A very common subscription model adopted by journal publishers is the bundling of titles together into packages/collections, often by subject or the age of the content. This provides libraries with economies of scale and access to […]
As a publisher you’re not alone in suffering data quality headaches – in fact any busy organization capturing large volumes of customer data is likely to experience similar issues. Without careful maintenance, inconsistencies and inaccuracies […]
The challenge of ‘mastering’ customer data has been troubling publishers for many years now. It comes in various different guises (‘CRM’, ‘single customer view’, ‘master data management’) but the essential aim is the same: to […]
Many of our clients have recently raised the issue of how hard it can be to ‘sell’ data quality within their organizations. And, as we once again consider that special evening of sequins, glitter and deep […]
Since launching the business back in 2006, it has been amazing to see MasterVision grow into an enterprise cloud platform, now used by over 20 of the world’s biggest scholarly publishers to clean & join over 1 billion […]
Recently we launched OrgRef: an open dataset of academic and research organizations which is free for anyone to use. It certainly takes a significant amount of effort to create and maintain it, so it might […]
Last month we were very proud to announce the launch of OrgRef – a completely free dataset sharing open data about the most important academic and research organizations worldwide. Reference data about organizations is important because it […]
It’s the summer holiday season – a time to get away, relax and forget about all those recurring data tasks you have lined up. If you have those jobs automated, you can happily switch off […]
One of the first steps on the path to data quality enlightenment is to audit the quality of your data. It’s useful to know the current state of play, to work out which data sources need your […]
Recently we’ve been working on a new tagline – one which sums up everything we strive to achieve at DataSalon, on behalf of the many publishers we work with. We’re now pleased to unveil the […]
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