Emory University is soon to have a coffeehouse-like environment in which students can work in cross-discipline collaboration and allow researcher access to the library’s vast experts on all things library. This will differ from other digital research centers because of the cross-discipline collaboration potential.
Cambridge Semantics is presenting at the 2011 Bio-IT World Conference in Boston on April 14th. Vice President Steven Kludt will discuss how semantic technology and cloud computing can be leveraged in pharmaceutical and healthcare organizations to address specific data management challenges.
Another piece of software using semantic technology to help our dining experience be just a little bit better. I don’t know about you, but this gets my attention.
The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) marked a milestone recently when it officially reached 150 years of producing and delivering government documents for all three branches of the Federal Government and the public.
I am often asked where can I find out more about software and taxonomies to reuse? There are a number of attempts to organize taxonomy resources on the web. Some are more up to date than others.
Planning on attending the upcoming Computers in Libraries conference in D.C. next month? The Special Libraries Association (SLA) has partnered with Information Today to provide members with an exclusive discount. SLA members who register before February 25th will pay the reduced rate of $249 for the full three-day conference on March 21-23, 2011.
The 2011 MarkLogic User Conference will be held in San Francisco, CA, at the Palace Hotel on April 26-29, 2011. The event will be keynoted by Gartner Analyst Donald Feinberg and best-selling author Bob Sutton.
The new issue of Knowledge Organization Literature (bibliography), edited by Ia McIlwaine, is now published on ISKO website.
The USDA has announced release of the 2011 edition of the on-line NAL Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary (NALT). This release adds 3,441 new terms and 321 definitions to these vocabulary tools.