The Size of the Data is the Challenge

August 5, 2014 / Melody Smith / Comments Off on The Size of the Data is the Challenge

Federal agencies manage on average 209 million records, or approximately 8.4 billion records for the entire federal government. This came from a MeriTalk article, “New Year’s Resolutions?.” That puts a whole different perspective on “big data”.

The Presidential Directive on Managing Government Records requires agencies to transition to electronic recordkeeping for all permanent records by 2019. This is a huge challenge for all involved.

How prepared are they for the data integration needed to reach this milestone? Comprehensive search will be critically important to ensure findability. Proper indexing against a strong standards-based taxonomy increases the findability of data. Access Innovations is one of a very small number of companies able to help its clients generate ANSI/ISO/W3C-compliant taxonomies.

Melody K. Smith

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Melody Smith

Melody K. Smith has provided organizational, social media and digital communication services to a large non-profit for the past twenty years. Prior to that she championed employee engagement and communications in the healthcare field. She holds a Bachelors degree in Marketing. When not wrangling and writing TaxoDiary content for your reading pleasure, Melody writes fiction, rescues dogs and throws legendary dinner parties.