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The article presents the discussion on renewed interest in conscription and military matters, highlighting the need for rapid expansion of a "citizen army" in the event of a war with Russia. Topics include inclusion of armed forces publications in the JURN search tool, the variety of individuals interested in military information, and the challenges of accessing and maintaining military archives.

The article delves into the perplexities of Perplexity, a conversational search engine, navigating its evolution amidst the AI chatbot landscape. Topics include Perplexity's foundation, its products Perplexity Ask and Perplexity Pro with distinct features, and a comparison of various AI chatbots including GPT-4, Google's Search Generative Experience, and Perplexity, suggesting a shift away from traditional search engine models towards consolidated web content solutions.

The article offers information on a volunteer group that restores graves in a large, old cemetery with over 40,000 graves. Topics include the challenges of gravestone repair due to ground erosion and aging, the documentation process using Find a Grave, the history and scope of Find a Grave as a collaborative project with millions of records, and the usefulness of Find a Grave for documenting and researching graves, including its search interface and additional links to genealogical databases.

The article evaluates the Claude generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) chatbot developed by Anthropic.

The article focuses on Precisely's expansion of its data enrichment and geo addressing capabilities with Address Fabric and Property Attributes, aiming to enhance location-based data insights globally through its PreciselyID identifier.

The article offers information on the winner of the BUDDIE (Best Unknown Database) award, recognizing databases with significant content yet less recognition. This year's recipient, AI Index, emerges as a crucial navigator in the evolving landscape of information creation. The article introduces the BUDDIE award, given to the Best Unknown Database, emphasizing its importance, well-designed structure, and relative obscurity compared to its significance.

The article focuses on KX's launch of KDB.AI Server, a high-performance vector database designed for time-oriented generative artificial intelligence (AI) and contextual search. Topics include the ease of deployment across various environments, the incorporation of temporal and semantic context into AI applications, and the optimization for retrieval augmented generation (RAG) patterns.

The article discusses that the pandemic has accelerated digital adoption in every corner of the organization and moved knowledge flows into systems where they can be mined, managed, and optimized through "smart" capabilities. It mentions that the survey respondents overwhelmingly say that strengthening norms and guidelines would make virtual collaboration in their workplaces effective. INSET: Associative engines make connections.

The article evaluates an online database SlaveVoyages, that meticulously catalogs thousands of trans-Atlantic and intra-American slave ship voyages over centuries, including the winner of the BUDDIE, the annual Database Review Award for Best Unknown Database.

The article discusses that the Searchable Museum of the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) is a recent and major addition to the world's roster of virtual museums. It mentions that the NMAAHC opened in 2016, and it was at once a handsome addition to the National Mall and a major resource for the African American experience.

In the article, the author discusses the Waves of the Chapman University Survey of American Fears (CSAF) project by the university's Division on the Study of American Fears. Among the topics covered by the surveys are violent and white-collar crimes, societal conflicts, and paranormal fears like ghosts and zombies. Based on the results, women are generally more fearful than men.

The article discusses the Global State of Democracy 2021 (GSoD) report, which states that GSoD is a massive project that synthesizes large datasets into a coherent framework for understanding the troubled status of democratic institutions. It is noted that the 2021 GSoD covers 165 countries and its discussion concentrates on major dataset covers 1975–2020. It is noted that GSoD uses a two-level classification for organizing democratic institutions.

The article presents an interview with Matti Shem, chief executive officer at ProQuest. He discusses characteristics of company that make it unique. He explained about merging of ProQuest and Ex Libris which both involved in the process. He explained about dealing of Ex Libris and ProQuest with same librarian.

The article focuses on the original alternative fact, referring to the size of an inauguration crowd, was widely ridiculed, and seems mild, and even quaint, when compared to today's far more dangerous alternative facts.

The article focuses on understanding pros and cons before financing for election campaign. Topics discussed include understanding the laws, regulations, and trends concerning campaign financing; addressing new issues, court cases, and federal directions before financing the z same; and addressing Campaign Finance Institute's database of state campaign finance laws.

The article reports on the announcement of London, England-based technology company Digital Science that Dimensions, a new platform that aims to transform scholarly search, making previously hidden information available to researchers. The platform offers more than 9 million OA articles, 124 million formerly siloed documents, 86 million articles and books, and 34 million patents. The publication and citation data is freely available to individual researchers.

The article focuses on the growth of the Internet of Things (IoT) in industrial and commercial usage which is one of the main drivers in Big Data's expansion. According to Stan Lequin of Insight, companies can already pull client endpoint data and analyze it. The impact of IoT across the board, with manufacturing, transportation, utilities, and healthcare leading the way is emphasized.

