Data Fountains Presentation, Sat 6/26, 10:30-12, at ALA

[Junus, Ranti]

Of possible interest.  My apology for duplications.

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From: Steve Mitchell [mailto:smitch at citrus.ucr.edu]

Hi,

The LITA Internet Portals Interest Group and Open Source Software Interest Group are co-sponsoring a presentation at ALA Annual on Sat 6/26, 10:30-12:00 in room PEA-Florida BR 1 on:

Data Fountains: Open Source Internet Resource Discovery and Metadata/Full-Text Generation Service

Data Fountains (http://infomine.ucr.edu/Data_Fountains/)  is a cooperative Internet resource discovery, metadata generation and selected, full-text harvesting service of value in building Internet resource collections for libraries and virtual libraries. It incorporates new approaches in automated and semi-automated Web crawling and classification thus providing machine assistance and time and labor savings to collection builders. Recently funded by an IMLS National Leadership Grant, the project and its progress will be described in depth. Data Fountains is a project of the Library of the University of California at Riverside and its collaborators.

Following this presentation, from 12:00-12:30, the LITA Internet Portals Interest Group will hold its business meeting.

Mark your calendars!

Cordially,

Steve Mitchell