Robert Hoffman’s article, “A wiki for the life sciences where authorship matters“, published online in Nature Genetics, 40, 1047 – 1051 (2008), describes a new type of wiki where every word is explicity linked to its author. WikiGenes is the first effort using this system. It will be interesting to see if other scientific disciplines [...]
I wonder how many copyright violations we’ll see at this service, a social publishing site that’s in beta called Issuu. Here’s what it says at one spot on the Issuu site: Issuu is the place for online publications: Magazines, catalogs, documents, and stuff you’d normally find on print. It’s the place where YOU become the [...]
Mendeley Ltd., a company based in London, England, e-mailed bloggers and other media about its new in-beta service and desktop client software called Mendeley Research Networks. According to the About Us page, “… Mendeley will make your life easier. It’s a combination of desktop software and social network which helps you manage, share and discover [...]
Twitter envy? Twitter anxious? Twitter angry? Twitter passionate? Twitter excites a lot of emotion, especially among software application developers and Web service providers who have jumped on board the Twitter bandwagon. I thought I should do a roundup of these applications and services, starting with this interesting utility: Tweet Tweet for WordPress plugin “that will [...]
Came across this Vancouver, BC, company called NowPublic that has one of, if not the largest, citizen news sites around. You’ve also seen this referred to as participatory or crowdsourced journalism. I stumbled over NowPublic from a link off Truemors, a similar kind of venture created by Guy Kawasaki’s company Nononina, Inc. NowPublic bought Truemors [...]
Duke University Libraries have launched the OLE Project — Open Library Environment — Web site. According to the project description from June 14, 02008, which was part of the libraries’ submission to the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for its successful grant application to help fund this project, … Duke University will lead a multinational group [...]
Curious about BiblioCommons now that you’ve read about in Library Journal and are as frustrated as I am about the 12-person company’s Web site that consists of a single page with three outdated testimonials? You can run through this Adobe Captivate tour of the Oakville Public Library’s beta test or you can dig right in [...]
UMapper calls itself “the first universal web-based map-layering engine” and it’s free for now. Here’s a feature set from its start page: • Create interactive flash maps • Display maps on your website or social network • Export data to Flash ActionScript 3.0 or KML • Explore and interact with our map community • Fulfill [...]
Google Labs have launched a beta version of Lively, an application for building 3D chat rooms. One of the features is the ability to “stream personal photos and video.” I wonder how many people will get caught by Google’s terms of service that prohibit the usual terrible things that go on in many chat rooms [...]
Alice would be pleased and fit right in to “RezEd, the Hub for Learning and Virtual Worlds”. RezEd calls itself “your community for everything related to learning and virtual worlds! Each month we will feature inter-related podcasts, brief best practices, digital resources in the library, and featured blog posts and discussions.” In July RezEd is [...]
From the announcement on DIGLIB (02008 06 14): Adding value to data – Digital Repositories in the e-Science world Special Session at the 4th IEEE International Conference on e-Science (http://escience2008.iu.edu/) December 7-12, 2008, Indianapolis, USA An Initiative of DReSNet: Digital Repositories in e-Science Network (http://www.dresnet.net) There is a great, untapped potential for synergies between grid/e-science [...]
Another social and research networking opportunity for scientists and researchers highlighted by Gerry McKiernan on his blog. According to ResearchGATE‘s front page, “ResearchGATE is a new free of charge web 2.0 platform designed for the need of researchers. With this new platform we want to change the world of science by providing a global and [...]
My latest article for Searcher magazine on document-sharing services, “Hit Me with Your Best Doc”, is the lead cover story for June 02008. It’s not available online, however, but will appear in some of the commercial full-text databases and can also be purchased through ITI-InfoCentral.com, the digital archive of Information Today, Inc. (ITI) publications.
Thanks to Gerry McKiernan I learned about Elgg, “a robust open source social application engine.” A Version 1.0 of Elgg is supposed to be released in the summer 02008. Elgg Classic is the current version. The software is designed for those individuals and organizations who wish to host their own social software and retain control [...]
Update for 02008 04 27: I received my beta-invite acknowledgement by e-mail on April 23, 02008 and finally got around to registering and creating my first Twine on electronic records. Since there was already one called Digital Preservation, I was prevented from using those two words. Here’s a screenshot of my Electronic Records Twine. I [...]
