Internet Happenings, Events and Sources
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Wednesday, November 30, 2005  Academic and Scholar Search Engines and Sources Academic and Scholar Search Engines and Sources  http://zillman.blogspot.com/2004/12/academic-and-scholar-search-engines.html Internet MiniGuide Annotated Link Compilation white paper titled "Academic and Scholar Search Engines and Sources" is a 38 page research paper listing selected resources both new and existing that will help anyone who is attempting to find academic and scholarly information and knowledge available on the Internet. Each source is described along with the URL address than can be accessed. It is freely available as a .pdf file (994KB) at the above link from the Virtual Private Library™ and authored by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. [Updated 12-05-06] posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:20 AM  Description Logic Programs: Combining Logic Programs with Description Logic by Benjamin N. Grosof http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/551089.html Abstract: We show how to interoperate, semantically and inferentially, between the leading Semantic Web approaches to rules (RuleML Logic Programs) and ontologies OWL/DAML+OIL Description Logic) via analyzing their expressive intersection. To do so, we define a new intermediate knowledge representation (KR) contained within this intersection: Description Logic Programs (DLP), and the closely related Description Horn Logic (DHL) which is an expressive fragment of first-order logic (FOL). DLP provides a significant degree of expressiveness, substantially greater than the RDFSchema fragment of Description Logic. This has been added to the semantic web research section of Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM  Introduction to Social Network Methods Introduction to Social Network Methods by Robert S. Hanneman, and Mark Riddle http://faculty.ucr.edu/~hanneman/nettext/ This on-line textbook introduces many of the basics of formal approaches to the analysis of social networks. The text relies heavily on the work of Freeman, Borgatti, and Everett (the authors of the UCINET software package). The materials here, and their organization, were also very strongly influenced by the text of Wasserman and Faust, and by a graduate seminar conducted by Professor Phillip Bonacich at UCLA. Many other users have also made very helpful comments and suggestions based on the first version. Errors and omissions, of course, are the responsibility of the authors. You are invited to use and redistribute this text freely -- but please acknowledge the source. This has been added to Social Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM  Extrasearch.com - Classifieds Worldwide http://www.extrasearch.com/ The Beta Phase of Classifieds Worldwide classified ads are free of charge. Extrasearch.com Classifieds offer classified ads in 1225 categories and 196 countries. In recent years the term classified advertising has expanded from merely the sense of print advertisements in periodicals to include similar types of advertising on computer classifieds services. Like most forms of printed media, the ad has found its way to the Internet. Printed ads are typically just a few column lines in length, and they often filled with abbreviations to save space and money. Internet ads don't typically use per line pricing models so they tend to be longer. They are also searchable, unlike their offline brethren. Example: Entering the keywords Jobs by language would return all ads that contain the keywords Jobs by language. In 2003, the market for classified ads in the United States was $15.9 billion (newspapers), $14.1 billion (online) according to market researcher Classified Intelligence. The worldwide ad market in 2003 was estimated at $100 billion. This will be added to Advertising, Marketing and Public Relations Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM  Digital Divisions by Susannah Fox pf the PEW Internet and American Life Project http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/165/report_display.asp Sixty-eight percent of American adults, or about 137 million people, use the internet, up from 63% one year ago. Thirty-two percent of American adults, or about 65 million people, do not go online, and it is not always by choice. Those who are currently offline have had varying levels of exposure to the online world. One in five American adults say they have never used the internet or email and do not live in an internet-connected household. At the other end of the spectrum, 53% of home internet users have high-speed access, creating a new divide among internet users. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Tuesday, November 29, 2005  Online Research Tools White Paper Link Compilation Online Research Tools http://zillman.blogspot.com/2004/09/online-research-tools.html I have just updated my Online Research Tools White Paper Link Compilation with lots of new research tools. It is available freely from the above URL and is now a 29 page .pdf document (553KB). It is also available with all my other white papers and link compilations at WhitePapers.us. posted by Marcus Zillman | 7:16 AM  FeedBlitz - EMail Blog, RSS and HTML Services http://www.feedblitz.com/ RSS, Blogs, XML, readers and aggregators can be confusing. Adding email services to your blog isn't. Email feed and blog subscription services powered by FeedBlitz can: a) Boost your readership to reach the largest possible market, b) Give you valuable insights into your readership, and c) All using the familiar, most pervasive Internet application - Email. It's easy too! No gurus required. You don't even need to be a blogger to use FeedBlitz to track sites you care about. This has been added to my Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators presentation resources page. