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TEXT MINING-TAPPING HIDDEN KERNELS OF WISDOMITC Infotech
This document discusses the benefits of text mining for organizations. It describes how text mining can analyze large amounts of text data through techniques like document classification, information retrieval, word frequency analysis, sentiment analysis, and topic modeling to provide meaningful insights. These insights can help with tasks like root cause analysis, competitive strategy development, and enhancing customer experience. The document provides an overview of the text mining process and examples of how organizations in different industries can utilize text mining.
This webinar will share the design of the BISG’s new Educational Taxonomy along with ideas on how Canadian publishers can use the terms to aid discovery of appropriate educational materials and resources online. It will also show the importance of related metadata elements for educational titles.
BISG’s new Educational Taxonomy lists the key terms that describe current and emerging educational standards, concepts, learning objectives, and methodologies used in the classroom, such as Common Core State Standards, Next Generation Science Standards, and more. It was developed by the BISG Educational Standards Taxonomy Working Group and incorporates feedback from potential users and from educators and librarians on their search habits. It is available for free download here.
About the host:
Patricia Payton, Senior Manager of Publisher Relations and Content Development for Bowker, a ProQuest Affiliate, is responsible communicating book and journal metadata requirements and best practices to publishers of all sizes. Patricia has experience in retail bookstores as well as international markets. She also holds a Master’s degree in Library Information Science specializing in Digital Libraries as well as an MBA. She actively contributes to BISG, AAP, and other industry committees. You can find her on twitter @Metadata24X7.
The Common Core State Standards aim to prepare students with the knowledge and skills needed for college and careers. The standards are internationally benchmarked and ensure students are globally competitive regardless of their zip code. Implementation of the standards will help students, teachers, and parents understand what is expected as the standards are focused, coherent, and clear. Collaboration across states and districts will help create curricular tools and materials.
This document provides an overview and guidelines for developing a Major Research Project (MRP) synopsis. It discusses choosing an area of study in consultation with a guide, conducting a literature review to identify gaps, and developing research questions and a tentative title. The synopsis should include sections like the introduction, literature review, rationale, objectives, hypotheses if any, and research methodology. It provides tips for writing each section, such as including up-to-date and balanced citations in the introduction and literature review. The presentation emphasizes developing clear and measurable objectives and testable hypotheses aligned with the research topic and title.
A discussion of the various subject classifications for published books and ebooks. This slide deck provides insight into the type of subject classification to include, and the depth needed for discovery purposes. Includes BISAC, BIC and Thema subject classifications.
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Originally presented at BEA, covers recommendations for metadata and content marketing to reach children and young adults. Includes BISAC, levelling, and discovery.
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This slide show contains the motivation, expectations and reality of how using enhanced metadata can have a possible effect on the sales and therefore the discovery of a publisher's content. Studies are references and BISG best practices are examined for the submission of enhanced metadata to providers in the supply chain. Focus on the metadata elements and a metadata timeline.
TEXT MINING-TAPPING HIDDEN KERNELS OF WISDOMITC Infotech
This document discusses the benefits of text mining for organizations. It describes how text mining can analyze large amounts of text data through techniques like document classification, information retrieval, word frequency analysis, sentiment analysis, and topic modeling to provide meaningful insights. These insights can help with tasks like root cause analysis, competitive strategy development, and enhancing customer experience. The document provides an overview of the text mining process and examples of how organizations in different industries can utilize text mining.
This webinar will share the design of the BISG’s new Educational Taxonomy along with ideas on how Canadian publishers can use the terms to aid discovery of appropriate educational materials and resources online. It will also show the importance of related metadata elements for educational titles.
BISG’s new Educational Taxonomy lists the key terms that describe current and emerging educational standards, concepts, learning objectives, and methodologies used in the classroom, such as Common Core State Standards, Next Generation Science Standards, and more. It was developed by the BISG Educational Standards Taxonomy Working Group and incorporates feedback from potential users and from educators and librarians on their search habits. It is available for free download here.
About the host:
Patricia Payton, Senior Manager of Publisher Relations and Content Development for Bowker, a ProQuest Affiliate, is responsible communicating book and journal metadata requirements and best practices to publishers of all sizes. Patricia has experience in retail bookstores as well as international markets. She also holds a Master’s degree in Library Information Science specializing in Digital Libraries as well as an MBA. She actively contributes to BISG, AAP, and other industry committees. You can find her on twitter @Metadata24X7.
The Common Core State Standards aim to prepare students with the knowledge and skills needed for college and careers. The standards are internationally benchmarked and ensure students are globally competitive regardless of their zip code. Implementation of the standards will help students, teachers, and parents understand what is expected as the standards are focused, coherent, and clear. Collaboration across states and districts will help create curricular tools and materials.
This document provides an overview and guidelines for developing a Major Research Project (MRP) synopsis. It discusses choosing an area of study in consultation with a guide, conducting a literature review to identify gaps, and developing research questions and a tentative title. The synopsis should include sections like the introduction, literature review, rationale, objectives, hypotheses if any, and research methodology. It provides tips for writing each section, such as including up-to-date and balanced citations in the introduction and literature review. The presentation emphasizes developing clear and measurable objectives and testable hypotheses aligned with the research topic and title.
A discussion of the various subject classifications for published books and ebooks. This slide deck provides insight into the type of subject classification to include, and the depth needed for discovery purposes. Includes BISAC, BIC and Thema subject classifications.
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This presentation by a Bowker subject analyst discussed the need for subject codes versus keywords and provides best practices on applying subject codes. It references materials available from the Book Industry Study Group (BISG) as well.
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This slide show contains the motivation, expectations and reality of how using enhanced metadata can have a possible effect on the sales and therefore the discovery of a publisher's content. Studies are references and BISG best practices are examined for the submission of enhanced metadata to providers in the supply chain. Focus on the metadata elements and a metadata timeline.
