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Groups Urge Reforms Regarding Metadata Collection
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) joined 59 other privacy and civil liberties groups in a letter sent to the US Senate Judiciary Committee, calling on Congress to evaluate the National Security Agency’s (NSA) surveillance programs and risks to civil liberties. The coalition sent the letter in advance of the Judiciary Committee’s hearing on the NSA surveillance programs, and urged Congress to enact critical reforms to ensure that government surveillance programs include robust safeguards for constitutional rights. These reforms would include tightening the standards for collection and use of information, including communications metadata.
Read MoreSeeking 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.
Read MoreNew Data and More Access
EBSCO Information Services and NetAdvance have joined forces allowing metadata from NetAdvance’s JapanKnowledge collection to be added to EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS).
Read MoreWebinar Addresses Data Migration
Concept Searching is hosting a webinar along with Portal Solutions entitled, “84% of Migration Projects Fail – Getting it Right in SharePoint,” on August 22, 2013. The webinar will address SharePoint migration issues, information architecture and best practices to ensure migration does not result in the typical project over-runs, post-upgrade production issues and unanticipated down time.
Read MoreExpanding the Search
Alexander Street Press has updated its search interface with semantic facet browsing or more commonly known as an algorithm to identify categories of interest from a single keyword. With this new feature, results are returned pertaining to the keyword even if the keyword is not in the title of the resource.
Read MoreMy Other Life
I have another life outside the taxonomy world; one that often reminds me how connected we all really are in this world. I am attending a conference on faith-based communications. See, I told you it was a different life. While doing the “meet and greet” with fellow attendees, one mentioned she used to teach library and information sciences before feeling a call to write and even start her own small publishing company. The others around us queried her about the books, etc. and I waited patiently to ask her about her previous life. You see, when I tell people I write about taxonomy the response is almost always, “Is that about dead animals?”
Read MoreDo you have a personal cloud?
Small businesses have less resources to achieve the same results expected of larger organizations. This gives them a different perspective on knowledge, expertise, and results. How they approach all three is what sets them apart.
Read MoreEveryday Metadata
Metadata, whistleblowers, and secrets, oh my. With all the chatter about NSA and Edward Snowden, people seem even more afraid that their phones are being tapped and emails read. Now personally, I think if someone was listening to my phone calls and reading my emails, they must be bored out of their living mind. Whatever your personal convictions are on the matter, it has certainly hijacked the stream of information around metadata – valuable metadata.
Read MoreBanking on the Future
Yahoo may have been one of the forefathers of the Internet, but it didn’t take long for names like Google and Amazon to drown them out. However recently they have earned the nickname of Comeback Kid. Earlier in the week, Yahoo stock was riding higher than ever.
Read MoreNew Partnership Works to Make Data Available
Elsevier and the Dryad Digital Repository have implemented two-way linking between their respective content. This means scientific and medical research datasets stored by Dryad for research articles published in 28 Elsevier journals can now be immediately accessed at Dryad from their online article on ScienceDirect and vice versa.
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