By Melody Smith|August 30th, 2011|metadata, News|Comments Off on Metadata and the Lack of Clarity
You would think on a site as complex and interlinked as the Internet Movie Database, metadata would reign supreme. But it has never been given the respect it deserves. This may change after the International Broadcasting Convention 2011 (IBC2011) next month.
By Melody Smith|August 26th, 2011|metadata, News|Comments Off on Workshare Point Will Support SharePoint 2010
Workshare has announced support for SharePoint foundation 2010 in the next version of Workshare Point. As a Gold Certified Partner, the new version will allow users to connect to a SharePoint Online Server hosted by Microsoft, part of the cloud-based Microsoft's Office 365, delivering a seamless SharePoint user-experience.
By Melody Smith|August 24th, 2011|metadata, News|Comments Off on DDL Technology Released
PSIGEN Software has released its Data to Document Linking (DDL) technology, which creates a relationship between a single document and sets of data within SharePoint.
By Melody Smith|August 18th, 2011|metadata, News, storage|Comments Off on Big Data – What’s In It For Me?
There has been a lot of talk lately about big data and it can be confusing because everyone’s definition of big data differs. No one is comparing apples to apples or oranges to oranges. How do you define big data?
By Melody Smith|August 17th, 2011|metadata, News, storage|Comments Off on Hack-Free Clouds – Can it be?
Microsoft researchers have come up with a hack-free cloud storage that means if infiltrated would mean that both data and results would only be understandable with the user’s decryption key.
By Melody Smith|August 12th, 2011|indexing, metadata, News, reference|Comments Off on National Libraries Adopt New Cataloging Code
The three U.S. national libraries --- the Library of Congress (LC), the National Agricultural Library (NAL) and the National Library of Medicine (NLM) have announced that they will adopt, with certain conditions, the Resource Description and Access (RDA) cataloging code.
By Melody Smith|August 8th, 2011|metadata, News|Comments Off on Metalogix Gets Microsoft’s Nod
Metalogix Software has been working with Microsoft in providing content lifecycle management (CLM) solutions for Microsoft® SharePoint®, Exchange®, and legacy environments since 2001. In recognition of that solid work and service, Microsoft recently made Metalogix a member of Microsoft Partner Network with a Gold Independent Software Vendor/Software competency.
By Melody Smith|August 5th, 2011|metadata, News, search, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Faceted Search and Open Source
The optimal search experience seems to be the new trend. Faceted search is found in intranets and enterprise search applications, as well as other content-heavy sites. However, this takes a budget with enough power to sustain search applications to take you the whole journey. What are the other options?
By Melody Smith|August 5th, 2011|metadata, News, search|Comments Off on EBSCO Chosen by Okanagan College
EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) was chosen by Okanagan College in British Columbia, Canada as its discovery service. EDS was selected by the librarians for its simple search process, rich metadata and subject headings.
By Melody Smith|August 3rd, 2011|metadata, News, ontology|Comments Off on Attivio Addresses Extreme Data
Attivio announced new modules for its Active Intelligence Engine (AIE) that offer better support for big data.