Yet Another Tool For Managing Blog Overload Well, a full year after they had planned to launch, the NY Times is saying that Kinja will be launching. Last year it was known as the Lafayette Project, and they had said they would launch at the beginning of April 2003… Hopefully the delay just meant they [...]
Journal of Digital Information Management, Volume 2, Number 1 (March 2004): Contents Web-based collaboratories from centres without walls to collaboratories in use – Hanne Albrechtsen The Iter Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance: Collaboration Between Information Specialists and Subject Specialists in the Arts and Humanities – Clare Beghtol Supporting Collaborative Grid Application Development within [...]
Journal of Digital Information (JoDI) announces a special issue on NEW APPLICATIONS OF KNOWLEDGE ORGANIZATION SYSTEMS (Volume 4, issue 4, March 2004) Special issue Editors: Douglas Tudhope, University of Glamorgan, and Traugott Koch, Lund University The issue is freely accessible at http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/?vol=4&iss=4 Knowledge Organization Systems/Services (KOS), such as classifications, gazetteers, lexical databases, ontologies, taxonomies and [...]
The Google Labs Google Personalized Beta search service looks kind of cool. You have to create a profile first. The downside at the moment is that “Currently, personalized results can only be seen on the first page of results.”
The timing couldn’t be worse for the organizers, the International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS), but the venue for the WWW/Internet 2004 conference is Madrid, Spain, October 6 to 9. Deadline for paper submissions (no abstracts, complete papers only) is April 26.
Affiliated with the Center for Information as Evidence at UCLA, California, the Records Continuum Research Group at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, “is looking at methods of analysis which enable records to be controlled at different points in time throughout their lifespan. This includes the way records are represented, used, retrieved and disseminated. The group is [...]
The Center for Information as Evidence officially opened on February 27, 2004 in the Department of Information Studies at the Graduate School of Education & information Studies of the University of California, Los Angeles. Its purpose is to serve as a research center by investigating “the ways in which information objects and systems are created, [...]
The US-InterPARES 2 Project presents, “Do You Have the Real Thing?: Developing Strategies and Policies for Ensuring Authenticity in Electronic Recordkeeping Systems” The US-InterPARES Project (International Research on the Preservation of Authentic Records in Electronic Systems) invites you to attend a one day symposium held at the University of California, Los Angeles on May 15th, [...]
A friend sent me an e-mail containing a long list of bibliographies relating to journalism from Poynter Online, the Web site of the Poynter Institute in Florida, “a school for journalists, future journalists, and teachers of journalists.” The institute was founded in 1975 by Nelson Poynter of the St. Petersburg Times who died in 1978. [...]
“Gnod is a project of Marek Gibney … Hamburg, Germany.” He describes it as my experiment in the field of artificial intelligence. Its a self-adapting system, living on this server and ‘talking’ to everyone who comes along. Gnods intention is to learn about the outer world and to learn ‘understanding’ its visitors. This enables gnod [...]
Brian Lavoie publishes introduction to Open Archival Information System (OAIS) reference model The report, “The Open Archival information System Reference Model: Introductory Guide,” is a joint publication of the Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) and OCLC. http://www.oclc.org/research/announcements/2004-02-24.htm OCLC hosts “info” URI registry OCLC Research has developed, and is hosting, NISO’s “info” URI registry, built on an [...]
The Open Source GIS Conference 2004, hosted by the Ottawa MapServer User Group (OMSUG), takes place June 9 to 11 at Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Here’s a little bit about MapServer from the OMSUG site: MapServer is an open source development environment for building Web mapping applications. This software delivers on-line, interactive GIS and [...]
Cornell University offers a slick tutorial Digital Preservation Management: Implementing Short-term Strategies for Long-term Problems.
PRONOM, “the National Archives’ [United Kingdom] online source for information about file formats and software products.”
The Cost to Preserve Authentic Electronic Records in Perpetuity: Comparing Costs across Cost Models and Cost Frameworks, by Shelby Sanett, RLG DigiNews, vol. 7, no. 4 (August 15, 2003).
