Webinar on Interoperability
The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) is bringing a learning opportunity to you in the form of a webinar titled, “The Interoperability Imperative: Helping Researchers Store, Share and Re-use Data.” The webinar will offer the “Joint Declaration of Data Citation Principles” developed to make research data an integral part of the scholarly record and the newly announced initiative…
Read MoreOpen Access: Pro and Con
Funded by the Mellon Foundation, the Pay It Forward project set out to determine the potential financial implications of a move to an all-open access (OA) world of journal publishing. The Scholarly Kitchen brought this interesting information to our attention in their article, “The Pay It Forward Project: Confirming What We Already Knew About Open Access.” A…
Read MoreBreaking Grounds
I confess. I am in a not-so-secret deeply committed relationship with Joe, a.k.a. coffee, java, go juice, liquid energy. I came to this relationship later in life than most. I was 30 before I took the plunge. I admit it was a practical decision. With me having gone back to college while working a full…
Read MoreThe Business of Business
The business of technology continues to see growth. Granted, it isn’t the frenzied growth of the late 90’s, but it also isn’t as volatile. Marlin & Associates brought this interesting topic to us in their blog post, “The Fourth Wave of Fintech: It’s All About the Analytics – Our July 2016 Fintech Market Update.” A wide range…
Read MoreGRID Joins Linked Data Alum
Digital Science’s Global Research Identifier Database (GRID) is now available as Resource Description Framework (RDF). They now join a wide range of other prestigious data sources on the web of data. By using RDF to describe its data, GRID facilitates interlinking with other datasets using a well defined vocabulary based on human conceptualisation or ontology. Digital Science…
Read MoreSemantic Technology In Play
Expert System is partnering with MarkLogic Corporation so that their information management applications will be powered with cognitive capabilities. This interesting information came to us from Martech Advisor in their article, “Expert System and MarkLogic Partner to Enrich Information Management Applications with Cognitive Computing Abilities.” Expert System has created an intelligent semantic technology that can read and comprehend…
Read MoreThe Data Needle in the Haystack
In a digital world, metadata attached to files contains valuable information – even more than you think. This interesting information came from Business 2 Community in their article, “The Power of Metadata.” Metadata isn’t the actual file data; it is the data about the data, which can include author and copyright information, revision history, and comments, along…
Read MoreData, Data, Data
Data virtualization is proving to be a valuable ally for delivering reliable data integration and data sharing. Integration Developer News brought this interesting information to us in their article, “Data Virtualization Powering Many Dimensions of Digital Transformation: Insights from Denodo.” We know that data visualization is a powerful tool that can help both scientists and the…
Read MoreIs Your Tattoo Wireless?
It just might be your mother’s worst nightmare. MIT Media Lab, in partnership with Microsoft Research, has unveiled DuoSkin, a project that uses temporary tattoos as connected interfaces that can be used in a variety of ways. Tech Times brought this very interesting information to our attention in their article, “MIT Unveils DuoSkin: Temporary Tattoos That…
Read MoreThe Strength of Your Taxonomy
Altmetric and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) have announced the integration of Altmetric badge visualizations and related data into the IEEE Xplore Digital Library, which is home to over 3.8 million scholarly documents. This interesting information came to us from Altmetric in their release, “Altmetric in the News.” The inclusion of Altmetric badges…
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