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New Technologies Every Day
The technology world is and has always been in a constant state of flux. As new technologies enter the arena, this means new ways to collect, store and use data. Many organizations are experimenting with machine learning and metadata as well. Silicon ANGLE brought this news to our attention in their article, “Are machine learning and…
Read MoreWhat the Machines Learn
Machine learning has transformed traditional computing by enabling machines to learn from data. DATAVERSITY brought this news to us in their article, “Machine Learning Use Cases for Data Management.” Algorithms that use machine learning have built-in smarts to use available data to answer questions. Apart from using data to learn, those algorithms can also detect patterns…
Read MoreTaxonomies – What Are They Good For?
To make the search and browse capabilities of content, document or records management systems truly functional, we need to develop taxonomies. Whether it is a taxonomy designed for storage and management or one that supports better search, without them all types of management systems are virtually useless, regardless of the platform. Because many organizations are not…
Read MoreLearning New Terms
For those who are managing an analytical solution implementation or trying to select a solution for business users, it is important to understand the terms and the features and function of these solutions so that you can select the appropriate solution. DATAVERSITY brought this news to our attention in their article, “What is Augmented Analytics…
Read MoreBack to School
Making content findable is our goal at Access Innovations. Of course, we are referring to technology and search queries in data that has been indexed with a strong taxonomy built according to standards. But if you think back, the Dewey Decimal System also had the same goal of making content findable. This interesting information came to…
Read MoreGoing Solo
Self-service analytics and data lakes have a little in common. Both are widely popular concepts that have been shaping the big data world and both offer a variety of approaches and tools. ZD Net brought this news to us in their article, “Data lakes going the way of the visual spreadsheet?” There is also a fair…
Read MoreSenior Taxonomist Consultant Needed
To be as helpful as possible to those in the fields of taxonomy, metadata, ontology, etc., we are sharing career opportunities that we find with our readers. Even if you are not in the market for a career move, it is always good to stay on top of what is available and how the fields are evolving. Stefanini…
Read MoreOn the Go Again
Data mobility is important to help enterprises move beyond the struggles of storage migration and automatically align data to the storage that best meets changing business needs. Network World brought this news to us in their article, “Data migrations without the migraines.” Few are oblivious to the challenges of migrating data from one system to another.…
Read MoreeBooks Get a Pilot Test
The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) has unveiled a pilot program to test a new model for a library-owned and library-centered ebook marketplace for popular ebooks, together with free public domain and openly-licensed ebooks. This interesting news came to us from their release, “DPLA Exchange Offers Library-Centered Ebook Marketplace.” The DPLA Exchange will allow staff at six…
Read MoreSocial Media Going Forward
Social media may look back on 2017 as the year when everything changed. The Scholarly Kitchen brought this interesting topic to our attention in their article, “About Face — Scholarly Publishing and Social Media Regulation.” Facebook’s platform used to be full of self-managed algorithms, content, and advertisements, without anybody in the regulatory sphere paying much attention…
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