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A Call for More Diversity in Publishing
UK’s publishers are being asked to include more disabled characters in children’s books. The request comes from a reader who was born with a disability himself. This interesting topic came to us from The Guardian in their article, “Schoolboy calls for more disabled characters in children’s books.” Like most organizations and industries, raising diversity among their…
Read MoreDigital Publishing Educational Opportunity
The PSP Committee for Digital Innovation (CDI) is introducing another Seminar Series on Selected Topics in Digital Publishing. In this series of seminars, speakers will explore the major challenges to serving today’s scholars, the common mistakes that well-meaning publishers make, and tested strategies for delivering precisely the right content when, where, and how users need it.…
Read MoreNew Approach to Fighting Censorship
Banned Books Week is the national book community’s annual celebration of the freedom to read. Hundreds of libraries and bookstores around the country draw attention to the problem of censorship by mounting displays of challenged books and hosting a variety of events. The 2015 celebration will be held September 27-October 3. Publisher’s Weekly brought this news…
Read MoreEnhancing the Service
The recent VIVO conference in Cambridge, MA was formed following a successful National Institutes of Health (NIH)-sponsored project. In short, VIVO is an open source researcher profile system that enables the discovery of research and scholarship across disciplines and institutions. It integrates with a number of other systems (HR, grants, faculty activity databases, and more) and has…
Read MoreDoing It Yourself
It feels like over time the often heard phrase of “I want to get published” has morphed into “I am publishing”. With the many changes in the publishing world, book publishing has changed so dramatically that it is no longer necessary to find an agent and pitch a book. Self-publishing opportunities are everywhere and as…
Read MoreCommon Data Learning Opportunity
The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) is offering a unique learning opportunity on Wednesday, November 18, 2015 titled, “The Future of the Commons: Data, Software and Beyond . . .” Hosted by the Board on Research Data and Information at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in Washington D.C., attendees will have the…
Read MoreManaging the Data
ZL Unified Archive is being used by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) for records and information management of government unstructured data as part of a solution provided by Unisys Corp. to transition NARA to a cloud-based email and collaboration solution. Market Wired brought this news to our attention in their article, “National Archives and…
Read MoreMilestones in Data
As we celebrate the 57th birthday of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), it is essential to remember the important and powerful data they collect, organize, manage and share. This is done primarily through the NASA Scientific and Technical Information (STI) Program to preserve NASA’s research and development published results. The primary part of that daunting task is…
Read MoreStreet Smart
Terminology can be confusing. Semantic technology, natural language processing, machine learning, and artificial intelligence are often used together and sometimes interchangeably. This interesting information came from DATAVERSITY in their article, “A Look Into the Future of Machine Learning.” Artificial intelligence attempts to understand how our brain accomplishes what seem to us as menial tasks. There have…
Read MoreWhat Kind of Reader Are You?
The battle between digital and print isn’t new and isn’t close to being settled. When it comes to reading on paper versus reading digitally, there are more than two camps. This interesting topic came to us from The Digital Reader in their article, “Could the Future of Reading be Text Plus Audio?” Many studies have been…
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