Mark Your Calendars
I know it seems far away, but it isn’t too soon to put it on your calendar. The Enterprise Data World (EDW) is scheduled for April 17-22, 2016 in San Diego, CA. Enterprise Data World Conference and Expo focuses on data management business solutions. A dedicated conference on “NoSQL in the Enterprise” will be included within…
Read MoreBibliographies Manage Knowledge
The Bibliography of British Technology lists about 320 references to BTI ranging from 1958 to the present. Eight languages are concerned with the bibliography: English, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Japanese, Spanish and Swedish. Every item has an English abstract or annotation. Items are arranged in systematic order, and cross-references among related items as well as…
Read MoreA Call for More Diversity in Publishing
UK’s publishers are being asked to include more disabled characters in children’s books. The request comes from a reader who was born with a disability himself. This interesting topic came to us from The Guardian in their article, “Schoolboy calls for more disabled characters in children’s books.” Like most organizations and industries, raising diversity among their…
Read MoreDigital Publishing Educational Opportunity
The PSP Committee for Digital Innovation (CDI) is introducing another Seminar Series on Selected Topics in Digital Publishing. In this series of seminars, speakers will explore the major challenges to serving today’s scholars, the common mistakes that well-meaning publishers make, and tested strategies for delivering precisely the right content when, where, and how users need it.…
Read MoreNew Approach to Fighting Censorship
Banned Books Week is the national book community’s annual celebration of the freedom to read. Hundreds of libraries and bookstores around the country draw attention to the problem of censorship by mounting displays of challenged books and hosting a variety of events. The 2015 celebration will be held September 27-October 3. Publisher’s Weekly brought this news…
Read MoreEnhancing the Service
The recent VIVO conference in Cambridge, MA was formed following a successful National Institutes of Health (NIH)-sponsored project. In short, VIVO is an open source researcher profile system that enables the discovery of research and scholarship across disciplines and institutions. It integrates with a number of other systems (HR, grants, faculty activity databases, and more) and has…
Read MoreChoosing Terms for a Taxonomy or Other Controlled Vocabulary
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Murray_OED_vocabulary_types_diagram.svg. Original source: First Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. Image redrawn by User:DavidPKendal after the diagram by James Murray, first editor of the OED. Recently, we’ve looked at choosing controlled vocabulary terms. More specifically, we’ve considered related terms, choosing non-preferred terms, and choosing broader and narrower terms. In this final installment of our…
Read MoreDoing It Yourself
It feels like over time the often heard phrase of “I want to get published” has morphed into “I am publishing”. With the many changes in the publishing world, book publishing has changed so dramatically that it is no longer necessary to find an agent and pitch a book. Self-publishing opportunities are everywhere and as…
Read MoreCommon Data Learning Opportunity
The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) is offering a unique learning opportunity on Wednesday, November 18, 2015 titled, “The Future of the Commons: Data, Software and Beyond . . .” Hosted by the Board on Research Data and Information at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in Washington D.C., attendees will have the…
Read MoreManaging the Data
ZL Unified Archive is being used by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) for records and information management of government unstructured data as part of a solution provided by Unisys Corp. to transition NARA to a cloud-based email and collaboration solution. Market Wired brought this news to our attention in their article, “National Archives and…
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