e3 Information Overload AND Are You 2.0 Yet? http://blog.case.edu/bcg8/ E-resources for Engineering Education, plus discussions on various web 2.0 and library issues en-us Mon, 14 Apr 2008 07:00:00 EST Mon, 14 Apr 2008 07:00:00 EST brian.c.gray@case.edu brian.c.gray@case.edu http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Movable Type v3.121 Wikipedia Roundup http://blog.case.edu/bcg8/2008/04/14/wikipedia_roundup I was getting a little behind in my reading and blogging. In order to make a substantial dent, I will... http://blog.case.edu/bcg8/2008/04/14/wikipedia_roundup Blog: Are You 2.0 Yet Web 2.0 Wiki Mon, 14 Apr 2008 07:00:00 EST I was getting a little behind in my reading and blogging. In order to make a substantial dent, I will make several posts over the next few days (or weeks) that will bring in many thoughts around a specific topic.

Today's topic: Wikipedia

The battle for Wikipedia's soul
Mar 6th 2008
(From The Economist print edition)
IT IS the biggest encyclopedia in history and the most successful example of “user-generated content” on the internet, with over 9m articles in 250 languages contributed by volunteers collaborating online.
The article discusses the challenges of trying to "encompass every aspect of human knowledge" versus including including everything no matter how "trivial".

Does anyone else think that the restrictions on Wikipedia are getting tighter and tighter than advertised and originally planned?

Interview of Niko Pfund, Vice President and Publisher of the Academic and Trade division of Oxford University Press in New York
Blog entry on the OUPblog (April 8, 2008)
He was asked if "he hated Wikipedia". He said he was a regular user and appears to think that Wikipedia is helping people to better understand appropriateness of information and its source. He suggested that the development of the Oxford English Dictionary was based on the same method of utilizing the collective knowledge of people.

He does suggest that as Wikipedia's popularity grows it will bring its own end as the "one-stop shopping model will likely fragment".

I do not know of this will happen. We see this in our own library collections that we are pushing more resources to a one-stop approach. Do people really think that we will revert back to having to find information from only a single appropriate source?

]]> New Endowed Professorship in Chemistry http://blog.case.edu/bcg8/2008/04/13/new_endowed_professorship_in_chemistry Gilles Klopman, the Charles F. Mabery Professor Emeritus of Research in Chemistry at Case Western Reserve University has made seven-figure... http://blog.case.edu/bcg8/2008/04/13/new_endowed_professorship_in_chemistry Blog: e3 Information Overload Case Awards, News, or Publications Chemistry & Chemicals Science and Technology Sun, 13 Apr 2008 19:13:01 EST Gilles Klopman, the Charles F. Mabery Professor Emeritus of Research in Chemistry at Case Western Reserve University has made seven-figure will commitment to Case's chemistry department.

See full story for more information.

]]> Street View by Google http://blog.case.edu/bcg8/2008/04/01/street_view_by_google Google is traveling around with a 360-degree camera to add a street view to its maps. Cleveland made its debut... http://blog.case.edu/bcg8/2008/04/01/street_view_by_google Blog: Are You 2.0 Yet Computers, Software, & the Internet Internet Tools Northeast Ohio Photos Search Engines Web 2.0 Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:00:00 EST Google is traveling around with a 360-degree camera to add a street view to its maps. Cleveland made its debut has the first Ohio city to be visually documented by Google.

See the Plain Dealer article for some more highlights.

Go to http://maps.google.com/ and enter a Cleveland address. Hit "street" view and if the streets are highlighted in blue you can get the view as if you are driving by. Just click on the street and enjoy. Arrows direct your travel and your view.

I went with the "full screen" view and the images are very good quality and can be zoomed. Not quite good enough to read a license plate, but they show quite a bit of detail.

]]> Sticker Shock - Take 2 http://blog.case.edu/bcg8/2008/03/31/sticker_shock_take_2 Do you know how much journals cost, especially in science and engineering? Cornell University Library uses real world purchases to... http://blog.case.edu/bcg8/2008/03/31/sticker_shock_take_2 Blog: e3 Information Overload Databases, Publishers, & Vendor Updates Libraries & Librarianship Scientific Publishing & Data Mon, 31 Mar 2008 07:00:00 EST Do you know how much journals cost, especially in science and engineering?

Cornell University Library uses real world purchases to show you how much libraries invest in your education and research needs. Check out Sticker Shock 2 for more information. I am scared when they compare journals to cars and international trips.

The original Sticker Shock was completed in 2002.

