Awareness Watch™ Newsletter V5N3 March 2007

Awareness Watch™ Newsletter V5N3 March 2007
http://AwarenessWatch.VirtualPrivateLibrary.net/V5N3.pdf
Awareness Watch™ Newsletter Blog and Archives
http://www.AwarenessWatch.com/

The March 2007 V5N3 Awareness Watch™ Newsletter is a freely available 40 page .pdf document (1.08MB) from the above URL. The Awareness Watch Featured Report this month features Script Resources. Resources for scripts, codes and programming languages on the Internet continue to expand at a very rapid rate especially with the developments in the Web 2.0, MashUps, and the constant creation of new applications which of course foster new scripts!! The Awareness Watch Spotters cover many excellent and newly released annotated current awareness research sources and tools as well as the latest identified Internet happenings and resources including a number of must-have tools! The Awareness Watch Article Review covers Tragedy of the FOSS commons? Investigating the Institutional Designs of Free/libre and Open Source Software Projects by Charles M. Schweik and Robert English.

©2007 Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A.

Awareness Watch™ Newsletter V5N3 March 2007

Awareness Watch™ Newsletter V5N3 March 2007
http://AwarenessWatch.VirtualPrivateLibrary.net/V5N3.pdf
Awareness Watch™ Newsletter Blog and Archives
http://www.AwarenessWatch.com/

The March 2007 V5N3 Awareness Watch™ Newsletter is a freely available 40 page .pdf document (1.08MB) from the above URL. The Awareness Watch Featured Report this month features Script Resources. Resources for scripts, codes and programming languages on the Internet continue to expand at a very rapid rate especially with the developments in the Web 2.0, MashUps, and the constant creation of new applications which of course foster new scripts!! The Awareness Watch Spotters cover many excellent and newly released annotated current awareness research sources and tools as well as the latest identified Internet happenings and resources including a number of must-have tools! The Awareness Watch Article Review covers Tragedy of the FOSS commons? Investigating the Institutional Designs of Free/libre and Open Source Software Projects by Charles M. Schweik and Robert English.

©2007 Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A.

ChatterBots
http://www.ChatterBots.info/

ChatterBots is a Subject Tracer™ Information Blog created and designed by the Virtual Private Library to monitor for the latest chatterbot resources available on the Internet and is freely available. Also a white paper link compilation is freely available in a .pdf format.

DemocraKey – Portable Privacy Suite
http://www.democrakey.com/

The DemocraKey was created in May of 2006. Within two days, over 60,000 people had read about the DemocraKey and built their own. It was featured on MSN, Digg, Lifehacker, and hundreds of other pages. Now, it’s entering version 2.0, where it becomes a complete, portable privacy suite. We can’t trust unknown computers to be secure, so the DemocraKey helps scan and surf securely from computer to computer. Eventually, the DemocraKey will also encrypt and store personal documents, creating an entire personal security suite. This has been added to Privacy Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.

Journal of Informetrics
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/17511577

Journal of Informetrics (JOI) publishes refereed articles on fundamental quantitative aspects of information science. The journal, although limited to -metrics aspects, has a broad scope: in principle, all quantitative analysis of original problems in information science are within the scope of JOI. Besides its generality, Journal of Informetrics focusses on papers describing fundamental methods and theories and/or universally important data, gathered in a non-trivial way. Fundamental methods comprise mathematical, probabilistic or statistical models and techniques as well as methods in operational research. These methods can serve the quantitative explanation of certain phenomena, evaluation of information and its producers as well as the management of libraries and other information centres. Journal of Informetrics has a special (though not exclusive) interest in inter- and multi-disciplinary papers, dealing with common aspects of (or possible differences between) several neighbouring disciplines such as quantitative linguistics, econometrics, biometrics and other -metrics fields. The aim is to lower the barriers between these fields, hence avoiding reformulation of similar problems, theories and solutions. Journal of Informetrics also welcomes certain papers from researchers who do not consider themselves as informetrists, for example research papers would be considered on the graph-theoretic description of networks. Journal of Informetrics also publishes papers that improve standardisation in informetrics. In general the journal aims to contribute to increasing the degree of “hardness” of the field, and to increase the degree of “exactness” of the scientific field of informetrics. The journal covers informetrics and considers it to comprise (or at least to include) fields such as bibliometrics, scientometrics, webometrics and cybermetrics. Specific topics can be described (non-exhaustively) as follows: informetric laws (including, but not exclusively: Lotka, Zipf, Bradford, Mandelbrot but also laws of growth and ageing or obsolescence) hereby also modelling generalised bibliographies, aspects of inequality or concentration (e.g. Lorenz theory) and diffusion, citation theory, linking theory, downloads, indicators (definitions and properties), evaluation techniques for scientific output (literature, persons) and for documentary systems (information retrieval) incl. ranking theory, library management, graph-theoretic and topological analysis of networks (incl. Internet, intranets, citation and collaboration networks), visualisation and mapping of science (persons, fields, institutes, topics, …).

