SEMIC 2017 Will Be Streamed Live

The SEMIC Conference 2017 starts this week in Malta. SEMIC 2017 is the seventh edition of the SEMIC conference that is organized under the scope of the ISA² Programme. They will bring together inspirational talks and presentations on forward-looking data and information management initiatives from European public administrations, EU institutions and agencies and the private sector. If you aren’t…

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Semantic Learning Opportunities

The Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) is offering two interesting learning opportunities this week. How to Design & Build Semantic Applications with Linked Data on June 14, 2017, 10:00 – 11:15 a.m. EDT. This webinar will demonstrate how to design and build rich end-user search and discovery applications using linked data. The Linked Open…

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Best of Show Winners

Bio-IT World announced the 2017 winners of the Best of Show Awards Program at the recent Bio-IT World Conference & Expo. Bio-IT World brought this news to us in their article, “Bio-IT World Announces 2017 Best Of Show Award Winners.” This particiular awards program recognizes the best of the innovative product solutions for the life sciences industry. The…

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Search Landscape Educational Opportunity

The Professional/Scholarly Publishing (PSP) Division of the Association of American Publishers (AAP) Journals Committee will be offering a two-part educational opportunity live and via webinar titled, The Changing Discovery Landscape – Part 1: Librarians and Researchers, with the first part scheduled for Wednesday, July 26th from 12:30 – 2:30 p.m. There seems to be new technology and…

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Learning Opportunity Around the Changes in Digital

The Association of Learned & Professional Society Publishers brought a unique learning opportunity to our attention. “How to Survive (and Thrive) in the Digital Universe” addresses the change in scholarly communication technology. Digital innovations from within the community and from other industry sectors constantly promise to disrupt and reform scholarly communication. Open data and open science, collaborative…

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Protecting Your Passwords

When life embraced the Internet a few decades ago, passwords were a necessary evil. We chose our pet’s name or birth date or some easy to remember piece of information to grant us access to our destination. However, times have changed and the ease for hackers to decode your passwords continues to increase. This interesting…

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Finding Credibility

In November I wrote an article about deciphering fact from fiction but I didn’t cover the whole fake news craze. Perhaps in my naivety I hoped the issue would go away. That after the elections the whole craze would die down and everyone would be more diligent in what they post on social media. Unfortunately…

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PLOS Looking for Associate Editors

To be as helpful as possible to those in the fields of taxonomy, indexing, digital archiving, etc., we are sharing with our readers any career opportunities that we find. Even if you are not in the market for a career move, it is always good to stay on top of what is available and how the…

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Research Data Analyst Career Opportunity

To be as helpful as possible to those in the fields of taxonomy, indexing, digital archiving, etc., we are sharing with our readers any career opportunities that we find. Even if you are not in the market for a career move, it is always good to stay on top of what is available and how the…

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