Tuesday, June 02, 2009
Bing
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
[URL] World Digital Library launched. FREE!
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and 32 partner institutions today launched the World Digital Library, a website that features unique cultural materials from libraries and archives from around the world. The site -- located at www.wdl.org -- includes manuscripts, maps, rare books, films, sound recordings, prints and photographs. It provides unrestricted public access, free of charge, to this material.
from the site: The WDL focuses on significant primary materials, including manuscripts, maps, rare books, recordings, films, prints, photographs, architectural drawings, and other types of primary sources.
See also UNESCO's Memory of the World project.
[via LOC's Twitterfeed]
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from the site: The WDL focuses on significant primary materials, including manuscripts, maps, rare books, recordings, films, prints, photographs, architectural drawings, and other types of primary sources.
See also UNESCO's Memory of the World project.
[via LOC's Twitterfeed]
Labels: history, libraries, maps, photographs, resource, URL
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Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Imperial History of the Middle East
Imperial History of the Middle East [SWF] ... all that world history you've forgotten but probably would be better off remembering right now.
The Web is a wonder.
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The Web is a wonder.
Labels: history, maps, resource
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Wednesday, October 01, 2008
British Battles - analysing and documenting British Battles from the previous centuries
British Battles - analysing and documenting British Battles from the previous centuries
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
Interesting site: from Hastings through the Boer Wars.
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"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
Interesting site: from Hastings through the Boer Wars.
Labels: history, resource, URL
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Wednesday, June 11, 2008
[URL] Corpus of American English
Corpus of American English
Brilliant app.
The Corpus of American English (not to be confused with the American National Corpus) is the first large corpus of contemporary American English. It is freely available online, and it is related to other large corpora that we have created.
The corpus contains more than 360 million words of text, including 20 million words each year from 1990-2007, and it is equally divided among spoken, fiction, popular magazines, newspapers, and academic texts (more information). The corpus will also be updated at least twice each year from this point on, and will therefore serve as a unique record of linguistic changes in American English.
The interface allows you to search for exact words or phrases, wildcards, lemmas, part of speech, or any combinations of these. You can search for surrounding words (collocates) within a ten-word window (e.g. all nouns somewhere near chain, all adjectives near woman, or all verbs near key).
The corpus also allows you to easily limit searches by frequency and compare the frequency of words, phrases, and grammatical constructions, in at least two main ways:
* By genre: comparisons between spoken, fiction, popular magazines, newspapers, and academic, or even between sub-genres (or domains), such as movie scripts, sports magazines, newspaper editorial, or scientific journals
* Over time: compare different years from 1990 to the present time
You can also easily carry out semantically-based queries of the corpus. For example, you can contrast and compare the collocates of two related words (little/small, democrats/republicans, men/women), to determine the difference in meaning or use between these words. You can find the frequency and distribution of synonyms for nearly 60,000 words and also compare their frequency in different registers, and also use these word lists as part of other queries. Finally, you can easily create your own lists of semantically-related words, and then use them directly as part of the query.
posted by Sal Towse at 5:26 PM||
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Brilliant app.
The Corpus of American English (not to be confused with the American National Corpus) is the first large corpus of contemporary American English. It is freely available online, and it is related to other large corpora that we have created.
The corpus contains more than 360 million words of text, including 20 million words each year from 1990-2007, and it is equally divided among spoken, fiction, popular magazines, newspapers, and academic texts (more information). The corpus will also be updated at least twice each year from this point on, and will therefore serve as a unique record of linguistic changes in American English.
The interface allows you to search for exact words or phrases, wildcards, lemmas, part of speech, or any combinations of these. You can search for surrounding words (collocates) within a ten-word window (e.g. all nouns somewhere near chain, all adjectives near woman, or all verbs near key).
The corpus also allows you to easily limit searches by frequency and compare the frequency of words, phrases, and grammatical constructions, in at least two main ways:
* By genre: comparisons between spoken, fiction, popular magazines, newspapers, and academic, or even between sub-genres (or domains), such as movie scripts, sports magazines, newspaper editorial, or scientific journals
* Over time: compare different years from 1990 to the present time
You can also easily carry out semantically-based queries of the corpus. For example, you can contrast and compare the collocates of two related words (little/small, democrats/republicans, men/women), to determine the difference in meaning or use between these words. You can find the frequency and distribution of synonyms for nearly 60,000 words and also compare their frequency in different registers, and also use these word lists as part of other queries. Finally, you can easily create your own lists of semantically-related words, and then use them directly as part of the query.
