Archive for October 2016
A Computer Orders Pizza and the Crowd Explodes
Semantic technology has come a long way, baby. This is illustrated in the recent announcement that Siri’s creators had successfully placed an order for pizza with voice commands. IT ProPortal brought this news to us in their article, “Metadata: How businesses can use it to its fullest.” Granted, pizza alone is worth a celebration, but in…
Read MoreSharePoint Surprises Users with Sneak Peek and Early Delivery
Microsoft is offering a sneak peek of the first Feature Pack for SharePoint Server 2016, which is set to arrive in November. This interesting news came to us from eWeek in their article, “Microsoft Previews SharePoint Server 2016 Feature Pack 1.” When Microsoft released SharePoint Server 2016 in May, it pledged to periodically release Feature Packs…
Read MorePower Project Using Cellular Engineering
In the world of semantic technology and artificial intelligence, it may seem surprising that cellular engineering is poised to open up new and exciting avenues of exploration into ways to address issues like combating disease, enhancing food production, monitoring the environment for toxins and much more. Forbes brought this news to us in their article, “IBM,…
Read MoreWebinar Addresses Creative Commons
Association of American Publisher’s Professional & Scholar’s Publishing Books Committee is bringing guest speakers Terence P. Keegan and David S. Korzenik from the law firm of Miller Korzenik Sommers LLP to discuss When Creative Commons Licenses Create Headaches. This interesting educational event is scheduled for Friday, October 21st from 12:30-1:30 p.m. at the AAP/NY office and via the webinar. Many online publishers…
Read MoreHybrid Workshop Addresses Data Sharing
The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) is offering a unique educational opportunity both in person and virtually. The hybrid workshop is titled “Creating and Harnessing the New Era of Data Sharing” and is scheduled for November 14, 2016 at 8:45 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. (EST). Researchers, government agencies, funders and publishers are implementing policies, best…
Read MoreMan’s Best Friend
Animals have been domesticated as pets since ancient times — even dating back to 10,000 B.C. European art from the 19th century depicts dogs as cared-for members of a household, rather than as possessions. And we all know about Queen Elizabeth II and her corgis, who are considered members of her family. So when it comes to man’s best…
Read MoreTime for Change
We have all heard it muttered and maybe some of us have done the muttering. The observation that many feel there is no innovation in scholarly publishing and that leaves the publishing word ripe for disruption. The Scholarly Kitchen brought this news to us in their article, “Ripe for Disruption – From Within?” With scholarly publishing, it seems that…
Read MoreThe Expectations of Academic Publishing
The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers recently held their annual meeting in London and one of the highlighted sessions was “What Does Academic Engagement Mean Now?” moderated by Isabel Thompson of Oxford University Press. The panel was supposed to address, among other things, whether we are achieving everything we aim to in regards to academic engagement…
Read MoreNew Partnerships Build Language Bridge
Hindawi and Editage have announced a new partnership that will provide English-language editing to authors wishing to submit to Hindawi publications. The Society for Scholarly Publishing brought this news to us in their release, “Hindawi and Editage announce their partnership to provide English-language editing services.” Hindawi is a publisher of peer-reviewed open access journals covering a…
Read MoreFall Educational Series Looks Into Metrics
The Professional/Scholarly Publishing (PSP) Division of the Association of American Publishers (AAP) Committee for Digital Innovation (CDI) is once again offering a fall seminar series, this time on Metrics, New Metrics and Their Significance. The next part of the series is scheduled for October 19, 2016 at 12:00-1:30 p.m. The title of this webinar is “Altmetrics.”…
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