Machine Learning Results Based on Ontology
Machine learning matching is being applied to proprietary data, customer contributed data, and seed data from public sources to hone and consolidate data sets. Comparing people with acquired skills and the identification of skills gaps are difficult to understand in a meaningful way, but Workday People Analytics are utilizing an ontology to identify skills. This interesting…
Read MoreAnthem Pays for Data Breach
The 2015 cyberattack at Anthem is by far one of the largest data breaches to date. As a result, Anthem recently agreed to pay $16 million to the Federal government. Modern Healthcare brought this interesting information to our attention in their article, “Anthem to pay $16M in record data breach settlement.” The data breach affected nearly…
Read MoreLibrary of Congress is Crowdsourcing
The Library of Congress is launching a crowdsourcing program beginning today. They are inviting everyone to join in as they improve discovery and access across their diverse collections through transcription and tagging. This interesting news came to us from their blog post, “New strategy! New crowd! New team!” The program is grounded in their previous…
Read MoreInclusive Storage of Data
Object or object-based storage is a pervasive computer data storage architecture. It is commonly used to manage large amounts of unstructured data. This interesting topic came to us from Computing in their article, “‘Explosion’ in unstructured data is arousing interest and investment in object storage.” Each object includes the data, metadata and a unique identifier. Despite the…
Read MoreDebate Webinar from Charleston Conference
Charleston Conference Webinar Series is bringing an interesting topic to us. Hyde Park Debate – Resolved: All scholarship must be made freely available for reading and reuse. This debate is scheduled for October 31, 2018 at 1:00-2:00 p.m. EST. The debate will be conducted in general accordance with Oxford Union rules. All in the audience will vote…
Read MoreDigital Learning is Today
The printed book has been the foundation of the educational publishing industry since 1455. Has digital publishing changed the dynamics? Is digital learning the new norm? This interesting subject came to us from EdSurge in their article, “How Academic Publishers Can Push the Boundaries of Digital Learning.” There are many factors impacting the push for…
Read MoreThe Importance of Data Governance
Data governance has never been more important. In fact, Panoply recently announced a new data governance functionality called “Teams” that is designed for proper access to information. This includes being able to control data permissions and provisions to avoid over-sharing of data. PR Newswire brought this interesting information to us in their release, “Panoply Announces New…
Read MoreOntology Used to Provide Consistency
An international team of researchers has set out a proposal for new guidelines on cross-linguistic data formats, in order to facilitate sharing and data comparisons between the growing number of large linguistic databases worldwide. Science Daily brought us this interesting topic in their article, “Guidelines for a standardized data format for use in cross-linguistic studies.” There…
Read MoreData Breach at the Highest of High
In a recent hack of the Department of Defense’s (DoD) automated booking and travel site, the travel records and credit card information of as many as 30,000 military members and government civilian employees were stolen. This interesting information came to us from Forbes in their article, “Department of Defense Data Breach Exposes 30,000 Employees.” As…
Read MoreSharing the Data
A new suite of data sharing policies to drive open scholarship forward and help the research communities achieve their goals has been made available. This interesting topic came from Knowledge Speak in their article, “Taylor & Francis announces new data sharing policies opening up the research lifecycle.” Data is a key research output. Therefore, sharing it…
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