The article presents the highlights of the Global Gender Gap Report released by the Centre for the New Economy and Society in March 2021. Topics discussed include the 0.6% decline in the overall global gender gap for 2021, role of the COVID-19 pandemic in the global gender gap, and emergence of Scandinavian, Western European and sub-Saharan countries as the 10 countries with the smallest gender gaps.

A personal narrative is presented which explores the author's experience of being dropped Amazon Fire HD 8 tablet, shattering the screen, and didn't hesitate to replace it with a newer Fire.

The article focuses on data Resources for Tracking and Understanding Police Violence. Topics discussed include the Police Data Initiative's datasets are from the National Police Foundation; and the Police Data Initiative "includes leading law enforcement agencies, technologists, and researchers committed to engaging their communities in a partnership to improve public safety that is built on a foundation of trust, accountability and innovation."

The article reviews the web site BoardReader, located at boardreader.com).

The article discusses how primary sources such as the statutes, cases, and regulations created and enforced by local, state, and federal governmental bodies in the U.S. It reports that In addition to their rulemaking powers, federal and state agencies issue guidance documents, policy statements, and rulings on certain types of cases.

The article discusses the internal divisions in the U.S. on vital matters of governance, economics, and values have gotten deeper and angrier. Topics include the Fragile States Index (FSI), has developed 12 Indicators of a nation's political and economic strength, internal cohesion, and social stability; and the FSI demonstrates that has occured in even the world's richest and apparently stable nations.

The article discusses that the Database Review which annually chooses the BUDDIE winner for the Best Unknown Database. It mentions that the Alan Lomax, an energetic polymath, continued to record throughout the U.S., especially the South, for years, and he conducted numerous recording trips in the Caribbean.

The article presents 2012 news on libraries and information technology. The company Gartner Inc. has reported that global use of cloud services are expected to grow 19.6% and surpass $109 billion by the end of 2012.The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research announced that it has signed up as members with BioMed Central Ltd. and SpringerOpen open access journals. Qatar National Library announced that it has partnered with Innovative Interfaces, Inc. to translate resources into Arabic.

The article focuses on the use of user feedback in the development of agile workflow and platform products. President Karen Abramson of health sciences database company Ovid Technologies comments on the need for users to access content at the point of use and suggests customers are driving the product development process. Erik Lindberg, director of new product development at business data provider Thomson Reuters, talks about how the tablet computer iPad was embraced by attorneys.

This section offers news briefs related to the information industry. Ebrary formed a partnership with the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, adding 300 AIAA ebooks to the ebrary platform. Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) and InfoChem GmbH announced that their research teams will collaborate on technology in cheminformatics. Agence France-Presse has made an agreement with The Yomiuri Shimbun to provide AFP clients with news photos from Japan.

This section offers news briefs related to information services in the U.S. in January 2012. Social networking site Facebook has purchased the location-sharing social network Gowalla Inc. AIP Publishing has partnered with Publishing Technology on the next generation of Scitation, which is the online publishing platform of the American Institute of Physics (AIP) for science and technology content. Oracle Corp. has acquired RightNow Technologies Inc.

The article reports on how companies ad organizations in the information industry are helping the underserved worldwide especially in developing countries where access to books is difficult or non-existent. It cites some examples such as the School on Wheels program of Springer Science+ Business Media in Pune, India and the 12 Knowledge Centers of Arid Lands Information Network (ALIN) in Eastern Africa. Another is Thomas Reuters' mentoring program for minors in Greenwich, East London, England. INSET: Light From the Library.

This section provides news briefs on the information services industry as of December 2010. Serials Solutions has enhanced its 360 services suite for discovery. ISYS Search Software plans to update its text extraction, printing and viewing platform. The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) plans to introduce its IEEE eLearning Library.

The article evaluates several products including the SpringerLink service from Springer, the Thieme E-Book Library Platform from Thieme Publishing Group, and the ProQuest African American Heritage genealogy service from ProQuest.

This section offers news briefs on new products of the information services industry as of April 2010. Gale has released the updated editions of the electronic books "New Catholic Encyclopedia Supplement" and "Human Diseases and Conditions." Dow Jones will launch a unified Web site for reprint and back issues orders of its content partners. EBSCO Publishing partnered with the Turkish Academic Network and Information Centre or ULAKBIM to allow Turkish users access EBSCO's services by adding a series of Turkish databases.

This section offers news briefs on the information services industry as of February 2010. Thomson Reuters decided to add data about ongoing clinical trials and their results to its Thomson Pharma database. World Textiles has been acquired EBSCO Publishing from Elsevier. Automation developer SirsiDynix introduced the software package Symphony 3.3.1.

