By Melody Smith|April 10th, 2014|indexing, metadata, News|Comments Off on Embracing Knowledge Management
KM Institute (KMI) just offered its first Certified Knowledge Specialist (CKS) 4-day class this week in Reston, VA. Why are we talking about something that has already happened? The CKS is a new Certification by KMI designed to take a deeper focus a specific knowledge management-related topic. In this case, the focus was on Taxonomy and Search Solutions.
By Melody Smith|March 28th, 2014|metadata, News, storage|Comments Off on The Potential in the Clouds
2013 was all about the clouds – making the most of storage and sharing, searching and finding, access and metadata trails. Metadata rose to the top of any most talked about word cloud due to Edward Snowden and the NSA. Metadata is all the information that surrounds a file, including the filename, when it was uploaded, who it was shared with, and when it was accessed. The NSA’s metadata collection program proves that such information can be extremely valuable.
By Melody Smith|March 26th, 2014|Access Insights, indexing, metadata, News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Records Management in the Court System
Of course records play a vital role in the litigation process as any records management professional would affirm. But what exactly is their role?
By Melody Smith|March 21st, 2014|metadata, News|Comments Off on Managing the Data
Managing massive amounts of information is not a foreign challenge for any area of business. We have often talked about it from the information technology perspective, but when you narrow it down to specific fields of interests, like insurance providers, the history of dealing with data in that field may prove to be the bigger challenge.
By Melody Smith|March 19th, 2014|metadata, News, semantic|Comments Off on Paving the Way for Better Banking
One scientist sees the technology of semantics as a solution to better understand and manage big-bank risk profiles. Using the compilation of data by the semantic models, banking professionals will be able to better prepare for regulatory issues and internal risk calculations.
By Melody Smith|March 17th, 2014|Access Insights, Featured, indexing, metadata|Comments Off on Release of Data Harmony® Software Version 3.9 Planned for March 31, 2014
Data Harmony, a division of Access Innovations, Inc., has announced that version 3.9 of its suite of software tools will be released on March 31, 2014. Current customers will be the first to receive the new version. “Our recent enhancements provide greater search efficiency while browsing your thesaurus through callouts and hyperlinks to related and narrower terms,” said Allex Lyons, one of the Data Harmony programming team. “Dropdown menus in the search window display subject terms with a type head (autocomplete) function that assists users of any skill or experience level.”
By Melody Smith|March 14th, 2014|metadata, News, semantic|Comments Off on Better is Better, Right?
A research collaboration is underway between the ICT giant Fujitsu and the Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI) at NUI Galway. It could very well change the way we look at linked data.
By Melody Smith|March 12th, 2014|metadata, News|Comments Off on Webinar Addresses Migration
Concept Searching and Portal Solutions are sponsoring the joint webinar "Climbing the Slippery Slope of SharePoint Migration", on Tuesday, March 25th at 11:30 – 12:30 EST. This interesting webinar addresses the cloud growth and Office 365, as well as migration projects that have a different level of complexity and add to the existing challenges.
By Melody Smith|March 11th, 2014|metadata, News|Comments Off on The Fear in Migration
ZL Technologies has expanded its ingestion capabilities to include native migration directly from Symantec EnterpriseVault into the ZL Unified Archive. This approach differs from that of other vendors who must perform migration in several tedious phases by converting data to standard file formats, then importing into the new environment.
By Melody Smith|March 10th, 2014|Access Insights, Featured, metadata, semantic, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Semantic Fingerprinting for Name Disambiguation
Many institutions and organizations – notably (but not limited to) publishers – have large, or sometimes very very large, lists of names. These names are from member directories, employees and staff, clients and customers, marketing, development, and many other sources; indeed, oftentimes the lists from various departments in the same organization are not connected or resolved with one another in any way.