Indexing History One Record at a Time
Genealogy projects have long been a great example of proper indexing against a solid database that produces great findability. One such project that was recently brought to our attention came from the Kansas African American Museum. The Wichita Eagle brought this interesting information to us in their article, “Genealogy researcher helping African-American families fill in the blanks.”…
Read MoreProtecting Your Own Work
The impact of Sci-Hub continues to be realized as copyrights and Creative Commons issues play out in the real world. The Scholarly Kitchen brought us this interesting information in their article, “Copyright, Expectations, and Economics — Can Taylor Swift Help Us Find Our Backbone?” Sci-Hub’s founder supposed that she was reacting to a poorly managed economic situation in academia…
Read MoreDigital Technology Added to Curriculum
New Zealand has realized the important role digital content is playing in our lives and the New Zealand government is prepared to add it to the curriculum lineup for their students. This is the equivalent of putting their money where their mouth is. This interesting information came to us from Stuff in their article, “Digital technology coming…
Read MoreThe Role of Metadata in Genealogy
Metadata is data about data, regardless of what the data is about. If you think of the primary data as a library book, then the metadata is what you would find in the online catalog or, if we were time traveling, what was in the card catalog thirty or more years ago. The catalog contains title,…
Read MoreThe Interoperability Imperative
The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) is offering an educational opportunity in the form of a webinar addressing “Joint Declaration of Data Citation Principles.” In a landscape inundated with data-driven research output, institutional repositories and content provider partnerships are beginning to take more of a hold than ever in the scholarly research community. This NFAIS…
Read MoreThe Future with Machine Learning
Machine learning is a form of artificial intelligence (AI) which allows computers to learn by way of observation and experience, rather than just programming. It may sound a little science fiction-like, but machine learning uses computer programs that are capable of growth and change as they process new data. DATAVERSITY brought this interesting information to us…
Read MoreA Look at Women in Fiction
Over the years the availability of books and films that have improved upon the cliché roles women are given is getting better, though there are miles of opportunities for improvement in both. In the vein of “we’ve come a long way baby”, I took a look back at the classifications of female roles in fiction…
Read MoreLearn More About Peer Review Approaches
The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) offers educational opportunities in various venues. One of them is their virtual Lunch & Learn with NFAIS sessions and the next one is scheduled for Tuesday, July 26, 2016. PLOS’s Mark Johnson will be providing an overview of new alternative peer review approaches and discuss lessons learned at PLOS in dealing…
Read MoreThe Fair is Coming
There are many reasons to visit the Frankfurt Book Fair – the most important international trading place for content, from novels and children’s books to academic databases. Nowhere else does the publishing industry show itself in a more multifaceted, innovative and international light. One of the reasons would be the speaker lineup. For starters, Karina…
Read MoreTalking AI
Recently a crowd of 300+ people attended an event titled, “The Future of Artificial Intelligence: Emerging Topics and Social Benefit.” The four hour discussion featured 15 different speakers from government and academia. Artificial intelligence is moving from science fiction to everyday life. No longer is it only Hollywood’s conceptual idea; it now belongs to the…
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