The January/February 2010 Issue of D-Lib Magazine is Now Available
When you first hit the site you'll notice D-Lib's new design (Impressive!) along with the names of a new Editor-in-Chief (Laurence Lannom) and Managing Editor (Catherine Rey). Bonita Wilson stays on as a Contributing Editor.
+ Digital Object Repository Server: A Component of the Digital Object Architecture
by Article by Sean Reilly and Robert Tupelo-Schneck, Corporation for National Research Initiatives
+ Technologies Employed to Control Access to or Use of Digital Cultural Collections: Controlled Online Collections
by Kristin R. Eschenfelder, University of Wisconsin-Madison and Grace Agnew, Rutgers University
+ The Use of Metadata for Educational Resources in Digital Repositories: Practices and Perspectives
by Dimitrios A. Koutsomitropoulos, Andreas D. Alexopoulos, Georgia D. Solomou, and Theodore S. Papatheodorou, University of Patras
+ RDA Vocabularies: Process, Outcome, Use
by Diane Hillmann, Information Institute of Syracuse, Metadata Management Associates; Karen Coyle, kcoyle.net; Jon Phipps, JES & Co., Metadata Management Associates; Gordon Dunsire, University of Strathclyde
+ D-Lib Magazine: Its First 13 Years
by Taemin Kim Park, Indiana University Libraries
+ Tagging Full Text Searchable Articles: An Overview of Social Tagging Activity in Historic Australian Newspapers August 2008 — August 2009
by Rose Holley, Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program (ANDP), National Library of Australia
+ FERPA and Student Work: Considerations for Electronic Theses and Dissertations
by Marisa Ramirez, California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo and Gail McMillan, Virginia Tech
+ The Virtual Journals of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics
by Richard H. Cyburt, Sam M. Austin, Timothy C. Beers, Alfredo Estrade, Ryan M. Ferguson, Alexander Sakharuk, Hendrik Schatz, Karl Smith, and Scott Warren, Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics (JINA)
You'll also find Conference Reports; In the News; Clips and Pointers; Meetings, Conferences, Workshops
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Recently I have found myself cooing over visualisation maps (and heat maps) of health and well being resources. The content rich data is overlayed with mapping technologies, and some interesting themes and patterns are emerging.
A lot of the talk around social media in the last year has been around information overload. Social media has provided us with new and exciting ways to create content. But it has also meant learning new ways to manage and engage with social media tools. Are we teetering on the edge of an information overload precipice?
Information overload is a figment of your imagination. Or a failure of your filter. Or a symptom of your technological submissiveness. Depends on who you ask.
What if you had to sort through 3.5 million articles and social media posts a day and try to pull out the most relevant items for your organisation? What if you then had to cobble it all together into something readable for your top groups and executives in your organisation?
Alacra Compliance saves time by aggregating information from both free and fee-based sources and enabling users to conduct an accurate federated search across these sources (coined “simultaneous search” by Alacra).
FreePint Family
Quilting big data threads
The fallacy of information overload
Information overload: fact, fantasy or filter failure? 
