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Dedication to Standards Recognized

By |August 15th, 2013|News, Standards|Comments Off on Dedication to Standards Recognized

The American National Standards Instittude (ANSI) recently named John Siemon, a leading global network infrastructure specialist, is pleased to announce that John Siemon, CTO and vice president of global operations at Siemon, a recipient of the 2013 Leadership and Service Award.

Rewriting History

By |August 15th, 2013|News, reference|Comments Off on Rewriting History

With the future word inclusion policies of the Oxford English Dictionary unclear, various professionals were invited to attend a one-day international symposium. Stefan Dollinger, […]

Project Increases Access for Research

By |August 14th, 2013|News, search|Comments Off on Project Increases Access for Research

A new joint initiative launched by the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) will help researchers have access to improved metadata and new tools as they search through and analyze the General Social Survey (GSS) and the American National Election Studies (ANES). The two-year project, named Metadata Portal for the Social Sciences, is supported by a collaborative research grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF).

Reaching the Appropriate Audience

By |August 14th, 2013|News, semantic|Comments Off on Reaching the Appropriate Audience

Understanding their customers has always been a goal of retailers. If you understand customers, you can appeal to their interests and needs with the appropriate products and approach. What your customers think of you is just as important. Do your customers think of you as a kindred spirit? Do they think you truly understand their challenges? These questions are important to consider for a strong relationship with your clients and inevitably, a profitable one.

Proper Indexing Helps Queries

By |August 13th, 2013|indexing, News, semantic|Comments Off on Proper Indexing Helps Queries

TSO was selected by the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Publishing to publish bibliographic Linked Open Data. TSO is part of the Williams Lea group and their product is the OpenUp platform.

Document Management with Solid Support

By |August 9th, 2013|indexing, News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Document Management with Solid Support

BMI Imaging Systems will be demonstrating a variety of document and records management solutions that increase the efficiency of government and corporate record keeping processes at the Las Vegas, Nevada Association of Records Managers and Administrators (ARMA) 2013 conference.

Seeking Consistency and Standards

By |August 8th, 2013|News, Standards|Comments Off on Seeking Consistency and Standards

The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) voting members recently approved a new project to develop recommended practices for Packaging and Exchanging Serial Content. Many different organizations, including libraries, archives, indexing services, etc., work better and more efficiently when they exchange and work with digital files that make up serial content. However, these files are in some type of package that isn’t always the same or compatible.