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Access Innovations Speaking at the 2018 iA Summit
Access Innovations will be bringing a little fun and a lot of technical expertise to the 2018 iA Summit, which is scheduled for March 21-25, 2018 in Chicago, IL. Bob Kasenchak, our Director of Business Development, will be giving a presentation entitled “Is a Hot Dog a Sandwich? and Other Taxonomy Questions“. Bob will bring…
Read More2018 Data Harmony Users Group (DHUG) Keynote Announced
The 13th annual Data Harmony Users Group (DHUG) meeting is just around the corner. The keynote speaker for Wednesday, February 7th is Martin Klein, Scientist in the Research Library at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. His presentation is titled, “Towards Web-Centric Repository Interoperability.” In this talk Martin will outline the Signposting concept for repositories – a standards-based …
Read MoreAutomating Life
Automation is key to so many things. In most industries, it is the key to having the competitive advantage. It is also essential for technology to be automated when it comes to applications and enterprises. This often leaves information technology (IT) struggling to keep up. This interesting information came to us from Sys-Con Media in their…
Read MoreHelpful Technology
With the appearance of technologies like Siri, Alexa, and other digital assistants, more natural language conversations are taking place between humans and artificial intelligence (AI). This digital revolution is in the middle of our everyday interactions, at home and at work. This transformation is aided by Natural language processing (NLP) and semantic search. CMS Wire…
Read MoreWebinar Series for 2018 – Register and Save Now
The Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) has released their 2018 webinar schedules and topics. The first one is scheduled for February 13, 2018 at 11:00 a.m. to 12 Noon (EST). The topic is “Sharing Policies: IR’s, Author’s Manuscript vs PrePrint vs Version of Record.” The SSP webinar program delivers a series of highly informative, thought-provoking…
Read MoreOpen Access to Research
Academic publishers should take note of a recent report from Springer Nature that shows there is a tangible benefit to publishing academic books using immediate open access (OA) models. Springer Nature brought this interesting information to us in their article, “Open access academic books downloaded, discussed and cited far more than traditional books.” Among the research findings,…
Read MoreThe Importance of Connectedness
The Blue Brain Project recently announced the release of its open source software project ‘Blue Brain Nexus’. This new project is designed to enable the Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR) data management principles for the neuroscience and broader scientific community. This interesting information came to us from EurekAlert! in their article, “Blue Brain Nexus: An…
Read MoreFlorida State University is New Hub for Digital Public Library of America
The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) is a US project aimed at providing public access to digital holdings in order to create a large-scale public digital library. Florida State University (FSU) Libraries will be playing a key role in this as the state of Florida’s service hub for the DPLA. Florida State University News brought this information to our attention…
Read MoreTechnology and Publishing
Technology has impacted how the casual reader consumes information, whether that be news or fiction. This is not new news. However, how exactly has technology changed how the publishing industry approaches their work? This interesting topic came to us from The New York Times in their article, “How Technology Is (and Isn’t) Changing Our Reading Habits.”…
Read MoreData Analytics’ Value Spans Industries
Whichever industry you work in, or whatever your interests, you will almost certainly heard about how data is changing the face of our world. It might be helping to cure a disease, boost a company’s revenue, make a building more efficient or direct sustaining agriculture and it’s ability to meet the needs of a growing population.…
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