By Melody Smith|March 17th, 2015|indexing, metadata, News, search|Comments Off on Finding the Lost
Technology continues to advance on a daily basis. What was wondrously new yesterday will seem archaic in just a few months. This “advancement” of technology has brought information to our fingertips at a faster speed than ever before and in unbelievable quantities.
By Melody Smith|March 16th, 2015|metadata, News, Standards|Comments Off on Protecting the Source
The Australian federal government’s data retention package is close to its end. If this particular bill is passed, many believe journalists and their sources will face an even more difficult reporting environment in Australia.
By Melody Smith|March 11th, 2015|metadata, News|Comments Off on Wasted Metadata
Mandatory metadata retention needs to go ahead, the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) told Senate Estimates recently, even though almost all of the collected data will never be accessed by law-enforcement or intelligence agencies. ASIO director-general Duncan Lewis said, "We will not, and never will, use the majority of this data, but unless the data set is complete, then it would be an incomplete exercise when we are going in on a lead.
By Melody Smith|March 9th, 2015|indexing, metadata, News|Comments Off on Taxonomy and Tagging in SharePoint Webinar
Another learning opportunity for corporate librarians or information architects or those working on creating a corporate taxonomy or a managed metadata project in SharePoint. This webinar is focused on those struggling with the challenge of tagging documents with relevant metadata in SharePoint or dealing with complaints about the difficulty in searching content and documents in SharePoint.
By Melody Smith|March 6th, 2015|metadata, News|Comments Off on Learn More About Big Data Solutions
Managing big data is a constant topic these days. There are varied solutions available to be sure your organization's data is safe, but accessible. There is an upcoming webinar that addresses data solutions offered by the National Federation of Advanced Information Service (NFAIS). It is titled, "Research Data Publication, Part I: Where We Are Now."
By Melody Smith|March 2nd, 2015|metadata, News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on The White Paper is Here
Back when Steve Martin rejoiced in his name being in print and predicting things will start happening to him now, the reference to white pages was much different. KM World recently released a white paper on big data and though it contains helpful information to tackling the challenge that comes with the data explosion, they didn't need to run through the streets declaring its arrival.
By Melody Smith|February 27th, 2015|metadata, News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on 2015 SBR Taxonomy Published
The Netherlands Standard Business Reporting (SBR) Program has published the first beta version (9.0.b.1) of the 2015 SBR Taxonomy 2015.
By Melody Smith|February 25th, 2015|indexing, metadata, News|Comments Off on Classifying Order
Standards are important for many reasons. Consistency creates quality and standards create consistency. Professional standards for archival descriptions involve a hierarchical structure. This ensures that users will find your archival database easy to navigate.
By Melody Smith|February 23rd, 2015|metadata, News|Comments Off on Better Analytics, Better Data
Cambridge Semantics and SPARQL City are collaborating to offer an integrated graph analytics solutions with semantic understanding to help enterprises get better understanding and value from big data.
By Melody Smith|February 20th, 2015|metadata, News|Comments Off on Metadata is Your Friend
Metadata has taken a serious blow. Despite the value it adds to findability and comprehensive search, the fear that “big brother” was listening in on every phone call you had with your mother made metadata a bad word