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Current Cites
Volume 15, no. 7, July 2004
Edited by [2]Roy Tennant
ISSN: 1060-2356 -
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/CurrentCites/2004/cc04.15.7.html
Contributors: [3]Charles W. Bailey, Jr., [4]Terry Huwe, [5]Shirl
Kennedy, [6]Leo Robert Klein, Jim Ronningen, [7]Roy Tennant
Alves, Rosental Calmon. "[8]Many Newspaper Sites Still Cling to
Once-a-Day Publish Cycle" [9]Online Journalism Review (21 July
2004) (http://ojr.org/ojr/workplace/1090395903.php). - This article
reports on research from the University of Texas at Austin which
found that out of 30 news websites being monitored, "only 12
updated their home pages frequently, and the rest made few or no
changes during the day." This, says the writer, demonstrates "the
difficulty in breaking out of the print paradigm." No consensus
exists in the news industry as to how often websites should be
updated. The study also found that smaller papers were less likely
to update their sites during the day than larger papers, and that
national news was the element most likely to be changed, followed
by local/regional news. Few papers updated existing stories on
their websites. - [10]SK
Gibbons, Susan. "Establishing an Institutional Repository"
[11]Library Technology Reports 40(4) (July-August 2004) -
Institutional repositories are a hot topic with academic
institutions, and in particular academic libraries. This 67-page
report is an excellent summary of institutional repository
benefits, potential uses, features, costs, and software options.
The author has been involved with establishing an institutional
repository at her institution, but it's also clear that she did her
homework in putting this publication together. The information here
is accurate and up-to-date, and can serve as a very useful overview
of the state of institutional repositories currently as well as
useful guidance for any institution wishing to create such a
repository. Although LTR is published on a subscription basis,
individual issues can be purchased at the web site
([12]www.techsource.ala.org). - [13]RT
Goodman, Andrew. "[14]The Future of Search" [15]SearchEngineWatch
(22 July 2004)
(http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/article.php/3384481). - In
this report from the Search Engine Strategies 2004 Conference, held
in March of this year, personalization is identified as "a key
driver of change" in the search engine industry. It will affect
both how search results are displayed to users and the content of
those results -- e.g., a "self-learning" technology will be able to
determine whether a user who types "eagles" into the search box is
looking for information about the national bird or the NFL team.
Keyword advertising will increasingly be targeted geographically,
by IP address or by country. Several of the panel pundits at this
conference agreed that "the concept of a single set of rankings on
a given phrase (what search marketers often call 'the algorithm')
may soon be obsolete." Also discussed was "paid inclusion" -- where
advertisers ante up to have their links included in search results.
Different companies have tried different methods of doing this, but
as the writer pointed out, most of them "seem to understand that
search engines lose their credibility when they turn into glorified
referral services." - [16]SK
Huffaker, David. "[17]The Educated Blogger: Using Weblogs to
Promote Literacy in the Classroom" [18]First Monday 9(6) (7 June
2004)
(http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_6/huffaker/index.html). -
Huffaker explores the emerging potential of Weblogs as teaching
tools for youth. Over 50 percent of all Bloggers are teens, yet
Blogs as hands-on classroom teaching tools are still in the
theoretical stage. He identifies several key value points of
Blogging for classroom instruction, including instant publishing,
journal (or diary) keeping, and two way communication -- all by
means of a very simple interface. In some ways, Huffaker's analysis
of Blogs casts them as a simpler version of 'ePortfolios' --
persistent, Web-based domains at colleges and universities that
follow students through their entire academic career. His principal
argument is based on the long-accepted fact that young students
respond favorably to learning environments that emphasize
storytelling, collaborative learning, and personal expression. He
concludes by suggesting that more research into this area is
needed, particularly in exploring how students develop language and
vocabulary skills within the domain of the Blogosphere. - [19]TH
Lavoie, Brian, and Lorcan Dempsey. "[20]Thirteen Ways of Looking
at...Digital Preservation" [21]D-Lib Magazine 10(7/8)
(July/August 2004)
(http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july04/lavoie/07lavoie.html). - It's
certainly a sign of maturity in our understanding of digital
preservation, that we can have a thoughtful article like this that
concentrates on issues beyond the more familiar technical
obstacles. Indeed, the authors make clear that the technical part
cannot happen as an "isolated process" but only as part of a
broader "digital information environment." The authors go into 13
different considerations with this wider context in mind. - [22]LRK
McCook, Alison. "[23]Open Access to US Govt Work Urged" [24]The
Scientist (21 July 2004)
(http://www.biomedcentral.com/news/20040721/01/). - Open access has
been on the agenda of legislative committees in both the US and the
UK of late. In the US, the House of Representatives Appropriations
Committee recommended that NIH-funded research be made freely
available on PubMed Central six months after it is published. If
NIH funds were used to pay for publication fees, immediate
availability would be required. Meanwhile in the UK, the House of
Commons Science and Technology Committee wrapped up lengthy
hearings into scientific publishing and issued a [25]report that
recommended funding institutional repositories and mandating that
funded research be put in them (more on this development in "[26]UK
Committee Backs Open Access"). (If this wasn't enough to delight OA
advocates, the European Commission has started its own
[27]investigation into scientific publishing.) - [28]CB
McHugo, Ann, and Carol Magenau. "Reinventing Acquisitions with a
'Forget-to-Do' List" [29]Serials Librarian 46(3/4) (2004):
269-273. - Not your mother or father's Acquisitions. That's what I
thought when I went over this presentation originally given at last
year's North American Serials Interest Group Conference in
Portland. The first job I ever had in a library was in Serials --
Check-in, thank you -- so it was particularly interesting to see
how the Acquisitions Department at Dartmouth was meeting the
challenge of managing new digital services and formats while
maintaining a tight lid on budgets and staff. Their solution was to
drop (or otherwise modify) many procedures and processes long
familiar to the acquisition function. This included such hallowed
things as serials claims and TOC current awareness services. The
Q&A section at the end of the report is also helpful in
understanding how these changes were made. - [30]LRK
Weber, Steven. The Success of Open Source Cambridge, Mass.:
Harvard University Press, 2004. - The Success of Open Source is a
clearly-written scholarly book about a subject relevant to anyone
who uses a computer. While the history and development of the open
source movement is given here, the value of the book lies in this
political scientist's exploration of the larger issues arising from
the phenomenon of self-governing groups which evolve very complex
software programs outside of the commercial proprietary realm. From
the preface: "By experimenting with fundamental notions of what
constitutes property, this community has reframed and recast some
of the most basic problems of governance. At the same time, it is
remaking the politics and economics of the software world." After
describing in detail the people and processes behind projects such
as Linux, Weber seems to account for every ripple in the large
ripple effect which they create. Among the many examples he gives
to illustrate open source's impact, a representative one is his
point that Apache, the popular open source Web server software,
performs the unintended purpose of keeping the server side from
being hijacked to favor a particular dominant proprietary Web
browser. Even people who've never given a moment's thought to where
software comes from are, as end-users, affected by
technology-enhanced openness efforts such as open access scholarly
publishing, and Weber's analysis informs those developments too. -
JR
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