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Digging Deep
We live in a data-rich world where organizations, governments and individuals can analyze anything and everything. At present, the most easily indexed material from the web is text. Unfortunately, anywhere from 89 to 96 percent of the content on the internet is actually something else, like images, video, audio, etc. and in every file type imaginable. This interesting information…
Read MoreEducational Webinar on Semantic Web Technology
CIMdata, Inc. is offering a free educational webinar titled, “Why Connected Intelligent Products Need Semantic Web Technology.” The webinar will take place on February 9, 2017 at 11:00 a.m. (EST). PR.com brought this news to our attention in their article, “CIMdata to Host Free Webinar on Why Connected Intelligent Products Need Semantic Web Technology.” The development…
Read MoreNew Digitization Project Increases Access
Northern Illinois University recently announced a new digitization project in their release,”University Libraries awarded more than $448,000 for digitization project.” The Council on Library and Information Resources has awarded the University Libraries, in collaboration with the Falvey Memorial Library at Villanova University, with a Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives grant for $448,893 to digitize…
Read MoreHealth IT Content Strategies Gets Some Help
HIMSS Media recently launched the Media Lab to deliver content strategies for healthcare technology audiences. The Media Lab applies a scientific approach to better align clients’ content needs with distinct, data-supported Health IT buyer personas. This interesting information came to us from My San Antonio in their article, “HIMSS Media Lab is Launched to Lift Audience…
Read MoreCognitive Computing Used to Fight Dementia
Genomics is identifying the factors that makes some people more susceptible to Alzheimer’s and other aging-related cognitive impairments. Regardless of the root cause, dementias are usually irreversible. Machines can learn, but can they teach us? DATAVERSITY brought this interesting information to us in their article, “Using Cognitive Computing to Prevent Human Cognitive Decline.” Some claim that cognitive computing…
Read MoreCognitive Computing in Daily Life
Cognitive computing is slowly becoming part of mainstream business culture since IBM’s introduction to Watson in 2011. The computing system built to compete against humans on the popular game show, Jeopardy! inspired many companies to begin research and ultimately investments into the technology. DATAVERSITY brought this news to our attention in their article, “Cognitive Computing: The…
Read MoreShopping in the Cloud
With the variety of services offered in the public cloud from analytics to artificial intelligence, the options have become irresistible. The amount of capital invested in data centers does however give pause to organizations before they will simply switch to a public cloud provider’s platform wholesale. This interesting information came to us from InfoWorld in their…
Read MoreIndexing Career Opportunity
To be as helpful as possible to those in the fields of taxonomy, indexing, 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…
Read MoreTechnology in 2017
2017 promises to be an interesting arena for media technology. Incumbents and newbies both are predicted to challenge industry trends in an effort to enhance efficiency, reduce costs and maximize revenues. CXO Today brought this interesting news to us in their article, “Top Technologies Shaping Media & Entertainment.” One area where this will be very prevalent…
Read MoreHighlights of University Presses
It is easy to think of university presses as focused primarily on humanities and social science. While that may apply to many, there are some that include important critiques that contribute to and shape the academic publishing world. The writers at The Scholarly Kitchen shared some of their favorites in their post, “University Press Books We Loved…
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