Taxodiary – metadata

Clouds – Defining the Nebulous

By Melody Smith|October 27th, 2010|metadata, News|Comments Off on Clouds – Defining the Nebulous

One of the latest buzzwords in our industry is “cloud”. Attached to computing, services, storage, etc., it seems to be the data link to the future. The concept of data cloud is simple. Find a way to link all the data islands under application silos. Therefore you need to have access to metadata and create graphs of relationships. One company, Radiant Logic, offers a set of tools to pull data and virtualize. At a high level, it’s liberating the information and making it available for the business users.

Enterprise Enabler 7.0 Released

By Melody Smith|October 22nd, 2010|metadata, News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Enterprise Enabler 7.0 Released

Enterprise Enabler 7.0 - Stone Bond Technologies’ metadata-driven agile integration platform - adds features to improve dashboards, BI, analytics and data sharing across various enterprise apps, including SharePoint, SAP, SalesForce.com and those that use DB2 and SQL.

Managing Change

By Melody Smith|October 22nd, 2010|metadata, News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Managing Change

MetaVis Technologies released a new software tool designed to manage and automate changes between SharePoint development, staging and production environments. MetaVis Change Control and Release Manager (CCRM)gives organizations more control over how they administer changes to their SharePoint environment to improve SharePoint visibility, governance and organization.

Loads of Errors in XBRL Tagging

By Melody Smith|October 21st, 2010|metadata, News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Loads of Errors in XBRL Tagging

Mistakes in tagging financial reports in the eXtensible Business Reporting Lanaguge has exceeded 18,800 in two years. Is this bad? Better than expected?

Quest Previews Recovery Manager At SharePoint Conference

By Melody Smith|October 21st, 2010|metadata, News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Quest Previews Recovery Manager At SharePoint Conference

Quest Software, Inc. will preview in live demonstrations, an advanced version of Quest Recovery Manager for SharePoint, complete with disaster recovery at the SharePoint Technology Conference through Oct. 22.

It’s All Semantics

By Melody Smith|October 20th, 2010|metadata, News, ontology, semantic, Taxonomy|Comments Off on It’s All Semantics

Mondeca, provider of semantic technologies, is launching two software products that improve the way enterprises manage content annotation and rich knowledge structures, such as ontologies, thesauri, taxonomies, terminologies, metadata repositories, knowledge bases, and Linked Open Data. Whew, that was a mouthful.

The Clouds Have Become Autonomous

By Melody Smith|October 18th, 2010|metadata, News, storage|Comments Off on The Clouds Have Become Autonomous

Autonomy Corp. has announced that its private cloud computing platform has reached a new data processing milestone of 17 Petabytes of e-mail, multimedia data, and documents stored on 6,500 servers on 8 data centers spread around the world. For the record, one Petabyte is equal to 1,024 Terabytes. Petabytes are used solely to measure the storage space of multiple hard drives.

EBSCO Enables Psychological Association to Be Searchable

By Melody Smith|October 18th, 2010|metadata, News, Uncategorized|Comments Off on EBSCO Enables Psychological Association to Be Searchable

EBSCO Publishing and the American Psychological Association (APA) will bring metadata, including full-text searching, for three APA resources to the EDS Base Index allowing the rich APA content to better impact searching through the EDS single search interface.

What to do with all this data?

By Melody Smith|October 15th, 2010|Business Intelligence, Business strategy, indexing, metadata, News|Comments Off on What to do with all this data?

Large institutions have massive amounts of data in this modern age, the question is what to do with all of it. Extracting the right information can help avoid waste, delays, systems failures, even terrorist threats. A perfect example is Toyota’s customer support and repair data. If business intelligence had been applied and management had been looking, they would have noticed that something was going terribly wrong.

Publishers Adapting to a Faster Audience

By Melody Smith|October 12th, 2010|indexing, metadata, News, Technology|Comments Off on Publishers Adapting to a Faster Audience

Things have been changing in the global publishing industry. Some are obvious, but many of the underlying trends are more subtle and relate to the changing audience and their behaviors, i.e. usage patterns. This is referred to as "Audience 2.0." Publishers are looking for ways to react to the current changes in the media industry and position themselves as long-term survivors and leaders.