Reference work

Collaborative Reference Work in the Blogosphere

Purpose – This paper explores the use of blogs as a platform for providing reference service, and discusses Lyceum, an open source software project from ibiblio.org, for this purpose. Design/methodology/approach – The following topics are explored: the evolution of libraries’ uses of blogs, the advantages of conducting the reference transaction as a collaborative effort, and the use of blogs as...

Reference values for maximal work capacity in healthy children.

Recently, the European Respiratory Journal published a paper by GULMANS et al. [1] on reference values for maximal work capacity (Wmax) in healthy children [1]. The paper described the Wmax of boys and girls using a model which related Wmax per kilogram of fat free mass (FFM) to age and gender. For the model to be valid the relationship between Wmax and FFM should have been a proportionality (i...

The sheep genome reference sequence: a work in progress.

Until recently, the construction of a reference genome was performed using Sanger sequencing alone. The emergence of next-generation sequencing platforms now means reference genomes may incorporate sequence data generated from a range of sequencing platforms, each of which have different read length, systematic biases and mate-pair characteristics. The objective of this review is to inform the ...

Applying Work Flow Reference Model in Adaptive Learning

In this paper we will present part of our current work towards the developing of an e-Learning platform using the Work Flow Reference Model in combination with adaptation algorithms. The basic idea is to take advantage of the efficiency, the robustness and the interoperability that the WfRM (Workflow Reference Model) offers, to design a learning procedure, and the use of adaptation algorithms i...

A framework for work on frames of reference