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Building a Searchable Literature Archive With Keywords? 211

Posted by timothy on Wednesday April 08, 2009 @04:20PM from the must-be-in-here-somewhere dept.

Sooner Boomer writes "I'm trying to help drag a professor I work with into the 20th century. Although he is involved in cutting-edge research (nanotechnology), his method of literature search is to begin with digging through the hundreds of 3-ring binders that contain articles (usually from PDFs) that he has printed out. Even though the binders are labeled, the articles can only go under one 'heading' and there's no way to do a keyword search on subject, methods, materials, etc. Yeah, google is pretty good for finding stuff, as are other on-line literature services, but they only work for articles that are already on-line. His literature also includes articles copied from books, professional correspondence, and other sources. Is there a FOSS database or archive method (preferably with a web interface) where he could archive the PDFs and scanned documents and be able to search by keywords? It would also be nice to categorize them under multiple subject headings if possible. I know this has been covered ad nauseum with things like photos and the like, but I'm not looking at storage as such: instead I'm trying to find what's stored."

Comment Tinfoil hat time (Score 1) 332

by antonymous on Thursday April 03, 2008 @11:47AM (#22952140) Attached to: Comcast Offers 50 Mbps Residential Speeds

So Comcast offers ultra-fast speeds at a ridiculous price. Rich p2p pirates purchase this service, get tracked, and get sued.

This could also lead to "harder" GB caps at lower tiers, encouraging users to bump up to a more expensive service.

While I think better last-mile speeds are important, I can't see many "residential" customers willing to pay $100 more per month for increased bandwidth - if you really need that much, you probably already have a business account. There just aren't existing net applications which gain significant performance advantages at these speeds (though I'm sure they're coming).

Submission + - KDE 4.0 Beta 1 Released (kde.org)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 02, 2007 @04:22PM

An anonymous reader writes: August 2, 2007 (The INTERNET). The KDE Community is happy to announce the immediate availability of the first Beta release for KDE 4.0. This release marks the beginning of the integration process which will bring the powerful new technologies included in the now frozen KDE 4 libraries to the applications. Almost two months after the foundations of KDE 4 have been laid with the first alpha, KDE enters the stage of a full freeze of the library interface. From now on, the applications will focus on integrating the new technology refined during the last months, and the library developers will try to fix all bugs found during this process. No new applications will enter the official KDE modules and usability and accessibility work is of course an ongoing process. In the following weeks KDE developers will be able to add features to their applications until the next beta is released and the application features will be frozen as well.

Submission + - Pirate Bay earns 20,000 Euros a day (rixstep.com) 2

Submitted by on Thursday August 02, 2007 @03:57PM

An anonymous reader writes: controverisal pro-piracy website the piratebay likes to portray itself as an innocent hobby site that provides a free index without censorship, but recent facts show that the site is earning up to 20,000 Euros per day from its advertising. Taking in money on this scale puts a different slant on the motives behind the Swedish filesharing site, and could open up the runners of the site to prosecution for profiting from copyright infringement.

Submission + - Gmail accounts hacked - no response from Google (livejournal.com)

Submitted by jared51 on Thursday August 02, 2007 @01:20PM

jared51 writes: A few friends have recently had their Gmail accounts hacked, causing immense life complications. With Gmail storing all information (many people have a handy label "Accounts" making life easier) that has ever been emailed, a hijacker can easily move on to eBay, PayPal and credit card accounts to turn the crime into cash. Making matters worse, Google is impossible to contact by human. Hijacked users must contend with an endless series of forms.

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