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Partnership for the Better
The American Heart Association (AHA) is partnering with Amazon Web Services (AWS) in an effort to further cardiovascular medicine with AWS cloud technology. Healthcare IT News brought this information to us in their article, “American Heart Association collaborates with Amazon Web Services for precision medicine.” It’s a part of the AHA Institute for Precision Cardiovascular Medicine’s…
Read MoreAlways Room for a Taxonomy
I have a confession of sorts to make. I do not care for car racing. I know you are wondering why that would matter, but you see, I live in the midwest, was raised just miles from the home of the Indianapolis 500, and am probably the only member of my family who doesn’t love…
Read MoreMachine Learning is Coming to the Party
Machine learning is embraced by the creators of PoolParty Semantic Suite. They are integrating improved machine learning capabilities to support the most critical knowledge engineering tasks. This interesting information came to us from KM World in their article, “PoolParty Introduces Machine Learning Capabilities to its Platform.” PoolParty is a semantic technology platform developed, owned and licensed by…
Read MoreSemantic Functions of Brain Stimulated by Drug
LSD is known for dramatically altering people’s state of consciousness. New research suggests that the mind-expanding effects of LSD may also extend to language. The Huffington Post brought this interesting news to us in their article,”LSD Makes Your Brain More Like A Thesaurus.” Of course we aren’t suggesting you starting experimenting with psychedelics. It is, however, interesting…
Read MoreDigital Learning Information Management Specialist Wanted
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 MoreNew Resources for Scholars
EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) has introduced a new product to meet the increasing demands of scholarly research. The collection includes five multidiscipline databases, each offering an extensive amount of full text that brings a global perspective to research in each discipline. Knowledge Speak brought this news to us in their article, “EBSCO Information Services releases Ultimate…
Read MoreTypography in the Digital Age
Comic book nerds, typography nerds, and all those in the middle will find kinship with this topic. Fonts for every purpose have undergone significant change due to digital technology. Lettering has moved into the digital realm, which has opened up new possibilities for subtle storytelling through typography. This interesting information came to us from The Scholarly…
Read MoreFall Seminar Series in Digital Publishing
The Professional/Scholarly Publishing (PSP) Division of the Association of American Publishers (AAP) Committee for Digital Innovation (CDI) is once again offering a fall seminar series, this time on Metrics, New Metrics and Their Significance. The first part of the series starts September 22, 2016 at 12:00-1:30 p.m. The title of this webinar is “The Evolution of Standard…
Read MoreWhat a DAM System Can Offer
Digital asset management (DAM) systems serve many purposes. Maybe you think you don’t need one. You have shared files, and that is more than enough to serve your purposes. DAM systems do more than share files. Marketing Profs brought this interesting information to us in their article, “Top 7 Reasons Creative Directors Need Digital Asset…
Read MoreThe Data on Data
Big data is a term that has been thrown around for a while now. And while data is indeed growing exponentially – 90% of the data that currently exists was created in just the last two years – big data is about more than volume. The Guardian brought this interesting information to our attention in their…
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