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Information Governance Best Practices
Poor information governance practices affects everyone in an organization, all the way to the customer. This interesting topic came to us from Above the Law in their article, “Information Governance: The Foundation Of eDiscovery Projects.” Information governance involves managing the creation, use, storage, and distribution of data, records, and information maintained by an organization. It…
Read MoreSocial Justice and Knowledge Organization
My world can be a juxtaposition of social issues and technological insights. Once in a great while, those two worlds collide. This interesting topic came to us from Project Muse in their paper, “Race and Ethnicity in Classification Systems: Teaching Knowledge Organization from a Social Justice Perspective.” Classification and the organization of information are directly connected…
Read MoreDigital Asset Librarian Opportunity
To be as helpful as possible to those in the fields of taxonomy, indexing, semantic technology, 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 evolving.…
Read MoreALPSP Webinar Series
The Association of Learned & Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) started a new educational webinar series for 2019 titled, “What is Hype and What Has Value? Technological buzzword or industry innovation? Open Source Technologies.” The first webinar is scheduled for Tuesday, February 5, 2019 at 10:00-11:00 EST and it isn’t too late to register. Artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain and open source are terms…
Read MorePush Back on the Open Library
The Writers’ Union of Canada (TWUC) joined with partner organizations, the U.S. Authors Guild (AG), the U.K.’s Society of Authors (SoA), and the International Authors Forum (IAF) in strongly condemning the unauthorized lending of books scanned for the website Internet Archive. This interesting news came to us from The Digital Reader in their article, “The…
Read MoreThe Future of Scholarly Communications
There are changes taking place in scholarly communications. What is the end goal? Is it worth the journey? The Scholarly Kitchen brought this interesting information to our attention in their article, “Ask The Chefs: The Future Form Of Scholarly Communication.” The article author asked some information science professionals, “What form might scholarly communications take in the…
Read MoreTaxonomy Design and Creation Workshop at SLA 2019
We recently shared with you some taxonomy educational opportunities available at this year’s Special Libraries Association (SLA) 2019 Conference in Cleveland. There is one more and it is a full day CE workshop – Taxonomy Design & Creation. Taxonomies are becoming increasingly important and common for organizing and retrieving information. Through this CE course, information professionals can…
Read MoreRecords Management Project Still on Track
Each year, the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) releases its Federal Agency Records Management (FARM) report. The 2017 version was released in August 2018 and it shows that agencies are mostly on track for meeting upcoming records management deadlines that will shift the government towards a more modernized, digitally inclusive state. This interesting news came…
Read MoreMobile Digital News
Digital healthcare may be getting a new player. Nest recently purchased Senosis Health, despite the assumptions that it was Google. This interesting news came to us from Engadget in their article, “Nest is secretly planning a move into digital health for elders.” Of course, Nest is Google’s smart home brand that turns smartphones into health-tracking tools using…
Read MoreThe Flexibility of AI
Most organizations don’t have the time, expertise or resources to custom build artificial intelligence (AI), regardless of important and helpful they may believe it to be to their success. How will companies will be able to differentiate themselves in the industry if they are limited to using only canned AI? Forbes brought this interesting information…
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