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If you scroll down to the bottom there is a template and marking rubricsAssignment 2 Brief
Due Date Week 12Assignment Objective
At the end of this assignment the students will be able to address real life situations (depending on the topic chosen by the students) where they could either develop BI systems, propose solutions in Business Intelligence adoption, develop strategies for data mining and help organization in their data mining use and adoption. Requirements
The students will be required to fulfil the requirements as follows.
1. Choose their own topic for the project with the lecturer directions
1. Investigate the business where they will investigate their project
1. Identify the business needs for BI.
1. Identify the best BI technique to introduce to their project
1. Familiarise with the relationship of Data Mining (DM) to BI
1. Familiarise with the different DM techniques
1. Select the best DM strategy for their project and link it to their project’s BI adoption
1. Develop a professional Business Report Deliverables
The students will be required to submit the following
1. A project report of no more than 2000 words per student (Technical Report)
Assignment II
You are to discuss the project title with the lecturer in order to make sure that you will be able to finish your project on time and in order to ensure that the topic and the work do cover the unit’s requirement. The choice of the topic should encompass areas in Business Intelligence use, adoption, techniques, implementation etc. In addition, a project might also address Data mining and its use and techniques. Finally, projects might address the relationships between BI and DM and how they work together (relevant to the selected business objective). The objective from the project is to identify a case question that your project addresses and work to investigate on how you fulfil the aim of the project.
The focus of your assignment project this semester will be to implement BI and/or Data mining in a real-life situation. requirements
· 2000-word per student assignment. The technical document should reflect the work done to address the project’s questions, and aligned with the learning materials presented in classes (lectures & Tutorials)
· The deliverable must include the followings-Introduction -Background -The business case-Business requirements: (business objectives, technical requirements, assumptions)-Proposed solution overview: BI’s solution overview originality, qualities constrains and assumptions-Components (Data items, functional and system requirements)-Models / Concepts / technologies - Implementation specifications of the proposed solutionDue date
Week 12 during the lecture hours (Monday Week 12)
Marking criteria
Marking Criteria
Your work will be assessed based on the successful completion of the components as follows.
Introduction
Subject Knowledge
Supporting Material
Report Presentation
High Distinction
Introduction written to an excellent level, provide ...
COIT20233 Assessment DetailsAssessment item 3—Report
Due date:
11:45 pm AEST, Friday, Week 9
ASSESSMENT
Weighting:
30%
3
Length:
2500 – 3500 words
Objectives
This assessment item relates to course learning outcomes numbers 4 and 6 as stated in the course profile.
This assignment is designed to stimulate critical thinking outside of the classroom by requiring students to write a formal academic report. You will need to follow the AREA process in chapters 2 and 3 of Your Business Degree (COIT20233 textbook) to analyse the assessment task, research relevant information, evaluate the information you find and to write an academic report in which you present your findings or outcomes and make recommendations on future practice. This assessment task will assess your skills in critical thinking, researching information, forming an opinion, academic writing, logical ordering of ideas and your ability to support your arguments with quotes from literature.These objectives will be measured by the ‘closeness of fit’ to meeting the assessment task, assessment requirements and assessment criteria listed below.
Please note that there is a wealth of material available on the Libguide website for this course that you should use to help you gather and evaluate relevant information for writing your report (http://libguides.library.cqu.edu.au/coit20233).
Assessment taskStudents are required to write an academic report as per the format outlined in chapter 5 of the textbook. The report must follow Harvard citation and referencing guidelines. Please note that the prescribed textbook uses APA referencing guidelines. See also the Referencing Style subsection below.
The report is to be based on the following scenario:
Cloud computing is a new information technology (IT) model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources such as networks, servers, storage facilities, applications and services for businesses (visit http://www.nist.gov/itl/csd/cloud-102511.cfm for more background details). More and more SMEs (small to medium-sized enterprises) worldwide are adopting Cloud computing to improve their competitive advantages by reducing their IT cost and at the same time increasing IT capability for their businesses. SMEs are considered to be the backbone of the Australian economy, thus not adopting Cloud based services can significantly impact the competitiveness of Australian SMEs to compete globally and may even affect their survival in the future.
You are the ICT manager of an Australian based SME in service industry. Your supervisor has asked you to look at Cloud computing model to minimise the organisation’s IT infrastructure cost and increase its efficiency at the same time. You are required to prepare a report that explores:
1. What are the key organisational and environmental factors that influence SMEs to adopt Cloud based services?
2. What are the benefits of Cloud computing adoption by .
Scoring Guide for Rhetorical Analysis (10 of grade; 100 po.docxaryan532920
Scoring Guide for Rhetorical Analysis (10% of grade; 100 points)
The scoring guide helps you and your instructor see some of the specific ways your writing is matching expectations. No rubric can encompass everything a piece of writing can or
needs to accomplish, so your instructor will comment both about and beyond these categories to help you understand how this piece of writing is effective and how it (or future pieces)
could be more effective. Your grade will be determined by your instructor’s overall evaluation of this piece of writing and the revision process it enjoyed, with the top three categories
carrying more weight than the bottom three. Note: If for any category, the piece does not meet “Developing” standards, your instructor will assign no credit for that category.
KHO/16
Categories Excellent (A) Effective (B) Adequate (C) Developing (D)
Invention and
Purpose
Provides exceptional detail, depth,
and clarity about the effects of one or
two specific elements (e.g., patterns,
rhetorical strategies, audience,
purpose); interesting, sophisticated
argument develops through the paper
Provides solid detail, depth, and clarity
about the the effects of one or two
specific elements (e.g., patterns,
rhetorical strategies, audience,
purpose); solid argument develops as
the paper progresses
Provides some detail and clarity about
the effects of one or two specific
elements (e.g., patterns, rhetorical
strategies, audience, author, purpose);
consistent argument
Provides little detail, depth, or clarity
about the effects of specific elements,
may attempt to discuss many
elements without depth; may use
terms inaccurately; confusing, vague,
or inconsistent argument
Arrangement
and Audience
Awareness
Arrangement enhances the central
idea; intro intrigues readers, provides
helpful context, and prepares readers
well; sophisticated transitions guide
readers; conclusion refines thesis,
provides a satisfying resolution
Arrangement supports the central idea
and its development; intro provides
context and prepares readers well;
effective transitions guide readers;
conclusion recasts thesis and provides
a satisfying resolution
Arrangement mostly supports the
central idea; intro provides limited
context or reader preparation;
transitions formulaic or not always
effective; conclusion merely repeats
thesis or provides little resolution
Arrangement doesn’t consistently
support the central idea; intro provides
little context or reader preparation;
transitions missing or ineffective;
relationship among ideas unclear;
conclusion off-topic or underdeveloped
Ethos and
Evidence
Evidence and overall content easily
convince the reader that the author is
credible and that the analysis is valid;
evidence fully supports or enhances
writer’s claims
Evidence and overall content convince
the reader that the author is credible
and that the analysis is valid; evidence
supports writ ...
