This workshop is designed for managers, designers and developers who are getting started or looking for expert guidance on how to improve their search experience.
For more information or on how to register, click here.
PebbleRoad in partnership with Flax, the UK's leading specialists in open source search, is organising 1-day workshop on enterprise search in Singapore on November 5th, 2015. You will learn how to make search great, from building a business case to getting more relevant results and a better search UX. You will also get an introduction to Solr, an open source enterprise search platform.
This workshop is designed for managers, designers and developers who are getting started or looking for expert guidance on how to improve their search experience. For more information or on how to register, click here.
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A sceptical essay from Ian Bogost on the digital sleight of hand he sees in the hype around the Internet of Things: "It’s time to admit that the Internet of Things is really just the colonization of formerly non-computational devices for no other reason than to bring them into the fold of computation.... The Internet of Things exists to build a market around new data about your toasting and grilling and refrigeration habits, while duping you into thinking smart devices are making your lives better than you could have made them otherwise, with materials other than computers. Innovation and disruption are foils meant to distract you from the fact that the present is remarkably similar to the past, with you working even harder for it." It's about colonisation of our data, not about improved functionality. By Patrick Lambe
At the beginning of July I presented a paper at the ISKO UK Conference on the need for knowledge organisation professionals to build design competencies: "From Cataloguers to Designers: Paul Otlet, social impact and a more proactive role for knowledge organisation professionals". A slight accident prevented me from travelling to London, and so I prepared a video presentation. https://vimeo.com/133312790 Here is the accompanying paper: In the early 20th century, Paul Otlet carved out a role for bibliography and documentation as a force for positive social change. While his ideals appeared to be utopian to many of his contemporaries, his activism and vision foreshadowed the potential (for good and evil) of the World Wide Web. This paper discusses the role that knowledge organisation professionals could play in enhancing the positive social impact of the web of knowledge, and how our roles are shifting from the more passive role of descriptive cataloguers, to proactive designers of positive and productive knowledge environments. revised version of paper 27 July 2015 The slides for the presentation are here By Patrick Lambe
Here are some recent posts on the connections between records management and knowledge organisation:
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This competency framework survey was developed by Matt Moore for the Innovations in Knowledge Organisation Conference 2015. It is intended to provide a simple self-assessment tool for practitioners working with Knowledge Organisation Systems (KOS) to identify their areas of strength and opportunities for improvement. It is indicative rather than exhaustive and we expect it to be developed further over time. We estimate it will take 10-20 minutes to complete. Once you have completed your self-assessment, we suggest that you identify the area you are most interested in developing over the coming 6 months, and develop a simple action plan. Feel free to contact us if you have any questions or suggestions. We will anonymise all responses and - provided you leave your email address - we'll send you a set of the findings, so that you can benchmark yourselves against others. We will not use your email address in the survey for any other purposes. By Patrick Lambe
Here's a nice piece from HP about the importance of distinguishing between Hadoop and Big Data, although Big Data often provides a rationale for deploying Hadoop. Echoing a theme from the IKO Conference, there are also important skills and competency issues: “The talent gap is huge,” says Maguire. “What you need is somebody who knows 15 different technologies—a machine learning guru who also happens to know Python, Perl, distributed processing, Hive, Pig, SQL, and so on. That drives up the TCO—Hadoop comes with a big hidden cost.” By Patrick Lambe
What do knowledge organisation professionals do? One thing was obvious from the 2015 IKO conference - KO professionals are engaged in a wide variety of activities. I could list all 15 case studies, as each had something valuable to impart but just a few give a flavour of this diversity: • The BBC and the National Library Board of Singapore are building frameworks with Linked Data to not only open up their content to the general public but connect their content to other sources to provide a richer and more holistic user experience. • Search Explained and Flax are applying search technologies both inside and outside the enterprise to make content more accessible for their clients. • PebbleRoad were out observing how users actually do their jobs rather than just assuming the problems they faced were obvious, and designing apps that connected them to the data needed to support their tasks • Straits Knowledge was working with graph databases to develop knowledge maps capable of being analysed for taxonomy-building • Synaptica was building a Linked Data-ready image annotation system so that rich knowledge bases could be built around detailed images. One way of understanding this complexity is to map out the skills that practitioners require to successfully implement projects like these. Any such mapping attempt will be always be provisional and subject to change. Such a mapping will have to find a balance between between having too little detail to be useful and too much detail to be manageable. And such a mapping faces the risks of any taxonomy that is being applied to taxonomists, such as differences in terminology and organising frameworks. Read the rest of this article here. By Matt Moore
As interest in Linked Data (LD) continues to grow, many organizations—publishers, corporations, universities, libraries—are increasingly interested in strategies to jump-start LD initiatives. Any organisation that has an existing taxonomy (or other controlled vocabulary) can expedite the move to LD by leveraging its existing semantic structures as a bridge to an advanced LD-based semantic strategy. Read the rest of this article here.
The phrase “text analytics” might conjure up images of a group of computational linguists poring over complicated algorithms to reveal truth in language through some mixture of language study, advanced computer science, and alchemy. There is some accuracy to this. Because of this perceived complexity, non-academics may shy away from investigating the use and practical application of text analytics unless they are in very technical areas, e.g., business intelligence. Read the rest of this article here. By Ahren Lehnert
We have published a post conference newsletter for our attendees, containing additional articles and resources from our speakers, a link to an online competency framework, and links to all the conference videos and resources in one convenient location. If you'd like to stay in touch and are not already on our mailing list, do register here! By Patrick Lambe
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