Taxonomy’s Third Wave
I’ve heard it mentioned several times recently that “Taxonomies are hot again,” which leads to a couple of questions, namely, What is causing this renewed popularity? and, Why did they ever stop being “hot?”
Metadata Cleaning a Top Priority for Users
By Melody Smith|December 24th, 2010|metadata, News|Comments Off on Metadata Cleaning a Top Priority for Users
Litéra has announced record customer adoption for its established Change-Pro, Innova and Metadact solutions.
New Features Include Machine Assisted Indexing
By Melody Smith|December 24th, 2010|Autoindexing, metadata, News|Comments Off on New Features Include Machine Assisted Indexing
MetaCommunications has released the free Brand Asset Management Solution for Virtual Ticket and Workgroups 2010 R2. The new solution provides for effectively managed brand-approved digital assets.
KnowledgeTree Tightens Its Focus
By Melody Smith|December 23rd, 2010|metadata, News|Comments Off on KnowledgeTree Tightens Its Focus
KnowledgeTree has tailored its online document management solution to particular business needs rather than a wide audience appeal.
How to Reduce Information Overload
By Melody Smith|December 22nd, 2010|metadata, News|Comments Off on How to Reduce Information Overload
The speed and diverse measures which organizations are using to reach stakeholders continues to evolve. Information integration and unified indexing are part of a trend to solve different information retrieval problems without causing a overload of information.
Librarians Find New Love in SaaS Proxy Solution
By Melody Smith|December 22nd, 2010|Autoindexing, metadata, News|Comments Off on Librarians Find New Love in SaaS Proxy Solution
Serials Solutions has made available the proxy service, 360 Access Control. It is the industry’s first Software as a Service (SaaS) proxy solution designed to help librarians streamline the management of their e-resource collections and improve patron access to those collections.
ONC Seeking Feedback on Recommendations
By Melody Smith|December 21st, 2010|metadata, News|Comments Off on ONC Seeking Feedback on Recommendations
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT has published a request for public comment on a recent report from the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology recommending an overhaul of how health information is exchanged.
Do our customers make buying decisions or purchasing decisions?
By Melody Smith|December 20th, 2010|Access Insights, Featured, metadata, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Do our customers make buying decisions or purchasing decisions?
One of the problems of information management, as represented by both Master Data Management and Metadata Registry efforts, is a confusion of terms. Have we always referred to "purchasing decisions" or has there been a shift in terms with the merger or the change in management or simply a cultural evolution so that now we're talking about "buying decisions".
MetaVis Wants To Keep Your Content Searchable
By Melody Smith|December 15th, 2010|indexing, metadata, News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on MetaVis Wants To Keep Your Content Searchable
MetaVis Technologies, Inc., announced that its SharePoint migration, metadata management and classification products support Microsoft Office 365 migration. With the MetaVis Suite, users will be able to design a SharePoint information architecture for Office 356 that leverages metadata management and taxonomy structures to keep content organized and searchable.
How Findable is Your Information?
The time which we spend looking for information is time taken away from other important tasks. Collecting information so that it is “findable” is beyond technology, beyond search; it is an understanding of how technology collects and indexes content to produce the right results.