Inside Google Books: “We collect metadata from many providers (more than 150 and counting) that include libraries, WorldCat, national union catalogs and commercial providers. At the moment we have close to a billion unique raw records. We then further analyze these records to reduce the level of duplication within each provider, bringing us down to… Continue Reading
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USGS Releases New One-Stop Source for Scientific Information about U.S. Oceans and Waters
News release: “A one-stop source for biogeographic information collected from U.S. waters and oceanic regions is now available from the National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII) Program. The OBIS-USA website offers a unique combination of tools, resources, and biodiversity information to aide scientists, resource managers and decision makers in the research and analyses critical to sustaining… Continue Reading
EU: intelligent information system supporting observation, searching and detection for security of citizens in urban environment
EU Project INDECT – “The main objectives of the INDECT project are: to develop a platform for: the registration and exchange of operational data, acquisition of multimedia content, intelligent processing of all information and automatic detection of threats and recognition of abnormal behaviour or violence, to develop the prototype of an integrated, network-centric system supporting… Continue Reading
National Transportation Atlas Database 2009
“The National Transportation Atlas Databases 2009 (NTAD2009) is a set of nationwide geographic databases of transportation facilities, transportation networks, and associated infrastructure. These datasets include spatial information for transportation modal networks and intermodal terminals, as well as the related attribute information for these features. Metadata documentation, as prescribed by the Federal Geographic Data Committee, is… Continue Reading
Data.gov: machine readable datasets generated by the Executive Branch of the Federal Government
“The purpose of Data.gov is to increase public access to high value, machine readable datasets generated by the Executive Branch of the Federal Government. As a priority Open Government Initiative for President Obama’s administration, Data.gov increases the ability of the public to easily find, download, and use datasets that are generated and held by the… Continue Reading
OCLC: – Online Catalogs: What Users and Librarians Want
“In 2008, OCLC conducted focus groups, administered a pop-up survey on WorldCat.orgOCLCs freely available end user interface on the Weband conducted a Web-based survey of librarians worldwide. The report, Online Catalogs: What Users and Librarians Want, presents findings from these research efforts in order to understand: The metadata elements that are most important to end… Continue Reading
February 2009: Civil Rights Digital Libraries Enhance Americans Understanding of Important Era
“The Civil Rights Digital Library (CRDL), a comprehensive civil rights Web site and portal hosted by the University of Georgia, saw an enormous spike in the number of hits during the week of January 19 when the nation celebrated the inauguration of President Barack Obama and the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., holiday. Among CRDLs… Continue Reading
Wikileaks Posts Database of 6,780 Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports
“Wikileaks has released nearly a billion dollars worth of quasi-secret reports commissioned by the United States Congress. The 6,780 reports, current as of this month, comprise over 127,000 pages of material on some of the most contentious issues in the nation…Nearly 2,300 of the reports were updated in the last 12 months, while the oldest… Continue Reading
Defrosting the Digital Library: Bibliographic Tools for the Next Generation Web
Hull D, Pettifer SR, Kell DB 2008 Defrosting the Digital Library: Bibliographic Tools for the Next Generation Web. PLoS Computational Biology 4(10): e1000204 doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000204 [Gerry McKiernan] “Many scientists now manage the bulk of their bibliographic information electronically, thereby organizing their publications and citation material from digital libraries. However, a library has been described as thought… Continue Reading
New on LLRX – E-Discovery Update: Pushing Back Against Hardcopy ESI Productions
E-Discovery Update: Pushing Back Against Hardcopy ESI Productions – Conrad J. Jacoby addresses how critical technology issues related to document authenticity and document-associated metadata have left fewer lawyers willing to accept e-mail messages and other electronic documents in print format. He argues that litigants choosing to produce electronically stored information in hardcopy format should be… Continue Reading
Report: Google Still Not Indexing Hidden Web URLs
Google Still Not Indexing Hidden Web URLs, by Kat Hagedorn Metadata Harvesting Librarian, Digital Library Production Service, University of Michigan Libraries, Ann Arbor, MI and Joshua Santelli Applications Programmer, Digital Library Production Service, University of Michigan Libraries, Ann Arbor, MI. D-Lib Magazine, July/August 2008, Volume 14 Number 7/8. Continue Reading
Gartner Identifies the Top 10 Strategic Technologies for 2008
Press release: “Gartner defines a strategic technology as one with the potential for significant impact on the enterprise in the next three years. Factors that denote significant impact include a high potential for disruption to IT or the business, the need for a major dollar investment, or the risk of being late to adopt…The top… Continue Reading
