But there is a fundamental problem here that needs to be addressed. Look at this issue from the other side. A significant number of articles, including many published in small circulation periodicals, are never cited by anyone. Think, too, of the conferences papers that fail to attract meaningful audiences, the journals that have tiny circulations and very small readerships, and the fact that most academic books are published in press runs of under 1,000 copies, despite the growth in the number of academics and university and college libraries. Put bluntly, we are researching without having an impact, speaking without being heard and writing without being read. Furthermore, our tenure and promotion procedures reward publication more than they do awareness of the field, thus pushing up conference attendance, and journal and book submissions.
Web Evolution & Social Media - 0 views
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Nice slide presentation from the Pew Internet & American Life Project, about the evolution of the Web, with reference to social networks & issues related to libraries.
My personal highligths from this work:
* The turn from groups to social networks lays the basis for a new social operating system
* Being more civically engages on social networks helps building better communities (continue...)
Semantic Data: Twine and its Successor T2 - 0 views
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Hopefully by the end of the year, the semantic search technology of Twine will make a further step into the construction of structured data on the Web, and its successor T2 will be released.
From an interview with Nova Spivack (CEO of Radar Networks, the company behind Twine) we can argue four main points..........
Semantic Web Search Engine: the SWSE Mission Statement - 0 views
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"Although the Semantic Web (SW) is still very much in its infancy, there is already a lot of data out there which conforms to the proposed SW standards (e.g. RDF and OWL). Small vertical vocabularies and ontologies have emerged, and the community of people using these is growing daily.... "
SemTech 09: Semantic Search Key Points in Hakia Philosophy - 0 views
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Berkan we find some key points:
* structured data is not equivalent to semantic technology. Simply organizing information in a database, to pull results for the search engines inside their SERP, it's not making semantics..........
The Future Internet: Service Web 3.0 - Video & Transcription - 0 views
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Here's a great video presentation I found about the Semantic Web; I transcripted all the main parts here below.
Text transcription:
The Internet as we know it today is in an extending success: more than 1.300.000.000 (1,3 billions) people are connected to the Web across the globe.
In 2006, 161 EB of informations were created or replicated world wide.
IDC estimates the increase over 6 times this metric by 2010 - to 988 EB, or to 1 ZB a year.......
Semantic Web: Common Tag Announced as a New Format for Development - 0 views
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A new format named Common Tag has been developed by major companies operating in the field of the Semantic Web to address the problems related to the ambiguities in Web contents.
E-mail Overload: No Cure, but Enterprise Attention Management Can Shed Some Light... - 0 views
Real-Time Web: Filtering the Streams of Data - 0 views
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What does "real-time web" actually means? Basically, getting all the informations you're looking for at the very moment they're are produced, from your sources of choice.
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How Much Information? - 0 views
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2003 study by UC Berkeley researchers - Peter Lyman and Hal Varian.
coates / 23 / 03 / 2009 / Views / Home - Inside Higher Ed / Knowledge Overload - 0 views
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We have collectively created the equivalent of an academic monsoon over the past three decades, with no change in the forecast for the coming years. Without a major reconsideration of how we share and use information, how we keep up with the field, and how we recognize academic accomplishment, we will continue to add to the floodwaters, all the while spending less attention on whether or not anyone reads our work, listens to our presentations, or appreciates our professional contributions. Academe 2.0 offers tools to build more effective dikes and even to regulate the flow. But we need to realize that the lakes at the end of the bloated academic rivers – our faculty, researchers and students – have finite capacity, in terms of time and ability to assimilate information. Controlling the scholarly input is crucial to ensuring that we actually learn from and about each other, and ensuring that our academic work truly makes a difference.
How Much Information Is Too Much Information? : Uncertain Principles - 0 views
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the problem is not that traditional media don't deliver enough information. The problem is that they don't deliver enough knowledge. We're not suffering from a dearth of breathless on-the-scene reportage, but a lack of filtering of that breathless reportage to produce useful knowledge about what's actually going on.
Semantics & Thought Networking in Primal Fusion Alpha Release - 0 views
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Primal Fusion is a Waterloo-based startup that is about to come out of stealth mode, with a technology focused in semantic data retrieval.
You can find transcription of the main issues of this video presentation down here below: .......
How to Save the World - An Information Diet - 0 views
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How much of the information we process every day, and the
communications we participate in (with varying degrees of engagement),
actually provides us with useful (actionable) knowledge and useful
capacities? Very little, I would argue. Just as most of our processed
and 'fast' foods give us mostly empty calories and nothing of
nutritional value (and lots that is toxic), so too, most of our
information 'diet' is empty entertainment, designed to make us feel
better without actually making us intellectually 'healthier' (and
sometimes making us intellectually unhealthy).
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Change management 'experts' will tell you that to bring about behaviour change you have to do one of three things: (a) change mandatory processes, (b) change the technology people use, or (c) change the culture/attitudes/beliefs/values. I know a lot of people who've worked in organizations for more than a quarter century, and they tell me that (a) process is dead -- there are no standard processes anymore, so you can't 'change' them, (b) people will simply refuse to use technology that makes them do things they find ineffective or unintuitive, and (c) the only way you can change an organizational 'culture' is by firing everyone and hiring all new people who agree with a proposed change.
Computational Knowledge Engine: Wolfram Alpha - 0 views
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The latest project by Stephen Wolfram is defined as the first "computational knowledge engine", something capable of answering factual question for you.
The Wolfram engine is described as "a proprietary system based on fields of knowledge, containing terabytes of curated data and millions of lines of algorithms to represent real-world knowledge as we know it".
Open Platform for Free Content Launched by the Guardian - 0 views
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The Guardian website launched earlier today its new online suite of services called "Open Platform", which will allow web developers to build application using content from the newspaper.
The Guardian content APIs being released includes not only articles but also videos, galleries and other content..........
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