19 Dec 2006
OADL Wiki
oadl - Wiki Now has a rough structure of the "GUIDE TO DEVELOP OPENLY ACCESSIBLE DIGITAL LIBRARIES". Any suggestions?
18 Dec 2006
Collaborative Editor
Collaborative editor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A collaborative editor is a software application that allows several people to edit a computer file using different computers. There are two types of collaborative editors, real-time and non-real-time. Real-time collaborative editors allow users to edit the same file at anytime, including editing at the same time. Non-real-time collaborative editors do not allow editing of the same file at the same time. Non-real-time collaborative editors are similar to revision control system.
There Are No Dumb Questions
Creating Passionate Users: How to Build a User Community, Part 1
Encouraging a "There Are No Dumb Questions" culture is only part of the solution. What we really need is a "There are No Dumb Answers" policy.
15 Dec 2006
Online Publishers' Trap
Top mistakes made by new online publishers - Don't fall into the traps that have left too many other journalists muttering that 'no one can make money online.'
EBM Librarian Wiki
EBM Librarian is a wiki is to develop a community of librarians who are involved in teaching and supporting the practice of evidence based medicine (ebm) or evidence based practice (ebp).
13 Dec 2006
WEB 2.0 for Library
RedOrbit - Technology - WEB 2.0 and Its Technologies for Collaborative Library Communication
WEB 2.0 and Its Technologies for Collaborative Library Communication
12 Dec 2006
Open Access and Digital Libraries
"I am back from an International Conference on Digital Libraries, 5-8 Dec. 2006. It was organised by TERI at New Delhi (ICDL 2006).
In one of the session there was comment that nothing is being done for "Open Access" movement in India. I feel this is incorrect. Lot of things are being done but by very few people. Yes, now we need to involve more and more people in this movement — LIS professional as
well as educators, researchers and policy makers.
A first step, I can think of is forming a discussion group. I know there are other groups as well — but these are mostly oriented towards LIS professionals. We never know what our target users feel about issues that may dear to us.
So a Group called "Open Access and Digital Libraries" has been created. If you are interested in Open Access, you are welcomed to join it.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/oadl
The forum aims to promote and adopt Open Access principles for developing Digital Libraries which can be accessed by anyone. No intranets and no Login / Passwords — Simply Open Accessible."
In one of the session there was comment that nothing is being done for "Open Access" movement in India. I feel this is incorrect. Lot of things are being done but by very few people. Yes, now we need to involve more and more people in this movement — LIS professional as
well as educators, researchers and policy makers.
A first step, I can think of is forming a discussion group. I know there are other groups as well — but these are mostly oriented towards LIS professionals. We never know what our target users feel about issues that may dear to us.
So a Group called "Open Access and Digital Libraries" has been created. If you are interested in Open Access, you are welcomed to join it.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/oadl
The forum aims to promote and adopt Open Access principles for developing Digital Libraries which can be accessed by anyone. No intranets and no Login / Passwords — Simply Open Accessible."
11 Dec 2006
29 Nov 2006
22 Nov 2006
Open-ILS
Open-ILS.org is an open source Integrated Library System (ILS), named Evergreen. It is being developed and maintained by the Georgia Public Library Service for use by the Georgia Library PINES Program, a consortium of 252 public libraries. This software can be downloaded for free, and anyone can contribute to development efforts.
17 Nov 2006
TRIP Database
Trip Database - For Evidence Based Medicine (EBM)- TRIP Database
TRIP Database, A for Evidence-Based Practice. Allowing users to easily and rapidly identify the highest quality evidence from a wide range of sources.
16 Nov 2006
Demonstrating Value of Actionable URLs
DLF-Aquifer Asset Actions Experiment: Demonstrating Value of Actionable URLs
Metadata records harvested using the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) are often characterized by scarce, inconsistent and ambiguous resource URLs. There is a growing recognition among OAI service providers that this can create access problems and can limit range of services offered. This article reports on an experiment carried out by the Digital Library Federation (DLF) Aquifer Technology/Architecture Working Group to demonstrate the utility of harvestable metadata records that include multiple typed actionable URLs ("asset actions"). The experiment dealt specifically with digital image resources. By having for all images a consistent set of well-labeled URLs (e.g., pointing to thumbnails, in-context presentations of images on data provider's Website, or medium and high resolution views), the service provider was able to insure consistent results across repositories of content from multiple institutions. With predictable retrieval, advanced features such as thumbnail result displays, image annotation and manipulation, and advanced book bag functions are possible. It was even possible to overlay for use with this widely dispersed content a locally developed digital object collector tool from the University of Virginia. Results illustrate the potential of asset actions and support the need for further work at the community level to define and model actionable URLs for different classes of resources, and to develop agreements on how to label and convey these URLs in concert with descriptive metadata.
15 Nov 2006
New policy for adoption by IR managers
UTas ePrints - The Patchwork Mandate
This document describes a new policy for adoption by IR managers who have been unable to persuade their management to bring in an institutional mandate.
13 Nov 2006
videos of presentations at the Transforming Scholarly Communication Symposium
The videos of the three presentations at the Transforming Scholarly Communication Symposium are now available online:
- Crisis in scholarly communication by Dr. Ray English
- Copyright in cyberspace by Dr. Corynne McSherry
- What is open access by Dr. Peter Suber
10 Nov 2006
Current Status of Open Access in Biomedical Field
DLIST - Current Status of Open Access in Biomedical Field-the Comparison of Countries Related to the Impact of National Policies
Matsubayashi, Mamiko and Kurata, Keiko and Sakai, Yukiko and Morioka, Tomoko and Kato, Shinya and Mine, Shinji and Ueda, Shuichi (2006) Current Status of Open Access in Biomedical Field-the Comparison of Countries Related to the Impact of National Policies.
3 Nov 2006
OpenLearn
LearningSpace - OpenLearn LearningSpace - The Open University
OpenLearn website - free and open educational resources for learners and educators around the world.
Are Libraries doing something illegal by sharing books?
Just read the following argument that Libraries are doing something illegal by sharing books:
What if book publishers started to sue libraries? at Torrentfreak
"..Yes, libraries! Libraries are evil, evil places. One single copy of a book, movie or music album is borrowed and abused by tens, if not hundreds of self-centred, ignorant pirates. Hell, they even have copiers in most libraries allowing pirates to copy every book on the shelves.."
The argument is flawed in comparing online services like Google with Physical Libraries. In the digital world a "copy" is transmitted from the server to the end user's client (Browser). However in Libraries, no "copies" are made. They are rather circulated. When no copies are made, Howcome copyrights are violated?
Zotero
Zotero - The Next-Generation Research Tool
Zotero [zoh-TAIR-oh] is a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources.
