By Melody Smith|August 18th, 2014|metadata, News|Comments Off on Recognition of Research Contributions
Belated congratulations to the recipients of the 2014 Outstanding Research and Scholarship Awards from Kent State University. The recipients included an internationally recognized social geographer, a metadata expert and a leading researcher in the science of liquid crystals and nanomaterials.
By Melody Smith|August 15th, 2014|metadata, News|Comments Off on Sports Analysis in the Technology World
Sports and analytics go hand in hand. People are paid millions of dollars for the strategy that comes with data. The World Cup is no different. There are common denominators in the top teams and frequent flyers for those who consistently represent. Many people have tried to figure out how to wade through what is happening and create predictive tools for figuring out match outcomes.
By Melody Smith|August 15th, 2014|metadata, News|Comments Off on Keeping the Data Secure
BIO-key International has introduced a new technology that provides large-scale fingerprint matching speeds and outperforms previous fingerprint matching platforms in terms of speed.
By Melody Smith|August 14th, 2014|indexing, metadata, News|Comments Off on Consuming Data is Big Business
Informatica Corporation has been chosen by Forrester Research as a leader in The Forrester Wave™: Data Governance Tools, Q2 2014.
By Melody Smith|August 11th, 2014|Access Insights, Featured, metadata, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Taxonomy in the Pipeline, Part 1: Introduction
It can be tempting to look at a taxonomy and only see it in terms of the search results generated from it. That part of it is very important, no doubt, but taxonomies have far-reaching tendrils that extend deep into many industries, especially publishing. They work subtly and are often invisible to the end user, but the effects can be incredibly powerful.
By Melody Smith|August 11th, 2014|metadata, News|Comments Off on Useful Metadata
Metadata is everywhere, whether you are talking about photo files, telephone calls, or books. The fear of metadata is also everywhere. To simplify things, when we’re talking about books, it simply means all the information about your book that isn’t the story itself.
By Melody Smith|August 5th, 2014|metadata, News, Standards|Comments Off on Consistency for Consumers
Under pressure from online retailers, those in the real world are finding the battle to stay relevant tough. Many, but not all, have decided to do a hybrid e-Commerce option to their walk-in point of sale. For some, the learning curve of e-Commerce is a bigger challenge than they are prepared to take on.
By Melody Smith|August 5th, 2014|indexing, metadata, News|Comments Off on The Size of the Data is the Challenge
Federal agencies manage on average 209 million records, or approximately 8.4 billion records for the entire federal government.
By Melody Smith|August 4th, 2014|indexing, metadata, News|Comments Off on History Just Got Bigger
EBSCO has increased the number of databases that are included in its policy for metadata sharing and technology collaboration partnerships with discovery vendors. A new total of 179 EBSCO full-text databases, as well as all 74 EBSCO full-text historical digital archives and all 550,000+ EBSCO eBooks will be available.
By Melody Smith|August 1st, 2014|metadata, News|Comments Off on Looking Closer at Data
Not all data is the same. We know this to be true. Sometimes there is just more to meet the eye, even if it is simple differences. For example, there is structured data and unstructured data.