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Recognizing the Best of the Best
Awards for excellence and hard work are always nice to receive. The 2015 KMWorld Awards recognize excellence in organizations who have proven that they deliver their promise and maintain a positive reality. The recipient of the KM Reality award is an organization demonstrating leadership in the implementation of knowledge management practices and processes by realizing measurable…
Read MoreLearning Opportunity about Sharing Data
The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) is offering a unique webinar titled, “Overcoming Challenges to Sharing Data.” We were taught in kindergarten to share, and that is still a valuable practice today, especially in the world of data. Open source is a prime example of the interest in sharing research data. However, it…
Read MorePeer Reviews’ Reach
The Special Libraries Association (SLA) and the Institute of Engineering & Technology (IET) are presenting the latest resource in their Learning Initiative Partnership (LIP) series. This paper, “The Transparency of Peer Review“, is available to all SLA members at no cost, and all SLA members are encouraged to take a moment to download the white…
Read MoreSeeking an Ontologist
As we strive to be as helpful as possible to those in the fields of taxonomy, indexing, ontology, etc., we are excited to share career opportunities that we find with our readers. Even if you aren’t in the market for a career move, it is always good to stay on top of what is available and…
Read MoreGrants for Digital Archiving
A unique opportunity comes around once a year with the GRAMMY Foundation Grant Program. With funding provided by The Recording Academy (aka The National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences, or NARAS), the GRAMMY Foundation Grant Program awards grants each year to organizations and individuals to support efforts that advance the archiving and preservation of…
Read MoreSize vs. Brains
Big data has spawned a new term – content intelligence. It is the combination of semantic technology and information science that allows machines to model, analyze, and visualize the human intelligence within an organization. That includes the reasoning processes that hide in e-mails, contracts, technical documents, meeting notes, etc. This interesting information came from DATAVERSITY in…
Read MoreThe Pitfalls of Big Data
What is a data swamp? Well, start with a data lake. It accepts any data, without oversight or governance. Without descriptive metadata and a mechanism to maintain it, the data lake risks turning into a data swamp. DATAVERSITY brought this interesting information to us in their article, “Avoiding Data Swamps with Big Data Governance.” Analysts…
Read MoreIntern Opportunities
As we strive to be as helpful as possible to those in the fields of taxonomy, indexing, ontology, etc., we are excited to share career opportunities that we find with our readers. Even if you aren’t in the market for a career move, it is always good to stay on top of what is available and…
Read MoreThe Complexity of Knowledge Organization
If you didn’t make it to the Innovations in Knowledge Organisation (IKO) conference in Singapore last month, don’t worry. The conference materials and a post-conference newsletter are available free online. Though it isn’t quite as good as being there in person, you can still read what Margie Hlava (President of Access Innovations) and Bob Kasenchak (Director of…
Read MoreClassified Data
Classification influences many parts of our lives. For example, classifying students in special education programs as autistic has increased three hundred percent from 2000 to 2010 in the United States. Perspective is key here, as a huge portion of these students would have been diagnosed with another condition or disorder. In other words, they were…
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