Milestones in Data
As we celebrate the 57th birthday of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), it is essential to remember the important and powerful data they collect, organize, manage and share. This is done primarily through the NASA Scientific and Technical Information (STI) Program to preserve NASA’s research and development published results. The primary part of that daunting task is…
Read MoreStreet Smart
Terminology can be confusing. Semantic technology, natural language processing, machine learning, and artificial intelligence are often used together and sometimes interchangeably. This interesting information came from DATAVERSITY in their article, “A Look Into the Future of Machine Learning.” Artificial intelligence attempts to understand how our brain accomplishes what seem to us as menial tasks. There have…
Read MoreWhat Kind of Reader Are You?
The battle between digital and print isn’t new and isn’t close to being settled. When it comes to reading on paper versus reading digitally, there are more than two camps. This interesting topic came to us from The Digital Reader in their article, “Could the Future of Reading be Text Plus Audio?” Many studies have been…
Read MoreNatural Language Data
Large quantities of data are being produced at a rapid pace. This is no different in the world of biomedical data. With ontologies proliferating, data is increasingly being stored using the RDF data model and queried using RDF based querying languages. This interesting information came to us by 7th Space Interactive in their article, “A framework…
Read MoreNew Resources in New People
New employees offer a unique insight that they will lose in about six months. They offer the perspective of not knowing what came before and therefore they do not choose to do something because “that is how we have always done it.” Taking advantage of this time in onboarding can help them better understand what…
Read MorePublishing World Power Shift
It seems that the publishing industry has always looked at e-books as a “lesser than” or “second-class” resource. It is understandable considering the impact on their day to day business and bottom dollar e-books and e-readers have been responsible for. The Wall Street Journal brought this interesting piece of news to our attention in their article,…
Read MoreBob Kasenchak to present as Part of FEDLINK’s Building Web Taxonomies Program
Bob Kasenchak, Director of Business Development for Access Innovations, Inc., will be presenting at the Building Web Taxonomies program, sponsored by the Federal Library & Information Network (FEDLINK). Bob will discuss smart thesauri, how to build and implement them into an existing workflow, and what they can do for analytics and linked data. FEDLINK conducts…
Read MoreNew Digital Library of News
Libraries are now able to provide their communities with a collection of newspapers ranging from well-known state and regional titles to small local newspapers in the United States and even other countries. This interesting information came from Ulitzer in their article, “ProQuest Launches Library Edition of Newspapers.com.” The Newspapers.com Library Edition comes from ProQuest and is…
Read MoreNew Education Series Available
The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) will launch its new virtual education series on September 22, 2015. The first session, Content Strategy for Library Websites, is presented by EBSCO UX researcher, Deirdre Costello. On the fourth Tuesday every other month, NFAIS members can participate for free in these 30-45 minute sessions designed to…
Read MoreCensorship in Books
Since it is Friday and it has been a long week (five days of work crammed into four), this different yet interesting information seemed appropriate for today. Banned Books Week is the national book community’s annual celebration of the freedom to read. Hundreds of libraries and bookstores around the country draw attention to the problem of…
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