October 29th is Turkey's Independance Day. These are few pictures of Bosphorus Bridge in Istanbul .
And for all the people who love Istanbul here is Orhan Veli "I am listening to Istanbul"
"I am listening to
At first there blows a gentle breeze
And the leaves on the trees
Softly flutter or sway;
Out there, far away,
The bells of water carriers incessantly ring;
I am listening to
I've been trying to recruit a Product Manager for a while with no luck. Here is the job description. Very brieflly, we are looking for someone with online product development experience, passion and creativity. The person will be joining one of the most dynamic teams in the whole Reed-Elsevier group. We love experimenting and don't fear of failing. If you are (or know) a product person and looking for an exciting challenge and opportunity to develop online information products for the engineering R&D market, please contact me at r{dot}sidi{@}elsevier.com.
Wowter calls Scopus "the Rolls Royce of Elsevier's (bibliographic) search engines". Scopus is a great product which is keeping Thomson WOS product and technology teams busy to catch up with Scopus enhancements.
Now that a librarian calls Scopus a Rolls-Royce, I wonder what Engineering Village should be called? Any ideas?
btw Scirus agreement with CrossRef would definetly add another positive differentiation to Scopus compared to WOS for while searching Scopus you can also get results from Scirus.
Talking about what's happening taditional book publishing, Wharton, MIT, Pearson, Shared Insights are behind of this new book initative which will be published by Pearson. The book is on "the future rules of business based on the emergence of community and social networks".
The organizers invited close to 1 million people (inclusing all Wharton and MIT communities) to participate in the writing of the book. Jimmy Wales founder of the Wikipedia is also on the board of the organization, and they will use wiki technology to write the book.
Here is the goal:
"Since the beginning of publishing, books have been written by individuals or by small groups of people (experts). This has even applied to recent books that describe the power of community intelligence. We Are Smarter Than Me will test this paradox, and determine whether a community of authors can write a compelling book better than individual experts."I wonder what our Book Publishing division is thinking about this initiative?
Using Visible Path technology Hoovers launches a new beta called Hoovers Connect. via Entreprise 2.0
I don't have a clue how successfull this new product will be, but in my mind this is a success for Hoovers: at least they are experiementing with this idea. I bet they will learn a lot from this and make the necessary changes to satisfy their users.
And still the major scientific information providers (Elsevier & Thomson) could not launch a Science Connect (even as an experiment). I bet there are few social networking providers which would like to partner with us (after all we got all the related data for researchers) and create something that will connect scientists and researchers and enable them to share their knowledge and expertise globally. This should not take months to build, start simple and expand later.
Medie is an " intelligent search engine to retrieve biomedical correlations from MEDLINE. You can find abstracts/sentences in MEDLINE by specifying semantics of correlations". via Nadalpoint
This is another example using Open API's and enriching and improving an existing product
The system is developped by Tsujii Lab in Tokyo
We knew abou their Dogear project, but this time they are experimenting with tagging concept within the entreprise: IBM Fringe
"Tagging has arisen as way to enable users to contribute to a loose taxonomy characterizing web pages, pictures, products and other things. We propose tagging people in order to help individuals keep track of each other while contributing to a loose characterization of their friends and colleagues. “Fringe Contacts” is a reference system designed to test whether peopletagging is a viable and useful approach. It includes both user and programmatic interfaces to tagging functions. The latter is included to enable integration with other collaborative applications such as email or instant messaging. Some client plugins have been developed, and preliminary usage data are encouraging. We think that some characteristics of the enterprise — a clear notion of identity, “professional” environment, and existing need to classify people by their skills and projects — may be necessary ingredients for people-tagging to work." IBM
If anyone has a doubt about why a corporation or its employees should blog just check it what IBM is doing and just listen to Ed Brill: "I have been able to win business, save business, and affect the market and competitive landscape through blogging". via Keith Instone
If you are still not convinced on the benefit of blogging for your corporation, let's have a talk. I would love to hear what's preventing your company and your colleagues to blog beside not having enough time.
