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Paul Halsall/Fordham University: Internet History Sourcebooks Project
The Internet History Sourcebooks Project is a collection of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented cleanly (without advertising or excessive layout) for educational use. 1. This project is both very large and fairly old in Internet terms. At the time it was instigated (1996), it was not clear that web sites [and the documents made available there] would often turn out to be transient. As a result there is a process called "link rot" - which means that a "broken link" is a result of someone having taken down a web page.
by Wendy Boswell September is in full swing, which means back to school, back to books, back to teacher's dirty looks - well, hopefully not that last part. School also means getting back to research papers, especially the super happy fun ten pagers on the environmental impact of Chicago's wheat exporting industry with footnotes, for example.
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How to Search the Web
Learn how to find anything on the Internet with quality Web sites. Become a smarter, savvier searcher. FindingDulcinea also offers foreign language versions of this guide in Chinese , Russian and Spanish .What do we mean by “Semantic” Web? - Buzz’s Blog: On Web 3.0 and the Semantic Web
namespaces , Web 2.0 , Web 3.0 , Web development , the Semantic Web , language syntax and semantics , XML Even though it is very far from completely existing, the Semantic Web effort is a number of years old now. But the heavy use of this word in computing is far older, dating back to at least the late 70’s. So, what do we mean when we use this word, in particular, with regard to the Semantic Web? Like a human or “natural” language, a programming language has two key aspects: syntax and semantics.
By R. Niccole Westbrook and Dan Johnson, University of Houston Libraries; Karen Carter, Rutgers School of Communication and Information; Angela Lockwood, Texas Women's University School of Library and Information Studies [ Abstract ] [ Article ] BitCurator: Tools and Techniques for Digital Forensics in Collecting Institutions By Christopher A. Lee, Alexandra Chassanoff and Kam Woods, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Matthew Kirschenbaum and Porter Olsen, University of Maryland
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Or try The Open Directory Project ( http://dmoz.org/ ) is providing an independent organisation of web sites. It lists over 3.8 million sites with volunteer editors . The idea is that each site will be checked and listed in one of the categories. Sadly this noble project has been overtaken by the sophisticated search technologies that have been developed.
Web as a Research tool
Up until recently, VirtualBox had a pretty major limitation: There was no way to use Windows Aero effects when running Windows Vista or Windows 7 inside VirtualBox. If you are testing software, this makes a big difference: You are not getting the Aero experience most Windows users would get, and your screenshots look wrong. Fortunately, with the advent of VirtualBox 4.1, this can be fixed.
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VoS: Voice of the Shuttle
T oday's links, randomly drawn from VoS ( May 23, 2012 ) W elcome to the new VoS. Started in 1994 as a suite of static Web pages, VoS has now been rebuilt as a database that serves content dynamically on the Web. Users gain greater flexibility in viewing and searching, while editors are able to work more efficiently and flexibly.
We provide free access to any texts that we can legally make publicly available. These texts are not necessarily public domain. The texts that are restricted to UVA or VIVA use are typically commercial products whose vendors place these restrictions on us. New! 2,100 of these Modern English titles now available also as ebooks for the Microsoft Reader! Browse by subject: African American , including Letters from Liberia ; Native American ; American Civil War ; Salem Witch Trials ; Colonial Currency ; Early American Fiction ; Alexander Hamilton ; Thomas Jefferson ; Edgar Allan Poe ; Mark Twain ; Walt Whitman ; William Shakespeare ; Samuel Taylor Coleridge ; Women Writers ; Young Readers ; Literature in Translation ; Best Sellers, 1900-1930 ; UVa Special Collections ; Walter Reed Collection .