metadata
A Computer Orders Pizza and the Crowd Explodes
Semantic technology has come a long way, baby. This is illustrated in the recent announcement that Siri’s creators had successfully placed an order for pizza with voice commands. IT ProPortal brought this news to us in their article, “Metadata: How businesses can use it to its fullest.” Granted, pizza alone is worth a celebration, but in…
Read MoreData Modeling Learning Opportunity
DATAVERSITY is bringing another learning opportunity in the form of a webinar called, “Data Modeling and Shortcuts to Success in Scaling Time Series Applications.” The webinar is scheduled for September 29, 2016 at 2:00 p.m. EST. The webinar is sponsored by Basho and will be facilitated by Basho technologies and Databricks, creators of Apache Spark. Both…
Read MoreManaging Data Requires Flexibility
Flexibility in business is key to success. This is true for financial decisions as well as strategic. The ability to quickly adapt to fast-changing circumstances in order to achieve long-term success is often held back by traditional processes not designed for agile course adjustments. Inside Big Data brought this news to us in their article, “The CFO…
Read MoreThe Data on Data
Big data is a term that has been thrown around for a while now. And while data is indeed growing exponentially – 90% of the data that currently exists was created in just the last two years – big data is about more than volume. The Guardian brought this interesting information to our attention in their…
Read MoreMining for Meaning
Text mining is the analysis of data contained in natural language text. The application of text mining techniques to solve business problems is called text analytics. Text analytics have a broad description and set of responsibilities. It can add metadata to unstructured content, identify components, and convert information to structured form – to name a…
Read MoreMetadata’s Role in Big Data
The world seems focused on big data and the perceived power it has to accelerate business success. Ironically one of the biggest challenges in IT today is the underutilization of data. IOT Evolution World brought this information to us in their article, “Leveraging Metadata to Overcome the Challenges of Dark Data in the IoT Era.” Some refer…
Read MoreFinding Big Data
Big data has spawned a significant change for businesses. Creating an easily searchable database, whether it is onsite or cloud-based is part of a company’s success. When you consider that trillions of files of any size must be managed and protected without degradation in performance, it adds a humbling perspective. IT Pro Portal brought this news to our…
Read MoreDigital’s Role in Strategy
OpenText has been named a leader in digital asset management (DAM) for customer experience in a Forrester report that highlighted OpenText Media Management’s strengths around metadata, taxonomy and business process workflow. Yahoo Finance brought this news to us in their article, “New report names OpenText as a Leader in Digital Asset Management for Customer Experience.” The Forrester Wave…
Read MoreUsing Machine Learning in Content Discovery
Content discovery is evolving at a quick pace. This transition could result in content catalogs that are easier to navigate, content descriptions that are more accurate and valuable, search that is more granular and recommendations that are more useful. This interesting news came to us from Videonet in their article, “How metadata unlocks the future of…
Read MoreUnderstanding Your Data
Data understanding is the knowledge you have about data and the needs the data will satisfy. There is no tool or artifact for data understanding. It is expressed in business glossaries, data dictionaries, models and other forms of metadata or other places where information about the data is stored. CIO brought this news to us in…
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