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…
Read MoreTechnology Being Designed to Identify Danger
In this world of angst and anger, how can we detect criminal intentions and hate speech in non-physical places? Bio Med Central brought this interesting information to our attention in their article, “Hate is in the air! But where? Introducing an algorithm to detect hate speech in digital microenvironments.” In a new paper published in Crime Science, researchers define…
Read MoreDigital 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.…
Read MoreRiding 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…
Read MoreInformation 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…
Read MoreSocial 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…
Read MoreDigital 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.…
Read MoreALPSP 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…
Read MorePush 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…
Read MoreAccess 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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