The What and Why of Metadata
The word metadata is thrown around everywhere these days. But does everyone really know what metadata is and how it is used?
University of Delaware Embracing Cloud-Based System
By Melody Smith|February 8th, 2012|metadata, News|Comments Off on University of Delaware Embracing Cloud-Based System
University of Delaware just announced that they have selected OCLC WorldShare Management Services as a Web-based cooperative library management system for metadata management, acquisitions, circulation, discovery, license management and workflow improvements.
The What and Why of Taxonomies
By Melody Smith|February 3rd, 2012|metadata, News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on The What and Why of Taxonomies
Stellar taxonomy management and the benefits it brings to the table was the topic of conversation at the recent KMWorld Taxonomy Bootcamp event in Washington D.C. Making searches simple and improving findability was the goal.
Data Analysis Competition Announces Winners
By Melody Smith|January 24th, 2012|metadata, News|Comments Off on Data Analysis Competition Announces Winners
The second Digging into Data Challenge competition announced the winners who promoted innovative humanities and social science research using large-scale data analysis. Fourteen teams representing Canada, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the United States were the recipients of grants to investigate how computational techniques can be applied to "big data" to change the nature of humanities and social sciences research.
SmartLogic Releases Semaphore 3.3
By Melody Smith|January 23rd, 2012|metadata, News, search|Comments Off on SmartLogic Releases Semaphore 3.3
Smartlogic has released their latest version of Semaphore. Version 3.3 offers enhanced enterprise search and organize enterprise metadata as they provide the capability for integration with SharePoint 2010.
Not All Data is Created Equal
There is a lot of talk about data, the massive volumes of it and the speed at which it is multiplying. In this particular case, healthcare data is under the limelight - mHealth in particular. It is important to remember that data includes metadata ontologies, semantics and metrics, as well as their standards.
Another Approach to Deal with Big Data
By Melody Smith|January 13th, 2012|metadata, News, ontology, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Another Approach to Deal with Big Data
Attivio has released Active Intelligence Engine (AIE) Extreme (XT) Modules for big data. Another product designed to provide customers with greater access and insight into the massive amounts of data produced by organizations.
Asset Description Metadata Schema Open for Public Comment
By Melody Smith|January 10th, 2012|metadata, News|Comments Off on Asset Description Metadata Schema Open for Public Comment
The European Commission’s ISA program has opened the public comment period for the Asset Description Metadata Schema (ADMS) until February 6, 2012.
Moving Data to SharePoint Just Got Easier
By Melody Smith|December 29th, 2011|metadata, News|Comments Off on Moving Data to SharePoint Just Got Easier
MetaVis Technologies has released a solution for migrating Google Apps to SharePoint or Office 365 - MetaVis Migrator for Google Apps. This new product allows users to migrate Google content to either a hosted or on-premise-based SharePoint solution while preserving metadata required for compliance and governance policies.
New Agreement Shares Content from Who’s Who
By Melody Smith|December 27th, 2011|indexing, metadata, News|Comments Off on New Agreement Shares Content from Who’s Who
EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) will soon contain content from Marquis Who’s Who. The new agreement will add metadata from the Marquis Who’s Who database into the Base Index of EDS and provide seamless access and full text searching for mutual customers.