Information Access Alliance: Challenging anticompetitive behavior in academic publishing
Professional Reading (and Listening) Shelf Data Mining
Source: The Kojo Nnamdi Show/WAMU Radio Program Discusses Data Mining (RealAudio)
From the description, "Data mining searches large databases for unexpected patterns of data - and it's used by everyone from Amazon to political campaigns to government and law resources. But some say the technology crosses the lines of public versus private information." Guests:
+ Usama Fayyad, Founder and president, DMX Group, a business and technology consulting group
+ Lee Strickland, Visiting Professor and Director, Center for Information Policy, University of Maryland, College Park
+ Nick Gillespie, Editor-in-Chief, Reason magazine
+ Angelique Waller, artist, author "Data Mining the Amazon"
The program was broadcast on WAMU, a public radio station in Washington, DC, and runs about one hour.
-- Scholarly Communication
Source: C&RL News New Article, Information Access Alliance: Challenging anticompetitive behavior in academic publishing
This intro to the IAA was written by Mary M. Case, Director of the Office of Scholarly Communication at the Association of Research Libraries.
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