SkyRiver Chosen By UofC Law Library
SkyRiver has been chosen by the University of California Davis Mabie Law Library, in Emeryville, CA for its cataloging services.
Time for the Music Ontology
By Melody Smith|August 1st, 2011|Access Insights, Featured, metadata, ontology|1 Comment
At this time in history, there’s so much music to describe. There have been so many compositions, so many recordings, and so many performances. How can we sort through it all? There are music databases that the public can contribute to, but how can we make the data consistent enough to be searchable?
Archiving Digital Requires Standards
By Melody Smith|July 29th, 2011|metadata, News, storage|Comments Off on Archiving Digital Requires Standards
Every business is dealing with data storage issues, but in the world of media and entertainment, the demise of the videotape and the prevalence of digital creates a perfect storm of data volume. Without the tangible backup tape, archiving digital data carries more weight than ever before. The urgent need for more secure archives than a mix of external hard drives, cloud storage and proprietary data tapes is here.
Archiving and Backup – Not the Same Thing
By Melody Smith|July 29th, 2011|metadata, News|Comments Off on Archiving and Backup – Not the Same Thing
Atempo has announced the findings of a new industry analyst research report - Archive Agility: Building Business Resilience Through Active Archiving - that identifies the best technologies and operational processes for successful active archiving align with the key differentiators of Atempo Digital Archive.
The Age of Big Cloud Data
By Melody Smith|July 28th, 2011|metadata, News|Comments Off on The Age of Big Cloud Data
There is yet another acronym on the horizon. ABCD – The Age of Big Cloud Data. With the Web accelerating the digitization of all content (digital information was 1% of all information in 1986 but 95% today) and the creation of new digital content (from 4.5 billion gigabytes in 2000 to 1227 billion gigabytes in 2010), there has to be room in the clouds for all this data to transition from physical to virtual.
Renting e-Books Could Save a Few Trees
By Melody Smith|July 27th, 2011|metadata, News|Comments Off on Renting e-Books Could Save a Few Trees
With Amazon’s announcement about the Kindle Textbook Rental program, it makes one wonder how many basement hackers are gearing up to swipe content and begin a new career. It isn’t that I don’t think it is a good idea, I think it is a great idea. Besides the whole saving a tree benefit, textbook costs are a big black hole of which you never get a return. Even reselling books is pennies on the dollar and usually you are stuck with them. Almost everyone has a box of textbooks tucked away in their storage area because you just can’t stand the thought of tossing thousands of dollars worth of books. Instead, you move them from location to location, thinking someday you will find someone who can use them.
Daegis Adds New Feature to eDiscovery Platform
By Melody Smith|July 26th, 2011|metadata, News|Comments Off on Daegis Adds New Feature to eDiscovery Platform
Daegis has announced they are able to preserve and manage Lotus Notes collaborative application data throughout the entire eDiscovery process. This new technology has been added to its eDiscovery Platform and makes Daegis the only provider to offer clients the ability to capture, process, search, cull and review collaborative Lotus Notes applications such as team room documents, document libraries, support systems and customized templates for legal discovery.
Integration Made Easier with SharePoint and Some Magic
By Melody Smith|July 18th, 2011|metadata, News|Comments Off on Integration Made Easier with SharePoint and Some Magic
Magic Software has announced that Microsoft partners are now eligible for a SpeedTrack Authorization Program to offer the iBOLT integration platform for Microsoft SharePoint 2010. This means companies deploying these systems can use Magic Software's iBOLT Integration for Microsoft SharePoint 2010 to share information through their SharePoint 2010 deployment.
MarkLogic Passes Conformance Test
By Melody Smith|July 12th, 2011|metadata, News|Comments Off on MarkLogic Passes Conformance Test
MarkLogic has received the U.S. Government’s stamp of approval. MarkLogic Distributed Common Ground System (DCGS) Integration Backbone (DIB) Metadata Catalog v2 is conformant with the DIB 2.0 service specifications. Successful completion of conformance testing means that MarkLogic is a suitable alternative to the current relational database management system (RDBMS) DCGS implementation.
The Future of Cloud Technology
By Melody Smith|July 7th, 2011|metadata, News, storage|Comments Off on The Future of Cloud Technology
Along with the amount of data, the monetary investment in digital technology to capture and store that data has grown relentlessly in the past decade. And it doesn’t appear to be slowing down any. Leading the “shopping spree’ in the technology world will be cloud computing. While cloud computing accounts for less than 2% of IT spending today, an EMC-sponsored IDC Digital Universe study estimates that by 2015 nearly 20% of the information will be "touched" by cloud computing service providers — meaning that somewhere in a byte's journey from originator to disposal it will be stored or processed in a cloud.