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D-Lib
May 2000
Lawrence Rudner |
Who Is Going to Mine Digital Library Resources? And How? As use of the Internet grows as a research tool, patrons have become increasingly less dependent on librarians and other expert intermediaries. Examining the quality of on-line searches, the author argues that researchers and other internet users do not look for and hence do not find the best resources.   |
Search Engine Watch
April 4, 2000 |
Search Satisfaction And Behavior Results Released Every three months, some users at the major search engines are selected randomly by NPD and asked about their visits. The results are fascinating, but they've not been available to the general public until now.
The survey is funded and conducted on behalf of the major search engines, and the results have been used for their own internal purposes.... |
Search Engine Watch
April 4, 2000 |
Google Adds Directory Users continue to rave about the quality of Google's search results, and that's testimony that its link analysis system works well at delivering relevant information. Now Google is applying link analysis in a new way, to the human powered information of the Open Directory. |
Search Engine Watch
April 4, 2000 |
The Vortals Are Coming! The Vortals Are Coming! Specialty search engines, topical search engines, vertical portals or "vortals" -- these are web sites which focus on particular topics and which especially allow you to search for information relating to those topics.... |
D-Lib
April 2000
David Rumsey & Julie Sweetkind |
The David Rumsey Collection At the beginning of March, one of the largest private map collections in the United States, the David Rumsey Collection, went online... |
D-Lib
April 2000
Peter Hirtle |
Digital Paleography Paleography is the science and art of reading and deciphering old or obscure handwriting. What does paleography and ancient handwriting have to do with digital libraries? Preservation of digital file formats is of increasing concern to the digital library community. |
D-Lib
April 2000
Wendy P. Lougee |
Book Review: Digital Libraries This book by William Arms draws boundaries broadly and covers issues from the perspective of all the relevant stakeholders -- i.e., librarians, technologists, publishers, and users. |
D-Lib
April 2000
Moore, Baru, Rajasekar, Ludaescher, et al. |
Collection-Based Persistent Digital Archives - Part 2 A discussion of the four major components of a persistent archive system: support for ingestion, archival storage, information discovery, and presentation of the collection. Includes a description of a one million message persistent E-mail collection. |
D-Lib
April 2000 |
In Brief Put Yourself in the PIE - The HeadLine Personal Information Environment... A New Webzine: High Energy Physics Libraries Webzine... The British Universities Newsreel Project Database... Source Code Released for MyLibrary@NCState... etc. |
D-Lib
April 2000 |
Clips & Pointers What is the Internet (And What Makes It Work), By Robert E. Kahn and Vinton G. Cerf... A Question of Balance: Private Rights and the Public Interest in Scientific and Technical Databases... Managing Cultural Assets from a Business Perspective, by Laura Price and Abby Smith... etc. |
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