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Library Assignment
Critique a Research Article
A critique is a method of displaying a logical and organized analysis of a written or oral piece. Critique can provide the readers with both positive and negative outcomes depending on the author. The purpose of this assignment is for the student to perform a critique on a research article that deals with today's health issues. In this paper the student must be diligent at what the author are claiming, taking into account the research methods being utilized and look for pros and cons of the researcher's outcomes.
The assignment must be a minimal of five pages, excluding title page and references. The assignment must be strictly following APA guidelines, points will be deducted if otherwise. Do not use first person throughout the paper until the section called evaluate the paper. It will be divided in the following manner:
Title page: Give the name of the article, the authors name(s) and your name. Following APA
Introduction:
· Provide an overview of the author’s research problem, research questions and main point including how the author supports his or her point.
· Explain what the author initial objectives (hypothesis) and results including the process he or she used to arrive at such conclusion.
Evaluate the Research Methods: in paragraph form answer the following:
· Does the author provide a literature review?
· Is the research current and relevant to today existing health issues?
· Describe the research type utilized?– experimental, non-experimental, quasi experimental, etc.
· Evaluate the sample (size, composition, or in the way the sample was selected in relation to the purpose of the study? Was the sample appropriate for the research or was it bias?
· How practicaldoes this work seem to you? How does the author suggest research results could be applied and how do youbelieve they could be applied?
· Could the study have been improved in your opinion? If so provide how you think it could have improved.
· Is the writing in the article clear straightforward?
· Can further research be conducted on this subject? Explain
Conclusion: In your conclusion, try to synthesize the pieces of your critique to emphasize your own main points about the author’s work, relating the researcher’s work to your own knowledge or to topics being discussed in your course.
Reference Page: APA style, see rubric below
See Rubric Below for assignment
Title Page: Title of article, journal information and your name and date
1 point
Your score
Abstract: Brief summary of article (1-2 paragraphs)
1 points
The Problem: (2 or 3 paragraphs)
Is the problem clearly stated?
Is the problem practically important?
What is the purpose of the study?
What is the hypothesis?
Are the key terms defined?
3 points
Review of Literature: (1 -2 paragraphs)
Are the cited sources pertinent to the study?
Is the review too broad or too narrow?
Are the references recent?
Is there any evidence of bias?
2 points
Desi.
Presentation for Metadata Working Group at Cornell. Based on book chapter (with Diane Hillmann) in "Metadata in Practice". For some reason it has become unexpectedly citable.
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Successful Single-Source Content Development Xyleme
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1) The document discusses text analytics and sentiment analysis, explaining that these tools are important for businesses to make better data-driven decisions based on customer feedback and opinions expressed online.
2) It covers different approaches to sentiment analysis such as using natural language processing (NLP) to identify concepts and attributes, and data mining techniques that represent text as numeric vectors that can be modeled.
3) The benefits and drawbacks of the NLP and data mining approaches are compared, noting that NLP provides more control and interpretability while data mining may achieve better predictive performance.
The document discusses product-oriented performance-based assessment and scoring rubrics. It provides examples of using products or outputs to evaluate student learning and define competency levels. Scoring rubrics describe the criteria for different performance levels and are used to consistently evaluate student work. The document outlines steps to develop reliable scoring rubrics, including identifying criteria, defining descriptor levels, and testing inter-rater reliability.
Supervised Sentiment Classification using DTDP algorithmIJSRD
Sentiment analysis is the process widely used in all fields and it uses the statistical machine learning approach for text modeling. The primarily used approach is Bag-of-words (BOW). Though, this technique has some limitations in polarity shift problem. Thus, here we propose a new method called Dual sentiment analysis (DSA) which resolves the polarity shift problem. Proposed method involves two approaches such as dual training and dual prediction (DPDT). First, we propose a data expansion technique by creating a reversed review for training data. Second, dual training and dual prediction algorithm is developed for doing analysis on sentiment data. The dual training algorithm is used for learning a sentiment classifier and the dual prediction algorithm is developed for classifying the review by considering two sides of one review.
Due Date [month, day, year], by midnightPurposeTo explore.docxtheresiarede
Due Date: [month, day, year], by midnight
Purpose:
To explore and understand the effect of group behavior, specifically cross-cultural team development and success, on organizational performance and effectiveness.
Related to the following course objective:
Successfully participate as a team member, lead teams, and manage independent teams to accomplish specific goals and objectives
Deliverable:
Portfolio comprised of two parts:
1. Part 1), OB research findings and professional data and information serving as the resource from which the presentation is created submitted as a comprehensive outline, and
2. Part 2), Prezi presentation. Go to
https://prezi.com/signup/public
to access and learn how to create your Prezi presentation. See Instruction 11 for graphic and media options to enhance Portfolio’s presentation portion of. Detailed Instructions below provide steps and directions for creating, packaging, and submitting your Portfolio.
Introduction to Assignment
For this group-level analysis assignment, you will wear the hat of a rising-star organizational behavior (OB) consultant. You will create a portfolio comprised of a Prezi presentation—Part 2, the major component—supported by Part 1, research findings from diverse OB publications and internet materials; a selected annotated list of professional knowledge, skills, and abilities and learning experiences relevant to group-level, particularly cross-cultural, team experience and success, including relevant networking, communities of practice, special interest groups, and professional associations; and recommendations for OB self- and team-assessment tools.
