Thursday, May 15, 2008
Friday, May 09, 2008
New tools for School Librarianship
By-siba
New tools for School Librarianship
Tuesday May 20th 4 PM PDT
Join us to discuss tips to economize time spent in the library, and how to stretch resources when you're in-office. We will discuss using online tools for:
1. Projects & Research
2. Book Recommendations
3. Scheduling IMC Time
New tools for School Librarianship
Create a Wiki Textbook
Dr. Delta Cavner of Southern Baptist University found that her class textbooks were not only too expensive but quickly became obsolete.
To solve this problem she created a student-developed textbook using her class wiki. Dr. Cavner's class uses their wiki to:
1. Research and develop pages.
2. Vet information as a class.
3. Use wiki content as a study guide.
Each subsequent class adds to the wiki, updates, and corrects information.
Check out this innovate class wiki at http://homemadetextbook.pbwiki.com/.
New tools for School Librarianship
Tuesday May 20th 4 PM PDT
Join us to discuss tips to economize time spent in the library, and how to stretch resources when you're in-office. We will discuss using online tools for:
1. Projects & Research
2. Book Recommendations
3. Scheduling IMC Time
New tools for School Librarianship
Create a Wiki Textbook
Dr. Delta Cavner of Southern Baptist University found that her class textbooks were not only too expensive but quickly became obsolete.
To solve this problem she created a student-developed textbook using her class wiki. Dr. Cavner's class uses their wiki to:
1. Research and develop pages.
2. Vet information as a class.
3. Use wiki content as a study guide.
Each subsequent class adds to the wiki, updates, and corrects information.
Check out this innovate class wiki at http://homemadetextbook.pbwiki.com/.
Scaling New Heights with RFID
BY ANIL SHRMA /ConsultantLearning Resource CentreIndian School of Business (ISB)GachibowliHyderabad -
Sanjay Sarma is a luminary credited with developing many standards and technologies that form the basis of the commercial RFID industry. RFID technology allows manufacturers, retailers, logistics providers and other organisations to "tag" physical goods with tiny radio transponders that can then be used to identify the goods without having to visually inspect them. This could mean a good deal of savings for companies annually. Popularly known as the 'father of RFID', he speaks to Professor N Viswanadham, Clinical Professor and Executive Director of the Centre for Global Logistics and Manufacturing Strategies, about how he commenced on the idea of RFID, his research, and the results. Here are excerpts from the interview.
Professor N Viswanadham: Can you tell us how you got initiated into the Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)?
Professor Sanjay Sarma: The credit for this idea goes, not to me, but my colleague David Brock. Earlier the entire data was put on the chip, which made it expensive. His idea to put the data on the network instead made us to look at the ways and means to do that. By putting the idea on a chip, how can you take advantage of it to make a two dollar tag a five cent tag? If you put the data on the network then what sort of bandwidth implications follow, and how do you locate this information. The real trigger was when David and I presented this concept in a couple of places, the chip persons thought it was impossible.
Professor Viswanadham: So how did you proceed?
Professor Sarma We perpetuated three or four years of aggressive research. We had to fundamentally question the way RFID tags were made and the way the protocols were designed. We started designing our own protocols. The next challenge was to find a start up company, because some of the big companies found us a threat to work with. We generated the first Gen one protocol, based on communication theory. We started with very small chips with regard the chip design and the chip manufacturing. On the software side we had to come up with protocols for finding the data and the repositories. Then we developed something called the Object Means System and we invented the concept of middleware because some of the software vendors found us threatening. That's when the middleware industry took off. We invented new data structures known as Physical Mark Up, and eventually it morphed into what we call EPCIS, which is offered by Wal-Mart
Professor Viswanadham: The 96 bit?
I am quite optimistic about RFID market. The market is bound to grow.
Professor Sarma: EPC was a 96 bit number. EPCIS is XLR schema for offering this data on the network. What followed were four or five years of brainstorming and coming up with concepts to solve problems, and these concepts were often out-of-the-box and radically different from anything the commercial industry was offering. One of the advantages of being in a place such as MIT is we are encouraged to say things that we think are right regardless of the resentment. Eventually people like Wal-Mart, Gillette, etc. supported us.
Professor Viswanadham: So when did you start this Auto ID Lab?
Professor Sarma David and I started it in 1998. By 1999 we were contacted by Kevin Ash from Procter & Gamble. He got excited about the project. I invited him to come and sit at MIT and help us out in getting other sponsors.. We got Gillette, then the Uniform Codes Council, the people who designed bar codes, and eventually Wal-Mart and Target also joined. So that's how we set the ball rolling. Now we have five labs with one operational in Cambridge.
Professor Viswanadham: What do these labs do? How do you see this RFID percolating into retail and other industry segments like healthcare?
When RFID comes along, it fundamentally questions old business processes.
Professor Sarma: We realised very early that RFID can go deep into various systems and may change the way you buy bus passes, buy groceries, etc. It may change the way you design your house, change the way you organise your closet, for instance. We realised that this was a pervasive technology. It pervades many dimensions. While we focused on retail, geography was also equally important to us. We also wanted to harness worldwide intelligence on this. We first went to Cambridge and then to the other labs. That's how we are expanding. For instance the lab in Japan has Japanese sponsors. Japanese supply chain issues are very different and that really informed our thinking about how to progress research in this space. It also changed some of our standards.
