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Learn More About Metadata
The DATAVERSITY Training Center is offering a Metadata Management Learning Plan – a collection of six courses designed to build your fundamental knowledge on metadata. The instructor is Donna Burbank, an expert in information management with over 20 years of experience in data management, metadata management, and enterprise architecture. She currently is Managing Director of Global…
Read MoreIt is an Uphill Battle
Change is not for the lighthearted. Just ask anyone in the publishing business. Today change is occurring faster than it ever has before. Technology’s pace of change continues to increase, yet humans are much slower to adapt. It is difficult to change our habits and that is what makes adapting to technological change so difficult. This…
Read MoreThe Machine Learning Future
Machine learning is quickly becoming a common term in the enterprise software ecosystem. Its benefits include ease of adoption, deployment, and market maturity with strong business benefits. The other side of the coin includes the threat to some core elements of the human experience such as natural processes, human labor, or traditional workflows. DATAVERSITY brought this…
Read MoreWhat Does the Data Say?
TopQuadrant has released a new version of its platform with configurable dashboards that will allow all stakeholders to track progress of data governance initiatives. KM World brought this interesting information to our attention in their article, “TopQuadrant Upgrades Dashboarding Capabilities with Launch of Enhanced Platform.” TopBraid Suite is a collection of web-based solutions aimed at simplifying the development…
Read MoreManaging Data
A recent survey from Iron Mountain revealed that 46 percent of federal information management professionals cite managing all types of information assets, regardless of format, as a priority for their field and many feel unprepared to handle the requirements that brings with it. This interesting information came to us from Business Wire in their article, “Survey Indicates…
Read MoreCan the Wizard Cast His Spell Again?
The book industry has to be holding their breath on the latest Harry Potter installment, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, that was released recently. CBS News brought this subject to our attention in their article, “Can a middle-aged “Harry Potter” revive the book industry?” Given that past Harry Potter releases have been credited with lifting…
Read MoreNatural Language Processing Learning Opportunity
Natural language processing (NLP) was once on the frontier of artificial intelligence (AI) as a research topic with low accuracy. Now it is rapidly becoming a requirement for mainstream consumer and enterprise applications. Learn more about the basics of speech recognition, semantic analysis for text analysis, and recent advances in natural language generation in a free webinar…
Read MoreParsey What?
Google has been promoting natural language understanding with the open-sourcing of SyntaxNet, a neural network framework, and Parsey McParseface. This interesting information came to us from DATAVERSITY in their article, “Google Promotes Natural Language Understanding with Open Source Projects.” Parsey McParseface is more than just a cute moniker; it is built on machine learning algorithms that learn…
Read MoreNew Ways to Collaborate
Kristen Ratan and Adam Hyde have launched the Collaborative Knowledge Foundation (CKF), a nonprofit organization whose mission is to evolve how scholarship is created, produced and reported. This interesting information came to us from The Scholarly Kitchen in their article, “Can You Coko? An Interview with Kristen Ratan of the Collaborative Knowledge Foundation.” The Collaborative Knowledge Foundation (CKF), also known as Coko,…
Read MoreBlack and White
After testing a new color for its search result links, Google has settled on black. This interesting information came to us from Mashable in their article, “Why Internet links are blue, and what Google’s ‘black’ experiment means.” The search guru is experimenting with black links in search results in lieu of the more traditional blue and…
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