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ONLINE
Sep/Oct 2004
Marydee Ojala |
The HomePage: Information, Short and Sweet Counterbalancing the "large" of popular culture are the "small" of instant analysis, 90-second sound bites, and in-depth reports that last all of 2 minutes. Should information professionals worry about research being reduced to the bare-bones minimum?   |
ONLINE
Sep/Oct 2004
Greg R. Notess |
Internet Search Engine Update Ask Jeeves added indexed PDF files to its results... For Internet Explorer users, Ask added a "binoculars preview"... Gigablast has been busy expanding its database size... Google is now indexing the text content of Flash files... etc. |
Information Today
September 2004
Barbara Quint |
Investigative Report: On the TREC Trail TREC text retrieval conference workshops evaluate the efforts of participants to complete difficult tests designed to advance text retrieval systems in different problem categories. |
Information Today
September 2004
Dick Kaser |
Opinion: When All Is Nothing and Something More My hat is off to those of you who build digital archives for a living, to those of you who make the search machines that are capable of isolating treasures in large data dumps, and to those of you who are developing the analytical and visualization techniques capable of extracting meaning from, dare I say, nothingness. |
Information Today
September 2004
Bill Spence |
Feed(ing) Frenzy Providing RSS feeds drives more traffic to our Web sites, but the decision to provide RSS feeds should be ours to make. Being scraped an overzealous technology provider was more painful than the term implies. |
Searcher
September 2004
Dave Mattison |
Looking for Good Art: Web Resources and Image Databases, Part 1 Art images on the Web represent one of the first and last frontiers in terms of pools of knowledge: millions of historic art images served and more to come. Here are links to some of the best Web sites. |
Searcher
September 2004
Coffman & Arret |
To Chat Or Not to Chat --- Taking Yet Another Look at Virtual Reference, Part 2 Chat reference has not turned out to be the panacea many libraries hoped for. Our funds are too limited and our reference and basic library services far too important to squander money on services that don't work. |
Searcher
September 2004
Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Going the Distance Looking at a career from a lifelong perspective, some of the jobs you will have may turn out to be ones forced upon you by changes out of your control. Where do you think information professionals will work in coming years? |
Managed Care
August 2004 |
Free Database Encourages Wide Sharing of Information on Programs' Outcomes Yes, health care is a business, but altruistic plans would like to cooperate with others. The Leapfrog Group has set up a simple mechanism to do this. |
Search Engine Watch
August 31, 2004
Gary Price |
A New Player in Desktop Search Copernic, a well-known developer of web search tools, is entering the desktop search marketplace with the release of a new product. |
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