The Importance of Connectedness
The Blue Brain Project recently announced the release of its open source software project ‘Blue Brain Nexus’. This new project is designed to enable the Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR) data management principles for the neuroscience and broader scientific community. This interesting information came to us from EurekAlert! in their article, “Blue Brain Nexus: An…
Read MoreFlorida State University is New Hub for Digital Public Library of America
The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) is a US project aimed at providing public access to digital holdings in order to create a large-scale public digital library. Florida State University (FSU) Libraries will be playing a key role in this as the state of Florida’s service hub for the DPLA. Florida State University News brought this information to our attention…
Read MoreTechnology and Publishing
Technology has impacted how the casual reader consumes information, whether that be news or fiction. This is not new news. However, how exactly has technology changed how the publishing industry approaches their work? This interesting topic came to us from The New York Times in their article, “How Technology Is (and Isn’t) Changing Our Reading Habits.”…
Read MoreData Analytics’ Value Spans Industries
Whichever industry you work in, or whatever your interests, you will almost certainly heard about how data is changing the face of our world. It might be helping to cure a disease, boost a company’s revenue, make a building more efficient or direct sustaining agriculture and it’s ability to meet the needs of a growing population.…
Read MoreClassifying the Un-classifiable
Traditional classifications of animals, medicine, diseases, and other vastly dense topics can feel like reciting pi – infinite data with infinite possibilities. While there may be limits in a particular software, like SharePoint, to how many terms and levels can be in a taxonomy, the reality is there are subjects that are quite possibly endless.…
Read MoreData Scientists and Machine Learning Roles
Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning are the golden children in technology for the coming years. What role are data scientists playing in this? This interesting topic came to our attention from DATAVERSITY in their article, “Data Scientists and Machine Learning Algorithms for the Data-Driven World.” Are data scientists using their skills to develop better machine learning…
Read MoreThe Semantic Family
Artificial intelligence gets a lot of press these days. However, it is easy to overlook a key component to it and other applications. Semantic technology helps users understand text, speech and relationships between data elements. Without it, other big data applications cannot be the success they seek. Tech Target brought this interesting topic to our attention in…
Read MoreScholarly Search Gets New Platform
Digital Science launched a new platform – Dimensions – intended to transform scholarly search. Digital Science brought this news to us in their article, “Digital Science Launches Dimensions: a Next-generation Research and Discovery Platform Linking 124 Million Documents, Providing Free Search and Citation Data Across 86 Million Articles.” This is a collaboration between six Digital…
Read MoreData Protection
One of the largest data breach of over 143 million personal records by Equifax has many wondering when and how it will ever end. Forbes brought this topic to our attention in their article, “The Equifax Breach And The Case For Digital Identity.” With the volume of cyber crimes and data breaches, it makes you…
Read MoreGrey Literature Conference Call for Papers
This may feel really far away, but the GreyNet International 2018 conference or GL20 has been scheduled for December 3-4, 2018 in New Orleans, Louisiana. They have sent out a “call for papers” along with the save the date announcement. The theme for this year’s conference is “Research Data Fuels and Sustains Grey Literature”. The definition of…
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