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM Teen Content Creators and Consumers by Amanda Lenhart and Mary Madden of the PEW Internet and American Life Project http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/166/report_display.asp American teenagers today are utilizing the interactive capabilities of the internet as they create and share their own media creations. Fully half of all teens and 57% of teens who use the internet could be considered Content Creators. They have created a blog or webpage, posted original artwork, photography, stories or videos online or remixed online content into their own new creations. Teens are often much more enthusiastic authors and readers of blogs than their adult counterparts. Teen bloggers, led by older girls, are a major part of this tech-savvy cohort. Teen bloggers are more fervent internet users than non-bloggers and have more experience with almost every online activity in the survey. Teens continue to actively download music and video from the internet and have used multiple sources to get their files. Those who get music files online believe it is unrealistic to expect people to self-regulate and avoid free downloading and file-sharing altogether. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM  Public Gopher Proxy Public Gopher Proxy http://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/ Gopher is a well-known information access protocol that predates the World Wide Web, developed at the University of Minnesota during the early 1990s. What is Gopher? (Gopher-hosted, via the Public Proxy). As the Gopher protocol enters its first decade of existence, its support among many major browsers has declined (Netscape and other Mozilla-derived browsers), or has been expunged entirely (Microsoft Internet Explorer), if the browser even ever supported it at all (Opera never has). To allow Gopherspace to continue to be usefully accessible in the coming years, since it's still definitely a viable and useful (not to mention lightweight and efficient) information distribution protocol, the Public Proxy offers a standards-based, effective Gopher<->HTTP gateway to facilitate access even when your web browser doesn't. My first Linkseries Internet MiniGuides were created in 1993 that listed all the major academic gopher sites located throughout the world! This will be added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM   W3C Launches Rule Interchange Format Working Group http://www.w3.org/2005/11/ruleswg-pressrelease http://www.w3.org/2005/rules/ http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/ W3C is pleased to announce the launch of the Rule Interchange Format (RIF) Working Group. "After years of industry and research work in rules languages, I'm pleased to see W3C Members working to develop a Web-based rules standard," said Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director. Chaired by Christian de Sainte Marie (ILOG) and Sandro Hawke (temporary co-Chair, W3C), the group is chartered through November 2007 to produce a language for the exchange of rules and their transfer between rule systems. Rules are executable pieces of declarative knowledge, important in managing complex and dynamic operations. Read the press release, about the Rule Interchange Format and visit the Semantic Web home page. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Monday, November 28, 2005  Open Invention Network (OIN) http://www.openinventionnetwork.com/ Open Invention Network (OIN), a company that has and will acquire patents and offer them royalty-free to promote Linux and spur innovation globally, was launched on November 10, 2005; with financial support from IBM, Novell, Philips, Red Hat, and Sony. The company, believed to be the first of its kind, is creating a new model where patents are openly shared in a collaborative environment and used to facilitate the advancement of applications for, and components of, the Linux operating system. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM  Medical Podcasts http://www.ahsl.arizona.edu/weblinks/Medical_podcasts.cfm Here is a list of some noteworthy sites that offer medical podcasts for health professionals. This will be added to Healthcare Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM  Geek to Live: Find Free Music On the Web by Gina Trapani http://www.lifehacker.com/software/geek-to-live/geek-to-live-find-free-music-on-the-web-136578.php Your digital music collection is crying out for new songs. Sure you could hit up the iTunes Music Store, or rip another CD, or fire up your P2P software and pray the RIAA doesn’t eat your firstborn - but the plain ol’ web is an untapped goldmine of audio. If you’re willing to branch out beyond the Top 40, have a gander at six of Gina Trapani's favorite places to find tunes on the web. