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Information Today
July 17, 2008 |
New Report on Copyright Law and Digital Preservation The Library of Congress, through its National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) has issued a joint report on the impact of copyright law on digital preservation.   |
Search Engine Watch
July 16, 2008
Kevin Ryan |
Google's Path to Domination And you may ask yourself, 'how did we get here?' Today's search landscape is a result of Yahoo trying to integrate large acquisitions too fast, while Google focused on core disciplines, small complimentary acquisitions, and smart build-outs. |
D-Lib
August 2008
Bonita Wilson |
A Few Words of Appreciation to Digital Library Conference Organizers Among the many benefits of attending such conferences is the opportunity to network in person with others involved with digital libraries in one way or another |
D-Lib
August 2008
Rebecca S. Guenther |
Battle of the Buzzwords: Flexibility vs. Interoperability When Implementing PREMIS in METS The PREMIS Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata 1 specifies the information that a repository needs to maintain for the long-term preservation of digital objects. |
D-Lib
August 2008
Buonora & Liberati |
A Format for Digital Preservation of Images: A Study on JPEG 2000 File Robustness Digital preservation requires a strategy for the storage of large quantities of data, which increases dramatically when dealing with high resolution images. |
D-Lib
August 2008
Belinda Weaver |
Researcher Profiles and Portfolios: Use Cases of the Facebook Service and the University of Queensland Researchers Service The University of Queensland maintains an online research profiling system, UQ Researchers, to showcase the expertise of its academic staff and postgraduate students. |
D-Lib
August 2008
Hagedorn & Santelli |
Google Still Not Indexing Hidden Web URLs Given the resulting numbers from our investigation, it seems that Google needs to do much more to gather hidden resources, not less. |
D-Lib
August 2008
Carol Minton Morris |
2008 Joint Conference on Digital Libraries Spans Culture and Technology At a conference where ideas about the theory and practice of information engineering in digital libraries would be presented, it was particularly appropriate to meet in a city where both the practical and theoretical knowledge of engineering have played major roles. |
D-Lib
August 2008
Pickens et al. |
Report on the 1st Collaborative Information Retrieval Workshop: Held in Conjunction with the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) 2008 Today's digital search technologies are designed for a single user working alone, even though prior studies of students and information workers have demonstrated that search is a collaborative process. |
D-Lib
August 2008
Edward Galloway |
D-Lib Featured Collection July/August 2008: Audubon's Birds of America at the University of Pittsburgh John James Audubon (1785-1851) set out to paint every known (to him) North American bird in the early-nineteenth century. |
Information Today
July 14, 2008 |
AquaBrowser Adds Social Networking Tools New features boost the existing AquaBrowser social networking experience and are designed to create a true global community for library users. |
Information Today
July 14, 2008 |
Zotero 1.5 Research Tool Now Synchronizes Collections Zotero 1.5 has been released in public beta. Users can now access their Zotero collections from anywhere and synchronize them across multiple machines (of any operating system). |
Information Today
July 10, 2008 |
SirsiDynix Enterprise Portal Solution and SchoolRooms Improved SirsiDynix Enterprise Portal Solution provides a single interface to all the high-quality information, resources, and services offered by a library or consortium. |
Information Today
July 7, 2008 |
Readex Partners With CRL on World Newspaper Archive Readex, a division of NewsBank, Inc, and the Center for Research Libraries announced that they will create the world's largest, fully searchable digital archive of international newspapers. |
Information Today
July 7, 2008 |
Missouri Launches Collaborative Historical Search Portal Missouri has launched a free collaborative search portal that integrates millions of historical documents from the state's local libraries, universities, and cultural institutions in a single web gateway. |
Information Today
July 3, 2008 |
EBSCO Publishing Introduces EBSCOhost 2.0 EBSCO Publishing introduced the next generation of its EBSCOhost user interface, EBSCOhost 2.0, offering a clean new look and feel. |
Information Today
July 3, 2008 |
LibLime and the eXtensible Catalog Project Announce Partnership LibLime, provider of open source solutions for libraries, and the eXtensible Catalog project, an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation funded project currently underway at the University of Rochester's River Campus Libraries, have announced a new partnership. |
