New Vocabularies Added to Library of Congress Authorities and Vocabularies

In an announcement from the Library of Congress, they share their pleasure in making available new vocabularies from its Authorities and Vocabularies web service, which provides access to Library of Congress standards and vocabularies as Linked Data. The Authorities and Vocabularies web service was first made available in May 2009 and offered the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH), the Library’s initial entry into the Linked Data movement.

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Standards Help Maintain Security in the Clouds

The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) launched revision 1.1 of the CCM Security Controls Matrix, which is designed to provide fundamental security principles to guide cloud vendors and to assist prospective cloud customers in assessing the overall security risk of a cloud provider.

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The Notation Module in Thesaurus Design: An innovative view of Thesaurus Hierarchies

by Scott Denning Traditional thesaurus design has necessarily been a matter of alphabetization of the terms. While different views – permuted, hierarchical, rotated – offer different insights into the relationships of the terms in the thesaurus, the structure within these views is still ultimately alphabetical. Though alphabetization is at the core of organization in language,…

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DocuWare Maintains Quality Management System

DocuWare recently announced that they have applied for and received ISO 9001 recertification in 2010. The main requirement for certification is inplace methods and processes to prevent errors and maintaining a seamless Quality Management System.

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