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Tracking the Data

By admin|June 7th, 2016|News, reference|Comments Off on Tracking the Data

Late in 2014, Scholarly Kitchen shared with us a project with Ithaka S+R to research Amazon’s book sales to academic libraries. Some early results are in and […]

Erasing History

By Melody Smith|June 3rd, 2016|metadata, News|Comments Off on Erasing History

Digital archives exist to preserve data for infinitely long periods of time, so it is interesting that the Spanish Supreme Court recently ruled on […]

Trusting the Standards

By Melody Smith|June 3rd, 2016|News, search, Standards|Comments Off on Trusting the Standards

Trust is not likely to be a word used by many users when it comes to search results and ranking. The algorithms used in […]

New Partnership Applying Standards

By Melody Smith|June 2nd, 2016|News, Standards|Comments Off on New Partnership Applying Standards

Scope e-Knowledge Center (Scope) has announced a partnership with Springer Nature to build and maintain taxonomies and thesauri for the global publisher’s various online information products that […]

Machine Learning and Big Data

By Melody Smith|June 2nd, 2016|metadata, News, semantic|Comments Off on Machine Learning and Big Data

Machine learning is quickly becoming a mainstream presence thanks mainly to big data. The machine learning landscape is likely to keep changing over the coming […]

Understanding Data Security

By Melody Smith|June 1st, 2016|metadata, News|Comments Off on Understanding Data Security

Maybe it is because there is too much talk about data security? Maybe it is because users just don’t understand the risk or the […]

Ensuring Findability With the Correct Tools

By Melody Smith|June 1st, 2016|indexing, News, search|Comments Off on Ensuring Findability With the Correct Tools

The overwhelming amount of documents and data that we generate every day are not being safely stored and tracked. This is creating a problem […]

Digging Deeper into Open Data

By admin|May 31st, 2016|News|Comments Off on Digging Deeper into Open Data

The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) is offering a two-part virtual workshop on Thursday, June 16 and Monday, June 20, 2016. This virtual workshop […]

Protecting Yourself

By admin|May 31st, 2016|News|Comments Off on Protecting Yourself

It seems every day some organization has been breached and their data has been compromised. It has happened to insurance companies, large retailers and […]

Metadata in the Music Industry

By admin|May 30th, 2016|metadata, News|Comments Off on Metadata in the Music Industry

It’s not exactly the group of people you would expect to be discussing metadata, but this is just another example of how metadata touches […]