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Digital Technology Added to Curriculum
New Zealand has realized the important role digital content is playing in our lives and the New Zealand government is prepared to add it to the curriculum lineup for their students. This is the equivalent of putting their money where their mouth is. This interesting information came to us from Stuff in their article, “Digital technology coming…
Read MoreThe Role of Metadata in Genealogy
Metadata is data about data, regardless of what the data is about. If you think of the primary data as a library book, then the metadata is what you would find in the online catalog or, if we were time traveling, what was in the card catalog thirty or more years ago. The catalog contains title,…
Read MoreThe Interoperability Imperative
The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) is offering an educational opportunity in the form of a webinar addressing “Joint Declaration of Data Citation Principles.” In a landscape inundated with data-driven research output, institutional repositories and content provider partnerships are beginning to take more of a hold than ever in the scholarly research community. This NFAIS…
Read MoreThe Future with Machine Learning
Machine learning is a form of artificial intelligence (AI) which allows computers to learn by way of observation and experience, rather than just programming. It may sound a little science fiction-like, but machine learning uses computer programs that are capable of growth and change as they process new data. DATAVERSITY brought this interesting information to us…
Read MoreLearn More About Peer Review Approaches
The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) offers educational opportunities in various venues. One of them is their virtual Lunch & Learn with NFAIS sessions and the next one is scheduled for Tuesday, July 26, 2016. PLOS’s Mark Johnson will be providing an overview of new alternative peer review approaches and discuss lessons learned at PLOS in dealing…
Read MoreThe Fair is Coming
There are many reasons to visit the Frankfurt Book Fair – the most important international trading place for content, from novels and children’s books to academic databases. Nowhere else does the publishing industry show itself in a more multifaceted, innovative and international light. One of the reasons would be the speaker lineup. For starters, Karina…
Read MoreTalking AI
Recently a crowd of 300+ people attended an event titled, “The Future of Artificial Intelligence: Emerging Topics and Social Benefit.” The four hour discussion featured 15 different speakers from government and academia. Artificial intelligence is moving from science fiction to everyday life. No longer is it only Hollywood’s conceptual idea; it now belongs to the…
Read MoreFocusing on the Infrastructure
The EC-funded project THOR – Technical and Human infrastructure for Open Research – has been working towards a cultural change for quite some time. The 30-month project started in June 2015 and is building capacity by providing training materials and organizing workshops on implementing and using persistent identifiers (PIDs) such as ORCID iDs and DOIs. This…
Read MoreCall for Applications: NLM/Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries (AAHSL) Leadership Fellows Program
The National Library of Medicine (NLM) has announced the 2016-2017 year of the leadership program jointly sponsored with the Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries (AAHSL). The NLM/AAHSL Leadership Fellows Program is focused on preparing emerging leaders for the position of library director in academic health sciences libraries. The application deadline is July 22, 2016. The…
Read MoreVisualizing the End Result
Data visualization has become increasingly important in all types of organizations. Recently the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Johnson Space Center has been working to find a way to share visual data. The goal is to enable NASA employees at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida to see what Meza and his team have…
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