Posts by Melody Smith
Linked Data is a Hot Topic
Everyone can use a little help now and again. Bob Kasenchak from Access Innovations will be facilitating a free webinar on January 22, 2016 at 3:00 p.m. EST that is titled, “Make Your Thesaurus Smart! with Linked Data.” Why is everyone talking about Linked Data? What is it — and what does it have to do…
Read MoreTechnology of the Future
Tuesday night, President Obama spent much of his final State of the Union talking about technology. That shouldn’t surprise anyone. The future hinges on what technology is doing to the economy and to our jobs. It is also important to environmental concerns and international relations. Motherboard brought this topic to our attention in their article, “The…
Read MoreArtist Classified
You know my fascination with unique taxonomies and classifications. This past week, we lost a cultural icon in David Bowie’s death. So I consider this latest find a treasure. Vulture brought this one to us in their article, “A Taxonomy of David Bowie’s Many Personas and Their Many Imitators.” David Bowie’s musical influence has cast a…
Read MoreTaxonomist Position Available
To be as helpful as possible to those in the fields of taxonomy, indexing, ontology, etc., we are sharing career opportunities that we find with our readers. Even if you are not in the market for a career move, it is always good to stay on top of what is available and how the fields are…
Read MoreTechnology Can Be Hip
Technology and the fashion world have come together in one very interesting way. A search engine called Donde Fashion now enables fashionistas around the world to look for clothing, shoe and handbag brands by using artificial intelligence technology. iDigitalTimes brought this interesting news to us in their article, “Donde Fashion’ App Lets You Curate Your Dream Closet Using…
Read MoreBuilding Customer Relationships with Analytics
Everyone knows a business is only as strong as its customer relationships. With social media, those relationships have never been more important. This interesting topic came from Your Story in their post titled, “Customer is king, and SaaS-based TrueSemantic helps companies get his approval.” TrueSemantic is a Software as a Service (SaaS) product that helps companies…
Read MoreWorking Together Produces Results
Alfresco Software has announced their integration with Amazon Aurora. This new partnership will allow Alfresco One Enterprise 5.0 users to benefit from Amazon Web Services (AWS) newest database’s scale, services and cost structure. Business Wire brought this news to us in their article, “Alfresco Supports Integration With Amazon Aurora.” Amazon Aurora is a MySQL-compatible relational database…
Read MoreThe Human Touch
Many companies are building machine learning algorithms and despite the challenges this presents, those that are successful have not totally eliminated the human variation. This interesting information came to us from DATAVERSITY in their article, “Machine Learning and ‘Human-In-the-Loop’ Computing.” The practice is called ‘human-in-the-loop’ computing. It starts with a machine learning model takes a first pass…
Read MoreProper Records Management Practices
There have been some concerns in the Australian government information-handling in the transition to a digital records management system. This interesting topic was brought to us by Lexology in their article, “Records management refresher: Make sure you’re not a paper dinosaur or a digital disaster.” The concerns aren’t limited to just them however. It is typical…
Read MoreDigitizing Historic Collection is a Huge Undertaking
The British Library is in the process of digitizing the Klencke Atlas. The Klencke is the world’s second largest and one of some 50,000 maps and atlases formerly owned by King George III. The British Library is approximately one quarter through the very large project and plans to put the whole collection online for open access once the…
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