Professor Viswanadham: How do you see this whole market developing? How much is the RFID market, if somebody wants to enter into it?
Professor Sarma: I am quite optimistic about the market. I have been in this market for the past ten years, and have seen the ups and the downs. With anything like RFID, media laps it up, and the whole thing gets hyped up. Venture capitalists pick it up and then industry catches up. We are in this phase right now, and I think, it is not going to stop now. The market is bound to grow.
Professor Viswanadham: You have spawned off a lot of companies, and one of them is Oat systems. What are the mandates for Oat systems? Do you take projects from the American or European companies and then do research for them? Are there any Indian companies for which you are doing research? Are there any implementation issues?
Professor Sarma: Oat systems is an international software product company. What it makes is a software product that takes advantage of RFID. Four years ago, we dint think India as a big market, but today we are actually working with many Indian companies. For example, one of the companies is Reliance. We are working with them on some of their pilots. Indian companies are doing innovative things, in fact ground breaking.
Professor Viswanadham: In your opinion, are there any RFID applications that will be unique for India to improve their productivity?
Professor Sarma: Absolutely. I have studied the Indian retail market in the last four years and I have become confident about the opportunities. First of all we don't have a legacy of old business processes. The big problem for retailers outside India is that they already have people who are trained in old business processes. When RFID comes along, it fundamentally questions that. And India doesn't have that burden of legacy. We don't have to bother in many cases with old business processes, we can just leap frog. But at the same time India has some unique challenges. For example, India is a very hot country. So, if you are shipping meat, then you need to know how much time the meat spent in hot temperature to see whether it went bad. The third thing is that the Indian economy has evolved in a very different way. We are a very creative country. Everything from gas cylinders including the CNG for powering autorickshaws in Delhi to the railway lines are very exciting to us. I think we will take advantage of RFID in a very savvy way.
Professor Viswanadham: Considering the cost and the lack of infrastructure, will it become main stream in India?
Professor Sarma: If you had asked me ten years ago if cell phone was going to be mainstream in India, I would have said no. They were expensive and Indians could not afford it. But now even a homeless person has a cell phone. I think for applications that I talked about like the cold chain will definitely take off. Reaching consumer items will take longer than in the US or Europe. The use of RFID will absolutely take off, and it might take off faster in India.
Sanjay Sarma is a luminary credited with developing many standards and technologies that form the basis of the commercial RFID industry. RFID technology allows manufacturers, retailers, logistics providers and other organisations to "tag" physical goods with tiny radio transponders that can then be used to identify the goods without having to visually inspect them. This could mean a good deal of savings for companies annually. Popularly known as the 'father of RFID', he speaks to Professor N Viswanadham, Clinical Professor and Executive Director of the Centre for Global Logistics and Manufacturing Strategies, about how he commenced on the idea of RFID, his research, and the results. Here are excerpts from the interview.
Professor N Viswanadham: Can you tell us how you got initiated into the Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)?
Professor Sanjay Sarma: The credit for this idea goes, not to me, but my colleague David Brock. Earlier the entire data was put on the chip, which made it expensive. His idea to put the data on the network instead made us to look at the ways and means to do that. By putting the idea on a chip, how can you take advantage of it to make a two dollar tag a five cent tag? If you put the data on the network then what sort of bandwidth implications follow, and how do you locate this information. The real trigger was when David and I presented this concept in a couple of places, the chip persons thought it was impossible.
Professor Viswanadham: So how did you proceed?
Professor Sarma We perpetuated three or four years of aggressive research. We had to fundamentally question the way RFID tags were made and the way the protocols were designed. We started designing our own protocols. The next challenge was to find a start up company, because some of the big companies found us a threat to work with. We generated the first Gen one protocol, based on communication theory. We started with very small chips with regard the chip design and the chip manufacturing. On the software side we had to come up with protocols for finding the data and the repositories. Then we developed something called the Object Means System and we invented the concept of middleware because some of the software vendors found us threatening. That's when the middleware industry took off. We invented new data structures known as Physical Mark Up, and eventually it morphed into what we call EPCIS, which is offered by Wal-Mart
Professor Viswanadham: The 96 bit?
I am quite optimistic about RFID market. The market is bound to grow.
Professor Sarma: EPC was a 96 bit number. EPCIS is XLR schema for offering this data on the network. What followed were four or five years of brainstorming and coming up with concepts to solve problems, and these concepts were often out-of-the-box and radically different from anything the commercial industry was offering. One of the advantages of being in a place such as MIT is we are encouraged to say things that we think are right regardless of the resentment. Eventually people like Wal-Mart, Gillette, etc. supported us.
Professor Viswanadham: So when did you start this Auto ID Lab?
Professor Sarma David and I started it in 1998. By 1999 we were contacted by Kevin Ash from Procter & Gamble. He got excited about the project. I invited him to come and sit at MIT and help us out in getting other sponsors.. We got Gillette, then the Uniform Codes Council, the people who designed bar codes, and eventually Wal-Mart and Target also joined. So that's how we set the ball rolling. Now we have five labs with one operational in Cambridge.
Professor Viswanadham: What do these labs do? How do you see this RFID percolating into retail and other industry segments like healthcare?
When RFID comes along, it fundamentally questions old business processes.
