Old and New
An example of old meets new: Merriam-Webster has developed an app for the Apple Watch. For more than 150 years, Merriam-Webster has been keeping up […]
June 2015
Privacy Among Metadata
By Melody Smith|June 17th, 20152015-06-16T21:38:21-04:00
Australia recently passed data retention laws that force telecommunications companies to retain some types of phone and web metadata. This data can be requested […]
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Taxonomist Positions Available
By Melody Smith|June 16th, 20152015-06-15T20:20:30-04:00
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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Father of Library Science
By Melody Smith|June 15th, 20152015-06-15T08:38:24-04:00
Father’s Day is coming up soon, so we thought we’d pay homage to Shiyali Ramamrita (S. R.) Ranganathan. As described in the Wikipedia article […]
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Defining Analytics
By Melody Smith|June 12th, 20152015-06-11T21:26:58-04:00
Qlik has introduced a new analytics platform to support the development of custom analytics applications, including web mash-ups. Business Wire brought this interesting information to […]
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Cool Taxonomies
By Melody Smith|June 12th, 20152015-06-11T21:23:27-04:00
In a discussion about larger cities, their actual residents and their desired residents, one writer asked some interesting questions about hipsters. This interesting topic […]
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The Importance of Platforms
By Melody Smith|June 11th, 20152015-06-10T22:08:04-04:00
The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) is offering a unique learning opportunity, titled “Platforms that Perform: Taking Your Content to the Next […]
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The Old Meets New
By Melody Smith|June 11th, 20152015-06-10T22:01:21-04:00
Online chat rooms and bulletin boards started in the 1980s and 1990s. As the internet evolved, social media sites became a prominent figure in […]
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Get Smart
By Melody Smith|June 10th, 20152015-06-09T22:20:34-04:00
Semantics makes a practical tool for analyzing and filtering the massive quantities of big data. The capability of semantics to deal with a wide […]
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The New Normal
By Melody Smith|June 10th, 20152015-06-09T22:13:39-04:00
The search engines of today are so powerful and so common that we assume that searches will provide our desired results in a matter […]
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