[Sigia-l] API? We don't need no steenkin API (was: Google Scholar vs Citeseer and others)

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Eric Scheid:

> http://hublog.hubmed.org/archives/001002.html

> Web navigation and the behavioral effects of constantly visible site maps
> <http://www.stanford.edu/~davidd/iwc2002.pdf>
> 
> Web site designs: Influences of designer¹s expertise and design constraints
> <http://www.up.univ-mrs.fr/~wpsycle/documentpdf/documentChevalier/ChevalierI
> vory2003.pdf>

Tangent: (Because at the moment I'm trying to figure out for the world's
largest financial info/data/analysis provider how to present its massive,
massive reservoir of stuff appropriately for the 21th century, this is fresh
in my mind.)

The first paper has zero/nada/nil pictures, charts, sketches or anything
visual whatsoever. And its about something architectural and, ultimately,
visual. The second one has the absolute minimum, of the most rudimentary
quality. Again, notice the subject matter.

So what?

If researchers (IA or otherwise) are genuinely interested in building
bridges, to the rest of the universe, something's gotta happen with their
ability to format their findings and present their conclusions.

I'd rather have a root canal.

Ziya
Nullius in Verba