Archive for April, 2008

The hundred years problem

15Apr08

Increasingly, I think we’re saddled with what I’m calling the “hundred years” problem. By that, I mean that from at least 2000 forward, it’s fairly easy to compile degree, appointment, and publication information, since (nearly) all of it is published on the web (and sometimes even available in RSS, XML, or flat data formats). Some [...]

ISI Web of Science

02Apr08

David and I both attended presentations on ISI Web of Science today. WoS is taking an interesting and, in many ways, different approach as a search tool. Here are a few of the things that stood out:

Keywords are de-emphasized. There is no taxonomy associated with WoS (since it is so interdisciplinary in scope), so users [...]