Professor Sarma: We realised very early that RFID can go deep into various systems and may change the way you buy bus passes, buy groceries, etc. It may change the way you design your house, change the way you organise your closet, for instance. We realised that this was a pervasive technology. It pervades many dimensions. While we focused on retail, geography was also equally important to us. We also wanted to harness worldwide intelligence on this. We first went to Cambridge and then to the other labs. That's how we are expanding. For instance the lab in Japan has Japanese sponsors. Japanese supply chain issues are very different and that really informed our thinking about how to progress research in this space. It also changed some of our standards.
Professor Viswanadham: How do you see this whole market developing? How much is the RFID market, if somebody wants to enter into it?
Professor Sarma: I am quite optimistic about the market. I have been in this market for the past ten years, and have seen the ups and the downs. With anything like RFID, media laps it up, and the whole thing gets hyped up. Venture capitalists pick it up and then industry catches up. We are in this phase right now, and I think, it is not going to stop now. The market is bound to grow.
Professor Viswanadham: You have spawned off a lot of companies, and one of them is Oat systems. What are the mandates for Oat systems? Do you take projects from the American or European companies and then do research for them? Are there any Indian companies for which you are doing research? Are there any implementation issues?
Professor Sarma: Oat systems is an international software product company. What it makes is a software product that takes advantage of RFID. Four years ago, we dint think India as a big market, but today we are actually working with many Indian companies. For example, one of the companies is Reliance. We are working with them on some of their pilots. Indian companies are doing innovative things, in fact ground breaking.
Professor Viswanadham: In your opinion, are there any RFID applications that will be unique for India to improve their productivity?
Professor Sarma: Absolutely. I have studied the Indian retail market in the last four years and I have become confident about the opportunities. First of all we don't have a legacy of old business processes. The big problem for retailers outside India is that they already have people who are trained in old business processes. When RFID comes along, it fundamentally questions that. And India doesn't have that burden of legacy. We don't have to bother in many cases with old business processes, we can just leap frog. But at the same time India has some unique challenges. For example, India is a very hot country. So, if you are shipping meat, then you need to know how much time the meat spent in hot temperature to see whether it went bad. The third thing is that the Indian economy has evolved in a very different way. We are a very creative country. Everything from gas cylinders including the CNG for powering autorickshaws in Delhi to the railway lines are very exciting to us. I think we will take advantage of RFID in a very savvy way.
Professor Viswanadham: Considering the cost and the lack of infrastructure, will it become main stream in India?
Professor Sarma: If you had asked me ten years ago if cell phone was going to be mainstream in India, I would have said no. They were expensive and Indians could not afford it. But now even a homeless person has a cell phone. I think for applications that I talked about like the cold chain will definitely take off. Reaching consumer items will take longer than in the US or Europe. The use of RFID will absolutely take off, and it might take off faster in India.
Thursday, May 08, 2008
self-publishing platform
A massive, perpetually growing library of open, community-generated and -published content Scribd is a free, web-based, document sharing community and self-publishing platform that enables anyone to easily publish, distribute, share, and discover documents of all kinds. E-books, presentations, essays, academic papers, newsletters, photo albums, school work, and sheet music are just.
for detail visit- http://www.scribd.com/
for detail visit- http://www.scribd.com/
Monday, April 28, 2008
ONLINE BOOK SHOPING -PRO & CONS
Dear user almost all library automation software having the module of online book tarnsaction, apartfrom almost known book publisher/ vendor like AMAZON, ELSEVIER, SPRINGER OUP.CUP,PRENHALL, MACGRAHILL etc . THERE ARE ALSO NUMBER BOOK VENDORS
ADRESS GIVEN BELOW....
fabmall
http://www.fabmall.com
Atalanitc publisher and distributer
http://www.Atalaniticbook.com
Bagchhe .com
http://www.Bagchee.com
http://www.gobookshoping.com
first and second
http://www.firstandsecond.com
http://www.Jainbookagency.com
http://www.prakashbook.com
http://www.om-book.com
http://www.sapanaonline.com
HOW EVER ONLINE BOOK SHOPING HAS NUMBER OF LIMITATION
1- REQUIRED CREDIT CARD FOR LIBRARY
2- SECURE TRANSACTION SERVER WITH ENCRYPTION
3-PROPER VIGILANCE UPTO DELIVERY OF BOOK...
DISUCUSSION WILL BE MORE.......
PLZ.. COMMENT....siba
ADRESS GIVEN BELOW....
fabmall
http://www.fabmall.com
Atalanitc publisher and distributer
http://www.Atalaniticbook.com
Bagchhe .com
http://www.Bagchee.com
http://www.gobookshoping.com
first and second
http://www.firstandsecond.com
http://www.Jainbookagency.com
http://www.prakashbook.com
http://www.om-book.com
http://www.sapanaonline.com
HOW EVER ONLINE BOOK SHOPING HAS NUMBER OF LIMITATION
1- REQUIRED CREDIT CARD FOR LIBRARY
2- SECURE TRANSACTION SERVER WITH ENCRYPTION
3-PROPER VIGILANCE UPTO DELIVERY OF BOOK...
DISUCUSSION WILL BE MORE.......
