metadata
NASA Is Going to the Clouds
NASA used cloud services to capture and store images and metadata collected by the Mars Exploration Rover. Using the clouds to capture data from space doesn’t seem that far of a reach, pun totally intended. This vote of confidence by NASA does give credibility to the security and reliability of cloud computing.
Read MoreWhere To Store All This Data?
An estimated 1.8 zettabytes of digital data was created and copied in 2011. This daunting figure is equivalent to over 200 billion two-hour long high-definition movies. And because 75% of this data is created by individuals, that would be equivalent to every person in the United States tweeting three tweets per minute, non-stop, for 26,976 years.
Read MoreThe Importance of Metadata
In the world of metadata, versions are often confused for variations or even renditions. Versions apply to digital assets and their respective metadata. Without version control and history in digital asset management (DAM), errors during the editing process can turn into disasters. A version often involves a correction or an improvement by editing.
Read MoreAccess Innovations, Inc. Teams With American Institute of Physics to Semantically Enrich More Than 800,000 Scholarly Articles
Access Innovations, a leading firm in semantic enrichment, is working with the American Institute of Physics (AIP), one of the world’s largest physical science publishers, to semantically enrich AIP’s online full-text collection comprising more than 800,000 scholarly articles published in its academic journals since the 1930s.
Read MoreSharePoint and Search – A Working Pair
One author lifts up some tips on search using SharePoint based on her research. User friendly search results are absolutely in possible with SharePoint. Providing a better end-user search experience is often the major justification for migration.
Read MoreFinding Digital Content
Inergize Digital has announced that it has been working with The Associated Press to integrate story text and metadata from the AP ENPS newsroom system in the Inergize Web CMS.
Read MoreDatomic Free Edition Released
Metadata Partners has released Datomic Free Edition, which was designed to make Datomic easier to get, and use, for open source and small production deployments.
Read MoreSharegate Adds SharePoint
Sharegate has introduced a new tool to copy Exchange Public Folders to SharePoint. This new feature offers a drag-and-drop interface for migration of content to SharePoint with the complete metadata, authors, and timestamps.
Read MoreKeeping Data Secure
Affarei has recently launched its information privacy services to businesses. Their services include advanced technical solutions that prevent search engines from indexing certain types of information posted online. The information being collected remains consistent with the context of the transaction being completed and designs and institutes additional information privacy protections.
Read MoreManaging Data in Government
The federal government is not much different from other organizations as they are trying for even more efficiency and essentially, more productivity out of IT investments. This is a challenge in any organization, but when you consider the size of government agencies, the volume of data they create and store, and the existing systems that have to conform – it almost seems impossible. This is a perfect opportunity for data virtualization
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