By Melody Smith|June 15th, 2011|metadata, News|Comments Off on Data – Burden or Asset?
The trend these days is for organizations to treat data like a burden instead of the valuable asset that should be treated as such. Therefore, the focus is on how to reduce the cost of this burden instead of maximizing the opportunity.
By Melody Smith|June 15th, 2011|metadata, News|Comments Off on Informatica 9.1 Garners Support
Informatica Corporation has announced overwhelming industry support for Informatica 9.1, the industry’s first unified data integration platform designed to unleash the full business potential of Big Data to empower the data centric-enterprise.
By Melody Smith|June 14th, 2011|metadata, News|Comments Off on SharePoint Integration Requires Industry Leaders
Winter Park Construction was seeking a migration strategy for moving their project documentation to SharePoint 2010. MetaVis Migrator was selected to migrate data in bulk and to preserve existing metadata and classified content through the move.
By Melody Smith|June 10th, 2011|metadata, News, Standards|Comments Off on Digital Libraries Present New Challenges
Bibliographic data seems like it would be a fairly simple and straightforward thing. However, it is really just the beginning of the sorts of data tracked in library catalogs. What about metadata standards and information classification systems?
By Melody Smith|June 10th, 2011|metadata, News|Comments Off on Workshop on Very Large Digital Libraries
With more and more information being accessible via digital libraries, it seems appropriate that The Fourth Workshop on Very Large Digital Libraries will take place on September 29, 2011 in Berlin, Germany.
By Melody Smith|June 7th, 2011|metadata, News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on New Data Integration Arrangement
Aggregate Knowledge and Resonate Networks announced they will integrate Resonate’s data and services with the patent-pending AK Platform. The result for advertisers is a scalable and privacy-compliant solution that tracks and reports every known user attribute by campaign to reveal which publishers, attributes, segments, and data providers worked best, and which didn’t. This analysis provides critical information to optimize current campaigns as well as future ones. The data-neutral AK Platform can deal with any kind of data, including taxonomies.
By Melody Smith|June 6th, 2011|Access Insights, Featured, indexing, metadata, semantic, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Breaking Down Automatic Metadata Generation/Extraction
There are two approaches to automatic metadata generation/extraction and within those, many variations. Generally speaking, the statistical approach types are Bayesian, vector, neural nets, automatic clustering, and the like. These methods work off the principle that if in a big set of data two words occur together frequently, then those words are related conceptually.atistical methods depend on the algorithms that the developer has come up with. Some vendors lock down the numerical recipes and provide few or no user controls. These systems usually require “training”. The way that they do this is to take a list of terms, often a thesaurus, taxonomy or authority file and a corpus of text. The system manager processes the inputs with spot checking and often manual intervention by a human subject matter expert. When the system has been trained, test queries are run to verify that the system is performing as desired on fresh content.
By Melody Smith|June 3rd, 2011|metadata, News, storage|Comments Off on Atempo and Dell Partnership Continues
Atempo announced that Atempo Digital Archive (ADA) has been certified for the Dell™ DX Object Storage Platform. The continues the long-standing partnership between Atempo and Dell.
By Melody Smith|June 3rd, 2011|indexing, metadata, News|Comments Off on Defining the Clouds
Cloud computing is a hot topic these days. But for some, it is still ambiguous in definition. Here is a quick, easy-to-remember way of explaining cloud computing. Starting at the most basic, there is an infrastructure cloud which includes the physical components that run applications and store data. Next is content cloud. It implements metadata and indexing services over the infrastructure cloud to provide abstracted data management for all content.
By Melody Smith|May 31st, 2011|metadata, News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on The Age of the New Portal
Not so long ago, every organization wanted a portal to keep up with The Jones, or the Microsofts, as the case may be. Because of this, the quality of portals went downhill as did their promise results. What you are left with are organizations struggling to provide appropriate access to portlets and organizations with poor taxonomy and metadata practices importing its content only to find illegible titles and search indexes.