Going Digital in Nigerian Libraries
Nigerian Former Minister of Defense, Dr Olu Agunloye is advocating for the introduction of Information Communication Technology (ICT) into the library system in the nation education sector. The fears of loss of jobs by librarians due to the digital library was allayed by Dr. Agunloye at the 30th Annual Seminar of the Nigerian Library Association (cataloguing, classification and indexing section) in Akure.
Read MoreAgility Seems to be the Word of the Week
TM Forum’s Management World remained focused on operations this year. Even if their expansion into “specialist streams” might have initially confused some people into thinking TM Forum is “straying” from its core competency.
Read MoreNew Release Enhances Treatment of Metadata
The PASS Summit 2010 was the location for expressor software to release version 3.0 of its affordable, enterprise-class data integration platform. expressor 3.0 is a comprehensive design, development and deployment platform available in three editions and tailored to support the full range of data integration applications, from tactical data migrations to large enterprise data warehouses and strategic, predictive analytics.
Read MoreGreater IT Agility is the Biggest Desire from Business Leaders
The annual InformationWeek Analytics Business Intelligence and Information Management Survey shows that they need systems that can be quickly adapted to support changing requirements–to get the most out of an acquisition, enter a new market, or find new customers.
Read MoreBest Web Face Forward
A recent survey revealed almost half of business technology professionals run more than five separate online sites. This was according to the InformationWeek Analytics 2010 Corporate Web Presence Survey. So how good are we at multi-tasking?
Read MoreSemantic Technology in Travel
UpTake Networks has acquired social hotel recommendation site, Real Travel. Combine this with their semantic search engine designed to help travelers research and decide where to go, where to stay and what to do, the online travel research experience is accelerated.
Read MoreMaking Australian Government Information Findable
The final version of data.australia.gov dataset repository is soon to be released and the result could be streamlined information. The new repository will replace the beta version first released by the Gov 2.0 Taskforce in September 2009 to centrally host datasets from federal, state and territory governments where applicable.
Read MoreBook Publishing – What About the Standards?
The world of books is getting bigger and more complicated. The promise of digital is ultimate flexibility and portability, but unlike magazine or newspaper publishers, book publishers do not own their content outright. So where does that leave the pursuit of standards?
Read MoreDell’s Latest Acquisition Will Help Manage the Clouds
Dell has agreed to purchase Boomi and says this acquisition will help it address what it terms “one of the top barriers to cloud adoption” – managing and integrating cloud-based applications with existing applications and databases.
Read MoreCelebrating 15 Years of Dublin Core
In Pittsburgh, in conjunction with ASIS&T’s recent annual meeting, the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) celebrated the 15th anniversary of the Dublin Core metadata standards. DCMI describes itself as “an open organization engaged in the development of interoperable metadata standards that support a broad range of purposes and business models. DCMI’s activities include work on architecture and modeling, discussions and collaborative work in DCMI Communities and DCMI Task Groups, annual conferences and workshops, standards liaison, and educational efforts to promote widespread acceptance of metadata standards and practices.”
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