A full understanding of your data assets is important both in underpinning day-to-day operations and in developing business strategy. This applies not only when you’re using external IT systems but also in your internal work […]
Earlier this month we were excited to announce the launch of our brand new Publisher Dashboard service, designed specifically for scholarly publishers to give sales, marketing and editorial teams instant and actionable insight to help […]
If you aren’t already aware of OrgRef, it’s an open dataset providing structured information about academic and research organizations worldwide. The team here at DataSalon built and launched it back in September 2014 as a […]
At the start of the New Year it’s always good to reflect on some of the successes, changes and developments of the previous year. At DataSalon, 2017 was a ‘busy one’ and we were pleased […]
Over the last 10 years, we’ve been working with scholarly publishers to help them clean, link and de-dupe their institutional customers to create unique records from the many different ways customers are recorded in their […]
When you hear the phrase ‘data quality’, you may immediately think of fixing errors, and obviously that’s a fundamental part of improving the quality of your data. But there’s much more to a comprehensive data […]
One of the issues we’ve come across in developing our new data quality tool is the sheer size of many of the data source tables. This makes a good method of filtering absolutely essential, both […]
A key part of the service we offer (through MasterVision) is helping publishers identify different versions of the same customer across various databases, and then joining those together into a single, unique record. This could mean untangling the […]
A big part of what publishers need to know about their customers is what content they are using or trying to access; and how much they are doing that. There are many reasons why you could […]
Over the past year, we’ve been doing a lot of research & development into the challenges publishers face in relation to data quality, and working with publishers to address their real-world data issues. The word […]
