Last week, a panel of experts at the National Academies of Science discussed the role of libraries in curation, preservation, and access to research data.
The discussion took place under the auspices of the National Research Council’s Board on Research Data and Information. The Board held its first meeting last year to carry out its mission “to improve the management, policy, and use of digital data and information for science and the broader society”. The Board is sponsored by the Library of Congress along with the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, and the Defense Technical Information Center.
At the Board’s meeting on June 3-4, members and guests examined issues relating to those subjects. The Board heard presentations from leaders of the Association of Research Libraries and the American Society for Information Science and Technology (which are ALA affiliates) as well as the Coalition for Networked Information (of which ALA is a member). Presenters noted progress toward public access for publicly-funded research, a goal ALA supports.
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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).
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The fallacy of information overload
Information overload: fact, fantasy or filter failure? 
