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What is Metadata?
So much talk and news has been around metadata. It has practically become a four letter word. MIT’s Media Lab has developed a new tool – Immersion – to help individuals understand how much personal information their ‘metadata’ reveals about them.
Read MoreDelivering Results
Provider of semantic metadata generation, auto-classification, and taxonomy managment sofware, Concept Searching, is celebrating a revenue growth of 40% for the first half of fiscal 2013. This is compared to the same period in 2012.
Read MoreWeather Reporting, Virtually
The White House administration has launched a new online tool to educate and increase awareness into links between climate change and health. The interagency U.S. Global Change Research Program recently unveiled its Metadata Access Tool for Climate and Health (MATCH) platform. This interesting news was found on E2 Wire, The Hill’s Energy & Environment Blog in their post titled, “Obama officials roll out climate and health data tool.”
Read MoreAwards for Semantic Technology
Google has awarded over $1.2 million to support research in several areas of several natural language understanding that relate to Google’s concept of the Knowledge Graph. This substantial investment in machine learning is motivated by their need to further search technology.
Read MoreOntologies Ensure Results
Attivio recently released Version 3.5 of Active Intelligence Engine (AIE). This recent version features a new Ontology Module and event-driven visualization capabilities that allow analysts to monitor the status of larger, multi-node systems.
Read MoreSpeed is a Luxury
When you are dealing with data measured in terabytes and petabytes, it is difficult to imagine how you manage such a volume. This size of data has its own ecosystem. Signal Online brought this interesting information our direction in their article, “Dealing with Big Data Takes an Ecosystem.”
Read MoreThe Security of Your Data
Confidentiality of data is always a concern. With the prevalence of the web, it only becomes more of a challenge to keep your data secure. Recently in Australia, this topic was addressed in parliament after an inquiry into why hundreds of highly sensitive Fitzgerald inquiry documents, including those detailing historic investigations into some high-profile Queenslanders, had been accidentally made available to the public. In addition, thousands of others had been inadvertently shredded.
Read MoreVaronis Expands Capabilities
Varonis Systems has announced full compatibility with NetApp clustered Data ONTAP 8.2. This expands their range of capabilities in accessibility, governance, and retention to NetApp storage systems.
Read MoreProfessor Recognized for Semantic Contribution
Professor Ronen Feldman, one of the world’s leading authorities in the field of text mining as well as co-founder and chief scientist at Digital Trowel, has been selected as one of five finalists to compete for the prestigious 2013 AQR Insight Award.
Read MoreNew Acquisition Adds Advantage
Adobe Systems has acquired Neolane, a software platform for managing digital marketing campaigns.
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