I attended a talk about CrossRef by director of business development Amy Brand, a scholarly and professional publishers association that works to provide reference links in and out of their electronic content. “Our primary mission is to serve as the citation linking backbone for all scholarly literature online.” The talk gave an overview of CrossRef [...]
I realize that paying attention to advertising is a bad thing, but when I saw the graphic (caution: this is an ad) at the top of a Merriam-Webster page (you’ll probably see a different ad here), I was reminded of some nifty thesaurus tools I’ve seen, like SemioMap. Mapping words and their relationships to each [...]
Some colleagues of my blogging friend Bob are gathering data about where people go online for political information, including blogs. If you are eligible to vote in the United States and can spare a moment to contribute to scholarly research about how people use the Internet, perhaps you’d like to take their survey. Addendum 10/21: [...]
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