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온라인 백과사전인 위키피디아(Wikipedia) 는 이제 이 분야의 대명사가 되었다 해도 과언이 아니다. 중요한 참고 자료의 역할을 하고는 있지만 문제는 인터넷에 연결이 되어 있지 않으면 사용할 수 없다는 것이다. 이를 해결하기 위해 몇 가지 방법들이 나와 있고, 관련 글들을 몇 차례 소개한 적도 있다.

이번에 소개하는 WikiTaxi는 유사한 다른 프로그램 중 비교적 위키피디아 전체를 쉽게 받아 사용할 수 있도록 해주는 무료 프로그램이다. 일단 위키피디아에서 제공하는 일종의 백업 파일인 덤프 파일을 받아서 전용 데이터베이스로 변환한 다음 이 프로그램에서 검색하는 방식이다.

WikiTaxi 프로그램 홈페이지로 가기

프로그램은 설치하지 않고 적당한 폴더에 넣어 실행하면 된다.

백과사전 파일은 자신이 직접 만들어서 사용해야 한다. 다음 링크에서 최신의 덤프 파일을 우선 내려받는다.

• 영문 축소판 (약 24MB)
• 영문 전체 (약 4GB)
• 한글판 (약 68MB). 이 페이지에서 "kowiki" 링크를 찾아 들어가면 된다.

각 페이지에 있는 여러 파일 중 최신 날짜의 폴더 안에 있는 "pages-articles.xml.bz2"라는 이름의 링크를 클릭하면 덤프 파일을 내려받을 수 있다. 내려받은 파일은 프로그램 폴더에 있는 "WikiTaxi_Importer.exe"를 이용해 전용 데이터베이스 파일로 변환해주면 된다.



축소판이 아닌 영문 전체 파일은 대략 반나절 정도가 걸린다. 덤프 파일의 크기는 3.89GB이고, 변환한 후에 만들어지는 파일(확장자 taxi)는 6.76GB가 된다. 한글의 경우는 각각 65.2MB, 142MB이다. 혹시 한글 데이터베이스(2008년 7월 31일자)가 필요하면 아래에서 내려받아 사용하면 된다. 단, 한글 검색 기능이 제대로 작동하지 않는다.

이 기사는 다음 글을 발췌한 것이다.

How to Live Online.com, "25 Essential Web Resources for Researchers and Students," 2007. 10. 22.



1. Find a PhD

FindaPhd is the lucky place where you find fellow geeks and nerds, a pretty busy Postgraduate Forum provides advices and opinions on your queries about research life and how to find funds, scholarships. Upon the success of this site, two new sites FindaMasters and FindaPostDoc have been started and serving the student researchers actively busy exchange of advice and opinion on PhD life.

2. Google Book Search

You know Google book search exists, but have you tried citing from those books. Often, I had to produce a write-up, essay or the last-minute paper for a conference. When I dotn have enough time to pull out a strong reference from books, I issue a Google book search, up comes the results from book with snippets view showing paragraphs and texts that I were exactly looking for. I paraphrase them and correctly reference them. Neat hack.

* 관련 글: 웹에서 공짜 책 구하는 사이트 모음(2008. 3. 30.)

3. Book Finder



If you are looking for any kind of book, whether it is rare or out-of-print, specific edition - You will find it at Bookfinder . Over 125 millions book titles to search, you can actually buy new and old-books from this site. They achieve by doing a search through every major catalog available online.

4. Free Note-taking



Mynoteit is a web service that you need to manage all writing works at uni. With mynoteit, you can upload office documents, scanned notes and audio lectures at one place. You can access them at will with even with your mobile. You can join groups of students who are taking the similar subject all over the world. You can bookmark your assignment dates, deadlines at one place.

5. Re"Search Engine"



Scirus is a popular search engine among research community. Scirus searches for scientific information with its comprehensive trusted network of article bases like Science Direct, PubMed and other journal databases. The results are highly relevant and you can choose the keywords used by authors to search for relevant scientific domain. You get the results in three categories, journal results, preferred web results and web results. If you try Scirus once, you will stick to it. It saved me lot of my research time.

6. Digital Theses Networks



Australia is probably, the only country where every research student is asked to deposit a digital copy of their theses to a national database for a common cause. The Australasian Digital Theses Program is very popular among the researchers as every university in Australia is participating in it. A similar initiative is being carried out at the international level, which is PhDData.org - a 5 year old program which aims to collect the research theses from the universities around the world. There is also another initiative named "Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations " that looks promising as well.

7. Bibliography made easy



It's a pain to follow the style guide of various journal styles when you are writing a paper. Tools such as EndNote help in maintaining your database of references. If you are looking for an online tool, then Ottobib is a really useful. You can store, organize your references, and Ottobib will format it to a style when you need. There is another web service that does a similar job , which is Easybib .

