Comments on: Academic Anarchy? Landow and Hypertext 3.0 http://songsfromthebackyard.wordpress.com/2008/03/05/academic-anarchy-landow-and-hypertext-30/ Thoughts, ideas, songs, inventions, musings contemplated in the backyard Wed, 17 Sep 2008 17:39:52 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Matthew Theobald http://songsfromthebackyard.wordpress.com/2008/03/05/academic-anarchy-landow-and-hypertext-30/#comment-24 Matthew Theobald Wed, 05 Mar 2008 02:59:55 +0000 http://songsfromthebackyard.wordpress.com/?p=18#comment-24 I wanted to bring your attention to a social bookmarking project that would be accomplished by librarians. BTW the ISEN logo was designed by the same fellow who did the movie posters for The Chronicles of Narnia, Darren Strecker. Here is the ISEN summary: You know how the ISBN is assigned to books. Over 1 million books are assigned ISBNs each year. What we plan to do is emulate that system for databases. We would assign over 1 million databases ISEN or Internet Search Environment Numbers once the system is in place in its first year. There may be as many as 5 million in the backlog for cataloging by a social nework of librarians. Life Science databases would be cataloged by life science librarians, law resources by law librarians, etc... Then we'd create a database of databases or search engine only for databases. Your hit list would only be databases instead of PDF files, Blog postings and random HTML files. We pull out the databases. The hits you get would be the interface to databases which provides access to upwards of 500 to 650 times the amount of information available on the "surface web" indexed by the major search engines. ISEN reveals the what is called the "deep web". I wanted to bring your attention to a social bookmarking project that would be accomplished by librarians. BTW the ISEN logo was designed by the same fellow who did the movie posters for The Chronicles of Narnia, Darren Strecker.

Here is the ISEN summary:

You know how the ISBN is assigned to books. Over 1 million books are assigned ISBNs each year. What we plan to do is emulate that system for databases. We would assign over 1 million databases ISEN or Internet Search Environment Numbers once the system is in place in its first year. There may be as many as 5 million in the backlog for cataloging by a social nework of librarians. Life Science databases would be cataloged by life science librarians, law resources by law librarians, etc… Then we’d create a database of databases or search engine only for databases. Your hit list would only be databases instead of PDF files, Blog postings and random HTML files. We pull out the databases. The hits you get would be the interface to databases which provides access to upwards of 500 to 650 times the amount of information available on the “surface web” indexed by the major search engines. ISEN reveals the what is called the “deep web”.

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