A new travel database, Tripbase, has taken artificial intelligence into the world of travel planning and beyond. Travel planning isn't like shopping where you can download a product catalog. People want to know more details about their location, whether it be the color of the sand on the beaches or the local etiquette de jour.
The LSU AgCenter has been awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation to support developing a database and image library at the Louisiana State Arthropod Museum and consolidating data from five additional arthropod collections.
Data Harmony users have been given the opportunity to design their own User Group meeting.
One of the sessions I attended while at the 2010 meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) in Pittsburgh recently was presented by Michael Buckland, Fidelia Ibekwe-Sanjuan, and Kiersten Latham. This interesting session was actually three coordinated presentations that individually and together questioned the accepted view of information science as an emerging, scientific discipline closely tied with information technology and, mainly, textual data.
Developer of business intelligence tools written in Java, Jaspersoft, recently unveiled JasperReports Server Professional. After its start nine years ago as a SourceForge project to develop an open source reporting tool that can be embedded into Java and Web applications, the project has grown into a full commercial venture.