NIF Webinar - August 18, 2009 - 11:00-12:00 noon PDT

The next NIF Webinar will be held on August 18, 2009.  Please join Dr. Anita Bandrowski for our next informative session. Details follow.

Date: August 18, 2009 / 11:00 - 12:00 noon PDT
Topic: NIF Resources and Automated Resource Discovery Tools
Presenter: Dr. Anita Bandrowski
URL: http://connect.neuinfo.org/webinar
Dial-In (toll free): 866-740-1260
Access Code: 8220739
Description: The Neuroscience Information Framework (NIF) has been trying to include in its registry sites of those resource providers that register with either DISCO (Yale) or Biositemaps (NIH).  The idea is a nice one. Ff a Web site wishes to be easily discovered by Web crawlers (such as Google or NIF) and, consequently, the people who search those results, the webmaster can obtain a little bit of html code from either the biositemaps or DISCO and place it on their web site.  This code tells crawlers what resources are present on those sites.  This is a great simple idea, to put the people who know their resource in charge of describing it.  The devil, however, is always in the details.  The interpretation of “what is a resource” can wreak havoc on this sort of automated resource discovery. Join us for this evolving discussion.