Nathan Agrin , Jessica Kline, Ken-ichi Ueda

Mahathi S Mahabhashya and Pavan Singitham. In this write up, we explain the design of Tadpole, a Meta search engine which obtains results from various search engines and aggregates them. We discuss three meta-search ranking strategies – two positional methods and a scaled foot rule optimization method and study the response-time/result quality trade-offs involved.

The Universal Serial Item Name (USIN) scheme is proposed as a framework for a single global namespace of articles and other contributions published in organized serial collections. Requirements for USINs are analyzed with an emphasis on the use of USINs in scholarly communication. A uniform naming model is described based on the hierarchical naming of serial publications and the hierarchical nu...

JACC (Journal Article Citation Convention) is proposed as an alternative to SICI (Serial Item and Contribution Identifier) as a convention for specifying journal articles in DOI (Digital Object Identifier) suffixes. JACC is intended to provide a very simple tool for scholars to easily create Web links to DOIs and to also support interoperability between legacy article citation systems and DOI-b...