Subscribe to RSS Feed TechTips: Searching Wikipedia Using Powerset
Powerset is a discovery tool that (currently) extracts and organizes information contained in Wikipedia and Freebase. A natural language algorithm allows the searcher to use keywords, phrases, or even simple questions. The results page aggregates information from across multiple articles, in essence creating an enhanced Wikipedia article.For example, here is the search results for Thompson [...]
TechTips: Cloud Computing
I mentioned the concept of cloud computing in an earlier TechTip on Netbook computers. Many library staff members are already experienced users of cloud computing – without even knowing it. Some are using the cloud in the form of GoogleDocs. Staff users of Facebook take advantage of cloud, as do those that use photo sharing [...]
TechTips: Short Code Texting Services in Libraries
Chances are if you are into texting on your mobile phone you have sent a message to a five or six digit ‘phone’ number (such as to 32665 to update your Facebook status). Long popular outside of the US, short codes are being used for a variety of value-added services such as television voting, ordering [...]
TechTips: ticTOC
Locating and accessing the tables of contents from a variety of journal publishers is time-consuming task, if possible at all. To make finding and subscribing to table of contents RSS feeds a simple process, the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) has formally launched it’s ticTOCS service. The ticTOCs service aggregates the tables of contents (TOCs) [...]
TechTips: Google SearchWiki
Have you ever wanted to mark up Google search results? Well, now you can. Google recently launched SearchWiki, a way for individuals to customize search by re-ranking, deleting, adding, and commenting on search results. Searchers can now move results that they like to the top of the Google results page, or add in a new [...]