Protecting Data

Artificial intelligence (AI) is playing a vital role in helping businesses prepare for future legislation. Cloud Pro brought this interesting information to us in their article, “Box wants to use AI to simplify data compliance.” The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a regulation by which the European Parliament, the European Council and the European Commission intends…

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Does Digital Increase Reading?

The debate on whether reading “real” books, i.e. paper, is better than digital versions continues. This interesting topic came to our attention from New Republic in their article, “Why Digital Reading Is No Substitute for Print.” Both parents and teachers are asking whether students learn as much when they read digitally as they do in print. Computer-based media…

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Semantic Learning Opportunities

The Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) is offering two interesting learning opportunities this week. How to Design & Build Semantic Applications with Linked Data on June 14, 2017, 10:00 – 11:15 a.m. EDT. This webinar will demonstrate how to design and build rich end-user search and discovery applications using linked data. The Linked Open…

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Finding Data in the Air

The idea of drones delivering packages, groceries, or even pizza seems too far out there for the average consumer; something you see on the news as “soon to come” but never really materializes. This interesting information came to us from The Merkle in their article, “Drone Data – The Digital Oil Rush.” What is easily overlooked is…

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The Same and Not

Semantic technology and machine learning have many possibilities as the technologies continue to grow and evolve. This interesting topic came to us from Blasting News in their article, “Flickr presents visual ‘similarities’ in search results.” The online photo sharing app, Flickr, has been experimenting with many new features over the years and the most recent involves…

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