metadata
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 database enables organizations to search for materials and substances properties data that includes information about both commercially available and “retired” plastics. The data is carefully curated from various sources, including commercial…
Read MoreMaking 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. This can be done by using an ORCID identification. Knowledge Speak brought this interesting information to us in their article, “Altmetric adds ORCID search functionality.” Now researchers, publishers, librarians and others can find…
Read MoreMachine 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 late 1980’s brought about different options and most of those were offsite. DATAVERSITY brought this information to us in their article, “Machine Learning is Democratizing Big Data.” Machine learning is now changing…
Read MoreSemantic 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 around a lot but at the end of the day it is the same data, just way more of it. DATAVERSITY brought this information to our attention in their article, “Using Semantic…
Read MoreThe 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 to show its positive attributes very easily. This interesting information came to our attention by Marketing Profs in their article, “Metadata Helps You Create Better Customer Experiences.” Customer service is a constantly…
Read MoreMake 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 homemade metadata management? It certainly has some limitations. Digital Book World brought this news to our attention in their article, “Homebrew Systems: How to Be More Efficient in Your Metadata.” These kinds of…
Read MoreCreative 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 like mobile computing, cloud storage, and social media, to name a few. DATAVERSITY brought this news to us in their article, “Smart Data Governance.” According to TopQuadrant co-founder, CMO, and VP of Professional…
Read MoreImproving 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 information came to us from Reuters in their article, “Amazon launches platform to build apps for ‘Internet of Things’.” The service is called AWS IoT and will allow factory floors, vehicles,…
Read MoreCategorizing the Sweets
When someone says Thanksgiving food, most people think turkey. But not everyone. For some, the end of the meal holds the greatest interest and treasures. Thus why this Dessert Taxonomy caught my eye on the blog, Bobulate. Whether it is the cookie classification or the pie category, the ooey gooey sweet treats that keeps the…
Read MoreFuture 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 will be different on many levels. What about libraries? They have seen and experienced so much change in the past few decades that one has to wonder what they will look like,…
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