]]> Case Polymer Research Published in Science http://blog.case.edu/bcg8/2008/03/30/case_polymer_research_published_in_science Can you imagine polymer nanocomposites that transform from hard to soft and back again by exposure to liquid? Researchers from... http://blog.case.edu/bcg8/2008/03/30/case_polymer_research_published_in_science Biomedical Engineering Blog: e3 Information Overload Case Awards, News, or Publications Engineering Nanotechnology Sun, 30 Mar 2008 14:33:16 EST Can you imagine polymer nanocomposites that transform from hard to soft and back again by exposure to liquid? Researchers from the Case School of Engineering and the Louis Stokes Cleveland Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center have published results of such a polymer in Science. Case researchers were from the departments of macromolecular science and engineering and biomedical engineering.

More information available in the Case press release.

Science 7 March 2008:
Vol. 319. no. 5868, pp. 1370 - 1374
Stimuli-Responsive Polymer Nanocomposites Inspired by the Sea Cucumber Dermis
Jeffrey R. Capadona,Kadhiravan Shanmuganathan, Dustin J. Tyler, Stuart J. Rowan, Christoph Weder

If you are affiliated with Case, please use the eJournal Portal to discover what access for this article is available.

]]> IEEE Xplore Downtime http://blog.case.edu/bcg8/2008/03/11/ieee_xplore_downtime An IEEE Xplore upgrade is scheduled for Saturday, 15 March, 2008. During this upgrade, the system will be unavailable for... http://blog.case.edu/bcg8/2008/03/11/ieee_xplore_downtime Blog: e3 Information Overload Case Libraries Databases, Publishers, & Vendor Updates Engineering Kelvin Smith Library Tue, 11 Mar 2008 07:00:00 EST An IEEE Xplore upgrade is scheduled for Saturday, 15 March, 2008. During this upgrade, the system will be unavailable for up to four (4) hours beginning at approximately 10:00 am EDT (UTC/GMT - 4 hours).

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

]]> C&EN Online http://blog.case.edu/bcg8/2008/02/25/cen_online The Case community now has online access to Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN) from 1998 to present. Access was arranged... http://blog.case.edu/bcg8/2008/02/25/cen_online Applied Sciences Blog: e3 Information Overload Case Libraries Chemical Engineering Chemistry & Chemicals Databases, Publishers, & Vendor Updates Engineering OhioLINK Mon, 25 Feb 2008 07:00:00 EST The Case community now has online access to Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN) from 1998 to present. Access was arranged by OhioLINK.

[About C&EN]

Chemical & Engineering News is a weekly magazine published by the American Chemical Society. C&EN editors and reporters based in Europe, the U.S., and Asia cover science and technology, business and industry, government and policy, education, and employment aspects of the chemistry field.

C&EN Online offers Latest News, supplementary material to C&EN print articles, back issues of the magazine since 1998, and special features such as Reel Science, NanoFocus, RSS feeds, and blogs.

]]> Amelia Earhart Internship for Women Students in the Sciences and Engineering http://blog.case.edu/bcg8/2008/02/23/amelia_earhart_internship_for_women_students_in_the_sciences_and_engineering For the Case community: The Flora Stone Mather Center for Women and the Career Center will be co-sponsoring a new... http://blog.case.edu/bcg8/2008/02/23/amelia_earhart_internship_for_women_students_in_the_sciences_and_engineering Blog: e3 Information Overload Case Awards, News, or Publications Engineering News from the Field Northeast Ohio Sat, 23 Feb 2008 16:03:09 EST For the Case community:
The Flora Stone Mather Center for Women and the Career Center will be co-sponsoring a new internship program this summer. Students interested in completing a summer internship in Cleveland in a science or engineering field are eligible to participate.

Develop your network and learn about what it's like to work with a variety of different science and engineering employers; work with your supervisor to make progress on the individual learning goals you identify as essential to your future career; and give and receive ongoing support with students placed in similar internships.

Deadline to sign-up: Friday, February 29, 2008

Contact:
WISER Coordinator Liz Lierman, Elizabeth.lierman@case.edu, 216.368.6858

]]> A Vision of Students Today http://blog.case.edu/bcg8/2008/02/14/a_vision_of_students_today I just love the videos that come out from this class and this professor. Everyone of them makes me wondering... http://blog.case.edu/bcg8/2008/02/14/a_vision_of_students_today Blog: Are You 2.0 Yet Blog: e3 Information Overload Web 2.0 Thu, 14 Feb 2008 07:00:00 EST I just love the videos that come out from this class and this professor. Everyone of them makes me wondering what is next...

All the numbers are quite intriguing. The over 26 hours per day of tasks in 24 hours really hit home.

Source: http://mediatedcultures.net/ksudigg/?p=119

]]> Online Photo Sharing in Plain English http://blog.case.edu/bcg8/2008/02/13/online_photo_sharing_in_plain_english Great way to explain photo sharing. Source: http://www.commoncraft.com/photosharing... http://blog.case.edu/bcg8/2008/02/13/online_photo_sharing_in_plain_english Blog: Are You 2.0 Yet Photos Web 2.0 Wed, 13 Feb 2008 07:00:00 EST Great way to explain photo sharing.

