked. You can bookmark pages and papers by clicking on add and copying-and-pasting the URL into the form there. However, the easiest way of saving a link is to use the Connotea bookmarklets while you're browsing. This has been added to the tool section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to Social Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM Appropriate Resolvers, Dynamically: Adding REL and Title Attributes To OpenURLs - A Prototype http://curtis.med.yale.edu/dchud/resolvable/ This simple prototype demonstrates an easier way to connect remote web resources and related local services. To use it, you first need a bookmarklet. Choose your institution from the following list (or, if yours is not listed, choose one that sounds interesting, and see the FAQ below). To get a bookmarklet, click and drag the link at the right side of the row with your institution, dropping the dragged link into your web browser favorites toolbar. This should leave a bookmark with the text of the link you dragged right there in your personal bookmark/favorites toolbar. Then, go to one of the services listed at bottom (you might want to do this in another browser window or tab, to keep this page open nearby). At that service's suggested link, click the bookmarklet you just added to your toolbar. You should now see OpenURL resolver buttons, which are linked to your institution's resolver as you normally see. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Wednesday, February 23, 2005  March 2005 Zillman Column March 2005 Zillman Column - Tutorial Resources http://virtualprivatelibrary.blogspot.com/Tutorial Resources Mar05 Column.pdf http://www.zillmancolumns.com/ The March 2005 Zillman Column is now available and is titled Tutorial Resources. This March 2005 Zillman Column Tutorial Resources is a comprehensive listing of tutorial resources and sources on the World Wide Web. The Internet is an excellent medium for the delivery of continued education and tutorial resources to keep you up to date and current in your profession, special interest and hobby. Download this excellent 14 page free .pdf (385KB) column today and begin using the many tutorial resources available on the World Wide Web! Knowledge is the key to our future! © 2005 Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. posted by Marcus Zillman | 10:20 AM %202%2016%202005%201%2023%2045%20PM.jpg) Internet Society The Internet SOCiety (ISOC) http://www.isoc.org/ The Internet SOCiety (ISOC) is a professional membership society with more than 100 organization and over 20,000 individual members in over 180 countries. It provides leadership in addressing issues that confront the future of the Internet, and is the organization home for the groups responsible for Internet infrastructure standards, including the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and the Internet Architecture Board (IAB). Since 1992, the Internet Society has served as the international organization for global coordination and cooperation on the Internet, promoting and maintaining a broad spectrum of activities focused on the Internet's development, availability, and associated technologies. The Internet Society acts not only as a global clearinghouse for Internet information and education but also as a facilitator and coordinator of Internet-related initiatives around the world. Through its annual International Networking (INET) conference and other sponsored events, developing-country training workshops, tutorials, statistical and market research, publications, public policy and trade activities, regional and local chapters, standardization activities, committees and an international secretariat, the Internet Society serves the needs of the growing global Internet community. From commerce to education to social issues, our goal is to enhance the availability and utility of the Internet on the widest possible scale. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. I am proud to have been a member of the Internet Society for over ten years!! posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:25 AM Open Digital Rights Language (ODRL) Initiative http://odrl.net/ The Open Digital Rights Language (ODRL) Initiative is an international effort aimed at developing and promoting an open standard for the Digital Rights Management expression language. This has been added to eCommerce Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:20 AM Jargon File Resources http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/ This page indexes all the WWW resources associated with the Jargon File and its print version, The New Hacker's Dictionary. It's as official as anything associated with the Jargon File gets. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM International Crisis Group http://www.crisisweb.org/ The International Crisis Group is an independent, non-profit, multinational organization, with over 100 staff members on five continents, working through field-based analysis and high-level advocacy to prevent and resolve deadly conflict. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM xISBN Search http://www.oclc.org/research/projects/xisbn/ xISBN is a library web service that supplies International Standard Book Numbers (ISBNs) associated with individual intellectual works represented in the OCLC WorldCat database. Give it an ISBN, and it returns a list of associated ISBNs. OCLC Research's experimental web service supports automatic expansion of ISBN queries. The assumption is that people wanting an item should get all associated editions and printings of that item when they search a database like a library catalog or an online bookseller's database. The xISBN service is based on OCLC Research's FRBR activities (FRBR is a model for grouping bibliographic records for works) and the world's premiere bibliographic database, OCLC WorldCat. The OCLC Research FRBR algorithm was used to build tables of ISBNs for all intellectual works represented in WorldCat. The xISBN web service was then built to provide a useful means to query these tables: when a user has one ISBN, they can send that value to the service which then returns a string of all ISBNs for the work. The ISBNs returned from the service can in turn be re-used in an "or" query to a bibliographic database to improve the chances of a user finding any/all instances of the work in a given database. So a user finding an item of interest at Amazon (for example) could conveniently query his/her local library online catalog to find out if any editions or printings (hardback or paperback, first printing or third printing, and even cases where various titles have been used) of the item are held by the library. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to Student Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog, This will be added to Academic Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM Grey Literature Network (GreyNet) http://www.greynet.org/ The Grey Literature Network Service was founded in 1993. The goal of GreyNet is to facilitate dialog, research, and communication between persons and organisations in the field of grey literature. GreyNet further seeks to identify and distribute information on and about grey literature in networked environments. Its main activities include the International Conference Series on Grey Literature, the creation and maintenance of web-based resources, a moderated Listserv, and The Grey Journal. Definition of Grey Literature: "Information produced on all levels of government, academics, business and industry in electronic and print formats not controlled by commerical publishing i.e. where publishing is not the primary activity." This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Academic Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Tuesday, February 22, 2005  The Digital Object Identifier System® Digital Object Identifier (DOI) http://www.doi.org/ The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) is a system for identifying content objects in the digital environment. DOIs are names assigned to any entity for use on digital networks. They are used to provide current information, including where they (or information about them) can be found on the Internet. Information about a digital object may change over time, including where to find it, but its DOI will not change. The DOI system provides a framework for persistent identification, managing intellectual content, managing metadata, linking customers with content suppliers, facilitating electronic commerce, and enabling automated management of media. DOIs can be used for any form of management of any data, whether commercial or non-commercial. The system is managed by the International DOI Foundation, an open membership consortium including both commercial and non-commercial partners, and has recently been accepted for standardisation within ISO. Several million DOIs have been assigned by DOI Registration Agencies in the US, Australasia, and Europe. Using DOIs as identifiers makes managing intellectual property in a networked environment much easier and more convenient, and allows the construction of automated services and transactions. This has been added to eCommerce Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:25 AM Christian Classics Ethereal Library http://www.ccel.org/ Classic Christian books in electronic format, selected for your edification. There is enough good reading material here to last you a lifetime, if you give each work the time it deserves! All of the books on this server are believed to be in the public domain in the United States unless otherwise specified. Copy them freely for any purpose. Outside of the US, check your local copyright laws. This has been added to Theology Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:20 AM ePresence Interactive Media http://epresence.tv/ ePresence Interactive Media is a research project of the Knowledge Media Design Institute at the University of Toronto. The goal of their research is to make webcasting: 1) Highly interactive, 2) More engaging, 3) Accessible in real-time and later via structured, navigable, searchable archives, 4) Useful for knowledge transmission, building, and sharing, and 5) Scalable and robust. Work to date has succeeded in the creation of a viable and innovative webcasting system. This includes support for video, audio, and slide broadcasting; slide browsing and review; submitting questions, integrated moderated chat, live software demos and the automated creation of event archives. They have recently formed a Project Partnership. Their mandate is to further develop the ePresence Interactive Webcasting system and work toward an eventual open source release. This has been added to Knowledge Discovery Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM Announcing FamPat - A New International Patent Database from Questel•Orbit by Nancy Lambert http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb050214-2.shtml Questel•Orbit recently announced the release of FamPat, the family-based version of its international patent database PlusPat. An interesting feature of FamPat is that it gives searchers a choice of how broad a patent family they may display. First, some background. Like PlusPat, FamPat has probably the broadest country and time coverage of any subject-searchable patent database. It covers 75 patenting authorities, and some countries go back to the early 20th century (or even earlier: Germany goes back to 1877). The very early records only have numeric information. However, this includes ECLA classes in some cases, so they can be retrieved in subject searches. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM Operating Manual for Social Tools http://www.corante.com/om/ The Operating Manual for Social Tools project is sponsored by ZeroDegrees, an online service that enables individuals to leverage their relationship connections with other individuals and organizations for business, career, and personal success. ZeroDegrees has agreed to sponsor this site for the next four months to provide a forum for the discussion of rules and expectations for online social networks that will make social networks more useful while respecting the needs and privacy of their members. ZeroDegrees has agreed to exercise zero influence over the content of the discussions. The paid contributors are working for a fixed, non-renewable term. ZeroDegrees has further agreed that if the contributors feel ZeroDegrees has tried to influence them in any way, they can resign from the project but will still be paid. The project is produced by Corante, a leading social media company. This has been added to Social Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM EdRef College Search Directory http://www.edref.com/ EdRef.com is a free online college directory providing information on more than 7,000 US colleges and trade schools. EdRef.com tries to present unbiased information on substantially all of the colleges in the country. All EdRef.com content is free of charge for the use of students and educators. This has been added to Student Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and Directory Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Education and Distance Learning Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Monday, February 21, 2005  Listent To Marcus - Current Awareness Happenings On the Internet This mp3 broadcast edition of Current Awareness Happenings on the Internet by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. February 21, 2005 V3N8 discusses The Organizer's Toolbox. Click on the below audio mp3 broadcast to hear Marcus P. Zillman describing this unique resource on the Internet. View this site at: The Organizer's Toolbox http://www.onlineorganizing.com/ExpertAdviceToolbox.asp
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 Patent Lens™ Patent Lens™ - Patent Informatics and Analysis Component of the BIOS Initiative http://www.bios.net/daisy/bios/50 The patent informatics and analysis component of the BIOS initiative aims to assist both professionals and non-professionals to understand and navigate the intellectual property landscape within the life sciences. The patent system was created to encourage public disclosure of inventions and clear definition of each invention being protected, so that when the patent monopoly is not in force. for example when it has expired or where it was not granted, the invention may be used for further innovation. These tools are an important and necessary component of the BIOS initiative, as they can assist the user to determine the IP boundaries of what is free and what is not free. Perhaps more appropriately this can be framed as: what are the constraints on deliverable innovations, and what are the usable building blocks for future innovations? The resource was initially developed by CAMBIA, as the CAMBIA IP Resource (formerly www.cambiaIP.org). The Intellectual Property (IP) resource currently consists of a fully text-searchable patents database which has recently been greatly expanded to contain 1,500,000 life science patents from the US, Australian and European-based databases, and we are working to include others. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to Biological Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.[Thanks to Gerry McKiernan for this find] posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:25 AM Secunia - Vulnerability and Virus Information and Alerts http://secunia.com/ Secunia offers a complete list of software and operating systems in the Secunia database. Their database currently includes 4534 pieces of software and operating systems. Click a product to view all current Secunia Advisories affecting it. Please note that info is added to their database daily, through software suggestions from customers and vulnerability reports affecting new software. Excellent resource for current awareness of virus vulnerability and information through ongoing alerts and website. This has been added to Internet Alerts Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and Internet Hoaxes Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to Security Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:20 AM About Famous People http://www.aboutfamouspeople.com/index.html About Famous People is an one stop site to learn all about those famous men and women in history. You'll find Presidents, First Ladies, Civil War Generals, Actors, Great and Fascinating Women, Musicians, and Much Much More. Check back as more Famous People are added! This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM The Education Web Page http://www.educationwebpage.com/ A very comprehensive site of competent links for educators