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM  Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group http://www.whatwg.org/ It is a loose unofficial collaboration of Web browser manufacturers and interested parties who wish to develop new technologies designed to allow authors to write and deploy Applications over the World Wide Web. The working group mailing list is an open subscription public mailing list and anyone is welcome to contribute. The focus of this working group is limited to technologies that will need to be directly implemented in Web browsers. It is not the right forum for very domain-specific proposals that would not be suitable for implementation in, for instance, Safari, Firefox, or Opera. This has been added to World Wide Web Reference Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Saturday, November 26, 2005  Alacra Store - The Premium Business Information Source http://www.alacrastore.com/ Alacra Store premium content includes company profiles, company financials, credit research, investment research, market research, economic data, and news. Alacra Store premium publishers include CreditSights, D&B, Fitch Ratings, Moody's Global Credit Research, and more... This has been added to Business Intelligence Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM  Understanding BitTorrent: An Experimental Perspective by Arnaud Legout, Guillaume Urvoy-Keller, and Pietro Michiardi http://hal.inria.fr/inria-00000156/en Abstract: BitTorrent is a recent, yet successful peer-to-peer protocol focused on efficient content delivery. To gain a better understanding of the key algorithms of the protocol, we have instrumented a client and run experiments on a large number of real torrents. Our experimental evaluation is peer oriented, instead of tracker oriented, which allows us to get detailed information on all exchanged messages and protocol events. In particular, we have explored the properties of the two key algorithms of BitTorrent: the choke and the rarest first algorithms. We have shown that they both perform remarkably well, but that the old version of the choke algorithm, that is still widely deployed, suffers from several problems. We have also explored the dynamics of a peer set that captures most of the torrent variability and provides important insights for the design of realistic models of BitTorrent. Finally, we have evaluated the protocol overhead. We have found in our experiments a small protocol overhead and explain under which conditions it can increase. This has been added to P2P section of Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM  Internet Clocks, Counters and Countdowns Internet Clocks, Counters, and Countdowns http://www.panaga.com/clocks/clocks.htm A very comprehensive resource of links to internet clocks, internet counters and internet countdowns. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM  Journal of Tropical Microbiology and Biotechnology Journal of Tropical Microbiology and Biotechnology http://72.41.110.51/journal_index.php?jid=259&ab=JTMB The Journal of Tropical Microbiology and Biotechnology (JTMB) formerly Journal of Tropical Microbiology gives preeminence to the central role of modern biotechnology and microorganisms as tools and targets in current research, which is largely multidisciplinary. JTMB covers a broad range of topics, such as disease diagnostics and detection, nodulation in trees, and the use of Agrobacterium in gene transfer. This has been added to Biological Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Friday, November 25, 2005  Awareness Watch™ Newsletter V3N12 December 2005 Awareness Watch™ Newsletter V3N12 December 2005 http://virtualprivatelibrary.blogspot.com/Awareness Watch V3N12.pdf Awareness Watch™ Newsletter Blog and Archives http://www.AwarenessWatch.com/ The December 2005 V3N12 Awareness Watch™ Newsletter is a freely available 37 page .pdf document (684KB) from the above URL. The Awareness Watch Featured Report this month features a comprehensive listing of eCommerce Resources on the Internet including key databases and directories for personal, academic and corporate utilization. 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 article review covers Blogging As a Tool : Innovative Approaches To Information Access by Jay Bhatt   posted by Marcus Zillman | 8:55 AM  BubbleShare http://www.bubbleshare.com At BubbleShare, they know that photos are more than just static images. Behind each photo lies a great story, an adventure, or a tall tale. BubbleShare's mission is to help you tell your stories by providing you with simple and fun Web based tools to make your photo sharing experience easy and entertaining. You have stories and they want to help you tell them. If you think sharing photos is a pain then you are not alone. They agree with you and so their service requires no registration, no software downloads, no postage stamp sized images, and no expensive monthly subscriptions. They built BubbleShare to make it easy for you to share your photos and tell your stories. Just upload your photos, remix your media, and instantly generate a private link for your friends and family to view! They are here to turn your digital media quickly