OCLC WorldShare Management Services provide a Web-based environment that streamlines cataloging, acquisitions, license management and circulation, and offer a next-gen discovery tool for library users.

Both replacing and standing apart from traditional ILS systems, OCLC WorldShare Management Services enable libraries to share infrastructure costs and resources, as well as collaborate in ways that free them from the restrictions of local hardware and software.

info visualization for knowledge discovery

An entire shift of firefighters has been replaced at a northeast D.C. station after falling ill.

All eight firefighters at Engine 10 Station in the 1300 block of Florida Avenue NE complained of possible symptoms of chemical exposure – like respiratory problems and burning eyes – Wednesday evening, News4’s Jackie Bensen reported.

D.C. Fire and EMS declared a mass casualty hazmat and took the firefighters to the police and fire clinic for observation.

The firefighters could be ill from a fire they fought about 11 a.m. in the 3700 block of Hayes Street NE, officials said. It’s possible it was a PCP lab.

Extra fire crews were called in to cover Engine 10 Station.

The interesting point about this discovery, of a disease affecting millions of North Americans, is that the full name of the disease is "diabetes mellitus". "Diabetes" comes from the Greek word for "siphon", and implies that a lot of urine is made. The second term,"mellitus" comes from the Latin word, "mel" which means "honey", and was used because the urine was sweet. The ants, however, were the real discoverers, indicating to the laboratory workers that the urine had special properties worth investigating.

Interesting "discovery" interface here- recursive tree-map of music by genre / tag, all done in HTML.

CultStory Inc. today introduces TRAVELOG 0.9.1, its new travel app for iOS devices. TRAVELOG was developed specifically for keeping and sharing memories during travel. With TRAVELOG, users can leave their note or take a photo with the location information via iPhone. Users can post their log even offline and can save them later. All posts are sorted by country, city and special places automatically. Each log can be shared to Twitter and Facebook and can be saved as private.

STA Software today released V1.2 of its SiteSaver productivity code. SiteSaver is an easy-to-use application that collects, organizes, saves and retrieves information from the Web and integrates it with local files and folders. It is designed to enhance the productivity of web use such as collecting information for a publication or research project, finding data about medicines or medical conditions, gathering information for investing or reviewing publications for a topic of interest.