Posts by Melody Smith
Technology Besties
Information architecture (IA) is a science of organizing and structuring information or content, including text, photos and videos within a digital product. IA and artificial intelligence (AI) work hand in hand. The challenge is getting both people and data together on the same path. ZDNet brought this interesting topic to our attention in their article, “Artificial…
Read MoreMaking the Most Out of Machine Learning
Arthur Samuel coined the term machine learning in 1959 and defined it as a “Field of study that gives computers the capability to learn without being explicitly programmed”. That was the beginning of Machine Learning. Today, it is still that and so much more. The Machine Learning Times brought this topic to us in their article, “The First…
Read MoreFacial Recognition Challenges in the Pandemic
We all have joked about having pandemic haircuts and social distancing beards due remote working, closed businesses, etc. However, law enforcement and private businesses have used facial recognition – the software that maps, analyzes and then confirms the identity of a face in a photograph or video – for years for security purposes. Between the…
Read MoreCloud and Security
Cloud computing is a rapidly growing solution for issues related to data storage and collaboration. The cloud itself is simply a virtualization of resources — like data storage, applications, servers and networks all working in unison to allow access to information on-demand. IT Wire brought this interesting information to our attention in their article, “Confluence in the…
Read MoreAugmented Reality and Artificial Intelligence
There is a disconnect between the volume of digital data available to us and the physical world in which we apply it. Reality may be three-dimensional, but the rich data we have to inform our decisions and actions remains trapped on two-dimensional pages and screens. This gulf between the real and digital worlds limits our ability to…
Read MoreReducing Staff Burnout with AI
Employee burnout is not limited to the healthcare field. After almost two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, workers are feeling the stress and anxiety of working and learning remotely, being separated from their families and taking safety measures to protect them and their loved ones from a global public health crisis. This interesting topic came…
Read MoreBook Review Highlights Search and Digitization
The impact that Google has made on search, search practices and findability cannot be denied. This book review touches on the good, the bad, and the digitized of that story. The Scholarly Kitchen brought this interesting information to us in their article, “Book Review — Along Came Google: A History of Library Digitization.” The story…
Read MoreBetter Relationship with Technology
Can you imagine our world today without technology? We may complain about the automation and quickly point to computers as the source of all evil when things go awry, but who among us wants to remove the technology? Analytics Insight brought this interesting topic to our attention in their article, “Artificial Intelligence in Information Technology…
Read MoreFinding the Data
Real world big data are largely dynamic, interconnected and unstructured text. To transform such massive unstructured data into structured knowledge is a common goal. Penn State News brought this interesting information to our attention in their article, “Talk to explore power of taxonomy and embedding in text mining.” Equipped with domain-independent and domain-dependent knowledge-bases, it…
Read MoreUsing Semantic Enrichment to Enhance Findability
An electronic lab notebook (ELN) is a software tool that in its most basic form replicates an interface much like a page in a paper lab notebook. Semantic enrichment is an additional class of metadata that enhances the discovery and interoperability of content. Together they can help bridge the gap between large amounts of disorganized information and…
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