30 Oct 2006
The Scientific Paper of the Future
Timo Hannay, The Scientific Paper of the Future, a slide presentation for the the Microsoft eScience Workshop at Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, October 13-15, 2006).
Ethnographic methods in Internet Librarianship?
Information Wants To Be Free » Blog Archive » Internet Librarian Day 1: Using Ethnographic Methods to Know Your Users
.."They did a two year project to determine what undergraduates really do when they write research papers. They had a multi-disciplinary team including an anthropologist who taught the team about ethnographic methods. The findings from this would inform their Website design, instructional design, etc..."
27 Oct 2006
Firefox 2
Firefox - Rediscover the Web
The award-winning Web browser is now faster, more secure, and fully customizable to your online life.
own headlines
Make your own headlines - Internet
Don't you wish headlines about starlets would disappear from the front page of the paper? Oh, you want to follow what's hot in Hollywood? Whatever your tastes may be, you can deliver only the best news to your desktop via Really Simple Syndication (RSS), by using a program called a newsreader.
26 Oct 2006
Works of Charles Darwin Online
The complete work of Charles Darwin
Site contains every Darwin publication as well as many of his handwritten manuscripts. All told there are more than 50,000 searchable text pages and 40,000 images. There is also the most comprehensive Darwin bibliography ever published and the largest manuscript catalogue ever assembled. More than 150 ancillary texts are also included, ranging from reference works to contemporary reviews, obituaries, descriptions of Darwin's Beagle specimens and important works for understanding Darwin's context.
19 Oct 2006
17 Oct 2006
Actionable URLs
DLF-Aquifer Asset Actions Experiment: Demonstrating Value of Actionable URLs
Metadata records harvested using the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) are often characterized by scarce, inconsistent and ambiguous resource URLs. There is a growing recognition among OAI service providers that this can create access problems and can limit range of services offered. This article reports on an experiment carried out by the Digital Library Federation (DLF) Aquifer Technology/Architecture Working Group to demonstrate the utility of harvestable metadata records that include multiple typed actionable URLs ("asset actions").
13 Oct 2006
12 Oct 2006
FreeTechBooks.com
FreeTechBooks.com - Free programming and computer science books, ebooks and lecture notes
Lists free online computer science and engineering books and lecture notes, all of which are freely and legally available over the Internet.
9 Oct 2006
Web Curator Tool
Web Curator Tool
The Web Curator Tool (WCT) is a tool for managing the selective web harvesting process. It is designed for use in libraries and other collecting organisations, and supports collection by non-technical users while still allowing complete control of the web harvesting process.
5 Oct 2006
Origins of Medical Informatics
Medical informatics has evolved over years as medicine learned to exploit the extraordinary capabilities of the electronic digital computer to better meet its complex information needs. The first articles on this subject appeared in the 1950s, the number of publications rapidly increased in the 1960s and medical informatics was identified as a new specialty in the 1970s.
4 Oct 2006
MIT Libraries are experimenting with new technologies
Betas: MIT Libraries
The MIT Libraries are experimenting with new technologies to help make access to information easier.
29 Sept 2006
Digital archiving gains new tool
BBC NEWS | Technology | Digital archiving gains new tool
A tool that makes it easier to gather and store digital archives has been developed by the National Library of New Zealand and the British Library.
en simple tips to make you an effective scientific writer
Ten simple tips to make you an effective scientific writer
Ten simple tips to make you an effective scientific writer
21 Sept 2006
Gmail account enough for using Writely
Writely Help Center - If anyone with a Google Account can sign in to Writely, does this mean I can sign in with my Gmail account?
Gmail password and email address will work to access Writely.
19 Sept 2006
Future Digital Librarians
What Is Needed to Educate Future Digital Librarians: A Study of Current Practice and Staffing Patterns in Academic and Research Libraries
Digital libraries are the future of academic and research institutions, and digital professionals will be required to have more breadth and depth of knowledge and skills across the dimensions of traditional library knowledge, technology, and human relations. Because of the complexity of digital libraries and digital library projects, professional education programs for digital librarians should provide not only technical skills and traditional library training, but also should place greater emphasis on management, including project management skills through practical experience of a digital project. In addition to the necessary technical skills, library professionals need to develop strong interpersonal and team-work skills.
Will Research Sharing Keep Pace with the Internet?
E-LIS - Will Research Sharing Keep Pace with the Internet?
Johnson, Richard K. (2006) Will Research Sharing Keep Pace with the Internet?. The Journal of Neuroscience 26(37):pp. 9349-9351.
New Compendium of Knowledge
Toward a New Compendium of Knowledge is an interesting article. Is this the future of Knowledge?
Larry Sanger makes his argument in four parts:
1. Thinkers of the world, start imagining.
..Tens of millions of intellectuals can work together, if they so choose...
..In the next year, by the end of 2007, every major university, library, museum, archive, professional organization, government, and corporation will be asking themselves with increasing urgency: how, using what systems and methods, can we pool the entire world's intellectual resources to create the ideal information resource?..
2. Wikipedia.
..Wikipedia, started only five years ago, now has millions of articles in over one hundred languages, and has nearly singlehandedly introduced the world's intellectuals to the possibilities of enormous collaborative efforts. It is a project that shouldn't work, but does--who could have expected such a radically open project to produce anything of value? But, by giving intellectuals the world over an open platform on which to work together, a clear task, and a simple interface, Wikipedia has shown a global audience what enormous, distributed knowledge collaboration can achieve. The work of the Wikipedians has astounded the world..
3. A new community and a new project: the Citizendium.
4. The way forward.
Here he describes his project - The Citizendium Project.
Larry Sanger makes his argument in four parts:
1. Thinkers of the world, start imagining.
..Tens of millions of intellectuals can work together, if they so choose...
..In the next year, by the end of 2007, every major university, library, museum, archive, professional organization, government, and corporation will be asking themselves with increasing urgency: how, using what systems and methods, can we pool the entire world's intellectual resources to create the ideal information resource?..
2. Wikipedia.
..Wikipedia, started only five years ago, now has millions of articles in over one hundred languages, and has nearly singlehandedly introduced the world's intellectuals to the possibilities of enormous collaborative efforts. It is a project that shouldn't work, but does--who could have expected such a radically open project to produce anything of value? But, by giving intellectuals the world over an open platform on which to work together, a clear task, and a simple interface, Wikipedia has shown a global audience what enormous, distributed knowledge collaboration can achieve. The work of the Wikipedians has astounded the world..
3. A new community and a new project: the Citizendium.
4. The way forward.
Here he describes his project - The Citizendium Project.
Soapbox
Now Microsoft has also launched Video site similar to YouTube. Soapbox on MSN Video Beta. Registration is by invitation only for now.
Grazr
Grazr, you know for feeds...
"..It's easy to share the joys of feed grazing with visitors to your site. You can add embedded copies of Grazr to your pages.."
