Class-ism in Classifications
In the world of classification, how deep do you go? This interesting topic came to us from Robb Wolff’s website in an article titled, “Seven Shades of Paleo.” This article lifted up with humor a common occurrence in any attempt at classifying data. Regardless of whether it is people or products, there is a scale and half…
Read MoreLearning and Networking Opportunity in Chicago
The Data, Strategy & Architecture Analytics conference is being held in Chicago next month. With more than 15 different workshop topics available and four different keynote speakers and topics, there is much to look forward to if you are planning to attend. If you aren’t, well, why not? One of the keynotes speakers is Thomas Redman,…
Read MoreNew Languages
Search is not the same as it was a decade ago, let alone a month ago. The fact that “Google” is used as a verb is just one example. Not only has the grammar changed, the process itself has evolved. No longer is it keyword driven. Semantic technology seeks based on context. The Financial Express brought this…
Read MoreGoverning Metadata Webinar This Week
A unique learning opportunity is available this week called, “Real-World Data Governance Presents: Govern Metadata – Vocabulary, Dictionaries, and Data.” Governance Metadata is easier to understand and simpler to manage when you address it in three easy levels. This webinar will do just that. The levels are 1) semantic, 2) business metadata and 3) technical metadata…
Read MoreMaking All Content Findable
Business emails are subject to many of the same records management requirements as any other office documents. To help with handling the indexing and findability of this data, harmon.ie released a new tool that unifies all email and documents in a single, central repository instead of relegating them to Exchange and SharePoint. Fierce Content Management brought this…
Read MoreChanges in IT Leadership
Information technology (IT) leadership seems to be getting hit hard lately, especially in the government sector. The Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) is the latest agency to make changes to its IT structure. They are losing two-long serving IT executives at a time when cyber, mobile and other capabilities are more vital than ever. Federal News Radio brought…
Read MoreNormal Clouds
Public cloud providers are becoming the norm in many organizations. The traditional corporate data centers are quickly becoming a thing of the past. As technology and functions move to cloud providers, are we losing important transparency? Forbes brought this interesting information to our attention in their article, “I Want My Metadata: A Call For Greater Cloud…
Read MoreDifficulties in the Classification of Musical Genres
In the world of classification, there may be no subject more hotly debated by people not in the taxonomy world as music genres. As we recently read about video games, genre classification helps consumers find something they might like. Most forms of entertainment are relatively easy to classify, “action” or “role playing” for video games;…
Read MoreConnecting Associated Content
Loop is the research network created by Frontiers and they recently began collaborating with ORCID to link and synchronize researcher profile information. This interesting news came from ORCID’s blog. Loop was officially launched in January 2015 and was designed to seamlessly plug into the environments of researchers, their universities and on published articles via a range of free…
Read MoreWho Will Be the Successor?
James H. Billington, who had served as Librarian of Congress for the past 28 years, resigned his position on September 30. Appointed by Ronald Reagan, Billington came into office before the Internet and all the changes that came with the information super highway. This interesting information came from New Republic in their article, “The Next Librarian…
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