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Want To Be Like Jon Stewart? New Governmental Open Data Standards Are For You Forget leaked cables: There’s enough juicy political nonsense lurking in the public record to satisfy the 24-hour news cycle until 2012. However, unless citizens have an entire team scouring government video for hilarious hypocrisy, like the Daily Show’s Jon Stewart does, […]
From a National Archives (UK) Announcement: The Discovery service has been released in ‘beta’, or test form, and we are keen to get your feedback on how it can be improved. The new service enables you to filter search results by subject, date and series origin, as well as introducing map-based searching. [You can also browse […]
We’ve posted twice (see below) about Microsoft beginning to expand the coverage of its impressive Academic Search and today will be number three. Mathematics material is now available from MS Academic Search. Direct to the main user interface (you can search here) or go direct to mathematics interface and limit your search to only math […]
We’ve written about image recognition/cameraphone searching technology for a long time and in the next few years it will become a mainstream technology. LTU Technologies is one of. several companies doing work (and offering services) in They offer a free iPhone app. Google Goggles, Bing’s mobile apps, and SnapTell (from Amazon’s A9) also utilize image […]
JISC ITT: Research Projects: "The Role of Metadata in the Discovery, Selection and Acquisition of e-Books"
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Funding, Libraries, News, Publishing, Resources
|Here’s news of a research project that might me be of interest to you and/or your colleagues. One thing is for sure, both timely and interesting. From a JISC Announcement (Full-Text): The JISC, working closely with the Publishers and Library/Learning Solutions (PALS) Metadata and Interoperability Group invites tenders to conduct a study to investigate the […]
It’s very clear that Wolfram|Alpha (W|A) is-or should be-the first stop for many ready reference questions. It’s also the best example of what’s often referred to as an “answer engine” publicly available. There always seems be be something new or something that you just discovered. We have found a lot of useful material and what you can […]
Google Deal to Acquire Airline Info Database Gets a Go from DOJ But That's Not All They're Getting
|First, What Happened Today (via CNet): Google has won regulatory approval for its $700 million deal to buy ITA Software, but the Justice Department intends to keep a close eye on the search giant. The proposed settlement, which still must be approved by a federal judge, requires Google to continue licensing ITA’s travel technology to […]
HBS Cases: National Geographic Society Teaching a case study on the National Geographic Society for the first time, HBS professor David A. Garvin walks out to the middle of the horseshoe-shaped classroom and asks his students, “How many of you have familiarity with National Geographic magazine?” Nearly all 72 students, many from foreign countries, raise […]
Brief Overview from Annual Reviews Web Site: The paper draws on a survey of early-career researchers to examine their approach to academic literature, such as how and why they read it, how much time they dedicate to it, what informs their reading choices, and how they assess quality. One-on-one interviews were then conducted with a […]
Information Standards Quarterly, 2011 Winter 23(1):3. Note: This is the first open access issue of ISQ. Direct to Table of Contents: Information Standards Quarterly (ISQ) Winter 2011, Volume 23, Issue 1 Letter from the Managing Editor FEATURES NISO Year in Review 2010 by Karen Wetzel TC46 Year in Review 2010 by Cynthia Hodgson IN PRACTICE […]