PLZ.. COMMENT....siba
DATABASES
Databases
SciFinder Scholar
is a research discovery tool that allows college students and faculty to access a wide diversity of research from many scientific disciplines, including biomedical sciences, chemistry, engineering, materials science, agricultural science, and more! Demo SciFinderScholar SciFinderScholar Client
Engineering Village
is a Web-based information service that offers a wide range of quality resources for information specialists, professionals, and researchers working in the applied science and engineering fields. Quick Guide Go to Engineering Village2
JCCC is J-Gate Custom
Content for a group of homogeneous consortia members, and JCCC-INDEST is J-Gate Custom Content for the Indian National Digital Library in Science and Technology (INDEST), a consortium set up by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, India. Go to http://jccc-indest.informindia.co.in/about/about.asp
Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of research literature and quality web sources. It’s designed to find the information scientists need. Quick, easy and comprehensive, Scopus provides superior support of the literature research process.You can spend less time mastering databases and more time on research.It has 33 million abstracts as of now Scopus Demo .Go to Scopus
MathSciNet covers research in mathematics and mathematically related research in statistics, computer science, physics, operations research, engineering, biology, and other disciplines, and indexes 1800 serials and journals.
SciFinder Scholar
is a research discovery tool that allows college students and faculty to access a wide diversity of research from many scientific disciplines, including biomedical sciences, chemistry, engineering, materials science, agricultural science, and more! Demo SciFinderScholar SciFinderScholar Client
Engineering Village
is a Web-based information service that offers a wide range of quality resources for information specialists, professionals, and researchers working in the applied science and engineering fields. Quick Guide Go to Engineering Village2
JCCC is J-Gate Custom
Content for a group of homogeneous consortia members, and JCCC-INDEST is J-Gate Custom Content for the Indian National Digital Library in Science and Technology (INDEST), a consortium set up by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, India. Go to http://jccc-indest.informindia.co.in/about/about.asp
Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of research literature and quality web sources. It’s designed to find the information scientists need. Quick, easy and comprehensive, Scopus provides superior support of the literature research process.You can spend less time mastering databases and more time on research.It has 33 million abstracts as of now Scopus Demo .Go to Scopus
MathSciNet covers research in mathematics and mathematically related research in statistics, computer science, physics, operations research, engineering, biology, and other disciplines, and indexes 1800 serials and journals.
MathSciNet
covers research in mathematics and mathematically related research in statistics, computer science, physics, operations research, engineering, biology, and other disciplines, and indexes 1800 serials and journals. demo
http://www.ams.org/mathscinet/search.html
Why Use ProQuest databases?
ProQuest provides access to full-text articles on a variety of subjects. The Library subscribes to the following:
ABI/INFORM Academic Research Library ProQuest Dissertations and Theses ProQuest Education Journals ProQuest Historical Newspapers
ProQuest Religion ProQuest Social Science Journals U.S. National Newspapers Abstracts
http://www.library.uq.edu.au/ssah/useits/proquest.html#how
PLZ... COMMENT ME ON BUSINESS MANGEMENT DATABASES
CrossRef : INFORMATION AT A CLICK...
CrossRef is an official Digital Object Identifier (DOI) Registration Agency. It was launched in early 2000 as a cooperative effort among publishers to enable cross-publisher citation linking in online academic journals. To date, CrossRef is the most robust implementation of the DOI model. It now interlinks millions of items from a variety of content types, including journals, books, working papers, technical reports, and datasets.
The expense is paid for by the journal publishers. Initially, there was some resistance from publishers who did not want to link to articles published by some other publisher, but by now every major academic publisher uses the system to their mutual advantage. It is also possible for users to search for articles directly from the CrossRef website.
The core CrossRef system was built by Atypon
The expense is paid for by the journal publishers. Initially, there was some resistance from publishers who did not want to link to articles published by some other publisher, but by now every major academic publisher uses the system to their mutual advantage. It is also possible for users to search for articles directly from the CrossRef website.
The core CrossRef system was built by Atypon
OPEN URL... ;- NEW WAY ACCESS INFORMATION.
OpenURL is a type of URL that contains resource metadata for use primarily in libraries. The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has developed OpenURL and its data container (the ContextObject) as international ANSI standard Z39.88. On 22 June 2006, OCLC was named the maintenance agency for the standard.[1]
The OpenURL standard is designed to support mediated linking from information resources (sources) to library services (targets). A "link resolver", or "link-server", parses the elements of an OpenURL and provides links to appropriate services as identified by a library. A source is generally a bibliographic citation or bibliographic record used to generate an OpenURL. A target is a resource or service that helps satisfy user's information needs. Examples include full-text repositories; abstracting, indexing, and citation databases; online library catalogs; and other Web resources and services.
An OpenURL consists of a base URL, which addresses the user's institutional link-server, and a query string, which contains contextual data, typically in the form of key-value pairs. The contextual data is most often bibliographic data, but in version 1.0 of OpenURL can also include information about the requester, the resource containing the hyperlink, the type of service required, and so forth. For example:
http://resolver.example.edu/cgi?genre=book&isbn=0836218310&title=The+Far+Side+Gallery+3
is a version 0.1 OpenURL describing a book. http://resolver.example.edu/cgi is the base URL of an example link-server. In version 1.0, this same link becomes somewhat longer:
http://resolver.example.edu/cgi?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.isbn=0836218310&rft.btitle=The+Far+Side+Gallery+3
The most common application of OpenURL is to provide appropriate copy resolution: an OpenURL link points to the copy of the resource most appropriate to the context of the request. If a different context is expressed in the query, a different copy ends up resolved to; but the change in context is predictable, and does not require the creator of the hyperlink to handcraft different URLs for different contexts. For instance, changing either the base URL or a requester parameter in the query string can mean that the OpenURL resolves to a copy of a resource in a different library. So the same OpenURL, contained for instance in an electronic journal, can be adjusted by either library to provide access to their own copy of the resource, without completely overwriting the journal's hyperlink. The journal provider in turn is no longer required to provide a different version of the journal, with different hyperlinks, for each subscribing library.