Labels: app, resource, wordstuff, writing
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Friday, June 06, 2008
William F. Buckley
Hillsdale College - William F. Buckley: "This website contains the complete writings of William F. Buckley, Jr. Transcripts from his long-running TV show, Firing Line are available at the Hoover Institution."
posted by Sal Towse at 6:46 PM||
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Labels: history, journalism, people, resource, writing
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Friday, May 30, 2008
TimesMachine - New York Times
TimesMachine - New York Times
TimesMachine can take you back to any issue from Volume 1, Number 1 of The New-York Daily Times, on September 18, 1851, through The New York Times of December 30, 1922. Choose a date in history and flip electronically through the pages, displayed with their original look and feel.
The Web is a wonder.
Update:Note: TimesMachine is available only to home delivery subscribers. Contact your library for complimentary access to the complete archive of The New York Times offered by ProQuest.
Dang. Sorry to get everyone's hopes (including mine) up.
Most public libraries in the United States offer access to ProQuest to registered library users (e.g. reference tools available at San Francisco Public) but not access to the PDFs. Drat. Dang.
posted by Sal Towse at 12:09 PM||
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TimesMachine can take you back to any issue from Volume 1, Number 1 of The New-York Daily Times, on September 18, 1851, through The New York Times of December 30, 1922. Choose a date in history and flip electronically through the pages, displayed with their original look and feel.
The Web is a wonder.
Update:Note: TimesMachine is available only to home delivery subscribers. Contact your library for complimentary access to the complete archive of The New York Times offered by ProQuest.
Dang. Sorry to get everyone's hopes (including mine) up.
Most public libraries in the United States offer access to ProQuest to registered library users (e.g. reference tools available at San Francisco Public) but not access to the PDFs. Drat. Dang.
Labels: history, news, resource
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Got creativity?
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Old Bailey Online - The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913 - Central Criminal Court
Old Bailey Online - The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913 - Central Criminal Court
[courtesy of Auntie K. Thanks, K!]
First thing I did, of course, was pop /towse/ into the search to see what the Towses were up to from 1674-1913.
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[courtesy of Auntie K. Thanks, K!]
First thing I did, of course, was pop /towse/ into the search to see what the Towses were up to from 1674-1913.
Labels: history, resource, URL
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Thursday, February 07, 2008
Human Proteinpedia
Human Proteinpedia -- the wonders of the Web.
A researcher at the Johns Hopkins Institute of Genetic Medicine has led the effort to compile to date the largest free resource of experimental information about human proteins. Reporting in the February issue of Nature Biotechnology, the research team describes how all researchers around the world can access this data and speed their own research.
Zounds, eh?
No anonymous postings. Only experimental results. (i.e. no predictions) You must be registered and logged-in to add data, but anyone can query.
Human Proteinpedia is a community portal for sharing and integration of human protein data. It allows research laboratories to contribute and maintain protein annotations. Human Protein Reference Database (HPRD) integrates data, that is deposited in Human Proteinpedia along with the existing literature curated information in the context of an individual protein. All the public data contributed to Human Proteinpedia can be queried, viewed and downloaded.
Data pertaining to post-translational modifications, protein-protein interactions, tissue expression, expression in cell lines, subcellular localization and enzyme substrate relationships can be submitted to Human Proteinpedia.
Protein annotations present in Human Proteinpedia are derived from a number of platforms such as
And if you understood all that, this site's for you.
So far 71 labs have contributed information on 2,695 experiments covering 15,231 protein entries.
Zounds.
THIS IS WHAT THE WEB IS FOR.
The Web wasn't created just to distribute pron and LOLcats (although it's very good at that too).
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A researcher at the Johns Hopkins Institute of Genetic Medicine has led the effort to compile to date the largest free resource of experimental information about human proteins. Reporting in the February issue of Nature Biotechnology, the research team describes how all researchers around the world can access this data and speed their own research.
Zounds, eh?
No anonymous postings. Only experimental results. (i.e. no predictions) You must be registered and logged-in to add data, but anyone can query.