Case Study 2:
Going Global: What Does it Take to Make Cross-cultural Teams Successful?
will serve as the central organizing influence of your Portfolio. The case describes issues, problems, and challenges related to developing high-performing cross-cultural teams in an organization integrating new employees after an acquisition. The Portfolio’s overarching goal is to convince the client to hire you as an organizational change consultant. Portions of the Portfolio will reflect your actual work, management, and learning experience, when it exists. Other portions will represent reasoned, logical postulations where research and investigation of OB practitioner knowledge, skills, abilities, publications and other resources, and OB training, education, development, networks, and professional associations are used to flesh out what you determine will be a convincing proposal (presented as a Portfolio).
This project is designed around the following hypothetical situation:
You recently launched an organizational behavior consulting practice, specializing in cross-cultural group and team dynamics and problems. Having done an environmental scan, you know the competition for clients in your niche is stiff. Since the 2008 Recession a number of top-notch OB professionals have established consulting services targeting organ.
TOC 2011: Content as Application, presented by Scott GrilloSilverchair
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Ebook Central Submission Guide for Content Providers -- Revised, July 2020Bowker
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1. The document provides tips on metadata best practices from A to Z. It discusses topics like annotations, audience tags, BISAC codes, contributor bios, cover images, publishing statuses, keywords, series information, subtitles, titles, URLs, and validating files to ensure high quality metadata.
2. It emphasizes keeping all metadata elements up-to-date, like contributor bios and cover images, to increase discoverability and sales. Accurate audience tags, BISAC codes, keywords, and other elements can help books be found by the right readers.
3. The tips recommend using the appropriate metadata fields, valid file formats, and reviewing elements regularly to ensure metadata feeds properly and helps expose books to potential buyers
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Due Date Week 12Assignment Objective
At the end of this assignment the students will be able to address real life situations (depending on the topic chosen by the students) where they could either develop BI systems, propose solutions in Business Intelligence adoption, develop strategies for data mining and help organization in their data mining use and adoption. Requirements
The students will be required to fulfil the requirements as follows.
1. Choose their own topic for the project with the lecturer directions
1. Investigate the business where they will investigate their project
1. Identify the business needs for BI.
1. Identify the best BI technique to introduce to their project
1. Familiarise with the relationship of Data Mining (DM) to BI
1. Familiarise with the different DM techniques
1. Select the best DM strategy for their project and link it to their project’s BI adoption
1. Develop a professional Business Report Deliverables
The students will be required to submit the following
1. A project report of no more than 2000 words per student (Technical Report)
Assignment II
You are to discuss the project title with the lecturer in order to make sure that you will be able to finish your project on time and in order to ensure that the topic and the work do cover the unit’s requirement. The choice of the topic should encompass areas in Business Intelligence use, adoption, techniques, implementation etc. In addition, a project might also address Data mining and its use and techniques. Finally, projects might address the relationships between BI and DM and how they work together (relevant to the selected business objective). The objective from the project is to identify a case question that your project addresses and work to investigate on how you fulfil the aim of the project.
The focus of your assignment project this semester will be to implement BI and/or Data mining in a real-life situation. requirements
· 2000-word per student assignment. The technical document should reflect the work done to address the project’s questions, and aligned with the learning materials presented in classes (lectures & Tutorials)
· The deliverable must include the followings-Introduction -Background -The business case-Business requirements: (business objectives, technical requirements, assumptions)-Proposed solution overview: BI’s solution overview originality, qualities constrains and assumptions-Components (Data items, functional and system requirements)-Models / Concepts / technologies - Implementation specifications of the proposed solutionDue date
Week 12 during the lecture hours (Monday Week 12)
Marking criteria
Marking Criteria
Your work will be assessed based on the successful completion of the components as follows.
Introduction
Subject Knowledge
Supporting Material
Report Presentation
High Distinction
Introduction written to an excellent level, provide ...
COIT20233 Assessment DetailsAssessment item 3—Report
Due date:
11:45 pm AEST, Friday, Week 9
ASSESSMENT
Weighting:
30%
3
Length:
2500 – 3500 words
Objectives
This assessment item relates to course learning outcomes numbers 4 and 6 as stated in the course profile.
This assignment is designed to stimulate critical thinking outside of the classroom by requiring students to write a formal academic report. You will need to follow the AREA process in chapters 2 and 3 of Your Business Degree (COIT20233 textbook) to analyse the assessment task, research relevant information, evaluate the information you find and to write an academic report in which you present your findings or outcomes and make recommendations on future practice. This assessment task will assess your skills in critical thinking, researching information, forming an opinion, academic writing, logical ordering of ideas and your ability to support your arguments with quotes from literature.These objectives will be measured by the ‘closeness of fit’ to meeting the assessment task, assessment requirements and assessment criteria listed below.
Please note that there is a wealth of material available on the Libguide website for this course that you should use to help you gather and evaluate relevant information for writing your report (http://libguides.library.cqu.edu.au/coit20233).
Assessment taskStudents are required to write an academic report as per the format outlined in chapter 5 of the textbook. The report must follow Harvard citation and referencing guidelines. Please note that the prescribed textbook uses APA referencing guidelines. See also the Referencing Style subsection below.
The report is to be based on the following scenario:
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2. What are the benefits of Cloud computing adoption by .
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Scoring Guide for Rhetorical Analysis (10% of grade; 100 points)
The scoring guide helps you and your instructor see some of the specific ways your writing is matching expectations. No rubric can encompass everything a piece of writing can or
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KHO/16
Categories Excellent (A) Effective (B) Adequate (C) Developing (D)
Invention and
Purpose
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and clarity about the effects of one or
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purpose); solid argument develops as
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Provides some detail and clarity about
the effects of one or two specific
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helpful context, and prepares readers
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readers; conclusion refines thesis,
provides a satisfying resolution
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effective transitions guide readers;
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This document provides guidance on analyzing qualitative data through a systematic process of content analysis. It outlines 5 main steps: 1) Get to know the data by reading it thoroughly multiple times, 2) Focus the analysis by identifying key questions to answer, 3) Categorize the data by identifying themes and patterns to organize into coherent categories, 4) Identify patterns and connections within and between categories through within-category descriptions, identifying relatively important categories, and relationships between categories, and 5) Interpret the findings by bringing together the key points and lessons learned to attach meaning and significance. The document also provides tips for organizing and managing qualitative data.
