From the About page for GeoScienceWorld: “A comprehensive Internet resource for research and communications in the geosciences, built on a core database aggregation of peer-reviewed journals indexed, linked, and inter-operable with GeoRef”. GeoRef is an enormous geological sciences literature database that was established by the American Geological Institute in 1966. If you’re not a GSW [...]
FlexWiki is an open source wiki engine released by Microsoft. Naturally, it’s designed to work with Microsoft products, not with other typical open source infrastructure such as Apache, MySQL or PostgreSQL, PHPor Perl. One innovative feature, however, that will prove useful if extended to other wiki engines is the WikiFederation, a methodology for the control [...]
For those who want to search the full of books submitted by publishers and found in some libraries, the latter category a controversial part of the project mainly due to copyright, the beta version of Google Print is live.
The Document Academy, from its About page: “The Document Academy is a worldwide project with the aim to create an online space for experimental and critical research on documents in a wide sense. … The purpose of the Document Academy is to provide an online space for collaborative studies and experiments on how people use [...]
The lead paragraph in this story from Heise Online (02005 05 26) states that “The B?rsenverein of the German book industry, representing some 6,500 publishers, bookstores, second-hand book sellers, wholesalers, and publishing agents, is getting ready to set up its own platform for a full-text search in the Internet. As a reaction to such current [...]
Search your favorite folksonomy Web sites with FirstStop WebSearch. According to a media release this afternoon, “FirstStop WebSearch becomes the first meta-search tool in the emerging field of ‘social bookmarks’. … With a single search, users can now obtain an aggregated list of search results from popular social bookmarking systems such as LookSmart’s Furl.net, CiteULike.org, [...]
Yet another twist on the current trend of social bookmarks/social browsing: Wists, now in beta mode, offers the ability to identify and tag visual content found on the Web. Some of the keywords used are abysmal, but I suspect they were generated by a tagbot. The cover of a book has one tag: book. A [...]
“DLIST is the Digital Library of Information Science and Technology, an Open Access, cross-institutional repository of full-text electronic resources in the domains of Library and Information Science (LIS) and Information Technology (IT).” Linked to DLIST is the DL-HARVEST, “a federated archive, a service of DLIST. It brings together full-text, scholarly materials in the Information Sciences [...]
“The JISC-funded CREE (Contextual Resource Evaluation Environment) Project has released the results of three areas of its work investigating the use of Internet search tools within portal and non-portal environments. All are available on the project website at http://www.hull.ac.uk/esig/cree/deliverables/index.html. Presentations describing the work can be found at http://www.hull.ac.uk/esig/cree/presentations/index.html.”” Source: DIGLIB list, 02005 05 25
A report on the Digital Preservation Coalition April 22 meeting on the large-scale archival storage of digital objects is available. Source: DIGITAL-PRESERVATION@JISCMAIL.AC.UK, 02005 05 24
“The scope of MarcXchange is to provide a tool for interchange of MARC records in XML as a supplement to interchange of MARC records in ISO2709.” I wonder why the Danish National Library Authority is hosting this initiative and why there’s no mention of it in the MARCXML section of the Library of Congress’ site.
Blogs of the Day is a new WordPress community directory and blog tracking service. You simply download and install the plugin and the BOTD takes care of the rest. That’s the theory anyway. So let’s see where this goes!
The University of Manitoba Libraries MSpace institutional repository is powered by DSpace.
“The Florida Center for Library Automation (FCLA) is developing a central digital archiving facility for the libraries of the public universities of Florida. The FCLA Digital Archive will accept submission packages from participating partners, ingest digital documents along with the appropriate metadata, and safely store on-site and off-site copies of the files. An action plan [...]
“The 2005 International Symposium on Wikis brings together wiki researchers, implementers, and users for the first time. The goal of the symposium is to find a voice for the community. The symposium has a rigorously reviewed research paper track as well as plenty of space for practitioner reports, demonstrations, and discussions. We are honored to [...]
