ISME International Conference: 11th December 2010: Conference Committee

ISME International Conference: 11th December 2010: Conference Committee: "Dr. Swaroop D. Reddy; academics@isme.in Prof. B. Raghuraman; campus@isme.in"

ARL launched its scenario planning project

ARL launched its scenario planning project, “Envisioning Research Library Futures: A Scenario Thinking Project,” in the early spring of 2010 


ARL 2030 Scenarios: A User’s Guide for Research Libraries (Oct. 19, '10) [PDF]

online Thesis builder

        online tools for thesis statements   and outlines                 here

Tool:DansGuardian:'Content Filtering'

DansGuardian is  an Open Source web content filter software. currently runs on Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Mac OS X, HP-UX, and Solaris. It filters the actual content of pages based on many methods including phrase matching, PICS filtering and URL filtering. It does not purely filter based on a banned list of sites like lesser totally commercial filters.




Content Filtering:


Your normal web filter such as Cyber Patrol, squidGuard, Net Nanny, etc, has a very large list of bad sites. If you try to go to these sites you will get blocked. I.e. your web access is filtered by web address.

The web is a fast changing place and even large web search engines such as Google or Altavista or Yahoo don't even know of half of it. This makes filtering by web address (URL) difficult as sites change and new ones come up all the time. It is impossible to have comprehensive filtering using just URLs. What is needed is something to check every page you (or your children) ever access for 'bad' subjects such as drugs, profanities, hate, pornography, etc, and disallow it if it's not suitable. This is called 'Content Filtering'.

This is why you need DansGuardian as it makes the web a cleaner, safer, place for you and your children.

As a side effect, DansGuardian also helps maintain freedom of speech by moving the censoring to the choice of the individual rather than imposing a specific ideal on the whole world.

Explore knowledge : Dewey Decimal Classification

http://www.deweydigger.com/

Top 100 Tools for Learning 2010

http://c4lpt.co.uk/recommended/top100-2010.html

The New Librarianship in the Age of the Ebook

http://vimeo.com/15417505

Open or Linked Library Data

Open or Linked Library Data

1. Konstanz University Library (Germany) Relicenses their Data Under CC0 (MARC Data)

2. Cambridge University Library Releases Some Data

This dataset consists of MARC 21 output in a single file, comprising around 180000 records. There is some work to be done to tidy up the data – details of this are available at:http://knowledgeforge.net/pdw/trac/wiki/datatriage. New datasets will be shared as they become available.

More info about both sources in this blog post from the Open Knowledge Foundation.

3. German National Library Publishes the German Library Authority Files as Linked Data (via the W3C-Public-Esw-Thes List)

The German National Library (DNB) has published the German library authority files as linked data. The dataset consists of 1.8 Mill differentiated persons from the PND (Personennamendatei, Name authority file), 187.000 subject headings from the SWD (Schlagwortnormdatei, Subject headings authority file), 1.3 Mill corporate bodies from the GKD (emeinsame Krperschaftsdatei, Corporate Body Authority file), and 51,000 classes from the German translation of the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC).

For information: https://wiki.d-nb.de/display/LDS.

NLM:API

The National Library of Medicine, released a new API Web page. An API(Application Programming Interface) is a set of routines that an application uses to request and carry out lower-level services performed by a computer's operating system.



For more details see: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/api/


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About API:

Some of your doubts.............WHO? WHAT? WHY? HOW?

see this post:

http://otherlibrarian.wordpress.com/2008/03/11/apis-who-what-why-how/

BioOne

eBioOne is a global, not-for-profit collaboration bringing together scientific societies, publishers, and libraries to provide access to critical, peer-reviewed research in the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences.


New titles includes Four titles from the prestigious National Museum of Natural  History, Paris, France will join the BioOne.2 collection:  Adansonia, Anthropozoologica, Geodiversitas, and Zoosystema. The
American Bryological and Lichenological Society, publisher of The  Bryologist, will add their second publication to BioOne.1 in  Evansia. Ardea, flagship journal of the Netherlands  Ornithologists? Union, will also join the BioOne.1 collection.BioOne will  be home to 166 total publications

Source BioOne