and easily into highly interactive, web based Social Presentations™. This has been added to Social Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM  MotoModders MotoModders http://www.motomodders.net/ MotoModders is an online service community which is owned by MobileModders, Inc. MotoModders offers the highest quality FREE downloads on the web today. They are devoted to providing a centralized, integrated, and easy-to-use web interface to connect you to your mobile phone. Their long-term goals are to provide a single, complete, Motorola Phone Modding Software Kit. They plan to include all of the currently available systems for modding a Motorola Phone. These features: P2K file manager interface, motoskin skin maker, seem editor (with hex and bit values), AT modem comunication, and hopefully even Bluetooth integration will make MotoMod the only choice for serious phone modders. Their core system is being developed as a modular based engine with plugin pack options to allow for easy upgrades of everything from downloading new skins directly into the software, to adding support for phone models and communication systems not even developed yet. If you are interested in working with them toward this goal of a single Open-Source MotoMod program, contact them here or visit their Developers Community for more Developer information. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM  International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications http://hpc.sagepub.com/ The International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications is directed to researchers in computational science, as well as to educators, programmers, designers, and users of computers who have particular interests in the application and development of supercomputers. The goal of the journal is to provide a lively forum for the communications of original research papers and timely review articles on the use of supercomputers to solve complex modeling problems in a spectrum of disciplines. The emphasis will be on experiences with the use of supercomputers rather than on the exposition of computational results peculiar to a specific research topic. Software techniques that apply to classes of problems often cross disciplines; articles should focus on the exchange of such techniques, as well as present methods for analyzing, measuring and applying algorithms and solution schemes related to particular application areas. The scope of the journal is reflected by the specialties of the board of contributing editors. Sample topic areas include aerospace engineering, artificial intelligence and knowledge processing, astro physics, atmospheric research and meteorological forecasting, automotive design and production, computational aerodynamics, computer graphics and imaging, cryptographic analysis, economic modeling, implementation techniques and pragmatic software and architectural considerations, integrated circuit design, molecular biology, motion-picture graphics, nuclear fusion research, performance studies, petroleum reservoir engineering and hydrology simulations, pharmaceutical research structural analysis and computer-aided design, and theoretical and experimental physics. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM  Moodle - Course Management System http://www.Moodle.com/ Moodle is a course management system designed to help educators who want to create quality online courses. The software is used all over the world by universities, schools, companies and independent teachers. Moodle is open source and completely free to use. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Wednesday, November 23, 2005  December 2005 Zillman Column - ShoppingBots and Online Shopping 2006 December 2005 Zillman Column - ShoppingBots and Online Shopping 2006 http://VirtualPrivateLibrary.BlogSpot.com/ShoppingBots 2006 Dec05 Column.pdf http://www.zillmancolumns.com/ The December 2005 Zillman Column is now available and is titled ShoppingBots and Online Shopping 2006. This December column is a comprehensive list of shopping resources and sites on the Internet. I have been writing about and listing various shoppingbots and online shopping resources and tools to be used on the Internet since 1995 and this continues my tradition of releasing this information prior to the holidays. Download this excellent 20 page free .pdf (404KB) column today and shop with a Bot until you drop! This is also an excellent resource and tool for your Cyber Monday shopping! © 2005 Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:20 AM  Daisy - Your Personal Web Assistant Daisy - Your Personal Web Assistant http://hypotheticalabs.com/daisy/ Daisy aims to make your web surfing experience simpler and more productive. Daisy: a) Is an archiving proxy server, b) Stores all data on your local machine not on third-party servers, c) Keeps a detailed record of every site you view, d) Indexes all content viewed for full-text searching, e) Provides a simple search interface, and f) Can recreate any web page viewed at any point in time. In the very near future Daisy: 1) Will expose most of its features via an external scripting interface. The interface will be XML-based and accessible from most programming languages; and 2) Provide a Firefox plugin to seamlessly integrate with your browsing experience. