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Current Cites
February 2005
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/CurrentCites/2005/cc05.16.2.html
Edited by [2]Roy Tennant
Contributors: [3]Charles W. Bailey, Jr., [4]Terry Huwe, [5]Shirl
Kennedy, [6]Leo Robert Klein, Jim Ronningen, [7]Roy Tennant
""The Blogosphere" (special issue) " [8]Communications of the ACM
47(12)(December 2004) - The idea of a systematic analysis of the
blogosphere sounds like an exercise in futility - OK, we've got that
manifestation isolated, wait, there are new eruptions over here and
here and here - but this special issue of Communications of the ACM
has several articles which do pin down aspects of blogging by
measurement, experiment and anecdotal evidence. Patterns in
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Current Cites
February 2005
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/CurrentCites/2005/cc05.16.2.html
Edited by [2]Roy Tennant
Contributors: [3]Charles W. Bailey, Jr., [4]Terry Huwe, [5]Shirl
Kennedy, [6]Leo Robert Klein, Jim Ronningen, [7]Roy Tennant
""The Blogosphere" (special issue) " [8]Communications of the ACM
47(12)(December 2004) - The idea of a systematic analysis of the
blogosphere sounds like an exercise in futility - OK, we've got that
manifestation isolated, wait, there are new eruptions over here and
here and here - but this special issue of Communications of the ACM
has several articles which do pin down aspects of blogging by
measurement, experiment and anecdotal evidence. Patterns in
interpersonal relationships and activity emerge over time. What is
expressed in blogs, and what bloggers get out of it, is revealed by
survey. An author who began blogging way back in 1999 describes the
phases of change in the blogosphere wrought by the development of easy
to use blogging software. How semantic metadata could add a knowledge
management layer to blogs is explored through the creation of a
prototype semantic blogging demonstrator. And old concerns about the
effect of filtering one's information intake are reawakened in the
light of new functions used in blogspace - could it be that RSS abuse
could make you really simple? The issue is an essential addition to
the literature about this revolutionary phenomenon. - JR
Garvin, Peggy. "[9]Why Google Uncle Sam?" [10]LLRX.com (13 February
2005)(http://www.llrx.com/columns/govdomain2.htm). - Google's
[11]Uncle Sam search has evolved into the most popular search tool for
the .gov and .mil domains. Garvin, author of [12]The United States
Government Internet Manual, questions this popularity, pointing out a
number of deficiencies. For one thing, it doesn't include all the
information that the federal government makes available online, since
some sites don't have .gov or .mil domains (e.g., [13]usps.com,
[14]ndu.edu). Also, the Uncle Sam service does not offer an advanced
search form; if you click on advance search, you'll be sent to
Google's generic version. Garvin also takes a look at the federal
government's own search engine, at [15]firstgov.gov. Although it, too,
has some limitations, it does offer some features that Uncle Sam does
not. Bottom line -- "When searching the federal government niche,
follow the same recommended practice as in general searching: use more
than one search engine." Also listed are two additional tools for
federal government research: [16]Department of Defense Search and
[17]Vivisimo's FirstGov cluster search. - [18]SK
Marcum, Deanna B.. "[19]The Future of Cataloging" [20]EBSCO
Leadership Seminar, Boston, 16 January 2005 (January
2005)(http://www.loc.gov/library/reports/CatalogingSpeech.pdf). - This
thought piece on the future of cataloging is long on musings and short
on predictions. But that isn't to denigrate it, only to clarify it's
role given the possible connotations of the title. Rather than coming
up with solutions or predictions, Marcum ponders the proper role of
cataloging in a Google age. Marcum cites the Google project to
digitize much or all of the contents of a selected set of major
research libraries as evidence that the world of cataloging is
changing dramatically, and she briefly identifies ways in which the
Library of Congress is responding to this new environment. But, Marcum
cautions, "the future of cataloging is not something that the Library
of Congress, or even the small library group with which we will meet,
can or expects to resolve alone." She then poses some specific
questions that should be considered, including how we can massively
change our current MARC/AACR2 system without creating chaos. - [21]RT
Nicholson, Scott. "[22]A Framework for Internet Archeology:
Discovering Use Patterns in Digital Library and Web-Based Information
Resources" [23]First Monday 10(2)(7 February
2005)(http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_2/nicholson/). -
Nicholson is interested in the trail of "data-based artifacts" that
users leave behind when they interact with digital libraries or other
Web-based information space. In particular he explores one discovery
process that is called bibliomining -- a combination of data
warehousing, data mining and bibliometrics. He employs the research
framework of archeology to analyze bibliomining as a potential aid for
managers of digital libraries. Using the language of archaeology to
analyze the nature of the Internet is familiar approach -- a case of
borrowing language from an established field to help assess the
emerging virtual spaces we are building. This approach is utilized so
often because it enables developers to visualize the network in
understandable terms. Bibliomining draws on the basic tenets of
archaeological practice, that is to say, "recovery, systematic
description, and study", and Nicholson suggests that it may be a new
tool for digital library managers. He says that we're still
"describing" the digital library, even as we build it; Bibliomining
may help us move beyond description, toward a sustainable cultural of
continuous improvement. - [24]TH
Sanderson, Robert, Jeffrey Young, and Ralph LeVan. "[25]SRW/U With
OAI: Expected and Unexpected Synergies" [26]D-Lib Magazine
11(2)(February
2005)(http://www.dlib.org/dlib/february05/sanderson/02sanderson.html).
