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The Value of Social Data
Social media is no longer just about entertainment or visiting with friends. Gone are the days (mostly) when employers blocked or discouraged social media activity, because they have seen where employee participation can increase the value of opinion and contribution. All employees, regardless of their title or role, become customer service agents. TechRepublic brought this interesting…
Read MoreRecords Management on a Grand Scale
Records management is a challenging job for any organization, regardless of its size and business. However, just imagine the government’s monumental task of managing records in its many, many different departments. Secretary of State John Kerry is asking the State Department to review its records management process and look for ways to improve and streamline…
Read MoreFighting Over Data
Wearable technology continues to grow in leaps and bounds. Whether wearable digital devices are monitoring your heart rate, your activity, or your actual location with GPS, this new trend is on its way to changing how we collect and analyze data. Of course, like all emerging technologies, it is rife with turf wars. This interesting information…
Read MoreSmart Data Reveals Value
Data’s future lies in just how smart it is. The properties of smart data are necessary for the massive quantities of big data and the variety of data types. For instance, unstructured data can have different needs for integration than structured. Smart data can handle that. This interesting news came to us from DATAVERSITY in their…
Read MoreGetting It Under Control
BooksoniX is all about getting your data under control. Sounds like a huge undertaking, but in the world of publishing, managing your web-based book list can be quite the challenge. Maybe you already utilize ONIX data but it doesn’t validate properly and gets rejected by the likes of Nielsen, Bowker, and Barnes & Noble? BooksoniX runs it through their…
Read MoreWatch Out for Karma
Karma is a free, open source data integration tool that makes it easier to convert data from a variety of formats into linked data. Appropriately, this information came from Open Source in their article, “Open source data integration with Karma.” Karma is a web-based tool that runs both the server and browser right on your machine.…
Read MoreBringing the Past to the Future
Going digital has many meanings, depending on the genre of data and on the type of business involved. For the Library of Congress, this is a pretty big deal. NPR brought this very interesting news to us in their article, “A Long Way From Wax Cylinders, Library Of Congress Slowly Joins The Digital Age.” The Library…
Read MoreThe Face of Metadata
The trials and tribulations of metadata continue. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has considered the question of whether the federal government may continue collecting metadata from nearly every phone call made, and has left the decision to Congress. This interesting information was found on Deseret News in their article, “Future of NSA’s ‘metadata’ collecting…
Read MoreWebinar on Digital Preservation
The PREMIS Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata is the international standard for metadata to support the preservation of digital objects and ensure their long-term usability. This is developed by an international team of experts and implemented in digital preservation projects around the world. Dublin Core is sponsoring a webinar to give a brief overview over why…
Read MoreThe Darker Side of Words
I am a word person. I think you know that about me already. I like origins of words, different meanings, and especially the emotions that are tied with particular words. Some interesting information along those lines recently came from Quartz in their article, “Dictionary.com’s newest words reveal our fascination with the internet’s dark side.” Dictionary.com…
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