Posts by Melody Smith
Finding the Content Fast
NTENT recently announced the expansion of its next generation semantic search and natural language processing technologies to support the Russian language. Business Wire brought this news to us in their article, “NTENT’s Semantic Technology Now Transforms Information Discovery for Russian Speakers, Making it Faster and Easier to Find Information.” This falls in line with the needs…
Read MoreSemantic Technology in the Financial World
Semantic technology can benefit people in a variety of ways. Onboarding in the financial world used to be a simple matter of filling in a form and transferring assets. However, anti-money laundering regulations designed to vet a potential client’s payment partners and history have mandated that companies perform detailed due diligence on their clients, and maintain a…
Read MoreAudiobooks Transformed
Remember books on tape? Then they morphed into CDs, but it still took four or five CDs for a decent size novel. Now with smartphones, audiobooks are finding a new audience that appreciates the ease and portability of downloading recorded versions of books onto their smartphones. USA Today brought this information to us in their article, “Smartphones give…
Read MoreA Computer Orders Pizza and the Crowd Explodes
Semantic technology has come a long way, baby. This is illustrated in the recent announcement that Siri’s creators had successfully placed an order for pizza with voice commands. IT ProPortal brought this news to us in their article, “Metadata: How businesses can use it to its fullest.” Granted, pizza alone is worth a celebration, but in…
Read MoreSharePoint Surprises Users with Sneak Peek and Early Delivery
Microsoft is offering a sneak peek of the first Feature Pack for SharePoint Server 2016, which is set to arrive in November. This interesting news came to us from eWeek in their article, “Microsoft Previews SharePoint Server 2016 Feature Pack 1.” When Microsoft released SharePoint Server 2016 in May, it pledged to periodically release Feature Packs…
Read MoreWebinar Addresses Creative Commons
Association of American Publisher’s Professional & Scholar’s Publishing Books Committee is bringing guest speakers Terence P. Keegan and David S. Korzenik from the law firm of Miller Korzenik Sommers LLP to discuss When Creative Commons Licenses Create Headaches. This interesting educational event is scheduled for Friday, October 21st from 12:30-1:30 p.m. at the AAP/NY office and via the webinar. Many online publishers…
Read MoreThe Expectations of Academic Publishing
The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers recently held their annual meeting in London and one of the highlighted sessions was “What Does Academic Engagement Mean Now?” moderated by Isabel Thompson of Oxford University Press. The panel was supposed to address, among other things, whether we are achieving everything we aim to in regards to academic engagement…
Read MoreNew Partnerships Build Language Bridge
Hindawi and Editage have announced a new partnership that will provide English-language editing to authors wishing to submit to Hindawi publications. The Society for Scholarly Publishing brought this news to us in their release, “Hindawi and Editage announce their partnership to provide English-language editing services.” Hindawi is a publisher of peer-reviewed open access journals covering a…
Read MoreFall Educational Series Looks Into Metrics
The Professional/Scholarly Publishing (PSP) Division of the Association of American Publishers (AAP) Committee for Digital Innovation (CDI) is once again offering a fall seminar series, this time on Metrics, New Metrics and Their Significance. The next part of the series is scheduled for October 19, 2016 at 12:00-1:30 p.m. The title of this webinar is “Altmetrics.”…
Read MoreSemantic Technology Partnerships
Celebros, provider of natural language search functionality, has been named a Premier Technology Partner by Magento. Moving forward, Celebros will be recognized as the premier provider of on-site search capabilities within the Magento platform. PR Web brought this interesting news to our attention in their article, “Celebros Recognized as a Magento Premier Technology Partner for Natural…
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