Category «Knowledge Management»

Space Data and Information Transfer Systems — Audit and Certification of Trustworthy Digital Repositories

Via OCLC – SO 16363:2012. Space Data and Information Transfer Systems (see authors link) Audit and Certification of Trustworthy Digital Repositories outlines actions a repository can take to be considered trustworthy, but research examining whether the repositorys designated community of users associates such actions with trustworthiness has been limited. Drawing from this ISO document and …

Subjects: Knowledge Management, Libraries

Comparison of Curation Platforms

Via SocialCompare: “Curation Platforms are tools enabling you to select manually content online, to edit and share it. This comparison table is part of a French IT news article about Curoriginal articleation Tools: “Le Guide de la Curation”. For more details about products and criteria, please read to the original article. This comparison is associated …

Subjects: Knowledge Management

Estimating the Price Elasticity of Beer: Meta-Analysis of Data with Heterogeneity, Dependence, and Publication Bias

Via SSRN: Estimating the Price Elasticity of Beer: Meta-Analysis of Data with Heterogeneity, Dependence, and Publication Bias, Jon P. Nelson, Pennsylvania State University – College of the Liberal Arts – Department of Economics, January 14, 2013 “Precise estimates of price elasticities are important for alcohol tax policy. Using meta-analysis, this paper corrects average beer elasticities …

Subjects: Knowledge Management

Wayback Machine: Now with 240,000,000,000 URLs

Internet Archives Blog: “Today we updated the Wayback Machine with much more data and some code improvements. Now we cover from late 1996 to December 9, 2012 so you can surf the web as it was up until a month ago. Also, we have gone from having 150,000,000,000 URLs to having 240,000,000,000 URLs, a total …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Libraries

Report on NYC Public Libraries – Branches of Opportunity

Branches of Opportunity, January 2013, Center for an Urban Future – “As more and more New Yorkers turn to digital books, Wikipedia and other online tools for information and entertainment, there is a growing sense that the age of the public library is over. But, in reality, New York Citys public libraries are more essential …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Libraries

White House – National Strategy for Information Sharing and Safeguarding

“This National Strategy for Information Sharing and Safeguarding (Strategy) aims to strike the proper balance between sharing information with those who need it to keep our country safe and safeguarding it from those who would do us harm. While these two prioritiessharing and safeguardingare often seen as mutually exclusive, in reality they are mutually reinforcing. …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents, Knowledge Management

Digital Licenses Replace Print Prices as Accurate Reflection of Real Journal Costs

Digital Licenses Replace Print Prices as Accurate Reflection of Real Journal Costs by Paula Gantz, Association of American Publishers – Scholarly Publishing Division, Volume 11, No. 3, Summer/Fall 2012 “Instead of purchasing subscriptions to individual journals, librarians are pursuing licensing agreements that provide perpetual digital access to a body of content. For major institutions with …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Libraries

EU – Digital Agenda: Turning government data into gold

News release: “The Commission has launched an Open Data Strategy for Europe, which is expected to deliver a 40 billion boost to the EU’s economy each year. Europes public administrations are sitting on a goldmine of unrealised economic potential: the large volumes of information collected by numerous public authorities and services. Member States such as …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management

JSTOR opens free access to limited number of articles

Via Meredith Schwartz: “The archives of more than 1,200 journals are now available for limited free reading by the public, JSTOR announced [January 9, 2013]. Anyone can sign up for a JSTOR account and read up to three articles for free every two weeks.”

Subjects: Knowledge Management

A Timeline of Information History

“This timeline presents significant events and developments in the innovation and management of information and documents from cave paintings (ca 30,000 BC) to the present. To keep recent electronic developments from dominating the listing, only the most significant digital innovations are included.”

Subjects: Knowledge Management

CIO – Top 12 Big Data Stories of 2012

“As 2012 winds down, it’s time to take a look at the year in Big Data. This year saw Big Data begin to emerge from the hype cycle, with more attention paid to how organizations can actually leverage their data assets to gain competitive advantage. Here are 12 of the most-read Big Data articles of …

Subjects: Knowledge Management

An Efficient Sampling Alternative for Big Data Aggregation

Data Interpolation – An Efficient Sampling Alternative for Big Data Aggregation (Technical Report) Hadassa Daltrophe, Shlomi Dolevy, Zvi Lotkerz. October 12, 2012 “Given a large set of measurement sensor data, in order to identify a simple function that captures the essence of the data gathered by the sensors, we suggest representing the data by (spatial) …

Subjects: Knowledge Management

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