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Paying it Forward
The UC Davis University Library and the California Digital Library are leading a new project to help define the future of open access to scholarship. The Davis Enterprise brought this information to us in their article, “UCD gets grant to look at open access to published research.” “Pay It Forward: Investigating a Sustainable Model of Open…
Read MoreRules of Records Management
Records management has become easier and more difficult all because of recent advancements in technology. With the speed of indexing and retrieving comes more rules and more regulations, which are often applied inconsistently. This topic came from ZDNet in their article, “Best practices for corporate data retention.” There are legal ramifications involved in corporate data…
Read MoreAccess to the Data
A new report by the IBM Center for The Business of Government has looked at cities that have used innovation and technology to improve city services. Through a variety of methods, cities are leveraging information technology (IT) for better management, citizen engagement, and service. This interesting information came to our attention from GCN in their article, “4…
Read MoreDigital Assets Have Changed the Landscape
Digital design has morphed over the past decade. The focus has shifted from the technological side to the human side ( which in and of itself seems oxymoronic). This is proved by the evertrusted Google search results for terms like “information architecture”, “user interface”, and “usability”, which are declining in number. In contrast, search results for…
Read MoreData Management
Information governance (IG) has been discussed for several years now. Unfortunately, implementation has proven difficult, due to the scale of the domain. Datamation brought this situation to our attention in their article, “Trends in Information Governance: eDiscovery and Big Data.” Given this, organizations have the best chance for success by concentrating on the highest risk and…
Read MoreThe Future of Machine Learning
Machine Learning-as-a-Service (MLaaS) is one of the latest terms identifying the “sweet spot” for promising technologies and applications of big data analytics. This interesting information came to us from DATAVERSITY in their article, “Improving Big Data Analytics with Machine Learning-as-a-Service.” Machine learning algorithms on demand via the Cloud have great potential for many areas of work.…
Read MoreIndexing History
In what feels timely but was actually an unplanned juxtaposition of events, the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society launches a new project. This comes just days after a gunman claimed nine lives at an historically black church in Charleston, South Carolina. The Emmanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church was built as a result of the abolitionist…
Read MoreLevel of Machine Learning
All four of the top cloud providers — Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and IBM — offer developers the means to build machine learning into their cloud applications. What does this mean, since both machine learning and big data will eventually disappear as separate technology categories and work their way into many different aspects of computing? This interesting topic…
Read MoreMaking Content Findable
Linguamatics is expanding its natural language processing-based text mining platform to accommodate easier access to full-text articles. PR Newswire brought this latest news to our attention in their article, “Linguamatics Expands Cloud Text Mining Platform to Include Full-Text Articles.” Researchers can now create sets of full-text XML articles from more than 4,000 peer-reviewed journals produced by…
Read MoreFinding Critical Information
There is a lot going on in health care on the national level these days. Between the Affordable Care Act and the ICD-10 coding classification transition alone, the federal government’s chief health information officer, Michael McCoy, M.D., is a busy guy. But what is on his mind? What are his concerns? Health Leader’s Media brought this…
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