Hong Kong University Theses Online
http://sunzi1.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/index.jsp

The Hong Kong University Theses Collection holds 16,574 titles of theses and dissertations submitted for higher degrees to the University of Hong Kong since 1941. The first recorded thesis was dated 1928, though all theses prior to 1941 were lost during the occupation of WWII. HKUTO includes works in the arts, humanities, education and the social, medical and natural sciences. Many of them deal entirely with or focus on subjects relating to Hong Kong. The collection is primarily in English, with some in English and Chinese, and others in Chinese only. Almost all HKU theses are included in HKUTO. Missing ones might be located in HKU departmental libraries. HKUTO now includes 14,481 fulltext electronic theses. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Academic and Scholar Search Engines and Sources White Paper.

Permanent Access to the Records of Science in Europe (PARSE)
http://www.parse-insight.eu/

PARSE.Insight is a two-year project co-funded by the European Union under the Seventh Framework Programme. It is concerned with the preservation of digital information in science, from primary data through analysis to the final publications resulting from the research. The problem is how to safeguard this valuable digital material over time, to ensure that it is accessible, usable and understandable in future. The rapid pace of change in information technology threatens media, file formats and software with obsolescence, and changing concepts and terminology also mean that, even if data can be read, it might not be correctly interpreted by future generations. Many initiatives are already under way in this area, and the aim of the PARSE.Insight project is to develop a roadmap and recommendations for developing the e-infrastructure in order to maintain the long-term accessibility and usability of scientific digital information in Europe. The project will conduct surveys and in-depth case studies of different scientific disciplines and stakeholders and will base its results on these findings, as well as knowledge of ongoing developments. PARSE.Insight is closely linked to the Alliance for Permanent Access to the Records of Science. The output from the project is intended to guide the European Commission’s strategy about research infrastructure. This has been added to Academic and Scholar Search Engines and Sources White Paper. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.

Academic and Scholar Search Engines and Sources

Updated> Academic and Scholar Search Engines and Sources
http://www.ScholarSearchEngines.com/

I have updated my Internet MiniGuide Annotated Link Compilation White Paper titled “Academic and Scholar Search Engines and Sources” which is now a 49 page research paper listing selected resources both new and existing that will help anyone who is attempting to find academic and scholarly information and knowledge available on the Internet. Each source is described along with the URL address than can be accessed. It is freely available as a .pdf file (1.32MB) at the above link from the Virtual Private Library™ and authored by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. [Update Posted November 1, 2008]

Awareness Watch Talk Show for Sunday November 2, 2008 at 2:00pm EST
http://www.BlogTalkRadio.com/AwarenessWatch/

This show will highlight my Subject Tracer™ Information Blog titled Tutorial Resources and available from http://www.TutorialResources.info/ . These resources will aid you in your continued knowledge discovery for education of niched and specific subject areas that are available over the Internet. Stay ahead of your profession and career by constantly evaluating and linking to excellent tutorial resources from the global Internet. We will be reviewing the latest happenings and sites on the Internet by visiting my blog at zillman.us. We will also be discussing my AwarenessWatch Newsletter V6N11 for November 2008 as well as my November 2008 Zillman Column. You may call in to ask your questions at (718)508-9839. The show is live and thirty minutes in length starting at 2:00pm EST on Sunday November 2, 2008 and then archived for easy review and access. Listen, Call and Enjoy!!

IdeaTorrent – Open Innovation Software
http://www.ideatorrent.org/

IdeaTorrent is what can be defined as an “open innovation software” … it lets people submit their ideas, brainstorm them, and then vote on them. The most popular ideas and requests are then easily accessible. This is a very interesting mission for a software project to have an insight on the demandsand requests of its user base! IdeaTorrent includes multiples solutions to a single rationale support, strong community based moderation tools, theming support, and is based on Drupal. This has been added to World Wide Web Reference Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to Entrepreneurial Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.

International Journal of Interactive Multimedia and Artificial Intelligence
http://www.imai-software.com/openlab/index.php?q=journal

OpenLab is an open laboratory of ideas and projects related to application development and research using artificial intelligence and interactive multimedia techniques. It has been created from new practical laboratory approach applied on artificial intelligent courseware. International Journal of Interactive Multimedia and Artificial Intelligence publishes research contributions by students in the following areas:

* Medical diagnosis: currently interactive multimedia and artificial intelligence techniques suggest the possibility to offer new approaches focused to discover and obtain high precision diagnosis, merging technical and medical knowledge. The experimental research works show the high-potential provided by software prototypes based on visual perception, fuzzy logic and bayesian theories.

* Semantic metadata: semantic web theories and formal languages has been growing during last years due to effort made by a high number of researchers. Besides, it is important to point out an special area Semantic Metadata with the main aim of provides several benefits on metadata management. Geographical Information Systems, Documental management systems among others can be better off by the use of ontologies (instead of natural language) as structural metadata formal knowledge. This section includes the most important contributions.

* Nature conservancy: we can help protect the world’s most beautiful and diverse places developing technology that preserve threatened habitats around the world. Artificial intelligence, robotics and real-time monitors are essential tools used into our laboratory to build prototypes which seek how we can design and deploy real projects on demarcated environments.

* Intelligence perception: this section includes two big areas, intelligence indoor positioning systems and intelligence visual identify systems. Learning algorithms has been used to create adaptive positioning and identify systems.

This journal has been created with the aim to publish, share and bring together our experiences and work performed during one academic year. However we hope receive more contributions from IA and multimedia researchers, in order to open and extend future next issues of the journal. This has been added to Artificial Intelligence Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.

Hong Kong University Theses Online
http://sunzi1.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/index.jsp

The Hong Kong University Theses Collection holds 16,574 titles of theses and dissertations submitted for higher degrees to the University of Hong Kong since 1941. The first recorded thesis was dated 1928, though all theses prior to 1941 were lost during the occupation of WWII. HKUTO includes works in the arts, humanities, education and the social, medical and natural sciences. Many of them deal entirely with or focus on subjects relating to Hong Kong. The collection is primarily in English, with some in English and Chinese, and others in Chinese only. Almost all HKU theses are included in HKUTO. Missing ones might be located in HKU departmental libraries. HKUTO now includes 14,481 fulltext electronic theses. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Academic and Scholar Search Engines and Sources White Paper.

Permanent Access to the Records of Science in Europe (PARSE)
http://www.parse-insight.eu/

PARSE.Insight is a two-year project co-funded by the European Union under the Seventh Framework Programme. It is concerned with the preservation of digital information in science, from primary data through analysis to the final publications resulting from the research. The problem is how to safeguard this valuable digital material over time, to ensure that it is accessible, usable and understandable in future. The rapid pace of change in information technology threatens media, file formats and software with obsolescence, and changing concepts and terminology also mean that, even if data can be read, it might not be correctly interpreted by future generations. Many initiatives are already under way in this area, and the aim of the PARSE.Insight project is to develop a roadmap and recommendations for developing the e-infrastructure in order to maintain the long-term accessibility and usability of scientific digital information in Europe. The project will conduct surveys and in-depth case studies of different scientific disciplines and stakeholders and will base its results on these findings, as well as knowledge of ongoing developments. PARSE.Insight is closely linked to the Alliance for Permanent Access to the Records of Science. The output from the project is intended to guide the European Commission’s strategy about research infrastructure. This has been added to Academic and Scholar Search Engines and Sources White Paper. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.