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to my Manage Information Overload Presentation Sources and White Paper. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM  Create Change http://www.createchange.org/home.html Scholarly communication exists for the benefit of the world’s research and teaching community. Authors want to share new findings with all their colleagues, while researchers, students, and other readers want access to all of the relevant literature. However, the traditional system of scholarly communication is not working. Libraries and their institutions worldwide can no longer keep up with the increasing volume and cost of scholarly resources. Authors communicate with only those of their peers lucky enough to be at an institution that can afford to purchase or license access to their work. Readers only have access to a fraction of the relevant literature, potentially missing vital papers in their fields. Involvement by the academic community is critical in ensuring that efforts to reclaim scholarly communication for scholars and researchers succeed. Together we can develop a new system that meets your needs and those of future scholars and students. It's time to create change! posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM  Online Journal of Rural Nursing and Health Care Online Journal of Rural Nursing and Health Care http://www.rno.org/journal/index.htm This online journal offers the latest in peer-reviewed research and practice-related features for rural nurses and other health professionals. Experienced columnists present their thoughts and invite comments. Readers can join discussion groups for each featured article. This type of media allows fast replies to issues and greater contribution opportunities than are available in printed matter. The mission of the OJRNHC is to report completed research that contributes to the knowledge base of rural nursing and health care; to provide a forum for practice-based information, and to facilitate discussion of research findings and practice issues that can improve rural health care. The electronic format encourages and stimulates online dialogue between readers and authors. Selection of articles for publication is based on their contribution to knowledge, editorial presentation and readability. This will be added to Healthcare Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM  Web 2.0: Building the New Library by Paul Miller http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue45/miller/ Web 2.0 is a hot story out on the blogosphere right now, with an army of advocates facing off against those who argue that it is nothing new, and their allies with painful memories of Dot Com hysteria in the 1990s. Even respectable media outlets such as Business Week are getting excited, and an expensive conference in San Francisco at the start of October had to turn people away as it passed over 800 registrations. So, is Web 2.0 something real? Does it mean anything for the way in which we continue to go about our work? Or is it yet another bubble that will burst if we simply ignore it for a few months? posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Tuesday, November 22, 2005  isoHunt - IRC and Bit Torrent Search Engine isoHunt - IRC and Bit Torrent Search Engine http://isohunt.com/ This site is home to the most comprehensive BitTorrent search engine, with cross-referenced trackers data you can't find anywhere else. Along with integrated XDCC, Fserve and NFO search for files on IRC (currently offline). In short, this is your all-in-one P2P files search engine. Try searching in the form above, or browse around the Zeitgeist for what's hot. Also check out the Releases system, which supports various P2P links and torrents. There are guides in the forums for new visitors, or you can come chat with us on irc.isohunt.com, #isoHunt. (on P2P-IRC, SSL enabled on port 7000). This has been added to the P2P section of Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM  Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions (MPMI) http://www.apsnet.org/mpmi/top.asp Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions (MPMI) is the groundbreaking journal for publication of original, refereed research on the molecular biology and molecular genetics of pathological, symbiotic, and associative interactions of microbes with plants and insects with plants. MPMI publishes both fundamental and advanced applied research. In MPMI, 'microbe' encompasses viruses, viroids, prokaryotes, fungi, oomycetes, nematodes, and insects. The term molecular biology includes studies on biochemical or biophysical mechanisms, genetics, genomics, and advanced microscopy. Molecular analysis of relevant factors in the plant alone, the microbe alone, or molecular analysis of components that affect or modulate plant-microbe interactions may be the subject of a MPMI paper. Although most research papers report original, in-depth research, the journal also publishes short reviews that focus on rapidly developing areas of the molecular aspects of plant-microbe interactions. Now in its 18th year, MPMI covers the fastest growing area of plant pathology research. The online version of MPMI includes e-Xtras that provide supplemental material in tables and/or as additional figures