Libraries and other institutions that often work with microfilm know too well how time consuming and frustrating searching through the rolls can be. With the amount of historical and important [...]
We usually talk about how big data can transform industries and business, but it’s important that we all have a better understanding of it impacts us every day. From weather to online shopping, [...]
The term “Big Data” is inappropriately coined and should be renamed “Colossally Increasing Data” in order to truly show it’s increasing effects around us. The idea of Big Data has infiltrated [...]
An important part of data capture, OMR, or optical mark recognition (sometimes called optical mark reading) is the process of digitally capturing human marked data from paper documents. It works [...]
Over the last year or so, the buzz over big data has reached deafening proportions. It’s hard to go a day without encountering some mention of the term, and a growing number of [...]
What is Big Data? It is one of those terms that most people have now heard of, but have no clue what it means. If you look up the definition for big data, you are going to find multiple. For [...]
With the rise of social media and technology usage increasing on a daily basis, we are expending a very large amount of personal and behavioral data in our everyday life, which has a very [...]
You’ve probably heard about big data. It’s one of the biggest buzzwords in the technology industry right now. In fact, 90% of the entire world’s data was created in the last two years. Welcome [...]
A Quick Intro Preservation and protection of rare and deteriorating documents is considered one of the most important purposes of microforms. Microforms, which [...]
What better way is there to start off a blog post than with a definition? So here it is: Optical Character Recognition, often abbreviated as OCR, refers to the process that involves capturing and [...]