Are you a small business person or Internet wannabe searcher? Here\’s a daily update to maintain your current awareness in information retrieval, information extraction, bots, knowledge discovery and harvesting, data and Web mining, artificial intelligence, and general research and search sources on the Internet.
National Science Foundation Discoveries - NSF’s goal is to support the people, ideas and tools that together make discovery possible. That’s why they say NSF is “where discoveries begin.” Learn about many of the advances made possible with NSF support in “Discoveries.” If you’re looking for a specific discovery, please use their discovery search page. […]
Tech Buzz Game - Yahoo! Research Labs, Yahoo!’s organization for advanced research in science and technology, has teamed with O’Reilly Media, the premier information source for leading-edge computer technologies, to develop a joint research project called the Tech Buzz Game, an online prediction market that allows consumers to forecast the popularity of technology concepts, products […]
Theory of Computing (ToC) is a new Open Access online journal dedicated to the widest dissemination, free of charge, of high quality research papers in all areas of Theoretical Computer Science. The journal will not differ from the best existing publications in its commitment to and method of peer review to ensure the highest quality. […]
The Nation’s Report Card: An Introduction to The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) explains the major features of NAEP in a non-technical manner. It highlights the history and development of NAEP, how the data are collected, scored, and analyzed, and how the results are reported. This introductory guide to NAEP is designed to meet […]
LionShare Releases Personal Repository Milestone - Born of the recognition that the vast majority of learning and teaching material lives on peoples’ PCs, the LionShare project aims to provide a simple and trusted way to share those materials with others. The open source application isn’t quite done yet, but a useable beta has just been […]
Best Online Reference Sites compiled by librarians in the Ramapo Catskill Library System. There are 496 links for you to choose from! This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.
Kid’s Search Tools - Ramapo Catskill Internet Guides. This web page consists of categorized web search form dialog boxes for a number of internet based searchable information resources for kids. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.
Swiss Infodesk is an annotated link directory of selected online information about Switzerland. If you would appreciate support in your research, the research service of Swiss National Library is at your disposal. As the French and German version of Swissinfodesk are not identical with the English version, please have also a look at these two […]
NameVoyager - Explore the sea of names, letter by letter…watch trends rise and fall, and dive in deeper to see your favorite name’s place in the historical tides. The Baby Name Wizard’s NameVoyager is an interactive portrait of America’s name choices. Start with a “sea” of nearly 5000 names. Type a letter, and you’ll zoom […]
Finding what you need with the best search engines. This is a collection of search engines and similar resources that Phil Bradley uses on a regular basis when he is looking for different types of information. It’s not an exhaustive list, nor is it comprehensive. It’s a list of what he personally finds very useful. […]
SearchEngineDev is a Search Engine directory of SEO resources for web developers. The directory is a comprehensive, categorized, searchable collection of links with plenty of resources to help you with Search Engine optimization issues. This has been added to Directory Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.
International Economic Journal is a peer-reviewed, scholarly journal devoted to publishing high-quality papers and sharing original economics research worldwide. We invite theoretical and empirical papers in the broadly-defined development and international economics areas. Papers in other sub-disciplines of economics (e.g., labor, public, money, macro, industrial organizations, health, environment and history) are also welcome if they […]
Ajax: A New Approach to Web Applications by Jesse James Garrett - Ajax isn’t a technology. It’s really several technologies, each flourishing in its own right, coming together in powerful new ways. Ajax incorporates: 1) standards-based presentation using XHTML and CSS; 2) dynamic display and interaction using the Document Object Model; 3) data interchange and […]
TreePad™ is an award-winning Organizer, PIM / Database, Personal Information Manager and Word Processor. Portability and compactness are smoothly blended into TreePad™ with its other distinctive features: versatility and power, as well as simplicity and intuitiveness of use. Pioneer in Tree Structured data-management: one of the most imitated programs on the Web since 1995. This […]
Google Code - Code.google.com is their site for external developers interested in Google-related development. It’s where they will publish free source code and lists of their API services. A lot of people worked together to both prepare source code for release and prepare code.google.com for launch and ongoing maintenance. They really care about free and […]
Webbed Footnotes - If you like reading and discussing the news, this is the tool for you. Webbed Footnotes is a new, unique tool that enhances the web browsing experience. With Webbed Footnotes, you can annotate web pages with comments and can read and reply to the annotations left by others. Your comments will be […]
OpenSearch is a collection of technologies, all built on top of popular open standards, to allow content providers to publish their search results in a format suitable for syndication. You can see how this works on A9.com. Many sites today return search results as a tightly integrated part of the website itself. Unfortunately, those search […]
Lexonomy - A Taxonomy Primer - What’s the difference between a taxonomy and a thesaurus? What are the various types of controlled vocabularies, and how do they fit into a Web site’s Information Architecture? How do you use the various schemes to greatest advantage? Learn how to “take control” of these dynamic and effective tools […]
The Journal of Information Science is an international journal of high repute covering topics of interest to all those researching and working in the sciences of information and knowledge management. The Editors welcome material on any aspect of information science theory, policy, application or practice that will advance thinking in the field. Information Science is […]
Global Information Technology Report - “The United States is no longer No. 1 in making the best use of information and communications technologies (ICT), a new study says. It dropped to fifth place this year and Singapore is now on top. Singapore’s ranking in the so-called “Networked Readiness Index” was based on several factors, including […]