and photos as well as color versions of illustrations that show in black and white in the print journals. Intended Readership: Agronomists, bacteriologists, biochemists, biologists, botanists, cell biologists, chemists, ecologists, entomologists, foresters, geneticists, horticulturists, microbiologists, molecular biologists, mycologists, nematologists, botanists, plant pathologists, plant physiologists, seed pathologists, soil scientists, virologists, and weed scientists. This has been added to Biological Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM  GUIdebook: Graphical User Interface Gallery http://www.guidebookgallery.org/ Since the inception of the WIMP-based Graphical User Interface more than 20 years ago at the legendary Xerox PARC Link points to external site laboratory, the world has seen many GUIs come and go. While it is easy to think of graphical interfaces in terms of newest editions of Windows (95 and up), it’s been much earlier and much more than that. This site is meant to be an online museum of graphical interfaces, especially those old, obscure and in desperate need of preservation. Whether you want just to look back and refresh some nice memories from years ago, or are interested in seeing how the GUIs evolved throughout the decades (and it is sometimes fascinating to witness that), they hope you’ll enjoy your stay. This has been added to World Wide Web Reference Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM  QEMU http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/ QEMU is a generic and open source processor emulator which achieves a good emulation speed by using dynamic translation. QEMU has two operating modes: a) Full system emulation. In this mode, QEMU emulates a full system (for example a PC), including a processor and various peripherials. It can be used to launch different Operating Systems without rebooting the PC or to debug system code; b) User mode emulation (Linux host only). In this mode, QEMU can launch Linux processes compiled for one CPU on another CPU. An optional proprietary QEMU Accelerator Module is available to optimize the case where a PC is emulated on a PC. This module enables QEMU to run most of the target application code directly on the host processor to achieve near native performance. The supported host and target CPUs are listed in the status page. For full system emulation, the supported Operating Systems are listed here. This has been added to World Wide Web Reference Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Monday, November 21, 2005  How Do Search Engines Handle Chinese Queries? posted by Marcus Zillman | 2:37 PM  Knowledge Zone - One stop shop for Ontologies http://smi-protege.stanford.edu:8080/KnowledgeZone/ Knowledge Zone is a web-based portal that allows users to submit their ontologies, to search for existing ontologies, to find out their rankings based on user reviews, to post their own reviews, and to rate reviews. They would like to invite you to submit your Ontology in the Knowledge Zone application. Knowledge Zone is one of the efforts to provide metadata related to ontologies to help users find, access, and assess ontologies for their applications as well as promote dissemination of ontologies and their re-use. If you are familiar with or using any of the ontologies that are already in the repository, they invite you to provide reviews and ratings for them. If you know anyone who uses your ontology or would be a good person to provide a review for it, they invite you to send them the link to the KnowledgeZone and encourage them to review and rate your ontology. This has been added to the Knowledge Discovery Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM  ActiveGrid - Enterprise LAMP http://www.activegrid.com/ ActiveGrid, the Enterprise LAMP company, provides an enterprise SOA solution built on the proven LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Python/Perl) software infrastructure stack. ActiveGrid’s Enterprise LAMP helps enterprises rapidly create SOA applications with rich user interfaces that weave together existing enterprise systems into new services and applications. ActiveGrid Enterprise LAMP applications can be flexibly deployed on grids of commodity machines or at virtually any ISP. This has been added to Grid Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM  Linux - Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition by Paul Sheer http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html.gz An excellent tutorial covering all aspects of Linux and an excellent reference on the subject. This has been added to Tutorial Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM  International Journal for Not-For-Profit Law http://www.icnl.org/JOURNAL/default.htm The International Journal of Not-for-Profit Law focuses on global civil society. It addresses legal topics as well as social, cultural, political and economic issues affecting the legal environment. Our readers include attorneys, government officials, grantmakers, scholars, and activists. The first publication of its kind, IJNL was founded in 1998 by the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law to reflect the evolving worldwide conversation about civil society. IJNL is thematically focused, with several articles in each issue