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No separation between physical and digital

CILIP

And we’re taking this ability to unlock knowledge further by developing Lancaster Digital Collections for text mining. Think about users browsing shelves of print books who are unaware of the relevant ebooks the library has. The synthesis of digital and physical is reflected through our exhibitions.

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Why is most of the 20th Century invisible to AI?

CILIP

As chair of a university library committee, she has followed the current ebook pricing controversy and believes it is a symptom of a deeper problem. ?They?re Ebook pricing is symptomatic of many things that are wrong with the way the information environment works around universities and research. re fleecing us. I understand there?s

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Know your rights: the key to eBook access

CILIP

Know your rights: the key to eBook access. t refuse to sell paper books to libraries, but they can and do refuse to sell them eBooks. s work streams will focus on eLending, including eBook prices, licensing and legislation. the law made it clear that only licensed eBook PLR payments could be made. ?It Publishers can?t

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The whole sector needs to work together

CILIP

Ebooks have not been treated in the same way as the print books and there is a bit of a disconnect between different parts of the supply chain,? The bibliographic records we use for discovery for students for ebooks are often very far away from the standards we?d d like to see and students don? sometimes it?s the metadata.?

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How to Accelerate Government Transformation by Reducing Risk, Complexity, and Cost

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Gartner reported that 36% plan to increase spending on AI and machine learning , and 85% want to implement data-mining supported by machine learning until 2024. Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, important technologies for the roll out of “Smart Cities” are a priority for most government CIOs.