Repository Interoperability through OAI-ORE

Open Archives Initiative Object Reuse and Exchange (OAI-ORE) defines standards for the description and exchange of aggregations of Web resources. These aggregations, sometimes called compound digital objects, may combine distributed resources with multiple media types including text, images, data, and video. The goal of these standards is to expose the rich content in these aggregations to applications that support authoring, deposit, exchange, visualization, reuse, and preservation. Although a motivating use case for the work is the changing nature of scholarship and scholarly communication, and the need for cyberinfrastructure to support that scholarship, the intent of the effort is to develop standards that generalize across all web-based information including the increasing popular social networks of “web 2.0”.

See: http://www.openarchives.org/ore/

CiteAlert from Elsevier

CiteAlert is service from Elsevier which automatically notifies the authors by e-mail soon after their work is referenced in a newly published article.Authors are eligible to receive CiteAlert notification if their article has been indexed by Scopus. The benefit from CiteAlert is, it keeps effective way of being up to date with citation made by any article.

See:http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/authorsview.authors/cite_alert

Free Top Scholar Videos from Academic Earth

Thousands of video lectures from the world’s top scholars are freely available at Academic Earth (http://academicearth.org). Subjects covering  Astronomy, Chemistry, computer Science, Economics, Engineering, English, Entrepreneurship, History, Law, Mathematics, Medicine, Philosophy, Physics, Political Science, Psychology, Religion from different universities such as Berkeley, Harvard, MIT, Prince ton, Stanford, Yale.Academic Earth is an organization where more and higher quality educational content becomes available online for free.

See.: http://academicearth.org

Wiki on Digital Reserch Tools

Digital Research Tools (DiRT) a wiki that brings together snapshot reviews of software which can help researchers, professors, students, think-tankers, teachers, librarians, corporate intelligence gatherers, and other inquisitive folks to do their research work better by  finding, organizing, manipulating, analyzing and sharing information.

This wiki collects information about tools and resources that can help scholars (particularly in the humanities and social sciences) to conduct their research more efficiently or creatively.  Whether anybody  need software to help to manage citations, author a multimedia work, or analyze texts, Digital Research Tools will help them to find what they are looking for.  This wiki provide a directory of tools organized by research activity, as well as reviews of select tools in which describe the tool’s features, and explain how it might be employed most effectively by researchers.

See: http://digitalresearchtools.pbwiki.com/

OCLC’s Expart Community Experiemnt

 

 OCLC is introducing the Expert Community Experiment, which enables cataloging members to make more changes to WorldCat records. During the Experiment, members with full-level cataloging authorizations have the ability to improve and upgrade WorldCat master records. The Experiment begins in February 2009 and lasts six months. 

• Expanded use of expert community catalogers
• Increased capabilities—changes can be made to full-level cataloging records and to more fields in the master record
• Improved sharing—more libraries making upgrades to master records
• Timeliness—record edits are made in real time so there’s no waiting for updates to appear in the database
• Extended portability—network level cataloging for use in the local catalog
• Increased flexibility—maintenance of WorldCat records can be shared more equally among OCLC staff and member libraries

For more visit: http://www.oclc.org/worldcat/catalog/quality/expert/default.htm

Gmail’s new feature:Multiple Inboxes

Gmail has got another new feature: Multiple Inboxes. The new feature from Gmail Labs allows users to have more than one inbox in their default Gmail view. That is the new tool lets users see up to four lists of email messages in addition to their inbox, all on one screen.

Labels and filters are two Gmail features that allow users to highlight and handle email based on their own search criteria. While these features help them stay organised, a user needs to switch between views to see what’s going under each Label or Filter. Multiple Inboxes aims to clean that up and enable users to see all their different lists at a glance.

In a company blog post, Google software engineer Octavian ‘Vivi’ said, “I’m seriously into filters and labels. All the email I get related to Flash goes under my ‘flash’ label, everything about paragliding goes under ‘flying’, and they all skip my inbox because that’s how I like to stay organized. But when new email arrives I have to switch to the ‘flash’ label first, then click on ‘paragliding’, etc. I wanted a way to see it all at once.”

According to Google, once a user, turns on Multiple Inboxes from the Labs tab under Settings, he can configure what he wants to see, as well as set the number of messages displayed and the positioning of his panels from the Multiple Inboxes section under Settings.

http://infotech.indiatimes.com/News/Gmail_gets_Multiple_Inboxes/

Get free eBook

1.      Scribd.com

Today, Scribd is the place where you publish, discover and discuss original writings and documents. More than 50 million people each month are finding or sharing fun, functional or fantastical writings and documents on Scribd.com and tens of thousands of other websites that have embedded Scribd’s document reader.

Scribd provides a creative and useful new platform for readers, authors, publishers and anyone else seeking to express themselves, share ideas and exchange information.

Scribd is also an excellent resource for free document templates.

http://www.scribd.com/

2.      Project Gutenberg

Project Gutenberg has the largest collection of public domain books. These are the books that out of copyright and available for anyone to use for any purpose. Lots of books from the world’s greatest fiction authors such as Dickens, Joyce, Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Anton Chekov and Edgar Allan Poe fall into this category. There are over 27,000 free books in the Project Gutenberg Online Book Catalog. A grand total of over 100,000 titles are available at Project Gutenberg Partners, Affiliates and Resources.

http://www.gutenberg.org/

3.      BOOKBOON.COM

Bookboon.com is an online publisher of free books. You can download the books for free and without providing any personal details. The books are provided in PDF so that you can print the books and/or read them offline.

http://bookboon.com/

4.       Free Tech Ebooks

These sites are mainly for tech books, covering everything from computer science, engineering and mathematics to programming and web development.