addressing a single topic in depth. It features contributions from a wide array of expert writers and guest editors, and is particularly attentive to the developing world. This will be added to Legal Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Saturday, November 19, 2005  Applied Bioinformatics http://pt.wkhealth.com/pt/re/abi/home.htm Applied Bioinformatics is an international, peer-reviewed journal of biomedical science and clinical informatics. The general focus is on advances in computational solutions, techniques, and resulting discoveries in understanding biological and medical information that have applications in biomedical and pharmaceutical research and clinical/medical decision-making. While spanning the broad definition of these disciplines, the journal places particular emphasis on the growing areas of commonality and convergence occurring across the wide spectrum of biomedical data management and interpretation. In recognition that this convergence is in a state of evolution, the journal encourages well-reasoned extension of findings and discussion from one part of the informatics spectrum to other parts. More specifically, the scope of Applied Bioinformatics encompasses issues relating to acquisition, storage, retrieval and analysis of biological and clinical information, including: * Genomics databases and methodologies, with a focus on representation and integration of data sources, and presentation for biomedical and pharmaceutical researchers and/or clinicians; * Biomedical informatics relating to structural and functional genomics and proteomics; * Clinical informatics, including automation of protocol-based care and development of systems for the acquisition, processing, and interpretation of patient data; * Clinical outcomes analysis, including econometric and statistical models used to conduct medical outcomes research; * Informatics in pharmaceutical research, including computer-aided drug design and identification of drug targets; * Informatics associated with medically significant computational molecular biology; * Data modelling, with relevance to enhanced standardisation and sharing of data models across the informatics continuum; * Developments in computing methods and software, especially those with potential interest across multiple segments of the informatics spectrum. These areas will be addressed through: * original research (full papers and short communications) * reviews * application notes * professional commentaries. Applied Bioinformatics is targeted to informatics professionals, science and medical researchers, teachers and students interested in optimal management of biological and biomedical data through the bioscience and clinical informatics continuum. This will be added to Biological Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM  Open Books Project Open Books Project http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/ Over the years, O'Reilly Media has published a number of "Open Books"--books with various forms of "open" copyright. The reasons for "opening" copyright, as well as the specific license agreements under which they are opened, are as varied as our authors. Perhaps a book was outdated enough to be put out of print, yet some people still had an urgent need for the information it covered. Perhaps the author or subject of the book felt strongly that books should be published under a particular open copyright. Or maybe the book was written collectively by a particular community, as in the case of our Community Press books. O'Reilly holds the copyright to some of its books; individual authors hold the copyright to others. Regardless of who holds the copyright, the decision to apply an open copyright, and the choice of license, is left to the author or authors of the work. Some of the licenses include the GNU Free Documentation License, the Open Publication License, and the GNU General Public License. The content of these "Open Books" is posted here. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM  Understanding and Communicating Social Informatics By Rob Kling, Howard Rosenbaum, and Steve Sawyer http://books.infotoday.com/books/UndComSocInf.shtml A Framework for Studying and Teaching the Human Contexts of Information and Communication Technologies. Here is a sustained investigation into the human contexts of Information and Communication Technologies(ICTs), covering both research and theory in this emerging field. Authors Kling, Rosenbaum, and Sawyer demonstrate that the design, adoption, and use of ICTs are deeply connected to people’s actions as well as to the environments in which they are used. In Chapters One and Two, they define Social Informatics and offer a pragmatic overview of the discipline. In Chapters Three and Four, they articulate its fundamental ideas for specific audiences and present important research findings about the personal, social, and organizational consequences of ICT design and use. Chapter Five covers Social Informatics education; Chapter Six discusses ways to communicate Social Informatics to professional and research communities; and Chapter Seven provides a summary and look to the future. This has been added to Social Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM  Mobissimo Travel Search Engine Mobissimo - Travel Search Engine