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Will “Article of the Future” hamper sharing among scientists?

By jts | Published: August 17, 2009
Ad Lagendijk argues that Elsevier’s experiment “to redefine how a scientific article is presented online” is a solution in search of a problem. For many scientists, Adobe’s PDF is the standard for publishing and reading scientific literature. Linear text is still the preferred format for consumption. Lagendijk suggests that Elsevier’s real aim is to force [...]
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Content Management for the Library

By jts | Published: August 5, 2009
del.icio.us Tags: drupal,libraries,tools At MPOW we’re hoping to migrate the library’s static HTML web site to the Drupal CMS. We’ve been using Drupal successfully for a year and a half for an offsite affiliate project and for a SEPA grant-funded project.  We have access to develop the current site using .NET when we want, but we [...]
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Confluence: Sustainable community

By jts | Published: January 9, 2009
Collecting some thoughts here: This edition of E2 almost makes me wish we’d moved to Portland 10 years ago when we were considering it.  What’s most inspiring is that the city commissioners, mayor, and other spearheaders interviewed don’t just talk about emissions and traffic, but about reviving the city while also drawing boundaries to preserve farmland [...]
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Research Data in the Cloud

By jts | Published: January 6, 2009
Although I haven’t really dabbled with AWS I do know anecdotally that it appears to be gaining ground among the library computing community for hosting (meta) data sets and experimental projects.  I have also heard rumors of adoption of AWS by my employer. Having been a frequent reader of Deepak Singh’s business|bytes|genes|molecules blog over the last [...]
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Federated Search for Google Search Appliance

By jts | Published: May 23, 2008
MuseGlobal and Adhere Solutions recently announced a federated search extendor, the All Access Connector, for the Google Search Appliance and Google Mini. Sol at Federated Search Blog raises some good questions about how relevancy is calculated for search results. One point is that Google’s PageRank probably won’t fare well in the enterprise. [...]
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