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Accelerating Digital Transformation in the Pharmaceutical Industry

Digital transformation is revolutionizing pharmaceutical research and manufacturing. However, a lack of standardization in terms of data and processes has made leveraging the gains from digital transformation challenging. Now, pharmaceutical industry stakeholders, including technology vendors, are taking the lead in facilitating change. Data standardization has long been a challenge for pharmaceutical companies, resulting from a […]

Putting Taxonomies to Work for Deep Capability Building and Experiential Learning

Upskilling and reskilling employees are complicated challenges. It involves understanding where employees are skill-wise, knowing where they need to be, and bridging the gap with learning. Taxonomies offer enterprises an understanding of these needs by providing a structured and dynamic list of abilities. By making skill requirements explicit, taxonomies can make workforce planning intentional, match […]

How to Get Started on an Ontology

In an enterprise, it is quite common for someone using one or more warehouses to identify the need for an enterprise knowledge graph. However, these warehouses might lack the agility to keep up with the changing needs of the enterprise. Nevertheless, these warehouses can be used as a starting point for an ontology. Data warehouses […]

First Green Fintech Taxonomy Launched

The Green Digital Finance Alliance and the Swiss Green Fintech Network, with support from the Swiss State Secretariat for International Finance (SIF), launched the Green Fintech Classification. The Green Fintech Classification is the first of its kind in the world. Its role is to further mature and stimulate the green fintech market. The Green Fintech […]

Defining a Digital Badge Taxonomy

In the last decade, the awareness that digital badges are a secure container by which credentials can be represented, transmitted, and shared readily has grown. However, there is no taxonomy general enough to represent all levels and types of credentials possible in digital badging. Besides, there has been no taxonomy grounded in a cognitive learning […]

The Standard for Encoding Linked Data Graphs in netCDF Files

Several Earth sciences communities are defining new netCDF conventions for describing the semantics relating to their different domains. As the concurrent use of multiple netCDF conventions spreads, the problem of finding a common mechanism to validate and interpret metadata embedded inside netCDF files grows. OGC Encoding Linked Data Graphs in netCDF Files Standard (netCDF-LD) offers […]

Working Taxonomy of Human-Centric Issues in Software Engineering

Humans are diverse and present software designers and builders with challenges in building easy-to-use software that meets user needs. As a result, frustration, economic cost, inefficiencies, not fit-for-purpose solutions, and sometimes dangerous and life-threatening situations are created. Many of these problems are due to a lack of understanding and incorporation of end-user human aspects during […]

Expanding the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary

The Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary (HTOED) was primarily based on data from the second edition of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). However, the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) continues to be revised, adding new words, senses, and phrases. These additions need to be linked to HTOED for two reasons. To present a complete […]

Auto Industry Stakeholders Need To Standardize On a Data Convention

The automobile industry confronts disruption on multiple fronts, with challenges around data access, sharing, and control of data taking center stage. Industry stakeholders should devise a standardized convention on how data is shared and disseminated between them to overcome this disruption. Dealers have been fighting DMS companies and OEMs to maintain control of their data. […]