New South Wales Digitizing Archives
The State Records Authority of New South Wales (NSW) is beginning a project to implement a digital archiving facility that would improve digital record keeping across the Government.
Standards Development Topic of Discussion in NYC
“ANSI Course 287, The American Way” will be held March 30, 2011 and will provide an in-depth look at U.S. voluntary consensus standardization and ANS development process.
DocuXplorer Offers Taxonomy Consulting
DocuXplorer has hired Rachel Lurie, MLS, to head the taxonomy division of its Consulting Services unit. According to their spokesperson, this new position will now provide clients with “customized taxonomy training.”
EBSCO Chosen by National University
National University has selected EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) from EBSCO Publishing to provide the University with a solution to accessing its library resources with ease.
Do the Clouds Need Standardizing?
Some would say the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) framework is technology-driven more than business-driven, since it is driven by blades, SANs, virtualization, etc. However, after reading the NIST document on Guidelines on Security and Privacy in Public Cloud Computing (PDF), one blogger wonders if technology has left them behind.
Call for Classification and Ontology Papers
Classification and Ontology is the third biennial conference in a series of UDC Seminars organized by the Universal Decimal Classification Consortium (UDC Consortium) and hosted by Koninklijke Bibliotheek (The National Library of Netherlands).