Controlling Your Language: Links to Metadata Vocabularies comes from the UK’s Technical Advisory Service for Images (TASI), and “provides links to more than 60 vocabulary sources.” Source: DIGLIB post, 2004-02-10
SciencePORT.org, a scientific newsfeed directory, was established by “Dr. A. Foelske – Chemist” and “O. A. Schmitz – Student of Anthropology.” Dr. Foelske appears to select the content and Schmitz is the site administrator. You can search the site for RSS, Atom and OPML feeds or use the Yahoo!-like directory to drill down to feed [...]
Learned about and have been trying out Fazzle.com from one of Peter Scott’s Library Blog’s entries from last year. Radio buttons lets you search for phrases or with Boolean operators within going to an advanced search screen as you have to do with Google. The results list is reminiscent of Vivisimo, with the ability to [...]
CompleteRSS.com, in beta, lets you “search and subscribe to thousands of RSS feeds.” It’s linked up to Pluck, a new Internet Explorer RSS reader plugin.
MIT’s PortalFactory runs under a software framework called Collaborative Architectures for a Distributed Instructional Environment (CADDIE). The sample portal, interestingly enough, refers to, in its Page List, User Blogs and Group Blogs. Sadly, this product requires Windows XP Professional and its Internet Information Services. Hackers will have a field day. Why didn’t MIT choose an [...]
This joint Statement Regarding the Sale of Historical Public Records on eBay was issued in February 2004 by the Council of State Historical Records Coordinators (CSHRC), the National Association of Government Archives and Records Administrators (NAGARA), and the Society of American Archivists (SAA). Caveat emptor!
Theory and Practice of Online Learning I’m re-posting this announcement about the online book, Theory and Practice of Online Learning, that I first saw described in elearnspace. The book is a valuable resource, with a Table of Contents covering everything from infrastructure, to technology, to library support, to call centers, to online teaching. JH (Joseph [...]
Demonstration/Workshop on Academic Weblogging (Microsoft PowerPoint) Today I’m doing a presentation for instructors about Academic Weblogging. The demonstration will show the abc’s of blogging and the first steps for using news readers. I will be pointing the participants to resources that they can try for themselves to explore the usefulness of weblogging and news aggregation [...]
MIT’s Technology Review Technology Research News section for March 18, 2004 reports that researchers at Carnegie-Mellon University developed some software called ScentTrails that “grades the links a search engine returns by increasing the font size of links that have more connections to relevant pages. This guides the user toward information that matches her search criteria [...]
“Dogpile Toolbar has launched its newest toolbar, which comes with an an RSS Tool for grabbing RSS and Atom-syndicated content. The Toolbar can display feeds constructed in RSS .91, .92, and 2.0 formats. The Toolbar also supports the Atom feed format.” [Lockergnome's RSS Resource] Source: The Shifted Librarian, 2004-03-22 Nipping at the heels of the [...]
New from Hotbot: Index and Search Your Computer, RSS Feeds, and the Web With New Desktop From an overview article [in Information Today NewsBreaks] that that I’ve co-authored with Barbara Quint, “Lycos has launched a free toolbar search product [IE, Windows 98, ME, 2000 or XP] from HotBot, their search service,which is ‘the first product [...]
Museums and the Web 2004, Washington DC / Arlington VA, USA, March 31 to April 3, 2004 The international conference for culture and heritage on-line! MW2004 PAPERS: now on-line The papers to be presented at Museums and the Web 2004 are now available on-line. Follow the links from the speakers list or click on any [...]
If you like news sources and you don’t mind yellow text on blue background, you’ll like this one-pager of news resources at http://www.newssearchportal.com/ . This site doesn’t list individual news… [via ResearchBuzz, 2004-03-03] Lots of RSS- and blog-related links!
In recognition of the transfer of Macau from Portugal to China, the Library of Congress and the Instituto Cultural de Macau cosponsored a symposium, “Macau: A Cultural Dialogue toward a New Millennium,” on September 21, 1999. The one-day symposium included a number of papers focusing on the cultural diversity and historical heritage of Macau itself, [...]
Top Medical And Scientific Societies Commit To Providing Free Access To Medical And Scientific Research The Washington DC Principles for Free Access to Science increases access to new research findings, while maintaining high standards for responsible scientific publishing. Source: David Dillard post to DIG_REF, 2004-03-18
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