White House Sets High Goals for Digital Rules
The White House is releasing guidance that will promote electronic dockets for rulemaking. The result will be a living document open to public comment during an event hosted by the Brooking Institution in Washington, D.C.
Read MoreProQuest Expands Their Digital Products
ProQuest is expanding its service to government markets through the acquisition of the acclaimed Congressional Information Service and University Publications of America product lines from LexisNexis. The acquisition includes digital products and an expansive microfilm vault.
Read MoreDocuWare Maintains Quality Management System
DocuWare recently announced that they have applied for and received ISO 9001 recertification in 2010. The main requirement for certification is inplace methods and processes to prevent errors and maintaining a seamless Quality Management System.
Read MoreWhat is Too Much Information?
Are you feeling overwhelmed by the amount of digital data and information available? It is no surprise. The amount of data available on the Web ever day continues to reach record-setting proportions, with an estimated 30-percent growth per year.
Read MoreNew Semantic Software for PR Professionals
A new web application has been launched in beta to provide a resource for journalists, editors, etc. to quickly access press releases. PRFilter ranks the relevance to the user based on a profile of their interests built automatically from their own articles. Further filtering on the ranked results makes it easy to find the most relevant stories.
Read MoreSemantics, Wisdom and Standards – The Triple Crown?
Semantic technology is again in the news. Web 3.0, the Semantic Web, is bringing information together. We hear about it more and more and that won’t be changing anytime soon.
Read MoreData Integration Tools Increasing in Value
Many factors are forcing organizations to change business processes and models and to manage their data assets differently. Simplification of processes and the IT infrastructure is necessary to achieve transparency. Data integration is a critical component of an overall enterprise information management (EIM) strategy and information infrastructure.
Read MorePublic Digital Library by Google?
By controlling access to information, Google may represent the ultimate in business plans and is now investing in the control of the information itself. Robert Darnton is Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor at Harvard and director of the Harvard University Library and his insights into what began as Google Book Search and is fast becoming the largest library and book business in the world is very interesting.
Read MoreIreland in the Clouds
What does the financial bailout of Ireland and cloud computing have in common? The bailout relates directly to a real-estate bubble that is very similar to the one in the United States and will take the form of loans in the range of $100 to $120 billion – about half the size of the entire Irish economy. A recent survey showed Ireland ranking 13th per capita in IT spending, though not ranking in the top 25 of most vibrant IT culture. This revealed that Ireland’s IT spending has been deploying new systems and is then, a perfect case for outsourced cloud computing relying on third-party providers to deliver.
Read MoreOpen Source Used to Advance Science
Glencoe Software was chosen by PerkinElmer as the foundation of its newly released Columbus Scope cellular imaging software solution for microscopy. Columbus Scope allows researchers to read, visualize and re-analyze a number of different vendor-specific research imaging file formats, save and use their experimental metadata parameters, and share images with their colleagues and collaborators.
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