Discovering scholarly information and data

Next Generation Discovery: New Tools, Aging Standards

March 27-28, 2008
Chapel Hill, NC

Discovering scholarly information and data is essential for research and use of the content that the information community is producing and making available. The development of knowledge bases, web systems, repositories, and other sources for this information brings the need for effective discovery -- search-driven discovery and network (or browse) driven discovery -- tools to the forefront. With new tools and systems emerging, however, are standards keeping pace with the next generation of tools?

Richard Akerman and my SciBling Dave Munger are among the participants. I'll try to make it...

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In a comment to the last post, "Korax" mentions a paper published online in Current Biology
THOUGHTS and actions are intimately linked, and the mere thought of an action is much like actually performing it.
When we speak of the Hobbit, let us not forget her tools.