HEALTHmap is a global disease alert mapping system. It was created by Dr. John Brownstein and Clark Freifeld. Check it out.
The new WIPO's Patent Report
Rep. of Korea and China patent offices are ranked 3rd and 4th after Japan and US according to the total number of patent filings in 2004.
Zotero is enlisting help from outside developpers to improve their solution and is looking for campus representatitves "evangelists" to spread the word.
Last night I participated NACME awards dinner where Elsevier was a sponsor. It felt good to be an Elsevierian and see my company sponsoring an institution like National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering.
We should definetly increase our efforts to support similar causes for it's the right thing to do!
The following were the awards receipients:
AT&T- NACME's Corporate Citizenship Award,
Mr. Stephen D. Bechtel, Jr. & The Bechtel Family- NACME Founder Award
Ms. Linda Alvarado, president and CEO of Alvarado Construction-NACME's Diversity Vision Award
North Carolina A&T State University and the University of Texas at El Paso- NACME's University Rising Stars.
uWink is a new venture by the Atari creator Nolan Bushnell.
“uWink is not just a new restaurant, it’s a new type of dining experience. Our innovative combination of food, drink and digital media offers customers a fun new way to connect with family, friends and even other customers if they want,” said Mr. Bushnell, chief executive officer at uWink, Inc. “From our relaxed hip décor to our delicious fresh food to our dynamic and diverse types of media, we have crafted each detail of uWink with the specific purpose of providing a unique, entertaining and unforgettable dining experience.”Press Release
It seems that this is a first.
"While many independent journalists and bloggers have published inside such virtual worlds, Reuters is the first established news agency to dispatch a full-time reporter to do so."from NY Times
"This [Reuters] is a very serious, old brand that stands for things and has principles, but that doesn’t take itself so seriously that it wouldn’t play in a gaming space,”
Intel IT leaders are blogging at IT@Intel Blog. As they state in their about section
"The blog offers an “inside look” at Intel’s IT operations and provides opportunities for you to exchange ideas directly with the IT experts who keep Intel’s business running and growing."Currently I am not aware of any similar initiative in Reed-Elsevier (at least in Elsevier) where our senior managers with many years of experience and expertise in their field have started sharing their own perspective on the business and having an open discussion with our users.
"I believe that as a major publisher we should be doing something in this arena and get involved in blogosphere. By starting blogging, I wanted to show to my colleagues and managers the benefits of blogging and tell them that as company we should be paying attention what's happening here, and we should encourage our employees, including our senior managers and CEOs to start blogging and communicating with our customers and have open communication with the market."
USA Today article on Secondlife. It seems that there are 60 educational institutions which are active in Second Life including Harvard law students who are taking a course called "CyberOne: Law in the Court of Public Opinion," for credits.
Who knows in the next few months we will have conferences organized by IEEE, Elsevier, ACM, ASME in Second Life. (If there has been one please let me know)
I strongly suggest that STM publishers should allocate a resource in their company specifically for SL to figure out what kind new services they can provide to SL's 800,000 residents.
Eventhough I am a resident in SL (Tostor Xi), unfortunately I don't have enough time to explore it and open an island for Ei.
Add to the post: I just saw Alliancel Library System new project:
"Library users can ask a question via Question Point via chat or via email, search world-cat, wikipedia, google, Amazon, Findarticles.com, Second Life itself and view a map of the library. This way even when they are not at the library they can chat with a librarian for help or have access to library search tools anywhere in Second Life. According to Damek, this is only the beginning. When finished searching, the user can minimize the small search screen on their Second Life screen. Users can get one of these free of charge in front of the library in the Second Life Library kiosk. The search is powered by SLquery.com. Our next project under the leadership of Abbey Zenith is to get our items (books, artifacts, etc) into the database so that library users can search our collection using the library search HUD. We are beginning work on that this week." via Talis
Here is the the top 20 R&D spending companies. The report (pdf) which is sponsored by Batelle and R&D Magazine is a good reading. for anyone involved in STM online information business. Again a lot of opportunity in China for R&D especially in Aerospace, Photonics, and Automotive.
