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Scientific Racism vs. Modern Genetics
Classifications have been around forever. In science, in information management, in the grocery store aisles and in society. This interesting topic came to us from The Guardian in their article, “How to fight racism using science.” Racism is a prejudice that has a longstanding relationship with science. Looking back, the invention of race occurred when men…
Read MoreDigital Data Archives
The new decade is here and among others, the media archive landscape is going through significant changes. TV Technology brought this topic to our attention in their article, “Using The Cloud To Unlock The Value Of Your Assets.” Media archive is often referred to as a digital asset management system (DAM). The need and desire to…
Read MoreOrganizing the Vocabulary
Controlled vocabulary is an organized arrangement of words and phrases used to index content and/or to retrieve content through browsing or searching. It typically includes preferred and variant terms and has a defined scope or describes a specific domain. Controlled vocabularies such as those in a taxonomy, thesaurus, and ontology, are the main terminological resources that play a key…
Read MoreNew Acquisition for EBSCO Increases Connectionality
EBSCO Information Services has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Zepheira – provider of large-scale, decentralized linked data infrastructure. EBSCO brought us this news in their press release, “EBSCO Information Services Acquires Linked Data Infrastructure Provider, Zepheira.” Zepheira’s mission is to connect libraries, archives and museums by uncovering previously hidden data and insights for patrons and facilitates connections between…
Read MoreEmerging Technologies in Everyday Life
Terms like artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning and natural language processing (NLP) are more common than ever before. But how many people actually know what they are and more importantly, what they are not? The Enterpriser’s Project brought this interesting topic to our attention in their article, “Artificial intelligence (AI) vs. natural language processing (NLP):…
Read MoreWomen in STEM
Females in science and technologies fields have always less been than optimum. In an era when women are increasingly prominent in medicine, law and business, why are there so few women scientists and engineers? Columbus CEO brought this interesting topic to our attention in their article, “Women in Analytics brings women’s voices into industry conversation.” In…
Read MoreOpen Access and Democracy
In the current political climate, this academic topic felt very appropriate. It came to us from The Scholarly Kitchen in their article, “Will the Future of Scholarly Communication Be Pluralistic and Democratic, or Monocultural and Authoritarian?” The present and future of scholarly communication has never been more different. The struggle that is playing out right now…
Read MoreThe Science of Data
Data science is used in many types of applications in as many different business lines. Retail is likely close to the top of that list. CIO Dive brought this interesting topic to our attention in their article, “Target leans on data science to solve ‘extremely large’ retail problems.” The role of data science and artificial…
Read MoreAI and Machine Learning, Then and Now
Researchers in the fields of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning are developing computer programs that can not only sort through large amounts of data, but learn from it and inform future strategic decisions. Washington State University (WSU) brought this topic to our attention in their article, “Using machine learning to solve real-world data problems for…
Read MoreFindability with Metadata
Metadata has made the news for great things and not so great things. What does the future look like for this informational and findability tool? The answer may be in traditional data warehousing principles. Upside brought this to our attention in their article, “Where Next for Metadata.” Data lakes have a reputation of being the most…
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