Where would we be without the labels?[Leiden Botanic Garden, photo: MU]
We all agree on the benefits of using PIDs, persistent identifiers, the use of standard metadata such as DOIs for objects, ORCIDs for people, RORs for institutions) to reduce ambiguity …
The past is another country, said H E Bates, but so too is economics, it seems. Things are different in the domain of economics: anyone coming to academic publishing for the first time might …
Reading Time: 6minutesThe NASDAQ Composite Index, showing the share price performance of companies during the era of the dot-com bubble (Public Domain, from Wikipedia)
Back in the early days of the Internet, Paul Graham, then working for Yahoo, wrote a now-famous article, …
A new report by Ken Chad, Aggregate and amplify, looks at theses and dissertations (terms that confusingly have reversed meanings on different sides of the Atlantic).
Why is it that TDs have been so neglected? Chad suggests it is because …
Reading Time: 3minutesThe other day I read a review of a book by Alberto Manguel, entitled The Meaning of the Library (Princeton, 2015). It’s a fascinating question – what is the meaning of a library? And what is the catalogue for? Quite by …
A medical diagnosis chatbot and a scholarly analysis of clinical patient records don’t appear to be in any way related. Yet there are similarities between the two, as became apparent at this London Text Analytics Meetup (23 February).
Just as you thought that everything was known about the academic user journey, a workshop comes along (the WDSM Workshop on Scholarly Web Mining, SWM 2017, held in Cambridge, February 10 2017) that presents a whole new set of tools …
Pedro Domingos likes big ideas. He sets out to describe to us how computers can write their own programs. For example, there is the well-established case of handwriting recognition. This is a form of machine learning in which the computer is …
The “huge leap forward” were the words of The Bookseller’s BookBrunch newsletter, reporting (21 June 2016) a new version (1.2) of the Thema ebook classification scheme (released in May 2016). Normally a point release of a standard is isn’t a huge leap …
