20 Monday Feb 2017
Posted in New titles added to JURN
Journal for Art Market Studies
Art, Science, and Engineering of Programming journal, The
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Full-text in Iceland’s Opin visindi aggregator repository, which collects the open outputs from all of the nation’s universities and institutions.
17 Friday Feb 2017
Posted in JURN's Google watch
It looks like Google is set to make some back-end changes to how its Custom Search Engines work, to better suit mobile search users…
“The search space is evolving rapidly and we want to make sure that CSE continues to evolve to meet the needs of your users, whether they are visiting from desktop or mobile devices.”
This means a need for a few API changes, from April 2017. Linked CSE’s will have to be done via the CSE Control Panel (I thought they were already, in part) in future, as will Dynamic Link Extraction. None of these API changes affect JURN. Hopefully the Linked CSEs changes may even make it easier for me to set up new search side-projects for JURN.
16 Thursday Feb 2017
Posted in My general observations
Public Domain Super Heroes, a searchable illustrated directory. Currently at 4,000 comic-book and strip characters who can be freely re-used, also some toon characters and monsters and selected vintage storybook characters. There is also a related discussion forum.
15 Wednesday Feb 2017
Posted in Spotted in the news
Social Media Research Toolkit is an up-to-date and academic list of free tools for bulk-collecting and investigating various forms of social media.
15 Wednesday Feb 2017
Posted in Spotted in the news
TagWalk: The Fashion Search Engine is a very nice high-end ‘trends search’ experience for the fashion industry. It kind of feels like you’re using Anna Wintour’s personal search-engine, but it’s public. Extensively tagged by hand, by a small team of ‘industry insider’ curators. It’s fast too. Humdrum academic archive discovery searches could learn a thing or two here, in terms of slick navigation and speed.
The only thing I’d change would be the ability to switch through from womenswear to menswear, so that when you’re looking at Spring/Summer 2017 “tag” in womenswear results, you can instantly flick over to the same “tag” in menswear for visual comparison. I’d also add “hat” and “cap” to the tagging, since they’re currently missing, though that may be because designers are not currently sending hats down the catwalk. At the back is “moodboards”, which I didn’t explore, but I presume you can pull your own custom moodboards of designs.
12 Sunday Feb 2017
Posted in New titles added to JURN
Meno istorija ir kritika / Art History & Criticism (latest issue in English and earlier issue partly in English — though Google does not yet have these recent issues indexed)
International Journal of Area Studies (2006-2013)
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies (“intersections of global and domestic legal regimes, markets, politics, technologies, and cultures”)
IP Theory (intellectual property law)
11 Saturday Feb 2017
Posted in New titles added to JURN
Naniiliqpita (quarterly magazine, on the people and traditions of the Canadian High Arctic)
Indigenous Affairs (and other series published by the International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs)
Iberoamericana : Nordic Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies (not to be confused with the Spanish language journal Iberoamericana : America Latina – Espana – Portugal)
Imago Temporis : Medium Aevum (medieval studies in trans-national contexts)
Les Carnets de l’ACoSt : Association for Coroplastic Studies (clay sculpture, hosted on the French revues.org but appears to be substantially in English)
Acta Scientiarum Polonorum Zootechnica (animal breeding, many farm articles but also many articles on smaller-scale and niche types of professional and conservation breeding)
08 Wednesday Feb 2017
Posted in New titles added to JURN
Journal of Intelligence Studies in Business
Security and Strategic Trends and other series of the Center for Security Studies, ETH Zurich.
08 Wednesday Feb 2017
Posted in Spotted in the news
The image search at creativecommons.org has been given a makeover. The beta of the new design is at a new URL of ccsearch.creativecommons.org, rather than the long-standing search.creativecommons.org.
07 Tuesday Feb 2017
Posted in Spotted in the news
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has just placed 200,000 CC0 images of its art and others items in its collection. So far the site is holding up nicely in terms of managing the traffic.
The test files I had from it were large, at around 4000px, and were also crisply photographed. The site’s search works cleanly and a single click downloads the largest file size as a .jpg. The only thing I’d change is to allow a Web browser’s Back button to work with the site’s search results.