Addressing Language Ambiguity
Making sense of text information is becoming a key asset for businesses. The ability to automate repetitive, cognitive tasks is crucial to improving efficiency and as a result, profitability. Analytics Insight brought this interesting information to our attention in their article, “A Pioneering Natural Language Understanding Platform Processing Intelligent Text.” Natural language processing (NLP) is a branch…
Read MoreEducational Opportunity from ALPSP
The Association of Learned & Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) is offering an online webinar educational opportunity titled, “Driving Usage, Demonstrating Value.” It is scheduled for December 5, 2018 at 10:30-12am EST. Driving and measuring usage of subscriptions is critical both to publishers and librarians in demonstrating the value of scholarly resources to readers and researchers…
Read MoreUncommon Sense
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is a division of the U.S. Department of Defense responsible for the development of emerging technologies. To put this into perspective, this 60-year-old agency proposed and prototyped the precursor to the world wide web. This interesting information came to us from Venture Beat in their article, “DARPA wants to build ‘contextual’…
Read MoreAI Then and Now
Necessity is the mother of invention. Well, maybe. This interesting topic came to us from Analytics India in their article, “Rugged Information Architecture Is Key To AI Growth In Enterprises.” Regardless of the incentive, every invention has taken time to perfect itself. The first telephone wasn’t perfect, neither were the automobile or x-ray machine. Artificial…
Read MoreTaxonomy of Sorts
If you have been a reader of TaxoDiary for any amount of time, you know that I like finding odd and unique taxonomies. I find it comforting to know that taxonomies exist in all parts of our lives, not just information science or biology. NPR brought this heartwarming taxonomy to us in their article, “Tag Yourself (I’m A Maggie):…
Read MoreGDPR’s Impact on Data Management
The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is the most important change in data privacy regulation in 20 years. GDPR compliance is an ongoing priority and metadata management is a crucial aspect. This interesting topic came to us from Silicon Republic in their article, “Why is metadata management so important when it comes to GDPR?” Complying with GDPR…
Read MoreMachine 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…
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