Human Proteinpedia is a community portal for sharing and integration of human protein data. It allows research laboratories to contribute and maintain protein annotations. Human Protein Reference Database (HPRD) integrates data, that is deposited in Human Proteinpedia along with the existing literature curated information in the context of an individual protein. All the public data contributed to Human Proteinpedia can be queried, viewed and downloaded.
Data pertaining to post-translational modifications, protein-protein interactions, tissue expression, expression in cell lines, subcellular localization and enzyme substrate relationships can be submitted to Human Proteinpedia.
Protein annotations present in Human Proteinpedia are derived from a number of platforms such as
- Co-immunoprecipitation and mass spectrometry-based protein-protein interaction
- Co-immunoprecipitation and Western blotting based protein-protein interaction
- Fluorescence based experiments
- Immunohistochemistry
- Mass Spectrometric Analysis
- Protein and peptide microarray
- Western blotting
- Yeast two-hybrid based protein-protein interaction
And if you understood all that, this site's for you.
So far 71 labs have contributed information on 2,695 experiments covering 15,231 protein entries.
Zounds.
THIS IS WHAT THE WEB IS FOR.
The Web wasn't created just to distribute pron and LOLcats (although it's very good at that too).
Labels: resource, science, URL
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Saturday, December 01, 2007
Fluther: What is Fluther?
Monday, October 22, 2007
Archives, come get your archives ... (Time Magazine)
Time Magazine archives back to 1923 are now available online and FREE!
Time's search algorithm doesn't work so hot. They claim that if I put "sally j towse" into the search engine, it will return only articles that contain "sally j towse," but it appears to return articles that include "sally" or "j" or "towse."
When I pop simply "towse" in, I get a Towse going back to the 20s and 30s, but not my Letter to the Editor that Time used back in the 90s.
Special collections, covers, and more.
Thanks, Time!
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Time's search algorithm doesn't work so hot. They claim that if I put "sally j towse" into the search engine, it will return only articles that contain "sally j towse," but it appears to return articles that include "sally" or "j" or "towse."
When I pop simply "towse" in, I get a Towse going back to the 20s and 30s, but not my Letter to the Editor that Time used back in the 90s.
Special collections, covers, and more.
Thanks, Time!
Labels: journalism, resource
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Sunday, October 21, 2007
Archives, archives, ARCHIVES!
On the heels of the Daily Show opening its archives to the world FOR FREE!, comes word (1) via Sour Grapes' Google Reader cache and (2) via link from the article that Grapes' snagged of more archives coming online.
(1) The Economist will put the Economist Historical Archive 1843-2003 online for a free look initially and then on a subscription basis -- fees not given.
(2) As of Nov 3d the Guardian and Observer newspapers will be available in an online digital archive. Free for November. Fee-structure post-November not given.
The first phase of the Guardian News & Media archive, containing the Guardian from 1821 to 1975 and The Observer from 1900 to 1975, will launch on November 3.
It will contain exact replicas of the original newspapers, both as full pages and individual articles. and will be fully searchable and viewable at guardian.co.uk/archive.
Readers will be offered free 24-hour access during November, but after this trial period charging will be introduced.
The rest of the archive will launch early in 2008, making more than 1.2m pages of digitised news content available, with Observer content available from its launch as the world's first Sunday newspaper in 1791.
[continues ...]
Hope springs eternal that both archives will discover, as the NYT did, that fees are not the way to go, that revenue generated by selling advertising based on page hits from a shipload of people is more lucrative than charging a fee to a coracle full.
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(1) The Economist will put the Economist Historical Archive 1843-2003 online for a free look initially and then on a subscription basis -- fees not given.
(2) As of Nov 3d the Guardian and Observer newspapers will be available in an online digital archive. Free for November. Fee-structure post-November not given.
The first phase of the Guardian News & Media archive, containing the Guardian from 1821 to 1975 and The Observer from 1900 to 1975, will launch on November 3.
It will contain exact replicas of the original newspapers, both as full pages and individual articles. and will be fully searchable and viewable at guardian.co.uk/archive.
Readers will be offered free 24-hour access during November, but after this trial period charging will be introduced.
The rest of the archive will launch early in 2008, making more than 1.2m pages of digitised news content available, with Observer content available from its launch as the world's first Sunday newspaper in 1791.
