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Tuesday, February 06, 2018
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Twitter as a Tool for Studying Emotions
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by Nancy K. Herther
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Everything users are able to do on Twitter provides potential data for researchers hoping to better understand changing attitudes and behavior. Guides and software have been created to help academics, individuals, and companies access Twitter data for their own analysis.
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Semantic Enrichment and the Information Manager: Turning Content into Insight
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"Information managers must balance the needs of multiple internal constituencies to support information discovery and manage subscription usage and budgets," according to Copyright Clearance Center's new white paper. "The challenge is that more than 90% of organizational data is unstructured, as is nearly all the peer-reviewed scientific research." Download the white paper to find out how semantic enrichment can help structure that data.
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EFF Unveils a List of the Tools That Could Have Been
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) released its "Catalog of Missing Devices," which lists "the gadgets that could and should exist, if not for bad copyright laws that prevent innovators from creating the cool new tools that could enrich our lives."
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The Getty Center Celebrates 20 Years With New Report
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The J. Paul Getty Trust published its latest annual report, "The Getty Center at Twenty." The chairwoman of the board of trustees, Maria Hummer-Tuttle, writes a statement on the organization's accomplishments.
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Thomasnet.com Gets Updates
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Thomas rolled out version 4.0 of its Thomasnet.com platform on its 120th anniversary. (The company was founded Jan. 31, 1898.) Version 4.0 features "the all new Thomas Insights section, which offers more than 300,000 articles, videos and white papers on manufacturing innovations" and more.
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LGBT+ Advocates Aim to Influence Amazon’s HQ2 Choice
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Activists are calling on Amazon to reject some of the cities on its list of 20 finalists for a second headquarters due to unfriendly policies toward LGBT+ workers. A campaign is underway to discourage Amazon from choosing cities such as Atlanta, Dallas, Indianapolis, or Miami. ...
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EBSCO and ByWater Join Forces to Support Migration to FOLIO
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EBSCO Information Services and ByWater Solutions expanded their partnership to give libraries using the FOLIO library services platform (LSP) implementation and support services from ByWater that are backed by EBSCO's hosting technology and data services.
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Oscar Nominees Through a Librarian Lens
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by Brandi Scardilli
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The next Oscars ceremony is coming up on March 4, so let's take a look at this year's Best Picture nominees and how they have been interpreted to relate to what's currently going on in the world.
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