Knowledge Management

Mini-clip interview for Gurteen Knowledge with Martina Puc. Would you like to share with me something you have learnt at this conference? Shot at CROINFO2006 6th Knowledge and Information Management Conference, October 2006, Porec, Croatia. http://croinfo2006.infoarena.hr/

Visual Thesaurus

Visual Thesaurus is an interactive dictionary and thesaurus with an innovative display that encourages exploration and learning

PageBull : another entry in search engine ...list

it displays search results in webimages

New era for HiTech-Libraries

Hybrary - The Library of the future:" Libraries are the perfect environment for New Media applications, the focus area of the reseach at the ISNM. In several projects we analyze special aspects of libraries and develop research prototypes in co-operation with leading library equipment providers. The motivation is to break with traditional views on the role of the library and to develop new methods and interfaces, allowing an intuitive access to digital content in the physical space. The following projects have been realized with the help of the students enrolled at the ISNM study program Master of Science in Digital Media." -McLuhan Documentation Center

NEVA - Virtual Librarian Avatar:

" NEVA is a virtual librarian system based on a graphical character, called Avatar. The motivation is not to replace the librarian but to enhance the library database with a personalized, human-like intelligent virtual agent serving the user's needs for both detailed and complete database knowledge and social interaction.... more

Tangible Archive

"The Tangible Archive has been developed within the Digital Library course in Summer 2004. Visitors can browse through the collection of past and current ISNM projects by picking physical objects, equipped with electronic (RFID) labels and placing them onto the "smart desk". Each object is designed as a metaphor for the respective project and triggers the project web page documentation."

ALADIN

"ALADIN is a software platform for mobile devices in a Ubiquitous Computing environment. The system is based on web services on PDAs or laptops and uses different methods for the query of locations (Wireless LAN, Bluetooth, Infrared), users (Fingerprint Scanner) and objects (RFID). Equipped with a streaming server, the ALADIN infrastructure allows for rich applications controlled and triggered by a smart environment."

Interactive Library Desk

"The Interactive Library Desk offers a complete new library interface based on the metaphor of a desk-top system. The active display is projected on the surface of the table using a beamer on the ceiling. The object contains an RFID label which can be detected by the RFID reader devices mounted below the table. The table supports a Content-Management-System based on XML as well as a FLASH-based interface to the table hardware. New content can be easily created and inserted into the system using most common media types for graphics, audio and video. We are constantly updating the list of services running on the table. The table design is based on the interactive table which was designed for the Museum of Castle Eutin."

Smart Browsing at the shelf

"This project presents a novel user interface for library services on mobile devices. It supports library users with digital information for physical media items directly at the shelf, therefore enhancing the browsing process in physical media collections using related virtual information. PDAs, equipped with RFID or Barcode readers, allow for scanning media items and augmenting physical media items with additional information. "

" Mobile learning is the next big trend in learning and technology. Mobiles are more common than PCs (2 billion+ compared with 750 million). Developing countries are able to jump the hardwiring requirements of many developed countries, moving straight to wireless connectivity. Unfortunately, for all the hype of mobile learning, we aren't doing it well. In fact, the conversation in this space is still minimal. Mostly we have people (like me) saying things like "it's the next big thing". Here are a few articles addressing (and proclaiming) our wireless future:

Future of the phone

Wireless World

Carnival of the Mobilists

mlearning tsunami : from : elearnspace

Library Hi Tech(journal)

The Librarian talking about the deaf library

She talks what the library offers.

http://www.deaflibrary.org/

Deaf Resource Library:http://www.deaflibrary.org/

How to use google reader: Tutorial

Google Reader Tutorial by Yukon Laurie Prange.

MSN Book Search:Microsoft releasing book search in beta: Next big leap

"As we move out of beta, what you will see is that book content integrated with the Web content (search results on Windows Live Search). What we are focusing more of our efforts on for live
searching is integrating all of those content types together to give you the most relevant results. Sometimes the most relevant will be from books. If, for example, it's a search on historical content, chances are the most authoritative content may be found in a book," said Tiedt.

Microsoft's new tool is similar in nature to Google Book Search in that it also allows full texts of public domain works to be viewed, searched or printed. Like Google, Microsoft has chosen to use PDF files for the full text downloads of books.

BioText Tool for Improving Search over Bioscience Literature

Provide fast, flexible, intelligent access to information for use in biosciences applications.

