Semantic Technology in the Financial World
Semantic technology seems to be the popular kid these days. Schema.org and the Financial Industry Business Ontology (FIBO) are teaming up to bring more semantic technologies to an even greater audience. This interesting news came to us from DATAVERSITY in their article, “Schema.org Semantics Vocabulary Expands with the Help of FIBO.” The soon to be released…
Read MoreThe Semantics of Words
Do you have one of those friends who has words they can’t stand to hear? Or maybe you are one who shudders at hearing words like “moist”? This interesting information came to our attention by SF Gate in their article, “Here’s why you hate the word ‘moist’. So is it the connotation of the word or…
Read MoreRecent Acquisition Has Some Concerned About Access
The Social Science Research Network (SSRN) has been acquired by Elsevier with the promise that it will be further developed with Mendeley, Elsevier’s scholarly collaboration network, to provide users with leading content, data linking, enhanced metrics and researcher workflow tools. PR Newswire brought this interesting news to us in their article, “Elsevier Acquires the Social Science Research…
Read MoreFinding the Benefits of Unstructured Data
Financial technology has been venturing into foreign territory with new technology and applications to send and receive payments. The challenge is unique on both ends of the transaction. Predictive Analysis World brought this interesting information to our attention in their article, “Hey FinTech, What’s Your Strategy for Leveraging Unstructured Data?” Customer experience is more important than…
Read MoreThe Next Generation
Sci-Hub is the piracy network for academic journals and it has many a publisher and author pointing fingers and calling names. Researchers are likely calling names as well, but they might actually be repeatable. This interesting information came to us from The Chronicle of Higher Education in their article, “What Do the Authors of Sci-Hub’s Most-Downloaded…
Read MoreRecords Management in an Ever-Changing Data World
Records management (RM) is a well-established discipline. However, the massive growth of data is presenting new challenges about how RM should be carried out. KM World brought this news to us in their article, “Evolving data issues challenge RM approaches.” With big data, master data management (MDM) and the challenges that come with unstructured data, the list…
Read MoreShare the Learning
Internet Librarian will be celebrating their 20th anniversary at the 2016 conference in October in Monterey, California. For 20 years, Internet Librarians have been leading innovation and willing to try new and different technologies. What makes them different? They share their experiments and learnings so the information profession as a whole continues to expand. Not sure if…
Read MoreBook Signing at SLA 2016
There are many activities taking place at this year’s Special Libraries Association (SLA) annual conference that is being held June 12-14, 2016 in Philadelphia. Besides keynote speakers, workshops and networking opportunities, there will also be book signings. Featured this year is our own Marjorie (Margie) M.K. Hlava and her book, The Taxobook: History, Theories, and Concepts…
Read MoreFighting Cybersecurity with Metadata
Metadata, the information that describes data, can provide a lot of context to the content itself, without knowing the content. This interesting information came to us from the Harvard Political Review in their article, “Going Dark: Who is Our Enemy?” American government agencies were ranked the worst in cybersecurity in the past year. This is compared…
Read MoreOrganizing Knowledge
Humans classify and categorize everything from types of writing instruments to breeds of animals. Marjorie Hlava in her Taxobook states “you could even say that taxonomies and thesauri exist to further the objective of organizing knowledge.” It seems it is in our nature as humans to try and classify things. One example of human classification…
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