By Melody Smith|July 31st, 2013|metadata, News|Comments Off on Everyday Metadata
Metadata, whistleblowers, and secrets, oh my. With all the chatter about NSA and Edward Snowden, people seem even more afraid that their phones are being tapped and emails read. Now personally, I think if someone was listening to my phone calls and reading my emails, they must be bored out of their living mind. Whatever your personal convictions are on the matter, it has certainly hijacked the stream of information around metadata - valuable metadata.
By Melody Smith|July 30th, 2013|metadata, News|Comments Off on New Partnership Works to Make Data Available
Elsevier and the Dryad Digital Repository have implemented two-way linking between their respective content. This means scientific and medical research datasets stored by Dryad for research articles published in 28 Elsevier journals can now be immediately accessed at Dryad from their online article on ScienceDirect and vice versa.
By Melody Smith|July 22nd, 2013|metadata, News, semantic|Comments Off on Where Will the Semantic Web Take Us?
Knowledge graphs are quickly becoming more common as the semantic web continues to be more relevant. Actually it is more of an increase in awareness of the semantic web, as it has always been relevant.
By Melody Smith|July 19th, 2013|metadata, News|Comments Off on The Value of Metadata
OCLC Research scientist, Brian Lavoie, and Richard Gartner from King's College London, have co-authored the second edition of Preservation Metadata. This edition focuses on new developments in preservation metadata made possible by the emergence of PREMIS as a de facto international standard.
By Melody Smith|July 18th, 2013|metadata, News|Comments Off on Protecting the Data
Backupify provides cloud-to-cloud backup and recovery solutions for Software as a Service (SaaS) applications. They are expanding their services to support backup for Salesforce.com metadata using Backupify for Salesforce.
By Melody Smith|July 17th, 2013|metadata, News|Comments Off on Standards and Collaboration
Colectica has released their latest enhancement to the data documentation software – Colectica 4.1. Their software is based on open standards metadata from the Data Documentation Initiative and builds on previous versions. This interesting news was brought to our attention on Digital Journal in their article, “Colectica Unveils New Version of Data Documentation Software Using Open Standards Metadata.”
By Melody Smith|July 12th, 2013|metadata, News, semantic|Comments Off on Semantic Technology and Integration
Ontology Systems have made available their latest semantic search platform that replaces data integration. Ontology 4 incorporates unstructured and structured application data. This allows organizations to search and link applications, databases, files and more.
By Melody Smith|July 10th, 2013|metadata, News|Comments Off on What is Metadata?
So much talk and news has been around metadata. It has practically become a four letter word. MIT’s Media Lab has developed a new tool - Immersion - to help individuals understand how much personal information their ‘metadata’ reveals about them.
By Melody Smith|July 9th, 2013|metadata, News|Comments Off on Weather Reporting, Virtually
The White House administration has launched a new online tool to educate and increase awareness into links between climate change and health. The interagency U.S. Global Change Research Program recently unveiled its Metadata Access Tool for Climate and Health (MATCH) platform. This interesting news was found on E2 Wire, The Hill’s Energy & Environment Blog in their post titled, “Obama officials roll out climate and health data tool.”
By Melody Smith|July 4th, 2013|metadata, News, search|Comments Off on Speed is a Luxury
When you are dealing with data measured in terabytes and petabytes, it is difficult to imagine how you manage such a volume. This size of data has its own ecosystem. Signal Online brought this interesting information our direction in their article, "Dealing with Big Data Takes an Ecosystem."