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Changes Continue

By Melody Smith | February 6, 2015

Many people stress over the changes that comes with technology. Advancements can mean training, additional budget requirements, and disruption to service. What few remember, however, is that as technology progresses, many items get less expensive.

New Resource Available

By Melody Smith | February 5, 2015

The term corporate librarian isn’t heard much these days. In the world of downsizing, redundancy, and streamlining, most organizational charts seem to be missing this very valuable position. There is a new resource out there addressing this very problem. “Corporate Libraries: Basic Principles in a Changing Landscape.”

Solutions Abound

By Melody Smith | February 5, 2015

Data management and archiving are key factors for businesses, as you all know. However, because terms like backup, archiving, and records management get used interchangeably so frequently, it is easy to forget that they are not the same thing.

Everybody in the Pool

By Melody Smith | February 4, 2015

Semantic Web Company recently announced the launch of PoolParty Semantic Suite Version 5. This taxonomy management and knowledge graph management software platform includes support for ontology management, custom schema management, enhanced entity extraction, linked data harvesting, Web crawling, and auto-classification in enterprise systems such as SharePoint, Confluence, Drupal and more.

Improving the Results

By Melody Smith | February 4, 2015

EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) and Innovative Interfaces (Innovative) have expanded their partnership designed to improve access to library resources. This will incorporate catalog functionality within the EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) experience.

Looking at Taxonomy Trends

By Melody Smith | February 3, 2015

Heather Hedden, author and taxonomist, is taking a look at the products available and the trends that are evident within the taxonomy field. Some things haven’t changed like the increase in cloud/web-based software, more SKOS/RDF/Semantic web framework software, and more plugins to SharePoint, content management systems, and search engines.

Taking Extra Measures

By Melody Smith | February 3, 2015

Gauging risks and hedging your bets is not just a necessary task by all organizations, but is a business unto itself. RiskBusiness International Limited claims to be the leading international operational risk advisory and solutions firm. They recently released a new risk classification taxonomy.

Intelligence of All Kinds

By Melody Smith | February 2, 2015

Artificial intelligence has come a long way from the character Data on Star Trek and even farther from 2001: A Space Odyssey. It is now part of our daily habits, i.e. Apple’s Siri.

Brought to you by the silent letter

By Melody Smith | January 30, 2015

English is not the easiest language to learn: we already know that. There seems to be an exception to every rule. I before E, except after C, for example. What about cover, hover, and over?

Lost and Found

By Melody Smith | January 30, 2015

Yet again, another report about data security breaches at retailers and banks. America’s largest bank, JPMorgan Chase, is one of the latest high-profile victims, and it is still reeling from this summer’s cyber attack that compromised 76 million household accounts. Law firms are not immune from this type of disaster. Recently a study reported that 15% of U.S. law firms experienced a security breach in 2012, either through hackers, a break-in, a web site exploit, or a lost or stolen computer or smartphone.