Digital photo magic: easy image retouching and restoration for librarians, archivists and teachers

Date06 November 2017
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1108/EL-08-2017-0170
Published date06 November 2017
Pages1270-1271
AuthorKay Samuels
Subject MatterInformation & knowledge management,Information & communications technology,Internet
challenging but, at the same time, one of the most fundamental aspects of the job. The chapter
also discusses the three major phases of text analytics categorization development projects and
describes the best practices within each phase. Chapter 8 takes into account social media
analysis and its variety of applications, content and approaches. Moreover, it examines the
requirements of doing advanced sentiment analysis and other development processes in this
eld. Chapter 9 reviews some of the projects undertaken in text analytics to provide more
tangible understanding of the abstract concepts presented in the previous chapters.
The fourth part, Text Analytics Applications, considers three main application areas of
text analytics, namely, enterprise search, apps and social media. Its chapters offer useful hints
about the very wide applications text analytics has found in each of the three broad areas
discussed.
The last part of the book, Enterprise Text Analytics as a Platform, suggests that the best
overall approach to text analytics could be one that will include an enterprise text analytics
platform that supports all the possible applications and not just a series of independent
applications. In so doing, it discusses different approaches to text analytics in Chapter 13 and
suggests that text analytics be considered as a semantic infrastructure that needs to be
regarded as strategic rather than tactical. In Chapter 14, the main features of enterprise text
analytics are described. The concept of semantic infrastructure is introduced as one that is
more important than the tactical infrastructure most organizations try to develop, as the former
will provide for the use of language or semantics in the organization by which means such
services as taxonomies and other communication models are made possible. Finally, the last
chapter examines the idea of a semantic infrastructure in more details, and it discusses how
developing such a foundation can bring more value to the organization.
All in all, the book is a must-read for anyone dealing with unstructured content who is
interested in adding value and power to their companies through using an ever-growing mass of
unstructured texts. Without any doubt, this book can give the insights into and provide practical
examples of the main functionalities of text analytics in an easy-to-grasp, accessible manner.
Behrooz Bayat
Islamic Azad University of Hamedan, Hamedan, Iran
Digital Photo Magic: Easy Image Retouching and Restoration for
Librarians, Archivists and Teachers
by Ernest Perez
Medford, NJ
Information Today
2016
186 p.
US$49.50
Soft cover
ISBN: 978-1-57387-513-4
Review DOI 10.1108/EL-08-2017-0170
Aimed at information professions, Digital Photo Magic suggests an alternative, free and
low-cost software for photo editing. The programs offered are for a Windows-based
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