Searcher articles from January 2008

Searcher archives from January 2008

Searcher's voice Druthers.(EDITORIAL)(Editorial)
January 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The late, great lyricist, Johnny Mercer, once wrote a song built around the rustic term, "Druthers," a contraction of the rube-ish phrase, "I'd ruther," itself an adaptation of the more grammatically correct "I'd...

State of the union: the federal government Web scene.(THE GOVERNMENT ONLINE)
January 1, 2008... Government is not a business. Sure, specific government operations may be improved by running them "like a business," a phrase people use loosely to mean "following efficient, competent, and metric-validated practices as a result of which goals...

Embryonic Web 3.0: universal search, Wikia, and the birth of user-generated search.(LiveLinks)(google uses Wikia Search for it's new service)
January 1, 2008... If you haven't guessed yet, we're talking about Google's Universal search. It's here and (mostly) it works. Whether the information you need is in map, pic, vlog, or text, Universal brings it back and ranks it relative to other hits, regardless...

The race to the shelf continues: the open content Alliance and Amazon.com.(LiveLinks)(digital libraries are gainingthe market)
January 1, 2008... Internet giants such as Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft, and Amazon are in the middle of nothing short of a MODERN-DAY SPACE RACE: Who can scan the most and the best books in alliance with the biggest and brightest libraries in the U.S.--nay, the...

The case for knowledge planners.(LiveLinks)(service rendered by content providers )
January 1, 2008... It's all about content and discontent. Content is what we have in excess. Connecting it to a decision, task, or action is where the discontent kicks in. Bottom line? We know what's out there. What we don't know is what our users do with it....

Crisis or opportunity: the first international Public Knowledge Project (PKP) scholarly publishing conference.(LiveLinks)
January 1, 2008... The First International PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference 2007 [http://ocs.sfu.ca/pkp2007], held in Vancouver, Canada, from July 11-13, focused on the crisis in scholarly communication. Attendees hailed from academic and research...

Diacritical issues for multilingual searching.(BOTH SIDES NOW)(using translation software in computers)
January 1, 2008... I have to buy a new computer, and I'm wavering, wavering. I live in Spain, where the computers sold over the counter come with Spanish-language operating systems, Spanish-language interfaces, and, if they have any at all, Spanish-language...

'Copyfraud' and public domain works.(THE SIDEBAR)
January 1, 2008... You find a PDF version of the Federalist Papers on the internet that is just what you need, but it carries a copyright date of 2001. Now that's odd, considering that the last Federalist paper was written and published in 1788. Cautious, you...

Verified public domain material.(THE SIDEBAR)(Brief article)
January 1, 2008... Project Gutenberg http://www.gutenberg.org As this site says: "Due to the extreme penalties for copyright violation in the United States, we are very diligent about confirming copyright status before distributing an eBook. Nearly all...

Advocacy organizations for public domain and open access.(THE SIDEBAR)(Website overview)
January 1, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) http://www.clir.org CLIR works to ensure the well-being of the scholarly communication system. See its publication Why Digitize? at...

Digital and ebook collections.(THE SIDEBAR)(Website overview)
January 1, 2008... Alexa Internet http://www.alexa.com Provides catalogs of public domain web sites. Bartleby.Com http://www.bartleby.com This site publishes the classics of literature, nonfiction, and reference free of charge. Its...

Contacts.(Directory)
January 1, 2008... Amazon.com, Inc. 1200 12th Avenue S, Suite 1200 Seattle, WA 98144-2734 (206) 266-1000 (206)266-4206 (fax) Internet: info@amazon.com URL: http://www.amazon.com Beth Ashmore Samford University 1808 Lane Drive...