IEEE Seeking Findability

We reported on IEEE’s collaboration with Access Innovations awhile back, but couldn’t help pointing out an interview they did explaining their project that actually began in 2006.

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Two Powerful Resources Join Together

Combining massive resources, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and Ancestry.com have joined forces to help people research the lives of Holocaust victims and survivors. The millions of records from WWII victims will be combined into a specially designed software program by Ancestry, dubbed the World Memory Project.

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AIP Chooses Really Strategies Product

The American Institute of Physics (AIP) has chosen RSuite as their content management system. Prior to RSuite, AIP did not have a content management system and managed its vast amount of content via a combination of home-grown applications and file systems.

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Iran Offers Courses on Indexing

According to the public relations department of the Open Treasury for Islamic Manuscripts, courses on indexing manuscripts for digital libraries will be held according to a joint agreement sealed between seven specialized centers. Upon completion, the participants will be granted a diploma endorsed by the centers.

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Social Media at Walmart

WalMart Stores has acquired Kosmix, a technology firm which searches and analyzes social media connections in real-time to deliver customized feedback to users.

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Six Degrees of Indexing

What would it be like to have search sites take your friends’ opinions into account when you look for restaurants? Newspaper sites that use their knowledge of what’s previously captured your attention online to display articles you are interested in? Sounds a lot like Amazon’s technology, doesn’t it?

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