Working with Semantics Webinar

Mark your calendars for an upcoming webinar — Working with Semantics: Technology and Tools (FREE for NISO members) – on November 10, 11:00 a.m. – 12.30 p.m. (ET). Today’s sophisticated information resources are engineered in ways that emphasize relationships between related but disparate data elements. This webinar will focus on the emerging techniques and technologies that support…

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Join Us For a Free Webinar

You are invited to a Zoom webinar on Nov. 3, 2021 11:00 a.m. (MDT). The topic will be Standardizing How We Talk About Standards: Developing SSOS, the Standards-Specific Ontology Standard. Register in advance for this webinar at https://us06web.zoom.us/…/reg…/WN_2xyL2PoiQ-eDXuZD9pSlbw. What it’s really about is breaking down a Tower of Babel and enabling discoverability and interoperability. You…

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Technology Besties

Information architecture (IA) is a science of organizing and structuring information or content, including text, photos and videos within a digital product. IA and artificial intelligence (AI) work hand in hand. The challenge is getting both people and data together on the same path. ZDNet brought this interesting topic to our attention in their article, “Artificial…

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Making the Most Out of Machine Learning

Arthur Samuel coined the term machine learning in 1959 and defined it as a “Field of study that gives computers the capability to learn without being explicitly programmed”. That was the beginning of Machine Learning. Today, it is still that and so much more. The Machine Learning Times brought this topic to us in their article, “The First…

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Facial Recognition Challenges in the Pandemic

We all have joked about having pandemic haircuts and social distancing beards due remote working, closed businesses, etc. However, law enforcement and private businesses have used facial recognition – the software that maps, analyzes and then confirms the identity of a face in a photograph or video – for years for security purposes. Between the…

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Cloud and Security

Cloud computing is a rapidly growing solution for issues related to data storage and collaboration. The cloud itself is simply a virtualization of resources — like data storage, applications, servers and networks all working in unison to allow access to information on-demand. IT Wire brought this interesting information to our attention in their article, “Confluence in the…

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Augmented Reality and Artificial Intelligence

There is a disconnect between the volume of digital data available to us and the physical world in which we apply it. Reality may be three-dimensional, but the rich data we have to inform our decisions and actions remains trapped on two-dimensional pages and screens. This gulf between the real and digital worlds limits our ability to…

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Reducing Staff Burnout with AI

Employee burnout is not limited to the healthcare field. After almost two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, workers are feeling the stress and anxiety of working and learning remotely, being separated from their families and taking safety measures to protect them and their loved ones from a global public health crisis. This interesting topic came…

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Book Review Highlights Search and Digitization

The impact that Google has made on search, search practices and findability cannot be denied. This book review touches on the good, the bad, and the digitized of that story. The Scholarly Kitchen brought this interesting information to us in their article, “Book Review — Along Came Google: A History of Library Digitization.” The story…

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Better Relationship with Technology

Can you imagine our world today without technology? We may complain about the automation and quickly point to computers as the source of all evil when things go awry, but who among us wants to remove the technology? Analytics Insight brought this interesting topic to our attention in their article, “Artificial Intelligence in Information Technology…

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