18 Sept 2006
Technology Enhanced Learning
National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning
Web site contains materials on topics released by various IITs and IISc till July 2006 and was formally launched on Sept 3, 06. The site will be updated every week and contents will be added as and when they are made available.
Connecting for Health: Global Vision, Local Insight
Connecting for Health: Global Vision, Local Insight is a set of two volume publication produced by WHO and the European Commission for the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), November 2005 at Tunis, highlighting the opportunities for eHealth in countries as well as the need for a global, long-term and collaborative approach so that all citizens may benefit.
Volume One -
Connecting for Health: Global Vision, Local Insight
Report for the World Summit on the Information Society
Volume Two -
Connecting for Health: Global Vision, Local Insight
Report for the World Summit on the Information Society
Country Profiles 2006
Volume One -
Connecting for Health: Global Vision, Local Insight
Report for the World Summit on the Information Society
Volume Two -
Connecting for Health: Global Vision, Local Insight
Report for the World Summit on the Information Society
Country Profiles 2006
15 Sept 2006
Open access for the medical librarian
E-LIS - Open access for the medical librarian
Morrison, Heather and Waller, Andrew (2006) Open access for the medical librarian. Journal of the Canadian Health Libraries Association 27(3):pp. 69-73.
Librarian's Guide to a JCAHO
Medical Library Association: Librarian's Guide to JCAHO Survey
Guide to help librarians on JCAHO accreditation process as it relates to libraries and information services.
13 Sept 2006
Ganfyd.org
Ganfyd
Ganfyd is a collaborative medical reference by medical professionals and invited non-medical experts. The site is based around the wiki format, enabling true sharing of knowledge
Intute
Intute - the best Web resources for education and research
Intute is a free online service providing you with access to the very best Web resources for education and research.
12 Sept 2006
Doc's prescription for tele-medicine in India
Doc's prescription for tele-medicine
-- High investment required for telemedicine is one of the reason for its slow progress in India. Fortunately Internet has the potential to change all that and more, as it reduces communication costs.
--Majority of the telemedicine applications in India pertain to teleradiology, telepathology and telecardiology.
--However it is the concept of "social inclusion" which is more important than technology for the tele-medicine.
5 Sept 2006
Avoidable Job Interview Flubs
The 10 Avoidable IT Interview Flubs
as covered by eWEEK.com seems to be general in nature. Younger generation should avoid such interview flubs:
1. Late to the interview means late on projects and deadlines
2. Lack of enthusiasm means you don't care about your work
3. Little to no company knowledge means you lack research skills
4. Inappropriate dress translates to inappropriate work
5. Too negative is too much: Spells P-R-O-B-L-E-M
6. Arrogance or dominating the interview signals conflict on teams
7. Too quiet means you lack confidence in your work
8. Misstating qualifications means, well, you're a liar
9. Speaking only tech-ese means you won't work well with others
10. Not saying thank you is not welcome
How to build the “next generation” library catalog
LITA Blog » Blog Archive » Building the “next generation” library catalog
How to build the “next generation” library catalog, and to what degree will the process include vendor support and open source software?
1 Sept 2006
31 Aug 2006
Machine–assisted Metadata
Machine–assisted Metadata Generation and New Resource Discovery
As a whole libraries represent an increasingly impoverished community that is generally quite underserved by usually small, expensive and not terribly responsive commercial software and service vendors.
29 Aug 2006
Google Talk and Skype
GigaOM » Skype, Google Talk to InterOp?
Google Talk team is talking about interoperating with Skype.
Site Status
Google Sitemaps - Site Status
Use this step-by-step process to learn more about your site's status in the Google index.
28 Aug 2006
Google Webmaster Central
Google Webmaster Central One-stop shop for comprehensive info about how Google crawls and indexes websites.
25 Aug 2006
freenigma
freenigma gmbh
freenigma adds privacy technology (with strong e-mail encryption) to your favourite webmail service.
24 Aug 2006
Exploring the scholarly neighborhood
Official Google Blog: Exploring the scholarly neighborhood
Google Scholar result now also show related articles in its repository. A "Related Articles" appears next to each result.
18 Aug 2006
17 Aug 2006
Social Softwares / Services
Shared bookmarks & web pages
Del.icio.us, Shadows, Yahoo's MyWeb, Furl and Diigo
Collaborative directories
Prefound, Zimbio and Wikipedia
Taggregators
Technorati, Rojo and Bloglines
Personalized verticals
Eurekster, Rollyo and Yahoo! Search Builder
Social Q & A sites
Yahoo Answers, Google Answers, Answerbag, Wondir, Yedda and Live QnA
Collaborative harvesters
Digg, Netscape, Reddit and Tailrank
Becoming an indexer
The Indexer - Becoming an indexer
If you are embarking on an indexing training course or considering turning to indexing as a career, why not take a look at Becoming an indexer. This is a collection of articles which appeared in the October 2005 issue of The Indexer.
14 Aug 2006
OR-Live
OR-Live: Live and On-Demand Medical Webcasts
- online resource on live and on-demand webcasts of breakthrough medical procedures from renowned medical centers and hospitals.
11 Aug 2006
10 Aug 2006
Three options for citation tracking
Biomedical Digital Libraries | Full text | Three options for citation tracking: Google Scholar, Scopus and Web of Science
Researchers have an interest in finding citation information about a given article – both how many times the article is cited and who is citing that article. This may be for the completeness of a literature search, or perhaps to find how often his or her own publications are cited.
AGRIS
AGRIS/CARIS Information Centre Homepage
The AGRIS Repository is now available in a new revised version, which exploits the advantages of both open source search engine APIs (Lucene), and structured XML.
8 Aug 2006
Ning
Ning - Create and share your own social web apps!
Ning is the new free and easy way for you to create your own Social Web Apps.
Scientific approach to photography
Cambridge Photography Gallery
- Scientific approach to photography. Packed with technical data and tutorials which provide practical "how to" information for any digital photographer.
7 Aug 2006
Interface designers be concerned with the user culture?
CHARM-Ethnographic Methods
..Why should user interface designers be concerned with the user culture? There are several reasons why ethnography is of vital importance to good interface design..
2 Aug 2006
Web 2.0 and Its Implications for Libraries
Library 2.0 Theory: Web 2.0 and Its Implications for Libraries
Article posits a definition and theory for "Library 2.0". It suggests that recent thinking describing the changing Web as "Web 2.0" will have substantial implications for libraries, and recognizes that while these implications keep very close to the history and mission of libraries, they still necessitate a new paradigm for librarianship. The paper applies the theory and definition to the practice of librarianship, specifically addressing how Web 2.0 technologies such as synchronous messaging and streaming media, blogs, wikis, social networks, tagging, RSS feeds, and mashups might intimate changes in how libraries provide access to their collections and user support for that access.
