2005 January

Information Literacy Standards for Science and Technology (DRAFT)- Based on the ACRL Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education, five standards and twenty-six performance indicators were developed. Each performance indicator is accompanied by one or more outcomes for assessing the progress toward information literacy of students of science and engineering or technology at all levels [...]

A Repository of Metadata Crosswalks by Carol Jean Godby, Jeffrey A. Young, and Eric Childress - Abstract: This paper proposes a model for metadata crosswalks that associates three pieces of information: the crosswalk, the source metadata standard, and the target metadata standard, each of which may have a machine-readable encoding and human-readable description. The crosswalks [...]

The Social Structure of Free and Open Source Software Development by Kevin Crowston and James Howison - Abstract:
Metaphors, such as the Cathedral and Bazaar, used to describe the organization of FLOSS projects typically place them in sharp contrast to proprietary development by emphasizing FLOSS’s distinctive social and communications structures. But what do we really know [...]

The State of Blogging: Pew Internet Report - By the end of 2004 blogs had established themselves as a key part of online culture. Two surveys by the Pew Internet & American Life Project in November established new contours for the blogosphere: 8 million American adults say they have created blogs; blog readership jumped 58% [...]

The January 2005 Zillman Column is now available and is titled World Wide Web Reference. This January 2005 Zillman Column is a comprehensive list of world wide web references resources and sites available over the Internet. Download this excellent 16 page free .pdf (345KB) column today by clicking here and begin using the many reference [...]

The Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) , established in 1962, is an integral part of the infrastructure of social science research. ICPSR maintains and provides access to a vast archive of social science data for research and instruction, and offers training in quantitative methods to facilitate effective data use. To ensure [...]

Working Draft: Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) Version 1.1 - The XSL Working Group has released an updated Working Draft of the “Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) Version 1.1.” Version 1.1 updates the XSL 1.0 Recommendation for change marks, indexes, multiple flows, and bookmarks, and extends support for graphics scaling, markers, and page numbers.

Speculative Search Game - A game where you predict which web pages will rank more highly on Google in the future! The output of the game will be used to build a speculative search engine that ranks those web pages more highly today. This has been added to Information Futures Markets Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.

The Encyclopedia of Astrobiology, Astronomy, and Spaceflight - The Encyclopedia is an on-line A-Z maintained by astronomer/author David Darling and is part of The Worlds of David Darling website Some of the content is based on his books, including The Universal Book of Astronomy, The Complete Book of Spaceflight, The Extraterrestrial Encyclopedia, and Life Everywhere: [...]

The Probability Web is a collection of probability resources on the World Wide Web (WWW). The pages are designed to be especially helpful to researchers, teachers, and people in the probability community. The Probability Web was conceived by Phil Pollett at the University of Queensland, who maintained it from October 1995 to February 2001. It [...]

Here is a comprehensive and updated list of all sites, blogs and news media sources publishing video clips, TV news stories and amateur footage of the Asian tsunami.