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Intelligence Is Not Only Determined by Language
I have people in my life that would accuse me of making this up to justify my own vices. So imagine my extreme joy when I have finally been vindicated. It seems a potty mouth may not be all bad. This interesting and humorous information came from Medical Daily in their article, “Bad Words: People Who…
Read MoreDigital Privacy Unplugged
California continues to be very progressive with their digital privacy laws. This interesting information came from WIRED in their article, “California Now Has the Nation’s Best Digital Privacy Law.” The Electronic Communications Privacy Act bars any state law enforcement agency or other investigative entity from compelling a business to turn over any metadata or digital communications—including…
Read MoreTaxonomy and Metadata Specialist Needed
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 MoreKeeping Track of History with Semantic Technology
Historians used to keep important information in their heads and then progressed to note cards and pieces of paper. Eventually official entries in record books became the norm, that is until digital indexing was created. Even then many of the traditionalists believed it was a fad or short-lived phenomenon. DATAVERSITY brought this information to us in…
Read MoreLearning Opportunity This Week
Many organizations have content dispersed across multiple independent repositories and often without any metadata consistency. The attention given to enterprise data is often not extended to unstructured content, widening the gap between the two worlds and making it near impossible to provide accurate business intelligence, good user experience, or even basic findability. This very timely…
Read MoreSecure Your Data From Inside
Security with technology is a constant concern for most organizations. It might surprise some, but probably not all, that humans are the weakest link in the security chain. This information came from The Wall Street Journal in their article, “How to Improve Cybersecurity? Just Eliminate the Human Factor.” Training employees to make better decisions can…
Read MoreNew Applications for Semantic Technology
Kenniset is a public organization for education and information communication technologies in the Netherlands. They have deployed TopBraid Enterprise Vocabulary Net (EVN) from TopQuadrant to support the development of standardized semantics for Dutch education. KM World brought this interesting information to us in their article, “Standardized semantics for Dutch education.” TopBraid EVN is a Web-based system for…
Read MorePeer Recognition
CIOReview has chosen Semantic Research for its 20 Most Promising Defense Tech Solution Providers 2015. IT Business Net brought this news to our attention in their article, “CIOReview Selects Semantic Research for 20 Most Promising Defense Tech Solution Providers 2015.” This is based on the evaluation of Semantic Research’s solutions that bring together relevant data from multiple…
Read MoreLibrary Data Open to Access
Helsinki University Library’s open data web service offers the vast majority of the library’s data in easy-to-use JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) format. This interesting news came from the blog post, “Helsinki University Library opens its data for the general public.” Citizens and businesses can retrieve library’s data from the service for personal or commercial purposes. There are…
Read MoreFile Organization Assistance
Working with PDF files stored in the cloud can be a little challenging depending on their size. A new partnership with Dropbox connects Acrobat users with documents stored in the cloud storage icon. This interesting information came to us from Computer World in their article, “Adobe teams with Dropbox as part of Document Cloud upgrades.” Users…
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