- This very interesting (but technical) piece explores synergies
between the Web Services replacement for Z39.50, Search and Retrieve
via the Web (SRW) and the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) Protocol for
Metadata Harveseting. SRW is a search protocol and OAI-PMH is for
retrieving specified sets of records (or all) from a content
repository. The authors demonstrate that "SRW and OAI clearly
complement each other. Although the two protocols have chosen
different answers to certain questions, this does not prevent them
from being stacked up like building blocks into very different and
interesting configurations." Highly recommended for anyone familiar
with SRW or OAI. - [27]RT
Spool, Jared M. "[28]Seven Common Usability Testing Mistakes" [29]UIE
Roadshow Articles
(2005)(http://www.uie.com/events/roadshow/know_your_users/articles/usa
bility_testing_mistakes/). - This is the kind of article that you want
to give to your administrator when he or she starts wondering what
usability can and cannot do. It briefly indicates what you can measure
and what you can't, who should be involved and the kind of follow-up
you should do. I've rarely read something by author, Jared Spool,
where I didn't learn something and this brief treatment is no
exception. - [30]LRK
Stone, Brad. "[31]The Road Now Taken" [32]Newsweek (via MSNBC) (21
February 2005)(http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6934466/site/newsweek/). -
Regardless of which Internet mapping site you prefer, the geospatial
data that makes it work was provided by one of two companies --
[33]NAVTEQ, based in Chicago or [34]Tele Atlas, a Netherlands firm.
This article describes how these companies go about gathering the data
and making sure it stays current. Meanwhile, the sales of "GPS-enabled
devices," including cell phones, is projected to go through the roof
by 2008. Thus, there looks to be no end in sight to the demand for
geospatial data. While Internet users are particularly enamored of
mapping websites, many business people are downright addicted to
various high tech navigation tools. The article notes that North
America, Western Europe and Japan are fairly well "mapped" right now;
future expansion is projected in Eastern Europe and Asia. - [35]SK
Suber, Peter. "[36]Comments on the Weakening of the NIH Public-Access
Policy" [37]SPARC Open Access Newsletter
(82)(2005)(http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/02-02-05.htm#
nih). - Since the National Institutes of Health (NIH) sponsors
megabucks worth of research, it would be a big deal if all of the
articles resulting from that research would be made freely available.
Last July, the U.S. House Appropriations Committee made
recommendations that made this a possibility (see "[38]NIH
Public-Access Policy: Frequently Asked Questions" for details). Now,
after events I won't describe here (see "[39]Congress Approves the NIH
Plan"), the NIH has issued its "[40]Policy on Enhancing Public Access
to Archived Publications Resulting from NIH-Funded Research," and the
news for open access advocates is mixed at best. Deposit of articles
in PubMed Central is voluntary (not mandatory), and it is "strongly
encouraged as soon as possible (and within twelve months of the
publisher's official date of final publication)." Suber dissects the
NIH plan with his usual clarity and precision, and he provides
interesting background information about it, including how it compares
to an earlier draft. One key point that he makes is that the policy
"invites publishers who dislike the policy to voice a preference
contrary to the NIH's preference," which "creates an untenable,
high-risk dilemma for authors." In spite of the NIH plan's perceived
downsides, Suber notes in his postscript that: "Even the watered down
version of the policy will be an advance over the status quo, though a
smaller advance than we had been led to expect. . . . Since the body
of NIH-funded research is very large and very high in quality, even
delayed free access to a subset is better than toll access to the
totality." - [41]CB
Tonkin, Emma. "[42]Making the Case for a Wiki" [43]Ariadne
(42)(2005)(http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue42/tonkin/). - Wiki: "the
simplest online database that could possibly work." Anyone can create
Wiki pages and edit them, so a Wiki is by nature a collaborative tool
(and one designed to drive control freaks off the deep end). The
[44]Wikipedia is probably the most famous Wiki. Tonkin gives the
reader a brief overview of Wikis, suggests various uses, provides
comparative information about major Wiki software, discusses
deployment issues, and speculates about the future of Wikis. - [45]CB
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