FUMSI Article: ISKO UK's Legal Know-How Event: Organization & Semantic Analysis

FUMSI Article: ISKO UK's Legal Know-How Event: Organization & Semantic Analysis: "ISKO UK is a not-for-profit scientific/professional association with the objective of promoting research and communication in the domain of knowledge organisation. The Legal Know-How event was held with the support of the Department of Information Studies, University College London (http://www.slais.ucl.ac.uk) on 10 November 2010, attracting over 80 participants. There were six excellent presentations (slides available from http://digbig.com/5bdate) from the field of legal knowledge organisation, kicked off with a legal practitioner's viewpoint, then through practical knowledge management work, to exciting research into using ontologies and challenges for the future."

Turning the page: The future of eBooks

Turning the page: The future of eBooks: "This new study examines trends and developments in the eBooks and eReaders market in the United States, United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Germany, and discusses major challenges and key questions for the publishing industry worldwide. It also identifies market opportunities and developments for eBooks and eReaders, and makes recommendations for publishers, traditional retailers, online retailers, and intermediaries.

Given that publishers, internet bookstores, and companies that manufacture eReaders have high expectations for the digital future of the book industry, the study asks if a new generation of eReaders may, at last, achieve the long-awaited breakthrough that lures consumers away from paper and ink."

Open Knowledge Foundation Blog » Blog Archive » Opening up linguistic data at the American National Corpus

Open Knowledge Foundation Blog » Blog Archive » Opening up linguistic data at the American National Corpus: "The American National Corpus (ANC) project is creating a collection of texts produced by native speakers of American English since 1990. Its goal is to provide at least 100 million words of contemporary language data covering a broad and representative range of genres, including but not limited to fiction, non-fiction, technical writing, newspaper, spoken transcripts of various verbal communications, as well as new genres (blogs, tweets, etc.). The project, which began in 1998, was originally motivated by three major groups: linguists, who use corpus data to study language use and change; dictionary publishers, who use large corpora to identify new vocabulary and provide examples; and computational linguists, who need very large corpora to develop robust language models—that is, to extract statistics concerning patterns of lexical, syntactic, and semantic usage—that drive natural language understanding applications such as machine translation and information search and retrieval (à la Google)."

Europeana - Europeana's Strategic Plan 2011-2015 - Europeana News - group

Europeana - Europeana's Strategic Plan 2011-2015 - Europeana News - group: "Europeana's Strategic Plan 2011-2015
January 14, 2011 10:08 AM
The Plan sets out a clear vision for the further development of Europeana. It focuses on four strategic tracks - aggregate, facilitate, distribute and engage - that will enable us to generate real value for our stakeholders.

In the light of the release this week of The New Renaissance, the Comité des Sages’ report on digital cultural heritage to the Commission, this is an opportune moment to look at Europeana’s future direction. Download the full colour version or the black and white print version of the Strategic Plan 2011-2015."