Digital Consistency Needed
Preservica is in the digital preservation business. They recently became a ‘supporter’ of the Information Governance Initiative (IGI), and will join forces with the think tank for a quantitative research project to benchmark the unique challenge of protecting long-term digital records. This interesting news came to us from Real Wire in their release, “Preservica joins the…
Read MoreSemantic Key to Partnership
Impelsys and Ontotext are releasing an integrated technology offering that will allow publishers and content providers to benefit from semantically enriched metadata. Database Trends and Applications brought this interesting information to our attention in their article, “Impelsys and Ontotext Partner to Provide Smart Content.” The two vendors each bring different things to the table. Impelsys offers its digital content…
Read MoreNew eLibrary from the United Nations
The United Nations has launched an electronic library – the first comprehensive global search, discovery, and dissemination platform for digital content created by the United Nations. To begin with, the United Nations iLibrary, launched by United Nations Publications, includes publications, journals and series comprising facts and expertise on international peace and security, human rights, economic…
Read MoreLeading Us to the Future
Machine learning technology is making leaps and strides for companies in delivering tailored online experiences. By seeking to discover meaningful patterns within large amounts of data, machine learning continues to work with cloud computing and big data analytics to change how enterprises manage digital content to produce innovative online experiences. An important shift in outcomes and intentions…
Read MoreProtecting the Copyright to a Fault
The American Association of Publishers (AAP) recently filed comments for the Copyright Office’s Study of Section 512 of the Copyright Act, the section of the law that Congress enacted in 1998 to facilitate cooperation between Internet service providers and copyright owners in combatting online infringement of copyrighted works. The American Association of Publishers shared this information…
Read MoreHealth Analytics Gain New Partner
IBM Watson Health has completed the acquisition of Truven Health Analytics. As the provider of cloud-based healthcare data, analytics and insights, Truven brings more than 8,500 clients to the Watson Health portfolio. In a recent announcement, “IBM Watson Health Closes Acquisition of Truven Health Analytics.” IBM and Truven data scientists will begin the process of using Watson Health’s…
Read MoreSearch and Find
An extensive, searchable digital archive of the design magazine Architectural Digest is now available from EBSCO Information Services. This interesting news came to us from Market Wired in their article, “EBSCO Information Services Introduces the Architectural Digest Magazine Archive.” The Architectural Digest Magazine Archive includes cover-to-cover access to issues of the design magazine from the 1920s to…
Read MoreCreating an Ontology to Track Garbage in Space
Space isn’t normally the place where you think to clean up your litter. A vast, open environment, uninhabitable by man and covering an unimaginable amount of area, outer space appears to be the one place where rubbish tends to be unimportant. Recent reports have surfaced detailing the importance of tracking space debris in order to…
Read MoreCall for Science Journals to be More Accessible
Scientific journal publishers have long defended their convictions that subscriptions are necessary to finance their operations. However, efforts to extend free access to scientific and academic research papers received a big boost recently. Science Business brought this interesting information to our attention in their article, “Moedas: journal papers based on EU-funded science should be free to…
Read MoreSemantic Differences
A Bangor University expert believes the constant battle for prominence between words is a good example of the brain’s natural algorithms and architectures. This very interesting information came to us from BBC News in their article, “How does your brain pick one word from 50,000 in 0.6 seconds?“ Dr Gary Oppenheim, of the university’s Language Production…
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