4.1   Freecomputerboos.com

Freecomputerbooks.com consists of a huge collection of Free online Computer, Programming, Mathematics, Engineering, and Technical Books, Lecture Notes and Tutorials. It is very well categorized by topics, with 12 top level categories, and over 150 sub-categories. It has both pattern and keywords search engines for you to find the titles quickly. The keywors search engine is powered by Google.

www.freecomputerbooks.com

4.2    FreeTechBooks.com

This site lists free online computer science, engineering and programming books, textbooks and lecture notes, all of which are legally and freely available over the Internet.
Throughout this site, other terms are used to refer to a book, such as ebook, text, document, monogram or notes.

www.freetechbooks.com

4.3      OnlineComputerBooks.com

 

OnlineComputerBooks.com contains details about free computer books, free ebooks, free online books and sample chapters related to Information Technology, Computer Science, Internet, Business, Marketing, Maths, Physics and Science which are provided by publishers or authors on their websites legally and free of charge.

www.onlinecomputerbooks.com

5.         Ebooks For Your iPod, PDA, Smartphone, Blackberry etc.

 

5.1 Books in my phon

Format and package books so that can read them on a java enabled phone. Book reader program is integrated within each downloadable book.

Features of the BooksInMyPhone book reader program include:

• Adjustable font size settings – make the letters bigger or smaller according to your personal preference.
• Night-vision mode – makes it easy to read in a dark room.
• Chapter navigation navigate the book by chapter.
• Pause & Auto-resume function – automatically pauses and resumes to accommodate incoming calls.
• Auto-bookmark – you never have to remember where you’re up to in the book.

www.booksinmyphone.com

5.2 Feedbooks

Feedbooks is a universal e-reading platform compatible with all mobile devices where you can download thousands of free e-books, publish and share your own content, and create customized newspapers from RSS feeds and widgets.

www.feedbooks.com

5.3 MANY BOOKS.NET

Browse through the most popular titles, recommendations, or recent reviews from our visitors. Perhaps you’ll find something interesting in the special collections. There are 22,906 eBooks available here and they’re all free.

www.manybooks.net

5.4 Project Gutenberg

Project Gutenberg, the first producer of free electronic books (ebooks) provide ebooks for mobile ipod, etc.

www.gutenberg.org

6. Ebook Search Engines

Ebook search engines are search engine for ebooks in pdf file.

www.pdfgeni.com

www.pdf-search-engine.com

www.data-sheet.net

 

YOUTUBE ARCHIVE TOOL: ContextMiner

A new project called ContextMiner has been created by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The tool lets anyone automate the collection of links to online videos and blogs along with their extensive metadata. Although they’re calling ContextMiner a YouTube archiving tool, it doesn’t actually download the videos off the site…yet. Instead, it extracts the embed, and the provides that to you along with other details like the number of views and what sites are linking to the video.

The tool, a part of the university’s NDIIPP VidArch project, is designed to be a framework that collects, analyzes, and presents contextual information along with the data it archives. To get started with ContextMiner, you create a scheduled, repeated collection activity called a “campaign.” For each campaign, you can enter in details like description and scope, then customize how often the campaign should run (daily, weekly, monthly), among other things. If you want to collect “in-links” – the web sites on the internet linking to the video in question – that is also an option. In addition to scouring YouTube, you can configure ContextMiner to search through the web and blogs, too.

 ContextMiner displays the query results in tabled records. Each record contains hyperlinks: embedded links to YouTube videos, links to blog pages and links to related Web sites.

ContextMiner does not download and archive videos or blog pages; it only links to the Web source. The developers hope to eventually offer tools and policies for exporting and sharing videos, blog pages and metadata.

More information is available at  http://www.contextminer.org/

Dataopedia:A Metasearch Engine for Web Site Data.

Dataopedia hits all of the high points for Web metrics. Searching for a particular URL with rankings from Google Page Rank, Alexa, Compete, and Quantcast, four of the primary sources check on a regular basis. It also provides  information, one of those most basic resources that always contains nugget of interesting information.

 

Dataopedia launched in December 2008, dataopedia.com is a web service that provides the most comprehensive information about websites available on the Internet.

Gathering together data from more than 50 sources, dataopedia.com is an aggregation web service that lets its users find out all the valuable facts about any website, such as traffic, online buzz, contact information, popularity in social bookmarking services…in short, all the essential facts about every website you can come across on the internet.

dataopedia.com has been conceived as the one-stop-resource for finding website facts, and the service can be accessed via the website, the mobile site, embeddable widgets for your website, and browser add-ons. Whatever suits you best and feels more comfortable to use.

More information visit: http://dataopedia.com/

Oxite:Open Source Blogging Platform from Microsoft

Oxite is an alpha version of  open source content management system released from Microsoft. The source code for the software is available under the Microsoft Public License. While Microsoft mostly describes Oxite as a blogging platform, the Oxite team also points out that you could use it as a content management system to develop more or less any type of site. Oxite currently powers Microsoft’s own Mix Online and also uses some recycled parts from Channel 9 .

Some of the major features of the software include support for Gravatars, pingbacks, trackbacks, RSS feeds, commenting, and the MetaWebLog API (so you can use your favorite blogging client to post to your Oxite blog directly).

http://visitmix.com/Lab/Oxite