Archive for December, 2005

Semantic Web Technology and Social Networks

Thursday, December 29th, 2005

Sci7 is here reviewing and extracting interesting observations and comments from a recent article by Peter Mika titled: Flink: Semantic Web technology for the extraction and analysis of social networks. The piece was published in the Journal of Web Semantics.
Insight into the challenges involved in extracting meaningful information on relationships between individuals from material available […]

Optimal web site reorganization considering information overload and search depth

Thursday, December 29th, 2005

This is Sci7’s comments on an article in press entitled Optimal Web site reorganization considering information overload and search depth by
Chang-Chun Lin, currently in press and due to be published in the European Journal of Operational Research.
The paper discusses adaptive websites, which are defined by reference to earlier work as: “sites which automatically improve their […]

Sci7 on Google and government documents

Sunday, December 18th, 2005

Mary (Maggie) Farrell, Dean of Libraries at the University of Wyoming USA recently wrote an editorial in Government Information Quarterly (Vol. 22 (2005) 143–145)) entitled : “Google and government documents”.
The editorial discusses Google Print, and its aims to digitise the collections of major libraries. Google’s efforts are seen as more significant than those […]

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