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Learn More About Making Content Usable

By Melody Smith | March 19, 2015

The “Making Content Portable, Making It Usable” webinar is scheduled for March 27th. Early bird registration discount ends on Friday, March 20th.

Collaboration Improves Results

By Melody Smith | March 19, 2015

Elsevier recently announced preparations to collaborate with the research community in developing an open-access journal covering all disciplines on one platform. The goal is to enable continual experimentation and innovation.

Finding the Lost

By Melody Smith | March 17, 2015

Technology continues to advance on a daily basis. What was wondrously new yesterday will seem archaic in just a few months. This “advancement” of technology has brought information to our fingertips at a faster speed than ever before and in unbelievable quantities.

Digital Commons Library – Open and Free

By Melody Smith | March 11, 2015

The recent announcement of the Digital Commons Community Library provides a way of exploring bepress’s scholarly communication resources by subject matter — free and open access.

Working Well Together

By Melody Smith | March 10, 2015

Last year when DATAVERSITY Education, LLC purchased SemanticWeb.com, it was the precursor to one incredible data management education resource. By combining the two sources, they are pooling all writers and support staff into one grand effort, giving DATAVERSITY readers easy access to a wealth of content on semantic technologies, and SemanticWeb.com readers easy access to a deeper pool of content on some of their favorite subjects.

Call for Speakers for Enterprise Search & Discovery 2015

By Melody Smith | March 9, 2015

Here is an opportunity to share your experiences and perspective at the Enterprise Search & Discovery 2015 in Washington, DC on November 3-5, 2015.

Taxonomy and Tagging in SharePoint Webinar

By Melody Smith | March 9, 2015

Another learning opportunity for corporate librarians or information architects or those working on creating a corporate taxonomy or a managed metadata project in SharePoint. This webinar is focused on those struggling with the challenge of tagging documents with relevant metadata in SharePoint or dealing with complaints about the difficulty in searching content and documents in SharePoint.

Searching for Art

By Melody Smith | February 17, 2015

Classifying art has always been a challenge. Museum collections are mostly indexed in individual databases. This prohibits collaboration and comprehensive searching. The Smithsonian Museum of American Art (SAAM) hopes to change that. It has launched the American Art Collaborative (ACC), a consortium of 14 museums across the country that will connect these databases.

Improving the Results

By Melody Smith | February 4, 2015

EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) and Innovative Interfaces (Innovative) have expanded their partnership designed to improve access to library resources. This will incorporate catalog functionality within the EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) experience.

Packrats Unite

By Melody Smith | January 13, 2015

Here we are at the beginning of a new year. Resolutions aside, it is great time to take inventory of your records and evaluate your records management plan.