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More Like Watson Every Day
Artificial intelligence is in every part of our lives in some form or fashion. Eric Schmidt, chairman of Google, believes we’re closer than ever before to true artificial intelligence. This interesting information came from DATAVERSITY in their article, “Eric Schmidt Says Artificial Intelligence Making “Real Progress”.” The growth of artificial intelligence has been accelerated by the real-world problems…
Read MoreUsing N-grams to discover taxonomy terms
Words that occur together frequently are likely to encode important concepts. Therefore, simply sorting a list of phrases according to the frequency of occurrence in text is an automatic way of capturing important concepts associated with that subject. Word order is important since meaning tends to be associated with order. Thus, word order must be…
Read MoreThe Origins of Reformed Faith
The book A Philosophical Anthropology of the Cross takes a look at the shaping of reformed faith as it is know today. Martin Luther obviously gets some attention, but so does Immanuel Kant, Søren Kierkegaard, and ultimately Dietrich Bonhoeffer. This different but interesting information came from First Things in their blog post, “Philosophical Luther.” It is interesting and…
Read MoreWhat is JATS and Why Should I Care
Search for “jats” and you will find two very distinct concepts: 14th Murrays Jat Lancers (Risaldar Major) by AC Lovett (1862-1919).jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jat_people This post doesn’t discuss the Jats, a race of people, interesting as they are. This post covers information tagging, specifically a specialized list of xml elements for journal articles. Problem and need Interoperability…
Read MoreTechnology Predictions for the New Year
Every year at the Gartner Symposium, a list of top technology trends are predicted for the year to come. These aren’t meant to be business trends, this list is meant to be a bit more forward-looking and represents trends that are transitioning out of the emerging technology areas, but are not yet mainstream. This interesting information came…
Read MoreRegister Early, Save Money
The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) has opened up the Early Bird Registration for their annual conference scheduled for February 21-23, 2016 in Philadelphia. Acknowledging the changes that have taken place in the world of publishing, data, and information sciences, this event will celebrate the scholarly content that reflects emphasis on collaborative work, global…
Read MoreManaging the Content
ContentWorX is a content and records management service specifically configured for use by New Zealand government agencies adhering to government requirements concerning information management, security, and records management. TEAM Asparona was formed following the award of the Common Capability Enterprise Content Management-as-a-Service panel contract. They have now successfully deployed ContentWorX to the Department of Conservation’s (DOC) 2000 staff members. This…
Read MoreIn Defense of Taxonomies: In Response to the Recent Scholarly Kitchen Posts about Google Scholar, Indexing, and Content Findability
Several interesting points were raised over the course of the two posts — and, notably, in the resulting comments featuring Anurag Acharya — by John Sack about Google Scholar. Google Scholar is a wonderful tool and resource, and it is not the goal here to disparage or otherwise belittle its importance or contribution to research.…
Read MoreFlexible Data
At KMWorld 2015, they know the importance of being able to respond quickly to changing trends and business challenges. This year’s theme is “Agile Knowledge Sharing and Innovation are in the Spotlight at KMWorld 2015.” Being agile can mean applying an incremental and iterative approach, or evolving through collaboration between self-organizing and cross-functional teams to…
Read MoreClass-ism in Classifications
In the world of classification, how deep do you go? This interesting topic came to us from Robb Wolff’s website in an article titled, “Seven Shades of Paleo.” This article lifted up with humor a common occurrence in any attempt at classifying data. Regardless of whether it is people or products, there is a scale and half…
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