By Melody Smith|December 22nd, 2011|metadata, News, Technology|Comments Off on Big Data in Play
Research institutions participating in Australia and New Zealand's bid to host the Square Kilometre Array radio astronomy project are working with data management giants like IBM and Cisco to develop processing and data storage methods.
By Melody Smith|December 13th, 2011|indexing, metadata, News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on The Importance of Humans
Automation is one of the topics a Beyond Search writer has taken issue with recently. The involvement of humans with indexing and taxonomies seems to be a “for or against” issue. Few stand in the arena of neutrality.
By Melody Smith|December 8th, 2011|indexing, metadata, News|Comments Off on Google Books Has Metadata Problem
Two years ago, Google Books was called out for their poor indexing and search results by a Berkeley professor. Google Books' fumbling search facility was a real challenge for researchers. Though Google offered to correct any errors that were brought to its attention, the professor doesn’t feel it is any better. Doing his own research, he continues to come across errors similar to those he brought to their attention two years ago.
By Melody Smith|November 28th, 2011|metadata, News|Comments Off on How Do You Handle Big Data?
One of biggest shifts in the history of technology is the war over information, or big data. Unstructured data is at the center of all work, and play for that matter. But how do we handle it when it doesn’t fit into a typical database? Considering the whole industry is dependent on the rows and columns of the database, finding solutions requires out of the box thinking.
By Melody Smith|November 23rd, 2011|metadata, News, Standards|Comments Off on Standards for Dummies
Metadata is the data that describes data and this metadata map is called Seeing Standards: A Visualisation of the Metadata Universe. It demonstrates the large variety of standards, the communities they serve, their purpose, function and domain.
By Melody Smith|November 10th, 2011|metadata, News|Comments Off on The Security of Your Image Data
With the increased ownership and usage of mobile phones with cameras, images have become the new data. Almost as common as text based metadata, visual imagery are potentially valuable digital assets.
By Melody Smith|November 4th, 2011|metadata, News, Standards|Comments Off on Is The Library Of Congress’ Data Carrier Out Of Date?
The Working Group of the Future of Bibliographic Control wrote that the Library community’s data carrier, MARC, is “based on forty-year-old techniques for data management and is out of step with programming styles of today.” This interesting information comes from News & Announcements on the Library of Congress site in the post titled, “A Bibliographic Framework for the Digital Age.”
By Melody Smith|October 24th, 2011|metadata, News|Comments Off on Data About Data
The FutureGov 2011 award was given to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) for innovation and modernization. The AIHW’s METeOR Metadata Online Registry took the Information Management category, recognizing “excellence in the efficient capture, storage and distribution of citizen information”.
By Melody Smith|October 21st, 2011|metadata, News, Standards|Comments Off on Time for Standards
The National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS) has went on record saying the concept of metadata in electronic health records (EHR) is too new and unreliable to require tagging in EHRs in Stage 2.
By Melody Smith|October 19th, 2011|Business Intelligence, metadata, News|Comments Off on New Partnership Targets Findability
Jaspersoft BI Suite has combined their commercial open source data-to-dashboards solution with Red Hat's data virtualization technology. This new combination will offer a simple way to visualize data by integrating multiple data sources into a single entry point. This also makes analyzing much easier.