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World Intellectual Property Day – Celebrate
The Association of American Publishers (AAP) is celebrating World Intellectual Property Day – today, April 26, 2018. The World Intellectual Property Organization and partner industries throughout the world celebrates the theme: Powering Change: Women in Innovation and Creativity. This year’s campaign celebrates the brilliance, ingenuity, curiosity and courage of the women who are driving change…
Read MoreShining the Light on Libraries
Libraries and arts tend to not fair well when it comes to politicians and budgets. It is sad fact. However the library community can give itself a big high five, or a little one, after the recent actions of the Senate. Publishers Weekly brought this interesting news to our attention in their article, “For Libraries,…
Read MoreMore Data Breaches Reported
Data breaches are all too common and for those whose lives and livelihoods are affected, they can be scary. We understand that there are nefarious characters out there; thieves who will do what they can to fraudulently steal information. But when their actions are compounded by cover-ups and falsehoods, who are the victims and who…
Read MoreEducational Opportunity in Philly
The Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) is offering an educational opportunity at their regional event on May 2, 2018. The title of the workshop is “The Publishing Ecosystem: An Open Conversation with Researchers and Editors.” It will be held at the American College of Physicians in Philadelphia. The feature will be a panel of STEM,…
Read MoreData Everywhere
The world is dominated by data. In the last five years, the amount and types of data now available to us has exploded. Big data plays an important part in mining unstructured data to find the gems. DATAVERSITY discusses this in the article, “Four Phases to an Agile Data Governance Implementation.” As the world’s data needs and…
Read MoreThe Many Faces of Cyber Attacks
Cyber attacks come in all shapes and sizes. It can be as simple as an email that looks like it comes from your bank and includes an urgent link for you to click or a more obvious scam asking you to send money upfront to receive an unclaimed inheritance. It is important to take a…
Read MoreThe Most Valuable Asset
Data is a valuable commodity. It is important to focus on the technology of data as well as the governance. This interesting topic came to us from DATAVERSITY in their article, “Data Governance vs. Data Architecture.” Data governance is a system of decision rights and accountabilities for information-related processes. It includes the processes and framework involved…
Read MoreNew Moniker for Data Information Leader
The term CDO has long referred to Chief Data Officer, but there are some industry professionals would like to see this changed to Chief Digital Officer. This interesting information came to us from DATAVERSITY in their article, “Dawn of the Chief Digital Officer.” Lobbying for the change, Langley Eide, Chief Strategy Officer at Data Science and…
Read MoreSemantic Enrichment Manager Position Available
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 MoreAdding Quality to the Data
What do you call poor data hygiene? Bad BI? Machine learning is being used to clean up data management protocols. This interesting topic came to us from ZD Net in their article, “The great data science hope: Machine learning can cure your terrible data hygiene.” Maintaining good data hygiene is tough, especially when you are…
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