Earth to the Clouds
Google Earth Builder will serve up data from businesses and government agencies to the World.
The Semantic Web Draws a Crowd
By Melody Smith|April 19th, 2011|metadata, News, semantic, Uncategorized|1 Comment
Members of the IPTC will address semantic markup and introduce attendees to rNews at the Semantic Web Meetup scheduled for Thursday, April 21st at the New York Times Building.
EDS and World Book Team Up
By Melody Smith|April 13th, 2011|metadata, News, search, Uncategorized|Comments Off on EDS and World Book Team Up
A recent agreement between EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) and World Book will bring twelve popular reference tools into EBSCO Discovery Service™ (EDS). Metadata, including full-text searching, will be added to the EDS Base Index allowing the World Book content to better impact searching through the EDS single search interface. The twelve World Book resources that will be searchable in EDS include popular English language titles as well as French and Spanish language reference tools.
Knowledge is Power
By Melody Smith|April 12th, 2011|metadata, News|Comments Off on Knowledge is Power
It has been said that Web 3.0 is defined as real identities generating massive amounts of data on facts, personal habits and social inclinations encompassing every area of their lives. When you include healthcare data, government information, and the slew of security records – the predicted amount has been surpassed a thousand times.
Handling Big Data
By Melody Smith|April 7th, 2011|Business Intelligence, metadata, News, storage, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Handling Big Data
Like most areas, there is no shortage of data in business intelligence, and again, the common issue is how to get access to it easily and quickly, especially when it’s stored in a wide variety of formats.
Integrating Multiple Data Sources
By Melody Smith|April 6th, 2011|metadata, News, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Integrating Multiple Data Sources
Producers of the Queplix Virtual Data Manager platform - a software framework that lets users extract data and metadata from certain source database applications for use in data integration and harmonization with other database applications - has announced an Application Software Blade for Hadoop.
Social Search Battleground
By Melody Smith|April 6th, 2011|metadata, News, search, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Social Search Battleground
Social search continues to grow in popularity, which only makes Google realize their limitations and want access to Facebook even more.
The Power of Data
By Melody Smith|March 30th, 2011|metadata, News, storage|Comments Off on The Power of Data
At least weekly, we read a new article about the volume of data being created around the world. The increase of metadata has dramatically grown and the vehicles delivering it continue to multiply. To put numbers to the adjectives, Wal-Mart now handles more than one million customer transactions every hour and Facebook is reportedly home to some 40 billion photos.
Ink vs. Bytes
By Melody Smith|March 28th, 2011|metadata, News, Technology|1 Comment
As Kindle and iPad sales continue to soar, where does that leave “real” books and more importantly the unique experiences in reading a book that cannot be captured on an e-reader?
New Tech Projects Get Funding from Harvard Library Lab
By Melody Smith|March 23rd, 2011|metadata, News, Technology|Comments Off on New Tech Projects Get Funding from Harvard Library Lab
The Harvard Library Lab announced its first ten projects. Included in those projects is LibraryCloud, whose goal is to allow access to a wide range of Harvard Library metadata via an application programming interface (API) that would allow developers to create new apps based on the information.