Sukhdev in Web Land

Report on Top Indian Web sites for May 2008

2008-07-23T22:37:00.001+05:30

Top Indian Web sites for May 2008 - CIOL News ReportsAccording to a report on Internet usage in India, more than 28 million people in India accessed the Internet from home and work locations in May.

Another wiki coming up for medical information

2008-07-23T22:18:00.001+05:30

Medpedia would be an another wiki based collaborative project to collect and disseminate authentic information about health, medicine and the body.

midomi.com

2008-07-14T23:40:00.001+05:30

Search for Music Using Your Voice by Singing or Humming, View Music Videos, Join Fan Clubs, Share with Friends, Be Discovered and Much More For Free! - midomi.com

Librarians in Movies

2008-07-14T23:37:00.001+05:30

In most movies, librarians are typically stereotyped as people who are enforcing 'silence' in libraries. It would be interesting to read a post in TCM’s Movie Blog that depicts librarians' roles in various movies. ..most librarians are portrayed as rather stuffy, repressed types, hellbent on enforcing the rules and naive about the real world..

Diigo

2008-07-14T23:09:00.001+05:30

Diigo - Web Highlighter and Sticky Notes, Social Bookmarking and Annotation, Social Information Network!

British Library has a Flickr Group on Ramayana

2008-07-10T16:31:00.002+05:30

A Scene from the Epic, Ramayana Originally uploaded by Kamala Number Libraries are choosing Flickr to post and share Photos on web. Here is an interesting example by British Library. The British Library (see its Flickr Profile) has a group on Flickr called Ramayana. Photos / images submitted to this Flickr Group could appear in their gallery in London and on their Library's website, under the

bit.ly

2008-07-09T22:34:00.001+05:30

bit.ly, - is yet another url shortening service. However it also provides API. Worth exploring.

Philosophy behind Google ranking:

2008-07-09T22:05:00.001+05:30

Google Fellow Amit Singhal shares the philosophies behind Google Ranking in their Official Google Blog. The post, Introduction to Google Ranking, lists following philosophies:1) Best locally relevant results served globally. 2) Keep it simple. 3) No manual intervention.

Open Source Software in Education

2008-07-08T23:03:00.001+05:30

Open Source Software in Education (EDUCAUSE Quarterly) | EDUCAUSE CONNECT..Open source and digital education and learning, separately and together, aim to reach everyone. Although both movements have gained considerable maturity, a need for greater coordination exists..

Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video

2008-07-08T22:43:00.001+05:30

Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video..is a code of best practices that helps creators, online providers, copyright holders, and others interested in the making of online video interpret the copyright doctrine of fair use..

Study - Most webmasters have to remove dead links.

2008-07-07T16:06:00.001+05:30

According to a study "Delinking: An Exploratory Study" by Isola Ajiferuke published in Webology, Volume 5, Number 1, March, 2008 most web masters have to remove external links from their sites. The most common reason for removing links is obviously that the linked pages cease to exist or had become irrelevant. However sometimes the links are removed on the basis of Political/philosophical

Book on Open Access

2008-07-04T15:31:00.002+05:30

An e-book on Open Access has been released by ICTP-SDU. This book titled "Science Dissemination using Open Access" aims to guide the scientific community on the requirements of Open Access. It includes available low-cost solutions for open access along with selected literature on Open Access. The book is available as PDF File. It is also available from an interesting on-line publishing

Koha Version 3 RC1 Released

2008-06-24T23:49:00.001+05:30

Koha 3 RC1 (release candidate) has been released for version 3.0. We can expect a stable release soon.

Firefox Add-ons for Librarians and Library Users

2008-06-24T23:24:00.002+05:30

Firefox is one of my favourite software applications. It is a web browser like Internet Explorer. It is from Mozilla Application Suite, managed by the Mozilla Corporation. It uses open source Gecko layout engine and is compliant to current web standards. It is available for free for most operating systems like Windows, Mac OS X,

ImageOx

2008-06-19T17:17:00.001+05:30

Free Photo sharing & Image Hosting with ImageOX..ImageOx provides free image sharing/hosting with a number for EXCLUSIVE features such as instant autorun CD Flash presentation, image galleries (albums), image slideshows, instant folder creation (image series), personal profiles and image management area with free user registration..

PhpMyBibli Library Automation System Installation Guide for EasyPHP

2008-06-19T13:55:00.001+05:30

Vimal Kumar V has prepared easy to follow Installation Instructions for an open source integrated library system called PhpMyBibli. This software is a product of a project that was initiated by François Lemarchand in October 2002, Director of the Public Library of Agneaux. It is now better known as PMB (PhpMyBibli) and is maintained by PMB Services (a French Company). PMB has most of the

A scientist's view on making impact through Open Access Journals

2008-06-19T10:43:00.001+05:30

Dr Jeetender Chugh in his blog JC says has a suggestion on how to increase Impact Factors for Indian Journals"..Govt should make a rule, which should be applicable to all the universities and institutes across India, that we, the researchers of India should publish all the work in Indian Journals only. The journals may be peer-reviewed internationally. The journals may be available online free

Learn about Library 2.0 - List of 100 Webinars and Tutorials

2008-06-17T22:30:00.001+05:30

Jessica Merritt has listed 100 Free Library 2.0 Webinars and Tutorials on College@Home. A good compilation for understanding library 2.0 concept and its uses.

Self-corrective nature of scientific knowledge

2008-06-17T14:14:00.001+05:30

Open access and the self-correction of knowledge (SPARC), From the SPARC Open Access Newsletter, June 2, 2008. By Peter Suber...Science is fallible, but clearly that’s not what makes it special. Science is special because it’s self-correcting. It isn’t self-correcting because individual scientists acknowledge their mistakes, accept correction, and change their minds. Sometimes they do and

Access to Learning Award

2008-06-17T14:08:00.001+05:30

Access to Learning Award by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation recognizes innovative efforts of public libraries or similar organizations outside the United States to connect people to information through free access to computers and the Internet.Applications for 2009 Award are being invited by the foundation by Oct. 31, 2008.

e-polymers Journal

2008-06-16T12:43:00.001+05:30

e-polymers is a peer-reviewed Open Access journal under the auspices of the European Polymer Federation (EPF).

PDF File support now available in Google Docs

2008-06-15T09:32:00.002+05:30

Google Docs now has added support for PDF Files. I you select Upload a File option, you will notice the following towards the bottom right hand position: "PDF Files (up to 10 MB from your computer, 2 MB from the web)" The uploaded PDF file is shown as image. You can print it or share it. So, editing is not available yet.

Comment on Open Access 2.0

2008-06-13T11:50:00.001+05:30

Left following comment on T. Scott's post on Open Access 2.0The "2.0" qualifier is more often used in the context where readers themselves create content in a collaborative manner on the interactive web media. I was looking for this angle in Joe Esposito's article. However, I was bit disappointed as this aspect was missing. There is no 1.0 in Open Access. In fact, Open Access itself is "Access

Bibliographic Ontology Specification

2008-06-13T00:17:00.001+05:30

Bibliographic Ontology Specification provides main concepts and properties for describing citations and bibliographic references on the Semantic Web.

Another way to embed RSS Feeds in your web page or blog

2008-06-12T17:16:00.001+05:30

Digital Inspiration has an interesting tutorial to aggregate feeds from various sources. The technique uses Google Docs' Spreadsheet. It uses the spreadsheet formulas - "ImportFeed "and "Hyperlink" to display feed items and hyperlink these to original URLs. This spreadsheet is then published and html code is generated. The code can be embedded in a web page or blog.