Women Aviators: Then & Now

A newly discovered photograph suggests aviator Amelia Earhart, who vanished 80 years ago on a round-the-world flight, survived a crash-landing in the Marshall Islands. The photo, found in a long-forgotten file in the National Archives, shows a woman who resembles Earhart and a man who appears to be her navigator, Fred Noonan. The discovery was recently featured…

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ALPSP Conference Promises Rich Content

The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers’s (ALPSP) 10th annual conference is coming up soon. The big question is “what does artificial intelligence (AI) mean for scholarly and professional publishing?” There are experts ready to explain what AI is, how it’s impacting other industries and the potential it holds for publishing. You just have to…

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Clearing the Fog

We have all been there. It might be in the middle of a professional conversation or social gathering and someone uses a word you think you know, but you aren’t totally sure what it means, so you refrain from making any comments that might reveal your doubt (or ignorance). It is understandable that no one…

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Semantic Technology Webinar Offering

CIMdata will be hosting an upcoming free educational webinar titled, “How Semantic Web Technology helps Design-for-Reliability.” The webinar will take place on July 13, 2017 at 11:00 a.m. (EDT) and will last for one hour. This interesting news came to us from PR.com in their release, “CIMdata to Host Free Webinar on How Semantic Web Technology…

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Harvard Business Publishing Looking for a Taxonomist

To be as helpful as possible to those in the fields of taxonomy, indexing, digital archiving, etc., we are sharing with our readers any career opportunities that we find. 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…

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Analytics & Data

There is a demand for analytics, especially in the realm of big data. To respond, comprehensive information management needs quality of data. DATAVERSITY brought this interesting information to our attention in their article, “Impact of Big Data in Enterprise Information Management.” Data technologies have not made a huge impression on mainstream business users. The emergence of…

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Summer Learning Opportunity

The Professional/Scholarly Publishing (PSP) Books Committee will be hearing from guest speaker Mary Anne Baynes, Chief Marketing Officer of Overleaf and Dr. John Hammersley, Co-founder and CEO of Overleaf on Friday, July 21 from 10:00-11:00 a.m. at the McGraw-Hill/NY offices. The webinar – How authoring tools are changing the landscape between author and publisher – will share case studies from researchers, institutions…

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It’s All Semantics

Semantic search is search that understands the meaning of a natural language query as opposed to viewing search terms as keywords. Simplicable brought this interesting information to us in their article, “What is Semantic Search?” To properly use semantic search, a search engine back end is required that can discover, rank and index knowledge resources. In addition,…

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