Posts Tagged ‘Best practices’
What the Machines Learn
Machine learning has transformed traditional computing by enabling machines to learn from data. DATAVERSITY brought this news to us in their article, “Machine Learning Use Cases for Data Management.” Algorithms that use machine learning have built-in smarts to use available data to answer questions. Apart from using data to learn, those algorithms can also detect patterns…
Read MoreGoing Solo
Self-service analytics and data lakes have a little in common. Both are widely popular concepts that have been shaping the big data world and both offer a variety of approaches and tools. ZD Net brought this news to us in their article, “Data lakes going the way of the visual spreadsheet?” There is also a fair…
Read MoreSenior Taxonomist Consultant Needed
To be as helpful as possible to those in the fields of taxonomy, metadata, 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. Stefanini…
Read MoreSocial Media Going Forward
Social media may look back on 2017 as the year when everything changed. The Scholarly Kitchen brought this interesting topic to our attention in their article, “About Face — Scholarly Publishing and Social Media Regulation.” Facebook’s platform used to be full of self-managed algorithms, content, and advertisements, without anybody in the regulatory sphere paying much attention…
Read MoreDigital Learning
The Internet in classrooms is not new. However, unfettered access during the entire class, every class, every day is. This interesting information came to us from EdSurge in their article, “North Carolina’s Digital Success Story.” North Carolina has been the site of one of the most sustained, successful initiatives in education: giving all students in…
Read MoreWebinar Addresses Research and Scientific Publishing
The Professional/Scholarly Publishing (PSP) Journals Committee will be hearing from guest speaker David Lovinger, Editor-in-Chief, Alcohol on Tuesday, October 24 from 12:00-1:00 p.m. (ET) at the Wolters Kluwer/NY offices. David will be discussing the impact of present circumstances and policies in the biomedical research field on research and scientific publishing. This will include consideration of the present funding climate…
Read MoreTrends in Metadata
Big data can help you develop something of tangible value through SQL analytics or machine learning, but only after you understand the process. This interesting topic came to us from datanami and their article, “On the Radar: 14 Metadata Vendors To Watch Now.” The term “metadata management” may bring up memories of old-school business intelligence initiatives,…
Read MoreWebinar Aimed at Combatting Fake News
In collaboration with the Charleston Conference, the Society for Scholarly Publishing is offering a webinar – Practical Measures: Combatting “Fake News” through Scholarly Integrity, Digital Literacy, and Workflow Tools. Mark your calendars for November 7, 2017 at 8:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Between stories of Russian hackers, twitter bots, and fake editorial boards, those who make…
Read MoreWebinar Series on AI in Publishing
The Professional/Scholarly Publishing (PSP) Committee for Digital Innovation (CDI) is introducing another Seminar Series on Selected Topics in Digital Publishing. This three-part seminar series will explore these topics and the practical aspects of the real applications of technologies that were once the stuff of science fiction. Mark your calendars for Tuesday, November 14, 2017 at 12:00-1:30 p.m. The…
Read MoreWebinar About Open Access Books
The Society for Scholarly Publishing is offering a webinar – “An Update on Open Access Books: All is Not Green and Gold” – in the development of sustainable business models for books. The open access world for books started much later than for journals but at this point there are a variety of different initiatives and…
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