Net-Gold, hosted on Yahoo! Groups, was founded on May 19, 2004. Linda Bee and David P. Dillard co-own Net-Gold. David frequently posts Net-Gold content to the digital reference (DIG_REF) mailing list. His e-mail to DIG_REF, based on someone else’s contribution about the JISC Libraries of the Future, led to The Ten Thousand Year Blog being [...]
The Web 2.0 Expo is “co-produced by TechWeb and O’Reilly Media, is a conference and tradeshow for the rapidly growing ranks of designers and developers, product managers, entrepreneurs, VCs, marketers, and business strategists who are embracing the opportunities created by Web 2.0 technologies.” The most recent Web 2.0 Expo was held in San Francisco, California, [...]
The Encyclopedia Britannica WebShare program is designed “for web publishers, including bloggers, webmasters, and anyone who writes for the Internet. You get complimentary access to the Encyclopaedia Britannica online and, if you like, an easy way to give your readers background of the topics you write about with links to complete Britannica articles.” Sign me [...]
The Museum Computer Network and the Museum Software Foundation have collaborated on a new project called the MCN Project Registry at a site called MuseTech Central. The registry, according to an announcement on the DIGLIB list (02008 04 11), is “for sharing information about technology-related projects in the cultural heritage sector. From implementations of digital [...]
According to the Google App Engine front page, this new tool “enables you to build web applications on the same scalable systems that power Google applications.” Zope developers will have a headstart because the programming language used by the Google App Engine is Python. We could be seeing some very interesting extensions to Plone. Right [...]
According to an announcement on the WEB4LIB list (02008 03 27), the Open Source in Libraries (OSIL) Web site is supposed to launch on March 31, 02008. A mailing list is also available at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/opensourceinlibraries. Another, older, similar site, started by Dan Chudnov eons ago in Internet time, is OSS4LIB. Dan’s endorsed the birth of OSIL [...]
Pronetos, which appears to stand for Professor’s Network, calls itself “a social network for scholars and an Open Access publisher. It provides an intuitively designed, real-time, web based community platform that facilitates mass collaboration and democratizes content for global distribution among academics with the ability to archive and search that content.” The FAQ indicates that “Only [...]
The Civics Channel, Inc. and Northern Blue Publishing have collaborated on two wiki portals around pivotal figures in Canadian history: Samuel de Champlain and Sir John A. Macdonald. The Champlain site recognizes Quebec’s 400th anniversary in 2008 and Champlain’s role in the province’s establishment as a French colony.
Although ResearchTrail.com, the service of a company called ResearchTrail Ltd. founded by Judith Koren, launched its site on March 9, 02008, the promises remain unfulfilled for now. The “Free search tips” are not there and registration is required simply to get an invitation to “preview the ResearchTrail information portal.” There’s also no evidence of the [...]
I’m thinking of getting me a Gravatar (Globally Recognized Avatar) at Gravatar.com. Now, who should I be? Dougall Campbell of Geek Ramblings created a great and easy WordPress plugin called Easy Gravatars that will “display gravatars for the people who comment on your posts. You do not need to modify any of your template files — [...]
According to a March 6, 02008 Information Today Newsbreak piece by Erik Arnold published on, Last week, Google announced that it was launching Google Sites to supplement its growing Google Apps product suite (www.google.com/enterprise/apps). Google Sites (www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/users/sites.html) is the integration of JotSpot, a web-based wiki provider that Google purchased more than a year and a half [...]
The WebWise 02008 Conference on Libraries and Museums in the Digital World takes place March 5, 6 and 7, 02008 in Miami Beach, FL, USA. Registrants can access a wiki and a blog. Why both are blocked from being viewed anonymously is beyond me. The theme for this year’s conference is “WebWise 2.0: The Power [...]
From the announcement on PACS-L@LISTSERV.UH.EDU (02008 02 26): The First Annual ASIS&T Social Computing Summit will bring together researchers and practitioners of social computing for two days of discussion and exploration in Miami, Florida. The event will directly precede the 2008 Information Architecture Summit, providing attendees a complimentary opportunity to learn about and discuss emergent [...]
Hankering to tell the world how great or how poor your favorite or not so favorite library happens to be. Now you can with LibSite.org from Leo Robert Klein, also known as Chicago Librarian.
Kate Theimer of the ArchivesNext blog alerted the Archives & Archivists List on February 10, 02008 to an Archives Wiki from the American Historical Association. I have to agree with her criticisms of this effort. I’ll be interested to see if and when Terry Abraham’s Repositories of Primary Sources, online since January 1995, gets mined [...]
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