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Making the Most of Your Smart Data
“Data is not smart in its own right; rather, it’s only smart if it drives smart decisions,” says James Kobielus, of IBM. He delivered this prophetic wisdom in the keynote address at the DATAVERSITY® Smart Data Online 2016 Conference recently. DATAVERSITY brought this news to our attention in their article, “Big Data and Smart Data: Big…
Read MoreSecuring Data
As the Internet of Things (IoT) becomes a reality, the number of data location points that could potentially be attacked by hackers is also rising at an alarming rate. DATAVERSITY brought this news to us in their article, “IoT and Internal Big Data Protection.” The predictions say that by 2020 there will be 9.7 billion connected devices, all of…
Read MoreMetadata in Advertising
The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) has introduced the industry’s first standard for dynamic digital advertising. This interesting information came to us from Ad Exchanger in their article, “The IAB’s Dynamic Ad Standard Will Bridge The Divide Between Data And Creativity.” The IAB Dynamic Content Ad Standard provides a detailed schema for how constituents across the digital ad…
Read MoreNavigating Libraries Shouldn’t Be This Hard
In December of 2015 I took a break from business meetings and conferences and went over to visit the King’s Library at the British Museum. I had not been there in a while, but I knew that the 60,000 book collection of King George III was moved there in 1823. It is in a beautiful…
Read MoreWebinar Addresses Data Governance
DATAVERSITY brought a new webinar to our attention. The “Initiating a Customer MDM/Data Governance Program” is scheduled for November 1, 2016 at 2:00 p.m. EDT. The webinar will present a case study to uncover the drivers, challenges and benefits of mastering customer data and detail how a customer data discovery pilot using erwin modeling can underpin…
Read MoreNew Concept for Search
Concept Searching recently announced the availability of conceptClassifier for Hybrid Search. This particular utility can auto-classify content in both SharePoint Online and SharePoint on-premises when it is being indexed by Microsoft Online Search. Benzinga brought this news to our attention in their article, “Concept Searching Announces Hybrid Search Capabilities.” The resulting metadata is stored directly in the Microsoft Search…
Read MoreData is Our Magic 8 Ball
If we were able to predict the future, there would be no need for gambling and Las Vegas would turn into the shiniest senior citizen city in the west. Unfortunately the world we live in has many variables. DATAVERSITY brought this information to us in their article, “The Road to Prediction: Using Unstructured Data.” Collecting information from the…
Read MoreDocument Management Systems Have Important Roles
Document management systems (DMS) are designed to do more than just manage files and media assets. They can also play an active role in the regulatory system that is part of all office workflows. This interesting information came to us from CMS Critic in their article, “4 Ways a Document Management System Simplifies Compliance.” Many DMS share a…
Read MoreData Professional Position Available
To be as helpful as possible to those in the fields of taxonomy, indexing, digital archiving, etc., we are sharing with our readers any career opportunities that we find. Even if you are not in the market for a career move, it is always good to stay on top of what is available and how the…
Read MoreChallenges of Securing Data
Metadata continues to accumulate at an unfathomable rate. Every digital transaction – conversation, purchase, or data transfer – adds to the pile. Techcrunch brought this news to us in their article, “Digital toxic waste (or why metadata shouldn’t live forever).” We have been led to believe that metadata is nothing to worry about. It is only the content that adds up.…
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