[Libs-Or] Collection of links on science, medicine, scholarly communication and general Web stuff

[hleman at samhealth.org]

Hi, all. I have been poking around in Twitter again and just want to pass along various items that struck me as useful.

Hope Leman, MLIS
Research Information Technologist
Center for Health Research and Quality
Samaritan Health Services
815 NW 9th Street Suite 203A
Corvallis, OR 97330
(541) 768-5712

Over my head, but a glimpse of the new world of data and applications that can be made from it:
Importing data into FluidDB with Flimp

http://blogs.fluidinfo.com/fluidDB/2010/11/19/importing-data-into-fluiddb-with-flimp/

Twitter tool for the privacy-minded

http://twitsper.cs.ucr.edu/

Real time world metrics:

http://www.worldometers.info/

When librarians are obstacles
http://mollykleinman.com/

Where the semantic web stumbled, linked data will succeed

http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/11/semantic-web-linked-data.html

5 Fresh Places to Find Great Online Video

http://mashable.com/2010/11/18/online-video-services/

Scilken’s Law and the Future of Libraries

http://freerangelibrarian.com/2010/11/20/scilkenslaw/

Towards BioDBcore: a community-defined information specification for biological databases

http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2010/11/17/nar.gkq1173

This looks like a valuable resource and food for thought for all who deal with Web-based content and need to bone up on the needs of those with disabilities:

Access Ability: a Practical Handbook on Accessible Graphic Design

http://www.dexigner.com/news/21926

Kind of interesting to see what comes of what:

24 APIs Used in 7 Days: Twitter, YouTube, New York Times and Google Maps

http://blog.programmableweb.com/2010/11/20/24-apis-used-in-7-days-twitter-youtube-new-york-times-and-google-maps/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ProgrammableWeb+%28ProgrammableWeb%3A+Blog%29


The History of the Ampersand and Showcase
http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2010/01/the-history-of-the-ampersand-and-showcase/

Open Clipart Library

http://www.openclipart.org/about

This is a journal worth looking at for those interested in new ways of doing research:

Journal of Virtual Worlds Research

http://jvwresearch.org/page/home

TSA Timeline – Visualizing News Stories via Dipity

http://simplecomplexity.net/tsa-timeline-visualizing-news-stories/

Here is the tool discussed:
http://www.dipity.com/

A Beginner’s Guide to Google Website Optimizer

http://blog.kissmetrics.com/guide-google-website-optimizer/?utm_source=feedburner

Yet another social bookmarking tool:

http://zootool.com/

Special Issue of the Journal of Electronic Publishing on Reimagining the University Press

http://www.journalofelectronicpublishing.org/

Elsevier joins CrossRef Cited-by Linking

http://www.researchinformation.info/news/news_story.php?news_id=687&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ResearchInformation-News+(Research+Information+-+News)

Putting healthcare on the map

http://www.govhealthit.com/newsitem.aspx?nid=75163

Stop the FAQ Page Bandage

http://sixrevisions.com/user-interface/stop-the-faq-page-bandage/

The story behind Storify, new real-time curation service

http://scobleizer.com/2010/11/21/the-story-behind-storify-new-real-time-curation-service/

Where have all the data gone?

http://www.science3point0.com/evomri/2010/11/21/where-have-all-the-data-gone/

Useful video here:

An Interview with Mike McCue, the Genius Behind Flipboard

http://technmarketing.com/iphone/an-interview-with-mike-mccue-the-genius-behind-flipboard/

Confusion and Complexity: High time to prune the Creative Commons licenses?

http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/confusion_and_complexity_high_time_prune_creative_commons_licenses

Seeks is a free and open P2P design and application for enabling social websearch

http://www.seeks-project.info/site/

Why Joe Client Doesn’t Care About Standards

http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2010/11/why-joe-client-doesn%E2%80%99t-care-about-standards/

The Enduring Value of Social Science Research: The Use and Reuse of Primary Research Data
Note that I came across this on Twitter and that the article is housed in the institutional repository of the University of Michigan.

http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/handle/2027.42/78307

Twitter Rank of Your Website!
http://www.moretechtips.net/2010/11/twitter-rank-of-your-website.html

My very much beloved boss in our library died of ALS a few months ago, so I found this moving and is also a useful look into the world of patient registries and patient advocacy (as it took years of lobbying to get this through):

National Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) Registry Available Online

http://cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5945a7.htm?s_cid=mm5945a7_w

Medical librarians really should read this

Seven Ways Medical Conflicts of Interest Are Disguised

http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/46333/

Keepstream: Collect, organize, and share the best of the web.

