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The Result of Cyber Crime
Some might call it a silver lining. The cyber crime epidemic has created a new job growth spurt as the number of open positions over the next five years is expected to triple. CSO Online brought this news to us in their article, “Cybersecurity labor crunch to hit 3.5 million unfilled jobs by 2021.” This prediction…
Read MoreMastering Data Management
Salah Kamel, CEO and Founder of Semarchy has been an innovator throughout his career and was recently awarded the 2016 DAMA International Excellence in Data Management Award. The annual award recognizes organizations or individuals who have made significant contributions to Data Management principles. DATAVERSITY brought this news to us in their article, “Intelligent Master Data Management: Smart, Agile, and…
Read MoreAI in Search
Quertle is the developer of the first artificial intelligence (AI) biomedical big data discovery platform (BioAI) for biomedical literature. Together with Elsevier, they have announced that searching of the full-text biomedical and life science content on Elsevier’s information source, ScienceDirect, that has over 14 million publications, will be integrated into Quertle’s AI discovery product Qinsight. Knowledge Speak brought…
Read MoreWebinar on Responsible Publication Resources
The Professional/Scholarly Publishing (PSP) Journals Committee of the Association of American Publishers (AAP) will be hearing from guest speaker Donald Samulack, President, U.S. Operations at Editage about Coalition for Responsible Publication Resources on Tuesday, September 12th from 12:00-1:00 p.m. (ET) at the Wolters Kluwer/NY offices and available by webinar. This free session will focus on all things surrounding predatory and…
Read MoreAnalyzing Text
The ability to examine and analyze text for insights can make a huge difference in solving business problems. From simple questions to complex application requirements, determining what content really contains and how it can benefit the business is a critical skill in today’s business environment. This interesting information came to us from KM World in their article,…
Read MoreTaxonomy in Technology
Technology is almost always a good investment for government agencies, especially if they are looking to justify information technology (IT) modernization. This interesting information came to us from GCN in their article, “How to talk about IT modernization.” A four-stage taxonomy has been developed to help stakeholders understand the full scope of digital transformation efforts. The…
Read MoreOpen Access Images Get Great Reception
The New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art is pursing a new Open Access policy that would result in the release of high-resolution imagery of all its public-domain works, which is over 375,000 in total. The new initiative has had a major impact on sites such as Wikimedia and Creative Commons, and recently the Met announced a partnership with Google’s data analytics…
Read MoreThe Choice of Words
Words and language in general have always been of interest to me. Dictionaries, thesauri, and as I grew older, the AP Stylebook usually resided on my desk. Now we tend to rely more on the Internet and technology in general for these references. For instance, I receive a “word of the day” in my email.…
Read MoreThe Chicken or the Egg?
The presence of big data has forced many organizations to determine new solutions. Those solutions include data warehouses and data lakes. What is the difference between the two? DATAVERSITY brought this information to us in their article, “Data Warehouse vs. Data Lake Technology: Different Approaches to Managing Data.” Not all business data requirements fit into the…
Read MoreCan Metadata Detect Moods?
A new study analyzes social media posts to look for clues of mental illness. Analyzing photos pixel-by-pixel for color, metadata, and face detection, it then uses its observations to predict which users had depression and which didn’t. This interesting information came to us from Motherboard in their article, “People with Depression Tend to Post Darker…
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