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New Digital Assets Available
The British Library is the largest library collection in the world, with more than 170 million items in its catalog. Interestingly, though, only 14 million of these are books. Among the manuscripts, journals, newspapers, magazines, sound and video recordings, and so much more, there are prints and drawings. In an effort to make some of…
Read MoreLet’s Talk Semantics
The rapid growth of digital information has been discussed here many times. It has spawned many interesting and creative approaches to information analyzing, indexing, retrieval, and findability. Access Innovations has been acutely aware of the needs for quite some time and works to provide comprehensive solutions for its clients. This interesting topic came from Research Information in their…
Read MoreCocktail Logic
Records management is now handling the details of cocktails. Yes, you read that correctly. The Sydney Morning Herald brought this interesting information to us in their article, “Guinness World Records reviews Crown Casino’s ‘world’s most expensive’ cocktail.” Record-setting cocktails, nefarious rumors, and dastardly deeds have brought a closer look on one Guinness World Record and puts…
Read MoreArchiving Sound
The Macaulay Library at Cornell University is home to the world’s largest and oldest collection of nature recordings. Recently, they uploaded and made available their whole, totally searchable, archive online for free. This very interesting information came from Chart Attack in their article, “The world’s largest natural sound archive just went up online.” In this archive, 9,000…
Read MoreThe Value Added by Folksonomies
As content is organized, the standard approaches include hierarchical or flat. One or both utilize tags to put labels on the content, which makes the information easily retrievable when the user needs access. Tags can be used as a part of filtering search queries or fixed views of a content source. Tags are created in…
Read MoreComprehensive Search Techniques
Search Technologies recently launched Aspire for Elasticsearch to ingest unstructured data from multiple content repositories, process that content, and index it in Elasticsearch. KMWorld brought this exciting news to our attention in their article, “Search Technologies unveils Aspire for Elasticsearch.” This is part of Search Technologies’ Aspire family and is a content processing framework developed primarily for…
Read MoreClassifying Exoplanets: Where does Earth 2.0 fall?
On the 9th of January, 1992, astronomers around the world rejoiced. For the first time ever, they had definitive proof of a planet orbiting another star. These early observations were extremely limited, mainly focused on noticing the wobble of the parent star, but they opened the proverbial floodgate for exoplanet discovery. A little over two…
Read MoreArchivists Add Value
The Society of American Archivists (SAA) Word of the Week is a weekly email produced by SAA’s Dictionary Working Group that defines new archives terms as well as updates of entries from the 2005 A Glossary of Archival and Records Terminology. SAA is seeking feedback on these proposed definitions as well as suggestions for new terms. This…
Read MoreThe Value of a Taxonomy in Archiving
Archiving and storing historical records for the future is an admirable task. The North Vancouver Museum and Archives (NVMA) has been doing that since 1971. This interesting news came from the Eloquent blog in their post, “Online Archives promote Community Heritage. The NVMA acquires the records of organizations and individuals whose activities document the historical, social,…
Read MoreJournal Publishing Learning Opportunity
The Professional & Scholarly Publishing (PSP) division of the Association of American Publishers is offering an intensive three-day course on journal publishing. This unique opportunity is offered only once every two years. The purpose of the course is to expose interested participants to all aspects of journal publishing. PSP Journals Reboot is appropriate for those in…
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