Tying the Threads Together

Tying It All Together

Kai Simons: tying things loosely together

It was an early experiment in his private life that taught cell biologist Kai Simons how helpful cooperation can be. His wife Carola, a dentist, his sister Majlen, his brother-in-law, cell biologist Ari Helenius, and he lived in the same house, not only sharing the babysitter for their five children but also taking turns to go home from work at four o’clock to play with the children. In experim...

Tying it all together: Inter-operable Topic-Centred Information Portals

In order to be more flexible in publishing information and improve accessibility of information for end-users, Oslo Municipality has funded the SUBLIMA project [25]. Within this project a stack of open source Semantic Web and Content Management System (CMS) components is used in order to deliver a flexible solution for publication of meta-data from libraries. Queries from a specific front-end a...

Eliciting and Combining Influence Diagrams: Tying Many Bowties Together

The work presented here is part of a research project to develop decision-support software for case managers in the Kentucky social welfare system. Welfare case managers help their clients plan participation in activities such as volunteer work, job readiness programs, substance abuse counselling, or study in high school or college, for example. The case manager’s advice is guided by her percep...

Interconnected and Innovative Libraries: Factors Tying Libraries More Closely Together

This article considers the many developments in technology and practice that are making libraries more connected and interdependent. It looks at new integrated online services and reviews the increasing importance of both formal and informal standards. Global centralized Web services are discussed. The relationships between information industry companies and libraries are considered. Virtual re...