OpenURL was originated by Herbert van de Sompel, a librarian at the University of Ghent. His link-server software, SFX, was purchased by the library automation company Ex Libris which popularized OpenURL in the information industry. Many other companies now market link server systems, including Openly Informatics (1Cate — acquired by OCLC in 2006; rebranded as WorldCat Link Manager in 2007), Swets (SwetsWise Linker), Serials Solutions 360 Link (formerly known as Article Linker), Innovative Interfaces, Inc. (WebBridge), EBSCO (LinkSource), Ovid (LinkSolver), SirsiDynix (Resolver), Fretwell-Downing (OL2), TDNet (TOUR), R.R. Bowker (Ulrichs Resource Linker) and Infor (Vlink).
OpenURL is usually implemented by information providers by dynamically inserting an appropriate base URL into web pages sent to an authenticated user. OpenURL COinS is a new specification that allows free services like Wikipedia to provide OpenURLs by cooperating with client side software agents. Federated search software presents OpenURL links in record fields by employing the library's subscriber links to link servers facilitating access to full-text resources from bibliographic record hyperlinks.
The OpenURL standard is designed to support mediated linking from information resources (sources) to library services (targets). A "link resolver", or "link-server", parses the elements of an OpenURL and provides links to appropriate services as identified by a library. A source is generally a bibliographic citation or bibliographic record used to generate an OpenURL. A target is a resource or service that helps satisfy user's information needs. Examples include full-text repositories; abstracting, indexing, and citation databases; online library catalogs; and other Web resources and services.
An OpenURL consists of a base URL, which addresses the user's institutional link-server, and a query string, which contains contextual data, typically in the form of key-value pairs. The contextual data is most often bibliographic data, but in version 1.0 of OpenURL can also include information about the requester, the resource containing the hyperlink, the type of service required, and so forth. For example:
http://resolver.example.edu/cgi?genre=book&isbn=0836218310&title=The+Far+Side+Gallery+3
is a version 0.1 OpenURL describing a book. http://resolver.example.edu/cgi is the base URL of an example link-server. In version 1.0, this same link becomes somewhat longer:
http://resolver.example.edu/cgi?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.isbn=0836218310&rft.btitle=The+Far+Side+Gallery+3
The most common application of OpenURL is to provide appropriate copy resolution: an OpenURL link points to the copy of the resource most appropriate to the context of the request. If a different context is expressed in the query, a different copy ends up resolved to; but the change in context is predictable, and does not require the creator of the hyperlink to handcraft different URLs for different contexts. For instance, changing either the base URL or a requester parameter in the query string can mean that the OpenURL resolves to a copy of a resource in a different library. So the same OpenURL, contained for instance in an electronic journal, can be adjusted by either library to provide access to their own copy of the resource, without completely overwriting the journal's hyperlink. The journal provider in turn is no longer required to provide a different version of the journal, with different hyperlinks, for each subscribing library.
OpenURL was originated by Herbert van de Sompel, a librarian at the University of Ghent. His link-server software, SFX, was purchased by the library automation company Ex Libris which popularized OpenURL in the information industry. Many other companies now market link server systems, including Openly Informatics (1Cate — acquired by OCLC in 2006; rebranded as WorldCat Link Manager in 2007), Swets (SwetsWise Linker), Serials Solutions 360 Link (formerly known as Article Linker), Innovative Interfaces, Inc. (WebBridge), EBSCO (LinkSource), Ovid (LinkSolver), SirsiDynix (Resolver), Fretwell-Downing (OL2), TDNet (TOUR), R.R. Bowker (Ulrichs Resource Linker) and Infor (Vlink).
OpenURL is usually implemented by information providers by dynamically inserting an appropriate base URL into web pages sent to an authenticated user. OpenURL COinS is a new specification that allows free services like Wikipedia to provide OpenURLs by cooperating with client side software agents. Federated search software presents OpenURL links in record fields by employing the library's subscriber links to link servers facilitating access to full-text resources from bibliographic record hyperlinks.
Saturday, April 26, 2008
What is the Connection Between Blended Librarianship and Information Literacy?
Between Blended Librarianship and Information Literacy?
watch the vedio learn with entertainment....
http://blendedlibrarian.org/Instructional%20Technology_56k.wmv
watch the vedio learn with entertainment....
http://blendedlibrarian.org/Instructional%20Technology_56k.wmv
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
BIG B BLOG
Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan has turned blogger with bigadda.Com, a youth networking site, to connect with his fans worldwide.
Speaking about his new initiative, Bachchan said, "bigb.Bigadda.Com allows me to express myself, share and reflect my emotions, thoughts, opinions and listen to what people have to say to me and show them the 'real' side to my larger than life image that they see through media. It's a platform which I control and share my own drama without anyone editing or interpreting my thoughts."
