Intentional Arrangement, From Digital Hellscape to Information Nirvana
A Talk by Jessica Talisman (Senior Information Architect, Adobe)
About this Talk
Humans have catalogued information for more than 3,000 years, a practice that has evolved as technology has advanced. The Library and Information Science discipline is responsible for building systems for organizing data, to serve our physical and digital knowledge domains. How have librarians sustained analog and digital repositories? Intentional arrangement.
With the current wave of artificial intelligence (AI), many organizations are struggling from poor data management. Welcome to the digital hellscape, rife with dirty data that is un-curated, unstructured, undefined and ambiguous. To emerge from this hellscape, look towards the librarians, who can show you the way. Controlled vocabularies, taxonomies, thesauri, ontologies and knowledge graphs have all emerged from the librarian’s toolbox. In kind, AI performance is optimized when trained on the same, intentionally arranged, structured data. Harmonious data ecosystems, optimized for human and machine, is our information nirvana and can be achieved with intentional arrangement.
About The Speakers
We’re a cloud tech company that provides organisations around the world with computing infrastructure and software to help them innovate, unlock efficiencies and become more effective. We also created the world’s first – and only – autonomous database to help organise and secure our customers’ data.
