Posts by Melody Smith
Focus on Findability
At the Enterprise Search & Discovery 2014 conference on November 5-7, you will have the opportunity to learn how your peers and colleagues have wrestled with and solved their technological and business challenges when it comes to search and discovery.
Read MoreWord Geeks Unite
I like games, all types but especially word games. My love of Scrabble was developed early on as my mother and I would play for hours on end. My siblings had no interest so it was quality mom and me time that we still take advantage of when time and situations allow. That doesn’t happen as often as I’d like, but I do appreciate her passing on a passion for words, books and vocabulary to me.
Read MoreResearch Papers Accepted for CCIT 2014
Research articles are being accepted in the Second International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communication and Information Technology – CCIT 2014 that is organized by Institute of Research Engineers and Doctors at University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK. This event is designed to bring together innovative academics and industrial experts to a common forum to meet and share cutting-edge development in the field.
Read MoreSpellcheck Fail
I assume that the spell-checking feature in most software application is driven by some kind of dictionary or other controlled vocabulary. The user can usually add to this list or import a custom dictionary, but the stock set of “acceptable” words comes standard. Now, I understand that different organizations call for different hyphenation usage standards, so I’m not usually surprised when I’m typing and it flags an otherwise perfectly cromulent1 hyphenated word.
Read MoreData Discovery
Infolinx System Solutions has announced the release of Infolinx WEB version 3.4, which will be available in late September of this year. This latest release includes deepened integrations with Microsoft® SharePoint®, Laserfiche® Records Manager, Kofax Capture and oneilBridge™, as well as improvements to the data presentation, reporting capability and application interface.
Read MoreRecruiting a New Generation
The American Library Association (ALA) is asking for your help in recruiting a new generation of Library and Information Science (LIS) professionals. They are currently accepting applications for the ALA Scholarship Program which includes over 12 different scholarship opportunities, many of which make multiple annual awards.
Read MoreGoogle It
Google is out to revolutionize your writing and editing experience. From a writer’s perspective, that may be more difficult to do than they realize. The release of Thesaurus for Google Documents is designed to help you explore synonyms and antonyms while in Google Docs. So if you are looking for that ambiguous term that no one else will know what it means just to prove your superior intellect, this just might be the revolution you are looking for. They have added some new features including multi-language support.
Read MoreInline Tagging Facilitating Linked Data
Access Innovations recently debuted Data Harmony Version 3.9 and, within its new features and fixes, is a sneakily clever module called Inline Tagging. On the surface, it does exactly what the name says; it allows the user to see in a piece of content, quickly and clearly, what concepts in the text got triggered and tagged by the software. It seems simple enough, a handy tool, but upon closer inspection, it really opens doors for the user.
Read MoreAccepting Applications for Professional Development Award
The Rio Grande Chapter of the Special Libraries Association is now accepting applications for the 2014 Donna Cromer Memorial Award, in honor of the late Donna Cromer, a University of New Mexico science librarian and member of the Rio Grande Chapter and the Physics, Astronomy and Mathematics (PAM) Division who passed away in 2013.
Read MoreSaving History
With a very disconcerting question – what would happen if the Pope’s library were accidentally burnt? – an important subject is being discussed. No one wants to hypothetically contend a situation as dire as that, but it is possible. So if indeed, destruction happened, how can we reconstruct history?
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