Managing the Risk of Data Breach
The risk of a data breach keeps many an executive and IT professional up at night. During the past several years, the volume of digital content created and managed has grown exponentially. This content can contain highly sensitive items such as trade secrets, employee and client data, financial information, etc. Data breaches are now constantly in…
Read MoreMetadata Retention Standards
Metadata retention laws have been part of the discussion globally for quite awhile. There were concerns about privacy (or the loss of) and about processes being circumvented or completely hijacked by not going through legal processes that were supposed to be there to protect citizens. Australia has learned a hard lesson for the rest of…
Read MoreWomen Aviators: Then & Now
A newly discovered photograph suggests aviator Amelia Earhart, who vanished 80 years ago on a round-the-world flight, survived a crash-landing in the Marshall Islands. The photo, found in a long-forgotten file in the National Archives, shows a woman who resembles Earhart and a man who appears to be her navigator, Fred Noonan. The discovery was recently featured…
Read MoreALPSP Conference Promises Rich Content
The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers’s (ALPSP) 10th annual conference is coming up soon. The big question is “what does artificial intelligence (AI) mean for scholarly and professional publishing?” There are experts ready to explain what AI is, how it’s impacting other industries and the potential it holds for publishing. You just have to…
Read MoreRooted in Data
The need to rapidly integrate and exchange data of all types among varying systems, applications and infrastructure has never been more pressing. Organizations can no longer content themselves with tools exclusively rooted in relational technologies. KM World brought this news to us in their article, “Disrupting the data landscape again with linked open data.” Big…
Read MoreClearing the Fog
We have all been there. It might be in the middle of a professional conversation or social gathering and someone uses a word you think you know, but you aren’t totally sure what it means, so you refrain from making any comments that might reveal your doubt (or ignorance). It is understandable that no one…
Read MoreSemantic Technology Webinar Offering
CIMdata will be hosting an upcoming free educational webinar titled, “How Semantic Web Technology helps Design-for-Reliability.” The webinar will take place on July 13, 2017 at 11:00 a.m. (EDT) and will last for one hour. This interesting news came to us from PR.com in their release, “CIMdata to Host Free Webinar on How Semantic Web Technology…
Read MoreHarvard Business Publishing Looking for a Taxonomist
To be as helpful as possible to those in the fields of taxonomy, indexing, digital archiving, etc., we are sharing with our readers any career opportunities that we find. Even if you are not in the market for a career move, it is always good to stay on top of what is available and how the fields are…
Read MoreThe Right Data
An enterprise’s financial and physical assets, combined of course with human assets, are key to a successful organization. These assets are more than numbers on a spreadsheet. This interesting information came to us from Inside Big Data in their article, “A CEO’s Guide to Managing and Leveraging Enterprise Data Assets.” The value of data has long been…
Read MoreAnalytics & Data
There is a demand for analytics, especially in the realm of big data. To respond, comprehensive information management needs quality of data. DATAVERSITY brought this interesting information to our attention in their article, “Impact of Big Data in Enterprise Information Management.” Data technologies have not made a huge impression on mainstream business users. The emergence of…
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