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Thoughts on ORCID

By Melody Smith | June 18, 2012

A new and powerful tool is headed our way. I believe it has the potential to change the way we interact with researchers, contributors and authors in general.

I have already reported on the Contributor ID meeting in Boston mid-May. One of the main reasons for the timing of that meeting was the ORCID Outreach meeting to be held at the Microsoft office next to MIT in Cambridge. The aim of ORCID is to “solve the name ambiguity problem in scholarly communications by creating a registry of persistent unique identifiers for individual researchers and an open and transparent linking mechanism between ORCID, other ID schemes, and research objects such as publications, grants, and patents.”

New Semantic Partnership

By Melody Smith | May 23, 2012

Ryma Technology Solutions and Coginov have announced a partnership that will see Coginov’s application programming interface (API) made available as an add-on for Ryma’s product management software solution, FeaturePlan.

Discovery for Data Junkies

By Melody Smith | May 22, 2012

Users are excited that the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset is now available via EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS). EBSCO Discovery Service users are now able to search millions of Harvard Library catalog records in the Base Index of EBSCO Discovery Service. These additional resources from Harvard Library adds to the rapidly growing content available to EDS users.

Integrating Data With Semantics

By Melody Smith | May 14, 2012

Semantic data integration and knowledge management software, Sentient Knowledge Explorer 4.0, address data for life sciences and healthcare. A simplified workflow makes it possible for users to integrate data more efficiently by making it easier to complete common integration tasks and interrogate multi-faceted data.

Standardizing Data Integration

By Melody Smith | May 11, 2012

There is a lot of talk about big data, what it is, how to manage it and where to store it. At its core, big data is metadata and integrating it requires an experienced professional.

Data as Science

By Melody Smith | May 10, 2012

Scientists are more involved these days in discovering connections with the aid of data than traditional laboratory methods. However, large datasets can pose some difficulties, especially with integration. In scientific research circles, it can be a challenge to confirm the existence of data to correlate.

Taxonomies Simplify Data

By Melody Smith | May 9, 2012

There were many articles and posts over the past year about search, semantic technology and the clouds. 2011 was a busy year in the world of technology. One topic caught the attention of some more than others – integration and what it means to users.

Crowdsourcing Research

By Melody Smith | May 8, 2012

One recent report has identified some modern challenges facing physical science researchers. The report was commissioned by the Research Information Network (RIN), the Institute of Physics (IOP), IOP Publishing (IOPP), and the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS).

Accessing Large Amounts of Data

By Melody Smith | May 4, 2012

HP and Alcatel-Lucent have worked together to develop a solution to help organizations address large amounts of data. By integrating data center infrastructure technology and high-performance communications, moving, storing and accessing this data has become much more manageable.

Big Data Analytics – The Popular Kid

By Melody Smith | May 1, 2012

Big data analytics is becoming more and more common. Quantivo now offers big-data analytics to corporations of all sizes using a cloud-based architecture. This patented technology will enable customers to harness information that has been buried in big data at a fraction of the cost of using other methods.