The article provides information on the Yahoo News Feed dataset offered by Yahoo Labs.

This section offers news briefs on the information services industry as of June 2009. The Mylecule Facebook application has been introduced by the American Chemistry Council. About 400 authors and artist profiles have been added to the Junior Authors & Illustrators biography database by the H.W. Wilson Co. The publishing duties for the "Journal of Biorheology" have been transferred to Springer Science+Business Media.

The article offers insights for law librarians on using print or electronic sources in their search for information. The two categories of legal materials, namely, primary sources which include statutes, cases and regulations, and secondary sources which include journal articles, legal newsletters and treatises, are discussed. Primary and secondary sources can be found using the Internet. The legal databases Westlaw and LexisNexis are recommended for law librarians.

The article reports that publishing company ProQuest is seeking to acquire software company Ex Libris Group from private equity company Golden Gate Capital. The acquisition will lead to the creation of a business unit called Ex Libris, a ProQuest Co. to be headed by Ex Libris president and chief executive officer (CEO) Matti Shem-Tov. The increasing price tag for Ex Libris Group, considering previous acquisitions by other companies, is said to reflect the nature of private equity investments.

The article presents information on enterprise search, which refers to the searching of documents by companies on the Internet. It is mentioned that companies are unable to get all their information on a single database. It is stated that a successful enterprise search tool should make those documents available to the people who need them, but should never appear when searched by unauthorized personnel.

The article discusses issues related to efficient searching of enterprise electronic information. In a survey of over 600 companies, it was found that searching for and accessing content consumed over 24% of the typical information worker's time. Information volumes are expanding rapidly and information itself is becoming more complex. Business-relevant data, scattered across disparate internal and external sources such as file systems Web pages and databases, has become more difficult for knowledge workers to acquire what they are looking for.

The article focuses on the emergence of the Extensible Markup Language (XML)-based content management (CM). XML CM is a specific style of content management in which content is created with an XML editor and saved into the database in standard XML. It has the greatest appeal in companies producing complex technical documentation such as manufacturing, aviation, or technology, but also for publishers and marketing departments that want to produce content once and use it many times in many formats. One of the factors contributing to the rise of the XML CM niche is the emergence of the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) standard, which was originally developed by IBM and now is an OASIS XML standard for creating technical documentation.

The article reviews the web site Unlawful Shield, located at unlawfulshield.com, from the Cato Institute.

The article focuses on DifferenceBetween.com (DB's) which contains short articles that explain the differences between similar but commonly misunderstood words and concepts, such as who vs. whom, laptop vs. tablet. Topics include the DBs cover a wide range of subjects, particularly sci-tech topics for students and tech workers; the DBs have the same record structure, as if each adopted a common; and the DBs seems to use a small group of contributors.

The article focuses on the Women's Issues and Identities which contains a wide-ranging set of sources from U.S. and European perspectives. Topics include the records of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America from 1918 to 1974; records from smaller, grassroots women's organizations that encouraged women's liberation from men; and a collection of European women's periodicals spanning 1840–1940.

The article discusses the University of Richmond's Digital Scholarship Lab database which highlights American history via digital curations.

The article offers information on Database Review's annual BUDDIE award for Best Unknown Database of 2019 to Climate Signals which provides analysis and news on climate change.

The article offers news related to the information industry in the U.S. as of September 2006. The 2006 Wilson Award by the American Society of Indexers and H.W. Wilson Co. was presented to Charlee Trantino of Harvey's Lake, Pennsylvania. Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals has launched its training and development program for the autumn season. A report on database availability was released by the Independent Oracle Users Group.

Offers eight e-mail marketing tips. Views of Jim Cecil, president of Nurture Marketing, on e-mail; Advice on building a targeted mailing list; Factors to consider in creating a database. INSET: build your email reputation.

The article presents news briefs on the information services industry as of June 1, 2006. 1.5 million .eu Internet domain names were registered in the European Union within a week of the general launch. Swets Information Services and the Ex Libris Group announced the completion of the EDI trials they have been conducting with the University College London. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office awarded a contract to Thomson Scientific to create a value-added international patent database. AOL decided to retire the name America Online and just stick to AOL. Nielsen BookData and The British Library have agreed to have BookData incorporate the library's data records into its products and services.

The article present the history of American mass shootings, incidents in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, during the first weekend of August stood out. Topic include the Gun Violence Archive (GVA; gunviolencearchive.org) provides extensive data and up-to-date tracking on American gun violence; and GVA researchers involve news media, police reports, and government agency data.