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Bookshare without Borders: #3/3

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

In the first installment of this series, I described the Bookshare International library and where we hope to take it next. Digitally processing Arabic-language content is no easy task. Diacritics in Arabic are crucial to identifying how words are pronounced and to disambiguating their meanings.

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A New Marketing Paradigm: How Affordable, Active and Agile Technology Can Change Nonprofits

NTEN

Important constituent data sits in numerous, proprietary applications and formats, and frequently is duplicated in several data repositories that can only be resolved manually by a staff member or volunteer when he or she has time to run reports and then compare and sort the results.