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Strong Partnerships Required for Solid Products
Restore has acquired Filebase, which will consolidate Restore’s position as one of the UK’s leading providers of record management services. Combine that with last month’s purchase of Magnum Secure and you quickly have a dynamic group of document management and file security providers.
Read MoreMaking Content More Findable
Metaome Science Informatics has announced the launch of DistilBio Enterprise – a knowledge discovery and exploration platform for the life sciences.
Read MoreRecords Management Requires Consistency
Pittsburgh-based Business Records Management LLC (BRM) has acquired the assets of ABC Mobile Shredding Inc. This marks the fifth purchase by BRM in four years. This somewhat ironic combination of services does have commonality and merging a vendor into an organization can be smart business strategy.
Read MoreOntology-Based Software Aiding in Treating Diabetes
Arab Open University’s (AOU) branch in Oman has developed software for detection and risk assessment of diabetes and other related diseases. This software is ontology driven known as Decision Support System. It was developed as part of the Research Council (TRC) Open Research Grant program. AOU was awarded this project in 2012.
Read MoreIndexing History, Capturing Time
Historic audio and video footage is undergoing cataloguing and indexing as it gets closer to being fully integrated into the Visual History Archive. J. Michael Hagopian’s collection of 400 interviews of Armenian Genocide survivors and witnesses was handed over to the USC Shoah Foundation from the Armenian Film Foundation in an effort to preserve and integrate the collection.
Read MoreAccess to Information is Key
While the National Trust’s work in this regard has been invaluable, one specific group has fallen short of being “open to everyone” – the books that are housed in their libraries.
Read MoreGet the Full Picture
It is like half of an encyclopedia. If more people, businesses, writers, users, etc. are posting content to social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc., why isn’t Google indexing this information?
Read MoreConfetti City
When you hear National Shredding Day do images of Wall Street scandals come to mind? Good, I am not alone. That is what I immediately thought of when I read about the first ever free shredding day in the UK. More than two tons of paper was shredded in Enfield Town in an effort to dispense of unwanted paperwork.
Read MoreDigital Preservation Requires Structure
India’s Ministry of Communications and IT has announced the Standard for Preservation Information Documentation of Electronic Records. This move to standardize the preservation of digital records across government agencies will ensure that electronic records are produced in a preservable manner.
Read MoreExpanding Databases
EBSCO Information Services recently released Communication Source as a resource for communication research. Communication Source was developed from a merger of EBSCO databases, Communication and Mass Media Complete and Communication Abstracts (formerly published by SAGE).
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