By Melody Smith|May 16th, 20142014-05-15T22:47:11-04:00
When you hear National Shredding Day do images of Wall Street scandals come to mind? Good, I am not alone. That is what I immediately thought of when I read about the first ever free shredding day in the UK. More than two tons of paper was shredded in Enfield Town in an effort to dispense of unwanted paperwork.
By Melody Smith|May 15th, 20142014-05-14T21:52:50-04:00
Concept Searching and Collabware are collaborating together to host a webinar on Thursday, May 29th at 11:30am-12:30pm EDT.
By Melody Smith|May 15th, 20142014-05-14T21:48:02-04:00
The future of the more than 130-year old Oxford English Dictionary (OED) may be moving to cyberspace. The sheer number of English words put into use since the 20-volume, second edition was published in 1989 could make version 3.0 too big and too expensive to print. The next edition is expected to be at least twice the size of the last. Because of this, it may be published digitally only.
By Melody Smith|May 14th, 20142014-05-13T19:57:36-04:00
Companies manage content through enterprise content management (ECM) tools to communicate and collaborate more easily, share information, and make it easier to locate because information is saved in a central location. However, not all ECM tools meet all of an organization’s needs. It is important to identify what those needs are and evaluate the components of each tool to find the best match. A recent report outlined the target strengths and evaluated various technological offerings.
By Melody Smith|May 13th, 20142014-05-12T12:10:45-04:00
The School of Library and Information Science at San José State University (SJSU) is partnering with RedLink, a Silicon Valley startup, to develop a new taxonomy for academic publishers.
By Melody Smith|May 12th, 20142014-08-08T14:08:02-04:00
Access Innovations, Inc. announces the Author Submit extension module as part of their Data Harmony Version 3.9 release. Author Submit is a Data Harmony application for integration of author-selected subject metadata information into a publishing workflow during the paper submissions or upload process. Author Submit facilitates the addition of taxonomy terms by the author. With Author Submit, each author provides subject metadata from the publisher taxonomy to accompany the item they are submitting. During the submission process, Data Harmony’s M.A.I. core application suggests subject terms based on a controlled vocabulary, and the author chooses appropriate terms to describe the content of their document, thus enabling early categorization and selection of peer reviewers and support for trend analysis.
By Melody Smith|May 12th, 20142014-05-11T14:31:26-04:00
The first three days of public hearings on the latest revisions of the Telecommunications Act seemed to focus on the collection of telecommunications metadata without a warrant by government agencies. There were many questioning government intelligence and law enforcement agencies over their warrantless collection of telecommunications metadata under the current legislation.
By Melody Smith|May 8th, 20142014-05-06T17:30:23-04:00
India’s Ministry of Communications and IT has announced the Standard for Preservation Information Documentation of Electronic Records. This move to standardize the preservation of digital records across government agencies will ensure that electronic records are produced in a preservable manner.
By Melody Smith|May 7th, 20142014-05-06T16:52:22-04:00
EBSCO Information Services recently released Communication Source as a resource for communication research. Communication Source was developed from a merger of EBSCO databases, Communication and Mass Media Complete and Communication Abstracts (formerly published by SAGE).
By Melody Smith|May 6th, 20142014-05-05T16:27:04-04:00
Collaboration is a key component of research. Original research papers with a single author are — particularly in the life sciences — a vanishing breed. This makes it difficult to identify author contributions and acknowledgements, as well as to mine any data from the unstructured information.
