Patent Addressing Metadata and Intelligence
NetScout Systems has been awarded a patent on its Adaptive Session Intelligence (ASI) technology by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Access to Information is Key
By Melody Smith|May 28th, 2014|indexing, metadata, News, search|Comments Off on Access to Information is Key
While the National Trust’s work in this regard has been invaluable, one specific group has fallen short of being “open to everyone” – the books that are housed in their libraries.
Confetti City
By Melody Smith|May 16th, 2014|indexing, metadata, News|Comments Off on Confetti City
When you hear National Shredding Day do images of Wall Street scandals come to mind? Good, I am not alone. That is what I immediately thought of when I read about the first ever free shredding day in the UK. More than two tons of paper was shredded in Enfield Town in an effort to dispense of unwanted paperwork.
Taxonomy for Academic Publishers
By Melody Smith|May 13th, 2014|metadata, News, search, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Taxonomy for Academic Publishers
The School of Library and Information Science at San José State University (SJSU) is partnering with RedLink, a Silicon Valley startup, to develop a new taxonomy for academic publishers.
The Other Side of Metadata
By Melody Smith|May 12th, 2014|metadata, News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on The Other Side of Metadata
The first three days of public hearings on the latest revisions of the Telecommunications Act seemed to focus on the collection of telecommunications metadata without a warrant by government agencies. There were many questioning government intelligence and law enforcement agencies over their warrantless collection of telecommunications metadata under the current legislation.
Expanding Databases
By Melody Smith|May 7th, 2014|indexing, metadata, News|Comments Off on Expanding Databases
EBSCO Information Services recently released Communication Source as a resource for communication research. Communication Source was developed from a merger of EBSCO databases, Communication and Mass Media Complete and Communication Abstracts (formerly published by SAGE).
Thinking Outside the Data
By Melody Smith|May 2nd, 2014|indexing, metadata, News|Comments Off on Thinking Outside the Data
The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters has released a preview of ScholarOne Web Services, a holistic approach to integration that will enable publishers to discover connections between shared research and ultimately streamline the publishing process.
Data Harmony Release Contains Exciting New Features
By Melody Smith|April 30th, 2014|Access Insights, Autoindexing, indexing, metadata, News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Data Harmony Release Contains Exciting New Features
Last week Access Innovations released Data Harmony 3.9 and all week long we shared some of our own developers' favorite new features. It was nice to see KM World lift up some of the other great new features available in their article, "Content enrichment from Access Innovations."
Using Metadata to Revisit History
By Melody Smith|April 24th, 2014|Business Intelligence, metadata, News|Comments Off on Using Metadata to Revisit History
We shared an article here last year about using metadata to find Paul Revere. It was sort of "tongue in cheek" but a good example of how much power metadata possesses and the positive uses for it.
Genealogy Work Takes an Odd Turn
By Melody Smith|April 22nd, 2014|indexing, metadata, News, search|Comments Off on Genealogy Work Takes an Odd Turn
We all know that the Mormon church is famous for genealogy and the indexing process to maintain such informative and detailed records. This new approach to indexing is interesting, to say the least.