Information World Review articles from June 2007

Information World Review archives from June 2007

Web 2.0 wealth check.
June 4, 2007... Byline: Matthew Sparkes Web 2.0 wealth check There are many websites that, directly or indirectly, monetise the content produced by their users. Amazon, for example, depends heavily on customer reviews to drive sales, while Digg is...

an inspection calls.
June 4, 2007... Byline: Kim Thomas an inspection calls Just as teachers rarely thrill to the news that they are to be visited by Ofsted, it is hard to find an academic whose heart is gladdened by the phrase "research assessment exercise". ...

MIT sets learning free.(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
June 4, 2007... Byline: Kim Thomas MIT sets learning free In the late 1990s, when everybody wanted to take advantage of the money-making opportunities offered by the internet, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) decided that it, too, wanted a...

Everything you need to buildasaurus.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 4, 2007... Byline: Jonathan Gordon Till Everything you need to buildasaurus ' book review The many concepts around the core thesaurus topics of classification, taxonomy, topic map, ontology, index and metadata are expertly brought together...

Winning the archive war in a world of instant deletion.(Digital Preservation)(Book review)
June 4, 2007... Byline: Jonathan Gordon Till Winning the archive war in a world of instant deletion ' book review The irony of publishing a printed book (rather than an electronic document) about digital preservation is not dodged in Digital...

Take a walk on the Web 2.0 side to see what users want.
June 4, 2007... Byline: David Tebbutt Take a walk on the Web 2.0 side to see what users want David Tebbutt In case you hadn't noticed, the world of your users is one of instant access to whatever they want. A walk to the library or information...

R&D finds answers in the crowd.
June 4, 2007... Byline: Tracey Caldwell R&D finds answers in the crowd ' analysis With it taking anything up to 15 years and the help of a multimillion-pound budget to bring a single product on to the market, pharmaceutical and biotech companies...

Cookie-cutter keeps search confidential.(review of cookie-free search engine www.hakia.com)(Brief article)
June 4, 2007... Byline: mark chillingworth Cookie-cutter keeps search confidential There is growing concern about the amount of information that search engine providers, especially Google, are generating about us as we retrieve information. The...

Blogging for beginners.
June 4, 2007... Byline: Davey Winder Blogging for beginners If you are still working with the strictly hierarchical, top-down communication model of memos and newsletters to distribute information within the enterprise and beyond, then it would appear...

IPMaster promoted to IP Manager.(Thomson Scientific's intellectual assets management software)(Brief article)
June 4, 2007... Byline: Kim Thomas IPMaster promoted to IP Manager Kim Thomas Thomson Scientific has released a browser-based program for managing intellectual assets. IP Manager replaces Windows-based client/server product IPMaster. ...

Skills council shakes up info training.(Lifelong Learning UK's recruitment standards for archivists and records managers)(Brief article)
June 4, 2007... Byline: Kim Thomas Skills council shakes up info training Kim Thomas Lifelong Learning UK (LLUK), the skills council for information services, is to replace the occupational standards for archivists and records managers with...

Jadu extends forms builder to corporates.
June 4, 2007... Byline: Kim Thomas Jadu extends forms builder to corporates Kim Thomas Content management supplier Jadu is targeting corporates as well as the public sector with an intelligent web-based forms builder that can be integrated with...

National Archives goes wiki.(Brief article)
June 4, 2007... Byline: Laura Smith National Archives goes wiki The National Archives has launched a wiki-based resource to help people interact with its huge body of material, which spans 900 years from Domesday Book to the present day. Your...

Commons copyright targets scientists.
June 4, 2007... Byline: Tracey Caldwell Commons copyright targets scientists Tracey Caldwell Authors can hold onto their copyright more easily with the release of new online tools. Science Commons, a project by copyright body Creative...

MPs blow a hole in FoI by voting personal opt-out.(member of parliament, Freedom of Information Act)
June 4, 2007... Byline: Laura Smith MPs blow a hole in FoI by voting personal opt-out Campaigners look to Lords to save public access to parliamentary information. Laura Smith reports MPs have passed a controversial bill to exempt themselves...

Thomson bids for Reuters to survive exchange shake-up.
June 4, 2007... Byline: Tracey Caldwell Thomson bids for Reuters to survive exchange shake-up Thomson and Reuters are future-proofing their existence as financial information providers by tying the knot, experts have told IWR. Data providers are...

Informa buy sets rumour mills turning.(Informa plc's acquisition of Datamonitor)(Brief article)
June 4, 2007... Byline: Kim Thomas Informa buy sets rumour mills turning Kim Thomas Consternation and speculation has followed Informa's [pounds sterling]502m acquisition of Datamonitor. It's an unusual marriage. Informa is a traditional...

Google builds super-engine.
June 4, 2007... Google builds super-engine Google has unveiled a universal search feature that integrates results from news stories, books, video, local search and images. Universal search will allow users to dispense with the need to visit Google's...

In the Lords we trust.(United Kingdom's House of Lords)(Brief article)
June 4, 2007... Byline: Mark Chillingworth In the Lords we trust Political historians describe the 1950s and 60s as a period of consensus politics -- both political wings, left and right, shared similar views on a range of policies such as...

JISC Depot offers repository for all.(Joint Information Systems Committee)(Brief article)
June 4, 2007... Byline: Daniel Griffin JISC Depot offers repository for all Daniel Griffin UK researchers and academics without an institutional repository can now deposit and share their respective bodies of work at the Depot, a JISC-funded...

Thomson Learning boss greets private equity with open arms.
June 4, 2007... Byline: Mark Chillingworth Thomson Learning boss greets private equity with open arms Mark Chillingworth Tom Davy, CEO of Thomson Learning in Europe, has given the acquisition of Thomson Learning by venture capitalist Apax Partners...

