Jon Phipps' NSDL WeblogGood stuff that NSDLers might find interesting, and an experiment in using weblogs for community building and knowledge transfer.Wikis and the comm portal- May 31, 2003 Doing some reading about Wikis lately and there's a pretty good essay on Microdoc News that points out that "Blogs Turn People into WebPages" and "Wikis Turn Communities into WebPages". I also spent some time rooting around in Wikipedia. This provoked some thoughts about the comm portal: The developers are currently using wikis for much of the system documentation. Some aspects of this are good: It's easy to update and maintain pages and links, it's collaborative, it lowers the...http://radio.weblogs.com/0101084/2003/05/31.html#a228 Quickiwiki, Swiki, Twiki, Zwiki and the Plone Wars- May 30, 2003 "Quickiwiki, Swiki, Twiki, Zwiki and the Plone Wars Wiki as a PIM and Collaborative Content Tool"http://www.infotoday.com/searcher/apr03/mattison.shtml pMachine Publish Your Universe- May 30, 2003 "pMachine is online publishing's most flexible and creative software. With pMachine, you can publish virtually any kind of web content - from a basic weblog, to an advanced interactive magazine. pMachine gives you complete control over the presentation and the interactivity of your site. "http://www.pmachine.com/ RaptorBook: Main- May 29, 2003 "The RaptorBook Engine is an open source project dedicated to bringing public domain etexts and ebooks into the mainstream. This site was originally launched as a proof of concept for the engine behind it. Currently, the site is a test bed for engine development. We plan to release the full source code for the engine in the summer (2003) when we complete the second version. More about the project."http://www.raptorbook.org/index.php Invisible-Web.net - About the site- May 29, 2003 "This site is a companion to The Invisible Web: Finding Hidden Internet Resources Search Engines Can't See by Chris Sherman and Gary Price. It includes a directory of some of the best resources the Invisible Web has to offer. The directory includes resources that are informative, of high quality, and contain worthy information from reliable information providers that are not visible to general-purpose search engines. We give precedence to resources that are freely available to anyone with Web...http://www.invisible-web.net/about.html Web search: how the Web has changed information retrieval- May 29, 2003 "Topical metadata have been used to indicate the subject of Web pages. They have been simultaneously hailed as building blocks of the semantic Web and derogated as spam. At this time major Web browsers avoid harvesting topical metadata. This paper suggests that the significance of the topical metadata controversy depends on the technological appropriateness of adding them to Web pages. This paper surveys Web technology with an eye on assessing the appropriateness of Web pages as hosts for...http://informationr.net/ir/8-3/paper154.html The Deep Web: Surfacing Hidden Value- May 29, 2003 "by MICHAEL K. BERGMAN This modified version of "The deep Web: Surfacing Hidden Value" appeared in The Journal of Electronic Publishing from the University of Michigan ( http:www.press.umich.edujep07-01bergman.html ), July 2001."http://www.brightplanet.com/deepcontent/tutorials/DeepWeb/index.asp JEP: The Deep Web- May 29, 2003 "This White Paper is a version of the one on the BrightPlanet site. Although it is designed as a marketing tool for a program "for existing Web portals that need to provide targeted, comprehensive information to their site visitors," its insight into the structure of the Web makes it worthwhile reading for all those involved in e-publishing. "http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/07-01/bergman.html |