NEWS
Innovative Interfaces announces
investment partners
Library technology and services company Innovative Interfaces has received strategic investments from Huntsman Gay Global Capital and JMI Equity. Innovative’s founder and chairman Jerry Kline will continue to be directly involved in the company’s overall operation as chairman and shareholder. SkyRiver Technology Solutions, a provider of library metadata, which is also owned by Kline, also received investment. ‘Huntsman Gay and JMI take a long-term view on investments and bring great vision from outside the library marketplace,’ said Kline. ‘This new investment will provide the resources that will offer greater opportunities for the company’s future growth.’ Both partners saw ‘an opportunity to invest in a financially-strong and entrepreneurial company’.
News in Brief
RSC Publishing gets new managing director The Royal Society of Chemistry has appointed James Milne as managing director, publishing. Milne has worked in STM publishing for more than 20 years, with experience at Pergamon Press and then at Elsevier once Pergamon was acquired by the larger publisher. He has been editorial director, publishing at RSC since May 2009.
Partnership helps big data MarkLogic has joined the Hortonworks Technology Partner Program. Hortonworks is a major commercial vendor promoting the development
and support of Apache Hadoop, an open-source platform for storing, managing, and analysing large volumes of data. The aim of the partnership is for customers to be able to combine the power of the MapReduce framework seamlessly with MarkLogic’s real-time, interactive analysis and indexing on a single, unified platform.
IOP Publishing picks TEMIS TEMIS, which provides semantic content enrichment products, has signed a licence and services agreement with IOP Publishing (IOP). The new arrangement will include developing a Skill Cartridge using a new thesaurus developed from
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IOP’s physical sciences content. Skill Cartridges are domain-specific modules that extract metadata from text. The new cartridge will provide Luxid with the scientific vocabulary for the semantic enrichment of content in the physical sciences, to help ensure that the correct terms are identified and that specialist semantics are supported.
Founder and CEO of Access Innovations receives NFAIS award Marjorie M.K. Hlava, founder and CEO of Access Innovations, has received the Ann Marie Cunningham Award for outstanding service from NFAIS
(the National Federation of Advanced Information Services.)
Bibliotheca unveils single brand following mergers Three library technology companies that merged last June have now been brought together under a single brand, Bibliotheca.
The company, which provides RFID- based solutions to public, private and academic libraries, was formed by the merger in June 2011 of Bibliotheca (Switzerland), Intellident (UK) and Integrated Technology Group, ITG (North America) and enhanced by the acquisition of Trion Library Systems in January 2012.
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Text mining promises huge benefits but copyright law limits its use
A new JISC report in the UK shows that text mining has huge potential benefits, but its use is being held back by copyright law and other barriers. Text mining draws on data analysis techniques such as natural language processing and information extraction to find new knowledge and meaningful patterns within large collections.
The report shows that such techniques could enable researchers in UK universities to gain new knowledge that would otherwise remain undiscovered, because there is just too much relevant literature for any one person to read. Such discoveries could lead to benefits for society and the economy. However, it identifies a number of barriers that need
to be overcome to make best use of text mining tools in the future. Firstly, text mining is a complex technical process that requires skilled staff. It also requires unrestricted access to information sources and copyright can be a barrier. l For more on this story and other industry news, analysis and opinion, please go to
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ALBA Synchrotron selects archiving solutions
The ALBA Synchrotron Light Facility near Barcelona, Spain, which was completed in early 2011, has selected an eight- drive LTO5-based NEO 8000e tape library from Overland Storage in partnership with digital archiving and back-up solutions from Atempo. Supplied by Spanish reseller Flytech, the Overland NEO 8000e provides a long-term data storage and archiving solution for organisations with
massive amounts of data. The Overland solution enables ALBA to archive 250TB of data to the 1.5PB library in a two-month period.
Atempo Digital Archive’s (ADA) file-archiving and storage management capabilities are said to free space by allowing ALBA to migrate data automatically whilst ensuring cost effective, fast access as research continues.
The ALBA Synchotron Light Facility
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