Information World Review articles from January 2008

Information World Review archives from January 2008

Looking forward to 2008.(Brief article)
January 7, 2008... Byline: Mark Chillingworth Looking forward to 2008 This year looks set to be an exciting one for the information industry. It's unusual for an information management story to hit the national news headlines so in a way it has been...

the highs and lows of a turbulent year.(2007)
January 7, 2008... Byline: Mark Chillingworth the highs and lows of a turbulent year January High Andrew Gowers' IP review Dry European Library at risk of failure Beleaguered prime minister (but back then just chancellor of the exchequer)...

An archive as gripping as it is good.(The Economist)(Product/service evaluation)
January 7, 2008... Byline: Mark Chillingworth An archive as gripping as it is good The Economist has shown how backfile digitisation should be done. Mark Chillingworth hits the search button ' site review The Economist magazine is the media and...

Open up a can of widgets.
January 7, 2008... Byline: Matthew Sparkes Open up a can of widgets In late May social networking site Facebook launched a platform that effectively opens the site up to third-party developers. The platform allows the creation of Facebook applications A-...

Security in tatters as more data goes AWOL.
January 7, 2008... Byline: Laura Smith Security in tatters as more data goes AWOL Laura Smith Public trust in the ability of government bodies to handle personal data securely was further undermined last month by more blunders involving the loss and...

PI and BvD discover the perfect fit.(Perfect Information and Bureau van Dijk Electronic Publishing )(Brief article)
January 7, 2008... Byline: Laura Smith PI and BvD discover the perfect fit Laura Smith Online information provider Perfect Information (PI) has signed a deal with one of its rivals, Brussels-based Bureau van Dijk Electronic Publishing (BvD), to make...

Axe falls on FT Research.(Financial Times Research Centre)(Brief article)
January 7, 2008... Byline: Laura Smith Axe falls on FT Research The FT Research Centre, which has offered high-level companies and markets research to private clients for nearly 40 years, is to be closed down next year, IWR has learned. The...

Kiosque illuminates world of medieval manuscripts.(Brief article)
January 7, 2008... Byline: Kim Thomas Kiosque illuminates world of medieval manuscripts Kim Thomas A new exhibition of medieval manuscripts at the Royal Armouries in Leeds showcases a technology that lets visitors examine digital pictures of the...

Euro library prototype in 2008.
January 7, 2008... Byline: Laura Smith Euro library prototype in 2008 Laura Smith A comprehensive European Digital Library that brings together cultural material from libraries, archives and museums across the EU has moved a step closer to reality....

Blogosphere jan08.( Roddy MacLeod )(Interview)
January 7, 2008... Byline: Mark Chillingworth He's an award winner and an information professional at the leading edge of where the industry is going. Roddy MacLeod tells IWR about his involvement in trailblazing blogging Q Where is your blog or blogs?...

The time has come for the semantic web to SPARQL.
January 7, 2008... Byline: David Tebbutt The time has come for the semantic web to SPARQL PodTech recently published three videos of Sir Tim Berners-Lee in action. The first was a presentation of the semantic web at HP Labs in Palo Alto, California, the...

BioMed adds DSpace internet distribution to Open Repository.(Brief article)
January 7, 2008... Byline: Tracey Caldwell BioMed adds DSpace internet distribution to Open Repository Tracey Caldwell Open access publisher BioMed Central has boosted its Open Repository with open source features from digital content distributor...

Public health wins build on core strengths for Sage.
January 7, 2008... Byline: Tracey Caldwell Public health wins build on core strengths for Sage Sage has added two public health journals to its stable with deals to publish society journal Scandinavian Journal of Public Health (SJPH) and the Asia-Pacific...

news page 6.
January 7, 2008... Byline: Tracey Caldwell Cambridge University Press (CUP), University College London (UCL) and content provider MyiLibrary have got together to put textbooks online in a pilot project to measure usage. Aviva Weinstein, senior marketing...

Thomson weaves China into ISI Web.
January 7, 2008... Byline: Tracey Caldwell Thomson weaves China into ISI Web Tracey Caldwell Thomson Scientific has brought China into the Web of Knowledge with a tie-up with the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The Chinese Science Citation Database...

OUP stacks its e-books on OCLCi?1/2s shelves.
January 7, 2008... Byline: Laura Smith OUP stacks its e-books on OCLC's shelves Laura Smith A range of e-book titles published by Oxford University Press (OUP) is to be made available to libraries worldwide as a result of a deal OUP has struck with...

Nature makes genome chain officially free.
January 7, 2008... Byline: Kim Thomas Nature makes genome chain officially free Kim Thomas Nature Publishing Group has introduced a Creative Commons licence for articles in scientific journal Nature that publish the primary sequence of an organism's...

Housing.
January 7, 2008... Byline: Laura Smith Emerald puts journal onto housing market Emerald is to publish the journal of the European Real Estate Society, writes Laura Smith. The Journal of European Real Estate Research will bring academic research on...

NIBS.
January 7, 2008... Byline: mark chillingworth Maney puts medieval and modern Midlands online Journal publisher Maney is to publish Midland History and expand the journal's presence online. Midland History studies England from the Middle Ages to the...

Wales urges librarians to help build better Wikipedia.
January 7, 2008... Byline: mark chillingworth Wales urges librarians to help build better Wikipedia Mark Chillingworth Jimmy Wales, one of the founders of online encyclopaedia phenomenon Wikipedia, has called on librarians to become deeply involved...