Posts Tagged ‘Findability’
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WebSearch University 2016 provides a unique opportunity to connect with some of the best-known power searchers – the people who specialize in tracking the ongoing developments in web search engines, resource platforms, and research strategies This intensive learning opportunity will sharpen your search skills, introduce you to new navigation tools, and improve your value to your…
Read MoreKeeping the Eye on the Prize
It is pretty simple. Companies think information management is about automating knowledge worker processes, predictive analytics or big data, but they are wrong. CMS Wire brought this news to us in their article, “Stop Complicating Information Management.” It comes down to helping users find their data and removing anything that makes that process difficult. Even though this…
Read MoreGrey Areas in Plagiarism
Throughout college, I would get anxious when I submitted papers to a professor who used plagiarism software. I always cited my sources, following the correct style format of the professor’s choosing, but there was always that shadow of a doubt whether the words I wrote were in fact my words, or if I had read…
Read MoreNew Ways to Collaborate
Kristen Ratan and Adam Hyde have launched the Collaborative Knowledge Foundation (CKF), a nonprofit organization whose mission is to evolve how scholarship is created, produced and reported. This interesting information came to us from The Scholarly Kitchen in their article, “Can You Coko? An Interview with Kristen Ratan of the Collaborative Knowledge Foundation.” The Collaborative Knowledge Foundation (CKF), also known as Coko,…
Read MoreVoila! It’s Magic
A combination of advancements in cognitive computing, graph databases, visualizations, and data discovery have resulted in an amazing reduction in the delivery time of analytics results. Visual querying uses interactive visualizations that enable users to look at and select the relevant data for questions, which allows the underlying systems to write the code necessary to perform…
Read MoreMaking the Most of Your DAM System
Content is valuable. More and more content is digital-based and protecting it while providing quick access is the challenge. Martech Advisor brought this information to us in their article, “Managing Digital Assets Successfully: Four Essential Steps.” There are digital assets management (DAM) programs available to help with storage, indexing and findability. However, surveys show that only about…
Read MoreBig Picture Management
What is information lifecycle management? It is the practice of applying certain policies to effective information management. This includes every phase of a record from its beginning to its end. And while it is generally applied to information that fits the classic definition of a record, it applies to any and all informational assets. This interesting topic came to us…
Read MoreIndexing History One Record at a Time
Genealogy projects have long been a great example of proper indexing against a solid database that produces great findability. One such project that was recently brought to our attention came from the Kansas African American Museum. The Wichita Eagle brought this interesting information to us in their article, “Genealogy researcher helping African-American families fill in the blanks.”…
Read MoreThe Role of Metadata in Genealogy
Metadata is data about data, regardless of what the data is about. If you think of the primary data as a library book, then the metadata is what you would find in the online catalog or, if we were time traveling, what was in the card catalog thirty or more years ago. The catalog contains title,…
Read MoreSearch Technology Continues to Evolve
Google’s RankBrain is a machine learning system that, along with other algorithm factors, helps to determine what the best results will be for a specific query set. RankBrain was recently released and is causing quite the chatter. Search Engine Land brought this news to us in their article, “How RankBrain Changes Entity Search.” RankBrain appears to be related to…
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