Employer-Employee Insurance Scheme is an insurance arrangement between an employer and employee where the employer purchases an insurance policy for the employee. This arrangement benefits both parties as it is based on the principle that the employer has an insurable interest in their employees.
Library AssignmentCritique a Research ArticleA critique is a m.docxwashingtonrosy
Library Assignment
Critique a Research Article
A critique is a method of displaying a logical and organized analysis of a written or oral piece. Critique can provide the readers with both positive and negative outcomes depending on the author. The purpose of this assignment is for the student to perform a critique on a research article that deals with today's health issues. In this paper the student must be diligent at what the author are claiming, taking into account the research methods being utilized and look for pros and cons of the researcher's outcomes.
The assignment must be a minimal of five pages, excluding title page and references. The assignment must be strictly following APA guidelines, points will be deducted if otherwise. Do not use first person throughout the paper until the section called evaluate the paper. It will be divided in the following manner:
Title page: Give the name of the article, the authors name(s) and your name. Following APA
Introduction:
· Provide an overview of the author’s research problem, research questions and main point including how the author supports his or her point.
· Explain what the author initial objectives (hypothesis) and results including the process he or she used to arrive at such conclusion.
Evaluate the Research Methods: in paragraph form answer the following:
· Does the author provide a literature review?
· Is the research current and relevant to today existing health issues?
· Describe the research type utilized?– experimental, non-experimental, quasi experimental, etc.
· Evaluate the sample (size, composition, or in the way the sample was selected in relation to the purpose of the study? Was the sample appropriate for the research or was it bias?
· How practicaldoes this work seem to you? How does the author suggest research results could be applied and how do youbelieve they could be applied?
· Could the study have been improved in your opinion? If so provide how you think it could have improved.
· Is the writing in the article clear straightforward?
· Can further research be conducted on this subject? Explain
Conclusion: In your conclusion, try to synthesize the pieces of your critique to emphasize your own main points about the author’s work, relating the researcher’s work to your own knowledge or to topics being discussed in your course.
Reference Page: APA style, see rubric below
See Rubric Below for assignment
Title Page: Title of article, journal information and your name and date
1 point
Your score
Abstract: Brief summary of article (1-2 paragraphs)
1 points
The Problem: (2 or 3 paragraphs)
Is the problem clearly stated?
Is the problem practically important?
What is the purpose of the study?
What is the hypothesis?
Are the key terms defined?
3 points
Review of Literature: (1 -2 paragraphs)
Are the cited sources pertinent to the study?
Is the review too broad or too narrow?
Are the references recent?
Is there any evidence of bias?
2 points
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Presentation for Metadata Working Group at Cornell. Based on book chapter (with Diane Hillmann) in "Metadata in Practice". For some reason it has become unexpectedly citable.
This document discusses using education metadata standards like LRMI (Learning Resource Metadata Initiative) to make instructional resources more discoverable. It provides an overview of the LRMI fields of metadata like general information, education specifics, alignments to standards, and examples of how resources can be tagged. Attendees participated in a hands-on activity to tag sample resources using LRMI fields in order to make the content more searchable based on criteria like standards, age, and type. Questions from educators are addressed, and how publishers and organizations can get involved with the metadata standards is discussed.
Successful Single-Source Content Development Xyleme
This presentation looks at why single-source content development is rapidly becoming a strategic initiative within organizations. Content management experts, Dawn Stevens of Comtech & Stuart Grossman of Xyleme, show you how to design granular content for reusability across products, functions & delivery modalities and assess your organization’s readiness for the move to single source. To view webinar please visit: http://www.xyleme.com/download-form?type_of_download=Webinar&nid=218
1) The document discusses text analytics and sentiment analysis, explaining that these tools are important for businesses to make better data-driven decisions based on customer feedback and opinions expressed online.
2) It covers different approaches to sentiment analysis such as using natural language processing (NLP) to identify concepts and attributes, and data mining techniques that represent text as numeric vectors that can be modeled.
3) The benefits and drawbacks of the NLP and data mining approaches are compared, noting that NLP provides more control and interpretability while data mining may achieve better predictive performance.
The document discusses product-oriented performance-based assessment and scoring rubrics. It provides examples of using products or outputs to evaluate student learning and define competency levels. Scoring rubrics describe the criteria for different performance levels and are used to consistently evaluate student work. The document outlines steps to develop reliable scoring rubrics, including identifying criteria, defining descriptor levels, and testing inter-rater reliability.
Supervised Sentiment Classification using DTDP algorithmIJSRD
Sentiment analysis is the process widely used in all fields and it uses the statistical machine learning approach for text modeling. The primarily used approach is Bag-of-words (BOW). Though, this technique has some limitations in polarity shift problem. Thus, here we propose a new method called Dual sentiment analysis (DSA) which resolves the polarity shift problem. Proposed method involves two approaches such as dual training and dual prediction (DPDT). First, we propose a data expansion technique by creating a reversed review for training data. Second, dual training and dual prediction algorithm is developed for doing analysis on sentiment data. The dual training algorithm is used for learning a sentiment classifier and the dual prediction algorithm is developed for classifying the review by considering two sides of one review.
Due Date [month, day, year], by midnightPurposeTo explore.docxtheresiarede
Due Date: [month, day, year], by midnight
Purpose:
To explore and understand the effect of group behavior, specifically cross-cultural team development and success, on organizational performance and effectiveness.
