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Working Together on Better Analytics
Business Wire and Agility PR Solutions recently announced a new partnership to provide communications professionals with enhanced distribution, monitoring and media analytics capabilities. This interesting news came to us from Comm Pro in their article, “Business Wire and Agility PR Solutions Announce New Strategic Partnership.” This new partnership will expand Business Wire’s set of communications tools by…
Read MoreUsing Ontologies in Digital Manufacturing
The University of Buffalo and the Chicago-based Digital Manufacturing and Design Innovation Institute (DMDII) are working together to implement a project designed to create and test work flow innovations using a standard vocabulary and set of categories, forming a suite of ontologies, to support digital manufacturing for a local technology and services innovator. This interesting news…
Read MoreCommunity Online Space Addresses Big Data
The academic publisher SAGE Publishing has relaunched its popular MethodSpace website, a free-entry online community with over 20,000 registered social and behavioural science researchers. Knowledge Speak brought this interesting information to us in their article, “SAGE Publishing relaunches MethodSpace with new Big Data Hub.” Among the many different topics, MethodSpace includes a hub focused on how…
Read MoreFinding the Value in Standards
The value of standards is about more than just messages. As the standards community rises to the challenges of semantic data, reference data, and metadata, the potential value of standards to business and information architects continues to escalate. FinExtra brought this information to our attention in their article, “Standards are more than messages.” The Standards Forum is…
Read MoreAccess Innovations Completes Pilot Project for the George A. Smathers Libraries at the University of Florida
Access Innovations, Inc. was recently engaged by the George A. Smathers Libraries to help them define processes that can be used to identify and organize content for the Portal of Florida History, including the development and application of enhanced metadata using controlled vocabulary. A set of 25,000 digital and digitized University of Florida theses and dissertations were selected as…
Read MoreArtificial Intelligence and the Internet
Artificial intelligence (AI) seems advanced and futuristic, but in reality it is quite juvenile. This means there is great potential for it to develop and progress. This interesting topic came to us from MedCity News in their article, “AI is “still pretty dumb” and like a “2-year-old”.” The best example of AI today is still driven…
Read MoreThe Future of Cybersecurity
The future is becoming increasingly connected to the web. Some techniques, such as data mining, are being used to harness this raw information to give insight into the future of cybersecurity. CIO brought this information to our attention in their article, “How big data can drive the future of cybersecurity.” Big data has the potential to give us…
Read MoreSet It To Autopilot
Which method works better: end-user or automated tagging? There are proponents for both sides of this ongoing debate, and in the end, it just might be a personal preference. CMS Wire brought this interesting information to our attention in their article, “Let Isaac Newton Improve Your End User Data Classification.” Most agree that properly tagged content provides countless…
Read MoreTaxonomies in School
We have said it before: taxonomies are everywhere, and that includes the classroom. Education Week Teacher brought this interesting information to our attention in their article, “Response: Ways to Use Learning ‘Taxonomies’ in the Classroom.” Taxonomies categorize anything, including different levels of questioning and learning. Most teachers are aware of this and likely think of the…
Read MoreNew Vision for Data
The Center for Data-Driven Discovery (C3D) at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory welcomed Line Pouchard, a computational science information specialist, who joins C3D as a senior researcher. Newswise brought this interesting information to us in their article, “Turning Research Data Into Scientific Discoveries.” Pouchard had been an assistant professor at Purdue University…
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