Posts Tagged ‘Findability’
Improving the Service
Semantico has announced what they are calling a significant upgrade to SAMS, the leader in access and identity management for the scholarly community. SAMS Sigma officially launches at this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair. This information came from their release, “Semantico launches SAMS Sigma: the next generation in access and identity management.” SAMS Sigma uses a software as…
Read MoreLibrary of Congress Makes Improvements
The Library of Congress just announced a newly enhanced Global Legal Monitor (GLM), which is an online publication from the Law Library of Congress covering legal news and developments worldwide. The GLM contains almost 4,500 articles and most of what has changed will enable them to be more efficient in publishing articles by making the production process smoother. Whatever you are…
Read MoreWorkshop on Open Access
Open access to scholarly research is finally being embraced by governments, libraries, publishers and the global research community. The National Federation of Advanced Information Sciences (NFAIS) is offering a one-day workshop to explore which financial models have the greatest promise in support of open access. This event will be held Friday, October 23, at The Hub’s Cira…
Read MoreYoung Indexers Learn Valuable Skills
Building skills at a young age has long been proven successful. Somewhat different from learning to play the piano, young members of the the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are indexing historical records of more than 20,000 individuals, making them accessible to genealogists and hobbyists. The Orange County Register brought this interesting information to…
Read MoreSearch Gets Some Help
It may be possible that analytics engines could now take what was once the area of e-discovery and make effective enterprise search a reality across all company information. Search Content Management brought this news to our attention in their article, “How analytics engines could — finally — relieve enterprise search pain.” This may not seem…
Read MoreEnhancing the Service
The recent VIVO conference in Cambridge, MA was formed following a successful National Institutes of Health (NIH)-sponsored project. In short, VIVO is an open source researcher profile system that enables the discovery of research and scholarship across disciplines and institutions. It integrates with a number of other systems (HR, grants, faculty activity databases, and more) and has…
Read MoreNew Resources in New People
New employees offer a unique insight that they will lose in about six months. They offer the perspective of not knowing what came before and therefore they do not choose to do something because “that is how we have always done it.” Taking advantage of this time in onboarding can help them better understand what…
Read MoreNew Digital Library of News
Libraries are now able to provide their communities with a collection of newspapers ranging from well-known state and regional titles to small local newspapers in the United States and even other countries. This interesting information came from Ulitzer in their article, “ProQuest Launches Library Edition of Newspapers.com.” The Newspapers.com Library Edition comes from ProQuest and is…
Read MoreLooking At Data Differently
A unique exhibit is coming to Chicago soon that could give you a different perspective on science, literally. Maybe you are interested in seeing science from above? Or curious to see what impact one single person or invention can have? Inspired by innovation? Desperately seeking tools to better manage the information flood? Maybe you are simply…
Read MoreJumping in the Lake
Franz Inc. is collaborating with Montefiore Medical Center, Intel, Cloudera and Cisco in the launch of the first Semantic Data Lake (SDL) for Healthcare. PRWeb brought this interesting news to us in their article, “Franz and Montefiore Medical Center Team up to Deliver the First Semantic Data Lake for Healthcare.“ What exactly is a SDL? A warehouse of complex…
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