Business strategy
Scholarly Search Gets New Platform
Digital Science launched a new platform – Dimensions – intended to transform scholarly search. Digital Science brought this news to us in their article, “Digital Science Launches Dimensions: a Next-generation Research and Discovery Platform Linking 124 Million Documents, Providing Free Search and Citation Data Across 86 Million Articles.” This is a collaboration between six Digital…
Read MoreGathering Business Intelligence in a New Era
Business analytics has changed not only the world we live in but the way business intelligence is gathered and used across industries. DATAVERSITY brought this information to our attention in their article, “Advanced Data Discovery and Augmented Analytics: Simple, Sophisticated Tools for Business Users.” Reporting, dashboards, advanced data visualization and end-user self-service are given the highest…
Read MoreEBSCO Appoints New CIO
EBSCO Industries out of Birmingham, Alabama recently announced that Ryan Loy will be joining the company as Chief Information Officer (CIO). Business Wire brought this news to us in their article, “EBSCO Industries Announces New Chief Information Officer.” “As we plan for significant organic and acquisition growth over the next five to ten years, building…
Read MoreNavigating the Knowledge Management Process
Knowledge management is not new. It has been around since the early 1990s. The definition of knowledge management may feel a little ambiguous, but simply put, it is the process of capturing, distributing, and effectively using knowledge. The ability to manage knowledge is crucial in today’s economy. The creation and diffusion of knowledge have become…
Read MoreNFAIS & NHA Annual Meeting and Humanities Advocacy Day
The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) 2018 Humanities Roundtable is scheduled for Sunday, March 11, 2018 in Washington D.C. The theme this year will be “Meeting the Needs of Digital Humanities Librarians” The loaded program will start with the keynote speaker, Dr. Kimberley Bugg, Chief of the Humanities and Social Sciences Division at…
Read MoreWebinar Addresses Research Data Management
The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) offers educational opportunities in various venues. One of them is their virtual Lunch & Learn with NFAIS sessions and the next one is scheduled for Tuesday, January 23, 2018. In recent years, research data management has assumed an increasingly prominent place in scholarly communication, funder requirements, codes of academic practice, university…
Read MoreStandards in Reporting
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) launched a pilot program to determine the government’s potential to untangle the bureaucracy of federal grant reporting. Talk about facing down a mountain. Fed Scoop brought this interesting topic to us in their article, “HHS pilot could change the way government reports on grants spending.” A report was…
Read MoreData Scientists and Business Analysts
Artificial intelligence (AI) and its “cousin” technology, machine learning, find themselves being utilized in a variety of circumstances and organizations. Though they cannot completely replace the human brain, scientists are still working to train them to think and feel like humans in more and more lifelike ways. Machine learning has especially become the “teacher’s pet”…
Read MoreThe Benefits of Going Digital
It is encouraging to see how organizations have embraced the digital workplace. The benefits offered to their employees include more flexibility and a better work/life balance. The organization also benefits with improved business processes. This interesting information came to us from CMS Wire in their article, “Digital Workplace Success Relies on Strong Search.” The business world is moving…
Read MoreNatural Language Processing Interprets Data
Making data findable and usable is no easy task. Searching, finding and and analyzing data patterns from the varied data sources requires advanced technology. This interesting information came to us from DATAVERSITY in their article, “Identify Data Patterns with Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning.” Organizations that are armed with the latest technologies like natural language…
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