Posts Tagged ‘Standards’
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You are invited to a Zoom webinar on Nov. 3, 2021 11:00 a.m. (MDT). The topic will be Standardizing How We Talk About Standards: Developing SSOS, the Standards-Specific Ontology Standard. Register in advance for this webinar at https://us06web.zoom.us/…/reg…/WN_2xyL2PoiQ-eDXuZD9pSlbw. What it’s really about is breaking down a Tower of Babel and enabling discoverability and interoperability. You…
Read MoreUpdate on Information Standards and Standardization Efforts
The 84th Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) is scheduled for October 30 – November 2, 2021. ASIS&T is offering the annual meeting in a hybrid format to allow attendance and presentations both virtually and in person. The theme for the event this year is Information: Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, Justice, and…
Read MoreConsistency Through Data Governance
Data governance is the process of managing the availability, usability, integrity and security of the data in enterprise systems, based on internal data standards and policies that also control data usage. Effective data governance ensures that data is consistent and trustworthy and doesn’t get misused. This news came to us from Innovation Aus in their article, “Data governance maturing quickly.” Organizations around the world are increasingly…
Read MoreStandards and Ontologies
The National Information Standards Organization offered an interesting webinar last month titled, “Standards-Specific Ontology Standard.” If you were able to attend, you know that the topic of how ontologies are supporting the greater interoperability of standards and standards data. If you missed it, don’t worry. It was recorded and can be listened to here. The NISO…
Read MoreAccess Innovations Represented in the NKOS Workshop Panel
Networked Knowledge Organization Systems (NKOS) is holding their 2020 Workshop as a virtual meeting over September 9-10, 2020. It will focus on health and medical as well as overall knowledge organization systems. As part of the workshop, one session titled, “Facing the World Wide Health Crisis with Vocabulary Control and Standards” will feature a panel…
Read MoreUsing AI to Restore Historical Materials
With the new advancements of artificial intelligence (AI) causing excitement and revisited fears, it is nice to discover something that is innocuous but nice coming out of emerging technologies. The Scholarly Kitchen brought this interesting information to our attention in their article, “AI Upscales 1896 Movie to High Definition.” No one is arguing that AI…
Read MoreCybersecurity Taxonomy
Recently, the Joint Research Center issued a Proposal for a European Cybersecurity Taxonomy. Noting the absence of a globally accepted and standardized definition of cybersecurity and a clear identification of its domains of development and application, the proposal introduces a taxonomy for cybersecurity. This interesting news came to us from Mondaq in their article, “European Union: A…
Read MoreEducational Opportunity Addresses Cybersecurity
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) 2020 calendar of educational events contains some real gems. If you are a member, your development budget won’t take a hit. If you aren’t a member, maybe now is the time to consider it. On February 12th, the 90-minute webinar titled, “NFAIS Forethought: Cybersecurity: Protecting Your Internal Systems“ is offered. Every…
Read MoreFollowing the Map
The information is all out there. The mission is to make the content – the information – findable by those who need it. Sometimes connecting taxonomies realizes even more value. This interesting topic came to us from The Accidental Taxonomist in their blogpost titled, “Taxonomy Mapping.” As more taxonomies get created, there is a growing need…
Read MoreChallenging Peer Review with Hoax Articles
Over the past year, three scholars have been engaged in a broad and massively secret academic project. Together, they submitted over a dozen papers to top academic journals in fields like gender studies, sexuality studies, race studies, and critical theory. While the majority of their submissions failed the peer review process and were ultimately rejected, a…
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