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Understanding Your Data
Data understanding is the knowledge you have about data and the needs the data will satisfy. There is no tool or artifact for data understanding. It is expressed in business glossaries, data dictionaries, models and other forms of metadata or other places where information about the data is stored. CIO brought this news to us in…
Read MoreLooking for Standards in Government IT
Recently a group consisting of agency chief information officers (CIOs), Office of Management and Budget staffers and other federal IT experts released their report and recommendations for better IT funding and management. Their report asserts that a full embrace of “technology business management” (TBM) could save agencies $5.8 billion over five years. This information came to…
Read MoreNew Day Librarians
Admit it. When I say “librarian” you imagine someone older, in thick-rimmed glasses and overly modest clothing, guarding the silence in a room full of books with all-powerful shushes and stern glares. Don’t worry, you aren’t alone. This interesting topic came to us from The Atlantic in their article, “A Snapshot of a 21st-Century Librarian.” The internet…
Read MoreMetadata and Transparency
Metadata are data that provide information about other data. Two types of metadata exist: structural metadata and descriptive metadata. Structural metadata are data about the containers of data. Descriptive metadata use individual instances of application data or the data content. It is because of the latter that the New Jersey Supreme Court has agreed to hear a…
Read MoreData Management
Records management (RM) is defined by the Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM) as the field of management responsible for the efficient and systematic control of the creation, receipt, maintenance, use and disposition of records, including the processes for capturing and maintaining evidence of and information about business activities and transactions in the form of…
Read MoreThe Role of the Library in Your Community
When is the last time you went to the public library? So it shouldn’t surprise you that there has been a significant decrease in the number of adults who engage with public libraries across all demographic groups. The Bookseller brought this news to us in their article, “Adult library usage falls ‘significantly’ across all groups.” A…
Read MoreWebinar on Interoperability
The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) is bringing a learning opportunity to you in the form of a webinar titled, “The Interoperability Imperative: Helping Researchers Store, Share and Re-use Data.” The webinar will offer the “Joint Declaration of Data Citation Principles” developed to make research data an integral part of the scholarly record and the newly announced initiative…
Read MoreOpen Access: Pro and Con
Funded by the Mellon Foundation, the Pay It Forward project set out to determine the potential financial implications of a move to an all-open access (OA) world of journal publishing. The Scholarly Kitchen brought this interesting information to our attention in their article, “The Pay It Forward Project: Confirming What We Already Knew About Open Access.” A…
Read MoreBreaking Grounds
I confess. I am in a not-so-secret deeply committed relationship with Joe, a.k.a. coffee, java, go juice, liquid energy. I came to this relationship later in life than most. I was 30 before I took the plunge. I admit it was a practical decision. With me having gone back to college while working a full…
Read MoreThe Business of Business
The business of technology continues to see growth. Granted, it isn’t the frenzied growth of the late 90’s, but it also isn’t as volatile. Marlin & Associates brought this interesting topic to us in their blog post, “The Fourth Wave of Fintech: It’s All About the Analytics – Our July 2016 Fintech Market Update.” A wide range…
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