November 2010

Grant Given to Build Database and Image Library

By |November 9th, 2010

The LSU AgCenter has been awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation to support developing a database and image library at the Louisiana State Arthropod Museum and consolidating data from five additional arthropod collections.

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You Are In Control

By |November 8th, 2010

Data Harmony users have been given the opportunity to design their own User Group meeting.

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Repositioning Information Science

By |November 8th, 2010

One of the sessions I attended while at the 2010 meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) in Pittsburgh recently was presented by Michael Buckland, Fidelia Ibekwe-Sanjuan, and Kiersten Latham. This interesting session was actually three coordinated presentations that individually and together questioned the accepted view of information science as an emerging, scientific discipline closely tied with information technology and, mainly, textual data.

Jaspersoft Release Open Source Reporting Tool

By |November 5th, 2010

Developer of business intelligence tools written in Java, Jaspersoft, recently unveiled JasperReports Server Professional. After its start nine years ago as a SourceForge project to develop an open source reporting tool that can be embedded into Java and Web applications, the project has grown into a full commercial venture.

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Google vs. Microsoft in Court

By |November 5th, 2010

Google and Microsoft have ended up in court over the Government’s decision to adopt Microsoft’s BPOS at the Dept of Interior without letting Google bid for some of the action. As a result, Google is heading to court.

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Information Collaboration

By |November 4th, 2010

Who would have ever guessed the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) would become a role model for information sharing? However, a service-oriented architecture effort within the U.S. Department of Defense's intelligence community is helping the DoD better share information as well as modernize systems.

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