Search Engines & Research Tools

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D-Lib October 2006 Eric Lease Morgan	ECDL 2006: A Conference Report Based on a Travel Log in Context The overriding theme of the 10th European Conference on Digital Libraries conference was context. A number of the presentations, posters, and conversations were not only about information access but also about turning data into information and then into knowledge.
D-Lib October 2006 Carol Peters	Cross-Language Evaluation Forum - CLEF 2006 The results of the seventh campaign of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum were presented at a workshop immediately following the 10th European Conference on Digital Libraries. The workshop was attended by over 130 researchers and system developers from academia and industry.
D-Lib October 2006 Traugott Koch	Report on the 5th European Networked Knowledge Organization Systems/Services (NKOS) Workshop Several presentations and themes resulted in ambitions for practical collaboration efforts: a NKOS task force is expected to carry forward the work to further scope and develop a typology and an approach to a registry of KOS.
D-Lib October 2006 Pedersen et al.	ECDL 2006 Workshop Report: The Use of Digital Object Repository Systems in Digital Libraries (DORSDL) During recent years, digital object repositories have gained significant attention from the Digital Libraries/Digital Publishing community. The workshop's goal was to investigate the use of digital object repositories in the context of digital libraries.
D-Lib October 2006 Rachel Heery	Digital Library Goes e-Science (DLSci06): Workshop Held in Conjunction with ECDL 2006, September 17-22, 2006. Alicante, Spain The Digital Library community has the opportunity to contribute experience and technologies to the scientific process, not only in management of digital documents and content, but also in developing collaborative research environments, tools for semantic interoperability and preservation services.
D-Lib October 2006 Artacho & Duval	Report on the Workshop of Learning Object Repositories as Digital Libraries: September 22, 2006, Alicante, Spain The Learning Object Repositories workshop addressed the increasing importance of the digital library paradigm as a reference framework for building learning object repositories.
D-Lib October 2006 Karen Fill	Report on the 1st International Critical Success Factors for Institutional Change Workshop (CSFIC) The purpose of CSFIC '06 was to provide a forum for participants in mature eLearning projects to exchange information about the lessons learned from their projects in trying to bring about technological and cultural change within their institutions.
InternetNews October 12, 2006 Nicholas Carlson	Ask.com Intros Mobile Search Ask.com has introduced Ask Mobile, a new service for searching the Web from mobile devices.
Search Engine Watch October 12, 2006 Todd Malicoat	The Ongoing Struggle of Free vs. Fee, Part Two How can traditional information industry companies survive in the world of free web content? How can they appeal to "digital natives" who question the value of paying for information?
Search Engine Watch October 11, 2006 Elisabeth Osmeloski	The Ongoing Struggle of Free vs. Fee Does information really want to be free? If so, how can traditional information publishers and aggregators deal with shifting value propositions and revenue models of premium content and survive in the era of free web content?
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