Has the Oxford Dictionary Word List Become a Hot Mess?
No one should be surprised, but yet we still are, at the slang and pop culture words that are making their way not only into our vocabulary, but now into the Oxford Dictionary.
August 2014
Sports Analysis in the Technology World
By Melody Smith|August 15th, 20142014-08-14T18:23:44-04:00
Sports and analytics go hand in hand. People are paid millions of dollars for the strategy that comes with data. The World Cup is no different. There are common denominators in the top teams and frequent flyers for those who consistently represent. Many people have tried to figure out how to wade through what is happening and create predictive tools for figuring out match outcomes.
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Keeping the Data Secure
By Melody Smith|August 15th, 20142014-08-14T18:18:21-04:00
BIO-key International has introduced a new technology that provides large-scale fingerprint matching speeds and outperforms previous fingerprint matching platforms in terms of speed.
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Consuming Data is Big Business
By Melody Smith|August 14th, 20142014-08-13T16:39:18-04:00
Informatica Corporation has been chosen by Forrester Research as a leader in The Forrester Wave™: Data Governance Tools, Q2 2014.
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Search and Beyond
By Melody Smith|August 13th, 20142014-08-12T21:55:18-04:00
Much like metadata became the term of the year after the revelations surrounding the National Security Agency’s use of this telling tool, enterprise search is fast becoming a hot topic.
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Semantic Technology Gathers Industry Leaders
By Melody Smith|August 12th, 20142014-08-11T21:50:19-04:00
fluidOps will present at Semantic Technology & Business Conference (SemTechBiz) next week in San Jose, California.
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Semantic Technology and Data Integration
By Melody Smith|August 12th, 20142014-08-11T21:41:53-04:00
Smartlogic recently released Semaphore 3.7 with assurance that this release provides even more accuracy in the massively improved information extraction capabilities.
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Taxonomy in the Pipeline, Part 1: Introduction
By Melody Smith|August 11th, 20142014-08-10T15:03:41-04:00
It can be tempting to look at a taxonomy and only see it in terms of the search results generated from it. That part of it is very important, no doubt, but taxonomies have far-reaching tendrils that extend deep into many industries, especially publishing. They work subtly and are often invisible to the end user, but the effects can be incredibly powerful.
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Useful Metadata
By Melody Smith|August 11th, 20142014-08-10T14:34:57-04:00
Metadata is everywhere, whether you are talking about photo files, telephone calls, or books. The fear of metadata is also everywhere. To simplify things, when we’re talking about books, it simply means all the information about your book that isn’t the story itself.
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SharePoint Information Architect Position Available
By Melody Smith|August 8th, 20142014-08-07T20:55:02-04:00
To be as helpful as possible to those in the fields of taxonomy, indexing, ontology, etc., we are sharing career opportunities that we find with our readers. Even if you are not in the market for a career move, it is always good to stay on top of what is available and how the fields are evolving.
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