Project Summary

"The scientific literature of biomedicine, genomics, and other biosciences is a rich, complex, and continually growing resource. With appropriate search tools, bioscience researchers can use the contents of the literature to further their research goals. For example, buried within the literature are important clues that can be applied to the construction and verification of genetic pathways. A key search goal for many such researchers is to narrow or refine the results of queries in useful ways. These narrowing methods include restricting results according to entities (such as type of organism, tissue type, protein type, or process type) and - more desirable still - selecting abstracts only if they describe particular relations between these entities (such as binds-to, treatment-for, and mutation-of). Another useful narrowing approach is to restrict according to certain types of publications and time spans, e.g., only articles that appeared in the last six months in high-quality journals of molecular biology. "

BioText Software for Download

Downloading is free, but please acknowledge us by citing this paper if you use the code in research:

A Simple Algorithm for Identifying Abbreviation Definitions in Biomedical Text, Ariel Schwartz and Marti Hearst, in the proceedings of the Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB 2003) Kauai, Jan 2003. pdf

Java sourcecode	ExtractAbbrev.java
Java Documentation	ExtractAbbrev.html
Sample input file	test.txt
Sample testing file	pairs.txt

Software to parse and load MEDLINE into a RDBMS

Downloading is free, but acknowledge source if you use the code:

Tools for loading Medline into a local relational database Diane E. Oliver, Gaurav Bhalotia, Ariel S. Schwartz, Russ B. Altman, Marti A. Hearst, BMC Bioinformatics 2004, (7Oct2004) Available at BioMedCentral

MedlineParser java code. Applicable to MEDLINE 2004. gzipped tar file zip file

MedlineParser perl code. Applicable to MEDLINE 2003. parsemedline.pl medline-schema-perl-oracle.sql

WebGuild - Web 2.0 - Ram Shriram & Safa Rashtchy

Internet pioneer Ram Shriram, founding member of Google, Inc., interviewed by Safa Rashtchy sharing his insights on Web 2.0 and ingredients for creating successful internet companies.

Custom Search Engines for Medical Information:Source Code

Custom Search Engines for Medical Information:Source Code

Medical Information Search Engine :http://tinyurl.com/yzmkml


For those who might be interested in including one of my Google
Custom Search Engines-Medical Information-- in their Web
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WISER (Wireless Information System for Emergency Responders) Version 2.3 Released

WISER is a system designed to assist first responders in hazardous material incidents. WISER is available as a standalone application on Pocket PC PDAs, Palm OS PDAs, and Microsoft Windows PCs.

Download

Another Search Engine from Google :SearchMash

Google just released another search engine-SearchMash
with different search algorithm and some additional options(e.g wikipedia results).

available at http://www.searchmash.com/

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Good quality patient health information Guide

Overview of the study

There were four stages to the study:

I. A review of research evidence on patients’ information needs and the likely
impact and effectiveness of making high quality information materials more
widely available and accessible.

II. A web search, an email survey of health information specialists, and a review of
official statistics were conducted to produce an estimate of the number and type
of providers offering patient information. Information specialists were also asked
for their views on the proposed accreditation scheme.

III. A sub-set of 40 information materials identified in the search was evaluated
using an evidence-based quality checklist. The clinical content of the materials
was assessed with reference to an overview of systematic reviews and epidemiological
studies.

IV. A telephone survey of representatives of the organisations that had developed
the information materials was organised to obtain information on the development process. Interviewees were also asked for their views on the
proposed accreditation scheme.

Secret Google Tips for Researchers

from InsideTheCBC.com

Gliffy is tool for Diagramming in your web browser

Gliffy is tool for Diagramming in your web browser without downloading additional software.Link to published Gliffy drawings from your blog or wiki .Create many types of diagrams such as Flowcharts, UI wireframes, Floor plans, Network diagrams, UML diagrams, or any other simple drawing or diagram

Dr. Eugene Garfield (father of Scientometrics and Bibliometrics)Wins The Online Information Lifetime Achievement Award

Dr. Eugene Garfield Wins The Online Information Lifetime Achievement Award

"Thomson Scientific, part of The Thomson Corporation (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC) and leading provider of information solutions to the worldwide research and business communities, today announced that Dr. Eugene Garfield is the 2006 recipient of the Online Information Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of more than 50 years of dedication, leadership and innovation in the information industry. The 2006 International Information Industry Awards were held at the Royal Lancaster Hotel in London, UK on Wednesday, November 29th.

Often dubbed the “Father of Scientometrics and Bibliometrics,” Dr. Garfield is founder & chairman emeritus of the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI®)—now Thomson Scientific. Garfield’s career in scientific communication and information science began in 1951 when he joined the Welch Medical Indexing Project at Johns Hopkins University, USA. The project planted the seeds for several major advances in scientific communication and information science that have distinguished Dr. Garfield’s career.

