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Being Responsive
Amazon has changed its customer reviews system in the United States. A new machine-learning platform has been developed in-house to surface newer and more helpful reviews. DATAVERSITY brought this news to our attention in their article, “Amazon Is Improving Its Review System With Machine Learning.” This new system apparently can learn to predict which reviews are likely…
Read MoreAwards for the Best of the Best
The American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE) is preparing for their 40th anniversary. The PROSE Awards annually recognize the very best in professional and scholarly publishing by bringing attention to distinguished books, journals, and electronic content in over 40 categories. Judged by peer publishers, librarians, and medical professionals since 1976, the PROSE…
Read MoreLearning Opportunity Next Week
Powerful tools are needed to manage information, both digital and traditional. An integrated library system (ILS) can help with managing knowledge, content and digital assets, but there are so many options. It is critical to a library’s sustainability to keep up with changing needs. A powerful ILS offers a critical toolkit, and an ILS that’s a…
Read MoreCategorizing the Films
It is always interesting to me when I find taxonomies of interesting and unusual topics. Even if they aren’t true taxonomies, they are typically classifications of some form or another, and they provide information, which is after all, the goal. The latest find: Data Lab’s recently published “The Four Types Of Tom Cruise Movies.” This…
Read MoreGuarding the Data
Data security is important in any situation, but as the workplace becomes more and more mobile, the challenges in keeping resources secure continue to grow. This interesting information came from The Huffington Post’s Business Blog in their post, “Managing Security in a Changing Workforce.” According to the United States Census Bureau, 35% or 13.4 million workers…
Read MoreChoosing Related Terms
Source: Dreamstime Which quiche? You’ll have to read to the end to find out. As many of our readers are aware, hierarchical thesauri are distinguished from other taxonomies by (among other things) the inclusion of non-hierarchical relationships among terms. One main type of non-hierarchical relationship is the equivalence relationship, which is usually expressed as a…
Read MoreSocial Data Can Add Value
In an interesting use of social media, the United States Treasury Department announced the latest news about a woman being on the new $10 bill on Twitter. This information was brought to us by FCW in their article, “Treasury takes to Twitter to tout 10.” The Twittersphere responded vigorously and that energy was shared across other social…
Read MoreMark Your Calendars
It seems far off but it really isn’t. Save the date now for the National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) annual conference on February 21-23, 2016 in Philadelphia. NFAIS is returning to Philadelphia for the 58th NFAIS Annual Conference for content and technology providers from around the globe. Whether you’re from the government, academia, not-for-profit…
Read MoreMetadata Collection Going Away
The Australian Pictorial Thesaurus (APT) was a collection of topic terms for indexing Australian images. We just received word that the APT will no longer be available effective August 31, 2015. The APT used contemporary Australian terminology to describe objects, people, places and structures, activities and concepts depicted in an image. It ensures the common…
Read MoreNew Languages Bring New Expertise
A new data science platform for unstructured data is specifically designed to help businesses uncover insight to drive performance and growth. The Sensai platform is designed to incorporate its new language, dubbed Content Description Language (CDL), atop an in-memory platform. DATAVERSITY brought this news to us in their article, “A New Take in a Data Science Platform…
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