Posts Tagged ‘Access Insights’
The Future of Libraries
There has been much speculation over the past few decades as technology evolves and reality-changing technologies like artificial intelligence, machine learning, and well, e-readers, have found their place in life and libraries. Many believe the value of libraries have been lost on a new generation that wants the information they need at their fingertips instantaneously…
Read MoreRoad Trip Symposium: What Makes Special Libraries Special
There is no substitute for face-to-face networking. This particular opportunity takes advantage of knowledgeable professionals at an amazing venue. Join these information professionals at the Road Trip Symposium : What Makes Special Libraries Special? The only in-person event of the Route 66 Chapter of the Special Libraries Association (SLA) in 2018. In these rapidly changing…
Read MoreLibrary Shark Tank Weekend
Mark your calendars today for October 12-14, 2018 for Library Shark Tank Weekend in Monterey, California. Are you curious by nature? Do you love collaborating with diverse colleagues, relish provocative thinking and the interchange of ideas? The Library Shark Tank Weekend gives you an opportunity to kickstart your ideas—or help work on other big ideas—at this…
Read MoreBack to School
It is that time of year again when students are buying uniforms or new clothes, completing the lists of class supplies, and school buses are part of the morning commute again. I don’t know about you, but it feels like it starts earlier every year. In the information management world, there is no designated time…
Read MoreTaxonomies and Big Data
Taxonomy is the science of classification – typically and most commonly, classifying organisms. The science of naming, describing and classifying organisms and includes all plants, animals and microorganisms of the world. Using morphological, behavioral, genetic and biochemical observations, taxonomists identify, describe and arrange species into classifications, including those that are new to science. Since the turn…
Read MoreSemantic Technology and the Internet of Things
It has been said that the vision of the Internet of Things (IoT) could not be realized without semantic technologies. If it is not clear what the meaning or content of a “thing” is in the IoT, neither the communication nor the interaction between objects, which are supposed to come together in the Internet will work.…
Read More1776 Was A Leap Year
The United States will celebrate its Independence Day – July 4th – this week. Fireworks, parades, cookouts, music–the typical content of a 4th of July celebration. It’s a time when many people relax, have fun, and wave the American flag. But who stops to think about what the 4th of July means? Sure, we learned in middle school…
Read MoreRelationships: The Good, the Bad, and the Analyzed?
Relationships can be challenging at best. Relationships with family, friends and people in general contain facets and dynamics that are evolving and often contentious. When it comes to data content, relationships are just as important and just as volatile. Latent semantic indexing (LSI) is a natural language processing technique that analyzes relationships between a set of documents and…
Read MoreHappy Father’s Day
We celebrated Father’s Day yesterday, so it felt appropriate to share an article written several years ago for this blog about the “father of library science” – Shiyali Ramamrita (S. R.) Ranganathan. As described in the Wikipedia article about him, Ranganathan “is considered to be the father of library science, documentation, and information science in India and is widely known throughout the…
Read MoreAccess Innovations Completes Thesaurus and Indexing Project for Hindawi Limited
Access Innovations, Inc. is pleased to announce that, using their award-winning Data Harmony semantic enrichment software, the recent completion of a thesaurus and indexing project with open-access publisher Hindawi Limited. Hindawi had put a program in place to add a semantic layer to their content. To achieve their goal, they engaged with Access Innovations, leaders…
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