Search Engines & Research Tools

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InternetNews March 18, 2006 David Needle	Google, For the Most Part, Won't be Searched The U.S. District Court in San Jose, Calif. said Google would have to turn over the log of 50,000 URLs to the Department of Justice, but not any of the data on 5,000 search queries the they requested.
BusinessWeek March 27, 2006 Michelle Conlin	You Are What You Post Bosses are using Google to peer into places job interviews can't take them.
D-Lib March 2006 Bonita Wilson	A Special Issue on Digital Library Evolution Automated digital library can be used to describe a digital library where all tasks are carried out automatically. Computer programs substitute for the intellectually demanding tasks that are traditionally carried out by skilled professionals.
D-Lib March 2006	To the Editor (March 2006) A reader responds to the article, Copyright Issues in Open Access Research Journals: The Authors' Perspective.
D-Lib March 2006 Gregory Crane	What Do You Do with a Million Books? The ability to extract from the stored record of humanity useful information in an actionable format for any given human being of any culture at any time and in any place will not emerge quickly, but the fundamental tools on which such a system would be built are moving forward.
D-Lib March 2006 Gregory Crane	D-Lib Featured Collection March 2006: The Perseus Digital Library The Perseus Digital Library is releasing a collection that introduces significant new content and brings new technologies and services to a mainstream digital library.
D-Lib March 2006 Schibel & Rydberg-Cox	Early Modern Culture in a Comprehensive Digital Library Digital libraries have the potential to transform fields such as early modern studies, where problems of physical access to sources and intellectual access to their contents have hampered our ability to contemplate major topics.
D-Lib March 2006 Daniel J. Cohen	From Babel to Knowledge: Data Mining Large Digital Collections High-quality digitization and thorough text markup may be attractive for those creating digital collections, but a familiarity with information theory and data-mining techniques makes one realize that it may be more worthwhile to digitize a greater number of books or documents at a lower standard for the same cost.
D-Lib March 2006 Choudhury et al.	Document Recognition for a Million Books Transcription represents only one component of document recognition. The presence of a large-scale book image corpus significantly raises the possibilities for document recognition capabilities, especially given the potential for statistical inferences or analyses.
D-Lib March 2006 David A. Smith	Debabelizing Libraries: Machine Translation by and for Digital Collections Million-book libraries provide not only testbeds for existing ideas, but also several problems in need of immediate solution. As data acquisition becomes more automated, cataloguing needs more automated help.
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