Data Storage Systems of the Future
Too often data professionals find themselves at a loss when it comes to the rich metadata within large enterprise resource planning (ERP) and customer relationship management (CRM) applications. DATAVERSITY.net brought this interesting information to our attention in their article, “The Value of Strong Metadata Discovery.” It can be an expensive and time-consuming endeavor to pull relevant data…
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Read MoreStaying 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…
Read MoreThe 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…
Read MoreChoosing 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…
Read MoreManager 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,…
Read MoreBuying 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…
Read MoreImproving 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…
Read MoreOpen 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…
Read MoreFaceted Search and Controlled Vocabularies
The concept of faceted classification is decades old, and controlled vocabularies go back even further. A faceted classification scheme is actually a special case of what are called controlled vocabularies. This topic came from CMS Wire in their article, “A DAM Glossary of Common Terms.” A controlled vocabulary is an authoritative list of preferred terms used to…
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