Technology’s Impact
Technology has changed our behavior. We often ponder what we did prior to the existence of the Internet search engine.
December 2014
Findability During Discovery
By Melody Smith|December 25th, 20142014-12-24T19:05:19-05:00
Preservica has recently announced a series of new connectors that make it easy for records managers to securely preserve Microsoft SharePoint content and Microsoft Outlook email and attachments for the long term.
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In Style
By Melody Smith|December 25th, 20142014-12-24T19:01:00-05:00
Fashions and fads are influential by nature. They have also been used recently as a source of data to test models of cultural dynamics. By looking at the impact of mass media on popular culture, one study considers how much of an influence it has had in the popularity of dog breeds for family pets as well as marketing tools.
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The Value of Taxonomies
By Melody Smith|December 24th, 20142014-12-23T22:30:34-05:00
The release of SemantiCz™ v2.0 with new features can help generate relationships with precise, subject-specific contextual accuracy. Users will be able to manage multiple versions of domain-specific ontologies and vocabularies in various languages, as well as extract relationships from content using advanced text mining algorithms.
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Speaking of Standards
By Melody Smith|December 24th, 20142014-12-23T22:25:11-05:00
EBSCO Information Services fully supports the final recommendations of the Open Discovery Initiative (ODI) working group for best practices for discovery services. In the ODI, several objectives are identified as follows: metadata sharing, fair or unbiased linking from discovery services to publisher content, and the provision of usage statistics.
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Book on Classification and Data Mining an Interesting Read
By Melody Smith|December 23rd, 20142014-12-22T20:53:32-05:00
Every once in awhile we discover an interesting read that we think you might find interesting.
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Team Approach
By Melody Smith|December 23rd, 20142014-12-22T16:47:17-05:00
TEAM Asparona announced recently that it has entered into a strategic partnership with Syl Semantics. This new partnership will enable TEAM Asparona to provide Syl Search to their customers. This includes government agencies and commercial organizations with a requirement for advanced search capabilities.
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The Ghosts of Concepts Future
By Melody Smith|December 22nd, 20142014-12-22T16:48:52-05:00
As taxonomists, we have a responsibility to discern those future concepts, although they may still be invisible to most. We can save the various expressions of those concepts in search logs from being rejected from consideration for a vocabulary simply on account of their as yet infrequent appearance. In a taxonomy or thesaurus, we can provide labels that will consolidate the indexing for a concept for which researchers have not yet settled on a name. In some cases, especially with widely used vocabularies, we can perhaps determine the name by which a concept will be known on a standard basis.
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Bringing Art Out Into the Open
By Melody Smith|December 22nd, 20142014-12-21T16:45:18-05:00
The first Smithsonian museum to digitize their collections calls the project Digital Zero. They have photographed and uploaded the entire collection into a digital asset management (DAM) system. That is more than 40,000 objects and almost double that number in images. This is a great opportunity for scholars and researchers as well as everyday virtual visitors to have 24/7 access to this collection of art.
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Control the Chaos
By Melody Smith|December 22nd, 20142014-12-21T16:40:59-05:00
Mark your calendars today to plan on attending the Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM) conference on March 18-20, 2015 in sunny San Diego, California. This unique moment in time when the acceleration of technology change is forcing organizations to reinvent themselves, new approaches are needed. You can find those at the AIIM Conference 2015 and help your organization embrace the chaos.
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