31 Jul 2006
Recordist
The Recordist - Free Sound Effects
The Recordist presents a collection of free sound effects in MP3 format
Library Photocopying
Stanford Copyright & Fair Use - Library Photocopying
The Copyright Act at 17 USC S 108 provides a set of rules regarding library reproductions. In general, a library or archive open to the public (or whose collection is available to specialized researchers other than those affiliated with the institution) will not be liable for copyright infringement based upon a library patron's unsupervised use of reproducing equipment located on its premises, provided that the copying equipment displays a notice that the making of a copy may be subject to the copyright law.
28 Jul 2006
Photobucket
Free Image and Video Hosting - Photo Image Hosting Site : Photobucket.com
Photobucket provides free video and photo sharing. Easily host and link your images and videos to social networks, auction sites, blogs, and message boards.
27 Jul 2006
Health Sciences Librarianship - Resources
UBC Library: Health Sciences Librarianship
Links to journals and monographs, associations, discussion groups and websites in health sciences librarianship
26 Jul 2006
25 Jul 2006
Dabble
Dabble Searches YouTube, MySpace Video, Metacafe and More - Mashable*
Dabble, the video search engine and bookmarking tool, launched today.
24 Jul 2006
Web at last can make Science free!!
Open Access Archivangelism
..The more your work is accessed, read and used,
the higher then is reckoned its just dues.
Sounds crass, but there may be some consolation,
where there’s still some residual motivation
to make a difference, not just make a fee:
the World Wide Web at last can make Science free..
Hindu Newspaper on Open access
The Hindu : Sci Tech : Open access to research papers gets a boost
..Of what use are papers if they get locked up and are not widely and freely available? More so, if the research has been funded by the government..
21 Jul 2006
Working with Remix Culture: A Fad or the Future
| The reuse or "remix" of digital content is one of the hottest topics in web development today. Not a day passes in which there is not some new "mashup" or novel combination of data or services. Although many of these developments are faddishly entertaining, the potential for transformative development for teaching and learning is profound. (Is it too much of a vulgarization to argue that scholarship itself is a form of remix?) This session will provide an introduction to remix culture using two primary examples: 1) mixing Flickr and Google Maps and 2) mixing art imagery and data via the Scholar's Box, a tool that gives users gather/create/share functionality, enabling them to gather resources from multiple digital repositories in order to create personal and themed collections and other reusable materials that can be shared with others for teaching and research. Consider the longer term implications of remix for education and research and hear about a strategy for constructively engaging with remix culture: how we can educate the next generation of librarians to understand remixing and how we might make library content and services reusable to facilitate new educational and scholarly uses. | |
Night of the living dead librarian
| Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies (2006) have predict that in year 2021 jobs like librarians don't will be there any more. This small movie is a satire about how two librarians in year 2021 got their revenge over the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies with help from a Super Blogger Girl. | |
Google at ALA 2006
Google participated in American Library Association's annual conference, 2006, in New Orleans. Check out some of the Movies at this URL and Google Videos.
Search 2.0 vs Traditional Search
Read/WriteWeb: Search 2.0 vs Traditional Search
Search 2.0 = user preferences, collaboration, collective intelligence, a rich user
experience..
-Pattern recognition and Adaptive filtering
-Community-driven Search
-Result Clustering
Collaborative Search
Personal and professional competencies
Info*Nation: Skills for Success
.."personal and professional competencies, are essential for library workers of the future. Do you have what it takes?"..
19 Jul 2006
Google challenge Internet pioneer
Google exec challenges Berners-Lee | CNET News.com
A Google executive challenged Internet pioneer Tim Berners-Lee on his ideas for a Semantic Web during a conference in Boston on artificial intelligence.
NLM Technical Bulletin - NLM Online Update 2006
NLM Technical Bulletin, Jul–Aug 2006, MLA 2006: Meeting Remarks
..Remarks made by David Gillikin, Head, MEDLARS Management Section, National Library of Medicine at the Annual Meeting of the Medical Library Association in Phoenix, AZ on May 22, 2006..
Teaching Social Software with Social Software
Innovate - Teaching Social Software with Social Software
Ulises Mejias examines how social software—information and communications technologies that facilitate the collaboration and exchange of ideas—enables students to participate in distributed research, an approach to learning in which knowledge is collectively constructed and shared.
MP3 files from web to player
How to easily get mp3 files from the web to your mp3 player - TechLifeBlogged
.."all you have to do is save the link to the mp3 file in your del.icio.us account and it will transfer to your mp3 player the next time you sync it to your computer"..
Why Librarians Make Good Wikipedia Contributors
Library Juice » Wikipedia and Why Librarians Make Good Wikipedia Contributors
..standards for writing a Wikipedia article are similar to a reference librarian’s approach to answering a reference question..
18 Jul 2006
Journal of Digital Information
Journal of Digital Information is a quarterly journal in digital information science and technology, concentrates on all aspects of digital information management.
Preloadr
Preloadr: Image processing powered by nexImage
Preloadr offers professional tools to optimize your photos for free!
17 Jul 2006
Free Downloads of Health Related Books
Hesperian Foundation has made following books for free download:
Where There Is No Doctor
Where Women Have No Doctor
A Book for Midwives
HIV Health and Your Community
Helping Children Who Are Deaf
A factory worker's guide to organizing for safe jobs and healthy communities
A community guide to environmental health
Women's Health Exchange
OpenClinica
OpenClinica is a web-based software platform for managing multi-site clinical research studies. It facilitates protocol configuration, design of Case Report Forms (CRFs), electronic data capture, retrieval, and management. OpenClinica supports HIPAA guidelines, and is designed as a standards-based extensible, modular and open source platform.
13 Jul 2006
Things you can do with RSS
TimYangWiki
Basically, you can perform any task with RSS that requires search or information retrieval from a server. Automatically and repeatedly. I use this list to convince people to start using an RSS feed reader. There’s more to RSS than just weblog syndication and news aggregation.
Tagging
Tagging | TechEssence.Info
Tagging refers to the process by which users assign terms meaningful to them to a resource in the online environment. The rise of social bookmarking Web sites have skyrocketed tagging systems into the mainstream.
Use the 2.0 tools
Tame The Web: Libraries and Technology: Ten Rules for the New Librarians
..Use the 2.0 tools, not because it's cool, or any number of speakers/bloggers/librarian-geeks tell you to, but do it as one way to harness the collective intelligence of our profession..
Digital Natives
2020 Vision - Idaho Library Futures Conference - Idaho State Library
Digital Natives are those individuals 24 years old and younger who have grown up with computers and the Internet since infancy. They have been characterized in the media as being very low users of library services.