In 1958, Garfield was contacted by Joshua Lederberg, who was interested in knowing what happened to the citation index Garfield proposed in 1955 in the journal, Science. This, eventually led to a meeting with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to produce and distribute a Genetics Citation Index, including a multi-disciplinary index to the science literature of 1961. Undaunted by the NIH and National Science Foundation’s (NSF) disinterest in publishing the latter index, Garfield began regularly publishing the Science Citation Index® (SCI®) in 1964 through the Institute for Scientific Information. The SCI® soon istinguished itself from other literature indexes and was recognized as a basic and fundamental innovation in scientific communication and information science.

From 1961 on, Garfield’s career is marked by the constant enhancement of existing resources combined with the extraordinary development of new information tools for researchers, including Current Contents®, plus citation indexes for the social sciences (SSCI®) and arts and humanities (A&HCI®).

During the past decades, as the volume of literature has been growing exponentially, Garfield’s innovations have made it possible for researchers to cope with and keep up with articles directly relevant to their interests. Current Contents has become a vital and basic component of clinical research and the research laboratory. "

interviews: http://acscinf.org/docs/publications/Interviews/Garfield/2006/

Integrating bioinformatics software and data source with 'Gaggle' opne-source Tool

Tool:Gaggle:An open-source software system for integrating
bioinformatics software and data sources

Abstract

Background: Systems biologists work with many kinds of data, from many different sources, using a variety of software tools. Each of these tools typically excels at one type of analysis, such as of microarrays, of metabolic networks and of predicted protein structure. A crucial challenge is to combine the capabilities of these (and other forthcoming) data resources and tools to create a data exploration and analysis environment that does justice to the variety and complexity of systems biology data sets. A solution to this problem should recognize that data types, formats and software in this high throughput age of biology are constantly changing.
Results: In this paper we describe the Gaggle -a simple, open-source Java software environment that helps to solve the problem of software and database integration. Guided by the classic software engineering strategy of separation of concerns and a policy of semantic flexibility, it integrates existing popular programs and web resources into a user-friendly, easily-extended environment. We demonstrate that four simple data types (names, matrices, networks, and associative arrays) are sufficient to bring together diverse databases and software. We highlight some capabilities of the Gaggle with an exploration of Helicobacter pylori pathogenesis genes, in which we identify a putative ricin-like protein -a discovery made possible by simultaneous data exploration using a wide range of publicly available data and a variety of popular bioinformatics software tools. Conclusion: We have integrated diverse databases (for example, KEGG, BioCyc, String) and software (Cytoscape, DataMatrixViewer, R statistical environment, and TIGR Microarray Expression Viewer). Through this loose coupling of diverse software and databases the Gaggle enables simultaneous exploration of experimental data (mRNA and protein abundance, proteinprotein and protein-DNA interactions), functional associations (operon, chromosomal proximity, phylogenetic pattern), metabolic pathways (KE GG) and Pubmed abstracts (STRING web resource), creating an exploratory environment useful to 'web browser and spreadsheet biologists', to statistically savvy computational biologists, and those in between. The Gaggle uses Java RMI and Java Web Start technologies and can be found at http://gaggle.systemsbiology.net.

Article : The Gaggle: An open-source software system for integrating
bioinformatics software and data sources-Paul T Shannon1, David J Reiss1, Richard Bonneau1,2 and Nitin S Baliga*1

New era of Information Architecture 3.0 prediction by Peter Morville

"Next year, after the bubble bursts, we will enter the era of Information Architecture 3.0. This won’t surprise Tim O’Reilly who slyly positioned the polar bear atop the #1 Google hit for Web 2.0 and commissioned the third edition just in time to clean up the mess.

Defining Information Architecture

Perhaps we should take a moment, before proceeding, to review the definition of information architecture:

1. The structural design of shared information environments.
2. The combination of organization, labeling, search, and navigation systems within web sites and intranets.
3. The art and science of shaping information products and experiences to support usability and findability.
4. An emerging discipline and community of practice focused on bringing principles of design and architecture to the digital landscape."

Worth reading

Full article :http://semanticstudios.com/publications/semantics/000149.php

List of Publications by Professor. Veena Saraf

Prof. Veena Saraf

M.LISc. (Delhi), PGDCA, Ph.D. (NEHU)
Department of Library & Information Science
NEHU, Shillong 793022 (India)

Member

Member Of The Academic Council - North-Eastern Hill University

Editor for Planner- 2003

Papers:

1. Veena Saraf.Dynamics of the information technology and its implications for library and information science education in the SAARC countries. IN S D Vyas and others, eds.,Readings in Library and Information Science, Jaipur, Raj Publishing, 2000. pp. 27-56.

