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Zepheira Helps Libraries Tell Their Stories on the Web
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by Brandi Scardilli
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Zepheira, a professional services turned product company, started working on unlocking data to reach new audiences, not only to attract new customers, but also to correct a problem its team was seeing: Not everyone's data was visible on the web. This was especially true for libraries and other cultural heritage institutions. Today, its main goal is to help libraries gain more visibility on the web through the use of linked data.
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NISO Produces Three Recommended Practice Drafts on Altmetrics
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NISO (National Information Standards Organization) released three draft recommended practices that are now open for public comment through June 11, 2016: Alternative Outputs in Scholarly Communications: Data Metrics, Persistent Identifiers in Scholarly Communications, and Alternative Outputs in Scholarly Communications.
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OCLC Helps Spanish-Speaking Parents Find Books
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OCLC partnered with UCI (Univision Communications, Inc.) to help parents using UCI's Key to Success discover nearby libraries and recommended books via WorldCat. Parents can use the Key to Success Reading Log to view grade-specific recommendations and then click on the image of a book to view it in WorldCat.
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APA Rolls Out Data Mining Tool
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The American Psychological Association (APA) launched PsycINFO Data Solutions, a publication and citation data mining service for content in APA's behavioral science databases. These databases consist of journals from more than 50 countries that are published in more than 29 languages.
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Gale Debuts U.S. Fiction Primary Sources Archive
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Gale added the new digital archive American Fiction, 1774-1920 to its Gale Primary Sources program. It offers more than 17,500 fictional works, such as novels and short stories, as well as fictitious biographies, travel accounts, and sketches.
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3M Cloud Library Adds Pay-Per-Use Pricing
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bibliotheca will introduce pay-per-use pricing models to the 3M Cloud Library. Instead of paying for content up front in full, libraries will be able to offer titles from publishers such as Blackstone Audio and Hachette Audio and pay only when a title is downloaded.
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National Digital Stewardship Residents Present Their Preservation Projects
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by Barbie E. Keiser
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On May 5, 2016, the 2015-2016 Washington, D.C., cohort of the National Digital Stewardship Residency (NDSR) program hosted a symposium, Digital Frenemies: Closing the Gap in Born-Digital and Made-Digital Curation (#ndsr16) at the National Library of Medicine (NLM). ... Speakers from cultural heritage and academic institutions addressed the relationship between digitized and born-digital materials as they highlighted efforts to preserve complex software and game technologies through emulation, create cultural digital collections through mobile public library labs, collect and curate data, and resolve workflow issues and infrastructure challenges in large and small organizations.
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