Posts by Melody Smith
Consistency Equals Findability
Adaptive has released their web-based platform, Adaptive Business Glossary Manager (BGM), which provides a framework to help organizations define and communicate consistent business vocabulary and align glossary terms.
This platform is available in the Cloud or behind the firewall. It can substantially improve data governance and management while reducing exposure to compliance risk.
Read MoreChoose Your Partners Carefully
Law firms are always looking for a seamless and efficient process and/or product to manage their digital and physical records. The RM Suite has been designed with law firm information governance in mind. As documents and emails are saved to eDOCS DM, they are automatically categorized and electronically filed in RM using the appropriate Client/Matter File Plan and Retention Schedule. This interesting information was found on Heraldonline.com in their article, “Matrix Logic Announces Records Management Legal Solution Suite for OpenText eDOCS RM at ILTA 2013 Conference.”
Read MoreImproving the Find
A database is only as good as the data entered and the search tool being used to explore it. With that in mind, the Energy Department’s Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) has taken steps to improve their databases by releasing a reference tool that uses semantic search techniques. This interesting news was found on GCN.com’s blog, PULSE, in a post titled, “DOE rolls out semantic search for science research.”
Read MoreGetting the Most Out of Your Work
Temnos has released a new content intelligence platform that helps content creators get the most out of their content and user relationships. Temnos’ platform offers a scalable, integrated tool that recognizes, evaluates, extracts, and creates metadata and content to support an end-to-end content intelligence process. This interesting data was found on Geeks World in their article, “Temnos Launches Content Intelligence Platform, Appoints CEO and Secures Funding.”
Read MoreProviding a Smooth Integration
The challenge of managing information so that findability is possible with ease and speed is made more difficult with regulatory, legal and organizational requirements. In order to address records management requirements in a way that works for users and records managers, Alfresco has released its latest Records Management module (v2.1), along with the next version of Alfresco One (v4.2).
Read MoreTaxonomies to the Rescue
MEDLINE citations are manually indexed at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM), using as reference the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) controlled vocabulary. In the past, human indexers read the full text of the article to properly index. However, due to growth, the NLM is exploring automatic indexing options. 7th Space Interactive brought this topic to our attention in their article, “MeSH indexing based on automatically generated summaries.”
Read MoreThe Search War
Apple recently purchased Topsy, a social media analytics company. This move left some folks wondering why. For some, the answer was clear – search, old search to be exact. In a move to challenge Google’s reign as the premier search engine, Apple’s $200 million dollar purchase is intended to provide new levels of recommendations based on Topsy’s data. Don’t scoff at the price, there are billions of dollar in play when you are talking about the game of search.
Read MoreThe Ghosts of Concepts Future
As taxonomists, we have a responsibility to discern those future concepts, although they may still be invisible to most. We can save the various expressions of those concepts in search logs from being rejected from consideration for a vocabulary simply on account of their as yet infrequent appearance. In a taxonomy or thesaurus, we can provide labels that will consolidate the indexing for a concept whose researchers have not yet settled on a name. In some cases, especially with widely used vocabularies, we can perhaps determine the name by which a concept will be known on a standard basis.
Read MoreMapping the Stars
Floating around the Milky Way galaxy is the most recent space observatory launched by the European Space Agency (ESA). Gaia will monitor each of its target stars about 70 times over a period of five years – all unmanned.
Read MorePlanning for Findability
Records management now and in the future will have to be a priority if we want to effectively manage and find our data. Many use SharePoint to achieve this goal. Migrating data for implementation can be a challenge, but from a content management point of view, metadata is the key. CMS Wire brought this news to our attention in their article, “Metadata Solves Your SharePoint Content Management Problems.”
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