By Melody Smith|October 13th, 2011|metadata, News, semantic|Comments Off on Metadata Makes Information More Useful
Storage technologies for the semantic web is a challenging but popular area in technology. Internet and cloud computing users are seeking data management in a time when data is big. In tests designed to find the best storage technologies for Web 3.0, Apache’s Hadoop database, HBase, out-performed MySQL Cluster.
By Melody Smith|October 4th, 2011|metadata, News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Making Magic at the SharePoint Conference
Magic Software is showcasing the iBOLT integration platform at the Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2011 this week. After launching in July, the application and integration platforms will be introduced to customers for the first time at this event. The ability to connect systems across the Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, Salesforce.com, and SAP ecosystems is the bit draw.
By Melody Smith|September 29th, 2011|metadata, News, Taxonomy|1 Comment
Intlock has released the CardioLog SharePoint Marketing Suite that enables a seamless integration with SharePoint. The end result is an accurate and insightful analytical information about SharePoint, based on SharePoint's hierarchy, taxonomy, content and user metadata.
By Melody Smith|September 28th, 2011|Business Intelligence, indexing, metadata, News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on The Case for Taxonomy
Search, social computing and metadata taxonomy all work to help your users find content as fast as possible and with ease. But this doesn’t just happen; it takes time and effort to make any enterprise content management system successful. This seems to be a problem for leadership to understand when it comes to dedicating time and resources. Unfortunately, the end costs could be far greater if they don’t plan appropriately.
By Melody Smith|September 27th, 2011|Autoindexing, indexing, metadata, News, Standards|Comments Off on Metadata Standards Rejected
The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) has rejected the idea of metadata standards. Saying they believe more work needs to be done to verify the standards before they are implemented, they practically scolded the Department of Health and Human Services over their plans to include metadata standards in Meaningful Use Stage 2.
By Melody Smith|September 23rd, 2011|indexing, metadata, News|Comments Off on MarkLogic Chosen by The Press Association
With data being created much faster than it can be indexed or archived, big data is overwhelming many organizations, most especially news organizations. MarkLogic Corporation has announced that the Press Association (PA), the UK's leading multimedia news agency and information provider, has selected MarkLogic as the central content store, metadata repository, and syndication engine for all of its unstructured information.
By Melody Smith|September 21st, 2011|metadata, News, search|Comments Off on Project Underway to Create Metadata Framework For Tagging Resources
The Learning Resource Metadata Initiative (LRMI) is a project to create a common vocabulary for describing learning resources on the Internet. The technical working group has been formed and includes representatives from experts in the fields of education, publishing, and metadata. Their goal is to create a metadata framework for tagging resources that is can be easily implemented, but rich enough to assign valuable attributes to educational content to make searching and filtering easier.
By Melody Smith|September 14th, 2011|metadata, News|Comments Off on LRMI Project Forms Working Group
The Learning Resource Metadata Initiative (LRMI) is a project creating a common vocabulary for describing learning resources on the Internet. They have recently announced the formation of their technical working group, which includes representatives from leading experts in the fields of education, publishing, and metadata.
By Melody Smith|September 13th, 2011|metadata, News, search, Taxonomy|Comments Off on New White Paper on Metadata Released
Widen Enterprises has teamed with JohnHorodyski to produce a new white paper titled, "A guide to the lifeblood of DAM: Key concepts and best practices for using metadata in digital asset management systems."
By Melody Smith|September 1st, 2011|metadata, News, storage|Comments Off on Big is Not So New
There has been lots of talk lately about big data and how we will handle it, as though it was a new problem. Given, data is being produced faster than ever before in history. However, in the retail world, transaction analysis and POS data is not new. The word we are looking for is diverse. It isn’t just numeric data anymore; it is text based and image based.