11 Jul 2006
Books are for use
DLIST - The Five Laws of Library Science
The First Law from S.R. Ranganathan's The Five Laws of Library Science, Madras Library Association, 1931. Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan (1892-1972) was a pioneer in the field of Library and Information Science. S.R. Ranganathan’s The Five Laws of Library Science, the main premise of which is "books are for use," is arguably the most influential work in LIS to date.
Use "Author Addenda" to maximize impact of your work
Scholar's Copyright Project | Science Commons
.."Author Addenda" - a suite of short amendments that authors attach to the copyright transfer form agreements from publishing companies. The Addenda ensure, at a minimum, that scholarly authors retain enough rights to archive their work on the public Internet...
10 Jul 2006
Librarians and OA
T. Scott: Funding Open Access
"Many librarians seem happy to get on the OA bandwagon, as long as somebody else is going to pay. Take it from funding agencies, or take it from the research budget, or take it from a society's membership fees -- just don't take it from my budget! OA is a great and wonderful thing -- as long as somebody else is paying for it."
7 Jul 2006
Another Photo Hosting Service
I have been using FLICKR for sometime now. Today I came to know about Photobucket.com. It also provides free photo sharing. In addition, it provides for video sharing - and in that sense it is better than FLICKR. You can link your images and videos to social networks, auction sites, blogs, and message boards.
Points for Library Service Policy
Blog about Libraries has suggested 20 points on excellent library customer service. I feel Dr . Ranganathan Five Laws should be starting points for any library policy.
6 Jul 2006
Gliffy.com - Create and share diagrams online.
Gliffy.com - Create and share diagrams online.: "Draw & share diagrams on the web"
Indexing and Open Access - Best way to promote a journal.
I recently participated in Seminar on: “E-Publishing & Global Promotion of Indian Publications” on 1 st July 2006 at Auditorium, National Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE), Mumbai. I also gave a presentation on - "Contribution of NIC in Global Promotion of Indian Medical Journals [ 1.5 MB PPT File ]".
In my opinion - Indexing and Open Access to Full Text of the journal content are the best ways to promote any journal.
In my opinion - Indexing and Open Access to Full Text of the journal content are the best ways to promote any journal.
5 Jul 2006
4 Jul 2006
How Can Scholars Retain Copyright Rights?
DigitalKoans » Blog Archive » How Can Scholars Retain Copyright Rights?
..Scholars are often exhorted to retain the copyright rights to their journal articles to ensure that they can freely use their own work and to permit others to freely read and use it as well. The question for scholars who are convinced to do so is: "How do I do that?"..
29 Jun 2006
New Features in PubMed
NLM Technical Bulletin, May–Jun 2006, Technical Notes
.."In upcoming months, searchers may encounter options designed to lead them to additional Entrez resources. Currently, searchers can find a link on the Abstract display that will take them to a new version of that format."..
.."In upcoming months, searchers may encounter options designed to lead them to additional Entrez resources. Currently, searchers can find a link on the Abstract display that will take them to a new version of that format."..
28 Jun 2006
27 Jun 2006
Diffusion of Science
The Digital Road to Scientific Knowledge Diffusion: A Faster, Better Way to Scientific Progress?
The process by which science knowledge is spread is called diffusion. It is therefore important to better understand and measure the benefits of this diffusion of knowledge. In particular, it is important to understand whether advances in Internet searching – such as simultaneous, ranked searching of distributed digital collections made broadly available via the Internet – can speed up the diffusion of scientific knowledge and accelerate scientific progress.
23 Jun 2006
22 Jun 2006
Nothing Happens Really
Nothing Happens Really - -=( In Between )=-
"While a large number of new tools have appeared on the scene, like RSS feeds, semantic-web-like technologies and social software, not much has been done to redefine library information in local systems in order to make them globally useful".
20 Jun 2006
19 Jun 2006
Campfire
Business group chat: Campfire
Campfire lets you set up password-protected web-based chat rooms in just seconds.
MarkaBoo
MarkaBoo :: better bookmarks for everyone
MarkaBoo makes it easy organize your data and share it with others.
Orkut Invitations
Hello, I am member of ORKUT Community. Please let me know by send an email [esukhdev AT gmail DOT com] if you need an invitation for it.
eHealth Literacy
Journal of Medical Internet Research - eHealth Literacy: Essential Skills for Consumer Health in a Networked World
eHealth Literacy: Essential Skills for Consumer Health in a Networked World
16 Jun 2006
RapidShare
RapidShare - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
RapidShare is a One-click_hosting. The site operates from Germany and is financed by Google AdSense and by the subscriptions of paying users. It also claims to be the world's largest in its scope.
CamStudio
CamStudio - Free Screen Recording Software
Came to know about CamStudio from The Distant Librarian: CamStudio - Free Screencasting Software Post.
CamStudio is able to record all screen and audio activity on your computer and create industry-standard AVI video files and using it's built-in SWF Producer can turn those AVIs into lean, mean, bandwidth-friendly Streaming Flash videos (SWFs)
Came to know about CamStudio from The Distant Librarian: CamStudio - Free Screencasting Software Post.
Steps to Professional Blogging
Randy Charles Morin suggests Ten Steps to Professional Blogging
-Determine what you want to blog about
-Register a blog with Blogger
-Create a FeedBurner account
-Write 1+ blog entries everyday
-Read other blogs like yours
-Register for a del.icio.us account
-Leave 1+ comments everyday
-Register for an AdSense account
-Don't give up
-Check your stats and refine
15 Jun 2006
Xena
Xena digital preservation software
Open Source Digital Preservation Software from the
National Archives of Australia
Ruby
Ruby Home Page - What's Ruby
Ruby is the interpreted scripting language for quick and easy object-oriented programming.
Rails
Ruby on Rails
Rails is a full-stack framework for developing database-backed web applications according to the Model-View-Control pattern.
TeamWork Live
TeamWork Live - Team Collaboration, Project Management, Group Communication, and File Sharing
TeamWork Live is a web-based application that makes it easy for groups to communicate, collaborate, and share information with each other.
14 Jun 2006
Impact Factor Manipulations
WSJ.com - Science Journals Artfully Try To Boost Their Rankings
..Scientists and editors say scientific journals increasingly are manipulating rankings..
Technorati Tags: Impact Factor
WEB 2.0: Addressing the permanence issue
blyberg.net » Addressing the permanence issue
..As libraries, we are far more concerned about longevity of data and content than commercial entities. The major difference being that when a company goes belly-up, they no longer care what happens to their data. They will either destroy it or sell it to the highest bidder where who-knows-what will happen to it..
Technorati Tags: WEB 2.0, Library 2.0
Sidenotes
arc90 lab : tools : Unobtrusive Sidenotes
Unobtrusive Sidenotes is a simple mix of Javascript and CSS that makes it ridiculously easy to incorporate sidenotes into your web pages or blogs.