2. Mapping Technology on Libraries and People - Murthy, T.A.V and Salgar, S.M and Kumbar, T. S and Saraf, Veena and Bavakutty, M and Chand, Prem (2003) Mapping Technology on Libraries and People . Convention for Automation of Libraries in Education and Research Institutions, Ahmedabad, India

(http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu/213/)

3. An Overview of the Subject Gateway: Materials Science

Accanoor, Kalyani (2003) An Overview of the Subject Gateway: Materials Science. In Salgar M, Mr. S and Kumbar S, Dr T and Saraf, Dr Veena and Buvakutty, Dr M and Chand, Mr Prem, Eds. Proceedings Convention for Automation of Libraries in Education and Research Institutions, Ahmedabad, India.

(http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu/245/)

5. Indian Digital Library in Engineering Science and Technology (INDEST) Consortium: Consortia-Based Subscription to Electronic Resources for Technical Education System in India: A Government of India Initiative -M, Mr. S and Kumbar S, Dr. T and Saraf, Dr Veena and Buvakutty, Dr M and Chand, Mr Prem, Eds. Proceedings Convention for Automation of Libraries in Education and Research Institutions, Ahmedabad, India.

6 Ambuja, R (2003) Planning a Consortia Among the Campus Libraries of University of Madras. In Salgar M, Mr S and Kumbar S, Dr T and Saraf, Dr Veena and Buvakutty, Dr M and Chand, Mr Prem, Eds. Proceedings Convention for Automation of Libraries in Education and Research Institutions, Ahmedabad, India.

7.Kembhavi, Ajit and Kumbar S, T (2003) Professional Literature for Indian Universities - A new Initiative by the University Grants Commission. In Salgar M, Mr S and Kumbar S, Dr T and Saraf, Dr Veena and Buvakutty, Dr M and Chand, Mr Prem, Eds. Proceedings Convention for Automation of Libraries in Education and Research Institutions, Ahmedabad, India.

8.Biswas Ch, Bidhan and Dasgupta K, Swapan (2003) Opportunities for Libraries in Managing and Resource Sharing Through Consortia: A New Challenge for Indian Librarians. In Salgar M, Mr S and Kumbar S, Dr T and Saraf, Dr Veena and Buvakutty, Dr M and Chand, Mr Prem, Eds. Proceedings Convention for Automation of Libraries in Education and Research Institutions, Ahmedabad, India.

9.Birdie, Christina and B G, Sreeharsha and Pallavi G, T and Kannur B, Mahantesh (2003) Archiving of Electronic Journals in Physics and Astronomy: Role of Consortia. In Salgar M, Mr S and Kumbar S, Dr T and Saraf, Dr Veena and Buvakutty, Dr M and Chand, Mr Prem, Eds. Proceedings Convention for Automation of Libraries in Education and Research Institutions, Ahmedabad, India.

10. Veena Saraf North Eastern Hill University, India Measuring Effectiveness of University Libraries: A case study of Bangladesh

11. Bibliometric analysis of information seeking behaviour related literature--

Parmar, Arvind Singh and Kumar, Sanghmitra A. and Prakash, Thushara (2004) Bibliometric analysis of information seeking behaviour related literature.

12. Chandel, A.S. and Saraf, Veena. (2002) Studies in information seeking behaviour and use: Need for paradigm change. Journal of Library and Information Science, 27 (2), 152-174.

13. OPAC usability: assessment through verbal protocol

Authors: Guha, Tamal Kumar; Saraf, Veena

Source: The Electronic Library, Volume 23, Number 4, 2005, pp. 463-473(11)

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited

Books:

“Plan for Library Resource Sharing " edited by Dr. A.S.Chandel and Veena Saraf. Lucknow: Print House, 1987

Social Science Information: Problems and Prospects

Authors: J.C. Binwal, A.S. Chandel, Veena Saraf (Editor)
Format: Hardcover
Publication Date: July 1990
Publisher: Stosius Inc/Advent Books Division
ISBN: 0706949471
OPAC usability : assessment through verbal protocol

TAMAL KUMAR GUHA ⁽¹⁾ ; SARAF Veena ⁽²⁾ ;

⁽¹⁾ Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, INDE
⁽²⁾ Department of Library & Information Science, North Eastern Hill University, Shillong, INDE

This is not full list

Tokyo Institute of Technology OpenCourseWare (TOKYO TECH OCW)

Educational Resources on Science and Technology

Graduate School of Science and Engineering 18 courses exhibit notes.

