Archiving Sound
The Macaulay Library at Cornell University is home to the world’s largest and oldest collection of nature recordings. Recently, they uploaded and made available their […]
The Value of a Taxonomy in Archiving
Archiving and storing historical records for the future is an admirable task. The North Vancouver Museum and Archives (NVMA) has been doing that since […]
Learning Opportunity about Sharing Data
The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) is offering a unique webinar titled, “Overcoming Challenges to Sharing Data.”
We were taught in kindergarten to […]
The Pitfalls of Big Data
What is a data swamp? Well, start with a data lake. It accepts any data, without oversight or governance. Without descriptive metadata and a […]
The Complexity of Knowledge Organization
If you didn’t make it to the Innovations in Knowledge Organisation (IKO) conference in Singapore last month, don’t worry. The conference materials and a post-conference […]
The Tightening of Data Security
By Melody Smith|July 24th, 2015|metadata, News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on The Tightening of Data Security
Security in technology and data is rapidly becoming a top priority, and rightly so. The massive hack of background check records at the Office of […]
Webinar on Content Management
A slightly different but familiar learning opportunity has been announced. Content management tends to get lost in the midst of new technology and analytics. […]
Metadata and Findability
By Melody Smith|July 15th, 2015|metadata, News|Comments Off on Metadata and Findability
When introduced, metadata was basic and easy. It was breadcrumbs that led you to the real data or file. Once you understood the right […]