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EBSCO Chosen by US Government Printing Office
The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) is making its metadata searchable through EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS). This leap into the metatagging realm will enable EDS subscribers to search for federal records from the GPO’s Catalog of U.S. Government Publications. This includes the Congressional Serial Set Catalog, GPO Access Publications, and Internet Publications.
Read MoreData Entry: The File Becomes a Reality
In previous columns, we have discussed many of the basics of preparing the data for a computerized file. We have stressed being sure that the editorial policy and individual rules are set consistently so that the data may be easily retrieved once it is entered into that big black box called the computer. The next and very important step is computerization of the data, or converting already-computerized data to match the specifications of the hardware and software system you are going to run your file on–an exciting but exacting task. The data can be made to match your machine by using photocomposition tapes, MARC tapes, floppies, hard disks, paper, forms, catalog cards, brochures, and any number of other information sources.
Read MoreGood Indexing Means Good Retrieval
by Marjorie M.K. Hlava First published in Information Today So far this column has covered design considerations for the building of a database. Editorial guidelines have been set forth. Fields have been discussed and quantified. The next steps involve the tagging or coding of the data in a uniform manner so it can be pulled…
Read MoreCross Language Retrieval – English / Russian / French
Marjorie M.K. Hlava, President, Access Innovations, Inc. Dr. Gerold Belonogov, Professor and Head of Department, VINITI, Moscow, Russia Dr. Boris Kuznetsov, Head of Department, VINITI, Moscow, Russia Richard Hainebach, Director, EPMS bv-Ellis Publications, The Netherlands Note: This Working Paper was presented at the 1997 American Association for Artificial Intelligence Spring Symposium Series, March 24 –…
Read MoreHowlers: New Automation and Human Models Challenge Traditional Indexing
by John Blossom reprinted from www.shore.com/commentary The National Federation of Abstracting and Information Services (NFAIS) is an interesting collection of institutions and publishers joining to tackle issues in aggregating content through indexing, abstracts and leading content technologies. While there are certainly a good number of indexing experts in this set there are also many executives…
Read MoreBridging the Great Indexing Divide
by Alice Redmond-Neal Reprinted from Key Words, the bulletin of the American Society for Indexing I’ve been indexing for over a decade, but when I attended the ASI Annual Meeting 2008 in Denver, I was a stranger in a strange land. Being surrounded by indexers was intriguing yet confounding. You see, I come from the…
Read MoreJumo Seeks Connections for Nonprofits
December 8, 2010 – We knew this was coming. They’ve talked about it for months. An online community for nonprofits and charitable organizations – or more specifically, the people with and interested in those organizations. Jumo is the brainchild of Chris Hughes, one of the founders of Facebook and the chief digital organizer for Barack Obama’s…
Read MoreDatabase of Chemicals Creates Community
Chemists have hundreds of data sources online covering tens of millions of different chemical compounds. Unfortunately accessing that online data has not always been easy. ChemSpider, a free online database of chemicals and related information, may have solved that problem.
Read MoreProQuest Expands Their Digital Products
ProQuest is expanding its service to government markets through the acquisition of the acclaimed Congressional Information Service and University Publications of America product lines from LexisNexis. The acquisition includes digital products and an expansive microfilm vault.
Read MoreNew Semantic Software for PR Professionals
A new web application has been launched in beta to provide a resource for journalists, editors, etc. to quickly access press releases. PRFilter ranks the relevance to the user based on a profile of their interests built automatically from their own articles. Further filtering on the ranked results makes it easy to find the most relevant stories.
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