Access Innovations at the Charleston Library Conference
The Charleston Library Conference is an annual event where hundreds of librarians, vendors, and publishers gather in Charleston, South Carolina to discuss issues of importance to them. It is designed to be a collegial gathering of individuals from different areas who discuss the same issues in a non-threatening, friendly, and highly informal environment. The 2018 Theme is Oh wind…
Read MoreMachine Learning and Ontologies
To better understand the complexities of life science data, one company is transforming unstructured text into rich, contextualized machine-readable content with ontologies. Bio-IT World brought this news to us in their article, “A New Machine Learning Approach To Document Classification – A Pfizer/SciBite Collaboration.” SciBite leverages ontologies to enable computers to understand millions of concepts relevant…
Read MoreAI, Machine Learning and Semantics, oh my
As artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning continues to evolve and advance, researchers have developed a new way for robots to see the world from a more human perspective. This has the potential to improve how technology (such as driverless cars and industrial or mobile robots) operates and interacts with people. This interesting information came…
Read MoreThe Cool Kids of Technology
At the midway point of 2018 a review of the content published and consumed at DATAVERSITY revealed some interesting insights. DATAVERSITY brought this information to us in their article, “2018 DATAVERSITY Mid-Year Top 20.” Machine learning maintained its position towards the top, and another predictable topic – data governance – followed suit. That is no surprise…
Read MoreDAM Systems Provide Governance
A digital asset management (DAM) system consists of the management tasks and technological functionality that helps companies organize their media assets (such as photographs, video and marketing assets) to strengthen their message or brand. CMS Wire brought this news to us in their article, “A DAM Glossary of Common Terms.” Because DAM systems inventory, control, and…
Read MoreTaxonomies Used to Read Data
You would have to be living under a rock to have not heard about the Russian social media content farms and hacking conversations taking place everywhere in the media and news. Whatever your take on the issue might be, I found it interesting that they used a taxonomy to disseminate the data. This interesting news…
Read MoreAI in Context
Samsung has embraced artificial intelligence (AI) as part of their data usage. Connecting users with the technology is made easier through AI. Venture Beat brought this news to us again in their article, “Samsung’s Yoon C. Lee on Bixby, Galaxy Home, and all things AI.” Bixby 2.0 is the latest generation of Samsung’s digital voice assistant…
Read MoreMachine Learning and Its Many Applications
Machine learning is a method of data analysis that automates analytical model building. It is a branch of artificial intelligence (AI) based on the idea that systems can learn from data, identify patterns and make decisions with minimal human intervention. However, machine learning is not just for predictive analytics. It can also be embedded within…
Read MoreAnalytics is the Language of Data
Business analytics is about automating the data preparation and advanced analytics tasks. Augmented analytics takes it one step further. Together with machine learning, algorithms, and natural language processing they can achieve automated data preparation and business intelligence. This interesting news came to us from DATAVERSITY in their article, “Augmented Analytics Use Cases.” This technology allows business users to…
Read MoreSearch and Discovery Landscape Webinar
The Association of American Publishers (AAP) is making a unique learning opportunity available. The Changing Discovery Landscape – Part 2: Products, Tools, and Services from Vendors and Publishers is scheduled for Wednesday, September 12th at 12:30 – 2:30 p.m. (EST) at the Wolters Kluwer New York offices or via webinar. The Changing Discovery Landscape – Part 1 heard from respected speakers…
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