Information Today
July 3, 2008 |
Ex Libris Introduces Voyager 7.0 and EL Commons Ex Libris Group announced the general release of version 7.0 of the Company's Voyager integrated library system. |
ONLINE
Jul/Aug 2008
Ginsburg & Noorlander |
Investigating Outsourcing and Offshoring Research For 15 years, there have been discussions on whether or not to outsource research. You would think the issue would be resolved by now, but today we have more questions than answers. |
Searcher
August 2008
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - The Winds of Change New technological innovations make it easier for librarians to take charge of data dissemination, but first they need to learn a few computing skills. |
ONLINE
Marydee Ojala |
Search Is Not Static Since search is not static, information professionals should strive to understand the changes, evaluate their benefits (or detriments), and devise search strategies to accommodate them. |
Information Today
June 30, 2008
Paula J. Hane |
LexisNexis Moves Into the Public Library Market In what has to be viewed as a surprisingly low-key launch for a product in a brand new market, LexisNexis rather quietly announced its new Library Express service. |
Information Today
June 30, 2008 |
EBSCO and ATLA Create Digital Archives for Purchase EBSCO Publishing announced that it has partnered with the American Theological Library Association to create digital archive collections of historical monographs and serials for purchase by libraries and other institutions. |
Information Today
June 30, 2008 |
SirsiDynix Announces New Faceted Search Product for the Enterprise SirsiDynix announced SirsiDynix Enterprise, a new faceted search product that is designed to provide the foundation for a range of user experience solutions. |
Information Today
June 30, 2008 |
WT Cox Subscriptions Acquires Journal Finder From UNCG WT Cox Subscriptions has entered into an agreement to purchase Journal Finder from The University of North Carolina Greensboro. |
Information Today
June 26, 2008
Barbara Quint |
1923--1963: Google Book Search Targeting More Books for Public Domain? Before 1923, all library partners in the program let Google's mass digitization program grind away, but only a handful of library partners will risk letting post-1923, probably in-copyright material from their collections into the program. |
Information Today
June 26, 2008 |
Ingram Digital to Distribute Encyclopaedia Britannica Ebook Reference Set Ingram Digital Group, announced an agreement with Encyclopaedia Britannica to distribute the publisher's ebook reference set worldwide. |
Information Today
June 26, 2008 |
EBSCO and ATLA to Create Digital Archives for Purchase EBSCO Publishing has partnered with American Theological Library Association to provide new collections of historical monographs and serials in digital format |
Inc.
July 2008
Nitasha Tiku |
Horse Race: Searching for the Next Digg Start-ups jockey for position to be the authority of what's hot on the Web. |
Wired
June 23, 2008
Ben Paynter |
Feeding the Masses: Data In, Crop Predictions Out Last October, agricultural consultancy Lanworth not only correctly projected that the US Department of Agriculture had overestimated the nation's corn crop, it nailed the margin: roughly 200 million bushels. |
Wired
June 23, 2008
Adam Rogers |
Tracking the News: A Smarter Way to Predict Riots and Wars The universe of information contains early warnings about everything from natural disasters to political unrest -- if you can read the data. |
Information Today
June 23, 2008
Greg R. Notess |
SearchTogether: A Tech Preview of Social Search Potential Microsoft Research's SearchTogether is available now and may well offer a technology preview of future collaborative searching. |
Information Today
June 23, 2008 |
FictionDB Offers Free Access to Book Database Readers want a site that instantly provides them with the ability to search for an author, find the complete book list, discover books in a series, and read synopses or reviews. |
Information Today
June 23, 2008 |
SparkIP Rolls Out New Search Tools and Subscription Packages SparkIP, an online intellectual property research and marketplace platform, released a new version of its product with advanced features. |
Information Today
June 23, 2008 |
CrossCheck Plagiarism Screening Service Launches CrossRef has announced the official launch of CrossCheck, a new initiative to aid publishers in verifying the originality of scholarly content. |
Search Engine Watch
June 20, 2008
Elisabeth Osmeloski |
Travel Search 2.0 -- Know Your Audience The online travel industry has the benefit of being one of the most mature verticals in the Web today, and because of that, any new entrant has to seriously consider their value proposition and how they fit into the Travel 2.0 space, and remain laser-focused on their core differentiator. |