Related to the following course objective:
Successfully participate as a team member, lead teams, and manage independent teams to accomplish specific goals and objectives
Deliverable:
Portfolio comprised of two parts:
1. Part 1), OB research findings and professional data and information serving as the resource from which the presentation is created submitted as a comprehensive outline, and
2. Part 2), Prezi presentation. Go to
https://prezi.com/signup/public
to access and learn how to create your Prezi presentation. See Instruction 11 for graphic and media options to enhance Portfolio’s presentation portion of. Detailed Instructions below provide steps and directions for creating, packaging, and submitting your Portfolio.
Introduction to Assignment
For this group-level analysis assignment, you will wear the hat of a rising-star organizational behavior (OB) consultant. You will create a portfolio comprised of a Prezi presentation—Part 2, the major component—supported by Part 1, research findings from diverse OB publications and internet materials; a selected annotated list of professional knowledge, skills, and abilities and learning experiences relevant to group-level, particularly cross-cultural, team experience and success, including relevant networking, communities of practice, special interest groups, and professional associations; and recommendations for OB self- and team-assessment tools.
Case Study 2:
Going Global: What Does it Take to Make Cross-cultural Teams Successful?
will serve as the central organizing influence of your Portfolio. The case describes issues, problems, and challenges related to developing high-performing cross-cultural teams in an organization integrating new employees after an acquisition. The Portfolio’s overarching goal is to convince the client to hire you as an organizational change consultant. Portions of the Portfolio will reflect your actual work, management, and learning experience, when it exists. Other portions will represent reasoned, logical postulations where research and investigation of OB practitioner knowledge, skills, abilities, publications and other resources, and OB training, education, development, networks, and professional associations are used to flesh out what you determine will be a convincing proposal (presented as a Portfolio).
This project is designed around the following hypothetical situation:
You recently launched an organizational behavior consulting practice, specializing in cross-cultural group and team dynamics and problems. Having done an environmental scan, you know the competition for clients in your niche is stiff. Since the 2008 Recession a number of top-notch OB professionals have established consulting services targeting organ.
TOC 2011: Content as Application, presented by Scott GrilloSilverchair
Content as Application: Integrating Medical Books into the Healthcare Workflow. Presented at TOC 2011 by Scott Grillo, Vice President and Group Publisher for McGraw-Hill Medical, a division of McGraw-Hill’s Higher Education, Professional
The document summarizes a training workshop on implementing the Common Core State Standards. It discusses the organization of the ELA standards, including strands, anchor standards, and grade-specific standards. It also covers differences from the previous standards, text complexity, and challenges in changing instructional practices to align with the new standards.
Similar to BEA 2014--Let Common Core Power Your Publishing Accompanying Script (20)
Ebook Central Submission Guide for Content Providers -- Revised, July 2020Bowker
This submission guide for ProQuest Ebook Central contains all that a content provider needs to know about submitting metadata and content files (cover images, PDFs, EPUBs) to this platform. This thorough guide explains all elements required for your titles (including prices, sales rights to ONIX, Excel, and accepted content files). It also provides valuable contact information, business model explanations and options, and an appendix about accepted ONIX fields. Newest version -- July 2020
1. The document provides tips on metadata best practices from A to Z. It discusses topics like annotations, audience tags, BISAC codes, contributor bios, cover images, publishing statuses, keywords, series information, subtitles, titles, URLs, and validating files to ensure high quality metadata.
2. It emphasizes keeping all metadata elements up-to-date, like contributor bios and cover images, to increase discoverability and sales. Accurate audience tags, BISAC codes, keywords, and other elements can help books be found by the right readers.
3. The tips recommend using the appropriate metadata fields, valid file formats, and reviewing elements regularly to ensure metadata feeds properly and helps expose books to potential buyers
BEA Content & Digital Conference Maximizing Metadata & Improving the Bottom LineBowker
Originally presented at BEA 2016, this presentation includes metadata best practices. It provides information on the effects of metadata on discovery, online sales, and library sales.
BEA Content & Digital Conference & IDPF 2016Bowker
The document lists four presentations occurring at the 2016 IDPF DigiCon @ BEA Program on metadata and copyright registration:
1) A presentation on the future of metadata in 2025 featuring speakers from EDItEUR, Hachette Book Group, and OCLC.
2) A presentation on leading readers to children's and YA content featuring speakers from Penguin Random House, Capstone Publishers, and Unbound Concepts.
3) A workshop on maximizing metadata and improving the bottom line featuring speakers from Baker & Taylor, Ingram Content Group, and Hachette Book Group.
4) A presentation on simply and effectively protecting copyright through registration featuring speakers from Copyright Clearance Center, First Source
The Higher Education Persona: Whether it’s print or digital, metadata for Higher Ed deserves special attention because of its particular components and attributes.
Originally presented as a webinar for BookNet Canada, this presentation discusses the BISG Educational Taxonomy and book metadata to improve discovery by teachers and librarians.
This was originally presented at BEA 2105. This presentation looks at the experiences of two publishers as they conducted machine indexing projects. It also shows the capabilities of machine indexing today.
5 Cool Things You Didn't Know You Could Do With MetadataBowker
This was originally presented at BISG Making Information Pay 2015 as part of IDPF and BEA. This presentation covers 5 metadata themes--recommend, visualize, diagnose, acknowledge, and automate--showing cool uses of metadata on websites geared toward readers and through ONIX.
BEA 2015 Demystifying Subject Codes and KeywordsBowker
The document provides information about subject codes and keywords. It defines subjects and keywords, discusses how they differ and are used for search and classification. It also discusses standards for subject codes like BISAC and Thema and provides examples of applying subject codes from these standards. The goal is to assign the most specific non-redundant subject codes to describe works.
This webinar discussed best practices for metadata used to describe books and other published content. It covered the proper use of fields for titles, series, subjects, cover images, descriptions, author biographies and other key metadata. Attendees learned how following standards helps content be discovered through search and supports the distribution of works.
