Posts by Melody Smith
Indexing History, Capturing Time
Historic audio and video footage is undergoing cataloguing and indexing as it gets closer to being fully integrated into the Visual History Archive. J. Michael Hagopian’s collection of 400 interviews of Armenian Genocide survivors and witnesses was handed over to the USC Shoah Foundation from the Armenian Film Foundation in an effort to preserve and integrate the collection.
Read MoreData Everywhere
We talk a lot about big data. It is important, but what about smart data? Adding more data isn’t the solution to all problems. Getting value from data comes down to how easily you can do something with it.
Read MoreAccess Innovations, Inc. Announces Release of the Semantic Fingerprinting Web Service Extension for Data Harmony Version 3.9
Access Innovations, Inc. announces the Semantic Fingerprinting Web service extension as part of their Data Harmony Version 3.9 release. Semantic Fingerprinting is a managed Web service offered to scholarly publishers to disambiguate author names and affiliations by leveraging semantic metadata within an existing publishing pipeline.
Read MoreNIOSH’s Office of Mine Safety and Health Research Implements Taxonomy-based Navigation
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health’s (NIOSH) Office of Mine Safety and Health Research (OMSHR) has implemented a taxonomy-based navigation tool on their website — called “Site Browser” — that allows researchers and other users to browse content tagged with subject terms from their taxonomy.
Read MoreInformation Architect Position Available
We are always excited to share with our readers career opportunities in the world of taxonomy, metadata, and semantic technology. Even if you aren’t in the market for a career move, it is good to stay on top of what is available and how the fields are changing.
Read MoreNew Release Using Semantic Technology
Ontology Systems has announced the launch of Intelligent 360 for Network Operators (i360-NetOps). This new product helps organizations to carry out network troubleshooting, handle their change management and other service enhancing processes.
Read MorePatent Addressing Metadata and Intelligence
NetScout Systems has been awarded a patent on its Adaptive Session Intelligence (ASI) technology by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Read MoreAccess to Information is Key
While the National Trust’s work in this regard has been invaluable, one specific group has fallen short of being “open to everyone” – the books that are housed in their libraries.
Read MoreGet the Full Picture
It is like half of an encyclopedia. If more people, businesses, writers, users, etc. are posting content to social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc., why isn’t Google indexing this information?
Read MorePutting Human Intelligence To Work To Enhance the Value of Information Assets
Semantic enhancement extends beyond journal article indexing, though the ability of users to easily find all the relevant articles (your assets) when searching still remains the central purpose. Now, in addition to articles, semantic “fingerprinting” is used for identifying and clustering ancillary published resources, media, events, authors, members or subscribers, and industry experts. The system…
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