Research – Page 12

Who’s the Boss?

By Melody Smith | March 26, 2014

In case you haven’t read the press release that came out last week from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, the title should give you reason for pause, “NTIA Announces Intent to Transition Key Internet Domain Name Functions.”

The Ghost of Research Past

By Melody Smith | December 9, 2013

There are a good many professional organizations that take their knowledge organization and dissemination responsibilities seriously. One good example, appropriately enough, is the International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO), which maintains a free online bibliographic service covering knowledge organization literature.

Ontologies Strengthen Data

By Melody Smith | October 31, 2013

User profiles play an important role in information retrieval systems. This “revelation” came from a software engineer study, but really, is it a big surprise?

Semantic Research

By Melody Smith | March 12, 2013

Genetic research continues to explore and discover, all with the help of technology. The ability to conduct genome-wide association studies (GWAS) has enabled new exploration of how genetic variations contribute to health and disease etiology. 7th Space Interactive brought this interesting information to our attention in their article, “Applying semantic web technologies for phenome-wide scan…

Market Research Company Sees Benefit of Social Media

By Melody Smith | December 23, 2011

Dialego has launched a new social media division. This German research agency recognized that social media market research is a huge and important part of market research. Leading this new division is Annette Stucken from Unilever.

Gift Giving Idea

By Melody Smith | December 15, 2011

Still looking for that perfect gift for the historian or librarian in your life? How about a mobile scanner? This fun and useful product from Flip runs on four AA batteries and has a 2 GB SD memory card installed. The appearance is deceptive with only a 6.5×10 flatbed scanner, but it runs well and the quality of the images stood up to various forms of testing, according to one writer.

New Online Research Tool Features

By Melody Smith | November 18, 2011

Elsevier has released new features for its online research tool BrainNavigator. In this new version, BrainNavigator 3.2, Elsevier added new content and functionality to give researchers additional tools to accelerate their research.

What The Future Holds

By Melody Smith | August 18, 2011

Only twenty or already twenty years ago – depending on how you look at it – the world wide web was christened. No, not by Al Gore, but by a British computer scientist, Tim Berners-Lee.

Libraries Working Together for Best Practices

By Melody Smith | July 19, 2011

Two university libraries join together to start a new open access, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to library-led scholarly communication initiatives, online publishing and digital projects.

New Grant Funds Digital Research Center

By Melody Smith | April 18, 2011

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.