Posts by Melody Smith
Good Intentions
Metadata’s reputation has been altered by scandal, and it may never be seen in the same light again. This is unfortunate, because metadata has many valuable traits, one of which is enabling comprehensive search results. Metadata includes information, valuable information, that many rely on for locating their data with speed and confidence. It was not intended…
Read MoreSemantic News
Journalism, printing, and news have been under fire for years and the constant threat of social media and digital keeps them hopping just to keep up. So what has the effect of the semantic web had on the art of journalism?
Read MoreBetter Together
FactSet Research Systems has acquired Revere Data. FactSet provides industry intelligence and analytics to help investment professionals perform. Revere provides data to enable capital market professionals to manage portfolio risk and make more informed investment decisions through unprecedented visibility into global companies. Revere has built an industry taxonomy that offers investors a way to classify companies and analyze how they fit in the global economy.
Read MoreHonoring the Standards and the Standards Makers
There is a National Ice Cream Day, a National Hopscotch Day, and a World Beard Day, so why shouldn’t there be a World Standards Day?
Read MoreThe Semantics of Search
Search has been morphing with regard to how you approach it, use it, and refer to it for some time now. Enter search engine optimization efforts and the focus or goal of search changed. Then came semantic search, which has changed the game even more. This interesting topic came from Forbes in their article, “Search Is Dead… Long Live Search!”
Read MoreThe Power of Google+
A recent study by Stone Temple Consulting on whether or not Google + shares alone can affect search engine rank. This seems a little precise for a study, but they took three websites and had two unique pages of applicable content published on each. One was a control page and one was a test page. Next , they had Google+ influencers share the page, as well as a handful of other participants who were instructed to only share the page, not visit or link to it in any other way.
Read MoreGrowing the Crowd
CrowdSource works with national clients such as BazaarVoice, Citysearch, Dictionary.com, and ToysRUs, so it shouldn’t be surprising that they have recently launched Transcribe.com, which adds audio and video transcription solutions to its list of managed crowdsourcing solutions. This interesting news was found on Digital Journal in their article, “CrowdSource Expands With Launch of Crowd-Powered Transcription Company.”
Read MoreWorking Together Can Enhance the Results
Pingar has strengthened its SharePoint solution portfolio with the release of the enhanced Pingar Metadata Extractor for SharePoint 2013. This allows enterprises to run bulk entity extraction seamlessly in the background, eliminating the need to train staff how to meta-tag documents.
Read MoreCapturing Catholic History
The Church of the Latter Day Saints are notorious for their genealogy, archiving, and indexing of familial and church history. Now the Catholic church is in the business of preserving history digitally, at least in one archdiocese. The new director of the archdiocesan Office of Archives and Records, Claire Galloway Jenkins, arrived recently at the Catholic Archdiocese of Atlanta, ready to get started.
Read MoreThe Zombies Are Coming
Halloween is approaching fast, and unlike most zombies, we here at Access Innovations wanted to be sure we are ready for the hordes of zombies bound to be knocking down our doors on October 31st. Are you ready? If you’re not, never fear. We created a very unique tool to help you keep your head (pun intended) during the zombie apocalypse: a zombie taxonomy.
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