Howlers: New Automation and Human Models Challenge Traditional Indexing

by John Blossom reprinted from www.shore.com/commentary The National Federation of Abstracting and Information Services (NFAIS) is an interesting collection of institutions and publishers joining to tackle issues in aggregating content through indexing, abstracts and leading content technologies. While there are certainly a good number of indexing experts in this set there are also many executives…

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Bridging the Great Indexing Divide

by Alice Redmond-Neal Reprinted from Key Words, the bulletin of the American Society for Indexing I’ve been indexing for over a decade, but when I attended the ASI Annual Meeting 2008 in Denver, I was a stranger in a strange land. Being surrounded by indexers was intriguing yet confounding. You see, I come from the…

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Jumo Seeks Connections for Nonprofits

December 8, 2010 – We knew this was coming. They’ve talked about it for months. An online community for nonprofits and charitable organizations – or more specifically, the people with and interested in those organizations. Jumo is the brainchild of Chris Hughes, one of the founders of Facebook and the chief digital organizer for Barack Obama’s…

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Database of Chemicals Creates Community

Chemists have hundreds of data sources online covering tens of millions of different chemical compounds. Unfortunately accessing that online data has not always been easy. ChemSpider, a free online database of chemicals and related information, may have solved that problem.

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ProQuest Expands Their Digital Products

ProQuest is expanding its service to government markets through the acquisition of the acclaimed Congressional Information Service and University Publications of America product lines from LexisNexis. The acquisition includes digital products and an expansive microfilm vault.

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New Semantic Software for PR Professionals

A new web application has been launched in beta to provide a resource for journalists, editors, etc. to quickly access press releases. PRFilter ranks the relevance to the user based on a profile of their interests built automatically from their own articles. Further filtering on the ranked results makes it easy to find the most relevant stories.

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Going Paperless Made Easy

A law firm in Texas sough to create a virtual law firm that would leverage a Web-based practice management system and extensive use of social media. This goal of going paperless was made possible with Fortis.

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