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The Virtual Acquisition Shelf and News Desk Update Week 6 New and Useful Web Sites, Industry News, Full-Text Docs of Interest to the Info Professional. http://resourceshelf.blogspot.com 4/11/01 Hello from Washington! We have plenty of great content (new documents, sites, etc.) with a full helping of news. Perhaps the best week so far. The article by Tim Berners-Lee (listed 4/11/01) is a must read. The weekly highlight/reminder list containing just a few of the entries begins a few lines down the page. This e-mail is an abridged version of what you will find when you visit the page. Please stop by throughout the week for new resources and news of interest to the information professional. Sharing --------- Please continue to let others know about the VAS&ND. Finally --------- Thanks for the continued support! If I can be of assistance, you know where to find me. Cheers, gary --- http://resourceshelf.blogspot.com --- Wednesday, April 11, 2001 Must Read! The Semantic Web Web--The Future Tim Berners-Lee & Others Explain the Semantic Web Source: Scientific American Key Passage, "The Semantic Web will bring structure to the meaningful content of Web pages, creating an environment where software agents roaming from page to page can readily carry out sophisticated tasks for users. Such an agent coming to the clinic's Web page will know not just that the page has keywords such as "treatment, medicine, physical, therapy" (as might be encoded today) but also that Dr. Hartman works at this clinic on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays and that the script takes a date range in yyyy-mm-dd format and returns appointment times ------- Tuesday, April 10, 2001 Executive Compensation--Rankings--United States Business Week's Executive Pay Special Report Now Online Current Events--United States Weather--Flooding--United States Flooding in Dakotas and Minnesota: Web Resources Preprints The PrePrint Network from the U.S. Department of Energy Continues to Expan U.S./China Relations International Relations Congressional Research Service Materials The Federation Of American Scientists have made several Congressional Research Service (CRS) reports available dealing with U.S./China relations. Here are links to a few of them. IB98018: China-U.S. Relations (updated March 1, 2001) 19 page .pdf IB91121: China-U.S. Trade Issues (updated March 5, 2001) 17 page .pdf http://resourceshelf.blogspot.com --- Monday, April 09, 2001 Training Tools--Databases--ERIC New ERIC "Quick Instructions" Resource Information Visualization Tools Stock Exchange Data--NASDAQ NASDAQ 100 Heatmap Archives--Canada Canada Post and National Archives Announce "Virtual" Postal Archive http://resourceshelf.blogspot.com --- Sunday, April 08, 2001 Full-Text Document Shelf Elections--United Kingdom Source: House of Commons Library UK Election Statistics 1945-2000 Related Docs: By Elections Since the 1997 General Election 23 pages General Election Results: 1 May 1997 92 pages Information Technology--People Asia's 25 Movers and Shakers 2001 Source: ZDNet Asia http://resourceshelf.blogspot.com ---- Saturday, April 7, 2001 Business--Databases (Fee-Based)--Help Documentation Georgetown's Business Intelligence Center Debuts "Help Sheets for Databases" Compilation Databases--Crime--Pennsylvania Databases--Invisible Web Pennsylvania State Police Place New Crime Reports Database Online http://resourceshelf.blogspot.com ------- Friday, April 6, 2001 Info Industry--SilverPlatter Info Industry--Wolters Kluwer Wolter Kluwer Acquires SilverPlatter Energy--Gasoline--Forecast--U.S. Driving--U.S. Source: Energy Information Agency Summer 2001 Motor Gasoline Outlook Professional Reading Shelf Online Information--Preservation "Digital Preservation: Paradox & Promise" Source: LJ netconnect. & Resource Naming and Identification "Pesistence is A Virtue" Source: National Library of Australia http://resourceshelf.blogspot.com ---------- Thursday April 5, 2001 Health Advisories--Canada Source: Health Canada New Website: Advisories for Health Professionals Web Reference Tools Info Industry--U.K. XRefer to Launch a Fee-Based Professional Version Full-Text Document Shelf Business--Women Owned--United States Women--Statistics--United States Women Owned Businesses (1997 Economic Census) Databases of the Day--Invisible Web Sports--Major League Baseball Historical PLAYER Statistics: Major League Baseball (1871 to the Present) Historical TEAM Statistics: Major League Baseball (1871 to the Present) Historical LEADERS Statistics: Major League Baseball (1871 to the Present) Web Reference--Online Encyclopedias United States--Encyclopedias The National Endowment for the Humanities Begins Grants to Create on Online Encyclopedia http://resourceshelf.blogspot.com ------ Wednesday April 4, 2001 Online Exhibition--U.S. History American Originals: Materials from the Traveling Exhibit Knowledge Management Source: Darwin "When Bad Things Happen To Good Ideas" Web Tools--Updates Quickbrowse & EQuill Two useful webtools with just announced new features/updates. Both tools are free to use. -------------- End Weekly Highlights #6 The Virtual Acquisition Shelf & News Desk http://resourceshelf.blogspot.com Gary D. Price, MLIS Librarian George Washington University Virginia Campus Library Gelman Library Ashburn, VA and Washington, D.C. [log in to unmask] Looking for Info Industry News? New Search Resources? New Web Accessible Documents? Visit The Virtual Acquisition Shelf & News Desk http://resourceshelf.blogspot.com