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Digitizing Historic Collection is a Huge Undertaking

By Melody Smith|January 5th, 2016|News, reference|Comments Off on Digitizing Historic Collection is a Huge Undertaking

The British Library is in the process of digitizing the Klencke Atlas. The Klencke is the world’s second largest and one of some 50,000 maps and […]

A Different Kind of Ontology

By Melody Smith|January 4th, 2016|News, ontology, semantic|Comments Off on A Different Kind of Ontology

Healthcare has been moving to online services for quite some time now. The portals allow users to seek solutions to their health problems and […]

Digital Records Poses Challenges

By Melody Smith|January 1st, 2016|metadata, News|Comments Off on Digital Records Poses Challenges

Archivists’ job in New Zealand has substantially gotten more difficult as they struggle to manage digital records that are multiplying by the second. ZDNet brought […]

The Bad Boss

By Melody Smith|January 1st, 2016|News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on The Bad Boss

It is not uncommon to hear folks describe their supervisors as dysfunctional, but that is somewhat vague for describing behavior. Are they manic? Do […]

Learning Virtually

By Melody Smith|December 31st, 2015|News, Technology|Comments Off on Learning Virtually

If you were one of the unlucky people who missed the KMWorld conference this past fall, we have good news for you. All the […]

Solid Investment

By Melody Smith|December 31st, 2015|indexing, metadata, News, semantic|Comments Off on Solid Investment

Many organizations are struggling to manage large and complex sets of data flowing into their organization at a rate they can’t possibly manage with traditional […]

Learning Opportunity in the New Year

By Melody Smith|December 30th, 2015|Business Intelligence, metadata, News|Comments Off on Learning Opportunity in the New Year

IBM is sponsoring a free webinar about data analytics during the first week back at work in the new year. We already know data analytics […]

Access Innovations Represented at EDW 2016

By Melody Smith|December 30th, 2015|Business Intelligence, News|Comments Off on Access Innovations Represented at EDW 2016

The 20th annual Enterprise Data World (EDW) Conference is recognized as the most comprehensive educational conference on data management in the world. The event is scheduled […]

Data and Science

By Melody Smith|December 30th, 2015|News|Comments Off on Data and Science

The National Science Foundation (NSF) made a move regarding big data, which will not only improve our ability to extract knowledge and insights from […]

Searching with Style

By Melody Smith|December 29th, 2015|News, search|Comments Off on Searching with Style

Organizations continue to spend an increasing amount of financial, technological, and human resources on production of videos and multimedia. But what is the shelf life […]