Relationships: The Good, the Bad, and the Analyzed?

Relationships can be challenging at best. Relationships with family, friends and people in general contain facets and dynamics that are evolving and often contentious. When it comes to data content, relationships are just as important and just as volatile. Latent semantic indexing (LSI) is a natural language processing technique that analyzes relationships between a set of documents and…

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Happy Father’s Day

We celebrated Father’s Day yesterday, so it felt appropriate to share an article written several years ago for this blog about the “father of library science” – Shiyali Ramamrita (S. R.) Ranganathan. As described in the Wikipedia article about him, Ranganathan “is considered to be the father of library science, documentation, and information science in India and is widely known throughout the…

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Take Advantage of Taxonomy 101, a Full Day Workshop Taught by Experts at the SLA 2018 Annual Conference

Taxonomies organize a collection of information – structured or unstructured – and they underpin search in many applications. Taxonomy 101 provides the basics for knowledge organization, outlining “nuts and bolts” of building a taxonomy, where to start, and where to implement it to realize the most benefit to an organization. Bring your questions and join…

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Will You Remember?

When I say memories, your mind probably goes to childhood, marriages, births, vacations, etc. Fond or maybe traumatic events that have imprinted themselves into our minds for better or for worse. Today is Memorial Day in the United States. A federal holiday for remembering the people who died while serving in the country’s armed forces.…

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Access Innovations to hold DHUGE 2018 at AAAS Headquarters

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has invited Access Innovations to hold the second Data Harmony Users Group East (DHUGE) meeting at their Washington, DC headquarters. AAAS hopes to highlight the synergy between the two organizations and showcase how this collaboration is furthering the mission of AAAS. DHUGE 2018 will take place…

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Access Innovations Completes Thesaurus Project for Mark Allen Group

Access Innovations, Inc., creator of the award-winning Data Harmony semantic enrichment software, is proud to announce the recent completion of a thesaurus project with British journal publisher Mark Allen Group (MAG). MAG wanted to jump-start a semantics program that would provide maximum value via content enrichment, so engaged with Access Innovations, leaders in semantic enrichment…

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The World of Bees

I sat on the porch yesterday for the first time this spring, such as it is. It was so nice to enjoy the sun and warm breeze. What was not so nice was the array of bees who too was enjoying the warm sun and my place of peace. Besides disturbing my “porch time”, my…

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Machine Learning and Deep Learning – What is the Difference?

The term machine learning has been around for awhile and its association to artificial intelligence (AI) keeps it in the trendy part of the news. AI has been part of our imaginations long before it hit the news. Visions of research labs and computer scientists rallied around the latest self-aware technology has filled not only…

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