By Melody Smith|November 8th, 20112011-11-07T22:22:08-05:00
The IC3K, 3rd International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management brought together researchers, engineers and practitioners on the areas of Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management.
By Melody Smith|November 7th, 20112011-12-12T17:31:57-05:00
Is it final? Finally! I recall Rex Harrison playing Pope Julius II, shouting up to Charlton Heston as Michelangelo, something like, “When will it be finished?” To which Michelangelo-Heston replied enigmatically, “When I’m done!” Michelangelo spent most of five years (1477 to 1480) on his back painting the Sistine Chapel. The Pope’s impatience was not without justification as he was financing the project while trying to recapture former Papal territories filched by the Borgias.
By Melody Smith|November 7th, 20112011-11-06T20:31:33-05:00
A recent KLAS survey revealed that only 9% of respondents were more than halfway through their ICD-10 readiness preparations. This is a little disconcerting when you think about the timeline and the millions of dollars this could take for the large and some mid-size facilities.
By Melody Smith|November 7th, 20112011-11-06T20:34:00-05:00
A new technology start up, Me Sixty has found investors to help support further expansion of its geo-social indexing technology (social media created with mobile devices and tagged to locations).
By Melody Smith|November 4th, 20112011-11-03T22:51:00-04:00
Continuing with the SLA Taxonomy Division’s webinar series, the next webinar is titled “Drilling down to the Challenges of a SharePoint taxonomy implementation” and will be held Wednesday, November 9th at 1:00 p.m. EST (10:00 a.m. PST).
By Melody Smith|November 4th, 20112011-11-03T22:53:23-04:00
The Working Group of the Future of Bibliographic Control wrote that the Library community’s data carrier, MARC, is “based on forty-year-old techniques for data management and is out of step with programming styles of today.” This interesting information comes from News & Announcements on the Library of Congress site in the post titled, “A Bibliographic Framework for the Digital Age.”
By Melody Smith|November 4th, 20112011-11-03T22:55:17-04:00
The debate over faith and a belief in a higher power managed to bring a perfect example of taxonomy to clarity. This interesting, thoughtful and somewhat humorous topic was inspired by the article, “Haught v. Coyne: The Debate of the Century (Not)” on Evolution News and Views.
By Melody Smith|November 3rd, 20112011-11-02T19:19:40-04:00
A new and fairly significant development from the social media world is that Google is now searching and indexing public comments made on Facebook. This has some people and business concerned due to page ranking implications.
By Melody Smith|November 3rd, 20112011-11-02T19:22:16-04:00
Search indexing company PeekYou has taken a look at the fifty biggest names in gaming and assigned each a PeekScore. They wanted to recognize the developers and talent involved in this industry.
By Melody Smith|November 3rd, 20112011-11-02T19:23:57-04:00
Semantic Web and Big Data Technology company, PolarLake, has opened a new office in Frankfurt, Germany. Known for addressing the challenges of financial and reference data management, they apparently see the German market ripe for development.