13 Jun 2006
ThinkFree - Hosted Office Suite
ThinkFree Online beta offers 1 GB of free storage space and allows you to work with Office compatible online packages.
12 Jun 2006
Peer-Review is Dead – Long Live “Peer-Review 2.0”
Before an article gets published in a traditional scholarly journal – Print or Online – it undergoes a quality-check process called Peer Review. But this process does have some drawbacks. First one is that it is time-consuming process. Which adds to the delay in publication. Such a delay could be very significant if research results could be used to immediate problems – for example ‘avian flu’. Second drawback is that it could add to the “biases” as quality control is in the hands of two or three peer-reviewers.
Interactive nature of Internet has offered scholarly journals to experiment with peer-review process. "Nature" for example is undertaking an open peer review trial. In this trial, authors whose submissions to Nature are sent for peer review will also be offered the opportunity to participate in an open peer review process. In this three month trial, authors can choose to have their submissions posted on a preprint server for open comments, in parallel with the conventional peer review process.
Now an Open Access Publisher - Public Library of Science is coming up with PLoS ONE . It claims to offer a new approach to the way that scientific research is communicated. It will “identify” papers that are technically sound and publish them “rapidly”. These will be presented for open and continuous review to whole scientific community. They believe that published papers are not some form of absolute truth but part of an ongoing discussion. Interestingly their PloS ONE site is subtitled “Open Access 2.0”.
BMJ also has been trying to answer problems of traditional peer review [see its editorial - Peer review: reform or revolution? Time to open up the black box of peer review. It also has a RAPID RESPONSES feature which enables readers to comment on published articles.
Interactive nature of Internet has offered scholarly journals to experiment with peer-review process. "Nature" for example is undertaking an open peer review trial. In this trial, authors whose submissions to Nature are sent for peer review will also be offered the opportunity to participate in an open peer review process. In this three month trial, authors can choose to have their submissions posted on a preprint server for open comments, in parallel with the conventional peer review process.
Now an Open Access Publisher - Public Library of Science is coming up with PLoS ONE . It claims to offer a new approach to the way that scientific research is communicated. It will “identify” papers that are technically sound and publish them “rapidly”. These will be presented for open and continuous review to whole scientific community. They believe that published papers are not some form of absolute truth but part of an ongoing discussion. Interestingly their PloS ONE site is subtitled “Open Access 2.0”.
BMJ also has been trying to answer problems of traditional peer review [see its editorial - Peer review: reform or revolution? Time to open up the black box of peer review. It also has a RAPID RESPONSES feature which enables readers to comment on published articles.
There are some extreme views also to do away the “Peer-Review” as such. In a pitch for Wikipedia Concept, Peter Frishauf [Are Traditional Peer-Reviewed Medical Articles Obsolete? A Pitch for the Wikipedia Concept, -Reguires Free Registration] argues, “ we depend on peer-reviewed articles in print and online. But is this method obsolete? And is there a better way? Traditional medical articles are often outdated before publication. Consider HIV, SARs, avian flu -- even hormone replacement therapy. They're not comprehensive: For any topic, we have to read dozens of articles to be informed. And bias is always present, regardless of peer review… Based on a radical new model of publishing, on Wikipedia nearly anyone with a Web connection can start or edit an article. Contributors must agree to write in neutral point of view (NPV). Opinion is fair game for deletion by the first Wikipedian who reads it -- typically within 30 seconds of publication.”
What ever it takes – the era of “Post-Publication Peer Review” has begun. I wish to call it “Peer-Review 2.0”.
myGrid: an e-Science toolkit for bioinformaticians
SourceForge.net: myGrid e-science toolkit
myGrid: an e-Science toolkit for bioinformaticians, comprising Web Services that provide data and semantic metadata management, workflow and service discovery, and e-science process orchestration.
Indibloggers
IndiBloggers - Index of Indian Bloggers Came to know about this from Mohamed Taher. However does not seem to be comprehensive as His and Mine blogs were not there in the list.
Pligg
Pligg Beta
Pligg is Web 2.0 Content Management System (CMS) unlike any other existing CMS. Pligg's Web 2.0 user interface gives your visitors a reason to come back to your site by making them decide on the site's content and giving them the chance to social network.
9 Jun 2006
Hubdog Toolbar
Hubdog :: Add RSS channels to your Pocket PC via IE or Firefox !
Hubdog Toolbar: generate Online and Mobile media channels by aggregating any content feed available on the web
How Long Will America Lead the World?
Zakaria: How Long Will America Lead the World? - Leadership and Innovation - MSNBC.com
.."The national academies' report points out that China and India combined graduate 950,000 engineers every year, compared with 70,000 in America; that for the cost of one chemist or engineer in the U.S. a company could hire five chemists in China or 11 engineers in India; that of the 120 $1 billion-plus chemical plants being built around the world one is in the United States and 50 are in China.."
8 Jun 2006
7 Jun 2006
Business models in open access publishing
Business models in open access publishing by Cockerill, Matthew. In "Open Access: Key strategic, technical and economic aspects" Neil Jacobs (ed.) (forthcoming) -
Draws a parallel between open access and open government.
Draws a parallel between open access and open government.
Google Spreadsheets
According to Google Blog, Google Spreadsheets is now available as a limited test on Google Labs. This will allow users to create, store and share spreadsheets on the web.
6 Jun 2006
Changing nature of librarianship
LIScareer.com -- The Librarian & Information Professional's Career Development Center
.."The beauty of librarianship lies in its ever changing nature, and we must change with it."
Social softwares - Power Law of Participation
Ross Mayfield's Weblog: Power Law of Participation
"..Patterns have emerged where low threshold participation amounts to collective intelligence and high engagement provides a different form of collaborative intelligence.."
Year of OPML
Top 10 Sources
"2006 has been called the "Year of OPML," and from the amount of attention it's been receiving lately in the blogosphere, that seems believable. OPML, which stands for Outline Processing Markup Language, is a way of describing collections of links to the Web as an outline".
Cool on a Budget - Library 2.0?
Online Cool on a Budget by Rachel Singer Gordon and Michael Stephens explains how new online tools make it easy and cheap for letting your library show its best side and appear as dynamic. They suggest libraies to try blogs, Flickr, del.icio.us, Google Maps and building wikis. Further libraries can use social networking plateforms like MySpace or Facebook.
Well are they suggesting Library 2.0?
Well are they suggesting Library 2.0?
5 Jun 2006
BRICKS
BRICKS - Building resources for Integrated Cultural Knowledge Services
The BRICKS Community is the aggregation of a large community of users, composed of content providers, art professionals, and art researchers, as well as students, citizens, tourists, etc. in order to build a consensus, sharing knowledge and service on Digital Content.
Congratulations NIT Rourkela (India) for having OA Archiving Policy
Congratulations NIT Rourkela (India) for OA Self-Archiving Policy.
