By Melody Smith|October 12th, 2010|indexing, metadata, News|Comments Off on Preventing Duplication of Content
Identifying on-site content duplication when you have thousands of pages on your site is not a walk in the park. It isn’t just copy you need to be concerned with, title elements and metatagging should be considered as well.
By Melody Smith|October 11th, 2010|metadata, News|Comments Off on Need High Rankings? Watch Your Use of Keywords
Meta tags have been around since the beginning of this thing we call the Internet. We all know how it works, write an article promoting a business, product, etc. and if the just right amount of keywords are sprinkled throughout, kaboom your page has a high ranking. The higher the better, but there is a fine line.
By Melody Smith|October 6th, 2010|metadata, News, semantic|Comments Off on Semantic Technology Gets Another User
Trying to filter and make sense of the real-time stream of data that comes from Twitter and other social networks, new start-up Tweetbeat offers something other services can’t - four years’ worth of semantic analysis and taxonomic structure.
By Melody Smith|October 5th, 2010|metadata, News|Comments Off on Managing Data – An ongoing process
Queplix Virtual Data Manager (QVDM) automates application and data integration and provides ongoing data harmonization while enabling a consistent view of customer, product, and financial data so that vital information remains accurate across software systems.
By Melody Smith|October 1st, 2010|metadata, News|Comments Off on Department of Defense Contracts Go To FGM
FGM receives contracts from the Department of Defense (DoD) to design, develop, and maintain the Net-Centric Enterprise Services (NCES) Service Discovery, Metadata Services, and Enterprise Service Management capabilities.
By Melody Smith|September 29th, 2010|metadata, News, Technology|1 Comment
LOD2 (Linked Open Data) is an EU co-funded project comprised of leading Linked Open Data technology researchers, companies, and service providers from across seven European countries. This 4-year collaborative research and development project is tasked with developing additional technology infrastructure and services that address new frontier challenges across government and industry.
By Melody Smith|September 29th, 2010|metadata, News|Comments Off on XBRL Adoption Is a Work in Progress
Despite efforts for industry to use Extensible Business Reporting Language (XRBL) to make financial data more transparent and more easily used, agency use of this software language has not been widely adopted. According to Danny Werfel, controller of the Office of Management and Budget, and director of the Office of Federal Financial Management, the use of XBRL in agency financials is a work in progress.
By Melody Smith|September 27th, 2010|Access Insights, Featured, metadata, Term lists|Comments Off on Stretching Taxonomy in a Social Way
We read with interest “A Revised Taxonomy of Social Networking Data.” In the last month, the arguments in the article have provided a framework for thinking about the amount of the information flowing through Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and other social media conduits.
By Melody Smith|September 24th, 2010|Autoindexing, metadata, News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Speedy Data Access
Solid-state storage drive maker STEC has introduced a new industrial-strength SSD aimed at enterprises deploying fast and/or continuous read/write workloads that include metadata logging, journaling and database indexing applications.
By Melody Smith|September 23rd, 2010|metadata, News|Comments Off on Collaboration with Metadata Editing is Working
The changes happening with how metadata is edited and enhanced continue to create collaboration opportunities. The change we are now seeing is that bibliographic data is being edited more in a wiki-style than in the ways it was in the past and therefore, a big increase in the collaborative editing of shared bibliographic records.