Rewriting History
With the future word inclusion policies of the Oxford English Dictionary unclear, various professionals were invited to attend a one-day international symposium. Stefan Dollinger, a lexicographer at the University of British Columbia, was one of the invited. Dollinger, one of two Canadians on the list, believes it is time the historic dictionary considers including English words…
Read MoreProject Increases Access for Research
A new joint initiative launched by the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) will help researchers have access to improved metadata and new tools as they search through and analyze the General Social Survey (GSS) and the American National Election Studies (ANES). The two-year project, named Metadata Portal for the Social Sciences, is supported by a collaborative research grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
Read MoreReaching the Appropriate Audience
Understanding their customers has always been a goal of retailers. If you understand customers, you can appeal to their interests and needs with the appropriate products and approach. What your customers think of you is just as important. Do your customers think of you as a kindred spirit? Do they think you truly understand their challenges? These questions are important to consider for a strong relationship with your clients and inevitably, a profitable one.
Read MoreProper Indexing Helps Queries
TSO was selected by the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Publishing to publish bibliographic Linked Open Data. TSO is part of the Williams Lea group and their product is the OpenUp platform.
Read MoreThe Driving Factor
It should be no surprise that costs directly drive decisions in the world of business. Many SharePoint users underestimate the long-term management costs of deployments and then ignore sound design practices to reduce SharePoint maintenance costs. In the rush to rapid deployment, this can be costly in the end. SearchWinIT brought this problem to our attention in their article, “Five ways to cut SharePoint maintenance costs and refine management.”
Read MoreTaxonomy is Gray
From the time of Plato, philosophers have been outlining the world as they saw it and they truly built an outline; they truly built a taxonomy of the world as they saw it. The way we perceive some field, or reality in general, is our own philosophy. If we look at the world through these lenses we see it one way; we look at the world through a different set of lenses, we see it absolutely differently. That is important to realize when building a thesaurus, because people are thinking of a field in one specific way or another.
Read MoreDocument Management with Solid Support
BMI Imaging Systems will be demonstrating a variety of document and records management solutions that increase the efficiency of government and corporate record keeping processes at the Las Vegas, Nevada Association of Records Managers and Administrators (ARMA) 2013 conference.
Read MoreGroups Urge Reforms Regarding Metadata Collection
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) joined 59 other privacy and civil liberties groups in a letter sent to the US Senate Judiciary Committee, calling on Congress to evaluate the National Security Agency’s (NSA) surveillance programs and risks to civil liberties. The coalition sent the letter in advance of the Judiciary Committee’s hearing on the NSA surveillance programs, and urged Congress to enact critical reforms to ensure that government surveillance programs include robust safeguards for constitutional rights. These reforms would include tightening the standards for collection and use of information, including communications metadata.
Read MoreSeeking Consistency and Standards
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) voting members recently approved a new project to develop recommended practices for Packaging and Exchanging Serial Content. Many different organizations, including libraries, archives, indexing services, etc., work better and more efficiently when they exchange and work with digital files that make up serial content. However, these files are in some type of package that isn’t always the same or compatible.
Read MoreNew Data and More Access
EBSCO Information Services and NetAdvance have joined forces allowing metadata from NetAdvance’s JapanKnowledge collection to be added to EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS).
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