Staying on Track with Performance Metrics

Performance metrics are frequently used for employees in their annual reviews to establish mutual expectations and performance evaluations. But what about organizations? Who sets those expectations? And more importantly, how are the performances measured? A business metric is a quantifiable measure that is used to track and assess the status of a specific business process. Every…

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The Future of Machine Learning

The future of machine learning is bright. More and more organizations are realizing the benefits that come with this emerging technology. This interesting information came to us from DATAVERSITY in their article, “Machine Learning Moves to the Hybrid Cloud.” The term machine learning is often incorrectly interchanged with artificial intelligence (AI), but machine learning is actually…

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Choosing the Right ECM

The ability to access the correct version of a document or record is important. Content must be managed so that it is used to achieve business goals. Enterprise content management (ECM) is the systematic collection and organization of information that is to be used by a designated audience. Tech Target brought this topic to our…

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Manager of Taxonomy Opportunity Available

It is nearing the end of the year and one of your resolutions might involve a career change. 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,…

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Buying Access

There has been much complaining from some universities about the price and restrictions of their subscription contracts with publishers. However, few have the negotiating power like the University of California (UC) System, which single-handedly accounts for almost 10 percent of the research output of the United States. This interesting topic came to us from Inside Higher Ed in…

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Improving Findability

Organizing your data in a database is a key step in ultimately finding it again when the time comes. In between these times your data can provide intelligence through analytics and predict trends but only if it is properly organized. This is where a taxonomy comes in handy. This interesting topic came to us from Software…

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Open Source in Scholarly Publishing

With STM Week in the rear view mirror, it is a good opportunity to look back at this year’s event and the year as a whole. The Scholarly Kitchen brought this interesting information to us in their article, “All Things Coko: A Step Towards a True Shared Infrastructure for Scholarly Communication?” Scholarly Kitchen has provided a good…

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