Webinar on Content Management
A slightly different but familiar learning opportunity has been announced. Content management tends to get lost in the midst of new technology and analytics. […]
July 2015
Learning Opportunities This Week
By admin|July 21st, 20152015-07-20T21:09:43-04:00
The Association of American Publishers is making available some very interesting and applicable speakers and topics during their Professional & Scholarly Publishing (PSP) webinars […]
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The Thesaurus as a Domain Model in the Modern World
By admin|July 20th, 20152015-07-19T16:35:03-04:00
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Nowadays, taxonomies and thesauri are used largely for web navigation and for information search and retrieval. It wasn’t always that way. In fact, […]
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New Agreement Takes Communications to the Next Level
By admin|July 20th, 20152015-07-19T16:17:50-04:00
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 […]
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New and Better Access
By admin|July 17th, 20152015-07-16T22:57:32-04:00
Emerald Group Publishing has launched the Green Open Access, Zero Embargo trial applicable for all mandated articles submitted to the company’s library and information science (LIS) […]
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Where to Start?
By admin|July 17th, 20152015-07-16T22:54:36-04:00
The Library of Congress started taking steps in 2010 toward preserving the nation’s increasingly digital heritage — by acquiring Twitter’s entire archive of tweets […]
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A Word By Any Other Name
By Melody Smith|July 16th, 20152015-07-15T21:04:00-04:00
The Beatles just may cringe a little if they were still together. A humorous, tongue-in-cheek parody based on a song of theirs (I Am […]
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Metadata and Findability
By Melody Smith|July 15th, 20152015-07-15T00:10:07-04:00
When introduced, metadata was basic and easy. It was breadcrumbs that led you to the real data or file. Once you understood the right […]
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Director of Taxonomy Needed
By Melody Smith|July 15th, 20152015-07-15T00:03:45-04:00
To be as helpful as possible to those in the fields of taxonomy, indexing, ontology, etc., we are sharing career opportunities that we find with […]
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Building Trust in Science
By Melody Smith|July 14th, 20152015-07-13T17:45:00-04:00
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and publisher of the Science family of journals, has acquired “Peer Review Evaluation” (PRE), a […]
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