and those interested in educational resources and home teaching. Well worth the time to visit and review and I would recommend that you visit the site index and search first to obtain your navigational bearings to best review the entire site. This will be added to Education Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM e-Business Intelligence Blog http://www.e-bi.org/ e-Business Intelligence Blog - Daily Intelligence Blogger in Politics, Business and Defense. e-BI.org is a multiblog created to demonstrate the efficiency of open source intelligence in a network-centric society. e-BI.org is a Romanian Open Source Intelligence supporting tool at National and Coalition Level. This has been added to Business Intelligence Resources Subject Tracer Information Blog and eCommerce Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM Open Source Publishing http://www.arl.org/newsltr/237/opensource.html Terry Ehling, Director of Electronic Publishing at Cornell University Library, says that the first joint DPubS v.2 beta project between Cornell and Penn State will involve the delivery of "Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies." She concludes: "Presses and libraries can leverage one another's strengths. Together they can offer a broad range of sophisticated, cost-effective publishing services to their communities." posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Sunday, February 20, 2005 Biodiesel 1) Biodiesel America http://www.biodieselamerica.org/biosite/index.php?id=141,0,0,1,0,0 2) National Biodiesel Board http://www.biodiesel.org/ 3) Canadian Renewable Fuels Association http://www.greenfuels.org/ 4) European Biodiesel Board http://www.ebb-eu.org/ 5) Biodiesel Association of Australia http://www.biodiesel.org.au/ 6) U.S. Department of Energy: Biomass Program http://www.eere.energy.gov/biomass/ 7) The Earthrace http://www.earthrace.net/ As global dependence on fossil fuels is increasingly called into question, many nations, organizations, and individuals are exploring the use of biodiesel, a renewable fuel derived from vegetable oils (or animal fat), as an alternative power source. The first website presents (1) Biodiesel America, "a campaign whose mission is to change 100,000 diesel school busses to biodiesel by 2010." Biodiesel America has an educational mission, and its website offers a Biodiesel 101 section, as well as sections for biodiesel resources, news, online discussion forums, and more. The National Biodiesel Board (NBB) (2) represents "the biodiesel industry as the coordinating body for research and development in the United States." The NBB site offers a database full of downloadable reports, buyer's information, biodiesel news, market information, and a variety of other resources. The nonprofit Canadian renewable Fuels Association (CRFA) (3) works "to promote renewable fuels for automotive transportation and government liaison activities." In addition to information about biodiesel and ethanol, the CRFA website contains several downloadable newsletters, and a collection of related links. The European Biodiesel Board (EBB) (4), also a nonprofit organization, works to promote biodiesel use in the European Union (EU). The EBB website offers downloadable articles regarding biodiesel in the EU, downloadable reports from EU member states, a list of upcoming events, an EBB email information service, and basic statistical tables representing biodiesel production by country. The Biodiesel Association of Australia (BAA) (5) "was founded in late 2000 to ensure that the biodiesel industry is established and flourishes in Australia." The BAA website contains basic, concise information about biodiesel; links to related news articles; downloadable BAA newsletters and biodiesel-related documents; an online discussion forum; and a collection of related links. From the U.S. Department of Energy, the sixth (6) website presents information about the Biomass Program, whose mission is to work with U.S. industry to transform "abundant biomass resources into clean, affordable, and domestically produced biofuels, biopower, and high-value bioproducts." The final website (7) presents the Earthrace, a fantastic plan aimed at raising awareness about biodiesel by breaking "the world record for circumnavigating the globe in a powerboat." Powered by biodiesel, it is hoped that the Earthrace vessel will be able to travel approximately 24,000 nautical miles in fewer than 65 days.[From The NSDL Scout Report for the Life Sciences, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2005. http://scout.wisc.edu/] posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:25 AM JavaScript Kit- Comprehensive JavaScript, DHTML, CSS Tutorials and Over 400+ Free JavaScripts http://www.javascriptkit.com/ Comprehensive JavaScript tutorials and over 400 free scripts. Just added a complete JavaScript Reference. Also features DHTML, CSS, and web design tutorials, and a large developer's help forum. This has been added to Tutorial Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:20 AM Number Watch http://www.numberwatch.co.uk/number%20watch.htm John Brignell, Professor Emeritus from the Department of Electronics & Computer Science at the University of Southampton, is the author of this informal website "devoted to the monitoring of the misleading numbers that rain down on us via the media." Brignell says he aims to "nail" a few of the "Single Issue Fanatics (SIFs), politicians, bureaucrats, quasi-scientists (junk, pseudo- or just bad)," who use misleading numbers to write catchy articles or who try to keep