INFO POOLS
INFORMATION
MINING
· News guide books and
Yellow Pages on the Net
Since there are more and more Internet Search Services available on the Net, some of the leading brand names have begun to combine the search function with value added services. They are integrating data provided by top news agencies, city and travel guides, book ordering services, Yellow Pages and even free e-mail.
· Autonomous links when
browsing on the Web
Researchers at the MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Media Laboratory, Massachusetts, USA, have created software that helps users browse the Net. As the user operates a conventional Web browser, such as Netscape, the program tracks user behavior and attempts to anticipate items of interest. Because it autonomously explores links from the user’s current position, the program proposes other relevant sites.
NET SOURCES
· Bodies donated to the
Internet for medicine
The US National Library of Medicine is creating a digital atlas of the human anatomy, available through the Internet to encourage medical researchers to develop new algorithms and to compare their work with others. The project started in 1991 when a murderer, who had received the death sentence, donated his body to science. The cadaver was frozen, then sliced from head to toe, and color photos of the slices were taken.
· Largest music underground
archive on the Web
Founded by two students in 1993, the Internet Underground Music Archive is not only the earliest, but also the largest rock music resource on the Web Based on the idea of bypassing record labels by marketing popular music on line, the steadily expanding archive soon became an important resource for the music industry. Every day, hundreds of thousands of fans, radio station programmers.
· Digital Encyclopedia
Britannica released
The on-line version of the world’s most recognized reference book has been designed to consist of an easily browsable, fully cross referenced collection of authoritative entries Britannica’s latest article database, Merriam Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary (10th Edition), the Britannica Book to the Year, hundreds of articles not found in the printed version of the encyclopedia.
· US Library of Congress
goes digital
The Library of Congress (LC) has backed up its vast collection of knowledge on a computer catalogue (lcweb.loc.gov/) that contains entries for all books in the English language catalogued since 1968, and for those in most of the other Western languages since 1973.
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