http://www.mobissimo.com Mobissimo is the ultimate travel search engine with a simple mission: improve the way people seek and discover travel information. The Mobissimo search engine performs real-time queries of the multiple websites that travelers traditionally check manually (plus dozens of others that are often overlooked). In a very short time, Mobissimo returns the most comprehensive travel search results available on the Web today. Mobissimo empowers customers to quickly find and book travel deals that suit their needs. With innovative industry leading technology, the most extensive coverage and selection of worldwide travel suppliers, and a proven business model that supports customers and suppliers alike, Mobissimo is uniquely positioned to deliver to its users a differentiated and superior travel buying experience. This has been added to ShoppingBots Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Friday, November 18, 2005  The Memetic Web The Memetic Web http://www.memeticweb.org/ The Memetic Web uses meme IDs from a set of memespace taxonomies to tag web page content. Meme tags greatly improve the precision and recall of search engines. The memography wiki establishes a new social classification system. It provides taxonomies and pages that describe what each meme is about. Anyone can tag pages with memes from memography, or follow rules to create non-conflicting memes for corporate and personal use. Memelinks to aboutness pages are URIs that can be used as RDF properties for the semantic web. Memography.com helps companies maximize ROI on taxonomies by using memes. This has been added to the Semantic Web Research section of Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:15 AM  Qualitative Research http://qrj.sagepub.com/ Qualitative Research is a major new journal. Research based on qualitativemethods, and methodological commentary on such research, have expandedexponentially in the past decades. This is the case across a number ofdisciplines including sociology, social anthropology, health and nursing,education, cultural studies, human geography, social and discursivepsychology, and discourse studies. As the degree of internet in qualitative research is global, the scope ofthe journal is truly international as well as interdisciplinary,capitalizing on the current popularity of qualitative research methodsacross all of the social and cultural disciplines. The distinctive mission of Qualitative Research is to promote and debatequalitative methods in a broad intellectual framework. There are three issues a year divided into: a) Articles, b) Short communication and research notes, c) Reports on new technologies and other innovations , and d) Review essays and book reviews. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:10 AM  Online Journal of Health Ethics http://ethicsjournal.umc.edu/ojs/index.php As the distant future of the 21st century wedged its way into the unforgiving past, thereby becoming our present; with it came unprecedented biological and technological discoveries. The convergence of inventions in these disciplines, while welcomed by most, has led to some degree of trepidation of nearly all. Fear of the unknown emerges as we struggle to create meaning to the familiar tune, Red, brown, yellow, black, and white, all are precious. Does the all now include that which is quietly dividing outside the home of a warm uterine lining? Does the all include those who need, but cannot afford to have the transplant, implant, or new identity? Are the all those who affirm choice? Or, does the all exclude those who exercise choice? Do we say hello or goodbye to Dolly? At what point does the gray turn to the more comforting zones of white and black for us? Or, will it ever? And, perhaps more importantly, should gray disappear? These and other issues are but tips of a burgeoning field of ethical issues for which health care providers, philosophers, scientists, theologians, politicians, attorneys, academicians, and other professionals, in addition to the public are forced to grapple with. Hence, it is the purpose of this on-line ethical journal to provide a forum to inform ethical debates from a holistic worldview. Clearly, this approach demands a multicultural, multidisciplinary team of scholars open to challenges of their ontologies. While editors do not purport that readers will be left without a reasonable doubt regarding one's ethical quandaries, what is promised is the presentation of scholarly works known for their veracity and challenges to the commonly believed and generally accepted notions of truth and right. This philosophy demands the presentation of works which are not just expedient for the hour, but which form the basis of principles for the future. Works presented consist of clinical cases studies, poems, songs, art, dilemmas, ethical papers from renown experts and novices, and electronic bulletin board interactive chats, to name a few. Collectively, these varied forms of expression, while endorsed by some, will not be agreeable to all. What is promised though is a forum wherein expression of ideas is valued and encouraged. This will be added to Healthcare Resources 2005 Internet Min iGuide. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM |
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