Posts by Melody Smith
Smarter Machines
I know, with a title like that the inner sci-fi geek in you just went, “whaaat?” Granted, artificial intelligence (AI) devices may be best known from futuristic novels or or blockbuster movies, but there are some really cool things happening with those technologies today. Government Technology brought this interesting information to us in their article, “Tech Giants…
Read MoreDigital Data Growing in the White House
Based on the priorities that President-elect Donald Trump has laid out for his first days in office, one could reasonably expect that government operations will be subject to increased scrutiny as he looks to eliminate wasteful practices and run the government more like a business. Federal Times brought this news to us in their article, “Making…
Read MoreStandards in Data
Creating open standards to ensure data center hardware is equipped to cope with the amounts of information data centers are required to process in real time is the worthy goal of many. Computer Weekly brought this news to our attention in their article, “Using cross-industry collaboration on open standards to address big data in the…
Read MoreLearning Opportunity That Addresses Indexing
The Association of American Publishers’ (AAP) Professional & Scholarly Publishing (PSP) Division is offering another exciting educational opportunity (in person or via webinar). This time the PSP Books Committee will be hearing from guest speaker Pat Carlson, VP Metadata Standards & Bibliographic Control at Alexander Street, a ProQuest Company, to speak about metadata and indexing data for multimedia collections…
Read MoreWorldwide Business with kathy ireland® Interviews Access Innovations and Discusses Their Unique Solution for Finding Relevant Information Quickly and Easily
Access Innovations President Marjorie M.K. Hlava and Vice President of Marketing and Communications Heather Kotula are featured on the award-winning, global TV show, Worldwide Business with kathy ireland®. The segment’s topic is how businesses can make their data more searchable and more easily found. Access Innovations is a thought leader dedicated to enriching information assets. The company…
Read MoreLearn More About Data Visualization
An educational opportunity in the form of a webinar is available for January 24th at 12:00 p.m. (EST). The webinar is brought to you by the National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) and is titled, “Achieving Better Visual Communication: Best Practices in Data Visualization.” The webinar is being facilitated by Teresa Larsen, PhD, President and…
Read MoreEarly Bird Pricing Ends Friday
This year’s Association of American Publishers Professional & Scholarly Publishing Division (PSP) conference is scheduled for February 1-3, 2017 in Washington D.C. The focus this year is “Adding Value in the Age of Open” and is loaded with great opportunities to learn, share and network. The early bird registration has been extended until Friday, January 6th.…
Read MoreWebinar Focuses on Research Skills
The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) is offering a unique educational opportunity next week for all those interested in honing their research skills. In this 90-minute webinar, EBSCO’s Kate Lawrence, Ithaka S+R’s Christine Wolff and the University of Illinois’ Lisa Hinchliffe will share the latest trends and insights on information literacy within academia. Christine Wolff will report…
Read MoreManaging the Metadata
New open metadata management capabilities are being added to the DMX-h data integration software from Synscort. This information came to us from Database Trends and Applications in their article, “Syncsort Adds Metadata Management Capabilities to its Platform.” This new feature along with its seamless integration with Cloudera Navigator will make big data governance easier. “We want to…
Read MoreBig Data Challenges
Big data and analytics are being used to find patterns and trends, and to predict the results of certain activities. This interesting information came to us from DATAVERSITY in their article, “The Future of Big Data: Smart Data Innovations and Challenges.” Data analytics and data science techniques are becoming a common approach to processing big data.…
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