INLS 310

Day 7

2/23/99

Next week: Pizza!

1. Updates:

AFP. www.afporch.org

Content discussion…how to build bridges between primary materials? Kirsten, Jim interviews

Bin's collaboration team

Metadata: Richard & Tiffany's Dublin core start

2. DL Presentation schedule

March 2 (Umesh & Chamu on IGNCA Cultural Informatics Laboratory)

3. Search & Browsing (from last week)

Htdig http://www.htdig.org/

IRISWeb http://ils.unc.edu/iris/

What is the BEST search service? Why?

There is a trend toward hybrid query and selection services

Netscape provides a service plus options for Excite (how is that different than the Netscape service that uses Excite engine?), Lycos, Snap, InfoSeek, etc.

Also specialized services such as:

HotBot

AOL NetFind

WebCrawler

Find Web Sites

GoTo.com

100hot: Stars, Pics, Jokes...

Electric Library

FindLaw: Free Case Law

Mining Co. Expert Guides

Virtual Job Fair: 25,000 jobs

Yahoo!

AUTOWEB.COM Low Cost Autos

eBay - Buy, Sell, Collect.

CNET's Most Popular Products

Thomas Register American Mfrs.

Mortgage Quotes: Today's Rates

Work-At-Home 24,000 JOBS

HomeSmart Real Estate Center

Netscape People Finder

WhoWhere? People Finder

Bigfoot People Search

YellowPages AtHand

Netscape Yellow Pages

How is infornautics' Electric Library different from Netscape?

http://www.elibrary.com/id/250/250/

4. Online reference: a new frontier

Why granularity matters and customized services will be viable:

http://www.nalusda.gov/answers/answers.html

http://www.askeric.org/Qa/

go to the Iowa (swine) or other sites

http://www.lib.iastate.edu/cgi-bin/swineref

http://www.askjeeves.com/

from AskJeevs, a query on online reference/qa gives many hits inlcuding one for the Albuquerque public library

http://www.askjeeves.com/MetaAnswer.asp?MetaEngine=InfoSeek&logQID=EF05F9CF67CBD211B637006008911C1D&qCategory=REF_&qSource=0&frames=yes&site_name=Jeeves&scope=web&r=x&MetaTopic=Online+Reference+Question+Form&MetaURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cabq.gov%2Frgvls%2Fref-form.html&EngineOrdinal=1&ItemOrdinal=3&ask=What+online+reference+or+question+answering+services+are+there%3F+metasearch&MetaList=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cabq.gov%2Frgvls%2Fref-form.html&Go_to.x=13&Go_to.y=7

pathfinder.com not working

see Ackerman's Answergarden evolution to expertise networks

http://www.ics.uci.edu/~ackerman/pub/96f03/leveraging.fmt.html