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Records Management is a Mainstay
Records management hasn’t always been a priority. It isn’t sexy like semantic technology or machine-assisted indexing. However it is a necessity and one that needs to be considered more often than just when there is a disaster. FedSmith brought this interesting information to our attention in their article, “How to Get Records Management Right.” Proactive planning is…
Read MoreNew Year Brings Educational Opportunities
The Association of American Publishers’ (AAP) Professional & Scholarly Publishing (PSP) Division is offering two educational opportunities (in person or via webinar) to start the new year off. The PSP Books Committee will be hearing from guest speakers Matt Cooper & Emma Brink (Wiley) to speak about early publishing careers on Friday, January 13, 2017 from 12:30-1:30 p.m. at the AAP New York…
Read MoreLearning from the Data
Obtaining valuable insights faster from large, diverse data sets seems to be the primary goal in business. Unfortunately, the current options don’t work all that well — the data warehouse and conventional data lake, as well as Hadoop-based point solutions, all have their challenges. This interesting information came to us from the Smart Data Collective in…
Read MoreTeaching Computers
One company is working with software that can identify historical figures from centuries before the word artificial intelligence was even in our vocabulary. This interesting information came to us from Digital Trends in their article, “New beta software automatically tags and captions historic images.” Project Gado first began as a way to develop new technology for quickly…
Read MoreGraph Analytics Event
Mark your calendars and add this conference to your “must attend” list for 2017. At Graphorum you will learn how property and semantic graphs work individually and together to save you money and time. Graphorum is the perfect place to connect with chief scientists, software engineers, data scientists, data architects, and technology strategists. This conference…
Read MoreThe Original Source
Over the centuries, library services and collections have been mediated by humans, and therefore the content has been tailored to and by people who used libraries and the space they provide. I know you are wondering where I am going with this. Hang in there with me. Libraries are about more than just the content they…
Read MoreSearch Games
When I was a kid I used to love playing Mad Libs. My friends and I would work tirelessly to come up with the funniest nonsensical stories. While not quite as cognitive as Mad Libs, but still entertaining, are the various games going around social media involving predictive text. One game is a weird version…
Read MoreThe Future of Cognitive Computing
Cognitive computing has been the focus for the past few years and the entire data industry is focused on what the future holds for this technology. DATAVERSITY brought this news to us in their article, “How We Will Harvest Cognition in 2017.” Cognitive computing’s impact in and on our lives will continue over the coming years,…
Read MoreCopyright Process Review
The Association of American Publishers (AAP) voiced their approval of the House Judiciary Committee’s first policy proposal regarding the review of the Copyright Act. The Association of American Publishers (AAP) brought this news to our attention in their article, “AAP Welcomes House Judiciary Committee’s First Policy Proposal on Copyright Review.” AAP and its members believe that modernizing…
Read MoreNew Science Journal Focuses on Robotics
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) recently debuted a new journal. Science Robotics has been launched to cover the most important advances in robots and their applications. As the newest journal to join the Science family of journals and it is now open to accept submissions. The journal’s goals have been identified as to select the most groundbreaking…
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