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+ Duke U Press Debuts Carlyle Letters Online (via LJ)
Thanks to grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Delmas Foundation, the Carlyle database is currently available at no charge to institutions and individuals. Duke is undertaking the project in conjunction with HighWire Press, a division of Stanford University Libraries. Duke asserts that Carlyle Letters Online is among the first electronic scholarly editions to be published by a university press.
+ Version 69 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Now Available
Make sure to also visit Charles W. Bailey’s weblog: DigitalKoans.
See Also: Scholarly Electronic Publishing Resources (directory of over 270 related Web sites)
+ Nature Publishing Group Joins Portico
+ Library of Congress Signs Pact with the National Assembly Library of Korea (via LOC Information Bulletin)
Hotmap: Looking at Geographic Attention
by Danyel Fisher
From the abstract:
Online interactive mapping systems are growing in popularity: Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo[***] all offer interactive maps, with varying features and qualities of aerial photography. For the maintainers and designers of such systems, the behavior of users can provide critical cues on how both to improve their offerings and understand how users are now interacting with the system. The tools needed to track user data for these systems are different from the traditional tools of log file analysis.
Direct to Full Text (8 pages; PDF)
You can explore Hotmap at http://hotmap.msresearch.us/
Source: Microsoft Research
See Also: Other Sources for Heat Maps that Help Visualize Data include:
+ SmartMoney’s Map of the Market
+ Trulia Home Sales Maps
+ Zillow City Heat Maps
*** Ask.com where Gary is Director of Online Information Services offers several interesting and useful features with its map and local search products. For examples, with Ask Maps you can watch your directions (both driving and walking directions) dynamically change as you move pointers or “pins” to new locations. Ask Maps also provides aerial imagery.
At Ask City you can draw a circle, line, etc on the map and then “search inside” the specific area you’ve marked-up. You can also embed these maps on blogs and web pages.
See Also: How We Watch the City: Popularity and Online Maps
Another paper by Danyel Fisher.
Survey Results: Which of the Following Online Health Care Tools Have You Used?
Results from a Forrester survey.
From the summary:
Online physician and facility finders are the most popular online health care tool used by nonelderly, commercially insured U.S. residents who use online health care tools, according to a survey by Forrester Research. However, just 19% of respondents said that they are reassured that they are making the correct decision by using physician finder tools.
Source: iHealthBeat
SEC Releases Source Code for Interactive Data Viewer for Free Use by the Market
Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Christopher Cox announced today that the source code for the Interactive Financial Report Viewer that enables investors to analyze companies’ interactive data filings is now available via its Web site for free use by the market.
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Interactive data is powered by XBRL, a computer software language that labels companies’ financial and other data with codes from standard lists so that investors and analysts can more easily locate and analyze desired information.
Source code available here.
Source: U.S. Security and Exchange Commission
According to the New York Times, the Standardized Chapel Library Project, an initiative of the U.S. Bureau of Prisons, intends to bar access to library materials that, according to the Bureau of Prisons, ”discriminate, disparage, advocate violence or radicalize.” The initiative was created in response to concerns that prisons were becoming recruiting grounds for militant Islamic and other religious groups. The policy requires chaplains to remove books from chapel libraries unless the book appears on a list of 150 approved texts. The program has resulted in the elimination of thousands of religious texts from prison chapel libraries that were purchased by the prisons, or donated by churches and religious groups.
American Library Association (ALA) President Loriene Roy called on the Bureau of Prisons to immediately halt its removal of religious texts from prison libraries and return removed books to the library shelves. “We are outraged to learn that the Bureau of Prisons is removing religious texts from prison chapel libraries based solely on whether or not the books are on a short list of ‘approved’ religious books. A government agency should not have the right to determine what religious texts are “appropriate” when our Constitution promises not only freedom of speech, but also freedom of religion. Moreover, it is illogical that the Bureau of Prisons is removing the very resources that may help incarcerated persons change their lives for the better. The idea that removing religious books will create better citizens is ridiculous, and goes against the democratic fiber of our society.”
+ Prisons Purging Books on Faith From Libraries (NY Times)
Source: ALA
+ NYTimes Launches Mobile Real Estate Listings
See Also: This post has more about HouseFront.com and the mobile version of Zillow. Both offer property info via SMS.
+ ScanR: Turning Your Mobile Phone Camera into a Scanner, Fax, and Copier
+ Mobile Editions of Newspapers: San Jose Mercury News and Good Morning Silicon Valley
Your mobile home page can be customized to show only the sections of the newspaper you select. SJM also offers SMS alerts (Breaking News, Weather Scores, etc.) Register here for both services. Free but regular mobile charges apply.
Business Press Mobile Sites
+ Mobile Edition of Crain’s Cleveland Business
++ RCR Wireless News
Exalead unveils Baagz at DEMOfall 07 in San Diego
The beta is invite only at this time.
BAAGZ is a new form of social network that can be described as a live network of shared interests. It allows users (we like to call them “baagerz”) to easily organize their favorite things and topics online into individual “baagz.” While BAAGZ offers a simple way for users to organize their favorite online content, it also helps to educate BAAGZ about what is of interest to its users, or baagerz, and connect them with related content or other baagerz who are experts on a given topic.
+ Direct to Baagz
Again, closed beta at this time. You can sign-up for an invite here.
+ Direct to Complete Press Release
Source: Exalead Blog
It has been much to long since we added some new content to our ResourceShelf Webcam collection. So, here a few new entries:
+ Streaming Webcam: Leicester Square, London
+ Streaming Webcam: The London Eye
See Also: Big Ben Live Streaming Cam
+ Streaming Webcam: Live from the Shark Tank at the London Aquarium
+ Streaming Webcam: Buchanan Street, Glasgow
+ Streaming Webcam: Loch Ness, Scotland
See Also: Other Webcams in Our Collection
Source: CamVista
Like we do with all Ask.com posts from Gary, click here to read about a new service. Gary is Director of Online Information Resources at Ask.com.
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