Spam.(controlling blog spam)(Brief article)
June 4, 2007... Byline: Davey Winder blog spam Blog spam, or comment spam as it is sometimes known, is the scourge of the modern-day blogger. Either posted automatically by spambots, or manually by cheap spam workers in third-world countries,...

Greece and Rome in expert online translation.
June 4, 2007... Byline: Daniel Griffin Greece and Rome in expert online translation ' site review The Lectrix literary portal is a compact application of online technology and educational materials fused with academic expertise in the study of...

feedback.(Letter to the editor)(Brief article)
June 4, 2007... Byline: Mark Chillingworth ' feedback Citizendium thrives on public display Your review "Expert wiki lacks content users crave" (www.iwr.co.uk/ 2189443) was a bit disappointing, although, of course, reviewers have a broad...

Google searches the universe.
June 4, 2007... Byline: Daniel Griffin Google searches the universe ' site review Google became the dominant leader in search by creating a decent, easy-to-use product that delivers better results than the competition and is used almost daily by...

Blair's information legacy.(Tony Blair)(Chronology)(Brief article)
June 4, 2007... Byline: Laura Smith information legacy After 10 years of Tony Blair, the public mistrusts government information more than ever. 1997: Labour makes manifesto commitment to introduce a Freedom of Information Act. After its...

British Library's blast from the past.
June 4, 2007... Byline: Daniel Griffin British Library's blast from the past Over the past two years, the British Library has embarked on a large-scale digitisation of its sound archives, making the content freely available online for the further and...

What life was really like under the Nazi jackboot.
June 4, 2007... Byline: Mark Chillingworth What life was really like under the Nazi jackboot Turn the television on or browse the shelves of the history section of any bookshop and you'll realise that history as a subject is undergoing a renaissance....

Microsoft aims to liven up academic search.
June 4, 2007... Byline: Kim Thomas Microsoft aims to liven up academic search Microsoft's Windows Live Academic Search site is a potentially valuable new tool for both academics and information professionals. A member of the Microsoft family of...

Publishers and searchers find an e-pal in BookStore.
June 4, 2007... Byline: Daniel Griffin Publishers and searchers find an e-pal in BookStore BookStore from MPS Technologies lets publishing companies upload digitised content, but it's more than just a repository. Researchers can use its public web...

Searching for the Google effect.
June 4, 2007... Byline: Bobby Pickering Searching for the Google effect With the rise of the internet and the need to access online technology that could search across sites, came the rise of Google. It's a company synonymous with the concept of...

Come and join Google's experts.
June 4, 2007... Byline: Mark Chillingworth Come and join Google's experts Google has adopted the ethos behind Wikipedia -- that anyone can contribute to improve online information -- and they've combined this ethos with their impressive search...

Scopus refines scientific searching.
June 4, 2007... Byline: Kim Thomas Scopus refines scientific searching The abstract and citation database Scopus enables users to search titles in 15,000 peer-reviewed journals in the fields of health science, life science, social science and...

Quosa's makes sharing simple.(Product/service evaluation)
June 4, 2007... Byline: Mark Chillingworth Quosa's makes sharing simple resist All the major players in the information sector are developing integrated workflow technology. In plain English, workflow tools let users take published content from a...

The changing face of business information.
June 4, 2007... Byline: Bobby Pickering The changing face of business information For business information users, academics and other professional researchers, access to accurate databases of legal and financial documents is an essential business...

Factiva tracks the characters and companies that matter.
June 4, 2007... Byline: Kim Thomas Factiva tracks the characters and companies that matter We're all used to the Google model of search -- easy to use, but often too unfocused to be useful. Type "Bill Gates" (remembering the inverted commas) into the...

Emerald sparkles but needs a little more polish.
June 4, 2007... Byline: daniel griffin Emerald sparkles but needs a little more polish Emerald Management First is an online library of specialist business reports, interviews, analysis and journal articles, fed from a global selection of business...

MyICC personalises tracking to business.
June 4, 2007... Byline: daniel griffin MyICC personalises tracking to business ICC, a provider of business and financial data, including shareholder and director details, has launched MyICC to integrate much of its current product suite into a single...

Histpop's view of Britain's past.
June 4, 2007... Byline: Laura Smith Histpop's view of Britain's past Apartnership between the National Archives, UK Data Archive at Essex University and the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) has made available a previously hidden gem...

Euromonitor's vision of lifestyles and spending.
June 4, 2007... Byline: daniel griffin Euromonitor's vision of lifestyles and spending Countries & Consumers is an online database that provides organisations with insights into the country environment in which they operate, and helps users to build...

Just follow your nose and Liberty3 will take you there.
June 4, 2007... Byline: Daniel Griffin Just follow your nose and Liberty3 will take you there Liberty3 is a web-based integrated library management system that acts as a platform for information management between a library website and its data. ...

Telegraph moves with the times.(The Daily Telegraph )
June 4, 2007... Byline: Mark Chillingworth Telegraph moves with the times Newspapers are having a tough time. Not only has the internet transformed their business landscape, but a slew of free newspapers have emerged to compete for readers and...

The appliance to science.
June 4, 2007... Byline: bobby pickering The appliance to science On one thing, most scientific, technical and medical (STM) suppliers are agreed: the move from print to online usage of their journals and book titles has dramatically changed them...

In brief.
June 4, 2007... Byline: mark chillingworth Ebsco site centralises tools Subscription agent Ebsco has launched a new website to act as a portal for information professionals, providing them with a host of tools and information. Ebsco.com now features...