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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?
Read MoreUniversity 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.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreData 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.
Read MoreSmartLogic 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.
Read MoreNot 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.
Read MoreAnother 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.
Read MoreAsset 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.
Read MoreMoving 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.
Read MoreNew 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.
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