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In June I spoke at the GeoTec conference in Ottawa on the past, present and future of Web-based mapping and the implications for data providers, mainly national- and similarly levelled mapping agencies. The meeting had particular resonance for me as it was also celebrating the 100th anniversary of The Atlas of Canada , where I worked in the early-mid 1990s, and where we did some very exciting work in early Web-based mapping. NAISMap was created by various explorations I made, and with the support of my director at the time, Jean Thie, and the efforts of the National Atlas team, NAIS-on-the-Net was born, with NAISMap being playing a central role. Ah, those halcyon days!

I just found out about this conference: The International Conference for Science & Business Information . The 2005 proceedings are online ( http://www.infonortics.com/chemical/ch05/05chempro.html ) and there are some very interesting presentations dealing with the transformations we are seeing in how scientific research is done and how the scholarly publishing world is also changing.

SOA / Web Services as Service Personnel Explaining SOA / Web Services to non-technical people is not always easy. Web services can -- depending on your business and the granularity in which you implement your web services -- be modelled as the service people who previously -- in an earlier non-web age -- performed those services. This entry is an attempt to make web services more understandable to non-technical people. Let's start. Let's use a library which has a document delivery service (for which is charges), which in the present web age delivers documents in both analog (paper photocopies) and digital form. We'll start with how one might have done this in the past ( I admit this example presents things in their extreme: in the real world one service person performed a number of service roles. But please bear with the example ). You are a researcher. You are looking for the following article, i.e. you want a copy of the following article: Kendrick, B. 1962. The Leptogra...

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