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The world of data lakes and leveraging big data effectively does not have to be complicated. Current technologies are more effective than ever and many organizations are now invested in allocating the right resources to managing data. Learn more about data lakes and modern business intelligence architecture in this free webinar titled, “Simplifying Data Lake…
Read MoreIndexing Folklore
Many of us have the “word of day” type emails that arrive in our in-box every morning. For readers and writers (and just plain ole’ word nerds), it is a way to broaden our vocabulary or to just give us a chuckle. With social media, this type of outreach has more avenues and applications for…
Read MoreData Analysis on a Precipice
The creation and consumption of data continues to grow by ginormous amounts. Because money follows ingenuity, the investment in big data analytics hardware, software, and services and in data scientists and their continuing education is also growing. DATAVERSITY brought this interesting information to our attention in their article, “The Evolution of Data Preparation and Data…
Read MoreA Little Fuzzy
When I bought my first and only rice cooker a decade ago, many of the higher rated models bragged about fuzzy logic technology. Fuzzy rice? I like fluffy rice, but not so sure about fuzzy. Even though I didn’t really understand it at the time of purchase, the reviews sold me that this genius intuitive…
Read MoreAccess Innovations Speaking at the 2018 iA Summit
Access Innovations will be bringing a little fun and a lot of technical expertise to the 2018 iA Summit, which is scheduled for March 21-25, 2018 in Chicago, IL. Bob Kasenchak, our Director of Business Development, will be giving a presentation entitled “Is a Hot Dog a Sandwich? and Other Taxonomy Questions“. Bob will bring…
Read More2018 Data Harmony Users Group (DHUG) Keynote Announced
The 13th annual Data Harmony Users Group (DHUG) meeting is just around the corner. The keynote speaker for Wednesday, February 7th is Martin Klein, Scientist in the Research Library at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. His presentation is titled, “Towards Web-Centric Repository Interoperability.” In this talk Martin will outline the Signposting concept for repositories – a standards-based …
Read MoreAutomating Life
Automation is key to so many things. In most industries, it is the key to having the competitive advantage. It is also essential for technology to be automated when it comes to applications and enterprises. This often leaves information technology (IT) struggling to keep up. This interesting information came to us from Sys-Con Media in their…
Read MoreHelpful Technology
With the appearance of technologies like Siri, Alexa, and other digital assistants, more natural language conversations are taking place between humans and artificial intelligence (AI). This digital revolution is in the middle of our everyday interactions, at home and at work. This transformation is aided by Natural language processing (NLP) and semantic search. CMS Wire…
Read MoreWebinar Series for 2018 – Register and Save Now
The Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) has released their 2018 webinar schedules and topics. The first one is scheduled for February 13, 2018 at 11:00 a.m. to 12 Noon (EST). The topic is “Sharing Policies: IR’s, Author’s Manuscript vs PrePrint vs Version of Record.” The SSP webinar program delivers a series of highly informative, thought-provoking…
Read MoreOpen Access to Research
Academic publishers should take note of a recent report from Springer Nature that shows there is a tangible benefit to publishing academic books using immediate open access (OA) models. Springer Nature brought this interesting information to us in their article, “Open access academic books downloaded, discussed and cited far more than traditional books.” Among the research findings,…
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