New Acquisition for IBM

International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) announced plans to buy Meteorix LLC. This new acquisition of Meteorix will expand IBM’s ability to help clients deploy Workday applications and transform traditional finance and HR. This interesting news was brought to us by RTTNews in the release, “IBM Plans To Buy Meteorix.” “The planned acquisition of Meteorix can make…

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Ethics Educational Opportunity

The Professional and Scholarly Publishing (PSP) Committee of the Association of American Publishers (AAP) is offering a free Brown Bag Luncheon & Networking on Tuesday, October 13, 2015 at 12:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m. at their New York office. If you are unable to attend in person there will be a webinar from 12:15-1:15 p.m. If you have between 0-3 years…

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Mark Your Calendars

I know it seems far away, but it isn’t too soon to put it on your calendar. The Enterprise Data World (EDW) is scheduled for April 17-22, 2016 in San Diego, CA. Enterprise Data World Conference and Expo focuses on data management business solutions. A dedicated conference on “NoSQL in the Enterprise” will be included within…

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Bob Kasenchak to present as Part of FEDLINK’s Building Web Taxonomies Program

Bob Kasenchak, Director of Business Development for Access Innovations, Inc., will be presenting at the Building Web Taxonomies program, sponsored by the Federal Library & Information Network (FEDLINK). Bob will discuss smart thesauri, how to build and implement them into an existing workflow, and what they can do for analytics and linked data. FEDLINK conducts…

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Conference in Italy

That title caught your attention, didn’t it? It may seem far away, but the 4th International Conference “Horizons for Information Architecture, Security and Cloud Intelligent Technology (HIASCIT 2016): Programming, Software Quality, Online Communities, Cyber Behaviour and Business” is scheduled for July 6 – 8, 2016 in Sanremo, Italy. This is the premier scientific meeting for discussing…

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Information Architect Needed

As we strive to be as helpful as possible to those in the fields of taxonomy, indexing, ontology, etc., we are excited to share career opportunities that we find with our readers. Even if you aren’t in the market for a career move, it is always good to stay on top of what is available and…

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The Future of Our Field

The Da Vinci Science Center in Allentown, Pennsylvania recently set a new participation record during its 2015 fiscal year. This interesting news came from The Morning Call in their article, “Da Vinci Science Center sets new record and other company news.” The center’s total participation increased 3.4 percent from its 2014 fiscal year ending June 30,…

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Public Reading Pays Off

  The Romanian city of Cluj-Napoca embarked on a new initiative that promotes literacy while encouraging residents to take advantage of municipal public transportation. For one week, anyone reading on any of the city’s public transportation vehicles was allowed to ride entirely free of charge. This interesting information came from the online magazine, Good, in their article,…

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