London Seminar Focuses on Collaboration

A new educational opportunity is available from the Association of Learned & Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) titled, “The Power of Partnership and Collaboration in the Publishing Industry.” It is being held in London, UK on July 12, 2018. This all day seminar will explore real examples of the strategic partnerships and innovative collaborations being forged…

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Webinar Addresses Data Technologies and Knowledge Lakes

An interesting learning opportunity from Gigaom in their webinar, “Combining Data Technologies to Create Knowledge Lakes, scheduled for July 10, 2018 at 10:30 a.m. (CDT). The number of innovative products and technologies in the analytics world is massive and continues to grow. Unfortunately, so is the effort and expertise required to use them together effectively. There is…

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Indexing the Past

Officials of one small town are looking for some professional help to preserve records. These aren’t just your ordinary county clerk records; some of these date back to the 1700s before town government was formally established. Newsday brought this interesting topic to our attention in their article, “Historical documents a treasure trove for Town of…

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Gaining Value from Data

Big data is no longer new news. It is has made it to the mainstream and businesses are reporting tangible results. But has the full potential of big data been reached? DATAVERSITY brought this interesting information to our attention in their article, “Big Data, Make Room for Precision Data.” A recent survey of executives in various industries reported…

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Learning Opportunity Tomorrow

Start your week out right and plan to join the webinar, “Noise to Signal: The Biggest Problem in Data“, tomorrow, June 26th at 2:00 p.m. EST. The ability to produce, ingest and store data has grown exponentially, but not enough. With the onset of self-service analytics, anyone can create a report and an insight. There…

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Using the Data

Organizations are always looking for ways to use data to gain an understanding of customers as individuals and use those insights to build long-term retail relationships. This starts with semantically enriching the data. This interesting topic came to our attention from CMS Wire in their article, “Enhance Your Customer Experiences With Semantic Data Enrichment.” But first, what is…

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Big Media Merger Leaves Many Winners

AT&T closed its merger with Time Warner this past week. They completed the $85 billion deal ahead of its June 20 deadline. So what does this mean? Who is the big winner in this mess? The Washington Post brought us this news in their article, “It’s official: AT&T-Time Warner is a done deal.” AT&T is mostly…

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Records Management Challenges

It is the general feeling that things are fairer, easier and more democratic in Canada. And while that might be the case in some circumstances, it is not a broad sweep fact. Accessing public records in Canada has the same challenges as the United States and other bureaucratic processes. The Star out of Canada brought this…

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Machine Learning Working to Improve Data Quality

Data quality has always been important and that continues to be fact. However, because business data requires thorough cleansing and preparation to be used as input to any analytics or business intelligence system, it might be even more important than ever. DATAVERSITY brought this interesting information to our attention in their article, “The Impact of Data…

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Semantic Technology and Climate Control

Helsinki climate experts presented an action plan to render the city carbon neutral by 2035 and they used semantic technology as part of their model. Markets Insider brought this interesting information to our attention in their article, “Helsinki Compiles Building Energy Data into Semantic 3D City ModelEnergy and Climate Atlas is a tool to reach climate…

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