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The (long tail) End of the Book
I would venture to guess that Noah Richler (son of Mordecai) is not the first journalist to predict the demise of the book. In his article in the October edition of The Walrus, Richler says: ….… more →
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The (long tail) End of the Book
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Andre Vellino wrote 1 week ago: I would venture to guess that Noah Richler (son of Mordecai) is not the first journalist to predict … more →
MS Libra Academic Search Engine
Andre Vellino wrote 7 months ago: Microsoft Research Asia appears to have taken over where Microsoft Live Academic left off with Libra … more →
Cost of NSERC Grants
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Andre Vellino wrote 7 months ago: A recent paper in Accountability in Research by Richard Gordon and Bryan Poulin, entitled “Cos … more →
Wolfram's new Search Engine
Andre Vellino wrote 7 months ago: The new “search engine” Wolfram Alpha by Stephen Wolfram is interesting. It’s nei … more →
Intelligent Librarian Agent
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Andre Vellino wrote 8 months ago: Daniel Lemire has been pining for a research tool that will notify him of anything that may be relev … more →
Diversity
Andre Vellino wrote 9 months ago: Richard Dawkins and others have been talking about memes (the cultural analog of genes) for over a d … more →
Paper vs. Bytes
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Andre Vellino wrote 9 months ago: Until just last week, water-cooler conversations in our library sometimes went to the question of wh … more →
The Mechanical Librarian
Andre Vellino wrote 10 months ago: I was scheduled to give a CISTI Seminar yesterday, entitled “The Mechanical Librarian” b … more →
NextBio Recommender
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Andre Vellino wrote 10 months ago: The biosciences search portal NextBio is interesting for several reasons. According to this intervi … more →
Document Similarity w/ Hadoop
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Andre Vellino wrote 10 months ago: For a while now, I have been wanting to calculate an exact “pairwise document similarity … more →
Ex Libris Recommender
Andre Vellino wrote 10 months ago: It’s gratifying to learn from Richard that the library product and solutions vendor Ex Libris … more →
Synthese Recommender
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Andre Vellino wrote 1 year ago: I have finally finished a first version of the Synthese Recommender for journal articles. It is now … more →
How can Libraries leverage SOA?
bloomsbury wrote 1 year ago: implementing SOA at CISTI By Richard Akerman My colleague Stephen Anthony has posted his author vers … more →
Canada # 1 in Computer Science
Andre Vellino wrote 1 year ago: Glen Newton alerts us to a recent article published in Scientometrics from which he deduced that Can … more →
