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Transforming Quality Operations with a Standardized Approach

When industry best practices or standards are not in place, life sciences enterprises with legacy content management systems confront many challenges, including inconsistent taxonomies and compliance risks. Complicated quality requirement definitions, configuration and validation processes, irregular naming protocols, patched together systems, and the use of non-validated tools add further complexities. How can life science enterprises […]

Optimizing Media Spend With Unified Taxonomy

A Forrester report reveals that 21 cents of every dollar of media spend is wasted. A quarter of the marketing campaigns are affected by poor data quality. Marketers can overcome poor data quality challenges by implementing a unified taxonomy from the beginning of a media campaign. Wasted media spending due to poor data quality does […]

Technical Standards Targets Better Data Transactions on Bitcoin Satoshi Vision

The Bitcoin Satoshi Vision (BSV) Technical Standards Committee (TSC) published a new technical standard. The standard details the envelope specification that wallets and data services could use to read and write transactions. The envelope specification is a part of the TSC’s roadmap for building out a series of baseline standards for the BSV blockchain ecosystem. […]

Ontology for Media Creation Published

The Ontology for Media Creation (OMC) is the first version of a common ontology for production technologists designing Software-Defined Workflows (SDW) for the Media and Entertainment (M&E) industry. It provides a conceptual framework and a set of defined terms to enable both people and software to communicate unambiguously with greater data interoperability. In the complex […]

Clause Library and Taxonomy to Streamline Contract Negotiation Launched

The International Securities Lending Association (ISLA) announced the launch of the ISLA clause library and taxonomy. The launch will help modernize the management of securities lending contracts. Securities lending operations are not governed by carefully negotiated terms of contract. Firms’ relied on outmoded procedures to report critical information to financial authorities. Documentation and legal teams […]

Sustainability Standard for Hydropower Projects Launched

The Hydropower Sustainability Standard was launched on September 8, 2021, at the International Hydropower Association’s World Hydropower Congress. It offers a credible, transparent certification scheme that will help to ensure that hydropower projects are recognized and certified for their Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) performance. The certification scheme was developed by a coalition of industry, […]

Taxonomy for Nanofabrication

Led by the Central European Institute of Technology (CEITEEC), a team of experts have proposed a new taxonomy to overcome the weak, inconsistent, and confusing structures and naming conventions followed by cleanroom nanofabrication facilities. A team of experts had conducted a mapping exercise to identify repeating patterns in the research infrastructure offered by nanofabrication facilities […]