What's most important for me is that I can now share consequential replies to the inconsequential gossip that do the rounds, says Amitabh Bachchan."What's most important for me is that I can now share consequential replies to the inconsequential gossip that do the rounds. I have always wanted a platform, where I can speak, for truth is always stranger than fiction. People will now be able to get an unedited version of my views, ideas and thoughts, straight from me," he said.
The actor added, "My adda (http://bigb.Bigadda.Com) will be the single point destination where I will openly state my views and also discuss the same with all."Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan has turned blogger with bigadda.Com, a youth networking site, to connect with his fans worldwide.
Speaking about his new initiative, Bachchan said, "bigb.Bigadda.Com allows me to express myself, share and reflect my emotions, thoughts, opinions and listen to what people have to say to me and show them the 'real' side to my larger than life image that they see through media. It's a platform which I control and share my own drama without anyone editing or interpreting my thoughts."
What's most important for me is that I can now share consequential replies to the inconsequential gossip that do the rounds, says Amitabh Bachchan."What's most important for me is that I can now share consequential replies to the inconsequential gossip that do the rounds. I have always wanted a platform, where I can speak, for truth is always stranger than fiction. People will now be able to get an unedited version of my views, ideas and thoughts, straight from me," he said.
The actor added, "My adda (http://bigb.Bigadda.Com) will be the single point destination where I will openly state my views and also discuss the same with all."
Speaking about his new initiative, Bachchan said, "bigb.Bigadda.Com allows me to express myself, share and reflect my emotions, thoughts, opinions and listen to what people have to say to me and show them the 'real' side to my larger than life image that they see through media. It's a platform which I control and share my own drama without anyone editing or interpreting my thoughts."
What's most important for me is that I can now share consequential replies to the inconsequential gossip that do the rounds, says Amitabh Bachchan."What's most important for me is that I can now share consequential replies to the inconsequential gossip that do the rounds. I have always wanted a platform, where I can speak, for truth is always stranger than fiction. People will now be able to get an unedited version of my views, ideas and thoughts, straight from me," he said.
The actor added, "My adda (http://bigb.Bigadda.Com) will be the single point destination where I will openly state my views and also discuss the same with all."Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan has turned blogger with bigadda.Com, a youth networking site, to connect with his fans worldwide.
Speaking about his new initiative, Bachchan said, "bigb.Bigadda.Com allows me to express myself, share and reflect my emotions, thoughts, opinions and listen to what people have to say to me and show them the 'real' side to my larger than life image that they see through media. It's a platform which I control and share my own drama without anyone editing or interpreting my thoughts."
What's most important for me is that I can now share consequential replies to the inconsequential gossip that do the rounds, says Amitabh Bachchan."What's most important for me is that I can now share consequential replies to the inconsequential gossip that do the rounds. I have always wanted a platform, where I can speak, for truth is always stranger than fiction. People will now be able to get an unedited version of my views, ideas and thoughts, straight from me," he said.
The actor added, "My adda (http://bigb.Bigadda.Com) will be the single point destination where I will openly state my views and also discuss the same with all."
Blogs and Bollywood: The new relationship
Innovation in promoting films is becoming the name of the game in Bollywood. Blogging is the new tool. It is now no longer an exclusive method that only journalists and software geeks employ; it is fast being adopted by film stars and filmmakers to promote their movies.
For those new to the Internet, a blog, short for web log, can be described as a sort of online diary that can be viewed by all- like web pages.
From Aamir Khan to Rani Mukherjee and even Amitabh Bachchan, they have all entered chat rooms and blog spaces to woo fans all across the globe.
"Blogs are reaching new communities, larger bases and Bollywood is one of them. Since it is a medium for communication, it is a big opportunity for entertainment," says Krishna Prasad, Head, Programming, MSN India.
For those new to the Internet, a blog, short for web log, can be described as a sort of online diary that can be viewed by all- like web pages.
From Aamir Khan to Rani Mukherjee and even Amitabh Bachchan, they have all entered chat rooms and blog spaces to woo fans all across the globe.
"Blogs are reaching new communities, larger bases and Bollywood is one of them. Since it is a medium for communication, it is a big opportunity for entertainment," says Krishna Prasad, Head, Programming, MSN India.
Sunday, April 20, 2008
CITECEER-x
is a scientific literature digital library and search engine that focuses primarily on the literature in computer and information science. CiteSeerx aims to improve the dissemination of scientific literature and to provide improvements in functionality, usability, availability, cost, comprehensiveness, efficiency, and timeliness in the access of scientific and scholarly knowledge.
Rather than creating just another digital library, CiteSeerx attempts to provide resources such as algorithms, data, metadata, services, techniques, and software that can be used to promote other digital libraries. CiteSeerx indexes PostScript and PDF research articles on the Web, and provides the following features.
Features
Place your mouse over the orange arrows to view the details for each CiteSeer feature.
Autonomous Citation Indexing (ACI) CiteSeer uses ACI to automatically create a citation index that can be used for literature search and evaluation. Compared to traditional citation indices, ACI provides improvements in cost, availability, comprehensiveness, efficiency, and timeliness.
Citation statistics CiteSeer computes citation statistics and related documents for all articles cited in the database, not just the indexed articles.
Reference linking As with many online publishers, CiteSeer allows browsing the database using citation links. However, CiteSeer performs this automatically.
