metadata
Metadata’s Role in Marketing
Marketing books these days is a totally different beast than just 20 years ago. What once was highly dependent on word of mouth recommendations, despite the large amount of money used on ad campaigns, is now a predominantly online discovery experience. The Scholarly Kitchen brought this interesting information to our attention in their article, “Enriching…
Read MoreVirtual Workshop on Research in Scholarly Publishing
The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) is offering a virtual workshop titled, “Incorporating Research Objects in Scholarship” on December 12, 2017 at 1:00-3:45 p.m. (EST). Incorporating data sets, code, annotations, and pre-prints into the scholarly article improves the discoverability, reusability, and reproducibility of research. In this workshop you can learn what has been…
Read MoreData Governance Webinar
Data governance is key to an organization’s ability to ensure high quality data exists throughout the complete lifecycle. It is often referred to as the people, processes, and policies around data and information. Learn more about data governance in this free webinar titled, “Data Modeling, Data Governance & Data Quality.” The webinar is sponsored by alteryx and…
Read MoreCollaboration is Vital
Historically, information technology professionals made storage investment decisions based on only a few metrics – typically how fast data can be written to a storage media and how fast it can be read back when needed. Reliability and cost efficiency were also included. This interesting information came to us from Network World in their article, “Why…
Read MoreApplying Standards to Big Data
Data as assets can be complex. Government entities may find it challenging to account for the basics of data management, but it isn’t easy-peasy over in the public sector either. KM World brought this information to us in their article, “Lessons learned from big interoperability in government.” Locating relevant data via search, adjusting to new regulatory…
Read MoreMetadata Coordinator Needed Across the Pond
We want to be as helpful as possible to those looking to expand their career in the fields of taxonomy, semantic technology, ontology, etc.. To that end, we share career opportunities here to shine light on opportunities that our readers might find interest in. Even if you are not in the market for a career move, it is…
Read MoreClassification Improves Search Results
Metadata and art may not be bedfellows but they do have more in common than one would think. This interesting information came from Fast & Company in their article, “By Harnessing Data, Artsy Hopes To Democratize The Art World.” The digital Art Genome Project wanted to help collectors of all means better navigate the art market…
Read MoreOpen is Not Always Easy
Open data initiatives are becoming more commonplace. This idea that some data should be freely available to everyone to use and republish as they wish, without restrictions from copyright, patents or other mechanisms of control. This interesting information came to us from Vassar College’s student newspaper – Miscellany News – in their article, “Data accessibility trend…
Read MoreMetadata Management Growth
The enterprise metadata management market is undergoing a significant growth spurt and according to a recent report, that will like continue. Information Age brought this news to us in their article, “The growing enterprise metadata management market.” Some key factors in driving this enterprise management growth are identified as centralized management, increasing business data volume, operational…
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The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) is offering a unique learning opportunity on November 15th at the U.S. National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland. Managing Digital Research Objects in an Expanding Science Ecosystem will share information about digital research objects (DROs) – digital representations of data, publications, software, authors, etc. These include semantic approaches to assign and map…
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