LIFE Imagines Indexed
LIFE magazine is using machine learning to organize over 4 million images from the LIFE magazine archives into an interactive encyclopedia. LIFE magazine was […]
Vector Language Modeling Used to Search Books
Google’s new Semantic Experiences uses word vectors to search over 100,000 books for contextually related statements and points out passages that provide answers. Tech […]
Digital or Retail: Selecting Books Have Changed
Bookstores’ footprints, business concepts and strategies have morphed over the past few decades in very drastic ways. Founder Jeff Bezos first launched Amazon as […]
New Online Access to Supreme Court History at Library of Congress
More than 225 years of Supreme Court decisions acquired by the Library of Congress are now publicly available online. The Library of Congress shared […]
Searching Styles
Search is a widely debated issue. Over the years, more interest and more science has been applied to the topic, making it even more […]
Indexing History
In the information science world, “indexing” denotes various methods for organizing data so that it is easily searchable. To a student, however, the word […]
Making All Content Findable
Searching for any type of information can be frustrating if you are unsure where to start or how to define your query. This is […]
Digitization’s Impact on Publishing
Scholarly publishing has been experiencing change over the past few years. There are many reasons why, but the move to digital has certainly had […]
Indexing Folklore
Many of us have the “word of day” type emails that arrive in our in-box every morning. For readers and writers (and just plain […]