Posts by Melody Smith
The Benefits of Metadata
Metadata is data about data. It really is that simple. When it comes to security, data can be your most valuable tool. For a network security, it has multiple uses, ranging from real-time incident detection to post-prevention forensic analysis. This interesting topic was found on the CSO blog in their post titled, “Making metadata meaningful for network security.”
Read MoreInformation Architecture Director Sought
We want to be as helpful as possible to those in the fields of taxonomy, indexing, ontology, etc., so we are excited to share career opportunities that we find with our readers. Even if you aren’t in the market for a career move, it is always good to stay on top of what is available.
Read MorePartnering in Semantic Technologies
A company known for their cloud and data management solutions based on semantic technologies, fluid Operations, and Stemmer, another firm that provides IT infrastructure, are collaborating in the area of IT transformation and innovation. What does this mean? They plan to offer their customers solutions to the problem of disparate data management in IT, and enable companies to integrate so they can take full advantage of cloud services.
Read MoreBe Strategic About Your Search
Search on a personal system or PC is just as important to the users as an enterprise search across mega data sources. When you need to find your information, the storage source is irrelevant.
Read MoreDesigning a Robust Records Management System
Infolinx System Solutions has implemented Infolinx WEB at Rutgers University, a leading national research university. The implementation of Infolinx WEB will provide the university’s records management office with tracking of over 100,000 boxes, as well as other files and media, in their new on-campus storage warehouse. This move in records management provides the staff at Rutgers with a tool commensurate with their knowledge and abilities.
Read MorePLOS Celebrates Milestone
Public Library of Science (PLOS) is celebrating the publication of its 100,000th article, an achievement that represents the efforts of authors, editors, reviewers and staff from more than 200 countries. This exciting news was found on the PLOS site in their post titled, “PLOS Celebrates Milestone.”
Read MoreSemantic Web Challenge Winners Announced
The winners of the 2013 Semantic Web Challenge (SWC) were announced at the 12th International Semantic Web Conference held in Sydney, Australia in late October. Determined by a jury of leading experts in computer semantics from both academia and industry, Elsevier sponsored the challenge and prizes.
Read MoreBig Data Drives New Glossary
A new glossary of terminology related to big data has been created. The authors state that it is an evolving list, and they invite contributions. This “wiki” glossary appears to be very comprehensive, with terms from aggregation to zettabytes.
Read MoreA Thousand Terms of Light
Last week, my co-workers and I were discussing points of knowledge. The phrase “a thousand terms of knowledge” popped up. It was apparently an off-the-cuff mingling of “a thousand points of light” with “points of knowledge” and with one of the topics of the moment, thesaurus terms. I couldn’t resist following up on the mixture, which has a precedent of sorts in an earlier TaxoDiary blog posting by Marjorie Hlava.
Read MorePinterest Using Metadata to Track Down Sources
If you are a Pinterest fan, then this might excite you more than most. As you then know, often there is a photo of some delectable dish or inventive craft that leads you to nowhere. It was an image only, no recipe, no instructions, no way to duplicate. This can be very frustrating as that is the entire point of Pinterest, and they know it. They are working to track down the source of a given photo by partnering with Getty Images and their substantial metadata collection.
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