Planning on attending the upcoming Computers in Libraries conference in D.C. next month? The Special Libraries Association (SLA) has partnered with Information Today to provide members with an exclusive discount. SLA members who register before February 25th will pay the reduced rate of $249 for the full three-day conference on March 21-23, 2011.
Alteryx is enhancing the DemographicsNow business intelligence platform with web wizards that will easily allow businesses to add geo-location and spatial dimensions to business intelligence and analytics solutions.
Data scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, are beginning a large-scale collaboration with the Woods Hole Oceanography Institution (WHOI), utilizing a more than $2 million grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
The 2011 MarkLogic User Conference will be held in San Francisco, CA, at the Palace Hotel on April 26-29, 2011. The event will be keynoted by Gartner Analyst Donald Feinberg and best-selling author Bob Sutton.
Gary Price has launched a new resource site sharing his knowledge of the search and information industries, called InfoDocket. One of his recent posts caught our eye, “A Glosssary of Taxonomy Terms and List of Taxonomy Materials (Books, Sites, Etc.)”
National University has selected EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) from EBSCO Publishing to provide the University with a solution to accessing its library resources with ease.
In the day and age of Web 3.0, the focus seems to be around data and its mobility. So where does that leave content?
Funding models and how they influence research endeavours haven’t always been the topic of cocktail parties, let alone gatherings of professional researchers. However there is considerable discrepancy in the models deployed across the continents and one author at least, thinks it should be discussed.