Rank ing	Course Title	Lecturer	Update	Access Index
1	Guided Wave Circuit Theory	MIZUMOTO Tetsuya	2006/9/17
2	Advanced Signal Processing	NISHIHARA Akinori	2006/7/10
3	Mixed Signal systems and Integrated Circuits	MATSUZAWA Akira	2005/5/10
4	Intelligent Control	KURABAYASHI Daisuke	2005/5/10
5	Urban Environmental Engineering	URASE Taro	2006/4/1
6	Advanced Electromagnetic Waves	ANDO Makoto HIROKAWA Jiro	2006/9/17
7	Mechanics of Structural Concrete	NIWA Junichiro	2005/9/23
8	Guided Wave Circuit Theory	MIZUMOTO Tetsuya	2005/9/3
9	Guided Wave Circuit Theory	MIZUMOTO Tetsuya	2005/5/2
10	Seismic Design of Urban Infrastructures	KAWASHIMA Kazuhiko	2005/10/17

Textbook Revolution :TBR(free textbooks)

Textbook Revolution is the web’s source for free educational materials. This is a student-run, volunteer-operated website started in response to the textbook industry’s constant drive to maximize profits instead of educational value.

students and teachers looking for free textbooks and related materials. Second, it promotes the need for and availability of these resources. Textbook Revolution, you’ll find links to textbooks and select educational resources of all kinds. Some of the books are PDF files, others are viewable only online as e-books. Most books are aimed at undergraduates, but there are at least a few resources at every level, from kindergarten to post-doc. All of the books are offered for free by their respective copyright holders for online viewing. Beyond that, each book is as individual as the author behind it.

Open Educational Resources Finder

The OCW Finder currently shows results from

• MIT OCW
• Utah State University OCW
• Johns Hopkins School of Public Health OCW
• Tufts University OCW
• Foothill De-Anza SOFIA
• Carnegie Mellon Open Learning Initiative

OCW Finder is based on the succulent del.icio.us direc.tor,

DSpace 1.4.1 beta 2 Released

The documentation for this release is bundled within the package.

DSpace 1.4.1 beta 2 can be downloaded from the files area at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dspace/ or from CVS using the tag
dspace-1_4_1beta2.

Library services in your pocket

"Right information to the right user at the right time in right personal way"

-S.R. Ranganathan

Library users are changing ...., Technology ...,information storage media...changing , changing .................but librarians are not changing ...why?

in this trend ....Megan Fox take one more step ahead ......... Mobile Tools & Applications for Libraries by Megan Fox presented in Internet Librarian 2006


excerpt: (Notes by Kate Carter )

"Megan Fox, Web & Electronic Resources Librarian, Simmons College Fox provides a fast-paced overview of the current hardware available and how new technologies are making hand-held computers not just palatable but preferable for on-the-go users. She highlights the latest developments in applications for mobile and hand-held tools, and how these can and are being utilized by libraries and information seekers of all kinds. Come hear what’s happening with traditional information vendors and mobile interfaces, the mobile optimized Web, point-of-need answers, reference texting, and multimedia (such as podcasting and location-free TV) for your mobile device.

Relevant Notes:

General
- Patrons want answer at moment of need
- Flexibility - don’t want to be limited to what they have and lug around with them
- Gratification anytime anywhere on one’s own device
- Handheld market – 90% of college students have cell phones, 62% of all users use text messaging
- Phones used to be for spoken word communication, but no more
- our stuff is 5-7 years behind Asian market – they have live tv (picture in picture), etc.
– our current mobile network can’t support advanced stuff like video conferencing yet


Latest mobile devices
- Palm Treo;, Nokia N Series: N92 & N93 (can upload and add comments to flickr directly from phone, can plug into tv, can connect wirelessly or with bluetooth to printer)/E70/9300 Communicator; Smartphones (has many more features – integrated, converged, multifunctional), Samsung SPH-B5200/SCH-B470; Sony Ericsson
- Ultra-Mobile PC by Microsoft – full windows XP machines – 7 inch or smaller screen, 2 pounds, $500-$100 dollars, touchpack program – bigger scrollbars etc. so that you don’t need a stylus (battery life too slow – 2 hours), if Microsoft is in on this then libraries need to be too (?)
- Sony Mylo – wifi broadband communication and entertainment device (my life online), yahoo messenger, google talk, skype, 7 hours of websurfing with battery! To stay connected without a laptop

Mobile Optimized Web
- Wifi or other means to connect directly to the internet
- Many websites are intended for large screens, and large screens can’t handle it
- Mobile device optimized – no flash, javascript, no data entry, simpler code, smaller text
- .mobi internet domain
- Stanford – simplified access. Smarter searching. – hours, stack locations, etc.
- Many sites will recognize device and serve that content to you
- Tvguide.com (still has mini ads) – busy v. stripped down verios for mobile devices
- Hoovers, NYT, PubMed, Library Thing, Mobizines
- Requested Re-formatting of Content – skweezer, IYHY, Google mobile optimizer (translates it to mobile content), AOL also – but you might lose content, transcoding - criticism - h(ijacking content by providing generically modified version)
- Mob5
- MoblogsBlogger Mobile, Splashblog, ShoZu
- RSS to mobile: Feedbeep, mobifeeds, hubdog, xfruits
- Mobilizing mashups – frucall, jobster, kmaps, gcalsync, programmableweb.com

