Posts by Melody Smith
Semantics and Search
Expert System recently announced that ANSA has chosen the Cogito semantic technology to improve access in its ANSAFoto image database. The world of news and publishing have both grown more and more dependent on technologies that enable filtering to access only the content you are looking for, along with real-time sharing, both quickly and easily.
Read MoreThe Evolution of Search
Like many other segments of business, marketing technology is evolving faster than one could have predicted. Part of that evolution is targeting audiences beyond just age and demographics, but tightening the focus to the people who are truly most likely to make a purchase, at a time when they are most likely to make a purchase of whatever wares we are peddling.
Read MoreThe Fear in Migration
ZL Technologies has expanded its ingestion capabilities to include native migration directly from Symantec EnterpriseVault into the ZL Unified Archive. This approach differs from that of other vendors who must perform migration in several tedious phases by converting data to standard file formats, then importing into the new environment.
Read MoreSemantic Fingerprinting for Name Disambiguation
Many institutions and organizations – notably (but not limited to) publishers – have large, or sometimes very very large, lists of names. These names are from member directories, employees and staff, clients and customers, marketing, development, and many other sources; indeed, oftentimes the lists from various departments in the same organization are not connected or resolved with one another in any way.
Read MoreSemantic Marketing
Parta Dialogue has announced their acquisition of Sense Fab SAS, which has been doing business as MyTwatch. This e-intelligence and social marketing technology company addition will enhance their efforts to support brands’ entire social marketing cycle.
Read MoreThe White Stuff
For most of us snow is a 4-letter word. Winter has lasted longer and been meaner this year than the decade prior. We are all yearning for spring to arrive and personally, I will hurt the first person who complains that they are hot. But seriously, you can’t be surprised that I found a taxonomy of snow. It was inevitable.
Read MoreCapturing the Past
Infolinx System Solutions is implementing Infolinx WEB for a state library and archives managing physical records from cradle to grave.
Read MoreGetty Art and Architecture Thesaurus Available as Linked Open Data
The venerable Getty Art and Architecture Thesaurus (AAT) has just been released in a Linked Open Data format. The Getty AAT was developed starting in the late 1970s for the art library and art journal indexing community. Since then it has undergone periodic revisions, and is well regarded in the controlled vocabulary community.
Read MoreMetadata Can Be Exciting
Recordkeeping may be seen as boring and mundane, to most. However, metadata has changed that, at least slightly. While most recordkeeping systems do have similarities, a record is not defined by where it gets stored, but by what it represents.
Read MoreThe Devil is in the Details
Implementing a digital asset management (DAM) system can be challenging. Many factors pose hurdles of varying degrees: asset ingestion, building the database, relevant and descriptive metadata, to name a few. It is key to make the assets descriptive enough to make them worth the time to search and find them.
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