Posts from — July 2003

The June issue of the INASP Newsletter is now onli …. The June issue of the INASP Newsletter is now online. Here are the articles relevant to open access.

• Sir Roger Elliott, E-publishing and the Scientific Information Chain

• David Prosser, Towards open access to scientific journals
• John Willinsky, Scholarly associations and the economic viability of open access publishing
• Carthage Smith, World Summit on the Information Society
• Evelyn Kortum, WHO Collaborating Centres: International sharing of knowledge
• Maritza Hee Houng, Latin America and the Caribbean seek to meet the challenges of the information society

[Open Access News]

this is also interesting.

The new issue of Library Hi Tech is devoted to the …. The new issue of Library Hi Tech is devoted to the Open Archives Initiative Metadata Harvesting. The guest editor Timothy W. Cole. Only abstracts are free online. Here's the TOC.

• Timothy W. Cole, Using OAI: innovations in the sharing of information

• Carl Lagoze; Herbert Van de Sompel, The making of the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting
• Caroline R. Arms, Available and useful: OAI at the Library of Congress
• Michael L. Nelson, Terry L. Harrison, and JoAnne Rocker, OAI and NASA's scientific and technical information
• Simeon Warner, E-prints and the Open Archives Initiative
• Sarah L. Shreeves, Joanne S. Kaczmarek, and Timothy W. Cole, Harvesting cultural heritage metadata using the OAI Protocol
• Kat Hagedorn, OAIster: a “no dead ends” OAI service provider
• Martin Halbert, The Metascholar Initiative: AmericanSouth.Org and MetaArchive.Org
• Christopher J. Prom, Reengineering archival access through the OAI protocols
• Gary Simons and Steven Bird, Building an Open Language Archives Community on the OAI foundation
• Hussein Suleman and Edward A. Fox, Leveraging OAI harvesting to disseminate theses
• William Y. Arms, Naomi Dushay, Dave Fulker, and Carl Lagoze, A case study in metadata harvesting: the NSDL
• Judith Wusteman, XML to the desktop
• Morell D. Boone, Library facility planning – the consultant's view: a chat with Andrea Michaels
• Michael Seadle, Copyright in a networked world: digital distance education

[Open Access News]

there are some interesting links here, i hope to see more in the future. we helped 2 years ago to add project gutenberg to Open Archives, along with the RFC and IETF proceedings. the computer scientists didn't build an autoupdate app though, so they are likely out of date now.

WordPerfect or MSWord?. I was going to write a rant against MSWord, but hasn't that been done to death? Anyway, I much prefer WordPerfect, but I've been gradually (and painfully) switching to Word. Not because I want to, but because it seems I… [Invisible Adjunct]

bbedit, if a text editor and a markup can't do it, i can't conceive of what you need to do.

Call for Papers

Semantic Web Technologies for Searching and Retrieving
Scientific Data
Monday, October 20, 2003
Sundial Resort, Sanibel Island, Florida, USA

http://ic.arc.nasa.gov/projects/scisw2003/cfp.htm

A workshop in conjunction with The Second International
Semantic Web Conference

Submission of papers: July 18, 2003
Notification of acceptance: August 22, 2003
Submission of camera-ready version: September 19, 2003
Workshop: October 20, 2003

This one-day workshop aims at exploring the Semantic-Web requirements
for scientific communities. The particular focus is on methods for search and retrieval of scientific data that match the needs of domain scientists. In most scientific disciplines today, such as earth sciences, bio-informatics, environmental science, physical sciences, medical informatics and others, scientists access a number of online sources that provide information and services in that domain. Currently available methods and capabilities for searching, locating, retrieving, querying, and integrating scientific data from multiple online sources are inadequate for scientists who still use collections of stand-alone sources. There are several efforts in progress on applying semantic web technology for data retrieval in scientific domains such as integrating Geospatial data, integrating bio-informatics sources and services, integration of GeoSciences data, Earth Science information sources and also Medical Informatics data sources, which are all based on tailoring upcoming Semantic Web technologies to science data search and retrieval.
The objective of this workshop is to gain new insights into the information search and retrieval needs of scientists and the applicability
of semantic web technology to this task by reviewing efforts in progress as well as new perspectives on building semantic web-based approaches for scientific communities. We welcome submissions that describe a vision or work in progress on building a semantic web for a particular science discipline.

Topics of Interest (Include but are not limited to)

- Types of search and retrieval requests typical for science data users. – Iterative search scenarios typical for a scientists search profile.
- Specifications of properties of scientific data sets relevant for successful search, inference, and retrieval. – Granularities of ontologies for scientific data. – Specifications of search purpose and search result within the setting of scientific investigations.
- Ontological differences about fundamental concepts that are present across different scientific domains, such as space, time, and processes. – Experience reports with using state-of-the-art technologies for developing building blocks such as “wrappers” or interfaces to science information sources. – Application or development of semantics-based search, query, and retrieval agents and softbots.
- Connections between ontologies for scientific and generic use, over the same domains. – Semantic web technologies aiding interdisciplinary science activities. – Data quality, pedigree and provenance issues. – Scientific workflows and applicability of Web services to workflows.

