Art Used in Science Classification

This exciting information may not be interesting to everyone but those in the classification and taxonomy world understand its significance, or they should. Forbes brought this interesting news to our attention in their article, “Meet The Woman Who Invented Scientific Photography At This Stunning New York Public Library Exhibit.” An English botanist named Anna Atkins…

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Digital Leadership

The world of data and analytics is evolving at a pace unseen in recent history, with major talent implications for organizations. Digital innovation is sweeping across industries and creating opportunities for companies to leverage data as a source of competitive advantage. DATAVERSITY brought this interesting topic to our attention in their article, “Data Strategy vs.…

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Riding the Digital Transformation Wave

Digital transformation is the new vogue word in technology. While the exact definition varies depending upon who is talking about it, the basic notion is organizations need to take advantage of their own data – their most valuable resource. Transforming the organization to work more digitally results in a deeper understanding of customers, markets, competitors…

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Information Governance Best Practices

Poor information governance practices affects everyone in an organization, all the way to the customer. This interesting topic came to us from Above the Law in their article, “Information Governance: The Foundation Of eDiscovery Projects.” Information governance involves managing the creation, use, storage, and distribution of data, records, and information maintained by an organization. It…

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Social Justice and Knowledge Organization

My world can be a juxtaposition of social issues and technological insights. Once in a great while, those two worlds collide. This interesting topic came to us from Project Muse in their paper, “Race and Ethnicity in Classification Systems: Teaching Knowledge Organization from a Social Justice Perspective.” Classification and the organization of information are directly connected…

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Digital Asset Librarian Opportunity

To be as helpful as possible to those in the fields of taxonomy, indexing, semantic technology, ontology, etc., we are sharing career opportunities that we find with our readers. Even if you are not in the market for a career move, it is always good to stay on top of what is available and how the fields are evolving.…

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ALPSP Webinar Series

The Association of Learned & Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) started a new educational webinar series for 2019 titled, “What is Hype and What Has Value? Technological buzzword or industry innovation? Open Source Technologies.” The first webinar is scheduled for Tuesday, February 5, 2019 at 10:00-11:00 EST and it isn’t too late to register. Artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain and open source are terms…

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Push Back on the Open Library

The Writers’ Union of Canada (TWUC) joined with partner organizations, the U.S. Authors Guild (AG), the U.K.’s Society of Authors (SoA), and the International Authors Forum (IAF) in strongly condemning the unauthorized lending of books scanned for the website Internet Archive. This interesting news came to us from The Digital Reader in their article, “The…

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Access Innovations and Health Affairs, Improving Health and Knowledge

Access Innovations, Inc., provider of Data Harmony software solutions, is proud to announce our work with Health Affairs. Health Affairs contracted with Access Innovations to develop a comprehensive thesaurus of health policy related terminology in order to categorize all Health Affairs’ content by topics and geolocation. This allows Health Affairs (and its readers) easy access…

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