"All research papers by faculty and students, MTech (Research) and Ph.D. thesis is to be self-archived in Dspace@nitr or it should be submitted to the librarian for archiving, so that others interested may benefit by referring to these documents. The Administration may
use this archive for assessment of faculty performance when needed."
"All research papers by faculty and students, MTech (Research) and Ph.D. thesis is to be self-archived in Dspace@nitr or it should be submitted to the librarian for archiving, so that others interested may benefit by referring to these documents. The Administration may
use this archive for assessment of faculty performance when needed."
Online journals publishing practices - ALPSP Survey
"The market for online journals is still in a process of development and experiment; it is only ten years old. Publishers are still grappling with the implications of migrating from a print to an online publishing environment." Academic journal publishers' policies and practices in online publishing - Second Survey, 2005. -ALPSP
2 Jun 2006
Consensus is difficult in open-access debate
OPEN ACCESS Special Issue of Research Information carries interviews of following experts on Open Access and its future:
- Martin Richardson, Oxford Journals
- Michael Mabe, formerly of Elsevier
- Robert Terry, The Wellcome Trust
- Steven Harnad, University of Quebec in Montreal and University of Southampton
- Tim Smith, Institute of Physics Publishing
- Matthew Cockerill, BioMed Central
- Alma Swan, Key Perspectives
- Jens Vigen, CERN
- Leslie Carr, University of Southampton
Consensus is difficult in open-access debate it seems. Or the publishing industry fears lose of business?
1 Jun 2006
Come Xplore
Complore-Come Xplore.
Complore is a Social Research Collaboration Tool to connect the researchers in diverse fields around the world.
InstantFeed
InstantFeed - Feeds via your IM client can make you Big in Japan!
InstantFeed allows you to receive any web feed (RSS or Atom) via all major IM carriers including MSN Messenger, Jabber, AIM and ICQ.
Toolbar will also suggest bookmarks
Google Toolbar beta will now also suggest sites that you have bookmarked.
31 May 2006
Librarian--Who?
Who should be called a "librarian"? Good Discussion going. Only think only persons having professional degrees should be called "Librarians".
30 May 2006
Indiamarks
Social bookmarking and tagging | indiamarks... where india bookmarks
indiamarks is a
social bookmarking
service for the global indian community.
Krunch - compress files online
Krunch is a simple tool that simplifies the process of compressing and sending your files online.
29 May 2006
26 May 2006
Wisdom of Crowds
The Wisdom of Crowds - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations
Next Best Thing to an MBA
The Library: Next Best Thing to an MBA
Across the country, public libraries are giving would-be entrepreneurs a helping hand with resources and expert guidance
Future OPAC: Web services that could be mixed and matched?
ALA TechSource | How OPACs Suck, Part 3: The Big Picture
The catalog of the future wouldn't be a catalog; it would be a series of standards-compliant Web services that could be mixed and matched.
Networks are about sharing now
BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » Everybody’s a network
..Networks are about sharing now; they used to be about control. Networks are two-way; they used to be one-way. Networks are about aggregation more than distribution; they are about finding and being found..
25 May 2006
Citation Advantage of Open Access Articles
PLoS Biology: Citation Advantage of Open Access Articles
Even in a journal that is widely available in research libraries, OA articles are more immediately recognized and cited by peers than non-OA articles published in the same journal.
Search/Retrieve via URL
SRU: Search and Retrieve via URL (Standards, Library of Congress)
SRU (Search/Retrieve via URL) is a standard search protocol for Internet search queries, utilizing CQL (Common Query Language), a standard query syntax for representing queries. SRW (Search Retrieve Web Service) is a companion protocol to SRU. The Library of Congress serves as the maintenance agency for these standards.
24 May 2006
Video interview on Open Access
Today I found a Video interview of Richard Poynder, a Freelance Journalist, with Open Access advocate Stevan Harnad. It is an excellent interview of about 30 minutes that can be viewed on a multi-media PC having a Windows Media Player installed. Apart from OA Publishing and Self-Arching, Prof Harnad also talk of role of librarians in OA Movement.
Here are the Broadband and Dial-up Links.
Here are the Broadband and Dial-up Links.
23 May 2006
Information dissemination, Sociomimetics and Trampoline
Interesting post on Information dissemination, Sociomimetics and the Trampoline in Nascent: Charles Armstrong visits Nature
Social Software in Academic Libraries
Meredith Gorran Farkas on Harnessing the Power of Social Software in Academic Libraries:
* Putting stuff on the Web can be really easy
* You don't need to understand how it works; you just need to know how to use it
* Play with technology! Kick the tires!
* Avoid technolust (technology should fill a need)
* We can learn a lot when we open ourselves up to feedback and collaboration
* We need to be where our patrons are
* Putting stuff on the Web can be really easy
* You don't need to understand how it works; you just need to know how to use it
* Play with technology! Kick the tires!
* Avoid technolust (technology should fill a need)
* We can learn a lot when we open ourselves up to feedback and collaboration
* We need to be where our patrons are
22 May 2006
19 May 2006
Web almost substitute for libraries?
Is Internet evolving into a giant global digital library? Now atleast 10 Reasons are available Why The Web Is Almost A Substitute For Libraries:-
"1. Everything I Need IS On The Internet.
2. Catalog This!
3. Quality Control Does Exist
4. Nothing Is Perfect
5. Check Out Dan Brown's Bytes @Your Library
6. The Ebook Is Coming
7. Look Ma, No Books!
8. Everything Is Born Digital
9. We No Longer Care What Was Written In 1970
10. The Internet Is Already Ubiquitous And Portable."
"1. Everything I Need IS On The Internet.
2. Catalog This!
3. Quality Control Does Exist
4. Nothing Is Perfect
5. Check Out Dan Brown's Bytes @Your Library
6. The Ebook Is Coming
7. Look Ma, No Books!
8. Everything Is Born Digital
9. We No Longer Care What Was Written In 1970
10. The Internet Is Already Ubiquitous And Portable."
Croquet Project
The Croquet Project
A new open source software platform for creating deeply collaborative multi-user online applications
Redefining Libraries
From The "M" Word
Libraries are in the process of redefining from repositories of books to ever-evolving community and information centers but according to OCLC's study, Perception of Libraries and Information Resources 2005, the public seems to still cling onto our old image believing libraries are synonymous with books not information.
aDORe Archive Software
aDORe Archive
The aDORe Archive allows for the storage of mutliple XMLtapes and ARC files through the introduction of OAI-PMH compliant XMLtape and ARCfile registries. Its Source Distribution is available for download.
Blog Search by Date now.
Never browse outdated posts again: a new feature on Google Blog Search now lets you narrow your search by date.
