Open Access Deal Made

Cambridge University Press recently announced they have reached an open access deal with higher education and research institutions in Sweden. This came to us from their release, “Cambridge University Press signs major Open Access deal in Sweden.” The three-year ‘read and publish’ deal has been agreed with Bibsam – a consortium of 85 higher education and research…

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New Cloud-Based Metadata Repository Service Released

Open Data Model has announced their development of a cloud-based metadata repository service that is a fraction of the cost of traditional systems, and that delivers results much faster. Computer World brought this interesting topic to our attention in their article, “Open Data Model promises to accelerate metadata management.” The company’s co-founder is entrepreneur Rodger Nixon…

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Ontology Improves Machine Translation of Arabic

An online tool called Arabic Ontology has been built that is both a comprehensive dictionary of Arabic and a system that will enable the creation of new Arabic-language software, such as better machine translation. This interesting topic came to us from Al-Fanar Media in their article, “An Online Arabic Dictionary Makes Its Debut.” Computer science…

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Taxonomist/Ontologist Opportunity

To be as helpful as possible to those in the fields of taxonomy, indexing, semantic technology, ontology, etc., we are sharing career opportunities that we find with our readers. Even if you are not in the market for a career move, it is always good to stay on top of what is available and how the fields are evolving.…

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STM 2018 in London Features Access Professionals

STM Week 2018 begins next week in London. Three days of collaboration, standardization and consolidation are in store for those attending this annual event. The festivities begin on Tuesday, December 4th with the keynote speaker: Bill Kasdorf, from Kasdorf & Associates. His keynote address is titled: Getting it together: Advancing technology through collaboration. Let’s not forget…

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Search in the Web 3.0

The evolution of the Web began in 2001 with the Semantic Web. The evolution has moved through two stages so far. Web 1.0 was basically a set of static pages. The Web we know today is often described as Web 2.0. It is a tool that consumers and businesses use every day. This interesting information came to…

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Predictive Analytics from Historical Data

Data is necessary to feed algorithms and to produce analytics, but avoid falling into the trap of simply collecting and storing more data. You need to be able to transform any data you collect into useful information, otherwise it is more likely to just waste resources and add even more complexity. IT Web brought this topic…

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Using AI for Peer Review Process

Peer review isn’t always seen in the brightest of lights. However, it is important to remember that it is very important to the quality of things. Peer review does the same thing for science that the “inspected by #4” sticker does for your underwear. It provides assurance that someone who knows what they’re doing has double-checked it. This interesting…

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