Info Management

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• Hathi Trust Digital Library Publishes Update on October Activities (November, 2009)

  
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  The update consists of a four page PDF. Here’s a list of some of the topics covered. Access the full text to get all of the details. Ingest HathiTrust ingested a record 553,963 volumes in October. These included nearly 5,000 volumes from Penn State and initial loads of volumes from the University of ...
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• Social Tags Complement the Learning Resource Metadata, a Finnish Researcher Finds Out

  
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  From the ACM TechNews Summary Social tagging can help people find educational resources in digital repositories that are filled with millions of learning materials, says Open University of the Netherlands PhD candidate Riina Vuorikari. She says that adding free, non-hierarchical keywords to the digital learning ...
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• UK: Making Research Easier to Find and Access

  
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  From the Announcement: A JISC funded study is making recommendations to help people find university research outputs through better integration of library catalogues, research repositories and other university systems. The JISC-funded ‘Online catalogue and repository interoperability study’ carried out by the ...
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• Personalisation Allows Researchers to Create Online Bibliographies

  
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  From the Article: A new interface is now available for Copac, a freely-available, merged online library catalogue that allows you to easily search the UK’s national library catalogues as well as many major academic and specialist libraries at the same time. Users include researchers and librarians from the UK ...
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• The New York Times and Its 30,000 Tags (You Can Call Them Subject Headings)

  
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  A few weeks ago we posted about a new prototype from the New York Times named “Custom Feeds.” It allows users, for free, to create “custom built” RSS feeds of NY Times content that make use of the actual tags (aka descriptors, subject headings) that humans use when meta-tagging (aka indexing). At the end ...
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• GAO — National Archives: Progress and Risks in Implementing its Electronic Records Archive Initiative

  
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  National Archives: Progress and Risks in Implementing its Electronic Records Archive Initiative (PDF: 154 KB) From Highlights (PDF; 45 KB): NARA has completed two of five planned increments of ERA, but has experienced schedule delays and cost overruns, and several functions planned for the system’s initial ...
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• New Video on Web Archiving

  
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  From the Description: Web content changes all the time. If we don’t save that content before it disappears, a major part of our cultural history will be lost. The Library of Congress is working to provide permanent access to web content of historical importance. It selects websites for collection, requests ...
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• Learn About and Tryout OpenCalais (a Free Service from Thomson Reuters)

  
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  OpenCalais (OC) is a free service that we first mentioned six months ago and have mentioned several times since. This post from June, 2009 mentions some of the organizations using the service from Thomson Reuters. In a nutshell, OpenCalais uses semantic technology and natural language processing to analyze text ...
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• New Research Paper from Stanford InfoLab: A Dynamic Navigation Guide for Webpages

  
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  Ed. Note: One thing that we used to do more of on ResourceShelf was to occasionally link to new and hopefully interesting research papers that we came across . Granted, the papers could sometimes get very technical (even for the editors) but those readers who could read the technical content appreciated the material ...
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• Bibliotheca Alexandrina: A Digital Revival

  
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  The Bibliotheca Alexandrina is one busy place. If you want to learn more read on through our highlights but make sure to read the complete article. Our highlights is just a sample of what’s going on. From the Article: The International School of Information Science (ISIS) a research institute affiliated ...
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• Survey of Higher Education Faculty: Use of Print & Electronic Library Collections of Scholarly Journals

  
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  This new report was released today by Primary Research. The full text is fee-based but a few highlights from the report are available online. The report is based on a representative survey of more than 550 higher education faculty in the United States and Canada. Faculty present their opinions on preferences for ...
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• Semantic Search: The European Research Project Named MESH (Part 1)

  
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  From the Report: But while there is a phenomenal amount of content, most of it is not that easy to find. Sure, text content can be skimmed or glanced, but audiovisual content has to be viewed in linear time. We cannot easily search inside a film or audio recording for relevant information. That is changing, and ...
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• The Library of Congress Unveils API for Chronicling America Digitized Newspaper Database

  
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  What follows is a post that might be of special interest to web developers, webmasters, site owners, or anyone who can work with an API (Application Programming Interface), It comes from a digitized collection of more than 1 million historic newspapers and a searchable directory of newspaper info. Even if you are ...
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• IFLA’s Knowledge Management Division Now Has a Twitter Feed

  
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  Jane Dysart Writes: The KM Section of IFLA, or THE VOICE OF GLOBAL KM as we are becoming known, is now on Twitter. Our tag is #IFLAKM. If you are on Twitter already, just include that tag on your post and it will be picked up in the #IFLAKM Twitter Feed that will soon show up on the front page of our website, ...
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• Nirvanix Provides Permanent Digital Archive for National September 11 Memorial & Museum

  
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  From the Announcement: Nirvanix today announced that the Nirvanix Storage Delivery Network (SDN) is being used as the main digital archive platform for the National September 11 Memorial & Museum’s permanent collection of audio, video and photographs that chronicle the events of the day and their aftermath ...
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• New From the Internet Archive: Bookserver, An Open System Allowing Users to Search Multiple eBook Catalogs from a Single Interface, Makes Crawling Easier Too!

  
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  Think one search interface allowing users to search multiple ebook catalogs from various providers. At the same time, making it easy for various search engines to crawl content from these and other ebook sources. Before moving on to press coverage, you can begin with a slide presentation about BookServer ...
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• Internet Archive Unveils Open System Allowing Search Engines to Index Books From Many Different Sources

  
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  From an Article The Internet Archive and various like-minded partners have launched an open architecture for selling and lending digital books online, an effort to consolidate the fledgling market for net texts – and give Google a little food for thought. Dubbed BookServer , the open platform is meant to ...
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• New Essays Discuss the Future of Scholarly Publishing

  
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  A new book, The Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery, is available online (full text, free) and is a tribute to the work of the computer scientist, Jim Gray, who was lost at sea in 2007. The entire book is a collection of essays and can be downloaded as a single PDF or individual parts . ...
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• Sheridan Libraries at Johns Hopkins Awarded $20 Million by the National Science Foundation

  
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  From the Article: The Sheridan Libraries have been awarded $20 million for data curation from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The award, which was announced last Thursday, will provide funding towards the Data Conservancy project. The principal investigator on the project was Sayeed Choudhury, an ...
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• Video and Slides Available from OCR for the Mass Digitisation of Textual Materials Workshop

  
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  From a Blog Post: A workshop was held at the University of Bath on 24th September 2009, looking at some of the current issues in using Optical Character Recognition for digitisation, organised in the context of the EU Impact project. Videos, slideshows, notes and questions from the day are now all available from ...
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