Search Engine Watch
June 20, 2008
Frank Watson |
Stop the Web, I Want To Get Off! Drop Me at the Global Village Web 2.0? Web 3.0? It's time we take a bigger view of branding and search. With all the innovations that are available to the online world, it's about time we dropped thoughts of categorization and departmentalization. |
Information Today
June 19, 2008
Barbara Quint |
Whither Dialog? ProQuest Takes the Reins of the Venerable Search Service Before there was a Google, before there was a World Wide Web, before there was an internet, there was Dialog. |
Information Today
June 19, 2008
Barbara Quint |
ProQuest Dialog: Predictions and Reactions With the sale of Dialog to ProQuest, the big questions remain. Can ProQuest do better than Dialog's previous owners? |
Information Today
June 19, 2008 |
H.W. Wilson and MLA to Make Article-Level Records Available in OCLC WorldCat.org The agreement is designed to increase visibility and access to authoritative content licensed by libraries on the web. |
Information Today
June 19, 2008 |
Peer-to-Patent Pilot Releases Report on Pilot Project Peer-to-Patent seeks to improve patent quality by connecting the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to an open network of scientific and technical experts to enhance the patent examination process. |
Information Today
June 16, 2008
Paula J. Hane |
SLA Meets in the Emerald City Special Libraries Association Conference theme, Breaking Rules, Building Bridges. describes what info pros must do to be successful in the rapidly changing world of information -- embrace change and build networks. |
Information Today
June 16, 2008 |
DOE Announces International Agreement on Global Science Online Gateway The U.S. Department of Energy announced the establishment of a multilateral alliance to govern the rapidly growing online gateway to international scientific research information -- WorldWideScience.org. |
Information Today
June 16, 2008 |
Newser Launches "NY Times in 60 Seconds" Newser, the online news synthesizer that distills the best stories from a hundred news sources into lively summaries, has launched a new feature, "NY Times in 60 Seconds." |
Information Today
June 12, 2008
Avi Rappoport |
New Robots Exclusion Protocol Agreement Among Yahoo!, Google, and Microsoft Live Search The search engines banding together and the publishers proposing their own solutions make it likely that there will be more conflict in the future with end users and libraries stuck in the middle. |
Information Today
June 12, 2008 |
NISO Announces CORE Initiative The National Information Standards Organization has approved work on a new standard project to facilitate the exchange of cost, fund, vendor, and invoice information. |
Search Engine Watch
June 12, 2008
Erik Qualman |
Live Search Cashback vs. Google: A Case Study How do the Live Search results measure up to Google, the de-facto search engine standard? A test of product-based queries on each finds the results promising, but mixed. |
Information Today
June 9, 2008
Nancy Herther |
Elsevier Releases Scopus Journal Analyzer Subscribers to Elsevier's Scopus have a new tool to aid in evaluating journal performance over time. |
Information Today
June 9, 2008 |
Hoover's Launches Enhancements and Adds Millions of Professional Contacts Hoover's, Inc. announced several enhancements, including the addition of millions of new business professionals. |
Information Today
June 5, 2008
Barbara Quint |
Microsoft Shuts Down Two of Its Google `Wannabe's': Live Search Books and Live Search Academic The reason for the cancellation was money or the lack of it. Microsoft could not foresee a sustainable business model for the service. |
Information Today
June 5, 2008
Barbara Quint |
`It Ain't Over Till It's Over': Impact of the Microsoft Shutdown Although the announcement of Microsoft's decision to shut down its Live Search Books and Live Search Academic projects seemed to indicate that the program would cease digitizing immediately, conversations with participating libraries indicated otherwise. |
Search Engine Watch
June 4, 2008
Kevin Ryan |
Who Owns the Brand? For a whole lot of really good reasons, brands (particularly those with resellers) maintain an ongoing battle to protect their brands. And in the online world, they want to hold search engines accountable. |
Humanities
May/Jun 2008
Harry Siegel |
Rosenbach Museum & Library Reinvention may just be the oldest American tradition, and there are few museums that embody that tradition quite like the Rosenbach Museum & Library in Philadelphia. |
ONLINE
May/Jun 2008
Greg R. Notess |
Multilingual Searching: Search Engine Language Tools For savvy searchers, the multiple languages and content from distant countries create new opportunities for finding previously buried information resources. |
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