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Energy Technology
Expert System has confirmed its commitment to the oil and gas industry by announcing an enriched offer dedicated to the sector and the expansion of its sales team to better serve customers in the Houston area. Digital Journal brought this news to us in their article, “Expert System Enhances Its Commitments in the Oil & Gas Industry.”…
Read MoreInformation Architect Needed
As we strive to be as helpful as possible to those in the fields of taxonomy, indexing, ontology, etc., we are excited to share career opportunities that we find with our readers. Even if you aren’t in the market for a career move, it is always good to stay on top of what is available and…
Read MoreThe Chicken or the Egg?
We often think of a computer as the laborious mechanism under or on our desk that provides access to our information sources and the sometimes lifelike mechanism we can blame for all things gone awry. There are always those who believe that computers will take over for humans in the far (and not so far)…
Read MoreLearning Opportunities This Week
The Association of American Publishers is making available some very interesting and applicable speakers and topics during their Professional & Scholarly Publishing (PSP) webinars this week. The first one is today, July 21, 2015 at 12:30-1:30 p.m. with Dee Magnoni, Research Library Director at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Dee will discuss Scholarly Communications at a National…
Read MoreNew Agreement Takes Communications to the Next Level
CHORUS recently announced that they have signed a Memorandum of Understanding with ORCID to support discoverability in scholarly communications. This type of collaboration among organizations like CHORUS and ORCID is key to continuing to meet the changing needs of the scholarly community. ORCID Executive Director Laurel Haak said, “Creating and supporting authoritative connections between researchers and…
Read MoreWebinar Offers Assistance on Platform Research
The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) is offering an interesting webinar as part of their 2015 series titled, “How to Conduct User Experience Research for Your Platform.” Scholarly publishers are looking at how to conduct user experience research to deliver improved, intuitive interfaces that serve their researchers daily workflow needs. This webinar will address…
Read MoreGeeks Rule
Anyone remotely related to the world of information technology has heard it. The term, the label, the veiled and sometimes not so veiled insult. Geek. This interesting and slightly humorous observation came from the Times Colonist out of British Columbia in their article, “Don’t be ashamed of your inner geek.” In the irony of all ironies,…
Read MoreMy Dear Watson
Jeopardy and artificial intelligence fans alike might find a recent report from Outsell interesting. “IBM Watson – A Hammer in Search of Nails” addresses the progress that IBM Watson has made since its commercial launch; the market strategy and its impact in the health, financial, legal, and other sectors; and how publishers and information businesses…
Read MoreOld and New
An example of old meets new: Merriam-Webster has developed an app for the Apple Watch. For more than 150 years, Merriam-Webster has been keeping up with innovations in the dictionary business. This interesting news came from Mass Live in their article, “Merriam-Webster dictionary app available for Apple Watch.” App users can also enjoy a Word of the Day…
Read MoreThe Old Meets New
Online chat rooms and bulletin boards started in the 1980s and 1990s. As the internet evolved, social media sites became a prominent figure in the world of collaboration and digital community. However, the subjects aren’t always about food, news, entertainment, or politics. There is now an online collaboration happening around ancient text. This interesting information came…
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