Search Engines & Research Tools

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

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D-Lib May/Jun 2007 Weig et al.	Large Scale Digitization of Oral History: A Case Study Analog-to-digital audio reformatting projects involving spoken word recordings are becoming more feasible as best practice consensus becomes increasingly apparent in the library community and digital technology processes become more inevitable as preservation strategies.
D-Lib May/Jun 2007 Saidis & Delis	Type-consistent Digital Objects This article provides an overview of the Digital Object Prototype framework and highlights its type-conformance capabilities and shows how heterogeneous digital material can be treated in a uniform manner without resorting to custom developments.
D-Lib May/Jun 2007 Peter Kosewski	Digital Technology Opens Harvard's Library Collections to the World Visitors to the Harvard Libraries web site can find and use thousands of individual digital materials from the Harvard collections.
D-Lib May/Jun 2007 Margaret Henty	Ten Major Issues in Providing a Repository Service in Australian Universities This article identifies the issues relating to repository management that are seen as important by a group of senior academic administrators. These reflect to some degree the way in which repositories have developed in Australia.
D-Lib May/Jun 2007 Lally & Dunford	Using Wikipedia to Extend Digital Collections Web 2.0 technologies offer librarians a great opportunity to enhance the authority of resources that students use on a daily basis, and to push their knowledge and expertise beyond the traditional boundaries of the library.
D-Lib May/Jun 2007 Baptista & Ferreira	Tea for Two: Bringing Informal Communication to Repositories Concerning scholarly communications, current social software already enables the user to establish a connection between formal and informal documents, this being one of its main virtues. However, it is possible to go even further. Here's how.
D-Lib June 2007 Yakel et al.	Creating the Next Generation of Archival Finding Aids Despite the transition from paper to electronic form, online finding aids retain much of the look and functionality of their paper counterparts. New online collaborative technologies, such as filtering and recommender systems, allow for new methods of interacting with and experiencing primary sources.
Information Today May 14, 2007 Paula J. Hane	Siderean Upgrades Its Relational Navigation Platform Siderean Software, Inc. is unveiling the newest version of its information-access platform, Seamark Navigator, at the Enterprise Search Summit.
Information Today May 14, 2007	Hoover's Adds New Content and Radius Search Tool Hoover's has added new Mexico company records and a new search parameter, Radius Search, which is included within Hoover's Build A List tool.
Information Today May 7, 2007 Barbara Quint	Google Burrows into State Government Data The governors' offices in four states - Arizona, California, Utah, and Virginia - have announced partnerships with Google, instructing state agencies to begin opening up previously hard-to-find public information.
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