This document discusses metadata standards and the transition from ONIX 2.1 to ONIX 3.0. It provides information on standards, linking products using identifiers like ISNI, and the status of ONIX 3.0 adoption among data providers and recipients. While 46% of surveyed organizations are not yet working on ONIX 3.0, 34% are working on it and 20% are already producing it. Most expect to transition during 2014-2015.
uPublishU 2014--5 Easy Ways to Get DiscoveredBowker
This document provides tips for ensuring books are discoverable through effective metadata practices from several metadata experts. It recommends that metadata should look exactly how searchers want it when they search, have depth to interest potential readers, be present where discovery happens, and respect standards used by trading partners. The document outlines best practices for key metadata fields like title format, cover images, descriptions, keywords and author bios to maximize discoverability.
This document provides an overview of metadata best practices according to Bowker. It begins with discussing the Book Industry Study Group (BISG) and their role in establishing industry standards. It then defines metadata and describes different types of metadata like physical attributes, content descriptions, and enhanced content. The document outlines BISG best practices for elements like editions, series, subjects, and descriptions. It emphasizes using standardized terms and codes, providing specific and keyword-rich descriptions, and selecting the most important details. Overall, the document aims to educate on metadata practices within the book publishing supply chain.
Digital Book World Business Models, Metadata and IdentifiersBowker
Bowker's case study presentation from Digital Book World.
Connecting Readers to content is the goal of every publisher. Traditional business models are transformed and new business models developed. All rely on metadata and identifiers to succeed in reaching readers with the content they want at the time they want it in the form they want to consume it. This session will discuss:
--Business models and their use of metadata/identifiers
--Role of metadata/identifiers during content creation
--Key metadata fields and how customers view, interpret, use them
Macroeconomics- Movie Location
This will be used as part of your Personal Professional Portfolio once graded.
Objective:
Prepare a presentation or a paper using research, basic comparative analysis, data organization and application of economic information. You will make an informed assessment of an economic climate outside of the United States to accomplish an entertainment industry objective.
Thinking of getting a dog? Be aware that breeds like Pit Bulls, Rottweilers, and German Shepherds can be loyal and dangerous. Proper training and socialization are crucial to preventing aggressive behaviors. Ensure safety by understanding their needs and always supervising interactions. Stay safe, and enjoy your furry friends!
This presentation was provided by Steph Pollock of The American Psychological Association’s Journals Program, and Damita Snow, of The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), for the initial session of NISO's 2024 Training Series "DEIA in the Scholarly Landscape." Session One: 'Setting Expectations: a DEIA Primer,' was held June 6, 2024.
A workshop hosted by the South African Journal of Science aimed at postgraduate students and early career researchers with little or no experience in writing and publishing journal articles.
A Strategic Approach: GenAI in EducationPeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
Strategies for Effective Upskilling is a presentation by Chinwendu Peace in a Your Skill Boost Masterclass organisation by the Excellence Foundation for South Sudan on 08th and 09th June 2024 from 1 PM to 3 PM on each day.
it describes the bony anatomy including the femoral head , acetabulum, labrum . also discusses the capsule , ligaments . muscle that act on the hip joint and the range of motion are outlined. factors affecting hip joint stability and weight transmission through the joint are summarized.
How to Fix the Import Error in the Odoo 17Celine George
An import error occurs when a program fails to import a module or library, disrupting its execution. In languages like Python, this issue arises when the specified module cannot be found or accessed, hindering the program's functionality. Resolving import errors is crucial for maintaining smooth software operation and uninterrupted development processes.
How to Build a Module in Odoo 17 Using the Scaffold MethodCeline George
Odoo provides an option for creating a module by using a single line command. By using this command the user can make a whole structure of a module. It is very easy for a beginner to make a module. There is no need to make each file manually. This slide will show how to create a module using the scaffold method.
How to Build a Module in Odoo 17 Using the Scaffold Method
BEA 2014--Let Common Core Power Your Publishing Accompanying Script
1. 1
Metadata and the Common Core – Credibility Considerations
Narrative associated with Warzala’s Slides
Credible metadata, especially elements related to interest and reading level are essential to promote titles in
support of the goals and objectives of the Common Core. This is especially significant in, given the universe of
publishing, availability of titles in multiple formats, varying degrees of customer sophistication, and the lack of
time customers have to identify relevant titles -- credible metadata is essential.
In Baker & Taylor’s collection management team of 22 resident professionals we support K-12 school (library
and classroom), public library, and academic library collection building. In addition to our Library and
Educational support, our Merchandising team works with retailers and “e-tailers”, too.
We use a database of approximately 10 million titles in all formats, print, digital (e-book and downloadable
audio), spoken word, video, and music. In addition to supporting our internal collection development work,
we present very rich metadata to customers in our web based Title Source 360 that is used by customers for
collection development support and ordering.
Some of our metadata is supplied by our publisher partners in industry standard formats, others elements are
maintained by our Database Administration team, and yet other elements are licensed from third party
suppliers. [Skip to next slide Consumer Concerns]
2. 2
I have violated a key rule of presentations by putting such a long quote on a slide. The more particular
consumer is skeptical. While some publishers and booksellers have gone to extremes to assure the integrity of
their work in relation to the Common Core, others have merely relabeled existing titles or packaging. In
contrast to the author’s comments, we (the collective we data managers, publishers, and booksellers) want to
promote with integrity, and not be perceived as “hucksters” [Skip to next slide Rational Considerations]
If you represent a publisher that is not going to pursue evaluation in one of the sophisticated text analysis and
leveling solutions that I will outline in a few minutes, a sound step that can be taken is consistent rational
targeting of an intended audience for your titles. Our experience is that a title’s audience level can be
effectively presented in a grade level related to K-12 education or an adult oriented audience level (i.e.
general adult, professional, vo-tech, associates, undergraduate, graduate.) The rationale behind this is that
even if you don’t have a formal textual evaluation, you provide consistent audience levels for book buyers.
I am going to outline a number of external measures related to textual complexity and provide a summary
conclusion about them based on research. An additional note - any one of these approaches merit their own
in-depth analysis and discussion by a linguist, but for our purposes, it is safe to say that they add an element of
credibility to the titles we present to our customers, and these solutions are very complex.
