OpenRefine – A Free Open Source Powerful Tool for Working With Messy Data
http://openrefine.org/

OpenRefine (formerly Google Refine) is a powerful tool for working with messy data: cleaning it; transforming it from one format into another; extending it with web services; and linking it to databases like Freebase. Please note that since October 2nd, 2012, Google is not actively supporting this project, which has now been rebranded to OpenRefine. Project development, documentation and promotion is now fully supported by volunteers. Find out more about the history of OpenRefine and how you can help the community. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™. This will be added to Statistics Resources and Big Data Subject Tracer™

The Hague Declaration
http://thehaguedeclaration.com/

The Hague Declaration aims to foster agreement about how to best enable access to facts, data and ideas for knowledge discovery in the Digital Age. By removing barriers to accessing and analyzing the wealth of data produced by society, we can find answers to great challenges such as climate change, depleting natural resources and globalization.This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™

ScreenAware – Automatic Time Tracking
https://www.screenaware.net/

Invoice clients accurately by automatically tracking and relating your screen time to billable project tasks using a simple desktop plugin. The resulting timesheets are then directly imported into your favorite invoicing or project management solution. Features include: a) Accurate Invoices – At the end of your workday, you get an email report showing which tasks you spent your time on. Optionally you make some adjustments and import the effort spent into your favorite invoicing or project management solution to effortlessly create accurate invoices. All with just the push of one button or even fully automatized; b) Automatic Time Tracking – You install the lightweight ScreenAware desktop app and while you are working, it continually captures your work context noting interruptions and task switches. Offline activities such as meetings from your calendar are considered as well. It then attributes all spent time to your billable projects/tasks. This time tracking happens in the background without requiring any input from your side – no more hitting start/stop timers; and c) Focus on your actual work – You work on projects or tasks using a variety of desktop applications, files and websites, communicate with coworkers and clients via multiple channels and on top are often interrupted forcing you to switch what you are working on. Keeping track of the time spent for each client or project only adds to this burden but is necessary to invoice the client correctly and to judge which projects are profitable and which are not. ScreenAware takes this mental overhead off your shoulders allowing you to focus on your actual work. This will be added to Entrepreneurial Resources Subject Tracer™. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.

WikiReverse
https://wikireverse.org/

WikiReverse shows pages that link to Wikipedia articles. It is a dataset of 36 million links parsed from the July 2014 web crawl released by Common Crawl. WikiReverse shows pages that link to Wikipedia articles. This is sometimes known as a reverse web-link graph. The source data was the July 2014 web crawl released by Common Crawl, which contains 3.6 billion web pages. WikiReverse isn’t affiliated with Common Crawl or Wikipedia. But is very grateful to both projects for their work supporting open data. This website is developed and operated by Ross Fairbanks, a software developer based in Barcelona. This will be added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Entrepreneurial Resources Subject Tracer™. This will be added to Business Intelligence Resources Subject Tracer™

Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE)
https://www.xsede.org/

The Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) is the most advanced, powerful, and robust collection of integrated advanced digital resources and services in the world. It is a single virtual system that scientists can use to interactively share computing resources, data, and expertise. Scientists and engineers around the world use these resources and services—things like supercomputers, collections of data, and new tools—to make our lives healthier, safer, and better. XSEDE, and the experts who lead the program, will make these resources easier to use and help more people use them. The five-year, $121-million project is supported by the National Science Foundation. It replaces and expands on the NSF TeraGrid project. More than 10,000 scientists used the TeraGrid to complete thousands of research projects, at no cost to the scientists. Initially, XSEDE supports 16 supercomputers and high-end visualization and data analysis resources across the country. It also includes other specialized digital resources and services to complement these computers. These resources will be expanded throughout the lifetime of the project. The XSEDE partnership includes: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Carnegie Mellon University/University of Pittsburgh, University of Texas at Austin, University of Tennessee Knoxville, University of Virginia, Shodor Education Foundation, Southeastern Universities Research Association, University of Chicago, University of California San Diego, Indiana University, Jülich Supercomputing Centre, Purdue University, Cornell University, Ohio State University, University of California Berkeley, Rice University, and the National Center for Atmospheric Research. It is led by the University of Illinois’s National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). This will be added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.

