Die neue, internetbasierte Informationswelt stellt nicht nur an die „digital immigrants" große Herausforderungen. Auch Institutionen mit Tradition müssen sich selbst neu erfinden – zumal wenn, wie bei Bibliotheken der Fall, der von ihnen behandelte „Rohstoff" schon immer Information und Wissen waren.
SCIgen is a program that generates random Computer Science research papers, including graphs, figures, and citations. It uses a hand-written context-free grammar to form all elements of the papers. Our aim here is to maximize amusement, rather than coherence.
Nova Spivack's semantic web company Twine is developing a free service to write and host semantic ontologies; the classification trees that enable machines to put concepts in topical context.
Launched in January 2006, ScienceBlogs is a portal to this global dialogue, a digital science salon featuring the leading bloggers from a wide array of scientific disciplines. Today, ScienceBlogs is the largest online community dedicated to science.
The Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche (LIBER) is the principal association of the major research libraries of Europe. It was founded in 1971 under the auspices of the Council of Europe. Its current membership includes research libraries of more than forty countries.
TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds. Since then its scope has become ever broader.
The Open Knowledge Foundation (OKF) is a not-for-profit organisation founded in 2004 and dedicated to promoting open knowledge in all its forms. It is a leader in this field nationally and internationally.
Librarians are embracing Twitter as a helpful tool to bring together community and make work easier. Whether you are just starting out with Twitter or are looking for ways to improve your existing Twitter experience, the following tips, tools, and resources will have you Twittering like a pro in no time. Dive into this list to find everything you will need to use Twitter in your library.
M. Nentwich. (November 2003)>Preprint eines Beitrags,der 2004 im Sonderband der Österreichischen Zeitschrift für Soziologie „Technik und Wissenschaftsforschung in Österreich: Stand und Perspektiven“, hrsg. von Eva Buchinger, erschienen ist..