Paper Submission

We invite submissions of short papers in the area of Semantic-Web-based search and retrieval of scientific data. Papers are solicited in the following categories:

- Experience papers (upto 6 pages) describing completed
work or work in progress.
- Position papers (upto 3 pages) articulating a new problem, approach, vision, or position.
Authors should submit a PDF file of their paper to scisw2003@email.arc.nasa.gov

Organizing Committee Naveen Ashish USRA RIACS, NASA Ames Research Center, USA
ashish@email.arc.nasa.gov
Max Egenhofer University of Maine, USA
max@sparial.maine.edu
Carole Goble University of Manchester, UK
carole.goble@cs.man.ac.uk

Program Committee
Terence Critchlow, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Isabel Cruz, University of Illinois at Chicago Susan Davidson, University of Pennsylvania Natasha Fridman Noy, Stanford University School of Medicine Kathleen Hornsby, University of Maine Vipul Kashyap, National Library of Medicine Bertram LudŠscher, San Diego Supercomputer Center Brian McBride, HP Laboratories Dennis McLeod, University of Southern California Eric Miller, W3C World Wide Web Consortium Amit Sheth, University of Georgia
For questions or comments, please send email to scisw2003@email.arc.nasa.gov

An Unintended Lesson?.

Let's hope these statistics don't translate into attitudes toward marriage.

One in three employees start looking for a new job on their first day at work, according to research.

Half of 1,000 people surveyed said they were loyal to their career rather than their employer and almost as many did not expect to be with their current firm in a year's time.

Career consultants Penna Sanders & Sidney said most workers were now keeping their CV up to date, in case they needed to apply for a new job quickly.

Managing director Bill McCarthy said workers had learned from employers that loyalty begins and ends at home.

[Electric Venom]

I've actually been looking into a utility that automatically keeps my CV more or less up to date, but you know, nothing is standardized in this arena. I look at colleagues CV's and they vary per seniority and per discipline primarily, but they also vary per interest and focus.

Special Issue of Post Identity: Submissions Due ASAP. This call for papers comes by way of Purse Lip Square Jaw:

The theme for our Winter 2003 special issue is “Identifying New Media.” We are looking for submissions that theorize how new media forms (DVDs; e-books; Internet blogs, digital archives, interactive gaming; etc.) are changing cultural and academic understandings of identity and authorship, and/or how new media might provide models for new forms of scholarship. We especially are interested in experimental work that performs its theory, such as essays or projects that offer alternative models to the standard academic essay. We are interested in the relationship between the form and content of academic discourse, and the ways in which this discourse might evolve in light of the new media scene. [Kairosnews - A Weblog for Discussing Rhetoric, Technology and Pedagogy]

This is an interesting cfp, i wish i had time to do something with it.

Willie Nelson Supports Dennis Kucinich. Dennis Kucinich has picked up some welcome support from country music singer Willie Nelson: “I am endorsing Dennis Kucinich for… [TalkLeft: The Politics of Crime]

well, you see, this is a better reason than most to support a candidate. when the red headed stranger says someone is worth the time, they usually are.

in general i consider myself a progressive, so it is not too surprising that my top 10 turned out like this :
Your Results:

1.Ê
Green Party Candidate ÊÊ(100%)Ê

2.Ê
Gephardt, Cong. Dick, MO – Democrat ÊÊ(90%)Ê

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Edwards, Senator John, NC – Democrat ÊÊ(90%)Ê

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Kucinich, Cong. Dennis, OH – Democrat ÊÊ(87%)ÊÊ

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Dean, Gov. Howard, VT – Democrat ÊÊ(83%)ÊÊ

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Leahy, Patrick Senator, Vermont – Democrat ÊÊ(80%)ÊÊ
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Daschle, Senate Minority Leader Tom, SD – Democrat ÊÊ(78%)ÊÊ
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Socialist Candidate ÊÊ(77%)ÊÊ
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Kerry, Senator John, MA – Democrat ÊÊ(77%)ÊÊ

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Biden, Senator Joe, DE – Democrat ÊÊ(77%)ÊÊ

The Cost of War

“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.”

President Dwight D. Eisenhower
April 16, 1953

The Cost Of War.com precisely details those thefts.

 

[Politics in the Zeros]

this is an interesting page, the war economy should pull us right out of recession, right….. right? oh, maybe not.

its funny, it has some good reviews, and someone actually took the time to do it. fast food reviews