numbers away from public notice. Since April 2000, he has been posting a "number of the month" as well as a "number for the year," which offer his commentary on media usage of misleading numbers and explanations for why the numbers are misleading. He also posts book reviews and an extensive list of online resources on statistics and statistics education. The FAQ section includes answers to some interesting questions, such as "Is there such a thing as average global temperature?" and some more basic questions such as "What is the Normal Distribution and what is so normal about it?" The Bits and Pieces section includes a variety of short articles on statistics and his definitions for some terms he uses on the website. Visitors are also invited to join the discussion forum (complete with a few advertisements) and view comments by others who want to discuss "wrong numbers in science, politics and the media." A few comments sent to Brignell and his responses are also posted online. This site is also reviewed in the February 11, 2005_NSDL MET Report_. [From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2004. http://scout.wisc.edu/] posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM Who Will Win The Blog Race? http://billburnham.blogs.com/burnhamsbeat/2005/01/the_coming_blog.html If Google or Yahoo is able to dominate blogger traffic it would have a tremendous competitive advantage against its rival, but Bill Burnham, a student of blogging, speculates that some of the main blog aggregation sites -- Bloglines CHANCE Magazine http://www.amstat.org/publications/chance/ CHANCE Magazine is a joint publication of the American Statistical Association and Springer-Verlag. The magazine features articles about statistics and the use of statistics in society in a style that is intended to be accessible to a broad public audience or anyone with "an interest in the analysis of data." Topic areas include statistics used in the social, biological, physical, and medical sciences, as well as information about statistical computing and graphical presentation of data. The monthly featured article is available online free of charge, but the regular columns, book reviews, and other sections are available only through paid subscription. The February 2005 feature article discusses "which aspects of music can be described by quantitative models" and includes supplemental sound clips. This has been added to Statistics Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.[Copyright 1994-2004 Internet Scout Project - http://scout.wisc.edu] posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM The National Security Archive http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/index.html The National Security Archive combines a unique range of functions in one non governmental, non-profit institution. The Archive is simultaneously a research institute on international affairs, a library and archive of declassified U.S. documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, a public interest law firm defending and expanding public access to government information through the FOIA, and an indexer and publisher of the documents in books, microfiche, and electronic formats. The Archive's approximately $2.3 million yearly budget comes from publication revenues and from private philanthropists such as the Carnegie Corporation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and the Ford Foundation. As a matter of policy, the Archive receives no government funding. The National Security Archive was founded in 1985 by a group of journalists and scholars who had obtained documentation from the U.S. government under the Freedom of Information Act and sought a centralized repository for these materials. Over the past decade, the Archive has become the world's largest non governmental library of declassified documents. Located on the seventh floor of the George Washington University's Gelman Library in Washington, D.C., the Archive is designed to apply the latest in computerized indexing technology to the massive amount of material already released by the U.S. government on international affairs, make them accessible to researchers and the public, and go beyond that base to build comprehensive collections of documents on specific topics of greatest interest to scholars and the public. The Archive's holdings include more than two million pages of accessioned material in over 200 separate collections. Supporting some 30 terminals, the Archive's computer system hosts major databases of released documents (over 100,000 records), authority files of individuals and organizations in international affairs (over 30,000 records), and FOIA requests filed by Archive staff and outside requesters on international affairs (over 20,000 records). This has been added to Privacy Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Security Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Saturday, February 19, 2005  Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/15708268 An excellent journal from Science Direct and Elsevier B.V. covering many aspects of the Semantic web. A sampling of articles from the current issue ( V2N2 ) covers: 1) Special Issue Title page, 2) World Wide Web Conference 2004 – Semantic Web Track, 3) A subscribable peer-to-peer RDF repository for distributed metadata management, 4) Learning to integrate web taxonomies, and 5) Semantic email: theory and applications. Well worth the read and sample issue online. This has been added to the Semantic Web Research section of Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:25 