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Historical Information
Sometimes we stumble across a website that intrigues us and that we want to share with you. This is one of those times. Jeremy Norman’s From Cave Paintings to the Internet – Chronological and Thematic Studies on the History of Information and Media is full of interesting data presented in a way that is close to our hearts. You can search by timeline, by topic, and even by category. The website is arranged so that you can approach the history of information from many different viewpoints.
Read MoreCrowdsourcing Research
One recent report has identified some modern challenges facing physical science researchers. The report was commissioned by the Research Information Network (RIN), the Institute of Physics (IOP), IOP Publishing (IOPP), and the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS).
Read MoreNew Book Addresses Ontologies
Woodhead Publishing Ltd’s new book “Library Classification Trends in the 21st Century” traces the development in and around library classification as reported in literature published in the first decade of the 21st century.
Read MoreDigital Asset Conference This Month
The digital asset management community will be gathering in Beverly Hills in a couple weeks at Createasphere’s Digital Asset Management (DAM) Conference. The event will encompass a variety of topics including the escalating challenges of production workflow, content protection, transmedia, disaster recovery, semantics, metadata, taxonomy, and more. Their services and this event are targeted towards an equal variety of fields including advertising, broadcasting, entertainment, new media, publishing, and non-profits.
Read MoreTaxonomy Meetings 2011 – A Year of Change or Realization?
What are the meetings that cater to people who use controlled vocabularies, like taxonomies? Where should a taxonomist go, click, or attend to learn about the latest implementations and uses of controlled vocabulary strategies? Every company thinks long and hard both about what they do and where to find customers for their products and services. The Information Industry is no different. In the Age of the Internet when everyone’s “knows” about searching and information; it seems like the “information Industry” should be booming, its conferences should be huge, and the attendance incredible, but that is not the case. Why? If the information industry and our little taxonomy segment of the business has gone mainstream, then where are all the people you would expect at the long established industry meetings?
Read MoreBack To School
If you are one of those people who love to learn something new all the time or maybe someone who enjoys going to school as an adult professional, this might be right up your alley. Free university classes – yes, I said free. From Stanford School of Engineering, an experiment in distributed education that offers “Machine Learning” free and online to students worldwide during the fall of 2011.
Read MoreNational Libraries Adopt New Cataloging Code
The three U.S. national libraries — the Library of Congress (LC), the National Agricultural Library (NAL) and the National Library of Medicine (NLM) have announced that they will adopt, with certain conditions, the Resource Description and Access (RDA) cataloging code.
Read MoreChicago Conference Focuses on Resource Sharing
“Resource Sharing in the Digital Age” is the theme for the upcoming Interlending & Document Supply Conference, sponsored by IFLA and ALA. The event will take place September 19-21, 2011 in Chicago.
Read MoreLibraries Working Together for Best Practices
Two university libraries join together to start a new open access, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to library-led scholarly communication initiatives, online publishing and digital projects.
Read MoreThe Power Of Survey Taxonomies To Skew The Results The Way You Want Them
I went to the doctor’s office this week and they asked if I would participate in a short Federal survey. I said sure. What followed was beyond frustrating.
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