Library and Information Science
Kuali Foundation has announced the release of Kuali OLE 0.3, a milestone in open-source software development that addresses the functional needs of higher education research libraries for managing information resources. Kuali Open Library Environment is a robust, enterprise-wide, easy-to-use system for selecting, acquiring and describing library information resources that link with enterprise business processes and value-added external resources.
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Indiana University's Data to Insight Center (D2I) will share in an anticipated $8 million in funding from the National Science Foundation to advance the science of sustainability through the integration of social science, natural science and environmental data.
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Indiana University School of Library and Information Science faculty members will receive two of nine general awards to be presented during the 2011 annual meeting of the American Association for Information Science and Technology.
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Indiana University Bloomington School of Library and Information Science doctoral student Scott Weingart's research into what conditions yield the most rapid rates of scientific discovery and innovation will be supported through the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program.
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A new collaborative research center launched jointly by Indiana University and the University of Illinois, along with the HathiTrust Digital Repository, will develop cutting-edge software tools and cyberinfrastructure to enable advanced computational access to the growing digital record of human knowledge.
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Work by Indiana University's Katy Börner on visualizing knowledge and her Mapping Science exhibit have literally been around the globe -- on public display at the Chinese Academy of Science, on exhibit at Stanford University, and featured in the German Science Train's Expedition Zukunft (Expedition into the Future) in Europe that visited 62 cities during the previous seven months.
IU's Börner presented her work on Dec. 10, along with portions of the exhibit, where it may have more influence than ever -- The Rayburn House Office Building of the U.S. Capitol complex. The room was populated by an invitation-only group of congressional staffers and federal agency officials interested in understanding how members of Congress can utilize advanced data analysis and visualization techniques to track and communicate the flow of innovation in their respective states or voting districts.
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