8. Job portals for researchers



Monster has a special site Phd jobs that lists research oriented jobs. There are sites where you can find Policy jobs , Political jobs , Ethical jobs , Market Research jobs , Museum jobs , PostDoc jobs , Law jobs and Human Rights jobs . All these sites provide world-wide listings of opportunities specific to researchers.

9. Docs, Spreadsheets and Presentations



The benefits of Google Docs are obvious, you can maintain your documents and edit on the run. Particularly useful when you are traveling for field visits and you do not have access to your favourite Desktop Office applications. I used to upload a copy of my thesis chapters in Google Docs and share it with my supervisor. He would comment and add suggestions. If you are thinking of developing a document with your peer researchers - across boundaries, you have to use this. No more copying drafts, final versions and confusions on which one is what. With the added spreadsheets and presentations, it is a cool collection of tools for storing documents on the move.

10. List Sharing



Tadalist is about having a to-do list on the web. You can share between your supervisors to track your progress and communicate with your fellow researchers to meet the research deadlines or to organise a holiday.

11. Phd Comics



We are researchers, so what. We need fun, right? I have seen no other humour site that caters exclusive to researchers and PhD students life. PhDComics is awesome because, the site was started by a student and has plenty of cartoon strips on any conceivable aspect of Phd life.

12. Tracks almost everything



An easy way to track all the favourite blogs / research web sites in my subject is to use Google Reader . I use the ‘Star’ function to mark the essential posts, and use them later. A thousand eyes are looking for me and blogging things that are important and I follow them at one place with my reader. Great help ? is it not?

13. ResearchChannel



Research channel is a site that offers videos on various research topics. Research Channel functions as a nonprofit media company with a mission to connect the world research community with latest developments, insights and discoveries across the globe. Anyone can watch the videos for free. But, if you are a researcher or research organisation who wish to contribute video content, you have to apply for a membership to the research channel. All the video submissions are strictly moderated.

* ResearchChannel 생방송 보기

14. Wikipedia



Often, the power of Wikipedia is grossly under-rated by the research people, who dismiss it based on the credibility. Well, that is an acceptable fact but from Wikipedia, you will get to know about a human view of a topic. You may get to know the latest happenings or the first hand information on a cutting-edge technology in your field (equivalent of gossips in the film industry).

15. MIT Web



Massachusetts institute of technology maintains a comprehensive web portal on the current research happenings at MIT and covers news and research events that affect humanity. The research covers any conceivable topic under various categories .

16. Eduforge - Free software for education



Just what Sourcefourge did for a programming and application development, eduforge does it for research community. It provides a free, open access to share ideas, form collaborative research groups, content and software development to solve specific research problems.

17. SuTree - Watch and learn



SuTree is a YouTube style video site for Do-It-Yourself projects. You can watch videos and learn rather than reading plain texts and procedures. You can learn something new, every day. SuTree does not host your videos, users host them on youtube or Google videos and provide a link and embed the videos here. These videos are voted by the community and the editors hand-pick them and monitor to keep the scum out of the site.

18. Wridea - Free ideas



Wridea is the place where ideas get into shape. You can record your ideas, browse others' ideas, rate them, improve them and what not. The design and performance of the site is awesome and you can create unlimited pages for free. Liberate your ideas and watch them grow.

19. World Lecture Hall



World Lecture Hall is the place where you can find course materials developed by the teaching faculty around the world in almost any language. Some courses are only available online, but most of them can be downloaded for offline use. It is a great collection of lectures - a good bookmark.

Academic Materials can also be found at this blog post - 134 free academic podcasts organised by topics.

20. University Channel



University Channel is another directory of lectures (videos, audio and text presentations) developed and hosted by Princeton university. it not only lists the academic lectures and presentations, but also some of the key public affairs lectures, panel discussions and events from the best industrial conferences and academic institutions all over the world.

21. Backpackit- organize your life



You have to experience Backpackit to believe it - this site will be tremendously helpful for keeping track of your research developments. You can track your tasks, references (who said what - over phone / email), appointments, action items etc. If you are looking for an efficient organizing tool, this is the one for you.

22. FreeMind - Free mind maps



If you are looking for a tool to create and organize your thoughts and ideas, mind maps are the best way. With freemind - a java based open source program, you can develop complex yet, easy to organize mindmaps.

23. Free Data and Texts



Freelunch.com - Free economic data for you to download
Geographic Data - Free geographic data (worldwide)
World Bank Economy - Data collected and organised by the World Bank
Project Gutenburg - Free literature (almost any subject)
Bibliomania - free literature online
Literature collection - free literature
Citeseer - Massive resource for papers related to Computer Science.
Algorithms Base - Over 250 algorithms at one place
Tree of Life - Large Biology project that aims to organize the evolution of life.

