By Melody Smith|February 17th, 2015|metadata, News|Comments Off on Expand Your Learning
The Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM) is offering two separate webinars in the coming weeks that can assist you in your professional development. AIIM conducts these webinars in partnership with leading industry analysts and consulting firms. There will also be a live Q&A during each event.
By Melody Smith|February 13th, 2015|metadata, News|Comments Off on Early Bird Discount Extended for Text Analytics World
Text Analytics World is meeting in San Francisco March 30-April 1. If you haven't already registered, remember that the conference covers a wide range of topics in two broad areas: Social Media (sentiment analysis, customer behavior prediction, and Voice of the Customer, etc.) and the latest Enterprise Text Analytics applications from enhancing enterprise search to such applications as e-Discovery, fraud detection, and myriad others.
By Melody Smith|February 11th, 2015|indexing, metadata, News|Comments Off on Visualizing History
In a series of papers studying the history of American innovation, Mikko Packalen at the University of Waterloo and Jay Bhattacharya of Stanford University, indexed every one-word, two-word, and three-word phrase that appeared in more than 4 million patent texts in the last 175 years. Why, you ask? They wanted to measure the significance of a new invention.
By Melody Smith|February 10th, 2015|metadata, News|Comments Off on Metadata at Home
Metadata and snail mail are working together. The United States Postal Service has reported that it approved nearly 50,000 requests last year from law enforcement agencies and its own internal inspection unit to secretly monitor the mail of Americans for use in criminal and national security investigations.
By Melody Smith|February 6th, 2015|metadata, News, Technology|Comments Off on Changes Continue
Many people stress over the changes that comes with technology. Advancements can mean training, additional budget requirements, and disruption to service. What few remember, however, is that as technology progresses, many items get less expensive.
By Melody Smith|February 5th, 2015|metadata, News|Comments Off on Solutions Abound
Data management and archiving are key factors for businesses, as you all know. However, because terms like backup, archiving, and records management get used interchangeably so frequently, it is easy to forget that they are not the same thing.
By Melody Smith|February 4th, 2015|metadata, News, search|Comments Off on Improving the Results
EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) and Innovative Interfaces (Innovative) have expanded their partnership designed to improve access to library resources. This will incorporate catalog functionality within the EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) experience.
By Melody Smith|January 30th, 2015|metadata, News|Comments Off on Lost and Found
Yet again, another report about data security breaches at retailers and banks. America’s largest bank, JPMorgan Chase, is one of the latest high-profile victims, and it is still reeling from this summer’s cyber attack that compromised 76 million household accounts. Law firms are not immune from this type of disaster. Recently a study reported that 15% of U.S. law firms experienced a security breach in 2012, either through hackers, a break-in, a web site exploit, or a lost or stolen computer or smartphone.
By Melody Smith|January 29th, 2015|metadata, News|Comments Off on Too Many Options
The variety and volume of information can be overwhelming. Because of that, it is becoming increasingly difficult to figure out where to find the information we want, and need.
By Melody Smith|January 20th, 2015|metadata, News|Comments Off on Digital Assets Becoming More Important
It’s that time of year when we look back and forward simultaneously. Looking back at what we have accomplished while looking forward with anticipation as to what opportunities and yes, challenges, the new year will bring to each of us and the industries we work in.