Posts by Melody Smith
Copyright Challenges Webinar
The New York Chapter of the Special Libraries Association (SLA) is offering an educational opportunity on June 7, 2016 at 12:00 noon EST. The “Copyright Compliance Challenges Webinar” will feature the basics of copyright law; what is and is not copyright protected; when copyright permission is needed; how to obtain copyright permission, and much more. If…
Read MoreFinding the Data
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) has acquired GlobalSpec, a leading source of news, data and analytics for the global engineering and technical community, including the widely known brand name Engineering360. PR Newswire brought this news to our attention in their article, “IEEE Acquires GlobalSpec and the Engineering360 Platform from IHS to Create Powerful…
Read MoreSearching for Findability
The Enterprise Search and Findability Survey 2016 has been launched and your participation is invited. Findwise has been running this survey annually since 2012 to help those in the industry to understand how search is employed, managed and perceived in different organizations, big and small, global and local. The survey results provide unique insight into trends, who…
Read MoreFinding the Benefits
There are many aspects of data management that depend upon the utility of graph databases. Unfortunately, users are still unclear as to their full benefit. Graph databases first gained prominence with social media and facets of sentiment analysis and then gained street cred by provisioning ‘360 degree views’ of customer and product information in master…
Read MoreTrends in Publishing World Released
Publishers should be pleased, if only slightly, that book sales for consumer books were up 0.8% from January to December 2015. Granted, a move from $7.1 billion to $7.2 billion isn’t a huge jump, but in the world of publishing where many predict a dire future, this is a positive sign. On the other side of…
Read MoreNew Partnership Focuses on Collaboration
The University of California Press (UCP) and California Digital Library (CDL) have partnered with Collaborative Knowledge Foundation (CKF) to develop Editoria, a new open source, digital-first book production platform. The University of California Press brought this news to us in their blog post titled, “University of California Press and California Digital Library to Partner with Collaborative Knowledge Foundation to…
Read MoreSemantic Technology Used in Maritime Research
After three years of research and development, the e-Compliance project, partly funded by the FP7 programme, has shared its results at the Maritime and Transport Infrastructure Conference in Latvia. This interesting information came to us from BYM Marine & Maritime Defence News in their article, “Compliance Brings Maritime Regulations into the 21st Century.” Routinely used…
Read MoreFinding the Benefits of Big Data
With each passing day there are more benefits found when utilizing big data technology. This came to us from Computer Weekly in their article, “Big data analytics a useful security tool, says analyst.” Big data analytics can be useful for helping organizations to achieve more resiliency when it comes to cybersecurity. A recent survey found that 53%…
Read MoreLearning Opportunity Available
Having difficulty managing your data? It accumulates faster than most can decide what to do with it. This free webinar addresses these problems and offers some solution ideas. Sponsored by Alteryx, it’s titled, “Analyzing Billions of Data Rows with Alteryx, Amazon Redshift, and Tableau” and offered on May 3 at 2:00 p.m. EST. Hear from Adrian…
Read MoreUnderstanding Unstructured Data
Text Analytics World is scheduled for June 21-22, 2016 in Chicago. They recently announced one of the keynote speakers, so if you haven’t registered yet, this might convince you. Boris Evelson is the Vice President, Principal Analyst at Forrester and serves in the Application Development & Delivery role. As a leading expert in business intelligence (BI), he…
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