Posts Tagged ‘Digital’
Digital Preservation for Scholarly Publishing
Scientific print-publishing has never been a speedy process. It has long been a slow and cumbersome one. However, one associate editor at one of the very first electronic peer-reviewed journal was determined to help bring scientists into the new digital age. This interesting topic came to us from Wired in their article, “What Happens When Science Just Disappears?” Kay…
Read MoreData Everywhere
The world is dominated by data. In the last five years, the amount and types of data now available to us has exploded. Big data plays an important part in mining unstructured data to find the gems. DATAVERSITY discusses this in the article, “Four Phases to an Agile Data Governance Implementation.” As the world’s data needs and…
Read MoreThe Many Faces of Cyber Attacks
Cyber attacks come in all shapes and sizes. It can be as simple as an email that looks like it comes from your bank and includes an urgent link for you to click or a more obvious scam asking you to send money upfront to receive an unclaimed inheritance. It is important to take a…
Read MoreThe Most Valuable Asset
Data is a valuable commodity. It is important to focus on the technology of data as well as the governance. This interesting topic came to us from DATAVERSITY in their article, “Data Governance vs. Data Architecture.” Data governance is a system of decision rights and accountabilities for information-related processes. It includes the processes and framework involved…
Read MoreNew Moniker for Data Information Leader
The term CDO has long referred to Chief Data Officer, but there are some industry professionals would like to see this changed to Chief Digital Officer. This interesting information came to us from DATAVERSITY in their article, “Dawn of the Chief Digital Officer.” Lobbying for the change, Langley Eide, Chief Strategy Officer at Data Science and…
Read MoreAdding Quality to the Data
What do you call poor data hygiene? Bad BI? Machine learning is being used to clean up data management protocols. This interesting topic came to us from ZD Net in their article, “The great data science hope: Machine learning can cure your terrible data hygiene.” Maintaining good data hygiene is tough, especially when you are…
Read MoreLIFE Imagines Indexed
LIFE magazine is using machine learning to organize over 4 million images from the LIFE magazine archives into an interactive encyclopedia. LIFE magazine was published weekly between 1936 and 1972 and monthly from 1978 to 2000, safely making it the most popular photojournalism magazine in the United States. This iconic magazine was brought back to…
Read MoreVector Language Modeling Used to Search Books
Google’s new Semantic Experiences uses word vectors to search over 100,000 books for contextually related statements and points out passages that provide answers. Tech Republic brought this interesting information to our attention in their article, “Google’s new AI service will search books for answers to your burning business questions.” This new services uses vector-based language…
Read MoreSafeguarding the Data
The upsurge of digital transformation is creating a greater cyber threat for India. To safeguard its critical assets from perilous cyber attacks, India needs to robustly upgrade its cyber architecture. This interesting topic came to us from DNA India in their article, “Make allocation for cybersecurity.” 2017 brought a plethora of cyber attacks and data breaches. With…
Read MoreDigital or Retail: Selecting Books Have Changed
Bookstores’ footprints, business concepts and strategies have morphed over the past few decades in very drastic ways. Founder Jeff Bezos first launched Amazon as an online bookstore in 1995. The impact of an online bookstore providing not just discounts on the books, but speed and ease in having them show up at your door –…
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