AM Librarians Must Rethink the Future http://www.infotoday.com/searcher/feb05/voice.shtml Google's move to digitize the collections of five of the world's leading research libraries marks a major leap forward in the movement to shift the nexus of knowledge from the bricks-and-mortar library to the Web, says Barbara Quint, editor of Searcher Magazine, and librarians must rethink their role accordingly. "Whatever we do and for whomever we do it, we must design our tasks under the principle of Do-Once, Serve-Many. We must look beyond constituency limitations. We must create products and services that can meet the needs of all users of the content inside these those products and services, not just that of our immediate constituencies. That will mean designing or joining projects that integrate and network with others working the same or similar content, the same or similar users… We must recognize that the weight of the future may collapse the structures of the past, that the systems we have relied upon to filter and measure and archive and distribute quality information may dissolve and leave us floating in a sea of disparate data. But the same dangerous future also will provide the tools to build new and better systems, tools open to new players -- like us… Above all, we must recognize that new tasks abound and, now that we are freed from shelf patrol duties, we're the ones to do them." posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:20 AM WAG the Dog Web Localizer by Ross Singer http://rsinger.library.gatech.edu/localizer/localizer.html The Web Localizer is an attempt to create a framework that takes web resources that are not written or intended for your use or community and rewrites them so they can work within your controlled environment. The goal is to extend the library (or any service, group, community or individual that can define its relation to other objects on the web) into the places and interfaces that people are already using (and probably are not "endorsed" or "supported" by the library). Google Scholar or Elsevier's Scirus are perfect examples of these sorts of services. The creators don't actually care if the user has access to the asset that a particular link points to, that is for the user and content provider to work out. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM Metadata FAQ - Metadata for Education http://www.cetis.ac.uk/metadatafaq/FrontPage This Metadata FAQ has been developed collaboratively during 2004 by participants from the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, the IMS Global Learning Consortium, the IEEE Learning Technology Standards Committee and other organisations including CanCore?, ADL, JES and Co and CETIS. This FAQ provides guidelines and information and has no official status within any of these organisations. The intention is to continue this work and encourage participation from the wider community with the assistance of a Wiki hosted by CETIS. Subtopics include: 1) General Questions, 2) Metadata Standards, 3) Creating and Using Metadata, 4) Technical Issues, and 5) Resources. This has been added to Semantic Web Research section of Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM DREI - Digital Reference Education Initiative http://128.230.185.43/ Digital reference has already had a tremendous impact on library practice across library types and geography. Anecdotal evidence of impact can be seen in the growing number of digital reference publications, conference presentations, and large-scale digital reference projects such as the Virtual Reference Desk project, QuestionPoint and the State of Washington LSTA efforts. Digital reference is no longer a limited experiment in some libraries, but increasingly a new reality in many reference service environments. However, this new reality has outpaced the library training and education infrastructure to support it. The Digital Reference Education Initiative (DREI) seeks to bring together the collective expertise of practitioners, library educators, and digital reference software developers interested in issues of education and training in order to develop core competencies, and educational approaches to digital reference. DREI's main goal is to create an adaptable collection of core competencies, standards, tools, and training materials that may be used in various library and other information industry settings, and to provide access to these materials through this site. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM Tools for Thought http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/30/books/review/30JOHNSON.html In an essay in the New York Times, author Steven Johnson ("Mind Wide Open" and "Everything Bad Is Good for You") suggests that word processing "has been less revolutionary than you might think," because "writers don't normally rely on the computer for the more subtle arts of inspiration and association. We use the computer to process words, but the ideas that animate those words originate somewhere else, away from the screen. The word processor has changed the way we write, but it hasn't yet changed the way we think." But he thinks that tools for thought may finally become a reality for people who manipulate words for a living, with the advent of a dozen new programs that share "two remarkable properties: the ability to interpret the meaning of text documents; and the ability to filter through thousands of documents in the time it takes to have a sip of coffee. Put those two elements together and you have a tool that will have as significant an impact on the