I will also briefly describe where we’re at as an industry, parts of which have already been represented in the
descriptions of Capstone’s approach to publishing and Booksource’s collection building efforts, along with
3. 3
some ways that organization like Bowker and Baker & Taylor present metadata, what standards organizations
are doing to facilitate data management in support of Common Core, and the challenges that all of us face in
aspects of our businesses as related to data management. [Skip to next slide Consumer Needs]
[A foundation in the Common Core Standards, “…stress the importance of being able to read complex text for
success in college and career. Perception is that the complexity of reading demands for college and career
have held steady or risen in the past half century, than the complexity of texts to which students are exposed
has steadily decreased in this same time period, and that in order to address this gap, there must be an
emphasis on increasing the complexity of test students read as an element of reading comprehension.”]
Textual analysis (and the route to appropriate leveling) can be very complex: there are two major dimensions.
Qualitative – elements best measured by a human; levels of meaning or purpose; structure; clarity… and
knowledge demands, i.e. that that are appreciated and subjective in nature – the stuff of reviews.
Quantitative evaluation is emphasized in Common Core Support - elements such as word length, word
frequency, sentence length, and text cohesion; things that are difficult if not impossible for a human reader to
analyze…typically measured by computer software [Skip to Textual Analysis Approaches]
ATOS – Renaissance Learning (ATOS stands for Advantage/TASA (Touchstone Applied Science Associates)
Open Standard) – formula is text based takes into account words per sentence, grade level of words (based on
a table of values of words); and number of characters per word.
4. 4
Degrees if Reading Power (DRP Questar Assessment Inc.) – formula based on word length, sentence length
and word familiarity with higher values representing more complex text
Flesch-Kincaid (public domain) - formula that considers words and sentence length used. These elements are
used as substitutes/proxies for complexity.
Lexile Framework For Reading (MetaMetrics) – represents the complexity of text and individuals reading
ability, measures include variables of word frequency and sentence length.
Reading Maturity (Pearson Education) – computational language model which estimates how much language
experience is required to achieve knowledge of meanings of words, sentences and paragraphs in a text.
TEXTEvaluator formally known as SourceRater (ETS) - This is a natural language processing technique; it takes
evidence of text relative to syntactic complexity, vocabulary difficulty, level of abstractness, referential
cohesion, connective cohesion, degree of academic orientation, and paragraph structure, and provides three
separate measures for; informational text, literary text, and/or mixed texts
Easability Indicator (Coh Metrics) - (newer textual metric device) Analyzes the ease or difficulty of texts based
on five different dimensions: narrativity, syntactic simplicity, word concreteness, referential cohesion, and
deep cohesion
5. 5
Comparison – each of these approaches does an analysis of text and produces a “score” – for example at a
grade 6-8 Common Core Band:
Atos – 7.0-9.8, DRP 57-67, Flesch-Kincaid 6.51-10.34, Lexile 925-1185, Reading Maturity 7.04-9.57, or
TEXTEvaluator 4.11-10.60
A non-linguist layperson’s conclusion is that there is value in any of the evidence that any of the methods in
that if displayed or related to title data, it can help target collections. Given multiple choices, I’m guessing
we’d all like a Consumer Reports like rating [skip to next slide – Textual Analysis Resource Evaluation]
No approach performed better in relation to student outcomes – there are variances within the approaches,
yet all climb reliably, though differently, up a text complexity ladder to college and career readiness.
So what can we conclude about these various textual analysis and leveling approaches? [Skip to 6 visually
impaired males and the elephant]
Even after a high level brief overview of the various textual analysis programs, this illustration of Six Visually
Impaired Males and the Pachyderm (in the spirit of political correctness) and perhaps, depending on our
position in the industry, we may feel that we only understand a piece of the complex animal that is readership
leveling, and the associated metadata in support of the Common Core.
6. 6
We are, however, not as bad off and, we’re closer to the state depicted in the caption to this picture “…each
presenting a perspective that helps us better understand the animal…” [Skip to next slide Progress]
Many publishers are working to provide accurate and consistent leveling of titles, and some submit their
works to one or more of the noted textual analysis processes.
Booksellers are packaging quality collections of titles from publishers, and others are controlling quality
metadata that depicts leveling, and other descriptive attributes, to provide a means by which to query
databases, produce lists for librarians, teachers, and consumers, and also display this information so that one
can easily identify and select appropriate titles.
Last there are groups representing the various parts of our industry working to accommodate and augment
data that supports the Common Core within industry standards [skip to the first TS360 slide]
In order to display the robust metadata that is available in Title Source 360, I have to split the screen into two
slides, the first shows basic bibliographic information, some business information, and subject descriptions –
note the audience level here; it is in this position we are controlling publisher supplied evaluations, or those
made by B&T bibliographers [skip to second TS 360 slide]
7. 7
Here is the point at which we’re textual analysis information that we receive from 3rd
party sources – Lexile,
Accelerated Reader, and, Scholastic reading counts. Not only is this displayed, but it is indexed for searching,
or, profiling carts/lists for our customers. We also focus on other robust data including multiple BISAC
subjects, subjects from MARC data, so that we can identify (or customers can identify) not only an appropriate
level of material, but also identify appropriate topical and thematic treatments. Further we relate our
citations to author biographies, publisher supplied annotations, and full text reviews from most of the major
review media.
[Skip to next slide Industry Efforts]
BISG has a Common core working group and on or about now they’re in the process of making
recommendations for packaging relevant information in the industry standard envelope for data transmission
Skip to [Conclusion Slide}
Conclusion
Metadata, and especially rational consistent leveling metadata is essential to help our customers identify,
select and purchase titles in relation to their Common Core needs.
8. 8
Publishers and Booksellers need to accommodate enhancement of metadata to provide effective common
core support and make it easier for customers to select supporting titles. It must also be recognized that there
is an effort and expense associated the robust data management.
Industry standards are evolving, and customers are likely to benefit from this evolution
The summary benefit of the investments we have to make in publishing, book selling, and associated
enterprises, is that we will be able to ease the burden on our customers and be able to promote titles with
integrity in relation to the particular goals and objectives of those implementing and supporting the Common
Core