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Improving Findability
Organizing your data in a database is a key step in ultimately finding it again when the time comes. In between these times your data can provide intelligence through analytics and predict trends but only if it is properly organized. This is where a taxonomy comes in handy. This interesting topic came to us from Software…
Read MoreOpen Source in Scholarly Publishing
With STM Week in the rear view mirror, it is a good opportunity to look back at this year’s event and the year as a whole. The Scholarly Kitchen brought this interesting information to us in their article, “All Things Coko: A Step Towards a True Shared Infrastructure for Scholarly Communication?” Scholarly Kitchen has provided a good…
Read MoreFaceted Search and Controlled Vocabularies
The concept of faceted classification is decades old, and controlled vocabularies go back even further. A faceted classification scheme is actually a special case of what are called controlled vocabularies. This topic came from CMS Wire in their article, “A DAM Glossary of Common Terms.” A controlled vocabulary is an authoritative list of preferred terms used to…
Read MoreAI in the Military
The Department of Defense (DoD) is working to build a 21st century military staffed with resident data scientists, engineers and artificial intelligence (AI) professionals. This interesting news came to us from C4ISR Net in their article, “Rise of the machines: The Pentagon’s AI workforce plan.” Apparently the department’s philosophy is they’re going to need to build…
Read MoreMobile Activity in the Clouds
Machine learning is typically operated in the cloud, because of the technical elbow room. On mobile devices, resources are extremely limited, which means if you want to run your models directly on the devices, they have to be highly optimized. Tech Crunch brought this interesting news to our attention in their article, “Fritz wants to help…
Read MoreLeadershift in the World of AI
China has been viewed as an innovation leader in the tech space more and more lately. Now they are growing in importance as a global figurehead in artificial intelligence (AI) research. Information Age brought this to our attention in their article, “China on verge of becoming global leader in AI research.” According to new a study…
Read MoreOpen Source Technology Webinar
The Association of Learned & Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) is starting a new educational webinar series in 2019 titled, “What is Hype and What Has Value? Technological buzzword or industry innovation? Open Source Technologies.” Artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain and open source are terms frequently used, especially in headlines. Are they merely buzzwords or will they…
Read MoreAutomated Learning Styles
Reinforcement learning is a niche machine learning technique that has surfaced in the last few years. In context-based decision making, reinforcement learning helps the machine take action-provoking decision making through a trial-and-error approach to achieve the optimal algorithmic model for a situation. DATAVERSITY brought this topic to us in their article, “The Fundamentals of Deep Reinforcement Learning.”…
Read MoreAI in the Workplace
Dan Weld, an endowed professor at the University of Washington, has accepted a position as a senior researcher working on the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence’s (AI2) academic search engine, Semantic Scholar. AI2 is one of the world’s leading artificial intelligence (AI) research organizations. This latest acquisition is the latest in a series of high-profile…
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.…
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