links for 2010-03-29
Tuesday 30 March 2010-
“[…]The Global Release Identifier (GRid) Standard was originally developed by the member organisations of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) as part of the Music Industry Integrated Identifiers Project (MI3P). RIAA and IFPI's purpose in creating the GRid was to provide a system for the unique identification of Electronic Music “Releases”, to support the more efficient management of those Releases in the network environment. The GRid provides an efficient means of identifying Releases in computer databases, in related documentation and in electronic messages for the exchange of information between record companies, rights societies, music publishers, electronic retailers of music and other interested parties on an international basis.[…]”
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“[…] Citations to these and more than 60,000 other articles indexed in the 1947 Current List of Medical Literature (CLML) are now available in the National Library of Medicine's MEDLINE/PubMed database (www.pubmed.gov). […]
Although 1947 may seem far back in the rear view mirror of history, important articles in biomedicine appeared that year and may hold vital lessons for research in the 21st century. “Some contemporary medical questions can only be answered by consulting the older literature,” observed NLM Director Dr. Donald A.B. Lindberg. “NLM is working to make the journal citations in older printed indexes electronically searchable, and our goal is to go back at least as far as World War II.”With the addition of the 1947 citations, the MEDLINE/PubMed subset now contains over 20 million citations produced during 63 years of indexing of the biomedical literature[…]”
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“History and high-tech merge in a new offering from the National Library of Medicine® (NLM®), the world's largest medical library and an arm of the National Institutes of Health. It's a novel twist on the popular NLM online system, Turning The Pages, which allows you to turn the pages of a rare book on your computer screen. Now, users can journey back to pre-book times and “unroll the scroll” or, more specifically, the Edwin Smith Papyrus, the world's oldest known surgical document. The new offering is at http://archive.nlm.nih.gov/proj/ttp/flash/smith/smith.html.
The Smith Papyrus was written in Egyptian hieratic script around the 17th century BCE but probably based on material from a thousand years earlier. This collaborative online representation features an important new translation by James P. Allen, formerly of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and high-resolution scans lent by the scroll's owner, the New York Academy of Medicine.[…]”