Words Are Important

For more than a decade, Merriam-Webster has been issuing annual lists with the top ten words of that year. For 2017 the word is feminism. This interesting news came to us from CNN in their article, “Merriam-Webster’s word of the year for 2017 is ‘feminism’.” At first, Merriam-Webster determined its contents by analyzing page hits and popular…

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Semantic Meaning Used to Connect

Smartlogic Semaphore Inc. and MarkLogic recently announced an expanded partnership that will together help global organizations across all industries enrich information with context and meaning. The objectives for this partnership are to produce new revenue streams, improve operational effectiveness and lower risk. This interesting news came to us from PR Web in their article, “Smartlogic’s Semaphore Cloud…

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AI and DAM Systems

Artificial intelligence (AI) is the latest tool for digital asset management (DAM) vendors. They advertise these tools as complete automation solutions, which free users from ever having to manually enter image tags again. CMS Wire brought this news to us in their article, “What it Will Take for Artificial Intelligence to Become Useful For DAM.” As…

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Management and Anlytics

Data management and analytics software are often considered on opposite ends. When it comes to organizations upgrading their management and analytics solutions, they can be stymied as to which one comes first. Predictive Analytics Times brought this news to our attention in their article, “A Chicken/Egg Problem: Management or Analytics Software?” Data management and data analytics…

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Natural Language Processing Interprets Data

Making data findable and usable is no easy task. Searching, finding and and analyzing data patterns from the varied data sources requires advanced technology. This interesting information came to us from DATAVERSITY in their article, “Identify Data Patterns with Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning.” Organizations that are armed with the latest technologies like natural language…

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Analyzing Relationships

Latent semantic indexing (LSI) is a natural language processing technique that analyzes relationships between a set of documents and the terms they contain. The result? Search engines can identify related terms for keywords by researching through billions of pages and use these findings to evaluate whether a web page offers truly comprehensive content related to a…

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Net Neutrality and Its Importance to Academia

The Federal Communication Commission (FCC) has voted to repeal net neutrality rules enacted in 2015 to stop Internet service providers (ISPs) from blocking and tightening control on content. So what does this mean for academics in the digital world? This topic came to us from EdSurge in their article, “Will Net Neutrality Reversal Hurt Digital Learning? As Vote…

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