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Standing up to Standards
Classification takes on many different styles and approaches. For instance, these videos are a good example of sunspot classification brought to life in visual and yes, audio, if you count the 1980s techno background music. I was warned and feel obligated to do the same for you, monitor your sound when opening. This is a…
Read MoreSlang or Vintage?
I am fascinated by words. Their meaning, their history, their multiple uses – all of this and more draws me to dig deeper in vocabulary. I am a “word of the day” kind of gal. One interesting and slightly humorous find came from NPR in their article, “Do We Talk Funny? 51 American Colloquialisms.” The regional…
Read MoreGetting It Under Control
BooksoniX is all about getting your data under control. Sounds like a huge undertaking, but in the world of publishing, managing your web-based book list can be quite the challenge. Maybe you already utilize ONIX data but it doesn’t validate properly and gets rejected by the likes of Nielsen, Bowker, and Barnes & Noble? BooksoniX runs it through their…
Read MoreWorking Together for Open Access
Springer has announced a partnership with IMISCOE, the largest network of excellence on migration and diversity in the world. This partnership will allow for the publication of their open access journal Comparative Migration Studies and their book series IMISCOE Research Series. Springer shared this news in their release titled, “Springer partners with IMISCOE on open access…
Read MoreWatch Out for Karma
Karma is a free, open source data integration tool that makes it easier to convert data from a variety of formats into linked data. Appropriately, this information came from Open Source in their article, “Open source data integration with Karma.” Karma is a web-based tool that runs both the server and browser right on your machine.…
Read MoreBringing the Past to the Future
Going digital has many meanings, depending on the genre of data and on the type of business involved. For the Library of Congress, this is a pretty big deal. NPR brought this very interesting news to us in their article, “A Long Way From Wax Cylinders, Library Of Congress Slowly Joins The Digital Age.” The Library…
Read MoreThe Face of Metadata
The trials and tribulations of metadata continue. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has considered the question of whether the federal government may continue collecting metadata from nearly every phone call made, and has left the decision to Congress. This interesting information was found on Deseret News in their article, “Future of NSA’s ‘metadata’ collecting…
Read MoreWebinar on Digital Preservation
The PREMIS Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata is the international standard for metadata to support the preservation of digital objects and ensure their long-term usability. This is developed by an international team of experts and implemented in digital preservation projects around the world. Dublin Core is sponsoring a webinar to give a brief overview over why…
Read MoreForward Thinking Technology
Tom Simonite recently shared this in the MIT Technology Review: “Many of the devices around us may soon acquire powerful new abilities to understand images and video, thanks to hardware designed for the machine-learning technique called deep learning. Companies like Google have made breakthroughs in image and face recognition through deep learning, using giant data…
Read MoreSemantic Service
Service oriented architecture (SOA) is a design approach based on distinct pieces of software providing application functionality as services to other applications via a protocol. It operates independently of any vendor, product, or technology. This interesting topic came from DATAVERSITY in their blog post, “Semantic SOA makes Sense!” Service catalogs strive to make management easier, but how do application…
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