Are you ready for boot camp? Have all your tools and gear packed and ready to learn? The Taxonomy Boot Camp is scheduled for November 4-5, 2014 in Washington D.C. as a precursor to the Enterprise Search & Discovery 2014 that we brought to you earlier this week.
Let it be said that I have no problem leaving a spider of any type un-named. I have no problem leaving them anywhere I am not going to be. But this interesting story caught my attention. The lack of taxonomists in the trade is starting to have visible effects.
At the Enterprise Search & Discovery 2014 conference on November 5-7, you will have the opportunity to learn how your peers and colleagues have wrestled with and solved their technological and business challenges when it comes to search and discovery.
I like games, all types but especially word games. My love of Scrabble was developed early on as my mother and I would play for hours on end. My siblings had no interest so it was quality mom and me time that we still take advantage of when time and situations allow. That doesn't happen as often as I'd like, but I do appreciate her passing on a passion for words, books and vocabulary to me.
Research articles are being accepted in the Second International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communication and Information Technology - CCIT 2014 that is organized by Institute of Research Engineers and Doctors at University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK. This event is designed to bring together innovative academics and industrial experts to a common forum to meet and share cutting-edge development in the field.
I assume that the spell-checking feature in most software application is driven by some kind of dictionary or other controlled vocabulary. The user can usually add to this list or import a custom dictionary, but the stock set of “acceptable” words comes standard. Now, I understand that different organizations call for different hyphenation usage standards, so I’m not usually surprised when I’m typing and it flags an otherwise perfectly cromulent1 hyphenated word.
Google is out to revolutionize your writing and editing experience. From a writer's perspective, that may be more difficult to do than they realize. The release of Thesaurus for Google Documents is designed to help you explore synonyms and antonyms while in Google Docs. So if you are looking for that ambiguous term that no one else will know what it means just to prove your superior intellect, this just might be the revolution you are looking for. They have added some new features including multi-language support.
The Rio Grande Chapter of the Special Libraries Association is now accepting applications for the 2014 Donna Cromer Memorial Award, in honor of the late Donna Cromer, a University of New Mexico science librarian and member of the Rio Grande Chapter and the Physics, Astronomy and Mathematics (PAM) Division who passed away in 2013.