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Conference Paper: Puzzling Over Digital Preservation – Identifying Traditional and New Skills Needed for Digital Preservation
Associations and Organizations, Data Files, Digital Preservation, Journal Articles, Libraries, National Libraries, News, Preservation
|This paper will be presented at the World Library and Information Congress : 77th IFLA General Conference and Assembly scheduled to take place in about a month in San Juan. Title Puzzling Over Digital Preservation – Identifying Traditional and New Skills Needed for Digital Preservation (14 pages; PDF) Authors Thomas Bahr (German National Library of […]
UPDATE: We’ve added links to the full text report discussed in the Ars Technica article. Scroll to the bottom of this post. From Ars Technica: From the Ars Technica” In the age of Google and Wikipedia, an almost unlimited amount of information is available at our fingertips, and with the rise of smartphones, many of us […]
Post-Ranking Query Suggestion by Diversifying Search Results Query suggestion refers to the process of suggesting related queries to search engine users. Most existing researches have focused on improving the relevance of suggested queries. In this paper, we introduce the concept of diversifying the content of the search results from suggested queries while keep the suggestion […]
Event Detection in Twitter Twitter, as a form of social media, is fast emerging in recent years. Users are using Twitter to report real-life events. This paper focuses on detecting those events by analyzing the text stream in Twitter. Although event detection has long been a research topic, the characteristics of Twitter make it a […]
Conference Paper: Public Libraries: "'What and Why Libraries?' Looking At What Libraries Might Look Like and Why We Still Need Them Now and Into the Future"
Associations and Organizations, Journal Articles, Libraries, Patrons and Users, Public Libraries
|This paper will be presented at the World Library and Information Congress: 77th IFLA General Conference and Assembly in San Juan on August 16, 2011. Conference Paper: “‘What and Why Libraries?’ Looking at What Libraries Might Look Like and Why We Still Need Them Now and Into the Future” Author: Maija Berndtson Library Director Helsinki […]
On the Miller-McCune web site, Richard J. Salvucci, an economics professor at Trinity University in San Antonio has authored, “How Google Disrespected Mexican History.” The column focuses on Google abruptly ending their newspaper digitization program. We posted about it when it happened last month. Since some of what we wrote is quoted in the Salvucci’s […]
New Conference Paper: "Unbundling the Big Deal with Patron Driven Acquisition of e-Journals"
Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Funding, Journal Articles, Libraries, Patrons and Users, Publishing
|This paper will be presented at the World Library and Information Congress: 77th IFLA General Conference and Assembly on August 17, 2011. Title: “Unbundling the Big Deal with Patron Driven Acquisition of e-Journals” (9 Pages; PDF) Authors: Maureen Weicher and Tian Xiao Zhang (St. John’s University Library, Queens, NY, USA) Abstract: Many academic libraries subscribed […]
Title: “Key Skills and Competencies of a New Generation of LIS Professionals” (16 Pages; PDF) by Pussadee Nonthacumjane Lecturer, Chiang Mai University Chiang Mai, Thailand From the Abstract: This paper presents the key skills and competencies of a new generation of LIS professionals. Firstly, it gives an introductory background of the digital era which impacts […]
Access a full text paper from the Stanford Info Lab that has been accepted for publication in the Communications of the ACM Title: Information Seeking: Convergence of Search, Recommendations and Advertising (2011) Authors: Hector Garcia-Molina, Georgia Koutrika, and Aditya Parameswara From the Introduction: All of us are faced with a deluge of data”, in our […]
New Paper: "Open Bibliography for Science, Technology, and Medicine"
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Data Files, Journal Articles, News, Open Access, Publishing
|From the Abstract: The concept of Open Bibliography in science, technology and medicine (STM) is introduced as a combination of Open Source tools, Open specifications and Open bibliographic data. An Openly searchable and navigable network of bibliographic information and associated knowledge representations, a Bibliographic Knowledge Network, across all branches of Science, Technology and Medicine, has […]