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Patent Addressing Metadata and Intelligence

By Melody Smith | May 29, 2014

NetScout Systems has been awarded a patent on its Adaptive Session Intelligence (ASI) technology by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

Access to Information is Key

By Melody Smith | May 28, 2014

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.

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.

Taxonomy for Academic Publishers

By Melody Smith | May 13, 2014

The School of Library and Information Science at San José State University (SJSU) is partnering with RedLink, a Silicon Valley startup, to develop a new taxonomy for academic publishers.

The Other Side of Metadata

By Melody Smith | May 12, 2014

The first three days of public hearings on the latest revisions of the Telecommunications Act seemed to focus on the collection of telecommunications metadata without a warrant by government agencies. There were many questioning government intelligence and law enforcement agencies over their warrantless collection of telecommunications metadata under the current legislation.

Expanding Databases

By Melody Smith | May 7, 2014

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).

Thinking Outside the Data

By Melody Smith | May 2, 2014

The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters has released a preview of ScholarOne Web Services, a holistic approach to integration that will enable publishers to discover connections between shared research and ultimately streamline the publishing process.

Data Harmony Release Contains Exciting New Features

By Melody Smith | April 30, 2014

Last week Access Innovations released Data Harmony 3.9 and all week long we shared some of our own developers’ favorite new features. It was nice to see KM World lift up some of the other great new features available in their article, “Content enrichment from Access Innovations.”

Using Metadata to Revisit History

By Melody Smith | April 24, 2014

We shared an article here last year about using metadata to find Paul Revere. It was sort of “tongue in cheek” but a good example of how much power metadata possesses and the positive uses for it.

Genealogy Work Takes an Odd Turn

By Melody Smith | April 22, 2014

We all know that the Mormon church is famous for genealogy and the indexing process to maintain such informative and detailed records. This new approach to indexing is interesting, to say the least.