This is a neat product from SlideShare. No need to download, on the blog. The presentation was prepared by our training manager Gali Halevi. To see other training material that she created please go to Training Materials
Here is an opinion posted at Harvard Crimson
"Proponents of open publication who point to advances such as Grigori Perelman’s recent proof of the Poincaré conjecture, which was posted online instead of submitted to a journal, fail to realize that such instances are the exception rather than the rule. True, the traditional peer review process is not perfect. It delays the flow of information, can sometimes be biased, and often unduly prioritizes the work of established, famous scientists over the work of lesser-known researchers. But it is far better than the alternative."So far no one posted a comment on the post. It will be interesting to see if there will be any open discussion in the comments.
Stanford introduces a wiki to for "sharing and discussion about life" at campus. Only students can edit it. As expected the first Google ads that they present are all related to food delivery companies.
Now that Stanford has one, may be corporations (inlcuding mine) and academic institutions will get the hint (have a wake up call) that there is a value of deploying a wiki within the institutions. via Steve Rubel
Finally few lucky ones will be able to see this new solution. The software requires Firefox 2.0. ( I downloaded 2.0 but still got error message when i downloaded zotero)
Let's see how the reference managers software providers (Thomson and CSA) would welcome this new edition. Zotero's future plans look promising.
"The 1.0 beta release of Zotero already provides advanced functionality for gathering, organizing, and scanning your research, as well as basic import/export capability and bibliographic formatting tools. Automatic updates to the software in the fall and winter of 2006-2007 will provide many more citation styles, the ability for Zotero to recognize even more online resources, even better support for importing and exporting entire collections, and integration with Microsoft Word and other word processors. And coming soon, Zotero users will be able to share their collections with other users, collaborate on research projects using Zotero, send their collections to other free web services (such as mapping or translation sites), and receive recommendations and feeds of new resources that might be of interest. In short, over the next year Zotero will expand from an already helpful browser extension into a full-fledged tool for digital research and communications."
You can use their new web services Clearforest SWS-1 to analyse your content semantically. They are also having a developer contest for the most creative use of their API. This may open very interesting applications for competitive intelligence applications too. Or even bringing some more intelligence to Google search results.
It would be interesting to see if my colleagues at Connotea will do a mash-up using this new service?
Here is the result of a word document
Joe Sanchez is teaching a course on "Social Issues In a Networked Society" and blogging is worth 20% of the grade. Via Educase Connect
I wonder if there are other courses where using the new web applications are part of students grading?
Who knows there might be some credit courses on Blogging in universities where they teach the future CEOs how to communicate with their customers, employees and share holders like Sun's Jonathan Schwartz .
Here is another example of users creating application of necessity. Hung Truong at University of New Mexico created an application to share his notes with his classmates. Via Mashable
We need to get some of these young turks and create a small incubator to develop new products.
Google released a new version of their Ajax search API which will let users to build web applications on top of Google search. via GoogleBlog. I wonder if this is also applicable for Google Scholar.
I believe that publishers like us should also open their search APIs and let the end users create interesting applications on top of our searches.
I think the title of this article by cnet should have been "Most reliable search tool is your librarian and all the information sources that they subscribe" and why waste your company's time and money in Google Scholar or Microsoft Academic Live. Until these two major players invest in these vertical search engines and provide the tools for discovery and intelligence they will have hard time to be a trusted and authoritative source for research information.
Our colleagues at Hoboken integrated RSS feeds in their journals. This means additional pressure for implementing RSS feeds in Elsevier journals. via Terri Vogel
One suggestion for Wiley team would be to include major RSS aggregators' buttons in their page.
As the primary publishers are including the abstracts in their feeds, we need to start providing the abstract information in Engineering Village feeds.
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