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Enhancing Digital Transformation Strategy with Intelligent Content

Treating content or the knowledge used to store, communicate, curate and serve organizational goals as a strategic asset is vital to successful digital transformation initiatives. It is the common element required to transform both customer and employee experience. To meet the current demands of both the customers and the employees, enterprises however have to make […]

An Open Taxonomy for Revised Standards on Data Collection

In March 2018, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) announced revised standards on data collection requirements for MAS 610/100 — the core balance sheet return for MAS reporting — regulatory returns. MAS also set a 24-month period for implementing the standards. Accordingly, a diverse group of institutions set to work as a consortium to simplify […]

Draft Streamlined Energy and Carbon Reporting Taxonomy is Open for Consultation

The new reporting requirements for energy and carbon data, introduced on April 1, 2019, are applicable to all large companies, limited liability partnerships, and listed companies. The new reporting requirements supersede mandatory greenhouse gas (GHG) reporting, which has been in force since 2013. Consequently, entities have to report on greenhouse gas emissions, energy consumption, and […]

How Taxonomy Can Help Businesses Set Clear Business Goals and Research Direction

a profitable business, an in-depth understanding of the technology domain it is working on is critical. This will help determine the appropriate business goals and research focus. A single domain, however, is composed of many subcategories. Consequently, a systematic approach such as technology segmentation is necessary to simplify the task of gaining an in-depth understanding […]

Project Passage Experiences — a summary

Last year OCLC, a global library cooperative, concluded a ten-month pilot, called “Project Passage”, using a Wikibase instance to create and edit library metadata in collaboration with 16 U.S. libraries. The objective of the project was to evaluate a framework for reconciling, evaluating, and managing bibliographic and authority data as linked data entities and relationships. […]

Why is the European Union’s taxonomy important to Asian asset managers and investors?

The European Union’s (EU) taxonomy, on environmental, social and governance (ESG), is to be implemented in 2020. The concept of the taxonomy is that when investors begin to align their portfolios with low-carbon activities, it will transition the European economy towards achieving net-zero CO2 emissions by 2050. This is likely to put pressure on Asia […]

The resurgence of Information Science for the web

Exponential growth in the knowledge captured by the web led to developments in search technology between the late eighties and today. Hence, a perception that information management practices were redundant was created. Concomitantly, many argued that applying formal knowledge management models would constrict the rate at which the web expanded. Spending time, money or expertise […]

Overcoming the Challenges of Semantic Search

Zappos, the online retailer, has always been at the forefront of adopting new technologies to improve its business. Over the last two years, the company has been overhauling its search algorithms using machine learning. At VentureBeat’s Transform 2019 conference in San Francisco, Zappos lead data scientist Ameen Kazerouni described how his team implemented semantic search […]

Building an enhanced operational/non-financial risk taxonomy

In late 2018, the Operational Riskdata eXchange Association (ORX) launched its level 1 operational risk/non-financial risk (NFR) reference taxonomy. Subsequently, members and the wider industry expressed a lot of interest in expanding the taxonomy to go deeper into level 2 risks. Accordingly, ORX has begun a project to create an updated industry reference taxonomy. Over […]

Are Cyber-Ontologies the Future of Cybersecurity?

Attacks based on advanced persistent threats (APTs), phishing and ransomware are increasing. Consequently, cybersecurity professionals are exhibiting a great deal of interest in establishing a cyber-ontology. The call for the construction of a common language and a set of basic concepts that can be used to develop an ontology dates back to 2012. Yet, the […]