Category «Knowledge Management»

LexisNexis® Launches Open Alliance Program for HPCC Systems, Enterprise-Proven, Open Source Alternative to Hadoop

News release: “LexisNexis® Risk Solutions today unveiled the HPCC Systems Alliance Program, which is a collaboration of partners to stimulate innovation and accelerate market adoption of the newly open sourced HPCC Systems, an enterprise-proven, open source solution to help large organizations process Big Data. Built on a high performing computer cluster technology, HPCC Systems is …

Subjects: Intellectual Property, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Marketing

A Google Maps Project Focused on Scholarly Publishing

Citation by Citation, New Maps Chart Hot Research and Scholarship’s Hidden Terrain, by Jennifer Howard Imagine a Google Maps of scholarship, a set of tools sophisticated enough to help researchers locate hot research, spot hidden connections to other fields, and even identify new disciplines as they emerge in the sprawling terrain of scholarly communication. Creating …

Subjects: Knowledge Management, Search Engines

BookStats Publishing Formats Highlights

The Association of American Publishers – BookStats Publishing Formats Highlights: “e-books and other non-physical formats – “The consistent, growing popularity of e-books and apps are a major success story in content formats, even in advance of data for 2011, which is currently tracking high e-format sales. Highlights: e-books have grown from 0.6% of the total …

Subjects: Knowledge Management, Libraries

NYT – 9/11: The Reckoning, America and the World A Decade After 9/11

The New York Times – 9/11: The Reckoning, America and the World A Decade After 9/11 “That Day – What is amazing is that in that moment, there was a moment before that we saw that plane, that second plane, and there was a moment after, and its like two different worlds, those two moments. …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents, Knowledge Management

Opensource software framework project makes big business inroads

Bloomberg BusinessWeek: “…Hadoop…helps businesses quickly and cheaply sift through terabytes or even petabytes of Twitter posts, Facebook updates, and other so-called unstructured data. Hadoop, which is customizable and available free online, was created to analyze raw information better than traditional databases like those from Oracle.”

Subjects: Knowledge Management

National Bureau of Economic Research Digest, September 2011

NBER Digest OnLine, September 2011: Job Loss in the Great Recession Bank Performance in 1998 Explains Performance during the Recent Crisis The Impact of Ozone Pollution on Worker Productivity Limited Attention in the Car Market How Finance, Trade, and Growth are Connected The Consequences of Risk Adjustment in the …

Subjects: Knowledge Management

The Economist: How long do countries have until their populations disappear?

End of history and the last woman: “As The Economist reports this past week, many women in the richer parts of Asia have gone on marriage strike, preferring the single life to the marital yoke. That is one reason why their fertility rates have fallen. And they are not alone. In 83 countries and territories …

Subjects: Knowledge Management

New York Magazine – The Encyclopedia of 9/11

The Encyclopedia of 9/11: “Here in New York City, we heard it first, the drone of the plane down the West Side, surprisingly loud. Then, if we were outside, our heads pointed in the right direction, we could see it: the dull-red gash in the North Tower, smoking ominously. Just as wed begun to absorb …

Subjects: Government Documents, Knowledge Management

UK Telegraph: Internet and supermarkets kill off 2,000 bookshops

James Hall, Consumer Affairs Editor – “Heavy discounting by supermarkets, the rise of internet retailers and the growing popularity of e-readers such as the Kindle have forced nearly 2,000 bookshops to close since 2005. There were 2,178 high street bookshops left in Britain in July, according to research carried out by Experian, the data company, …

Subjects: Knowledge Management

Glassfoor.com: Top 25 Companies for Career Opportunities

Top Companies for Career Opportunities (2011) – “Employees have reported how their companies rate when it comes to opportunities for professional growth and career advancement find out which 25 companies rate the highest.” See also Best Places to Work Employees’ Choice Awards – “Glassdoor.com is excited to announce our third annual Employees’ Choice …

Subjects: Knowledge Management

Nursing and physician attire as possible source of nosocomial infections

“Uniforms worn by medical and nursing staff are not usually considered important in the transmission of microorganisms. We investigated the rate of potentially pathogenic bacteria present on uniforms worn by hospital staff, as well as the bacterial load of these microorganisms…Up to 60% of hospital staffs uniforms are colonized with potentially pathogenic bacteria, including drug-resistant …

Subjects: Knowledge Management

Gallup: More U.S. Workers Unhappy With Health Benefits, Promotions

Gallup, September 5, 2011 – Workers least satisfied with on-the-job stress, tangible rewards for their work, by Lymari Morales: “U.S. workers are more dissatisfied today with their health insurance benefits and their chances for promotion than they were before the global economic collapse. These are the biggest movers since August 2008 on a list of …

Subjects: Knowledge Management

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