Professional Reading Shelf
Metadata
Source: PerX
New Publication: The Power of Good Metadata Discussed in ‘Marketing’ with Metadata — How Metadata Can Increase Exposure and Visibility of Online Content
From a synopsis, “‘Marketing’ with Metadata – How Metadata Can Increase Exposure and Visibility of Online Content is aimed at content providers of various kinds — for example, journal publishers, professional societies and database providers and owners — who may have such data, or metadata, available for the content they produce.”
See Also: Metadata (via Digital Curation Centre)
A chapter from the DCC Curation Manual.
Excellent intro to metadata.
See Also: Introduction to Metadata: Pathways to Digital Information (via Getty Research Institute)
A full text book on the topic.
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Internet2–Statistics
Source: Internet2
New Survey Shows Access and Usage of Internet2 in Schools, Public Libraries, and Elsewhere
From the summary:
K12 Schools
+ 35971 out of 98335 or 37% of the K12 Schools in the United States are
connected to Internet2 via the SEGP Program.
+ 4350 out of 35971, or 12%, of K12 Schools connect to the Internet2
backbone network at >= 10 Mbps.
+ 17% of state education networks report between 50 – 100% of the K12
Schools they connect are multi-cast enabled.
+ State education networks report, on average, that 44% of the K12 Schools
they connnect have H.323, DVTS, MPEG, or other video conferencing codecs
available.
Public Libraries
+ 3325 out of 16991 or 20% of the Public Libraries in the United States are
connected to Internet2 via the SEGP Program.
+ 229 out of 3325, or 7%, of Public Libraries connect to the Internet2
backbone network at >= 10 Mbps.
Totals
“More than 46,000 K-12 schools, community colleges, libraries, and museums in 35 U.S. states are now connected to the Internet2 backbone network.”
Summary Direct to Full Text of Study
See Also: Learn More About Internet2
“Internet2 is a consortium being led by 207 universities working in partnership with industry and government to develop and deploy advanced network applications and technologies, accelerating the creation of tomorrow’s Internet.”
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Weblogs
Wikis
Source: Intelligent Enterprise
One Person’s Opinion: Wikis, Blogs, and Other Points of Failure
A column by Joshua Greenbaum. From the column, “I hate to be the one to throw cold water on the latest cool thing, but wikis and blogs — and all the other unwashed, untethered, so-called “new information” sources proliferating across the enterprise — are, all too often, just a lot of bunk masquerading as information…The integrity of all information — corporate or private — rests on the ability of users to judge the validity of the source. So heaven help us if no one calls the bloggers and wikites on the carpet when they mislead and misinform; degrading information on the Internet will globalize ignorance to an incredible degree. And the last thing anyone needs these days is more global stupidity. We have enough politicians contributing to that problem already.”
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Vocabularies–Medical
Source: NLM
New Fact Sheets Provide Info About Unified Medical Language System
+ Unified Medical Language System
“The purpose of NLM’s Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) is to facilitate the development of computer systems that behave as if they “understand” the meaning of the language of biomedicine and health.”
+ UMLS Metathesaurus
“The Metathesaurus is a very large, multi-purpose, and multi-lingual vocabulary database that contains information about biomedical and health-related concepts, their various names, and the relationships among them.”
+ UMLS Semantic Network
“The Semantic Network consists of (1) a set of broad subject categories, or Semantic Types, that provide a consistent categorization of all concepts represented in the UMLS Metathesaurus and (2) a set of useful and important relationships, or Semantic Relations, that exist between Semantic Types.”

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