Content on the Go
- Library catalog – even have access to circ module for staff
- Handango – ready reference on the go, aol mobile, google, Yahoo! Go: for definitions, sports scores, nearby restaurants movies etc., mobile answer engines NOT search engines – return answers not lists of links - most 411 callers are from cell phones (people want info on the go)
- Answers.com – “pre-search market”, Ask mobile content

Taking ebooks with you
- Mobipocket, Many Books
- Univ. of Alberta – instructions for NetLibrary to pda

Handheld database access
- Ovid, Pubmed (health and medical fields)
- LexisNexis partnership w/ blackberry
- Factiva

Content via SMS/Texting
- Erratic wifi access, only 4% of American households report using phone internet regularly
- Google SMS - text 46645 – answer to movie time, etc.
- Synfonic
- AskMeNow
- HarperCollins Australia – sends bits of new books to phone
- Sites have IM to a friend option or send to phone – “should this be on catalog results pages?”

Communicating with Mobile Users
- Chat & Email - young people prefer textting and IM - sense of control, speed, brevity, more authentic version of self
- “Email is for old people”
- Reference by SMS - Altarama.com.au/refxsms.htm – text message sent to librarian email – librarian replies with less than 256 characters which goes to users device again – stays within current workflows of librarians
- Vazu, Teleflip, Joopz – email translated into text message
- Innovative will offer texting in the next releases – overdue notices
- E2campus (Penn State)
- “Cingular & Rave Wireless Provide Innovative Wireless Solutions Tailored for Colleges & Universities” (pdf)
- Sync calendar to turn off phone when in class

Mobile Audio
- 70% of all music downloads occur on mobile devices in Asia
- E-audiobooks
- iPod suffles preloaded with books and just check out entire device
- Every listening device for every class loaded onto 40gb ipods
- Audible.com, fonpods
- LibriVox – audio version of project Gutenberg
- Tours with mobile devices

Mobile multimedia - video
- 20 million users expected by the end of 2007
- Location free tv – mainly Sony devices
- DVR – like TiVo, expected on mobile devices in 2007

What’s next?
- Effective use is still hampered by uncomfortable entering of letters
- Camera feature to start a query with an image – picture of movie poster returns movie listings (mobile visual search, photo to search)
- Promptu for Mobile – spoken words prompted search (could you say catalog to your phone and get the catalog?)
- Point and Click - stand in front of building, point device at it and get info about it, geotagging/GeoVector, could devices senses where you are and automatically open the library catalog?, Semapedia.org
- Use camera for face recognition instead of passwords
- Amida simputer – turn page of the ebook with a motion one more good article "E-mail: A Tool for Exchange of Information in Libraries -"

by R. P. Upadhye, Minati MandaI, Tara Ashok and Vijay Kumar

excerpt "The basic objective of a library is to acquire, process and disseminate right information to the right user at the right time. In order to achieve these objectives, librarians have been adopting various tools and techniques offered by information technology from time to time. For communication purposes, libraries have been using telephone, telex, facsimile, etc. But now computers and telecommunication technologies have brought revolutionary changes in the communication process by providing E-mail which is quicker, convenient and more cost effective than most of the other modes of communication. Applic~tion of E-mail in library communication would enable the library and information professionals to meet the information needs of the information seekers by providing timely and qualitative services. There have been proposals to have round the clock librarianship [I] and extended library hours [2]. The aim of present libraries will not only be up-to-date but up-to-the-minute information [3]. The Five Laws of Library Science propounded by Dr. S.R. Ranganathan are profound and most relevant to the current context of advancements in the frontiers of information technology........................"

Full Article: http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00003075/01/pdf.pdf

Technologies in the library

Library Technology

Libraries now offering more than books

Now learning how to make smart financial and investment choices may be as close as your local public library. Two nonprofits - the American Library Association and the Investor Protection Trust - are launching the Investor Education @ your library® program. There are more than sixteen thousand libraries nationwide, and many are ready to offer free investment seminars for consumers who want to invest more wisely. The Investor Education @ your library® seminar has been developed and will be conducted by the Evelyn Brust Foundation.

Open Source:Call center solution -1bizCom :

1bizCom is web-based, multi-tenant, distributed, mulit-lingual, inbound, outbound Video enabled VoIP & VVoIP call/ contact center solution for Asterisk with Built-in phone, IVR, CRM, Predictive dialer, ACD, Chat, Mail, Fax, Video and other features.

