Melody Smith

Metadata Has Limitless Potential

By Melody Smith | August 28, 2014

Concept Searching released an article, Don’t Enhance SharePoint – Transform it through Metadata, in KMWorld recently. In the article, they point out that metadata is the source of business challenges impacting search, records management, security, and text analytics, among others.

Protecting the Assets

By Melody Smith | August 27, 2014

Evolphin Software has launched the next generation of its enterprise-class software solution, Zoom 5.0, which was built from the ground up on Evolphin’s patent-pending RevDB (NoSQL) database architecture – optimized to handle massive structured and unstructured digital content.

Big Data as a Tool for Historians

By Melody Smith | August 26, 2014

Big data has accumulated quite the reputation. Many possibly exaggerated claims have been made about its potential. Nothing short of saving lives and the universe, of course. But can it rewrite history?

Using Data to the Maximum

By Melody Smith | August 26, 2014

A new partnership of the French IT services group Bull and search and analytics company Sinequa is positioned to provide an appliance based on Bull’s Bullion X86 server and Sinequa’s real-time Big Data search and analysis software platform.

Data Harmony® v.3.9 Named 2014 Trend-Setting Product by KMWorld

By Melody Smith | August 25, 2014

Access Innovations, Inc., the industry leader in data organization and innovator of the Data Harmony® software suite, is pleased to announce that KMWorld has selected Data Harmony 3.9 for their Trend-Setting Products list for 2014. “We enhance and enlarge the Data Harmony offerings every year. This year the suite has increased to 14 modules. It is…

Digging a Little Deeper

By Melody Smith | August 25, 2014

Semantic search combines natural language processing and computer technology to help people learn and share information quickly. How it is used and the different types of applications seems endless. After a car accident and subsequent coma ended up leaving one woman having to relearn how to do everything, she saw a need and built a semantic search company to discover the not-so-obvious information.

What Else Can You Do With a Thesaurus?

By Melody Smith | August 22, 2014

Have an old dictionary lying around? If you follow in this girl’s footsteps you just might have a new wardrobe.

Embracing Semantic Technology

By Melody Smith | August 22, 2014

Cipher Systems has announced a new partnership with Semantic Research Inc. Together they will work together to integrate elements of SRI’s Semantica® software package and Cipher’s Knowledge.Works™ and Knowledge.Hub™ competitive intelligence software solutions.

A Taxonomy for Contributor Role Metadata

By Melody Smith | August 21, 2014

We’ve written before about how taxonomies can provide the material for metadata (especially subject matter terms) describing information resources. One taxonomy currently under development has the potential to standardize how authors and other contributors are described in a resource’s metadata. The development group is led by Amy Brand (VP Academic & Research Relations and VP North America for Digital Science) and Liz Allen (Head of Evaluation for the Wellcome Trust).