Digital Library Projects--Directory A Great Directory of DL Projects and Resources
Kudos and more kudos to the British Columbia Community Networks Association for compiling and maintaing the great directory. This resource contains listings to projects from around the world. Sites can be viewed by title, institution, and subject. Additionally, links to DL contruction tools and a DL bibliography are also available.
Digitization Projects--Newspapers The Washington Post: Digitization of Historic Archive To Begin Soon
Jennifer Belton the Manager of the Historic News Archives at The Post tells us the project will include material from 1877-1999. Bell and Howell Information Systems will do the digitizing with material "rolling out" over the next two years. Advertisements, obits as well as the full-text stories will be searchable and displayable.
Web Resources--FreeERISA
Trusts
Invisible Web FreeERISA Adds New Database
A recently received e-mail alerts us to a new database of Common or Collective Trusts info. From the e-mail, "The database provides summary information on plan sponsors who participate in Common or Collective Trusts managed by banks, trust companies and other investment entities. Click on Find Plan Data Now. Upon selecting a financial services company, you can view the plan name, date filed, and plan sponsor for available Common or Collective Trusts. You also can sort results by plan name, sponsor and date filed."
The Web World Forrester Research: "The Death Of The Web Is Inevitable"
From the news release, "The problem with today's Internet is that it's dumb, boring, and isolated," said George F. Colony, CEO and chairman of Forrester. "News, sports, and weather imparted on static Web pages offer essentially the same content presented on paper, which makes the online experience more like reading in a dusty library than participating in a new medium. Now that the novelty has faded, business executives and consumers are going back to reading newspapers and watching TV. Ultimately, the Net hasn't truly become a part of our real worlds. Forrester defines two new waves of innovation, the X Internet and the executable Net.
Don't get me wrong things are and will continue to change. It's exciting. However, while it has plenty of problems with plenty of room for improvement, the web as we know it today, the research web, is still an amazing resource to access information. But, it's only one of many resources, it's not the answer. For many the finding, identifying, and accessing the "boring" or non-boring (see quote below) is the problem. As you know, much of the exciting and dynamic data already online cannot be easily if not entirely not accessed via the search interfaces most people use. More via this article from The Register
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