Superpatron (Free subscription) | 10/01/2008
arxiv.org is a notable collection and publishing place for papers in physics and allied fields. I could say more, but you'd be better reading this interview with founder Paul Ginsparg on the receipt of his MacArthur Foundation award. arxiv.mobi is...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 09/25/2008
SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Sept. 25 -- Organic Alliance, Inc. (Pink Sheets: ORGC), announced today that USDA Certified Grass Fed Organic Beef will be available to OAI customers this fall. Grass fed Organic Beef has up to three times the Amino...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 09/25/2008
Doctors State That Grass Fed Organic Beef Eliminates Refined Carbohydrates and Poor-Quality Meats in Diets SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Sept. 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Organic Alliance, Inc. (Pink Sheets: ORGC), announced today that USDA Certified Grass Fed Organic Beef will be available to OAI customers this fall. Grass fed Organic Beef has up to three times the Amino 3 levels vs. Corn Fed Beef, which...
Catalogablog (Free subscription) | 09/22/2008
Nichols, David M. and Chan, Chu-Hsiang and Bainbridge, David and McKay, Dana and Twidale, Michael B. (2008) A lightweight metadata quality tool . In Proceedings The 8th ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries , pp. 385-388, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (US). We describe a Web-based metadata quality tool that provides statistical descriptions and visualisations of Dublin Core metadata harvested...
Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 09/21/2008
From the abstract: We describe a Web-based metadata quality tool that provides statistical descriptions and visualisations of Dublin Core metadata harvested via the OAI protocol. The lightweight nature of development allows it to be used to gather contextualized requirements and some initial user feedback is discussed. by: Nichols, David M. and Chan, Chu-Hsiang and Bainbridge, David and [...]
Vietnam Business Finance (Free subscription) | 09/11/2008
The company, one of the country’s largest paper producers, has received licence to invest 3 trillion VND (176 million USD) in building a paper plant in Long Thanh district, southern Dong Nai province.Once fully operational, the plant will be capable of producing 150,000 tonnes of newsprint per year.Central Quang Ngai province has also given the nod to the Tan Mai Company to build a plant specialising...
DigitalKoans (Free subscription) | 09/08/2008
Version 73 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography is now available from Digital Scholarship. This selective bibliography presents over 3,350 articles, books, and other digital and printed sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet. The Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography: 2007 Annual Edition (PDF file) is also available. For...
DigitalKoans (Free subscription) | 09/08/2008
Talis has released a podcast of an interview with Herbert van de Sompel, Digital Library Researcher at the Research Library of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, about SFX, OAI, and digital repositories.
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
TULSA, Okla., Aug. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Omni Air International, Inc. (OAI), a Part 121 worldwide passenger charter airline, based in Tulsa, Oklahoma, has announced that Mr. Jeffrey C. Crippen has joined the airline as President and Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Crippen, formerly President of Ryan International Airlines, brings a career of over 20 years of aviation expertise to complement the existing executive...
Chao-Vietnam (Free subscription) | 08/25/2008
Eight people, none wearing helmets, travel on two motorbikes on Highway 21B in Ha Noi’s Thanh Oai District. The lack of safety awareness is being blamed for a rise in the number of road accidents in rural areas. More motorbikes are taking to the road, but traffic safety awareness remains limited and infrastructure insufficient, leaving rural areas at increased risk of accidents, according to Ho Nghia...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Aug. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Organic Alliance, Inc. (Pink Sheets: ORGC) announced today that a previous release this week declaring that Dr. Gail Morrison, Vice Dean for Education and Director of the Office of Academic Programs at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, had joined the company's Medical Advisory Board is officially retracted due to other professional...
eFoundations (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
At the end of last week, Herbert Van de Sompel posted an important proposal to the OAI ORE Google Group, suggesting significant changes in the way ORE Resource Maps are represented using Atom. The proposal has two key components: To...
Catalogablog (Free subscription) | 08/01/2008
There will be a cash prize of $2000, sponsored by Microsoft Research, for the the best prototype that uses and promotes OAI-ORE . This challenge is open to teams from anywhere, whether or not they attend RepoCamp. The competition deadline for prototype entries is August 8th (two weeks on from RepoCamp).
Microsoft Research News and Headlines (Free subscription) | 07/29/2008
The Microsoft External Research group has been hard at work developing tools for scholarly research. So where is Redmond going with this? During Microsoft Research’s ninth annual Faculty Summit, Tony Hey, corporate vice president of Microsoft External Research, highlighted five tools.
Planet Intertwingly (Free subscription) | 07/26/2008
Rob Kaye has a good write-up of Kellan Elliott-McCrae and Evan Henshaw-Plath (Rabble)'s interesting XMPP talk at OSCON '08. There were a couple of things worth commenting on: Rabble presented using XMPP for FireEagle, Yahoo!'s new personal geolocation service that allows users to provide their current location to other users. For a few users and a few updates you can paginate the data stream into RSS/atom...
