Posts by Melody Smith
Non-Impressive Word of the Year
In a sign of the times though I am not entirely certain it is a good one, the word of the year is a term used in electronic cigarette smoking.
Read MoreLeveling the Playing Field
The news of the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) awarding a $500,000, three-year National Leadership Grant to four partner organizations is being celebrated. It is safe to say the four organizations – the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), Montana State University, OCLC Research, and the University of New Mexico— are certainly celebrating the grants to perform research and recommend best practices that will improve data collection and information sharing for institutional repositories and digitized collections.
Read MoreSemantic Technology Offers Solutions
Many automated knowledge extraction and processing applications rely on computing semantic relatedness between textual labels representing biological and medical concepts. Because of the large amount of new findings, most methods benefit from making use of highly specific resources.
Read MoreMaintaining the Metadata
The National Archives may be second-guessing its stamp of approval on the plan to destroy e-mail messages sent by CIA non-senior officials. The CIA’s plan is raising concerns from other parties as well.
Read MorePlanning for Success
Even the Internal Revenue Service is reaping the results of poor document management practices.
Read MoreKnowledge is Power
Columbia University offers a Master of Science degree program in Information and Knowledge Strategy, designed to prepare knowledge practitioners to plan and lead knowledge and information services, improve collaboration and networks, and create innovative knowledge products.
Read MoreAccess Innovations Named to EContent’s Annual Top 100 Companies
Access Innovations, Inc., a leader in digital data organization, is proud to announce its inclusion for the fourth time on EContent magazine’s annual list of the top 100 companies in the digital content industry in the category of SEO and Search Analytics.
Read MoreDriving Consistency with Standards
As you know we like to be as helpful as possible to those in the fields of taxonomy, indexing, ontology, etc., by sharing career opportunities that we find with our readers. However, this find actually sparked a topic of its own.
Read MoreData Information Director in the Big Apple
To be as helpful as possible to those in the fields of taxonomy, indexing, ontology, etc., we are sharing career opportunities that we find with our readers. Even if you are not in the market for a career move, it is always good to stay on top of what is available and how the fields are evolving.
Read MoreLiterally Speaking
Atypon has released Literatum 14.1 for professional and scholarly publishers. Literatum powers the websites of over 200 professional and scholarly publishers, including many of the most prestigious publishers in the world.
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