Archive for 2011
EBSCO and Wilson Merger
EBSCO Publishing has merged with the H.W. Wilson Company to improve discovery services for libraries. The “win-win” is that EBSCO databases will have enhanced indexing because the Wilson controlled vocabularies will be integrated into EBSCO’s controlled vocabularies. Subscribers of Wilson databases will be able to search the EBSCO Discovery Service for all Wilson indexing, abstracts, and full text.
Read Moree-Books Have a Ways to Go
We’ve already discussed and determined that e-readers are not a fad; they are here to stay for awhile. But don’t fear, they cannot totally replace the print book until some flaws are fixed.
Read MoreArchiving Lives On
One woman’s dedication to researching local and family history was recognized at the Royal Australian Historical Society New England and North West Affiliated Societies Conference in Armidale. It is the first award Eve Chappell has been given for her work.
Read MoreNatural Language Processing Focus of Singapore Symposium
The Fourth International Symposium on Languages in Biology and Medicine will be held in December in Singapore. This interesting forum will address natural languages as a means of scientific and professional communication.
Read MoreData – Burden or Asset?
The trend these days is for organizations to treat data like a burden instead of the valuable asset that should be treated as such. Therefore, the focus is on how to reduce the cost of this burden instead of maximizing the opportunity.
Read MoreInformatica 9.1 Garners Support
Informatica Corporation has announced overwhelming industry support for Informatica 9.1, the industry’s first unified data integration platform designed to unleash the full business potential of Big Data to empower the data centric-enterprise.
Read MoreLoudoun Mutual Insurance Implements Document Management Strategy
Loudoun Mutual Insurance Company has engaged KeyMark Inc. to engineer and implement a document management solution to gain greater efficiencies and improve processes.
Read MoreTaxonomies Should Not Be Postponed
WorthPoint is a known provider of valuation and associated services for art, antiques and collectibles. WorthPoint Forums provide access to expert options and debates regarding the world of collecting. Together, they are integrated with the company’s price guide, Worthopedia, which contains over 90 million items. With that volume of content, a taxonomy is definitely in order.
Read MoreNew Version of ontoprise Products Released
Karlsruhe has released OntoBroker 6.1 and OntoStudio 3.1 as part of the ontoprise product suite, the only infrastructure supporting all major W3C SemanticWeb recommendations including OWL, RDF(s), RIF and ObjectLogic.
Read MoreSharePoint Integration Requires Industry Leaders
Winter Park Construction was seeking a migration strategy for moving their project documentation to SharePoint 2010. MetaVis Migrator was selected to migrate data in bulk and to preserve existing metadata and classified content through the move.
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