Search Engines & Research Tools

Magazine articles on search engines, research tools, libraries, and museums.

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Search Engine Watch December 16, 2004 Gary Price	Ask Jeeves Launches Desktop Search Ask Jeeves has launched a beta desktop search application, capping off a very busy year in the desktop search space.
InternetNews December 15, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas	Ask Jeeves Enters Desktop Search Game Ask Jeeves entered the desktop search competition with a beta version of its own service that scours users' computers.
D-Lib December 2004 Bonita Wilson	The Growth of Digital Content The future of libraries and librarians has been discussed for years within the digital library community. Increasing amounts of digital content available anywhere and anytime makes that discussion more relevant than ever.
D-Lib December 2004 Herbert Van de Sompel et al.	Resource Harvesting within the OAI-PMH Framework Recently, use cases have emerged that reveal a more liberal interpretation of what constitutes metadata in the OAI-PMH. The scope of descriptive metadata can be expanded to be more than just DC, MARC and similar bibliographic formats.
D-Lib December 2004 Godby, Ypung & Childress	A Repository of Metadata Crosswalks In promoting standards for interoperability, one outcome is a repository that collects publicly accessible metadata into a repository that can be harvested using standard XML protocols and provides tools for creating sample services, such as customizable views of the data.
D-Lib December 2004 Jia Liu	Metadata Development in China: Research and Practice Chinese researchers and practitioners have now reached the point where metadata development and use have matured and become stable throughout the country's institutions.
D-Lib December 2004 Bonita Wilson	By the People, For the People: Posters from the WPA, 1936-1943 The Library of Congress' By the People, For the People website offers much more than a collection of poster images. It sets the collection within a historical context, describing the purposes, processes, outcomes and legacy of the Federal Arts Project.
D-Lib December 2004 David Green	How Fares the Wired Museum? Report on the 32nd Annual Conference of the Museum Computer Network which has been a leading agent in museums' use of computers from improving operational efficiency to animating collections and connecting them to a wider world.
D-Lib December 2004 Michael Droettboom	ISMIR 2004: International Conference on Music Information Retrieval, October 10-14, 2004, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain 2004 was an exciting year for ISMIR. The music information retrieval field is maturing, with more research results available for comparison, increased development and usage of common terminology and methodology, and more referencing of prior art.
PC World January 2005 Dan Verton	Google Stumbles With New Desktop Tool The beta version of Google Desktop Search does give the same satisfying results for your PC that Google.com provides for the Web. But as it's designed now, GDS also delivers a potential security nightmare, say industry experts.
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