Information Resources News

Hie Electronics Hosts Booth at Texas Department of Information Resources Power to Purchase Technology Expo 2012 The TeraStack Solution is an industry leader in energy efficiency by using a hybrid data architecture that moves fixed content onto lower cost storage tiers, coupled with Blu-ray media that is used to store the sleeping data, which ... (more)

On Wednesday, April 18, Harvard Library Strategic Conversations will sponsor an Oxford-style debate on the role of libraries.

Benjamin Lail's startup, Webcertiv Inc., is taking a different approach to providing website security, seeking to enable website operators to reduce the task's complexity.

About a week ago Simon St.Laurent posted a comment on Facebook in a thread about httpRange-14 . Alas I can't find Simon's original comment, but the gist was more or less: it's a bad idea to use HTTP URIs for anything that isn't directly associated with the HTTP protocol, e.g. as names for real-word things, concepts, "non-Information Resources" etc.

The U.S. Green Building Council's Center for Green Schools and McGraw Hill Research Foundation recently published a white paper entitled "The Impact of School Buildings on Student Health and Performance: A Call for Research." The white paper summarizes existing research and calls for further research on the link between green building strategies ... (more)