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The Semantics of Words
Do you have one of those friends who has words they can’t stand to hear? Or maybe you are one who shudders at hearing words like “moist”? This interesting information came to our attention by SF Gate in their article, “Here’s why you hate the word ‘moist’. So is it the connotation of the word or…
Read MoreRecent Acquisition Has Some Concerned About Access
The Social Science Research Network (SSRN) has been acquired by Elsevier with the promise that it will be further developed with Mendeley, Elsevier’s scholarly collaboration network, to provide users with leading content, data linking, enhanced metrics and researcher workflow tools. PR Newswire brought this interesting news to us in their article, “Elsevier Acquires the Social Science Research…
Read MoreFinding the Benefits of Unstructured Data
Financial technology has been venturing into foreign territory with new technology and applications to send and receive payments. The challenge is unique on both ends of the transaction. Predictive Analysis World brought this interesting information to our attention in their article, “Hey FinTech, What’s Your Strategy for Leveraging Unstructured Data?” Customer experience is more important than…
Read MoreThe Next Generation
Sci-Hub is the piracy network for academic journals and it has many a publisher and author pointing fingers and calling names. Researchers are likely calling names as well, but they might actually be repeatable. This interesting information came to us from The Chronicle of Higher Education in their article, “What Do the Authors of Sci-Hub’s Most-Downloaded…
Read MoreRecords Management in an Ever-Changing Data World
Records management (RM) is a well-established discipline. However, the massive growth of data is presenting new challenges about how RM should be carried out. KM World brought this news to us in their article, “Evolving data issues challenge RM approaches.” With big data, master data management (MDM) and the challenges that come with unstructured data, the list…
Read MoreOrganizing Knowledge
Humans classify and categorize everything from types of writing instruments to breeds of animals. Marjorie Hlava in her Taxobook states “you could even say that taxonomies and thesauri exist to further the objective of organizing knowledge.” It seems it is in our nature as humans to try and classify things. One example of human classification…
Read MoreSpecial Libraries Association Conference Features Taxonomy Cafe
The Taxonomy Cafe is taking place at the Special Libraries Association (SLA) annual conference in just a few weeks. In this unique workshop, presenters will give 30-minute case studies of taxonomy implementations. They will cover how and why their organizations decided to implement taxonomies, their approaches to implementation, lessons learned, and current status. Janice Keeler is one…
Read MoreNew Director of World’s Largest Library
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has announced the appointment of Dr. Patricia Flatley Brennan as the next director of the National Library of Medicine (NLM). The American Library Association’s publication, District Dispatch, brought this news to us in their article, “New director named for the U.S. National Library of Medicine.” As director, Dr. Brennan will…
Read MoreThe Taxonomy Cafe
In order to continue preparing Special Libraries Association (SLA) taxonomists for more advanced implementations, we have asked a number of people to share their real-life experiences with us in an interactive presentation and discussion format. In the first section of this course, each presenter will give a 30-minute case study of a taxonomy implementation. They…
Read MoreStrengthening the Data
A leading index of open-access journals may shrink by more than one-quarter after an effort to exclude questionable and inactive publishers. This interesting information came to us from Nature in their article, “Open-access index delists thousands of journals.” The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) is following up on its promise of two years ago that it would…
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