Citation context CiteSeer can show the context of citations to a given paper, allowing a researcher to quickly and easily see what other researchers have to say about an article of interest.
Awareness and tracking CiteSeer provides automatic notification of new citations to given papers, and new papers matching a user profile.
Related documents CiteSeer locates related documents using citation and word based measures and displays an active and continuously updated bibliography for each document.
Full-text indexing CiteSeer indexes the full-text of the entire articles and citations. Full boolean, phrase and proximity search is supported.
Query-sensitive summaries CiteSeer provides the context of how query terms are used in articles instead of a generic summary, improving the efficiency of search.
Up-to-date CiteSeer is regularly updated based on user submissions and regular crawls.
Powerful search CiteSeer uses fielded search to all complex queries over content, and allows the use of author initials to provide more flexible name search.
Harvesting of articles CiteSeer automatically harvests research papers from the Web.
Metadata of articles CiteSeer automatically extracts and provides metadata from all indexed articles.
Personal Content Portal Personal collections, RSS-like notifications, social bookmarking, social network facilities. Personalized search settings. Institutional data tracking possible. Transparent document submission system.
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/
Rather than creating just another digital library, CiteSeerx attempts to provide resources such as algorithms, data, metadata, services, techniques, and software that can be used to promote other digital libraries. CiteSeerx indexes PostScript and PDF research articles on the Web, and provides the following features.
Features
Place your mouse over the orange arrows to view the details for each CiteSeer feature.
Autonomous Citation Indexing (ACI) CiteSeer uses ACI to automatically create a citation index that can be used for literature search and evaluation. Compared to traditional citation indices, ACI provides improvements in cost, availability, comprehensiveness, efficiency, and timeliness.
Citation statistics CiteSeer computes citation statistics and related documents for all articles cited in the database, not just the indexed articles.
Reference linking As with many online publishers, CiteSeer allows browsing the database using citation links. However, CiteSeer performs this automatically.
Citation context CiteSeer can show the context of citations to a given paper, allowing a researcher to quickly and easily see what other researchers have to say about an article of interest.
Awareness and tracking CiteSeer provides automatic notification of new citations to given papers, and new papers matching a user profile.
Related documents CiteSeer locates related documents using citation and word based measures and displays an active and continuously updated bibliography for each document.
Full-text indexing CiteSeer indexes the full-text of the entire articles and citations. Full boolean, phrase and proximity search is supported.
Query-sensitive summaries CiteSeer provides the context of how query terms are used in articles instead of a generic summary, improving the efficiency of search.
Up-to-date CiteSeer is regularly updated based on user submissions and regular crawls.
Powerful search CiteSeer uses fielded search to all complex queries over content, and allows the use of author initials to provide more flexible name search.
Harvesting of articles CiteSeer automatically harvests research papers from the Web.
Metadata of articles CiteSeer automatically extracts and provides metadata from all indexed articles.
Personal Content Portal Personal collections, RSS-like notifications, social bookmarking, social network facilities. Personalized search settings. Institutional data tracking possible. Transparent document submission system.
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/
Wednesday, April 02, 2008
Why Blog? Reason No. 92: Book Deal
A guy starts a clever blog in January and calls it Stuff White People Like. The site contains a list of cultural totems, including gifted children, marathons and writers’ workshops, that a certain type of moneyed and liberal American might be expected to like.
“The No. 1 reason why white people like not having a TV,” reads the explanation under entry No. 28, Not Having a TV, “is so that they can tell you that they don’t have a TV.”
Readers discover stuffwhitepeoplelike.wordpress.com, like it and forward links to their friends, who forward them to lots more friends. Newspaper columnists mention it, stealing — er, quoting — some of the better jokes. By the end of February, the NPR program “Talk of the Nation” runs a report on it, debating whether the site is racist or satire.
And then on March 20 Random House announces that it has purchased the rights to a book by the blog’s founder, Christian Lander, an Internet copy writer. The price, according to a source familiar with the deal but not authorized to discuss the total, was about $300,000, a sum that many in the publishing and blogging communities believe is an astronomical amount for a book spawned from a blog, written by a previously unpublished author.
“I was shocked and amazed that they got that much money for a concept that Martin Mull had written a book on back in 1985,” said Ron Hogan, who writes GalleyCat, a blog about the publishing industry. He was referring to “The History of White People in America,” by Mr. Mull and Allen Rucker, which mined its comedy from stereotypes about WASPs, noting that the term “white sex” was a contradiction akin to “towering miniseries.”
Mr. Lander’s more yuppified targets presumably like sex just fine — especially if sex is with Asian women, whom 95 percent of white men have dated or wanted to date at some point, he notes in No. 11, Asian Girls.
There was an innocent time, oh, about four years ago, when the idea of turning a blog into a book seemed novel, a fresh path for unknown writers to break into the big time.
The outcry over Mr. Lander’s book deal suggests the trend that has been building for a half decade may have finally reached apogee.
One of the first literary agents to troll the Web for talent was Kate Lee, who in 2003 was an assistant at International Creative Management, the sprawling talent agency, looking for a way to make her name.
When she started contacting bloggers and talking to them about book deals, many were stunned that a real literary agent was interested in their midnight typings. Her roster was so rich with bloggers, including Matt Welch from Hit & Run and Glenn Reynolds from Instapundit, that the New Yorker profiled her in 2004. Two years from now, the magazine noted, “Books by bloggers will be a trend, a cultural phenomenon.”
