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Friday, April 4th, 2008
At first sight it may seem that the translation of the personal names into Russian is not difficult enough. The Russian translation can be rather provisional, because private names are usually translated with the help of transliteration or transcription. In modern linguistics personal names are often defined as denominative lexical ...
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Friday, April 7th, 2006
Canada is working towards the development of a national guidance and standard for managing electronic records to meet evidentiary requirements in courts of law. Known as the Electronic Records as Document Evidence Standard it is slated for final and formal release in the coming weeks. The underlying philosophy of the ...
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Monday, April 18th, 2005
Knowledge management initiatives are often directed towards incomplete objectives. They sometimes lack key input ingredients and, too often, they fail to balance technology with human behaviour, motivation and corporate culture. Join Alan Breakspear, President of Ibis Research Inc., for this dynamic, interactive presentation/workshop and explore ways to improve the communication ...
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Wednesday, April 6th, 2005
There is nothing like a debate over the design and utility of taxonomies to get people's blood moving at the end of the day. One side will argue that taxonomies are old fashioned, expensive to create and unnecessary given today's search technology. The other camp believe that taxonomies are more ...
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Wednesday, April 6th, 2005
For cartographers, maps and mapping are more than just tools for location finding and street addresses. Cybermapping examines how �maps� are created and used in the new information era and economy to efficiently harness the exponential growth in available information. In this unique and forward thinking presentation Dr. Fraser Taylor ...
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Wednesday, April 6th, 2005
Information and knowledge management play a large and evolving role in the both the public and private sectors. Governments, like their private enterprise counterparts, have embraced technology to improve the delivery of existing services. Building upon this early experience, emerging innovations have also greatly enhanced the role that information and ...
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Wednesday, April 6th, 2005
Many content and information professionals have responsibilities for providing research and insight on competitors, customers, markets, technologies and the regulatory environment to their clients. The remarkable rise of e-content - in terms of quality, quantity and diversity - means that users of the web and information-based services can provide faster, ...
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Wednesday, April 6th, 2005
How can you effectively manage your electronic content assets to meet ever-changing business needs? Learn how the CIBC Knowledge Network (CKN) met this challenge by introducing a content lifecycle strategy to improve the management of its learning and information assets. Join Michele Fleet and Cheryl Schuster as they explore the ...
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Wednesday, April 6th, 2005
New Web tools -- search engines, metasearch engines, catalogs, and directories -- meet our eyeballs on a regular basis. Many arrive with a great deal of hype, some of it legitimate, much of it exaggerated. How can we effectively assess Web search tools in order to determine if they can ...
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Wednesday, April 6th, 2005
Designing effective learning experiences for a mobile market forces a re-examination of the instructional design principles normally associated with the content development process. Several significant issues affect the design process in the new mobile learning (m-learning) world: constantly changing PDA devices, uncertainties surrounding the type(s) of content that could work, ...
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