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NFAIS Releases Draft on Discovery Services

By Melody Smith | March 21, 2012

The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) released a draft code of practice for discovery services. The draft does make progress toward documenting the facing challenges, but falls short when it comes to handling the underlying reasons for those challenges.

Pingar and SharePoint Working Together

By Melody Smith | March 20, 2012

Pingar is offering several new resources to help SharePoint information technology professionals, business managers, analysts and developers extend the capabilities of their SharePoint systems to better manage unstructured data.

New Partnership Gives Users Access to Historical Images

By Melody Smith | March 16, 2012

EBSCO Publishing has announced their new partnership with Bridgeman Education. This new joint effort will allow images from Bridgeman Education’s extensive collection to be searched within EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS).

Access To Asian Research Increases

By Melody Smith | March 7, 2012

EBSCO Publishing has partnered with Oriprobe Information Services to allow content from China/Asia On Demand (CAOD) to be accessible within EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS).

Data Without Boundaries Project Launches

By Melody Smith | March 2, 2012

Metadata Technology is partnering with the Data Without Boundaries project where they will help design and implement a portal for the search and discovery of datasets held within national archives, statistical offices, and research centers across Europe.

Publishers Face Another Hurdle in the Digital World

By Melody Smith | March 1, 2012

The publishing industry is undergoing many changes as they enter the world of digital media. eBooks, online material and the paperless world has made a huge dent in their process and pocket books. With these changes, it has never been more important for good public relations and easily accessed reviews of their products, i.e. books, to be part of that digital media. So the move by Goodreads to no longer use Amazon’s book information for their readers, could have some massive impact on Amazon’s retail business.

Smart Content Framework Announced

By Melody Smith | February 22, 2012

Concept Searching announces formation of the Smart Content Framework, a toolset that provides an enterprise framework to mitigate risk, manage information and address compliancy. This player in semantic metadata generation, auto-classification, and taxonomy management software claims the framework has proven to be a flexible solution to address recurring problems in organizations of any size or in any industry.

Publishing Metadata Becomes More Valuable

By Melody Smith | February 21, 2012

Bowker has been selected by book retailer Books-A-Million to supply metadata related to the print, e- and audio books. Bowker metadata will be used to feed both internal and external systems supporting the firm’s purchasing needs and providing bibliographic and identifier information in stores and on the website.

The What and Why of Metadata

By Melody Smith | February 14, 2012

The word metadata is thrown around everywhere these days. But does everyone really know what metadata is and how it is used?

University of Delaware Embracing Cloud-Based System

By Melody Smith | February 8, 2012

University of Delaware just announced that they have selected OCLC WorldShare Management Services as a Web-based cooperative library management system for metadata management, acquisitions, circulation, discovery, license management and workflow improvements.