Buzz - Crm

• 23rd International CODATA Conference

  Alex Ball reports on a conference on ‘Open Data and Information for a Changing Planet’ held by the International Council for Science’s Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA) at Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan on 28–31 October 2012.

• CIG Conference 2010: Changes in Cataloguing in 'Interesting Times'

  Rhiannon McLoughlin reports on a three-day conference on cataloguing in a time of financial stringency, held by the CILIP Cataloguing and Indexing Group at Exeter University, from 13-15 September 2010.

• The European Film Gateway

  Georg Eckes and Monika Segbert describe a Best Practice Network funded under the eContentplus Programme of the European Commission, which is building a portal for access to film archival resources in Europe.

• The JISC Annual Conference 2007

  Philip Pothen and colleagues provide an overview of the proceedings of this Spring's JISC Annual Conference.

• The (Digital) Library Environment: Ten Years After

  Lorcan Dempsey considers how the digital library environment has changed in the ten years since Ariadne was first published.

• The National Centre for Text Mining: Aims and Objectives

  Sophia Ananiadou, Julia Chruszcz, John Keane, John McNaught and Paul Watry describe NaCTeM's plans to provide text mining services for UK academics.

• Content Management Systems: Who Needs Them?

  Paul Browning and Mike Lowndes explore the CMS concept and look at the available tools.

• The Klearinghouse: An Inventory of Knowledge Technologies

  George Brett discusses part of a model of distributed user support, The Klearinghouse. The National Laboratory for Applied Network Research (NLANR) has been actively supporting high performance applications and networking for the past five years. The Klearinghouse is a next generation effort of the Advanced Applications Clearinghouse which is in the Distributed Applications Support Team of the NLANR.