Google to Host Terabytes of Open-Source Science Data

Posted by Corey on Jan 18th, 2008
2008
Jan 18

WOW!  This just in from the WIRED News Feed:

Sources at Google have disclosed that the humble domain, http://research.google.com, will soon provide a home for terabytes of open-source scientific datasets. The storage will be free to scientists and access to the data will be free for all. The project, known as Palimpsest and first previewed to the scientific community at the Science Foo camp at the Googleplex last August, missed its original launch date this week, but will debut soon.

Read more at: http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/01/google-to-provi.html

Top Tech Trends Wrap-up

Posted by Corey on Jan 14th, 2008
2008
Jan 14

The beginning of the new year and ALA Midwinter brings lists of top tech trends for the coming year. Here’s a short wrap-up of some of the trends being predicted for 2008:

Eric Lease Morgan (LITA Blog):

  • Linux on the server and desktop will increase
  • Open access will grow
  • Social networking spaces maturing
  • Blogging will continue to effect the way we communicate

Sarah Houghtan-Jan (LibrarianInBlack.net):

  • Tough Budget, Tech Stays
  • Widening of the Digital Divide and our Inattention to It
  • User-Centered Content Production
  • Virtual Reference Software a la Rest-O’-The-World?
  • We Stop Being So Bossy
  • Another Day of Open Source

Karen Schneider (Free Range Librarian):

  • Interoperability
  • Open systems, open data

Karen Coombs (Library Web Chic):

  • Ultra-light and small PCs
  • New uses of wireless
  • Blogging ceases to exist as blogging
  • On the Go Applications and Data

Then this from the publishing world, 15 Trends to Watch in 2008 by Mike Shatzkin at Publishers Weekly.

And, finally 10 Technologies That Will Transform Your Life, published by LiveScience during the Consumer Electronics Show last week.