DCLnews Blog

Sizing Up the iPad for Healthcare

DCLnews Editorial — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 20:16:34 +0000

MobiHealthNews has produced a 25-page report on the iPad and tablet PCs in the healthcare field. Luckily for those of you still in light summer-reading mode, they were considerate enough also to offer a distillation of their findings in the form of an easy-to-understand infographic.

Game On: iPad’s Got Competition

DCLnews Editorial — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 17:11:50 +0000

It looks as though the iPad's brief stint as the only must-have tablet device on the market may be coming to an end as competitors begin announcing their new "iPad-killers."

Better Contracts and Proposals with DITA

DCLnews Editorial — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 17:10:52 +0000

Solutions consultant and OASIS DITA Technical Committee member Su-Laine Yeo explains how DITA's content-reuse model can maximize data efficiency and prevent costly errors.

A Web by Any Other Name: Why We Need to Know About the Semantic Web

DCLnews Editorial — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:02:52 +0000

Richard Oppenheim, CPA, and Unlimited Priorities team member, discusses the significance of the emergent semantic web and why it may arrive sooner than we think.

Web Search Is About to Get a Whole Lot Smarter

DCLnews Editorial — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 18:56:15 +0000

Google's recently-announced acquisition of Metaweb, a company that Google describes rather vaguely as maintaining "an open database of things in the world," promises to realize the type of free, far-reaching human-language semantic web search that has up till now has been more speculative fantasy than reality.

Here Come the Enhanced E-Books

DCLnews Editorial — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 16:49:45 +0000

At the outset, e-books started out as little more than digital words on digital paper. But as many predicted would happen, the e-book boom has allowed the e-book to come into its own as a distinct medium.

PDF Conversion: How, For Whom, and When?

DCLnews Editorial — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 20:53:56 +0000

This DCL classic white paper is still a must-read for anyone considering converting their documents to PDF format. Broken up into four sections, it includes details on the issues involved in converting to the three different types of PDF files (PDF Image Only, PDF Normal, PDF Searchable Image) as well as information about estimated prices for PDF conversion.

Improving the E-Reader: Kevin Rose on What E-Books Should Offer Consumers

DCLnews Editorial — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 16:23:18 +0000

Kevin Rose shares some interesting suggestions for how e-readers could and should take advantage of technology they already have in order to become the socially oriented devices they were destined to be.

Seeing Standards: A Visualization of the Metadata Universe

DCLnews Editorial — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 19:46:11 +0000

Indiana University Libraries have produced a beautiful visualization of metadata standards, comprising what they term "the metadata universe."

Interview with Deep Web Technologies’ Abe Lederman

DCLnews Editorial — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 11:46:55 +0000

Abe Lederman, President and CEO of Deep Web Technologies, discusses federated search, the deep web, and the future of information retrieval. (Interview by Barbara Quint, Editor-in-Chief of Searcher magazine and Unlimited Priorities team member.)