Meredith has a great post on her research workflow over at Information Wants to Be Free. My research needs are a little different now that I am no longer working in an academic library. When I had access to scholarly databases everyday from my desktop, I was reading the literature far more regularly than I [...]
Sometimes, it’s the simplest of things that can become the greatest burden. In the mid 2000′s, a flurry of articles in journals appeared about the virtues of Personal Information Management (PIM), and how librarians could help with that. The idea being that as the amount of information in our lives continued to increase at a [...]
Thanks to Rob Styles, I now have a Twine account and have been finding my way around this new Semantic-powered world. There has been a great deal of discussion about Twine, from the supportive to the disappointed there’s a wide range of opinions about it. Bearing in mind all of this, I am trying it [...]
Read/Write Web reports that Yahoo will begin indexing RDF and a range of Microformats. This is big news. It’s the first big sign that established, large players in search are including the Semantic Web. The Semantic Web has been under development for years, and now we are starting to get to the top of the [...]