Demo

Medworm:medical RSS engine

Medical RSS feeds by category

Copyright and Media Ownership

The Media Ownership Speaker Series from the Center for Film, Television and New Media at UC Santa Barbara introduces and discusses three perspectives on the interrelation of copyright and media ownership. Follow copyright from its historical development to the effect of digital technology then finally the impact on libraries and other sources of knowledge. Series: "Center for Film, Television and New Media at UC Santa Barbara" [Humanities] [Public Affairs]

LibWorm:Librarians RSS Engine-latest in librarianship

LibWorm collects updates from about 1400 RSS feeds (and growing). The contents of these feeds are then available for searching, and search results can themselves be output as an RSS feed that the user can subscribe to either in his/her favourite aggregator or in LibWorm’s built-in aggregator.

Library Media Project- "Libraries are the people's banks"

Thomas Jeffersons' observation that "Information is the currency of democracy", to which we add that: "Libraries are the people's banks". Since 1988, the Library Media Project has been fostering public discourse one library at a time by helping U.S. libraries build educational media collections. To date over 3,100 libraries have participated in our projects. These libraries serve over 209 million people. In 1988, we began life as the MacArthur Foundation Library Project. We created the pioneering public library “Video Classics” project which helped establish many of the first educational and independent video collections in libraries across America.

Tools for making bibliographies

Tools for making bibliographies

By Guus van den Brekel

A selection:

• Sente
• Zotero
• http://Ottobib.com
• http://www.biblioscape.com/biblioexpress.htm
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PCWebopaedia

Dictionary and search engine for computer and Internet technology definitions.

University of Zurich has launched ZORA

University of Zurich has launched ZORA (Zurich Open Repository and Archive) using BioMed Central's Open Repository service. ZORA is freely available online at www.zora.unizh.ch. The University of Zurich is the largest university in Switzerland.The university is the sixth institution to launch a repository using BioMed Central's Open Repository service

Acronyma: Acronyms finder

Searching over 472000 acronyms . You can also submit acronyms.

cronyma.com provides the users an interface to a large database of acronyms found on the Internet using proprietary algorithms. The collection of data that was created and edited over the course of many years by Esus, Inc - Belgium.

ITM 1: Calling Planet Earth

The Infinite Thinking Machine helps teachers and their students turn the infinite universe of information into knowledge. This episode focuses on instructional uses of Google Earth.

Video: Intellectual Property & Search: Jason Schultz, J.D. - IP Attorney, EF

Search Engines: Technology, Society, and Business. The World Wide Web brings much of the world's knowledge into the reach of nearly everyone with a computer and an internet connection. The availability of huge quantities of information at our fingertips is transforming government, business, and many other aspects of society. Topics include search advertising and auctions, search and privacy, search ranking, internationalization, anti-spam efforts, local search, peer-to-peer search, and search of blogs and online communities. The Instructor, Dr. Marti Hearst, is an associate professor in the School of Information at UC Berkeley, with an affiliate appointment in the Computer Science Division. The UC Berkeley School of Information was created in 1994 to address one of society’s most compelling challenges: enabling people to create, find, manipulate, share, store, and use information in myriad forms.

University of California: campus seminars, courses and events available online

Berkeley is the preeminent public research and teaching institution in the World. the curricula of 130 academic departments span the wide world of thought and knowledge.

Available video collection:

Courses -http://video.google.com/ucberkeley.html#courses
Arts & Humanities -http://video.google.com/ucberkeley.html#arts_humanities
Global & Public Affairs -http://video.google.com/ucberkeley.html#global_public_affairs
Science & Technology-http://video.google.com/ucberkeley.html#scitech

World Trade Center (WTC) (9/11) (LIVE)-25 Min.

"ALEX JONES - TERRORSTORM" www.INFOWARS.com www.WTC.com WTC/World Trade Center/9/11/September 11 Dedicated for the people who perished on September 11, 2001.

Tool: Web Conference:1VideoConference

Web2.0 unified communications software for Asterisk PBX supporting web, phone, MSN, Skype, and Jabber clients video conference. This VoIP, VVoIP, audio, data & video conferencing collaboration platform for is based on C#, WPF, WinFX, XAML, & .NET 3.0.

Demo

Tool:Open Source -surveillance system-Senriska - for your library Security

Software for camera surveillance with motion detection; works with any USB or IP camera. On motion detection, the program starts recording and a message is send via email and/or SMS.this surveillance system can watch your home, office, or any area you want. The motion detection feature automatically starts and stops recording video and can send you a message. Supports any regular camera, including USB cameras and video capture cards.

