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Google Leadership Shuffle
Looking for a new job? Amit Singhal, Alphabet/Google’s senior vice president of search is retiring. This interesting news came to us from Seeking Alpha in their article, “Google’s search chief leaving; shares sell off day after post-earnings gains.” Singhal’s last day is scheduled to be February 26, 2016. John Giannandrea, an engineering vice president currently in charge of…
Read MoreDigging Deep into Hierarchy
Understanding polyhierarchy within taxonomies can be a challenge, but not an insurmountable one. This interesting information came from Heather Hedden’s blog, The Accidental Taxonomist, in the post titled, “Polyhierarchy in the SharePoint Term Store.” Polyhierarchy means a taxonomy term has more than one broader term or parent term. In a traditional hierarchical taxonomy structure, a term…
Read MoreFinding the Data
TEMIS has launched Luxid 7, the seventh generation of its flagship semantic content enrichment platform. Luxid 7 promises a beefed-up scalable and robust semantic enrichment pipeline and includes a dedicated ontology management tool. Broadway World Geeks brought this to our attention in their article, “TEMIS Integrates Ontology Management and Semantic Enrichment in Luxid’ 7.” When building a…
Read MoreInnovation Conference Opportunity
A different kind of conference opportunity is available to you. CDO Vision is the place to get informed perspective on leading your organization’s Data Strategy in this complex world. Succeeding with your Data Strategy demands a balance between innovation, opportunity, complexity and agility. It requires due attention to internal governance and risk management, as well as…
Read MoreFighting for Copyrights
Earlier this week a multitude of authors, publishers, rights organizations, and copyright experts from around the world filed briefs with the U.S. Supreme Court supporting the Authors Guild’s petition asking the Court to hear its case that Google must be held accountable for digitally copying millions of copyrighted books without permission or payment. This interesting news came…
Read MoreUsability and Findability
In November 2015, as part of the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Scientific and Technical Information’s (OSTI) efforts to continuously improve their scientific and technical information offerings, a team of OSTI librarians conducted a formal pilot usability study of DOE PAGESBeta to gauge user satisfaction. This interesting information came to us from the (OSTI) newsletter in…
Read MoreGathering the Big Data
Data lakes have become more common and unfortunately as data – unstructured, semi-structured, and structured – continues to multiply at a phenomenally rapid pace, they will continue to be more frequent. This interesting information came to us from DataInformed in their article, “Avoiding Three Common Pitfalls of Data Lakes.” A single repository for integration, access, and…
Read MoreGroundhog Day: Names and Recursions
I’m sure you’re all just like me and waiting anxiously to hear the results from Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, whence this very day we will find out from Punxsy Phil whether spring will come early this year or we have to wait six more weeks (pro tip: In the Northern Hemisphere, it’s always going to fall on…
Read MoreUsing Semantic Technology In New Ways
The finance industry is no stranger to data-intensive processes. Hopefully the goal of most of those technologies is to improve and increase the data processing power. At least one technology firm is making the case that the answer to these challenges is in smarter data processing. Fierce Finance IT brought this news to our attention in…
Read MoreLooking Forward To DHUG: Part 2
Wednesday, February 10 is the second official day of DHUG, and it kicks off with a bang. Our keynote speaker, Dr. Moriba Jah, who hates being called “the garbage man of space,” opens the session. Dr. Jah is an astrodynamicist and one of the world’s premiere authorities on space debris, which consists of anything from…
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