Lphant – The Full P2P Solution
http://www.lphant.com/

Lphant is an overall complete solution to find, download and share any file. Lphant allows you to download and share files of any kind or size with millions of other people using the eDonkey network, where more than 25 millions of files are available or download any of the millions of torrent files you can find in the Net. This has been added to the Peer to Peer section of Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.

Measurement Databases
http://measurementdb.com/

Free searchable information on measurements in industry and science. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.

ChatterBots
http://www.ChatterBots.info/

ChatterBots is a Subject Tracer™ Information Blog created and designed by the Virtual Private Library to monitor for the latest chatterbot resources available on the Internet and is freely available. Also a white paper link compilation is freely available in a .pdf format.

DemocraKey – Portable Privacy Suite
http://www.democrakey.com/

The DemocraKey was created in May of 2006. Within two days, over 60,000 people had read about the DemocraKey and built their own. It was featured on MSN, Digg, Lifehacker, and hundreds of other pages. Now, it’s entering version 2.0, where it becomes a complete, portable privacy suite. We can’t trust unknown computers to be secure, so the DemocraKey helps scan and surf securely from computer to computer. Eventually, the DemocraKey will also encrypt and store personal documents, creating an entire personal security suite. This has been added to Privacy Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.

Journal of Informetrics
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/17511577

Journal of Informetrics (JOI) publishes refereed articles on fundamental quantitative aspects of information science. The journal, although limited to -metrics aspects, has a broad scope: in principle, all quantitative analysis of original problems in information science are within the scope of JOI. Besides its generality, Journal of Informetrics focusses on papers describing fundamental methods and theories and/or universally important data, gathered in a non-trivial way. Fundamental methods comprise mathematical, probabilistic or statistical models and techniques as well as methods in operational research. These methods can serve the quantitative explanation of certain phenomena, evaluation of information and its producers as well as the management of libraries and other information centres. Journal of Informetrics has a special (though not exclusive) interest in inter- and multi-disciplinary papers, dealing with common aspects of (or possible differences between) several neighbouring disciplines such as quantitative linguistics, econometrics, biometrics and other -metrics fields. The aim is to lower the barriers between these fields, hence avoiding reformulation of similar problems, theories and solutions. Journal of Informetrics also welcomes certain papers from researchers who do not consider themselves as informetrists, for example research papers would be considered on the graph-theoretic description of networks. Journal of Informetrics also publishes papers that improve standardisation in informetrics. In general the journal aims to contribute to increasing the degree of “hardness” of the field, and to increase the degree of “exactness” of the scientific field of informetrics. The journal covers informetrics and considers it to comprise (or at least to include) fields such as bibliometrics, scientometrics, webometrics and cybermetrics. Specific topics can be described (non-exhaustively) as follows: informetric laws (including, but not exclusively: Lotka, Zipf, Bradford, Mandelbrot but also laws of growth and ageing or obsolescence) hereby also modelling generalised bibliographies, aspects of inequality or concentration (e.g. Lorenz theory) and diffusion, citation theory, linking theory, downloads, indicators (definitions and properties), evaluation techniques for scientific output (literature, persons) and for documentary systems (information retrieval) incl. ranking theory, library management, graph-theoretic and topological analysis of networks (incl. Internet, intranets, citation and collaboration networks), visualisation and mapping of science (persons, fields, institutes, topics, …).