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Candidates for e-Profiles
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gerry Mckiernan)
Mon Jan 22 20:06:03 2001
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 15:42:00 -0600
From: Gerry Mckiernan <GMCKIERN@GWGATE.LIB.IASTATE.EDU>
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_Candidates for e-Profiles_
Recently, I was appointed a Contributing Editor of _Library Hi Tech News_ (LHTN) [ http://www.mcb.co.uk/lhtn.htm ], the companion news journal of _Library Hi Tech_ [ http://www.mcb.co.uk/lht.htm ].
[LTHN will have a change in it's editorship with the 2001 issues]
For LHTN, I will author a regular column tentatively titled "e-Profiles". The intent of e-Profiles is to provide a descriptive profile of new, novel, innovative, emerging, unusual, and/or unconventional Web technologies, applications and resources.
I am greatly interested in receiving nominations of candidates for potential review in a future eProfiles column. I am most interested in those technologies, applications and/or resources that *you* believe are noteworthy but are not as well known as they should be among our colleagues.
As an example, I believe the highly novel index to _Astrophysical Journal_
created using Kohonen self-organizing semantic maps
[ http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/ApJ/map.pl ]
is particularly noteworthy and a technology, application _and_ resource that should be more widely recognized. [I plan to profile this index in one of my first columns for LHTN]
As Always, Any and All contributions, suggestions, comments, queries, questions, cosmic insights, etc., etc., etc. are Most Welcome.
/Gerry McKiernan
Theoretical Librarian
Iowa State University
Ames IA 50011
"The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Write a Column About It"
With Apologies (Again) to Alan Kay