Remix your tweets, statuses, and other social goodies into a neat, tidy, permanent web page.

http://keepstream.com/

Curated By:

http://www.curated.by/

Read Twitter as a daily newspaper

http://paper.li/

Video worth watching here

Using touchscreen interactive tabletop displays via the Internet

http://www.kurzweilai.net/using-touchscreen-interactive-tabletop-displays-via-the-internet?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

And see here for more on surface computing:

Surface computers linked via internet allow for new 'mixed-presence' collaboration

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/emergingtech/surface-computers-linked-via-internet-allow-for-new-mixed-presence-collaboration/2419

Qwiki: “Smart, sexy, layered and flamboyant.” Come get your Alpha invites!

http://thenextweb.com/socialmedia/2010/11/23/qwiki-smart-sexy-layered-and-flamboyant-come-get-your-alpha-invites/

Control Points and Steering Mechanisms in Open Source Software Projects

http://dirkriehle.com/publications/2010/control-points-and-steering-mechanisms-in-open-source-software-projects/

Web Designer’s Guide to PNG Image Format

http://sixrevisions.com/web_design/web-designers-guide-to-png-image-format/

Why all scientists should blog: a case study

http://scienceofblogging.com/why-scientists-should-blog-a-case-study/

My ePortfolio in the cloud

http://sarah-stewart.blogspot.com/2010/11/my-eportfolio-in-cloud.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+SarahsMusings+(Sarah+Stewart)&utm_content=Google+Reader

Social reading with Copia—video:

http://www.thecopia.com/about/tour.html

Genotator: A disease-agnostic tool for genetic annotation of disease

http://www.biomedcentral.com/1755-8794/3/50

Social bibliographies and collaborative reading: you’re doing it wrong

http://barefoottechie.wordpress.com/2010/11/24/social-bibliographies-and-collaborative-reading-youre-doing-it-wrong/

That post mentions this:

WizFolio is an online research collaboration tool for knowledge discovery.

https://www.wizfolio.com/Default.aspx

An Efficient Paradigm for Genetic Epidemiology Cohort Creation

http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0014045

Interesting tool to blog on Twitter without having to have a blog of one’s own:

TwitLonger

http://www.twitlonger.com/

Plagiarists plagiarized: A daisy chain of retractions at Anesthesia & Analgesia

http://retractionwatch.wordpress.com/2010/11/24/plagiarists-plagiarized-a-daisy-chain-of-retractions-at-anesthesia-analgesia/

What Every Web Developer Should Know About Front-End Performance

http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2010/11/what-every-web-developer-should-know-about-front-end-performance/

Success Tips for Your SEO Copywriting – Part 2

http://www.tmaemarketing.com/blog/2010/11/24/internet-marketing/success-tips-for-your-seo-copywriting-%E2%80%93-part-2.html

Needle™, a revolutionary platform for acquiring, integrating, cleansing, analyzing and publishing data on the web.
http://needlebase.com/

Design your presentations

http://ebiinterfaces.wordpress.com/2010/11/25/design-your-presentations/

The Strongest Link: Libraries and Linked Data

http://www.dlib.org/dlib/november10/byrne/11byrne.html

VIVO and ORCID

http://www.slideshare.net/ORCID/vivo-orcid

social mention is a real time search platform

Social Media Alerts

Like Google Alerts but for social media.

http://socialmention.com/

RSS Compendium - RSS Re-mixers

http://allrss.com/rssremixers.html

What is ResearchSpace?

ResearchSpace is an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation funded project aimed at supporting collaborative internet research, information sharing and publication for the cultural heritage scholarly community.

http://sites.google.com/site/rspaceproject/

OpenNebula

OpenSource Toolkit for Cloud

http://opennebula.org/start

TeamLab: Create Your Own Enterprise Portal

Nice little video here

http://teamlab.com/

Welcome to Dropbox!

A new way to sync, store, and share your files online

https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTQ3NjI3Njk?src=referrals_twitter

7 Signs That Semantic Web Is Crossing The Chasm To The Mainstream

http://semanticweb.com/7-signs-that-semantic-web-is-crossing-the-chasm-to-the-mainstream_b692

Browerserling: Cross-browser testing from thecomfort of your browser!

http://www.browserling.com/

This is quite fascinating:

Class action lawsuit challenges Bittorent lawsuit factory’s business model

http://blog.internetcases.com/2010/11/25/class-action-lawsuit-challenges-bittorent-lawsuit-factorys-business-model/

Improving Access to the Public Domain: the Public Domain Mark

http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/23830

40 Awesome Examples of Vexel Art

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1n81Ak/www.tripwiremagazine.com/2010/11/40-awesome-examples-of-vexel-art.html

No rest for the bio-wikis

Biologists' collaborative data repositories come of age.

http://www.nature.com/news/2010/101115/full/468359a.html

Top 10 specialty Web browsers you may have missed

http://www.infoworld.com/d/applications/top-10-specialty-web-browsers-you-may-have-missed-026?page=0,1

Nice example of Open Notebook Science:

Welcome to my Lab Notebook

http://www.carlboettiger.info/archives/211

Brown Bag Lunch: An Intrepid Guide to Ontologies

http://www.mkbergman.com/936/brown-bag-lunch-an-intrepid-guide-to-ontologies/

50 Ways to Get Your Site Noticed

http://net.tutsplus.com/articles/web-roundups/50-ways-to-get-your-site-noticed/

ORCID, a Technological Stanley

http://www.slideshare.net/DKochalko/orcid-charleston-presentation-110410

Open Data in the Arts and Humanities

http://www.slideshare.net/jwyg/open-data-in-the-arts-and-humanities

Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is
for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential
and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or
distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please
contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original
message.