CHAIN-REDS – Co-ordination and Harmonization of Advanced e-Infrastructures for Research and Education Data Sharing
https://www.chain-project.eu/

CHAIN-REDS is a FP7 project co-funded by the European Commission (DG CONNECT) aiming at promoting and supporting technological and scientific collaboration across different e-Infrastructures established and operated in various continents, in order to define a path towards a global e-Infrastructure ecosystem that will allow Virtual Research Communities (VRCs), research groups and even single researchers to access and efficiently use worldwide distributed resources (i.e., computing, storage, data, services, tools, applications). This will be added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog

AirPR Analyst – Humanizes Data to Increase PR Performance
https://www.airpr.com/

The solution tracks media activity and provides top-level, actionable insights into your PR efforts to tell you what is driving engagement and moving the needle in terms of traffic, conversion, organic search, and even revenue. For CMOs and communications professionals, understanding which PR efforts are driving the most effective outcomes is imperative to making better decisions around both budget allocation and content development for future campaigns. Features include: a) Integration – In less than 30 minutes, you can fully onboard; in less than 24 hours you can begin pulling data and reports on current PR activity; b) Impact – Real-time data aggregation and dynamic data visualization of only the most authoritative and impactful information across articles, blogs, and social; and c) Insights – Track the media activity of your top competitors; understand gaps and opportunities to drive future PR decision-making. This will be added to Entrepreneurial Resources Subject Tracer™.

PRESSfeed – Social Media Online Newsroom
http://news.press-feed.com/

PRESSfeed has been at the forefront of online newsroom development for five years now – they were the first to add RSS Feeds to news content and they were the first to develop the social media newsroom. They are deeply involved in the PR industry and they know the needs of PR and marketing professionals as well as the needs of the media, both traditional and social. They constantly research the changing needs of journalists and bloggers and how people consume news in the social media space. We listen to our customers and constantly research changes in news consumption. They integrate these insights and behaviors into our newsroom. In today’s fast paced news cycle, with so much news being shared on social media sites, it’s vital to have your news and content in Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and LinkedIn. But it is just as important to keep your newsroom relevant and plugged into this new social world. This will be added to Social Informatics Subject Tracer™.

Outbrain Amplify – Get Your Content Discovered
http://outbrain.com/

Outbrain is the leading content discovery platform dedicated exclusively to the distribution of high-quality content. With Outbrain Amplify, links to your content appear as recommendations on the web’s largest content publishers and premium publisher sites. Outbrain optimizes on engagement so the more interesting your content and the more traffic you drive, the more you will be recommended around the web.They use a complex set of algorithms to try to find the most interesting and relevant links for each individual reader on every page. Outbrain algorithms only serve what readers want to read, making Outbrain the highest quality discovery engine out there. So not only will they find your best performing content, but you’ll also be in good company. Their readers trust them because they have proven to be the most reputable in the industry. This will be added to Entrepreneurial Resources Subject Tracer™

August 2015 Zillman Column – Searching the Internet – A Primer
http://columns.virtualprivatelibrary.net/Primer_Searching_Internet_Aug15_Column.pdf
http://www.zillmancolumns.com/

The August 2015 Zillman Column features Searching the Internet – A Primer by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A.; Executive Director of the Virtual Private Library and features the latest World Wide Web resources and sources for searching the Internet and discovering new knowledge and understanding the latest happenings with regards to the New Economy and the Internet of Things (IOT). Understanding the basics as well as some advanced searching and discovery techniques allows one to stay on top of their field of interest and to keep up with the rapidly changing world of transparency, big data and the ability to access data from new and now accessible databases. These resources are constantly updated by my Subject Tracer™ Information Bots and the latest resources for the new economy are available from the following URL:http://www.SearchingTheInternet.info/. Understanding the required search analytics, resources and alerts will give you the necessary tools to maintain your current position, improve your position and or discover the new knowledge required to be the leader in your profession. These resources and sources will guide you through the many pathways available on the Internet to find the latest search and discovery sources and sites. Download this excellent freely available 20 page 284KB pdf column today and begin your online knowledge discovery into understanding the basics of searching the Internet including many excellent sources, tools, and sites!. This is another MUST have column in today’s ever changing and New Economy world!!