Too Much Information?

Science is witnessing the biggest growth and production of data in history. Approximately 2.5 million scientific journal articles are published a year around the world, and that keeps climbing. AXIOS brought this interesting information to our attention in their article, “When scientists get information overload.” Though science is evolving, the real problem is the information overload…

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Bad Data

In a world of big data, bad data is becoming more and more common. Part of the issue is fueled by the technology we use to help manage and organize that data. In our rush to be more on-demand, personalized and data-science-powered, we’ve embraced cloud computing, social connectedness and analytics. We all agree that every…

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Data Scientist Career Opportunity

To be as helpful as possible to those in the fields of taxonomy, indexing, semantic technology, 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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The Flexibility of AI

Most organizations don’t have the time, expertise or resources to custom build artificial intelligence (AI), regardless of important and helpful they may believe it to be to their success. How will companies will be able to differentiate themselves in the industry if they are limited to using only canned AI? Forbes brought this interesting information…

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The Pressure is On Data Quality

Melissa is a provider of global contact data quality and identity verification solutions. Their informatics division, Melissa Informatics, is advancing on the expectations of big data using semantic technologies and machine reasoning. Global Newswire brought this interesting information to our attention in their article, “Melissa Informatics Advances Big Data Promise with Semantics and Machine Reasoning.” Together, these…

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Regularly Information Management Gauging Interest

Regulatory compliance is the goal that organizations aspire to achieve in their efforts to ensure that they are aware of and take steps to comply with relevant laws, policies, and regulations. Due to the increasing number of regulations and need for operational transparency, organizations are increasingly adopting the use of consolidated and harmonized sets of compliance controls…

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Making Findability More Comprehensive

Since the 1960s academic libraries have been using their own standards for the communication of metadata about resources in their catalogs. Determined to take advantage of the semantic web, Stanford Libraries is working with the libraries of Cornell, Harvard and the University of Iowa to continue the development of a “linked data” metadata environment. This interesting topic came to us from Campus Technology…

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