Free Webinar Addresses the Chief Data Officer Role
DATAVERSITY is bringing an interesting webinar opportunity to you. The “A Chief Data Officer Interview” webinar is scheduled for Thursday, September 1st at 2:00 p.m. (EDT). This free webinar explores why organizations hire Chief Data Officers (CDO) and how the CDO role is still evolving. They will examine some of the critical success factors and challenges of the…
Read MoreStreamlining Analysis
The goal of semantic analysis is to decipher the intent or meaning behind a narrative. With the power of machine learning, this often involves analyzing millions of combinations of word stems and grammatical structures. The good news is sometimes a simpler approach is better. KM World brought this interesting information to us in their article, “The…
Read MoreThe Challenge of Costly Textbooks
It’s back to school season and that means school supply shopping, a task I have never heard a single person rejoice about, and each year I hear more complaints about supplies’ increasing cost. This year, the biggest complaint was from a friend whose daughter is starting kindergarten. One of her supply requirements is 24 glue…
Read MoreUsing Machine Learning in Content Discovery
Content discovery is evolving at a quick pace. This transition could result in content catalogs that are easier to navigate, content descriptions that are more accurate and valuable, search that is more granular and recommendations that are more useful. This interesting news came to us from Videonet in their article, “How metadata unlocks the future of…
Read MoreUnderstanding Your Data
Data understanding is the knowledge you have about data and the needs the data will satisfy. There is no tool or artifact for data understanding. It is expressed in business glossaries, data dictionaries, models and other forms of metadata or other places where information about the data is stored. CIO brought this news to us in…
Read MoreLooking for Standards in Government IT
Recently a group consisting of agency chief information officers (CIOs), Office of Management and Budget staffers and other federal IT experts released their report and recommendations for better IT funding and management. Their report asserts that a full embrace of “technology business management” (TBM) could save agencies $5.8 billion over five years. This information came to…
Read MoreNew Day Librarians
Admit it. When I say “librarian” you imagine someone older, in thick-rimmed glasses and overly modest clothing, guarding the silence in a room full of books with all-powerful shushes and stern glares. Don’t worry, you aren’t alone. This interesting topic came to us from The Atlantic in their article, “A Snapshot of a 21st-Century Librarian.” The internet…
Read MoreMetadata and Transparency
Metadata are data that provide information about other data. Two types of metadata exist: structural metadata and descriptive metadata. Structural metadata are data about the containers of data. Descriptive metadata use individual instances of application data or the data content. It is because of the latter that the New Jersey Supreme Court has agreed to hear a…
Read MoreData Management
Records management (RM) is defined by the Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM) as the field of management responsible for the efficient and systematic control of the creation, receipt, maintenance, use and disposition of records, including the processes for capturing and maintaining evidence of and information about business activities and transactions in the form of…
Read MoreThe Role of the Library in Your Community
When is the last time you went to the public library? So it shouldn’t surprise you that there has been a significant decrease in the number of adults who engage with public libraries across all demographic groups. The Bookseller brought this news to us in their article, “Adult library usage falls ‘significantly’ across all groups.” A…
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