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The SSON and IQPC team thank you for participating in the 13th Shared Services Week™ in March 2009! Excitement for the next Shared Services event is certainly high – everyone is looking forward to another intense, interactive conference that mixes high-quality speakers and content with a dynamic platform!
This past Shared Services Week was a great success, gathering Shared Services professionals from around the globe for the most expansive program ever! With 7 field-focused tracks, additional expert speakers including 4 Chief Economists, a larger exhibit hall, new content and interactive sessions, this event had something for everyone – and we were pleased to hear our attendees’ approval.
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Music box. Remington typewriter. Checkerboard. Bible. These and other possessions of Frederick Douglass offer unique insights into the man called the father of the civil rights movement, whose determination, brilliance, and eloquence shaped the nation. more collections...
This paper examines user-?generated metadata as implemented and applied in two web services designed to share and organize digital media to better understand grassroots classification. Metadata - data about data - allows systems to collocate related information, and helps users find relevant information. The creation of metadata has generally been approached in two ways: professional creation and author creation. In libraries and other organizations, creating metadata, primarily in the form of catalog records, has traditionally been the domain of dedicated professionals working with complex, detailed rule sets and vocabularies. The primary problem with this approach is scalability and its impracticality for the vast amounts of content being produced and used, especially on the World Wide Web. The apparatus and tools built around professional cataloging systems are generally too complicated for anyone without specialized training and knowledge. A second approach is for metadata to be created by authors. The movement towards creator described documents was heralded by SGML, the WWW, and the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative. There are problems with this approach as well - often due to inadequate or inaccurate description, or outright deception. This paper examines a third approach: user-?created metadata, where users of the documents and media create metadata for their own individual use that is also shared throughout a community.
The SUR Awards program strives to connect the research and researchers at universities with personnel in IBM: in organizations such as IBM Research, IBM Life Sciences, IBM Global Services and our development and product labs. This program is not aimed at supporting a single individual or research project. Rather, the intent is to support and have an impact in an area of significant interest to the university and IBM.
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* Promote collaborative research projects that bring value to IBM, the technology community and our world
* sIncrease access to and successful use of IBM technologies for research and in curriculum
* Provide opportunities within IBM for undergraduate, graduate and Ph.D. students
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