18 May 2006
New Web-based Google Video Uploader
Just tried the new web-based video uploader for Google Video as annouced in their Official Google Blog: Instant gratification, Google Video style. Shot up a small video through Sony Ericsson K750i Camera Phone. It created 3gp file. Opened up the Uploader -- and done in a minute or so.
MedBioWorld Site
"MedBioWorld: Medical/Medicine and bioscience journals, associations and resources" is medical and biological resource directory. Covers journals, associations, news, databases and companies.
Download Medical Softwares
Medical Download.com Lists and offers downloads for various softwares that can be used in medical areas like billing, medical records, practice management etc.
17 May 2006
Place for Social Software in LIS curriculum
Is Internet evolving into a giant global digital library? If
yes - then it is due to rise of the phenomena of Social Softwares / Web 2.0 /
Library 2.0. So, obviously Social Softwares will find place in LIS
Curriculum sooner or latter. Such a curriculum has been suggested in blog post
It includes - Introduction to Social Software, Blogs, RSS, Wikis, folksonomies, social networks and other social software tools like Instant Messaging applications and Podcasting.
Why not to kill Libraries yet?
There is a rather long posting with on going discussions - whether browsing the Library stacks should still continue in this web age. (stevenberlinjohnson.com: Can We Please Kill This Meme Now). Here is my opinion.
-- Browsing / Surfing is one way of acquiring knowledge and to satisfy the inner hunger for information. Call it infotainment – entertainment with information. One can get this type of entertainment either visiting a library or sit in front of desktop. Books / other published documents in a library does go a filtering and selection process – first in the publication process then in the selection process of the library. Hence reliability of the contained information is somewhat ensured. The same cannot be said about whatever goes on Internet. Persistency and referencing is more reliable in case of library collection – though referencing by links is much easier on web. However, it is also true that as time passes, Internet is evolving into a library.
-- Browsing / Surfing is one way of acquiring knowledge and to satisfy the inner hunger for information. Call it infotainment – entertainment with information. One can get this type of entertainment either visiting a library or sit in front of desktop. Books / other published documents in a library does go a filtering and selection process – first in the publication process then in the selection process of the library. Hence reliability of the contained information is somewhat ensured. The same cannot be said about whatever goes on Internet. Persistency and referencing is more reliable in case of library collection – though referencing by links is much easier on web. However, it is also true that as time passes, Internet is evolving into a library.
16 May 2006
Google Notebook Up
Google Notebook is now up. It works similar to what I expected. Does the work like clipmarks but in a much cool manner. Moreover, Google Search Engine has been leveraged in a good fashion.
Installation is very simple - you need a Google Account ( your gmail account will do ). In mine case - as soon as I logged in - it asked for downloading a Firefox extension. This was done in seconds. Next time when Firefox was opened, it had a small Notebook icon towards the right bottom corner.
Working with it is Simple - mark anything in your Firebox / Browser and click -> notebook icon -> Add Note. You are done. While searching with Google, it shows - "Note this" hypertext under each hit.
Installation is very simple - you need a Google Account ( your gmail account will do ). In mine case - as soon as I logged in - it asked for downloading a Firefox extension. This was done in seconds. Next time when Firefox was opened, it had a small Notebook icon towards the right bottom corner.
Working with it is Simple - mark anything in your Firebox / Browser and click -> notebook icon -> Add Note. You are done. While searching with Google, it shows - "Note this" hypertext under each hit.
Subject Headings Vs Tags
Infomancy Blog has a post comparing Subject Headings with Tags. It argues that while "Subject Headings" are technically correct but "Tags" are right in the sense they reflect how the end user approach a particular information item.
Open Access Advantage
Journal of Medical Internet Research - The Open Access Advantage
PLoS Biology provides robust evidence that open-access articles are more immediately recognized and cited than non-OA articles.
15 May 2006
12 May 2006
Is Internet evolving into a Digital Library?
Terry Kuny and Gary Cleveland in their article “The Digital Library: Myths and Challenges" IFLA journal 1998 24 (2)7347 had rejected Internet as Digital Library. They regarded it a myth to consider it as a digital library. As a bookstore cannot be called a Library in the same manner Internet providing access to huge information resources cannot considered as a Library. “Finding information is difficult, the quality of the information is quite variable, and reliable, professional assistance for the confused and lost is lacking”.
I have been keenly observing in past few years the emergence of a trend to organize the Internet (WEB) resources so that these are useful to the potential users. Yahoo was probably the first popular tool to hand pick and organize information resources into categories. Then came the voluntary efforts to create an Open Directory (Open Directory Project).
Yet another landmark I consider is the emergence of social tagging platforms like Del.icio.us for bookmaking and Flickr to share Photos. Interestingly Nature Publishing Group produced Open Source Software – Connotea and a free site to “help researchers and clinicians manage and share information”. It handles academic references far better than Del.icio.us. Now only days back Goggle launched Google Co-op. Here you can categorize the URLs in way you know better and people can subscribe to your categorization. This means that now you as a librarian can categorize and organization the web resources in a manner that could be useful for your patrons!! Well it is expected that they subscribe to your categories while searching. And this has started happening - Just noted that [US] National Library of Medicine is a major contributor.
So Is Internet evolving into a Digital Library?
I have been keenly observing in past few years the emergence of a trend to organize the Internet (WEB) resources so that these are useful to the potential users. Yahoo was probably the first popular tool to hand pick and organize information resources into categories. Then came the voluntary efforts to create an Open Directory (Open Directory Project).
Yet another landmark I consider is the emergence of social tagging platforms like Del.icio.us for bookmaking and Flickr to share Photos. Interestingly Nature Publishing Group produced Open Source Software – Connotea and a free site to “help researchers and clinicians manage and share information”. It handles academic references far better than Del.icio.us. Now only days back Goggle launched Google Co-op. Here you can categorize the URLs in way you know better and people can subscribe to your categorization. This means that now you as a librarian can categorize and organization the web resources in a manner that could be useful for your patrons!! Well it is expected that they subscribe to your categories while searching. And this has started happening - Just noted that [US] National Library of Medicine is a major contributor.
So Is Internet evolving into a Digital Library?
Libraries in Social Networking Software
Information Wants To Be Free Blog has a comprehensive post on using ( or not using) Social Networking Software like MySpace and Facebook in Libraries.
11 May 2006
Google Related Links
"Google Related Links use the power of Google to automatically bring fresh, dynamic and interesting content links to any website". - Google Related Links
Going Strong the Search Way
According to Official Google Blog Four products are being launched by Google.
- Google Co-op - You can help Google Improve search results in the topics you know best.
- Google Desktop 4 - Next version of Desktop Search Tool that can "Quickly search your computer"
- Google Notebook ( To be launched ). Can't say exactly but can guess - could be similar to http://clipmarks.com
- Google Trends
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