24. Free Newspaper Archive



Paper of Record is the largest newspaper archive on the web. You can get snapshots of news articles from leading newspapers of the world from pre-1600 era to the current date. You can search through the archive and download the clips as images (gif). You have a quota of 250 mb every day.

25. Citations Database



Refbase is the place where people are sharing their citations and organising them at one place. You can download a copy of the refbase on your PC and connect to the server periodically to update them. Also try CiteSeer for searching through millions of citations.

Bonus Resources:

1. Find quotations




With ThinkExist , you can find a nice quotes for your thesis and papers. The quote is accompanied by the essential information about the author/speaker which will be useful to reference.

2. Research webpages

Research pages at Major companies who likes to share their ongoing developments and trials:

Google Research Blog
Research at Philips
Sun Research
Microsoft Research
IBM Research centre
Yahoo Research Labs
Honda Research
GE Global Research
General Motors Collaborative research centre
Sports Research Centre, Canada

3. All Biographies



Find anyone's biography here - you can search by a keyword, birth date or place of birth.

요즘 독도 문제가 중요한 이슈 중 하나로 떠올랐다. 어제 오늘의 이야기가 아닌데 고유가에 대처한다고 21세기 이 시점에 홀짝제나 생각해내는 것만큼이나 이 나라나 시스템이 답답하기도 하다.

오늘 SBS 8시 뉴스에 보도된 독도 관련 기사 중 재미있는 것이 하나 있었다. TV 뉴스지만 편의상 네이버에 실린 원고 를 따왔다.



원본 뉴스 보러가기

인터넷 백과사전인 위키피디아(Wikipedia)가 일본 네티즌의 끈질긴 여론 공세로 이들의 의견을 수용하고 있다는 기사이다. 그런데 이 위키피디아의 내용이라는 것이 잘 알려진 바와 같이 아무나 고치면 되는 것이다. 단지 누구 더 열심히 가필하고 수정하느냐의 문제만 있을 뿐이다. 잘못된 내용인 것 같으면 내가 들어가서 바꾸면 된다. 어떻게 보면 불합리한 구조이다. 만약 그 구조의 문제로 우리가 또는 독도가 불리하다면 이를 기사화하는 것이 더 좋지 않았을까 한다.

우리 기자분도 답답하면 아래와 같이 접속한 후 고쳐보기를 적극 권한다.



위키피디아의 독도 설명으로 가기

시간이 나시면 위키피디아 일본어 버전에도......

위키피디아 일본어판의 독도 설명으로 가기

사용자들이 만드는 온라인 백과사전인 Wikipedia(위키피디아) 는 분량이 방대하고 수시로 내용이 바뀌기 때문에 일정 시점의 내용을 저장하거나 인쇄하여 보관하는 일은 의미가 없어 보인다. 그래도 몇 가지 이유로 종이나 파일로 인쇄해야 하는 일이 있다. 그래서 Lexisum 이라는 사이트가 있는데 위키피디아 원래의 내용에서 군더더기를 빼고 깔끔하게 정리해 주는 서비스를 제공한다.

화면으로 보는 Visual Mode와 각종 사이즈의 용지에 인쇄할 수 있도록 해주는 Printing Mode 두 가지가 있다.

본문 전체를 정리해 주는 것은 아니고 목차(Contents) 이전까지 요약 부분에 해당하는 앞부분만 정리해 보여 준다. 또 본문에 삽입된 표나 그림을 모두 생략한다. 간단하게 개요 정도를 정리할 때 유용하다. 실제로 인쇄하면 대략 다음과 같은 모양이 된다.

사실 위키피디아의 특정 항목을 인쇄하면 각종 메뉴나 편집 링크 등도 같이 인쇄가 될 것 같지만 그렇지는 않다. "Korea" 항목을 검색하면 웹 브라우저에서는 일단 아래와 같이 보인다.

메뉴와 같은 군더더기를 없애고 본문 내용만 보려면 왼쪽 메뉴 목록에서 "Printable version"을 선택하면 된다.

이렇게 하면 실제 본문 내용만 나타난다. 이 내용을 인쇄하면 아래와 같이 본문 내용을 깔끔하게 인쇄할 수 있다.

화면에서 보는 "Printable version"보다 더 깔끔하게 인쇄된다. 물론 표나 그림도 다 나온다. 인쇄를 할 때에는 굳이 "Printable version"으로 들어갈 필요없이 해당 항목이 나타나는 일반 화면에서 인쇄를 해도 된다.

그래서 용도에 따라 다르기는 하겠지만, 종이로 인쇄할 때나 PDF 등 파일로 인쇄할 때나 위에 소개한 Lexisum보다 그냥 웹 브라우저에서 인쇄 기능을 사용할 것을 권장한다.