Open and Freely Available
Open data is the idea that some data should be freely available to everyone to use and republish as they wish, without restrictions from copyright, patents or other mechanisms of control. The philosophy behind open data has been long established, but the term itself is fairly new and gaining popularity with the rise of the Internet. This…
Read MoreThe Next Level for AI
IBM Research has built an artificial intelligence (AI) system that has the capability of analyzing 300 million articles, papers or records on a given topic and construct a persuasive speech about it – in 10 minutes. To put that in perspective, it would take a human—reading twenty-four hours a day—about 2,000 years to get through…
Read MoreSharing the Knowledge
The construction of knowledge databases, knowledge process assistance, resources sharing, and data sharing all provide an information space for knowledge workers to more easily explore new ideas. This interesting information came to us from ZAPDF in their article, “The Research of Knowledge Organization based on Linked Data under Information Space.” Information space is the set of concepts and…
Read MoreOpen Access Win
A new national open access agreement has been announced with the Austrian Academic Library Consortium (KEMÖ) and the Austrian Science Fund. Through this national agreement, some seventeen Austrian institutions will cover the article processing charges of manuscripts published by eligible corresponding or funded authors in MDPI journals as long as central funds are available. This interesting…
Read MoreModernizing the Clouds with AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud modernization were a main focus at the Get Cloud Smart: The Art of the Possible event hosted by MeriTalk last month. This interesting topic came to us from MeriTalk in their article, “Cloud Smart Discussion Leads to AI and Architecture.” A Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official spoke about the benefits…
Read MoreRecruiting New Taxonomists
A group of scientists known as taxonomists are responsible for the discovery and naming of new species. It is at the core of our work and the work of our forefathers in information science. In Australia, it is a very important role considering the country accounts for 10 percent of all species in the world.…
Read MoreUtilizing Ontologies
Business languages are different based on your product. Navigating insider language is often like writing code. A language is critical to being able to communicate with others in your organization as well as with your customers. The language of your business also influences how the programmers and data scientists identify those things that their data systems…
Read MoreThe Data Harmony Users Group 2019 Meeting is Open for Registration
Registration is open for the annual Data Harmony Users Group (DHUG) meeting. Access Innovations, Inc., provider of Data Harmony software solutions, is proud to announce the meeting will be held February 26 and 27, 2019 at the Hotel Andaluz in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The meeting is open to current and prospective clients as well as…
Read MoreFinding Value
The theme of this year’s Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) pre-conference at APE 2019 in Berlin, is Bringing Value in Academic Publishing: Practical Solutions for Thriving in a Changing Environment. This interesting topic came to us from The Scholarly Kitchen in their article, “Guest Post: Bringing Value (and Making Things Happen) in Academic Publishing — An Interview…
Read MorePublishing Trends Identified
A recent survey of publishers with journals indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) revealed trends in the way that content is published, what types of organizations are publishing the content, how publishing standards are being accepted globally and geographical trends on the uptake of open access. This interesting topic came to us from the DOAJ…
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