Articles include:

Best Practice and Standardization Initiatives for Managing Electronic Resources
by Rafal Kasprowski

DCMI Metadata Schema Registry for Sharing Authoritative Information about Metadata Schemas
by Mitsuharu Nagamori and Shigeo Sugimoto

Toward Interoperability: A Report from 11th Open Forum on Metadata Registries and Related Standards
by Gail Hodge

ISO 2788 + ISO 5964 + Much Energy = ISO 25964
by Stella G. Dextre Clarke

Integration and Implementation Sciences: A Framework for Thinking about Standards in Complex, Problem-Based Research
by Caryn Anderson

Surfing the Wave or Taking a Road Less Traveled: The 2008 Infonortics Search Engine Meeting
by Paul Thompson

A new searchable database is available on the askSam Web site:

* 2008 Vice Presidential Debate - Search the full text of the 2008 vice presidential debate transcript between Republican candidate Gov. Sarah Palin and Democratic candidate Sen. Joe Biden online or download and search on your own PC.

Also available on this site is a link to the 1st and 2nd presidential debate eBooks and askSam will make the third debate available in eBook format.

http://www.asksam.com/ebooks/2008-Vice-Presidential-Debate

You can find these databases as well as others at: http://www.asksam.com/eBooks/

From the report:

Reinforcing its place in the scientific community, the arXiv repository at Cornell University Library reached a new milestone in October 2008: Half a million e-print postings — research articles published online — now reside in arXiv, which is free and available to the public.

Source: PhysOrg

From the article:

A recent study suggests that mobile Web sites need to make improvement to satisfy mobile surfers.

Source: ZDNet

From the article:

Out now from Microsoft Research is U Rank, an experiment that allows people to move results around, as well as share them with friends and add comments to listings.

Source: Search Engine Land

Direct to Guide

This guide provides an extensive collection of annotated print and online information resources on Russia’s business and economy.

Source: Business and Economic Research Advisor (Library of Congress)

+ So Long Bookmobile (via Buffalo News)

+ Google Testing Drunk E-mail Filter

+ Yahoo! to do list: unveil new calendar (via AFP)

+ Google goes mega-high-resolution on Google Maps with the GeoEye-1 satellite

+ Google’s Schmidt Says Internet ‘Cesspool’ Needs Brands (AdAge)

+ First Lady Laura Bush Recognizes Top Ten Museums and Libraries at White House Ceremony

From the article:

A pair of Penn State researchers has developed a statistical approach, called Automatic Linguistic Indexing of Pictures in Real-Time (ALIPR), that one day could make it easier to search the Internet for photographs. The public can participate in improving ALIPR’s accuracy by visiting a designated Web site, http://www.alipr.com, uploading photographs, and evaluating whether the keywords that ALIPR uses to describe the photographs are appropriate

Source: Penn St. Live

Posted 9 October 2008 on DocuTicker:
+ Global Competitiveness Report 2008-2009 (World Economic Forum)
+ Census Bureau Releases Comprehensive Health Insurance Coverage Estimates by County (U.S. Census Bureau)
+ Preserving a Critical National Asset: America’s Disadvantaged Students and the Crisis in Faith-based Urban Schools (White House Domestic Policy Council)

Spinoff 2008 Highlights NASA Innovations In Everyday Life

The 2008 edition of NASA’s annual Spinoff publication celebrates the agency’s 50th anniversary and highlights 50 new examples of how NASA technology is being put to use in everyday life. This anniversary edition features a 50-year timeline of NASA-derived technologies from historical programs and projects, and a summary of award-winning NASA technologies included in Spinoff over the years.

Spinoff 2008 lists many of the latest NASA innovations now in the commercial marketplace. These innovations have resulted in healthcare advances, transportation breakthroughs, public safety benefits, new consumer goods, environmental protection, computer technology and industrial productivity.

+ Spinoff 2008

Source: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

The new (accurately revised) Hennen’s American Public Library Ratings are up and running. You can find them on Hennen’s site (http://www.haplr-index.com/) and the revised American Libraries article is at http://www.ala.org/ala/alonline/resources/selectedarticles/HAPLR08.pdf .

Source: ALA

All Counterterrorism Programs That Collect and Mine Data Should Be Evaluated for Effectiveness, Privacy Impacts; Congress Should Consider New Privacy Safeguards

All U.S. agencies with counterterrorism programs that collect or “mine” personal data — such as phone, medical, and travel records or Web sites visited — should be required to systematically evaluate the programs’ effectiveness, lawfulness, and impacts on privacy, says a new report from the National Research Council. Both classified and unclassified programs should be evaluated before they are set in motion and regularly thereafter for as long as they are in use, says the report. It offers a framework agencies can use to assess programs, including existing ones.

The report also says that Congress should re-examine existing law to assess how privacy can be protected in such programs, and should consider restricting how personal data are used. And it recommends that any individuals harmed by violations of privacy be given a meaningful form of redress.

Read for free online.

Source: National Research Council/National Academies Press

Direct to Online Resources

On February 26, 1986, Librarian of Congress Daniel J. Boorstin announced the appointment of Robert Penn Warren as the first Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry. This guide compiles links to resources on Robert Penn Warren throughout the Library of Congress Web site, as well as links to external Web sites.

Source: LC

Posted 8 October 2008 on DocuTicker:
+ The Effects of Recent Turmoil in Financial Markets on Retirement Security (Congressional Budget Office)
+ HHS Announces Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services)
+ 2008 State Energy Efficiency Scorecard (American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy)

+ UNAIDS Launches Shared Database To Bolster HIV/AIDS Technical Support Coordination (Kaiser Family Foundation)

+ Google’s Super Satellite Captures First Image (Wired Science)

+ Business, labor urge Bush to sign RIAA-backed copyright bill (CNET News)

+ Clickjacking Attack Lets Web Sites See, Hear You (Information Week)

+ Yahoo revamps calendar service (ComputerWorld)