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Scholarly Search Gets New Platform
Digital Science launched a new platform – Dimensions – intended to transform scholarly search. Digital Science brought this news to us in their article, “Digital Science Launches Dimensions: a Next-generation Research and Discovery Platform Linking 124 Million Documents, Providing Free Search and Citation Data Across 86 Million Articles.” This is a collaboration between six Digital…
Read MoreEnterprise Content Management in the Future
A recent acquisition by OpenText of Documentum has spawned an interest in where enterprise content management (ECM) is today and where it may be headed in the coming years. This interesting topic came to us from CMS Wire in their article, “Enterprise Content Management at the Crossroads.” It’s not enough to just manage content. The…
Read MoreSearch and Find
Search has many parts, pieces and players in both the software and the technology. A search engine is different from search software. The terms are used interchangeably by people, but they are not the same. Search software is an application and a search engine is a collection of servers with large amounts of data on it…
Read MoreScience Journal Increases Access
A new authoritative journal has joined the family of open access titles. Launched in 1884 and 1912, respectively, University of Hamburg’s journal Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen Zoologischen Museum und Institut and Entomologische Mitteilungen are now resurrected under the name of Evolutionary Systematics. KnowledgeSpeak brought this news to our attention in their article, “Evolutionary Systematics joins Pensoft’s OA portfolio.” Evolutionary Systematics is…
Read MoreDigging Around in the Data of the Past
Data mining is the process of finding anomalies, patterns and correlations within large data sets to predict outcomes. Using a broad range of techniques, this information can be used in a variety of processes. Applying data mining techniques to history often uncovers interesting data and trends in the archives. IT Technology Review brought this very…
Read MoreMetadata in Search
Users can now digitally access some of the most important scientific texts in history. The United Kingdom’s national academy of sciences, known formally as The Royal Society, is making over 330 years’ worth of high-quality, full color images from its journals available online. Their journal archive offers free online access. This very interesting information came…
Read MoreLibrarians for Data Lakes
Enterprise data management is getting more attention these days. As everyone works to make their business more efficient, the value of data is becoming more and more apparent. This interesting information came to us from CIO Review in their article, “Data Lake Librarians.” Data should be treated as an asset. Applying non-invasive data governance, improving the…
Read MoreAnalyzing Relationships
Latent semantic indexing (LSI) is a natural language processing technique that analyzes relationships between a set of documents and the terms they contain. The result? Search engines can identify related terms for keywords by researching through billions of pages and use these findings to evaluate whether a web page offers truly comprehensive content related to a…
Read MoreData Harmony Helps You Do Your Job Better
Crowdsourcing is becoming quite popular. Imagine it is like asking your neighbors for a recommendation of where they got their new windows but multiply it by however big your “crowd” is. It isn’t always about recommendations; sometimes it is developing solutions for a situation that needs the combination of talent and genius found among your…
Read MoreManaging Unstructured Data
Organizations rely on digitized unstructured data for insights in terms of business decisions. In this world of information overload, around 80% of data collected is unstructured, assembled from emails, social media feeds and user devices. CIO Review brought this information to our attention in their article, “Analyzing Unstructured Data.” Analyzing unstructured data can be challenging. If…
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