Professional Reading Shelf The March issue of Information Technology and Libraries is Available Online
This is a special issue focusing on open source software. All articles are available full-text on the web. Here are the titles of the feature articles.
"Open Source Software: A History"
"Possibilities for Open Source Software in Libraries"
"The Open Source ILS: Still Only a Distant Possibility"
"MARC It Your Way: MARC.pm"
"The EOR Toolkit: An Open Source Solution for RDF Metadata"
"Open Source, Open Standards"
Natural Language Processing--Experimental Projects
Summarization Software Prototype Demo: NewsInEssence
In early February we highlighted an article about NewsBlaster, an news summarization tool, using "open web" content. The software is being developed at Columbia University. Today, word of a similar project from the Computational Linguistics and Information Retrieval Department at the Unversity of Michigan. The service is described as a NewsInEssence "prototype system for finding and summarizing multiple news articles on the web." You can learn more about the components of the prototype by visiting this page. UPDATE (3/28): New York Times Story About NewsBlaster
Resources, Tools, and Full-Text Documents Canadian Culture New Web Compilation: CultureCanada.GC.CA
From the site, "...your window to the best Web sites about Canadian culture, heritage, sports and recreation."
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