This sad news was brought to our attention today and though we learned of it later than most, we couldn't let it go by without mentioning. Frederick Wilfrid Lancaster, 79, of Urbana, passed away on Sunday, August 25, 2013 in his home.
Infolinx System Solutions was chosen by the District of Columbia Department of Human Resources (DCHR) for their enterprise physical records management software. This recently completed the installation is an upgrade to manage approximately 35,000 active employee records.
Concept Searching will be a Gold Sponsor of SharePoint Fest - Chicago, taking place on October 7-9 at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center. Technical classes and seminars will be taught by Microsoft Certified Trainers, Microsoft engineers, and Microsoft Most Valued Professionals.
BetterChart has announced that the unveiling of their new BetterChart 2.0 will take place during the hosting of a webinar scheduled for Thursday, October 3 at 10:30 a.m. CST. Attendees to the one-hour webinar will hear how Washington University School of Medicine uses the new and improved BetterChart on a daily basis to decrease time spent loading documents into their electronic health records (EHRs) and keep the document management costs at a reasonable place.
The SLA Taxonomy Division presents the second webinar in their Practical Classification series. Sharon Garewal, from JSTOR, and Marcie Zaharee, from MITRE, will each describe how they use tools to build thesauri and classify data. Mark your calendar now for October 3, 2013 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST. The webinars are free to division members. SLA members may attend for $15, or contact SLA to add the division for $20. Non-members may attend for $50. Register here.
We learned in kindergarten that you can learn and play at the same time. So it shouldn't be a surprise that someone has introduced an application to visualize thesaurus, taxonomies or controlled vocabularies in an entertaining manner.