Making Content Findable
Elsevier recently introduced its Chemical Resistance Database: Plastics and Elastomers. It characterizes the effect of thousands of reagents, the environment, and other exposure media. This […]
Making Connections
By Melody Smith|December 10th, 2015|metadata, News, reference|Comments Off on Making Connections
Altmetric recently released a new functionality enabling users to search the entire Altmetric database, which contains attention data for over 4 million research outputs. […]
Machine Learning and Data
By Melody Smith|December 8th, 2015|metadata, News, semantic|Comments Off on Machine Learning and Data
Data storage is not a new subject. Granted before today’s massive data issues, organizations primarily stored their data in relational databases and mostly onsite. The […]
Semantic Technology and Data
By Melody Smith|December 4th, 2015|metadata, News, semantic|Comments Off on Semantic Technology and Data
The amount and level of unstructured data available to any organization today is an important source of intelligence. The term big data is thrown […]
The Value of Metadata
By Melody Smith|December 3rd, 2015|metadata, News|Comments Off on The Value of Metadata
Metadata gets a lot of bad press. Between security breaches, snooping, and identity theft, it is no wonder this very valuable tool doesn’t get […]
Make or Buy?
By Melody Smith|December 2nd, 2015|metadata, News|Comments Off on Make or Buy?
Homemade is often seen as better. It certainly applies to cakes, meatloaf and bread. Notice the baking theme there? But does it apply to […]
Creative Storage Efforts
By Melody Smith|December 1st, 2015|metadata, News, storage|Comments Off on Creative Storage Efforts
The growth of data has taken many by surprise and has impacted how we manage and govern data. We have been seeing new trends […]
Improving the Delivery
Amazon Web Services has launched a service to help customers build applications to connect devices through the cloud, the so-called “Internet of Things”. This interesting […]
Future Collections and Search
By Melody Smith|November 24th, 2015|indexing, metadata, News, search|Comments Off on Future Collections and Search
The future holds many secrets. As humans, we spend an inordinate amount of time pondering and wondering what it will mean to us. It […]