Posts Tagged ‘Search’
New Online Access to Supreme Court History at Library of Congress
More than 225 years of Supreme Court decisions acquired by the Library of Congress are now publicly available online. The Library of Congress shared their latest news with us in the release, “Historical Supreme Court Cases Now Online.” The Library has made available more than 35,000 cases that were published in the printed bound editions…
Read MoreSearching Styles
Search is a widely debated issue. Over the years, more interest and more science has been applied to the topic, making it even more dynamic. Search can be as simple or as complicated as you can imagine. An article is indexed with the terms appropriate to the content of that article. These terms are specific…
Read MoreWomen in the Data World
March is Women’s History Month and we want to honor that by looking at the future. DATAVERSITY brought this interesting information to our attention in their article, “Building the Future of Women in Data.” Careers involving data expertise are soaring. Technological advances are made each and every day. One report predicts that by 2020, the…
Read MoreTaxonomies in Finance
Standardization of data is accomplished through a custom taxonomy. Regardless of the topic or subject, taxonomies make findability of content easy and consistent. Markets Media brought this interesting information to our attention in their article, “Taxonomy, Data Crucial For Sustainable Finance.” An economic taxonomy is a system of classification of economic activity, including products, companies and industries.…
Read MoreIndexing History
In the information science world, “indexing” denotes various methods for organizing data so that it is easily searchable. To a student, however, the word might evoke images of 3×5 lined cards with every bit of potentially useful information crammed into the available space. The Atlantic brought this interesting topic to us in the article, “How…
Read MorePreserving History From Your Barca Lounger
Small town history, big city archives. The love and passion for preserving historical information never fades. Home News Here out of Massachusetts brought this interesting information to us in their article, “Citizen archivist program.” The National Archives in Washington, D.C. is offering a unique opportunity to contribute to preserving our history and our legacy. Citizens…
Read MoreMaking All Content Findable
Searching for any type of information can be frustrating if you are unsure where to start or how to define your query. This is true in search engines and public databases. Medical Xpress brought this interesting news to our attention in their article, “RefEx, a web tool for a comfortable search of reference data for…
Read MoreDigitization’s Impact on Publishing
Scholarly publishing has been experiencing change over the past few years. There are many reasons why, but the move to digital has certainly had its reverberations throughout the industry. This interesting topic came to us from R&D magazine in their article, “The Augmented Researcher: What Does 2018 Hold for AI in Publishing?” Publishing and scientific research…
Read MoreIndexing Folklore
Many of us have the “word of day” type emails that arrive in our in-box every morning. For readers and writers (and just plain ole’ word nerds), it is a way to broaden our vocabulary or to just give us a chuckle. With social media, this type of outreach has more avenues and applications for…
Read MoreScholarly Search Gets New Platform
Digital Science launched a new platform – Dimensions – intended to transform scholarly search. Digital Science brought this news to us in their article, “Digital Science Launches Dimensions: a Next-generation Research and Discovery Platform Linking 124 Million Documents, Providing Free Search and Citation Data Across 86 Million Articles.” This is a collaboration between six Digital…
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