Taxodiary – News

Class is Everything

By Melody Smith|January 16th, 2014|News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Class is Everything

EDItEUR has published a new subject classification system intended for use throughout the global book and e-book trade.

New Acquisition Creates Mega-Database

By Melody Smith|January 15th, 2014|metadata, News, search, Taxonomy|Comments Off on New Acquisition Creates Mega-Database

The Tribune Co. has agreed to buy the Gracenote subsidiary from Sony for $170 million. This will add a music metadata service to its video metadata operation. Gracenote is best known for its music metadata, used by a number of streaming music services. The Gracenote database gets 550 million look-ups each day and more than 16 billion every month. This news come from CED Magazine in their article, "Tribune to buy Gracenote for $170M."

New Partnership Results in Real-Time Analysis

By Melody Smith|January 15th, 2014|metadata, News, semantic|Comments Off on New Partnership Results in Real-Time Analysis

Datawatch Corporation has announced an OEM partnership with Semantic Visions to deliver real-time predictive analysis and visualization of supply chain disruptions on the SAP HANA platform. This came to us from MarketWatch in their article, “Datawatch And Semantic Visions Enable Real-Time Predictive Analysis And Visualization For SAP HANA.”

Going Digital Worthy, But Challenging

By Melody Smith|January 14th, 2014|indexing, News|Comments Off on Going Digital Worthy, But Challenging

Despite their instructions, almost half (46 percent) of federal agency records and information management professionals do not believe the presidential directive for digital records are realistic and obtainable. This came just days before the end of 2013.

Using the Data You Store

By Melody Smith|January 14th, 2014|metadata, News, storage|Comments Off on Using the Data You Store

Data storage continues to be an issue for most organizations. This piece of information might make you feel better about your own situation. At the end of 2012, 1.3 trillion objects were stored in Amazon S3, the world’s largest object storage system. Even more so, that number is growing faster than 1 billion objects per day. InfoWorld brought this interesting information to our attention in their article, “What is object storage?”

The War On…Not Christmas

By Melody Smith|January 13th, 2014|metadata, News|Comments Off on The War On…Not Christmas

These past few months have brought us "the war on Christmas", "the war on women", and anything else the news would like to hype up to make us feel victimized. So when I saw the title of this article, I had to laugh. Information Week Government brought this to us in their article, "The War On Military Records."

Content Enrichment Enriches

By Melody Smith|January 10th, 2014|News, Term lists|Comments Off on Content Enrichment Enriches

There has been an online debate recently about the distinction between text analytics and semantic content enrichment. Many think there are no differences, just terminology preferences, while others believe there are distinct differences in the definitions and their uses. We found this interesting information on CMSWire in their article, “Smart Content Reviewed: Text Analytics & Semantic Content Enrichment.”

Beyond Storage

By Melody Smith|January 8th, 2014|Business strategy, metadata, News|Comments Off on Beyond Storage

We have discussed numerous times in the past about the rapid growth of data. The main focus has always seemed to surround the storage and management of the data. But what about the risk and liability to organizations?

Where to put all that data?

By Melody Smith|January 8th, 2014|metadata, News|Comments Off on Where to put all that data?

Video capture technology has changed, and so has the need for its storage. Though digital files have become cheaper to create and broadcast, both it and tape-based files need different, but equally secure storage. This interesting information was found in Biz Community in their article, "Managing media assets is critical in digital broadcasting."

As Smart as Siri

By Melody Smith|January 7th, 2014|News, semantic|Comments Off on As Smart as Siri

The next step in the semantic web may be cognition-as-a-Service (CaaS). CaaS will enable every app to become as smart as Siri in its own niche. CaaS powered apps will be able to think and interact with consumers like intelligent virtual assistants.