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Semantic Technology in Social Media
If you have uploaded a photo to your Facebook timeline lately, you already know the social media platform attempts to identify your friends’ faces in your photos. Considering the angles and lack of focus, the technology is fairly accurate, except for that time it tried to tag your husband with your great aunt’s profile. This interesting…
Read MoreCopyrights in the Publisher’s World
Copyright discussions can send the fear of God into anyone in the publishing business with very little effort. The spirit of copyright protection is global, but copyright laws in a particular country are national. So getting everyone to agree is a challenge with no end in sight. This interesting topic came to us from Scholarly Kitchen…
Read MoreTransforming Your Products With Digital
Digital transformation aims to automate an organization’s repetitive functions in a way that links systems and provides a more seamless experience to the end users. CMS Wire brought this news to us in their article, “How Digital Transformation Relates to Information Governance. This transformation begins with a minimum viable product (MVP). An MVP represents a prototype/proof-of-concept that is…
Read MoreEducational Opportunity This Week
“Artificial General Intelligence – When Can I Get It?” is the name of the webinar scheduled for Thursday, February 9th at 2:00 p.m. EST and it is free to all attendees. This educational opportunity is sponsored by Smart Data and it will present an overview of approaches to artificial general intelligence (AGI), examples of promising research…
Read MoreProtecting Data and Users
Data breaches and security has never been more of a focus for most organizations. It’s not just hackers or rogue employees that are causing worries. Financial Planning brought this to our attention in their article, “Don’t let this data breach threat end your business.” Organizations are building processes and protocols for “when” they are victims of…
Read MoreNew Acquisition, Greater Access
Elsevier has announced their acquisition of Plum Analytics from EBSCO Information Services. What does this mean for users? PR Newswire brought this interesting tidbit to our attention in their article, “Elsevier Acquires Leading ‘Altmetrics’ Provider Plum Analytics.” The acquisition will enable Elsevier to significantly expand access to Plum Analytics’ altmetrics to more researchers and more institutions. Plum…
Read MoreThe Opportunity That is Social Media
According to a recent survey, 39% of all businesses participating said they do not do any form of social media tracking or monitoring in their organization. Considering how prevalent social media is these days, and not just for personal use, this number is surprising. This interesting information came to us from Open PR in their article,…
Read MoreMaintaining Access
Most readers have no idea of the long-term and collaborative efforts that are made by committed industry players to provide us access to literature, science publications, etc. from various sources and libraries. The good news is that access is increasing by the day. The Scholarly Kitchen brought this interesting news to us in their article, “Monographs, Transparency…
Read MoreIndustry Giants Are Going All In On Graphic Databases
Graph databases are no longer the new guy on the block. They continue to move into mainstream enterprise operations and some big name vendors are making their mark. This interesting news came to us from DATAVERSITY in their article, “Enterprises Move to Graph Databases.” Oracle and Teradata are both examples of major companies that have implemented…
Read MoreIllegal Metadata Program Revealed in Canada
According to the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), they don’t know the number of Canadians that were caught up in an illegal metadata program that operated for almost a decade. This interesting news came to us from The Star out of Toronto in their article, “CSIS doesn’t know how many Canadians were snared in unlawful data program.”…
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