Up Close with Taxonomies

Recently, our own Bob Kasenchak, Director of Product Development at Access Innovations, was interviewed by PLOS Staff Researcher, Elizabeth Seiver, on her podcast in the episode titled, Building Taxonomies: An interview featuring Bob Kasenchak. In today’s digital age, it’s important to be able to sift through a lot of content and find what you’re looking for. With…

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Search Landscape Educational Opportunity

The Professional/Scholarly Publishing (PSP) Division of the Association of American Publishers (AAP) Journals Committee will be offering a two-part educational opportunity live and via webinar titled, The Changing Discovery Landscape – Part 1: Librarians and Researchers, with the first part scheduled for Wednesday, July 26th from 12:30 – 2:30 p.m. There seems to be new technology and…

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Changing Semantic Search

The public beta release of spot.my by RowAnalytics Ltd could change the landscape of search platforms for open access life science literature. PR Newswire brought this information to our attention in their article, “RowAnalytics Launches Public Beta of spot.my, its New Deep Semantic Search Tool for Life Science Research.” spot.my is intuitive, and its deep semantic search engine…

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Untapped Potential

Interestingly enough, enterprises are using only about 25 percent of their unstructured data for insights and decision-making. A recent survey revealed this, as well as the fact that they are using 35 percent of their structured data for the same purposes. One reason for the lag is that unstructured data is not as straightforward to analyze…

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Findability in Images

Automated image recognition capabilities leveraging Google Cloud Vision were recently released by NetX, bringing new efficiency to digital asset management (DAM) workflows. YAHOO! Finance brought this interesting news to our attention in their article, “NetX Digital Asset Management Announces Image Recognition AI via Google Vision.” NetX can automatically understand the content of an image and associate relevant…

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Access Innovations Completes Pilot Project for the George A. Smathers Libraries at the University of Florida

Access Innovations, Inc. was recently engaged by the George A. Smathers Libraries to help them define processes that can be used to identify and organize content for the Portal of Florida History, including the development and application of enhanced metadata using controlled vocabulary. A set of 25,000 digital and digitized University of Florida theses and dissertations were selected as…

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