Semandex Partners to Focus on Middle East Polling Data
Semandex Networks Inc. is in a new partnership with Pechter Middle East Polls (PMEP), to bring polling data to operational users in a new way.
Knowledge Organization Must Reads
The new issue of Knowledge Organization Literature (bibliography), edited by Ia McIlwaine, is now published on ISKO website.
Indiana University Selects KnowledgeLake
KnowledgeLake has been selected to deploy a SharePoint enterprise document management solution by Indiana University (IU).
UNIT4 Chosen to Improvement Document Management
UNIT4 was chosen by The Ministry of Mines, Industry and Energy in Equatorial Guinea to develop software to improve the recording and management of public records.
Why Use A Taxonomy Management Tool?
This question was recently asked and addressed in a community online forum that my colleagues and I participate in quite frequently. It occurred to me that though it seems like a simple question with an even simpler answer to those of us who live, breathe and eat this stuff every day – it certainly bears revisiting.
Solving the Challenges of Connecting People and Creating Author Networks
As social media plays an increasingly important role in professional and scholarly publishing, taxonomies can be increasingly useful in connecting people of similar expertise and interests with their peers. This can lead to greater opportunities for collaboration, knowledge sharing, and community building. For publishers and scholarly societies, author networks are key to editorial planning, the peer review process, and a wealth of activities supporting the organization and its programs. Taxonomies can play an important role in improving the quality of this “people data,” by enabling name disambiguation and by tagging people’s names with their appropriate subjects.
Do the Clouds Need Standardizing?
Some would say the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) framework is technology-driven more than business-driven, since it is driven by blades, SANs, virtualization, etc. However, after reading the NIST document on Guidelines on Security and Privacy in Public Cloud Computing (PDF), one blogger wonders if technology has left them behind.
Knowledge – From Plato to Python
As I sit here in the last day of the DHUG, I am completed fascinated as I listen to Margie Hlava, President of Access Innovations, speak about The Theory of Knowledge. Touching on philosophy from Plato to St. Augustine to Occam, Descartes and so on, this listener is hooked. With a quick observation of those in the room - leaning forward to hear more points, scribbling notes, nodding of heads and the occasional chuckle to referencing such great philosophers as Monty Python – I am not alone.
Claims of Search Results Stolen, or Borrowed
After operating their own CSI-like sting, Google claims that Microsoft’s search product, Bing is copying their indexed search results as their own. Microsoft says they aren’t doing anything wrong.