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Thursday, 29th July 2004

Web Information Personalization: Challenges and Approaches

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Personalization
Source: Cyrus Shahabi and Yi-Shin Chen, Department of Computer Science, USC
Web Information Personalization: Challenges and Approaches (2003)
"As the number of web pages increases dramatically, the problem of the information overload becomes more severe when browsing and searching the WWW. To alleviate this problem, personalization becomes a popular remedy to customize the Web environment towards a user's preference. To date, recommendation systems and personalized web search systems are the most successful examples of Web personalization. By fo-
cusing on these two types of systems, this paper reviews the challenges
and the corresponding approaches proposed in the past ten years."
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Libraries and Librarians
A New Issue (#40) of Ariadne is Now Available
Articles include:
+ Rights Management and Digital Library Requirements by Karen Coyle
+ An Introduction to the Search/Retrieve URL Service (SRU)
+ Weblogs: Do they belong in libraries?
+ Towards Library Groupware with Personalised Link Routing
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Citation Linking
Source: Information Today
Linking on Steroids
"P�ter Jacs� highlights some of the best and worst linking practices he's encountered."
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E-mail--Retention and Storage
Source: Transform Magazine
What You Should Know About E-Mail Archiving
"E-mail retention needs often conflict -- even among departments in the same company. Records management expert Julie Gable suggests seven steps to effective archiving."
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eBooks--Issues and Commentary
Source: Gizmodo
Feature Creep: 500 Books In Your Gadget Bag
"We'll need a great eBook reader with trendy clout and not just livable, but convenient, DRM to really break open the market. But, no, Virginia, you won't have to give up your pretty printed books. Books are important. Books are as entrenched in contemporary first-world culture as anything I know. Books are really part of us, even those of you who don't read so much."
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Librarians
Source: The Daily Nonpareil
Muscatine librarian starts her bicycle ride across Iowa today
"The plight of libraries across the state of Iowa is serious. That is the message from Betty Collins, a Muscatine children's librarian who is setting out today from the Council Bluffs Public Library on her folding Dahon bike across the state to bring awareness to blighted Iowa libraries."

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