2005 January

SandBox(sm): Wiki Applications and Uses is a categorized registry of applications and uses of wikis by corporations, colleges and universities, libraries, and other select institutions and organizations. As defined by Ward Cunningham, the father of the wiki, a ‘wiki‘ is a freely expandable collection of interlinked Web ‘pages’, a hypertext system for storing and modifying [...]

The Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) is an orbiting space telescope that will observe galaxies in ultraviolet light across 10 billion years of cosmic history. Such observations will tell scientists how galaxies, the basic structures of our Universe, evolve and change. Additionally, GALEX will probe the causes of star formation during a period when most of [...]

Technology Research Advances of 2004 - TRN’s Top Picks - Technology Research Advances of 2004. Each year sees more researchers at work and more research papers published than the last — the volume of scientific and technological research has doubled every decade for the past three centuries. The profusion of technology research in 2004 includes [...]

A Critical Approach to Open Source Software by Stefan Görling -
Thesis Abstract: - The purpose of this masters’ thesis was to discuss a number of assumptions regarding the benefits of Open Source software projects. By studying what has been written about Open Source combined with a number of own data collections, this thesis argues that:
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Reuters AlertNet is a humanitarian news network based around a popular website. It aims to keep relief professionals and the wider public up-to-date on humanitarian crises around the globe. AlertNet attracts upwards of three million users a year, has a network of more than three hundred contributing humanitarian organizations and its weekly email digest is [...]

2004 Year-End Google Zeitgeist - Based on billions of searches conducted by Google users around the world, the 2004 Year-End Zeitgeist offers a unique perspective on the year’s major events and trends. They hope you enjoy this aggregate look at what people wanted to know more about this year. Pulling together interesting search trends [...]

2004 Consumer Action Handbook - This 180-page guide from the Federal Consumer Information Center can help with your consumer problems and questions. Find help on such topics as buying and leasing cars, shopping from home and protecting your privacy and yourself from fraud. The Handbook also features thousands of names, addresses, phone numbers and e-mail [...]

Seismosurfing the Internet for Earthquake Data - Expanded Version - Web connections to original seismic data or seismic research information. Extremely comprehensive resource for seismic data and research covering the following areas: 1) Global. 2) California, 3) Alaska & PNW, 4) Inter-mountain US, 5) Eastern US, 6) Americas, 7) Europe, 8) Africa, Asia & Oceania, [...]

Genealogy and Family History Internet Web Directory - An excellent site for academic genealogy resources whose mission states: To promote scholarly educational access to all key worldwide Internet genealogical and family history databases and resources. This site is By: V. Chris & Thomas M. Tinney, Sr. This has been added to Genealogy Resources Subject Tracer™ [...]

Business Cycle Indicators - In December 1995, The Conference Board became the official source for the widely-publicized composite indexes of leading, lagging, and coincident indicators. For almost 30 years, these economic data series-often referred to as “the leading index” or “the leading indicators”-were compiled and published by the U.S. Department of Commerce. The Conference Board [...]

The Web Standards Group is for web designers & developers who are interested in web standards (HTML, XHTML, XML, CSS, XSLT etc.) and best practices (accessible sites using valid and semantically correct code). They aim to: a) Provide web developers and designers with a forum to discuss issues and share knowledge (via our discussion list [...]

Museums of the World - This web site is primarily a listing of hundreds of history, natural history and art museums and historical sites such as castles with links to their web sites. It is international in scope and may be searched by keyword or place and also browsed. The only annotation with the link [...]

The January 2005 V3N1 Awareness Watch™ Newsletter is a freely available 31 page .pdf document (558KB) by clicking here. The Awareness Watch Featured Report this month highlights a comprehensive listing of online Grant Resources. The Awareness Watch Spotters cover many excellent and newly released annotated current awareness research sources and tools as well as the [...]

MobiQuitous 2005 - The Second Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Networking and Services - July 17-21, 2005, San Diego, California - (ACM and IEEE Co-Sponsorship Pending)- The combination of mobile and ubiquitous computing is emerging as a promising new paradigm with the goal to provide computing and communication services all the time, [...]

International Small Business Journal provides a forum and focus for the discussion and dissemination of views and research on the small business sector thourghout the world. The emphasis is on systematic studies which help to improve the general understanding of small business and so contribute to more effective policies for and management of small business. [...]

Journal of World Business formerly known as The Columbia Journal of World Business. The Journal of World Business publishes manuscripts that are broad in scope, but demonstrate keen insights into problems facing the professional practitioner as well as the academician. With specifically designated editorial review boards to recognize the importance of contributions from the Pacific [...]

Internet Research: Privacy, Ethics and Alienation – An Open Source Approach by David M. Berry - Abstract: - This paper examines some of the ethical problems involved in undertaking Internet research and draws on historical accounts as well as contemporary studies to offer an analysis of the issues raised. It argues that privacy is a [...]

Resource Harvesting within the OAI-PMH Framework by Herbert Van de Sompel, Michael L. Nelson, Carl Lagoze, and Simeon Warner - Abstract:
Motivated by preservation and resource discovery, we examine how digital resources, and not just metadata about resources, can be harvested using the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH). We review and critique existing [...]

beSpacific - Accurate, Focused Law and Technology News - Just awarded “Best Overall Legal Blog” beSpacific focuses on the expanding resources in the public and private sector related to law and technology news. Daily postings provide updates on issues including copyright, privacy, censorship, the Patriot Act, ID theft, and freedom of information. The weblog was [...]

Iokio - Data Visualization Software and Browser/Reader - Iokio Omniscope is a desktop application for navigating and publishing data. It turns your data into interactive visualisations using an intuitive interface then creates files for opening in the free Omniscope Viewer. These features: 1) Open data from spreadsheets and databases, 2) Highly interactive point and click [...]