Grant Given to Build Database and Image Library
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.
Read MoreAutomating Document Retrieval
Extol has integrated its B2B integration platform with S4i Systems. This joint effort will offer a seamless integration of event-driven real-time communications between companies using EXTOL’s EDI system and a S48 complete document delivery system and will optimize supply chain communications.
Read MoreSupercomputing 2010 Next Week
New Orleans is the location of the IEEE Computer Society and Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), on November 13-19, 2010. Supercomputing 2010 offers a complete technical education program and exhibition to showcase the many ways high performance computing, networking, storage and analysis lead to advances in scientific discovery, research, education and commerce.
Read MoreYou Are In Control
Data Harmony users have been given the opportunity to design their own User Group meeting.
Read MoreRepositioning Information Science
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.
Read MoreJaspersoft Release Open Source Reporting Tool
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.
Read MoreGoogle vs. Microsoft in Court
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.
Read MoreClearwell Speeds Up Discovery
Homburger, one of Switzerland’s premier law firms, has implemented the Clearwell E-Discovery Platform for processing, early case assessment (ECA), review and production of electronically stored information (ESI). Clearwell is being used to streamline the e-discovery process conducted by the investigations team on matters involving compliance, internal and regulatory investigations, and white collar crime.
Read MoreInformation Collaboration
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.
Read MoreStandards in Biomedical Research
The Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) is working with the US National Cancer Institute’s Enterprise Vocabulary Services (NCI-EVS) on a new electronic library designed to help define and standardize data elements for use in biomedical research and healthcare.
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