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Parsey What?
Google has been promoting natural language understanding with the open-sourcing of SyntaxNet, a neural network framework, and Parsey McParseface. This interesting information came to us from DATAVERSITY in their article, “Google Promotes Natural Language Understanding with Open Source Projects.” Parsey McParseface is more than just a cute moniker; it is built on machine learning algorithms that learn…
Read MoreBlack and White
After testing a new color for its search result links, Google has settled on black. This interesting information came to us from Mashable in their article, “Why Internet links are blue, and what Google’s ‘black’ experiment means.” The search guru is experimenting with black links in search results in lieu of the more traditional blue and…
Read MoreVoila! It’s Magic
A combination of advancements in cognitive computing, graph databases, visualizations, and data discovery have resulted in an amazing reduction in the delivery time of analytics results. Visual querying uses interactive visualizations that enable users to look at and select the relevant data for questions, which allows the underlying systems to write the code necessary to perform…
Read MoreMaking the Most of Your DAM System
Content is valuable. More and more content is digital-based and protecting it while providing quick access is the challenge. Martech Advisor brought this information to us in their article, “Managing Digital Assets Successfully: Four Essential Steps.” There are digital assets management (DAM) programs available to help with storage, indexing and findability. However, surveys show that only about…
Read MoreIndexing History One Record at a Time
Genealogy projects have long been a great example of proper indexing against a solid database that produces great findability. One such project that was recently brought to our attention came from the Kansas African American Museum. The Wichita Eagle brought this interesting information to us in their article, “Genealogy researcher helping African-American families fill in the blanks.”…
Read MoreProviding Enterprise Solutions
Workfront provides cloud-based enterprise work management solutions and with their recently released edition of Workfront DAM, marketers, IT professionals, and other enterprise teams now have the ability to request work and locate once-undiscoverable assets with more speed and ease, the goal being to eliminate hours of wasted time. This interesting information came to us from IT Business…
Read MoreSearch Technology Continues to Evolve
Google’s RankBrain is a machine learning system that, along with other algorithm factors, helps to determine what the best results will be for a specific query set. RankBrain was recently released and is causing quite the chatter. Search Engine Land brought this news to us in their article, “How RankBrain Changes Entity Search.” RankBrain appears to be related to…
Read MoreFree, But Fair
Sci-Hub has been in the news a lot lately, but few people truly understand what it is and how it affects academic journals and their authors. American Libraries Magazine brought this interesting information to us in their article, “Sci-Hub: What It Is and Why It Matters.“ Sci-Hub is a website that makes more than 48 million…
Read MoreTrusting 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 secret by search engines do little to build trust. This interesting information came from DATAVERSITY in their article, “Trust and Semantic Search.” Trust is achieved through ascertaining the reliability of data sources…
Read MoreEnsuring 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 that must be addressed with a strong records management program. Important files, customer records, financial statements, correspondence, social media content, and even cellphone records must be properly handled and archived. This information…
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