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Joining the Game
Machine Zone is known as a top-ranked mobile game company, but now it has launched a platform that lets other companies license its cloud technology that will enable many millions of people to communicate and interact in real time. This interesting information came to us from Venture Beat in their article, “Machine Zone launches cloud platform to process…
Read MoreArchiving History in the Making
It is always exciting (at least to me) to find interesting and unique uses of technology and digital archiving. This item certainly fits that definition. The Ukrainian Weekly brought this interesting story to our attention in their article, “Spiritual heritage documentation project identifies nearly 600 endangered churches.” In Edmonton, Alberta, the Sanctuary: the Spiritual Heritage Documentation Project has documented…
Read MoreMetadata’s Role
The word “metadata” has been spoken so many times in news reports over the past few years that it is surely now part of the collective public consciousness. But how well does the average American understand what metadata is and how it is used? This interesting question came to us from EdSurge in their article, “Making Sense of…
Read MoreEducational Opportunity on Dealing with Big Data
Sometimes great learning opportunities pass us by because it didn’t fit with our schedule to attend a seminar or even a webinar. This time you can attend anytime it is convenient for you. This free recorded webcast titled, “Data Transformation, Processing & Analytics” addresses the variety of data processing systems, and industry experts share their…
Read MoreUtilizing Metadata for Content Recognition
Metadata is useful for many things. We rely on properly applied metadata to search at the speed we need to find the data we seek. But metadata can serve other purposes as well, even trivia. Catch brought this interesting information to us in their article, “Remember a movie but not its name? This website will solve…
Read MoreSearching with Confidence
Search engine optimization (SEO) is possibly one of the most talked about subjects in the online marketing world. A huge aspect of this is tags. Whether it’s title tags, header tags, meta tags or blog post tags, they have proven to increase traffic and boost engagement. This information came from the Search Engine Journal in their article,…
Read MoreEmpowered Search
Ringgold recently announced that the 4.18 release of ScholarOne Manuscripts is now integrated in the Identify Database as an institutional authority file. Ringgold brought this news to our attention in their article, “ScholarOne Manuscripts now features Ringgold’s Identify Database for institutional affiliations.” A simple user interface enables ScholarOne’s robust application to enforce accuracy standards for the institutional…
Read MoreAccess Innovations, Inc. Works with ASCE to Launch New Civil Engineering Database
Access Innovations, Inc. is pleased to announce the completion of the Civil Engineering Database (CEDB) for the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). ASCE contracted Access Innovations in 2014 to begin transforming their corpus of civil engineering records from their existing relational database into an XML database. To do this, Access Innovations ingested nearly 250,000…
Read MoreNew Digital Resources Become Available
Gale is a leading provider of library resources and part of Cengage Learning. They recently announced the expansion and rebranding of their digital archive program. This interesting information came from Library Technology in their article, “Gale grows Digital Archive Program to better address research needs and further support digital humanities.” The new Gale Primary Sources program…
Read MoreSecurity on the Run
The investments made by businesses in information governance and security, and embracing three new data classifications could prove beneficial in 2016. As devices are used for increasingly complex processes, data becomes more vulnerable to loss. Tech Target brought this news to us in their article, “New data classifications vital to information governance and security.“ Information technology…
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