Source: http://www.commoncraft.com/photosharing

]]> Happy 50th Birthday: Physical Review Letters http://blog.case.edu/bcg8/2008/02/12/happy_50th_birthday_physical_review_letters Physical Review Letters, started by Editor Sam Goudsmit as an experiment, reaches its 50th anniversary in July 2008. They are... http://blog.case.edu/bcg8/2008/02/12/happy_50th_birthday_physical_review_letters Astronomy, Astrophysics, & Physics Blog: e3 Information Overload Databases, Publishers, & Vendor Updates Science and Technology Tue, 12 Feb 2008 07:00:00 EST Physical Review Letters, started by Editor Sam Goudsmit as an experiment, reaches its 50th anniversary in July 2008. They are marking this occasion in several ways.

]]> Libraries Exploring Their Second Life http://blog.case.edu/bcg8/2008/02/11/libraries_exploring_their_second_life I was recently contacted by the State Library of Ohio to write an article on Second Life for their monthly... http://blog.case.edu/bcg8/2008/02/11/libraries_exploring_their_second_life Blog: Are You 2.0 Yet Case Awards, News, or Publications Libraries & Librarianship Northeast Ohio Second Life Web 2.0 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 07:00:00 EST I was recently contacted by the State Library of Ohio to write an article on Second Life for their monthly newsletter in January.

In my article, Libraries Exploring Their Second Life, I highlight how libraries and other organizations are utilizing Second Life. I focused on Ohio but included other examples as well.

]]> Case Mathematician Inspired By Science http://blog.case.edu/bcg8/2008/02/10/case_mathematician_inspired_by_science Peter Kotelenez, professor of mathematics in the College of Arts and Sciences at Case Western Reserve University, recently published Stochastic... http://blog.case.edu/bcg8/2008/02/10/case_mathematician_inspired_by_science Blog: e3 Information Overload Case Awards, News, or Publications Case Libraries Kelvin Smith Library Mathematics & Statistics Science and Technology Sun, 10 Feb 2008 20:18:11 EST Peter Kotelenez, professor of mathematics in the College of Arts and Sciences at Case Western Reserve University, recently published Stochastic Ordinary and Stochastic Partial Differential Equations: Transition from Microscopic to Macroscopic Equations.

See the Case announcement for more information.

Two copies have been ordered for the Kelvin Smith Library for use by the Case community.

]]> Wii Preparation for Surgeons http://blog.case.edu/bcg8/2008/01/22/wii_preparation_for_surgeons Years ago we had reports that our Desert Storm pilots were better than their former colleagues, due to being raised... http://blog.case.edu/bcg8/2008/01/22/wii_preparation_for_surgeons Blog: Are You 2.0 Yet Blog: e3 Information Overload Computer Science Computers, Software, & the Internet Engineering Gaming Medicine & Healthcare News from the Field Science and Technology Web 2.0 Tue, 22 Jan 2008 07:00:00 EST Years ago we had reports that our Desert Storm pilots were better than their former colleagues, due to being raised as children with video games. Now, we a have a study that shows surgeons that warm up or train on Wii perform better in surgeries.
Game players scored nearly 50% higher on tool control and overall performance than other trainees.
Source: 'Wii warm-up' good for surgeons from BBC News (January 17, 2008)

]]> From the File of Where Else Did They Look http://blog.case.edu/bcg8/2008/01/21/from_the_file_of_where_else_did_they_look I found this video about Gmail discussed in a Walking Paper blog entry. In general the video is Gmail engineers... http://blog.case.edu/bcg8/2008/01/21/from_the_file_of_where_else_did_they_look Blog: Are You 2.0 Yet Blog: e3 Information Overload Chemical Engineering Computers, Software, & the Internet Engineering Libraries & Librarianship Library Users My Experiences Mon, 21 Jan 2008 07:00:00 EST I found this video about Gmail discussed in a Walking Paper blog entry. In general the video is Gmail engineers reading emails they receive from happy users. The last one in the video was a freshman chemical engineering student who was working on a group project and the answer the group needed appeared in the targeted Gmail ads. The Google engineer said "this person was able to use gmail ads to find something she couldn’t find anywhere else".

Really? I did a similar project on photoremediation during my undergraduate degree in chemical engineering and I found all the necessary information from the library.

I have two concerns with this video and the suggestions made. First, I question where else did these students look. Second, Google is doing some wonderful things but they are not the only source. It leads me to challenge are libraries doing enough to be in front of the users eyes.

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