way writers work as the original word processors did." Johnson notes that "there's a fundamental difference between searching a universe of documents created by strangers and searching your own personal library. When you're freewheeling through ideas that you yourself have collated -- particularly when you'd long ago forgotten about them -- there's something about the experience that seems uncannily like freewheeling through the corridors of your own memory. It feels like thinking." posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Friday, February 18, 2005  ACM SIGKDD Current Explorations Issue ACM SIGKDD: Current Explorations Issue http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigkdd/explorations/issue.php?issue=current The December 2004 Volume 6 Number 2 of ACM's Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining focuses on Web Content Mining. Articles include 1) Extracting Relational Data from HTML Repositories, 2) Learning Important Models for Web Page Blocks based on Layout and Content Analysis, 3) Learning by Googling, 4) Correlating Summarization of Multi-source News with K-way Graph Bi-clustering, 5) Information Diffusion Through Blogspace, 6) Mining Structures for Semantics, 7) Learning to Extract Information from Large Domain-specific Websites using Sequential Models, 8) Mining Semantics for Large Scale Integration on the Web: Evidences, Insights, and Challenges, and 9) A number of contributed articles ...... This has been added to Data Mining Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and Knowledge Discovery Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:25 AM How To Conduct A Background Check by Genie Tyburski, Web Manager, The Virtual Chase http://www.virtualchase.com/articles/background_checks.html An excellent article by Genie Tyburski, Web Manager of The Virtual Chase. This is another one of her fine Internet research articles and discusses the best and current methods and resources on conducting a background check. A listing of resources as well as current privacy issues are discussed. This has been added to Business Intelligence Resources Subject Tracer Information Blog and Finding People Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:20 AM Science News Blog Links Faculty and Students http://www.library.gsu.edu/scholarship/articles/vogel-2004-11-IRSQ-blog.pdf Although surveys indicate most Americans still haven't a clue what blogs are, their numbers and uses are spreading. Two librarians at Georgia State University have developed a weblog to deliver information about library news, services and resources to GSU's science faculty and students. Designed and built totally in-house, Science News reflects the many advantages blogs offer. They can be updated easily, frequently and continuously, making them an appealing alternative to static newsletters and e-mail updates. Since active blogging began in July 2003, more than 200 items have been posted to Science News, including daily updates on the science collection's move from one library building to another; alerts when library resources will be temporarily unavailable; notices when new multi-volume reference works are available; recent acquisitions; new databases and updates to existing databases; information about database-related resources like PubMed and SciFinder guides; online journal access; new class and subject guides; and the like. After Science News was up and running, the next step was to get the word out to the science faculty and students. Adding to the challenge was the fact that the new service is a blog, Web technology unfamiliar to many patrons. So the librarians decided to de-emphasize the "gee-whiz" aspect of the blog system itself, and focus instead on demonstrating the format's tangible benefits. Science News is at http://www.library.gsu.edu/news/science. (Preprint of "Delivering the News with Blogs: The Georgia State University Library Experience") posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM Introducing the IBM/Sony/Toshiba Cell Processor — Part I: the SIMD processing units by Jon "Hannibal" Stokes http://arstechnica.com/articles/paedia/cpu/cell-1.ars The Cell processor consists of a general-purpose POWERPC processor core connected to eight special-purpose DSP cores. These DSP cores, which IBM calls "synergistic processing elements" (SPE), but going to call "SIMD processing elements" (SPE) because "synergy" is a dumb word, are really the heart of the entire Cell concept. IBM introduced the basic architecture of the SPE, and they're going to introduce the overall architecture of the complete Cell system in a session...... posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM Journal of Web Semantics: Preprint Server http://www.websemanticsjournal.org/ Here you can find fulltexts and bibliographic data of a number of electronic versions of the publications of the Journal of Web Semantics, including submitted ontologies and archived open-source code. Currently there are 33 publications available. The search facilities comprise catalogue search, fulltext search und navigation. Navigation allows gaining an overview about the extent and composition of the document collection. Links include: 1) Home, 2) Demo, 3) Ontologies, 4) All Papers, and 5) FAQ . This has been added to the Semantic Web Research section of Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM NETNOMICS: Economic Research and Electronic Networking http://www.springerlink.com/link.asp?id=102537 The journal Netnomics is intended to be an outlet for research in electronic networking. As more and more