Express Yourself
Express yourself may have been Madonna’s instructions but it also comes from our parents, grandparents, and especially our teachers. Middle school teachers, apparently, are holding funerals for “boring words”—necessary standards like “said,” “go,” “walk,” “see,” “run”—and eulogizing them with more “sophisticated” words. Splice Today brought this interesting information to us in their article, “Tarting Up the Language.”…
Read MoreRecords Management Update
The annual Records Management Self-Assessment from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) was recently released. The assessment evaluates whether or not the United States federal agencies are performing their records management duties and responsibilities adequately. Fierce Content Management brought this interesting information to us in their article, “NARA releases surprisingly candid federal agency self-assessment.” 98…
Read MoreMaking Content Findable
Elsevier recently introduced its Chemical Resistance Database: Plastics and Elastomers. It characterizes the effect of thousands of reagents, the environment, and other exposure media. This database enables organizations to search for materials and substances properties data that includes information about both commercially available and “retired” plastics. The data is carefully curated from various sources, including commercial…
Read MoreArtificial Intelligence in the Future
Artificial intelligence programs have not went by the wayside. As a matter of fact they are developing more programs that can mimic, adapt and interpret the complex semantic patterns that were previously unrecognizable to logical, mathematically driven machines. In other words, we’re just getting started folks. DATAVERSITY brought this to our attention in their article, “How…
Read MoreMaking Connections
Altmetric recently released a new functionality enabling users to search the entire Altmetric database, which contains attention data for over 4 million research outputs. This can be done by using an ORCID identification. Knowledge Speak brought this interesting information to us in their article, “Altmetric adds ORCID search functionality.” Now researchers, publishers, librarians and others can find…
Read MoreBeing Open
Over the years, open access has evolved beyond a core of faculty and librarian activists and achieved acceptance across many libraries and publishers alike. It wasn’t always easy and still encounters small hurdles, but many publishers have open access models of their own, and academic libraries are building offices of scholarly communication. This interesting topic came…
Read MoreDigital in 2016
As we near the end of another year, predictions are beginning for what 2016 holds for us in the technology realm. Forbes magazine brought this interesting information to us in their article, “6 Predictions About The Future Of Digital Transformation.” One hot topic is digital strategy. According to Forrester, only 27% of today’s businesses have a…
Read MoreNew and Old Search
Search is not new. Finding the data you seek is not a new challenge. How this happens and the tools used to accomplish it, has changed. Business 2 Community brought this interesting information to us in their article, “Brave New World: The Future of Search.” It’s important to understand the evolution that has happened in search…
Read MoreMachine Learning and Data
Data storage is not a new subject. Granted before today’s massive data issues, organizations primarily stored their data in relational databases and mostly onsite. The late 1980’s brought about different options and most of those were offsite. DATAVERSITY brought this information to us in their article, “Machine Learning is Democratizing Big Data.” Machine learning is now changing…
Read MoreThe Trend in Reading
The popularity of e-books continues to rise and it isn’t surprising that the number of print book readers has dropped from the previous year. What is surprising is that the number of e-book readers has remained flat. Does this mean that book readers in general have decreased in numbers? This interesting information was brought to us…
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