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From Piotr Chodzinski: Easy to use while feature-rich application that brings regular expressions power to the typical Windows users. Regular expressions are using basic concept of the masks but they add even more special characters that can represent definite number of characters, optional phrases. You can specify expressions representing complex patterns that are difficult or impossible to find using only masks, such as e-mail addresses, telephone numbers.

This reference guide quickly answers how to use various electronic searches. This may include an Internet search engine such as Google or Yahoo, a library web catalog such as Library of Congress, a personal computer file searcher such as grep, or any other electronic search mechanism. Some knowledge of boolean logic is helpful and if you don't know how to use the AND, OR, NOT operators, please read the Teaching How to Search section of this Wikibook.

list of known bibliographic/library database applications and utilities.

Bibus is a bibliographic database. It uses a MySQL or SQLite database to store references. It can directly insert references in OpenOffice.org and MS Word and generate the bibliographic index

WIKINDX is a free bibliographic and quotations/notes
management and article authoring system designed either for single use (on a variety of operating sytems) or multi-user collaborative use across the internet.
* can manage all my bibliographic data allowing me to search through them with an accuracy and speed that cannot be duplicated with index cards.
* enables me to store unlimited quotes, paraphrases and thoughts and to efficiently cross-reference them in a searchable database.
* is free, stable and open source allowing me to cast off the shackles of commercial, licensed software.
* supports non-English multi-byte character sets.
* runs on all major operating systems (*NIX, OsX, Windows).
* runs not only on a desktop computer but also on a web server so I can access my bibliography from any networked point or share my bibliography with my research team.
* allows multiple attachments for each bibliographic resource.
* can export my bibliography in various bibliographic styles (APA, Chicago, IEEE for example).
* allows me to edit or create bibliographic styles through a graphical interface.
* integrates a WYSIWYG word processor with easy importation of quotes etc. so that at long last I can write an article, from draft through to publication with automatic citation formatting, entirely within the one software.
* at the click of a mouse button will reformat my article to another citation style whether that style uses footnotes, endnotes or in-text citation.
* can import and export other bibliographic formats including BibTeX or Endnote format.
* supports multiple users.

WIKINDX is all this and more.

ISBD (International Standard Bibliographic Descriptions)

This report is a tutorial and survey of the state of the art (ed: this report was published in 2000), both research and commercial, in this dynamic field. The topics covered include: formulation of structured and unstructured queries and topic statements, indexing (including term weighting) of document collections, methods for computing the similarity of queries and documents, classification and routing of documents in an incoming stream to users on the basis of topic or need statements, clustering of document collections on the basis of language or topic, and statistical, probabilistic, and semantic methods of analyzing and retrieving documents.

As the web evolves into an indispensable tool for our daily lives, Businesses, even the most conservative, are sitting up and taking interest in the ways in which they can exploit Wikis, Blogs, Social Tagging, Instant Messaging, Video, Mash-Ups, and other tools to improve creativity, productivity, collaboration and visibility within an enterprise, as well as engaging clients and partners in more fruitful collaboration.

Social Tools are changing the way we do business: IBM, Toyota, even Wells-Fargo Bank, have invested serious money in Second Life; major law firms encourage their employees to blog; wikis are often far more powerful and useful than standard resources and have replaced intranets in many instances as invaluable sources of information and communication throughout the enterprise. RSS Feeds, Instant Messaging, Video - all can deliver greater involvement and transparency. Originators become real, human and influential, and for the new generation of techno-savvy professionals, the opportunities and applications are unbounded.

One of the key challenges for corporations is how they integrate these new technologies within the enterprise and figure out which best suit their needs, which are toys for people with time on their hands, and which really will make inter- and intra-organisational communications easier and more effective.

This conference presents new viewpoints and case studies explaining the value, application and (sometimes) the downside of social tools in a business context. It looks beyond the "why" of Enterprise 2.0 to explain the "how", giving all participants a true learning experience.