Jon’s curriculum vitae

Name: Jonathan Peter Jermey

Qualifications: Bachelor of Science in Psychology with Honours, Master of Cognitive Science (UNSW); Train the Computer Trainer Course (WEA); Certificate IV in Workplace Training; Certificate IV in Assessment and Workplace Training.

Date of Birth: 30th April 1958

Address: PO Box 307, Blaxland NSW 2774

Phone: (02) 47 398 199

Fax: (02) 47 398 189

E-mail: jonjermey@gmail.com

WWW: http://www.webindexing.com.au

Education

In 1980 I completed a four-year degree in Psychology at the University of NSW, graduating with a double major B.Sc (Hons). My course included strands of research methods, statistics and industrial psychology. My final year entailed a project in Social Psychology, during which I analysed the results with the statistical analysis program SPSS and wrote them up into a 25,000-word thesis. read more

Links to other articles

Accessing eBooks

Australian Author V. 38, No. 3, December 2006 p. 33

Bibliographic Software: a cite for sore eyes

Online Currents – Vol.25 Issue 2, April 2011

Bluetooth

Online Currents – Vol.21 Issue 1, September 2006

Book Swapping goes global: BookCrossing and BookMooch

Online Currents V. 21 No. 8, May 2007

Corel Graphics

Online Currents – Vol. 21 Issue 7, April 2007

Corel Office suite

Online Currents – Vol. 21 Issue 4, December 2006

eBook Basics

Australian Author, Vol 38 No. 2, August 2006

eBook devices 2007

Online Currents – Vol. 21 Issue 5, Jan/Feb 2007

eBook distribution 2010

Online Currents – Vol. 24 Issue 3, June 2010

Ebook software 2010

Online Currents – Vol. 24 p.139, 2010

Everyone wants to be Steve: an eBook hardware update

Online Currents – Vol. 24(2), April 2010 read more

Links to other Online Currents article PDFs

Gale’s literature databases

First published in Online Currents – Vol. 21 Issue 5, Jan/Feb 2006

Green libraries (PDF)

First published in Online Currents, v.25/4, 2011, pp.188-194

This article describes green websites that provide information that may help librarians and other information professionals manage their work in a more sustainable and environmentally friendly way.

Ebook indexes, EPUB and the International Digital Publishing Forum (PDF)

Ebooks, their indexes, and the work of the IDPF EPUB Indexes Working Group.

Online Currents June 2012, pp 127-130

IPEd, Style Council and ANZSI Conferences (PDF)

Three conferences for information professionals.

First published Online Currents February 2012 read more

Making and unmaking PDFs

Online Currents 2004 – 19(8) 25-27

When the World Wide Web appeared in the early 1990’s, many users, myself included, assumed that most people would soon do their reading on-screen and that printed documents would slowly become a thing of the past. We soon learnt how wrong we were. Despite continuing improvements in screen displays, many users continue to print documents for marking up, for reference, and simply for reading. It is in order to serve this group that Adobe developed their Portable Document Format (PDF) in 1993. Since then PDF has gone through several versions, but it retains the same fundamental goal: to provide a way of electronically distributing documents that look the same and print the same. read more

Metabrowser: automated metatagging of web pages

By Jon: First published in Online Currents 2005 – 20(3) 6-7

Metabrowser Authoring Tool (also known as Tag Tool) is a program, for viewing and editing metadata on websites. It comes with support for twelve standard metadata schemas, including DC, the Australian Government Locator Service (AGLS), the New Zealand Government Locator Service (NGLS) and the Australian Justice Sector schema. New schemas can also be developed and saved by the user.

Metabrowser is an Australian product and is available for download fromhttp://metabrowser.spirit.net.au. The current version is 1.8101. There is a thirty-day trial period after which the application can be registered online for $AU162.82 (discounts for multiple installations). The authors also support a metadata server which facilitates website searching, and provides consultancy and other assistance in establishing metadata. read more

Meteorology and natural disaster websites

This article begins with a discussion of meteorology Web sites, followed by sites on natural disasters.

The Glossary from the American Meteorological Society (http://amsglossary.allenpress.com/glossary ) contains 12,000 terms and is an excellent starting point for research into meteorology. It defines meteorology as the study of the physics, chemistry, and dynamics of the earth’s atmosphere, including the related effects at the airearth boundary over both land and the oceans or, in popular usage, as the underlying science of weather and weather forecasting. read more

MSN – New Search environment launched

First published in Online Currents – 20(5) June 2005

This is the third article in a series investigating Web search engines, following others about Google (Online Currents October 2004, pp.13-16) and Yahoo! (Online Currents March 2005, pp. 21-24).

MSN launched its new search engine on 2 February 2005.  In addition to the search function, the home page (http://www.msn.com ) provides links to news, reference sources, shopping, entertainment and technology, and services such as Hotmail and Messenger.  The Australian site, ninemsn, is discussed later. read more