transactions will be carried out electronically, new economic issues and problems will start to arise. A network-based real time macroeconomy will emerge with its own set of economic characteristic, which will create new opportunities for economic research. Topics that could be addressed are: pricing schemes for electronic services, electronic trading systems, data mining and high-frequency data, real-time forecasting, filtering, economic software agents, distributed database applications, digicash-ecash systems, and many more. Evidently, this is only the beginning. In the long run, a whole new field of research will emerge. Publisher: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. ISSN 1385-9587. This has been added to eCommerce Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Thursday, February 17, 2005  Infopeople Best Search Tools Chart Best Search Tools Chart http://www.infopeople.org/search/chart.html A quick guide (cheat-sheet) to Internet search engines and subject directories. Last updated January 11, 2005 by Joe Barker for and copyright protected by the Infopeople Project, supported by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian. This document may be printed or copied for non-commercial use without further permission of the author, provided this notice is present. The Adobe Acrobat PDF version prints on 2 pages. See also Best Search Engines Quick Guide. This is a nice reference sheet that gives a quick view of the various attributes of the leading search entities and directory resources on the Internet. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:25 AM SiteLibrary - A Collective Effort To Help Connect the Pieces of the Web http://www.sitelibrary.net/ A haven for web wanderers including: 1) Link Collectors Community: To share interests in exploring the web. Portal includes directory editors community forums and weblogs with topics such as link indexing, search, web technologies, online communities, culture, and language, 2) SiteLibrary Web Directory: High quality and user-friendly directory, and 3) Bookmarks Parking Directory: A project to organize browser favorites into a searchable bookmarks directory. Provides internet favorites storage, with a quick-add bookmarklet, personalized categories, site descriptions and keywords, search, topic area for crosslinking similar bookmarks, and listings of new, popular, and top-rated sites. Save your link collection online for easy access from anywhere, and help your favorite sites get popular. Their mission: To maintain a community built on trust and respect, with a goal of building a high-quality, user-friendly, and unique system of indexing websites on the internet. This has been added to Directory Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:20 AM Pretrieve Search - Free Public Record Search Engine http://www.pretrieve.com/ Pretrieve LLC was founded with the purpose of developing a public record search engine that would make Internet based research free, faster and easier for everyone. The big search engines didn't go deep enough to find the searchable databases that they were looking for, and they needed a way to tap into the resources of the Deep Web. They also wanted to eliminate some of the inefficiencies of Internet based research by creating a user friendly interface that presented a categorized menu of information sources and reduce the amount of redundant data entry. Their goal was to develop a specialized search engine for retrieving public record information that was familiar to operate but delivered results in a more meaningful way. This has been added to Finding People Subject Tracer™ Information Blog, Business Intelligence Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Competitive Intelligence Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM Streamload - Share Videos and Photos - Online MP3 Storage and Access http://www.streamload.com/ Streamload is a service that enables you to send, receive, store and access Megafiles™ to any person and from any Internet connected device. Share your videos as easily as you send email. Streamload provides the tools to store and share your videos with ease. Send videos in full-quality to your family and friends. It's permanent. It's secure. It's the highest-quality solution. Access your digital music anytime, anywhere. Streamload allows you to organize, store, and stream all your digital music. You never have to leave your MP3s behind again. Whether you are on the road or at a different computer, Streamload remembers your music so you don't have to. Share full-quality images with anyone. Use your camera's full potential and say goodbye to expensive photo printing services. Streamload enables you to share your photos with others using thumbnail previews while allowing them to print original, full-quality prints at home. Easily send and receive huge files. It's easy to move huge files around with Streamload. Send up to 50,000 gigabytes (50 TB) of files to anyone by sending secure email links, or directly transfer files to the recipient's Streamload Inbox. This has been added to Data Mining Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM INSNA - International Network for Social Network Analysis http://www.insna.org/ This page contains information about the International Network for Social Network Analysis and related subjects. Here you will find Social Networks information, reference sources and links to related home pages. This has been added to Social Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM |
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