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New Education Series Available
The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) will launch its new virtual education series on September 22, 2015. The first session, Content Strategy for Library Websites, is presented by EBSCO UX researcher, Deirdre Costello. On the fourth Tuesday every other month, NFAIS members can participate for free in these 30-45 minute sessions designed to…
Read MoreCensorship in Books
Since it is Friday and it has been a long week (five days of work crammed into four), this different yet interesting information seemed appropriate for today. Banned Books Week is the national book community’s annual celebration of the freedom to read. Hundreds of libraries and bookstores around the country draw attention to the problem of…
Read MoreManaging Massive Content
JSTOR Labs projects have begun utilizing more article-specific terms, or keywords. For example, in both Understanding Shakespeare and Classroom Readings, you’ll find keywords underneath article titles, separated by vertical pipes. This interesting topic came from the JSTOR blog post, “Labs’ No-Longer-Secret Ingredient: the JSTOR Thesaurus.” JSTOR has content across virtually all of the academic disciplines from hundreds…
Read MoreCloud Formations
Cloud computing was initially introduced to help organizations attain resources with reduced costs, decreased infrastructure, and simplified architecture. With the emergence of big data over the past couple of years, cloud became the architecture of choice. This interesting information came from DATAVERSITY in their article, “The Future of Cloud Computing: Fog Computing and the Internet of…
Read MoreLooking At Data Differently
A unique exhibit is coming to Chicago soon that could give you a different perspective on science, literally. Maybe you are interested in seeing science from above? Or curious to see what impact one single person or invention can have? Inspired by innovation? Desperately seeking tools to better manage the information flood? Maybe you are simply…
Read MoreConference in Italy
That title caught your attention, didn’t it? It may seem far away, but the 4th International Conference “Horizons for Information Architecture, Security and Cloud Intelligent Technology (HIASCIT 2016): Programming, Software Quality, Online Communities, Cyber Behaviour and Business” is scheduled for July 6 – 8, 2016 in Sanremo, Italy. This is the premier scientific meeting for discussing…
Read MorePeer Recognition
The National Archives has been recognized by its professional peers for helping to define the key skills needed by digital information managers. The Mandarin brought this news to our attention in their article, “Archives awarded for defining digital information management.” The National Archives of Australia has won an accolade for its contribution to defining the key…
Read MoreJumping in the Lake
Franz Inc. is collaborating with Montefiore Medical Center, Intel, Cloudera and Cisco in the launch of the first Semantic Data Lake (SDL) for Healthcare. PRWeb brought this interesting news to us in their article, “Franz and Montefiore Medical Center Team up to Deliver the First Semantic Data Lake for Healthcare.“ What exactly is a SDL? A warehouse of complex…
Read MoreThe Value of Your Content
The wave of change from print to digital was, and still is, exhilarating and frightening. Digital delivery opens up many new possibilities, but at the end of the day the quality of your content is still important. However, unless users find your content, they will never know just how good it really is. This interesting topic…
Read MoreChoosing Non-Preferred (and Preferred) Terms for a Thesaurus
© Kellyplz | Dreamstime.com – Squirrels Making Wishes. Photo Synonyms and other non-preferred terms are largely what make a taxonomy (or other controlled vocabulary) a thesaurus. They can enrich a vocabulary in a variety of ways. Searches on a vocabulary can take advantage of non-preferred synonyms to direct the search from those words or phrases…
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