By Melody Smith|September 22nd, 2010|Business Intelligence, metadata, News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Finding Operational Business Intelligence in Unstructured Data
The unregulated growth of unstructured data has left many companies with terabytes of valuable business information locked inside obsolete data sitting idly by sucking up resources instead of providing revenue producing information. Digitiliti, Inc. finds the value of corporate data and transforms it into beneficial, contributing data.
By Melody Smith|September 20th, 2010|Access Insights, Featured, metadata, semantic, Standards, Taxonomy, Uncategorized|4 Comments
On a quest to reach the holy grail of the Semantic Web. What started as a straightforward and elegant model by Eric Miller as the Resource Description Framework (RDF) has become incredibly complicated. When I first came upon this model, in the early days of the Dublin Core standard discussions, it was a framework. That is, it was a self describing way to transmit an XML file. The RDF formed a wrapper around the XML by including the XML Schema (DTD) so that whoever received the file would know what the elements, attributes, allowed ranges, etc. were, and be able to use the data included without further hunting for file descriptions, translations of the fields (elements), how they related, etc. RDF has grown up and become embroiled in discussions of triples, Subject-Object-Predicate discussions, and its use as the basis for linked data and even the basis for the final real implementation of the Semantic Web.
By Melody Smith|September 17th, 2010|metadata, News|Comments Off on Seminar Asking Tough Questions About OpenURL and Standards
An upcoming webinar that might be of interest to our readers is the “It’s Only as Good as the Metadata: Improving OpenURL and Knowledgebase Quality” on October 13, 2010.
By Melody Smith|September 15th, 2010|metadata, News, search|Comments Off on University Students Graduate To EBSCO
Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana has announced that Ebsco Discovery Service will now power its library website.
By Melody Smith|September 15th, 2010|metadata, News|Comments Off on Front Porch Digital Partners With Digitalsmiths
Front Porch Digital and Digitalsmiths have combined VideoSense and MetaFrame metadata management and distribution into DIVApublish, the latest creation in the DIVASolutions family.
By Melody Smith|September 14th, 2010|Autoindexing, metadata, News|Comments Off on Radiant Coder Makes Appearance at IBC 2010
RadiantGrid Technologies will be featuring their RadiantCoder transcoding modules at IBC 2010.
By Melody Smith|September 13th, 2010|Access Insights, Featured, metadata, Taxonomy, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Using a ‘Collabulary’ to Create a Taxonomy
Libraries and librarians have been the gatekeepers to knowledge stores for more than 200 years. As their collections grew, they invented ways to easily find the information and knowledge they stored by creating classification systems and then subject headings to identify the concepts or topics represented in the items being stored. Every major language now has at least one classification system, and most countries have created and adopted classification and subject access systems, such as the Universal Decimal System (UDC) or Lenin’s outline of knowledge for Russia. In the United States, the use of the Dewey Decimal Classification system, Sears Subject Headings, and the Library of Congress Classification system is widespread.
By Melody Smith|September 9th, 2010|Business strategy, indexing, metadata, News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on NPR Starts Local Online Journalism Projects
Looking to find some longevity beyond radio based programming, NPR recently launched their Argo Network - just inside the project deadline.
By Melody Smith|September 6th, 2010|Access Insights, Autoindexing, Featured, indexing, metadata|2 Comments
There are two approaches to automatic metadata generation/extraction and within those, many variations. The first is statistical. Generally speaking, the types are Bayesian, vector, neural nets, automatic clustering, etc. These methods work off the principle that if in a big set of data two words occur together frequently then those words are related conceptually.
By Melody Smith|September 3rd, 2010|indexing, metadata, News|2 Comments
With the help of science software, searching for information online could become easier.