MORE POSTS FROM JULY 2011
From the Wellcome Library Blog: Arabic medicine was once the most advanced in the world, and now digital facsimiles of some of its most important texts have been made freely available online. The unique online resource, based on the Wellcome Library’s Arabic manuscript collection, includes well-known medical texts by famous practitioners (such as Avicenna, Ibn […]
Four new features are now live for users when conducting research using HathiTrust full text search database and collection builder tool. The Full-text Search index now includes bibliographic data, which is being used to: Improve results ranking Allow users to refine results using bibliographic facets Remember, a large number of items (including domain titles) from […]
Updated Numbers from Experian Hitwise: Google+ received more than 1.79M total visits last week ending July 23, 2011. That is a decrease of 3% vs. the previous week (July 16th). The site received 1.86M total visits the previous week The average time spent on the site was down as well by 10% from 5minutes and […]
From the National Endowment for the Humanities 1. 32 New Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant Awards 2. 5 New Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities 3. DFG/NEH Bi-Lateral Digital Humanities Grantees From Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (Germany) and NEH
Authors: Sitaram Asur, Louis Yu, Bernardo A. Huberman (Hewlett-Packard Labs, Palo Alto and Hewlett-Packard Labs) From the Abstract: There has been a tremendous rise in the growth of online social networks all over the world in recent times. While some networks like Twitter and Facebook have been well documented, the popular Chinese microblogging social network Sina […]
A new service offering bound paper copies of material available from the wonderful Social Science Research Network web site is now available. Even with the eBook and eBook Reader frenzy going on these day, professionally bound versions of printed research reports still seem to be of value to authors and others. If not bound, all […]
1. “The Court of Appeal in London has today upheld a ruling that headlines and web links taken from newspapers websites are protected by copyright.” (via Managing IP) Case: NLA v Meltwater & PRCA Full Text of Ruling (via BAILII) “Winners And Losers In The News Aggregator Copyright Case” (via paidContent) “PRCA and Meltwater are […]
"Looking for Link Between Library Usage and Student Attainment" In New Issue (July, 2011) of Ariadne
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|Ariadne #64 (July, 2011) Main Articles in This Issue: Towards Interoperabilty of European Language Resources Sophia Ananiadou and colleagues describe an ambitious new initiative to accelerate Europe-wide language technology research, helped by their work on promoting interoperability of language resources. Image ‘Quotation’ Using the C.I.T.E. Architecture Christopher Blackwell and Amy Hackney Blackwell describe with examples […]
The maps shows 373 centers that the feds hope to close over the next two years. From Computerworld: The targeted data centers range in size from a 195,000-square foot Department of Homeland Security facility in Alabama to four Department of Agriculture data centers, each of less than 1,000 square feet in size. If the White […]
From the DuraSpace Web Site: The not-for-profit DuraSpace organization announced that it will develop a hosted, cloud-based data storage and management service aimed at meeting the specific needs of working scientists and researchers. The new service, an expansion of DuraSpace’s popular DuraCloud data management and archiving service, is being funded through a grant from the […]