You can use for your library

2006 AIDS Epidemic Update-UN Pulse

The UNAIDS and World Health Organization annual AIDS epidemic update reports on the latest developments in the global AIDS epidemic. With maps and regional summaries, the report provides the most recent estimates of the epidemic’s scope and human toll, and explores new trends in the epidemic’s evolution. Available for download in full (pdf, 1.9 MB)

http://data.unaids.org/pub/EpiReport/2006/2006_EpiUpdate_en.pdf

or in sections.

Emails, cellphone calls and instant messages received by modern workers can reduce their IQ-UK Research

"The relentless influx of emails, cellphone calls and instant messages received by modern workers can reduce their IQ by more than smoking marijuana, suggests UK research.

Far from boosting productivity, the constant flow of messages and information can seriously reduce a person's ability to focus on tasks, the study of office workers found.

Eighty volunteers were asked to carry out problem solving tasks, firstly in a quiet environment and then while being bombarded with new emails and phone calls. Although they were told not to respond to any messages, researchers found that their attention was significantly disturbed.

Alarmingly, the average IQ was reduced by 10 points - double the amount seen in studies involving cannabis users. But not everyone was affected by to the same extent - men were twice as distracted as women.

"If left unchecked, ‘info-mania’ will damage a worker’s performance by reducing their mental sharpness," says Glenn Wilson, a psychiatrist at the University of London, UK, who carried out the study, sponsored by Hewlett-Packard. "This is a very real and widespread phenomenon."

Dimdim as an E-Learning Tool

Dimdim is an open source web conferencing product with features like Application, Desktop and Presentation sharing with A/V streaming and chat. No installation is needed on the Attendee side and all features are available through a web browser.

features :-

* Presentation and Document sharing: Interactive real-time Collaboration over
documents and presentations allows enhanced expression and exchange of ideas.
* Audio and video sharing
* Application sharing: Full screen
* White board and Annotations: Realistic interactive collaboration
* Chat
* Polls
* Question manager: Question manager which is like a moderated Q&A setup
* Record and Archive

E-Learning: Teachers can conduct classes as web conferences so that physical presence of the teacher as well as students is not necessary. Also the archived sessions can be used by students for later reference as well by the teacher as a teaching tool. Integration with Moodle(Moodle is a course management system (CMS) - a free, Open Source software package http://www.moodle.org/) will be available soon, while integration with other software like Sakai and dotLRN is being explored.

Dimdim is available under Mozilla Public License

1.1(http://dimdim.com/license/Dimdim-MPL.txt) with attribution.

Attendees can use either Internet Explorer 6 or Firefox 1.5 while Presenters can use Internet Explorer 6 or Firefox 1.5 on Windows (XP/2000/2003) only.

Source: http://www.dimdim.com/

For Download:http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=176809

Demo :http://www.dimdim.com//index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=71

"Google Vision for the internet- Google's Larry Page & Eric Schmidt Q&A session in London

A 30 minute Q & A session with Google's founder, Larry Page and chief executive, Eric Schmidt about Google's vision for the future of the internet.

"Internet as a Resource for News and Information about Science"-PEW INTERNET & AMERICAN LIFE PROJECT Study Report

" 40 million Americans rely on the internet as their primary source for news
and information about science.

• When asked where they get most of their news and information about science, 20%of all Americans say they turn to the internet for most of their science news. That translates to 40 million adults.
• This is second only to television, which is cited by 41% of Americans as the placewhere they get most of their science news and information.
  

• Newspapers and magazines are each cited by 14% as their main sources for newsand information about science.Internet users with high-speed internet connections at home are equally as likely to cite the internet as TV as the media from which they get most of their science news.
  

• One third (33%) of home broadband users say they get most of their science news and information from TV, while 34% say the internet.
• Among adult home broadband users under the age of 30, the internet is the mostpopular source for science news and information. Some 44% of those between the ages of 18 and 29 say they get most of their science news from the internet and 32% in this group say that television is their main source for science news.Each respondent to this survey received questions on one of three specific scientific topics: stem cell research, climate change, and origins of life on Earth. When asked what source they would use first if they needed to learn more about the topic, here is what they said:
  

• 67% of those receiving questions about stem cell research said they would turn to the internet first for information on this topic; 11% said the library.

full report :http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_Exploratorium_Science.pdf

Claude Shannon - Father of the Information Age

Considered the founding father of the electronic communication age, Claude Shannon's work ushered in the Digital Revolution. This fascinating program explores his life and the major influence his work had on today's digital world through interviews with his friends and colleagues. [Science]

Tools: Bibliographic Evaluation: An Evaluation template

evaluation of bibliographic packages:


The Bibliography Formatting Software: An Evaluation Template (13th edition - July 2006)


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