By Melody Smith|September 10th, 20132013-09-11T12:20:37-04:00
The annual Frankfurt Book Fair will take place October 9-13, 2013 and is considered the most important marketplace for books, media, rights and licenses worldwide. The trends in publishing change faster than it is sometimes possible to keep up. The Frankfurt Book Fair brings all the new technology and innovations together in one location.
By Melody Smith|September 10th, 20132013-12-30T20:29:33-05:00
Personal Archiving - Preserving Our Digital Heritage is a new release addressing digital archiving that may just be the first of its kind. This multi-authored work offers robust explorations of the emerging field of personal digital archiving. Edited by Donald T. Hawkins, the contributors cover a range of innovative projects and practical topics. Some of those include archiving individual and family histories, social media and email applications, academic research projects and Library of Congress initiatives. Hawkins and his contributors are passionate about personal archiving and that is obvious in this must-read. Information Today brought this topic to our attention in their review of "Personal Archiving."
By Melody Smith|September 9th, 20132013-09-08T18:04:00-04:00
Taxonomists like to view a vocabulary as a literary work, which is more artistic when the style is consistent and cohesive. Consistency – which leads to predictability when searching or browsing – also makes it easier to avoid unintentional inclusion of multiple preferred terms for a single concept.
By Melody Smith|September 9th, 20132013-09-08T17:57:58-04:00
At the recent Joint Annual Meeting of the Council of State Archivists and the Society of American Archivists, the educational session addressed military archives best practice in the 21st century. The focus on the relevance and value of military archives to multidisciplinary research topics led into issues of processing massive amounts of digital records from the war in Iraq using innovative management and techniques.
By Melody Smith|September 9th, 20132013-09-09T21:34:15-04:00
The national archives for managing federal records, NARA, maintains more than 12 billion pages of physical records, 42 million photographs, and 500 terabytes of electronic records. Now that puts a new perspective on big data.
By Melody Smith|September 6th, 20132013-09-05T19:02:06-04:00
This interesting and somewhat alternative taxonomy fell on my radar today and I couldn't resist. Humor me. It is Friday, after all.
By Melody Smith|September 6th, 20132013-09-05T21:26:39-04:00
The American National Standards Institute's Nanotechnology Standards Panel (ANSI-NSP) has announced the launch of a new database compiling information about nanotechnology-related standards and affiliated activities. This new database is part of a larger project by the ANSI-NSP to increase the visibility of existing and in-progress documents in relation to nanotechnology.
By Melody Smith|September 5th, 20132013-11-13T20:43:28-05:00
I was reading my hometown paper today online. I am from a small town in Seymour, Indiana. In fact, "the small town" referred to in John Mellencamp's so-named 80's hit. The leading story was about digitizing records to make search work faster and with more comprehensive results. These deja vu moments almost surprise me in a very pleasing sort of way. It is like the universe is saying, "you made the right choices."
By Melody Smith|September 5th, 20132013-09-04T22:42:28-04:00
The Hudson Police Department’s new online reporting system, Coplogic, will be launching next week. This comes after much delay from the original planned December launch, but is welcomed with great anticipation.
By Melody Smith|September 4th, 20132013-09-03T20:28:09-04:00
Medical billing and coding just got a whole lot easier and more efficient with the release of ICD Tagger by Albuquerque-based Access Integrity.