[continues ...]
Hope springs eternal that both archives will discover, as the NYT did, that fees are not the way to go, that revenue generated by selling advertising based on page hits from a shipload of people is more lucrative than charging a fee to a coracle full.
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Tuesday, June 26, 2007
FOIA - CIA releases the "Family Jewels"
Available online at the CIA FOIA site
Two significant collections of previously classified historical documents are now available in the CIA's FOIA Electronic Reading Room.
The first collection, widely known as the "Family Jewels," consists of almost 700 pages of responses from CIA employees to a 1973 directive from Director of Central Intelligence James Schlesinger asking them to report activities they thought might be inconsistent with the Agency's charter.
The second collection, the CAESAR-POLO-ESAU papers, consists of 147 documents and 11,000 pages of in-depth analysis and research from 1953 to 1973. The CAESAR and POLO papers studied Soviet and Chinese leadership hierarchies, respectively, and the ESAU papers were developed by analysts to inform CIA assessments on Sino-Soviet relations.
According to ABC News The recruitment of mafia men to plan the assassination of Fidel Castro, the wiretapping and surveillance of journalists who reported on classified material, and the two-year confinement in the United States of a KGB defector -- those are just a few of the past CIA activities revealed in documents released Tuesday. [...]
Update:A more in-depth look at some of the "activities inconsistent with the Agency's charter" from The Seattle PI.
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Two significant collections of previously classified historical documents are now available in the CIA's FOIA Electronic Reading Room.
The first collection, widely known as the "Family Jewels," consists of almost 700 pages of responses from CIA employees to a 1973 directive from Director of Central Intelligence James Schlesinger asking them to report activities they thought might be inconsistent with the Agency's charter.
The second collection, the CAESAR-POLO-ESAU papers, consists of 147 documents and 11,000 pages of in-depth analysis and research from 1953 to 1973. The CAESAR and POLO papers studied Soviet and Chinese leadership hierarchies, respectively, and the ESAU papers were developed by analysts to inform CIA assessments on Sino-Soviet relations.
According to ABC News The recruitment of mafia men to plan the assassination of Fidel Castro, the wiretapping and surveillance of journalists who reported on classified material, and the two-year confinement in the United States of a KGB defector -- those are just a few of the past CIA activities revealed in documents released Tuesday. [...]
Update:A more in-depth look at some of the "activities inconsistent with the Agency's charter" from The Seattle PI.
Labels: history, politics, resource, URL
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Monday, June 25, 2007
[URL] Swivel
Love data and mashups and obscure weird factoids and coincidences?
Check out Swivel.
For a taste of what's on-site, check out Tasty Data Goodies
posted by Sal Towse at 10:17 AM||
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Check out Swivel.
For a taste of what's on-site, check out Tasty Data Goodies
Labels: information, resource, URL, webstuff
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Friday, June 15, 2007
[URL] morguefile.com Where photo reference lives.
morguefile.com Where photo reference lives.
A place to keep post production materials for use of reference, an inactive job file. This morgue file contains free high resolution digital stock photography for either corporate or public use.
The term 'morgue file' is popular in the newspaper business to describe the file that holds past issues flats. Although the term has been used by illustrators, comic book artist, designers and teachers as well. The purpose of this site is to provide free image reference material for use in all creative pursuits. This is the world wide web's morguefile.
Amazing resource. (Oooh. Shiny! Pretty pictures!) Thanks, SourGrapes.
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A place to keep post production materials for use of reference, an inactive job file. This morgue file contains free high resolution digital stock photography for either corporate or public use.
The term 'morgue file' is popular in the newspaper business to describe the file that holds past issues flats. Although the term has been used by illustrators, comic book artist, designers and teachers as well. The purpose of this site is to provide free image reference material for use in all creative pursuits. This is the world wide web's morguefile.
Amazing resource. (Oooh. Shiny! Pretty pictures!) Thanks, SourGrapes.
Labels: photographs, resource, URL
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: views from the Hill
Bertold Brecht:
Everything changes. You can make
A fresh start with your final breath.
But what has happened has happened. And the water
You once poured into the wine cannot be
Drained off again.
Everything changes. You can make
A fresh start with your final breath.
But what has happened has happened. And the water
You once poured into the wine cannot be
Drained off again.