And two years after that?
“If I contact someone or someone is put in touch with me, chances are they’ve already been contacted by another agent,” Ms. Lee said. “Or they’ve at least thought about turning their blog into a book or some kind of film or TV project.”
Mr. Lander, for one, was scooped up by Erin Malone, an agent with William Morris.
On March 7, the daily e-mail newsletter Very Short List lauded his site.
That same day, Ms. Malone contacted Kurt Andersen, a founder of Very Short List who is also represented by the William Morris agency and who is an adviser to Random House. He had seen Stuff White People Like and liked it.
Ms. Malone told Mr. Andersen she was planning to circulate a White People book proposal for bids the next day, he said. The agent asked him to bring it to the attention of Gina Centrello, the president and publisher of Random House.
“I sent an e-mail to Gina saying, ‘I think this thing is smart and good. Just letting you know they’re sending out a book proposal tomorrow,’ ” Mr. Andersen said.
Mr. Andersen is a good friend to have. Although there were many bidders, Random House prevailed and announced the deal on March 20.
Mr. Andersen said what impressed him about White People’s prospects as a book is that it was already sort of unbloglike. The site is not chockablock with links to other material, but with what amounts to a series of daily essays. “It’s more like a book he’s putting out serially on the Web,” Mr. Andersen said. On his blog, Mr. Lander pledged that the book will be mostly new material not on the Web site.
Barbara Fillon, a Random House spokeswoman, said her office mates were laughing about the content on White People for weeks before they heard there was a book proposal in the offing.http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/30/fashion/30web.
“The No. 1 reason why white people like not having a TV,” reads the explanation under entry No. 28, Not Having a TV, “is so that they can tell you that they don’t have a TV.”
Readers discover stuffwhitepeoplelike.wordpress.com, like it and forward links to their friends, who forward them to lots more friends. Newspaper columnists mention it, stealing — er, quoting — some of the better jokes. By the end of February, the NPR program “Talk of the Nation” runs a report on it, debating whether the site is racist or satire.
And then on March 20 Random House announces that it has purchased the rights to a book by the blog’s founder, Christian Lander, an Internet copy writer. The price, according to a source familiar with the deal but not authorized to discuss the total, was about $300,000, a sum that many in the publishing and blogging communities believe is an astronomical amount for a book spawned from a blog, written by a previously unpublished author.
“I was shocked and amazed that they got that much money for a concept that Martin Mull had written a book on back in 1985,” said Ron Hogan, who writes GalleyCat, a blog about the publishing industry. He was referring to “The History of White People in America,” by Mr. Mull and Allen Rucker, which mined its comedy from stereotypes about WASPs, noting that the term “white sex” was a contradiction akin to “towering miniseries.”
Mr. Lander’s more yuppified targets presumably like sex just fine — especially if sex is with Asian women, whom 95 percent of white men have dated or wanted to date at some point, he notes in No. 11, Asian Girls.
There was an innocent time, oh, about four years ago, when the idea of turning a blog into a book seemed novel, a fresh path for unknown writers to break into the big time.
The outcry over Mr. Lander’s book deal suggests the trend that has been building for a half decade may have finally reached apogee.
One of the first literary agents to troll the Web for talent was Kate Lee, who in 2003 was an assistant at International Creative Management, the sprawling talent agency, looking for a way to make her name.
When she started contacting bloggers and talking to them about book deals, many were stunned that a real literary agent was interested in their midnight typings. Her roster was so rich with bloggers, including Matt Welch from Hit & Run and Glenn Reynolds from Instapundit, that the New Yorker profiled her in 2004. Two years from now, the magazine noted, “Books by bloggers will be a trend, a cultural phenomenon.”
And two years after that?
“If I contact someone or someone is put in touch with me, chances are they’ve already been contacted by another agent,” Ms. Lee said. “Or they’ve at least thought about turning their blog into a book or some kind of film or TV project.”
Mr. Lander, for one, was scooped up by Erin Malone, an agent with William Morris.
On March 7, the daily e-mail newsletter Very Short List lauded his site.
That same day, Ms. Malone contacted Kurt Andersen, a founder of Very Short List who is also represented by the William Morris agency and who is an adviser to Random House. He had seen Stuff White People Like and liked it.
Ms. Malone told Mr. Andersen she was planning to circulate a White People book proposal for bids the next day, he said. The agent asked him to bring it to the attention of Gina Centrello, the president and publisher of Random House.
“I sent an e-mail to Gina saying, ‘I think this thing is smart and good. Just letting you know they’re sending out a book proposal tomorrow,’ ” Mr. Andersen said.
Mr. Andersen is a good friend to have. Although there were many bidders, Random House prevailed and announced the deal on March 20.
Mr. Andersen said what impressed him about White People’s prospects as a book is that it was already sort of unbloglike. The site is not chockablock with links to other material, but with what amounts to a series of daily essays. “It’s more like a book he’s putting out serially on the Web,” Mr. Andersen said. On his blog, Mr. Lander pledged that the book will be mostly new material not on the Web site.
Barbara Fillon, a Random House spokeswoman, said her office mates were laughing about the content on White People for weeks before they heard there was a book proposal in the offing.http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/30/fashion/30web.
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