Finding good quality information

Finding Good Coffee in Paris

Finding a good cup of coffee in Paris is difficult even among its world-renowned cafés, at least according to author David Downie (2011). We propose a solution that would allow tourists to create a map of the Paris Métro system from scratch that shows the locations of the cafés with the good coffee, while addressing the problem of the tourists losing interest in the process once they have found...

Finding good biomarkers for sarcopenia

The term sarcopenia describes the age-related loss of skeletal muscle mass and function. While this process, in principal, occurs in every adult person and already starts around the age of 40, it is associated with disability, morbidity, and increased mortality in some individuals. In the absence of clear clinical manifestation, we today lack the ability to differentiate between physiological a...

Information Quality: How Good Are Off-The-Shelf DBMS?

Commercial database management systems (DBMS) have come a long way with respect to efficiency and more recently, with respect to quality and user friendliness. Not only do they provide an efficient means to store large amounts of data and intuitive query languages to access the data; popular DBMS also provide a whole suite of tools to assess, store, manage, clean, and retrieve data in a user-fr...

Gateways to the Internet: Finding Quality Information on the Internet

Librarians have long sought to select, evaluate, and organize information on the Internet. Efforts began with individual librarians sharing bookmark files of favorite sites and progressed to increasingly large, collaboratively produced general and subject/discipline-specific gateway Web sites or megasites. Megasites list major resources usually in a particular subject area or discipline. Librar...

Finding Information