The Internet Public Library Blogs collection contains a lot of useful information and an annotated list of blogs on various topics.
A project known as ReDReSS (Resource Discovery for Researchers in e-Social Science) is underway in the United Kingdom and involves combining the power of grid computing with learning objects and repositories to benefit social science researchers and educators. All the software that will be produced will be available under an open source license. Source: Adrian [...]
“Paradigm (Personal Archives Accessible in Digital Media) is a two-year [United Kingdom] JISC-funded project to explore the issues involved in selecting, taking-in, managing, cataloguing, and providing long-term access to digital private papers. The project partners are the University of Oxford and the University of Manchester. …” The project is funded until February 02007. An article [...]
From the Developers page of RELOAD (Reusable eLearning Object Authoring and Delivery), funded by the United Kingdom’s JISC Exchange for Learning Programme (X4L): “RELOAD is rapidly becoming the de facto suite of tools for viewing, editing and creating IMS and SCORM Content Packages. We are constantly being informed of, and collaborating with, international developments from [...]
Also from DEFF (Denmark’s Electronic Research Library) comes the DEF Global Eprints Search service.
As some WordPressers were experiencing problems with their content feeds, trackbacks, and pingbacks, a new release, version 1.5.1.1, to correct these issues was published today at http://wordpress.org/download. For myself, I had no problem with my feeds, so far as I know, they continued to work. Trackbacks, however, stopped working when I went from 1.5 to [...]
Some upcoming digital library conferences: DEFF, Denmark’s Electronic Research Library, is hosting an international seminar: Building the Info Grid: Digital Library Technologies and Services: Trends and Perspectives, Copenhagen, 26-27 September 2005 Following the Building the Info Grid conference, the DEFF Fedora Project is hosting the European Fedora User Meeting on 28 September 2005 in Copenhagen. [...]
While checking out Blogmarks.net, I happened to notice an interesting looking site, Le Moyen ?ge en lumi?re (The Illuminated Middle Ages), described on the English version of the site as containing “several hundred recently digitized illuminated texts from French national library collections.” With images dating from 500 AD to the 1400s, a DVD-ROM can also [...]
Blogmarks.net is another new-to-2005 social bookmarking service. According to its help page, “Blogmarks.net is a free & open bookmarks manager based on keywords (aka Tags) and sharing. With Blogmarks.net you’ll be able to store and share with other users your favorite websites trough a “blog-like” technology. Your bookmarks will now be available from any internet [...]
This WordPress-powered You’re It blog looks at issues around tagging or folksonomy. The first post is dated April 30, 02005.
Now this is one of the funniest Star Wars movie parodies I’ve ever seen: Grocery Store Wars by the Organic Trade Association.
The UBC Google Scholar Blog is one of two covering the impact of Google Scholar on libraries. The UBC blog is specifically for Canadian librarians. The blog’s first post is dated April 8, 02005. The other Google Scholar blog listed in the University of British Columbia blog that’s examining the impact of Google Scholar is [...]
On one of my favorite topics, collaborative content technology in business, government and private organizations, Collaboration Loop looks like a pretty good source of information on this area. The site appears to have launched in 2003 and includes all versions of RSS and Atom feeds. The site’s also advertising the Collaborative Technologies Conference in New [...]
02005-05-18 Update: The full schedule of presentations for ACH/ALLC 2005 is online at: http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/achallc2005/ 02005-03-03 Update: “The list of accepted presentations and their titles for the ACH-ALLC 2005 conference is now available at the conference website: http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/achallc2005/ The full Program and Schedule of presentations, with Abstracts, should be available in April …. We are very [...]
“The May 17, 2005, issue of The New York Times featured both a forceful editorial and a powerful op-ed article on the topic of threats to science education. “Every time the critics of Darwinism lose a battle over reshaping the teaching of biology,” the editorial observe …” Source: National Center for Science Education, 02005 05 17
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