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Monthly Archives: May 2017

PDF-XChange Editor

29 Monday May 2017

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There’s a newly-mature free PDF reader, PDF-XChange Editor which has just had an excellent TechRadar review. Sounds interesting but I cancelled my download halfway, immediately after reading…

“You can try any of these “Protected” features [buttons for features in the paid-for version] but, be very careful not to save your PDF if you do not want the watermarks to appear in the upper corners of each page in the document. Once a document is watermarked, there is no way to remove them without a license”.

Ugh. Sounds to me like the free version is effectively a form of ransom-ware, activated by the user’s curiosity and tiredness.

Europeana Photography launches

29 Monday May 2017

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Europeana : Photography has launched, with a wide range of public domain and CC0 pictures from the nations of continental Europe (the UK seems to be almost absent). Judging by a test search for “cat”, it’s mostly landscape and architectural pictures.

Great to see Public Domain filters, though. But then there’s no way to search by the pixel size on the final download. The test samples I downloaded were pointlessly small, at just 600px to 800px. You can however use a Google Images site search and then filter by size…

site:http://www.europeana.eu/portal/en/record/ “Public Domain Marked”

But the Google Images search filters can’t yet distinguish between a photo and a good engraving…

… and adding the word “photograph” to the Google Images search is of no help in that respect. This makes it difficult to filter just for the Europeana Photography collection.

Added to JURN

26 Friday May 2017

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Herefordshire Past : the newsletter of the VCH Herefordshire Trust, and similar selected county history series hosted at the UK’s Victoria County History website.


Norfolk Natterjack (Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists’ Society, the UK fenlands)

Annual Report, Rutland Natural History Society (UK)

Minnesota Birding (USA)

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The full-text at the two new open academic repositories in Burma.

Another Google CSE dashboard glitch?

26 Friday May 2017

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The recent changes to the Google CSE services appear to have introduced another glitch. The problem happens when adding new URL entries into your Google CSE. For instance, you can no longer add…

http://www.nnns.org.uk/sites/nnns.org.uk/files/

… and reliably select “Include all pages whose address contains this URL”. Oh yes, the Dashboard will let you save it that way… but then go back and open the URL up again. You’ll see that the CSE dashboard has refused to accept the setting you gave the URL, and has instead defaulted the URL to: “Include just this specific page or URL pattern I have entered”.

The problem with this is that you didn’t explicitly enter http://www.nnns.org.uk/sites/nnns.org.uk/files/* With the * wildcard making the “Include just this specific page or URL pattern I have entered” functional. Without the wildcard, the http://www.nnns.org.uk/sites/nnns.org.uk/files/ URL is null and void on that setting, and may as well have not been added to your CSE.

This has only just started happening, and the “Include all pages whose address contains this URL” setting is sticky on entries made prior to about 24 hours ago. Which makes me think it’s probably a temporary glitch, inadvertently introduced during yesterday’s switch from three-options to two-options for settings on individual URLs.

If you’re working on a CSE over the weekend / Bank Holiday (UK), you should be aware of this problem, as it probably won’t be fixed by Google until early next week. You’ll probably want to keep a .txt file of all the URLs you add which you have to use a /* for, because you may need to manually change them back once the problem gets fixed.

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24 Wednesday May 2017

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Programming Journal, The (“The Art, Science, and Engineering of Programming”)

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Restored the http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/ indexing URLs. The website front page suggests they’re still digging themselves out of a hole, after nearly a month, but the journal pages and PDFs appear to have returned.

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23 Tuesday May 2017

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Substantia : the International Journal of the History of Chemistry

Journal for the History of Environment and Society

Added to JURN

12 Friday May 2017

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Geographica Helvetica (Swiss journal of geography … “Geographica Helvetica co-hosts Social Geography, the international journal of social geography and related disciplines in social sciences and the humanities.”)


European Journal of Remote Sensing

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Publications of the UK Research Integrity Office (codes, guidance and procedures for academic research)

Added to JURN

11 Thursday May 2017

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Lifespans and Styles (linguistic shifts due to the age of the speaker)

Papers in Historical Phonology

Journal of the British Association for the Study of Religion


Silvae Genetica (German journal of tree genetics, 1950-2015, currently not well-indexed on Google)

Geoscientific Instrumentation, Methods and Data Systems

Unsplash: libraries and archives

11 Thursday May 2017

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Here’s another fly-through of the Unsplash collection, a new large bank of not-cheesy CC0 stock pictures. This time looking for librarian, archivist and similar pictures. Again, batch-reduced to 80% compression while retaining pixel size. Like the other batch, these are all big and Creative Commons Zero (CC0), and the photographer name is part of the file name.

Unsplash

11 Thursday May 2017

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Unsplash is a new large bank of CC0 stock pictures, rather more funky than the usual stock look. There’s a Pinterest-y aspect to the service, which allows members to curate folders called Collections. This is useful when your search shows no results. For instance, I searched for Business Independent and had no results, but was pointed to two somewhat useful Collections on ‘Work’ and ‘Office’. A search for Business Creative was better, though as Mac-cultist and white-walls as you might expect, but I found a few excellent pictures (see below) for illustrating creative industries production activities.

Presentation of a Collection assumes you have superfast broadband, with huge previews, which means slow browsing for the rest of us. It makes one especially reluctant to open Collections which have over about 50 pictures. There are also some curious word-wuffles: search for Animation and get Animals, for instance.

There’s no-hassle downloads though: just click “Download” and the picture downloads. Test downloads revealed 2700px+ pictures, usually at 72dpi. I think the biggest I downloaded was 40Mb. The photographer name is sensibly embedded in the file-name, should you want to credit.

Here’s my ‘creative industries’ selection, batched to 80% compression, which takes it from 360Mb to 58Mb in total without changing pixel size.

(For poets and visionaries).

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