Archiving 80 Years of Work is No Small Task
The Wage and Hour Division (WHD) of the Department of Labor (DoL) partnered with DATAMARK to scan an estimated 2.5 million pages of paper records into digital image files for long term storage and retrieval.
Read MoreEasyAsk Integrates in the Cloud with NetSuite
EasyAsk, provider of natural language search and query software for corporate applications has integrated its EasyAsk Business Edition with the NetSuite cloud computing platform. Using NetSuite’s SuiteCloud development platform, the combined solution will help NetSuite users of all types search their NetSuite data to identify and act upon new sales opportunities, proactively service customers, and execute key business processes faster and more efficiently.
Read MoreMultinational Community Progresses with Standards
IFLA (international Federation of Library Associations) was not historically thought of as a place for standards but in the last few years they have been actively working in both support of and development of standards and guidelines. Their latest offering is the Multilingual dictionary of cataloguing terms and concepts, which is a guide to provide the multinational community a standard set of definitions for many terms and concepts used by the library cataloguing community. Terms and definitions are available in English and a variety of other languages.
Read MoreExecutive Interviews Will Be Featured on Knowledgespeak
Scope e-Knowledge Center will be exhibiting at the Frankfurt Book Fair from October 6-10, 2010. In addition to Scope’s diverse services, Knowledgespeak, a daily news alert service published by Scope, will also be conducting a series of exclusive interviews with select industry executives during the fair.
Read MoreStretching Taxonomy in a Social Way
We read with interest “A Revised Taxonomy of Social Networking Data.” In the last month, the arguments in the article have provided a framework for thinking about the amount of the information flowing through Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and other social media conduits.
Read MoreShaking the Image of Dusty Archives
10-year project, Charting Change: An Interactive Atlas of Burnaby’s Heritage, tied with a Smithsonian Institute project last month for ArchivesNext’s award for best repurposing of digitized data. The online project allows visitors to Heritage Burnaby’s website to click on and learn about historic locations on each of the maps.
Read MoreVoice Technology: Moving Forward
One author wonders if voice technology has what it takes to take us into the next century and next great technological advancement. After testing several different products, he gives us his thumbs up.
Read MoreSpeedy Data Access
Solid-state storage drive maker STEC has introduced a new industrial-strength SSD aimed at enterprises deploying fast and/or continuous read/write workloads that include metadata logging, journaling and database indexing applications.
Read MoreHappy Birthday Google News!
Eight years since the launch of Google News, the information directory continues to grow as one of the company’s most important products and the internet’s most influential news portal. Google today indexes news from more than 50,000 sources in 30 languages.
Read MoreCollaboration with Metadata Editing is Working
The changes happening with how metadata is edited and enhanced continue to create collaboration opportunities. The change we are now seeing is that bibliographic data is being edited more in a wiki-style than in the ways it was in the past and therefore, a big increase in the collaborative editing of shared bibliographic records.
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