News
Subject Matter Experts
There is a constant struggle in IT between vendors and users. They seek to find a common language outside technical speak to define what IT can offer and, on the flip side, what users actually need. This interesting topic came to us from diginomica in their article, “Tech talk – the taxonomy of yesterday.” Traditional…
Read MoreCyber Attacks Are Everywhere
Cyber attacks are of concern to every type of organization – even the national government. Reuters (along with many, many others) reported on the growing concern around cyber attacks affecting the recent national elections in their article, “Obama orders review of 2016 election cyber attacks.” U.S. President Barack Obama has ordered intelligence agencies to review…
Read MoreStart Your Own Learning Plan
The Data Stewardship Learning Plan is a complete guide to data stewardship and the role the steward plays in a data governance organization. This eight course program introduces the roles and responsibilities of data stewards, their training, and the implementation processes along with an overview of data governance tools, important enterprise initiatives, metrics, and the Stewardship Maturity Model. The…
Read MoreDigital Has Its Place
The demise of print is starting to sound like Chicken Little and “the sky is falling.” As early as the 1990s, the CEO of a major professional publisher announced that “print is dead”, though he publicly recanted that statement several years later. Despite the advances in digital technology and e-products, print sales have remained the prize…
Read MoreTraditions
Tradition. Every time I hear this word, the scene from Fiddler on the Roof pops into my head. “You may ask how did these traditions start? I’ll tell you, I don’t know, but it’s tradition!” There are so many traditions and yet many don’t know where they come from. Some start out as one thing,…
Read MoreNon-Executive Director Positions Available
To be as helpful as possible to those in the fields of taxonomy, indexing, ontology, etc., we share 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 MoreNew Artificial Intelligence Technology in Search
With new developments happening in the field of artificial intelligence and search engines, scholars may find it challenging to keep up. Nature World News brought this information to our attention in their article, “Researchers Predict AI-based Search Engines Will Change the Face of Scientific Inquiry.” The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2)’s Semantic Scholar has released the…
Read MoreDrowning in Data
It is predicted that by 2020 there will be three times as many connected devices in the world as people; thus the growth of the Internet of Things (IoT). This interesting information came to us from MeriTalk in their article, “Metadata Separates Data Lakes From Data Swamps.” Information from all of those devices will feed into…
Read MoreDigital Publisher Reaches Milestone
The Financial Times has secured more revenue from digital than print, making it the first mainstream UK newspaper to be able to describe itself as a truly “digital content business.” The Guardian brought this news to us in their article, “The Financial Times passes another major digital milestone.” In times where everyone is pondering whether print is dead…
Read MoreMore Than Data Lost
We have all heard about Yahoo’s recent data hack. They revealed they had been hacked in 2014 and over 500 million accounts were the victims of username and password theft. This announcement came as Verizon was negotiating the purchase of Yahoo to the tune of $4.8 billion dollars. Apparently this crisis has discounted the deal as Verizon…
Read More