Standards
Findability Sought with Indexing
Actuate has released their document indexing, storage, and multi-channel delivery system, Xenos Repository. Content has changed. It has become comprehensive and varied right along with the technology that created it. Actuate Xenos Group technology seeks to address that complexity with business intelligence driven solutions.
Read MoreASTM Partners with Scope
ASTM International has engaged Scope eKnowledge Center to provide enhanced smart content services. The agreement includes MARC cataloguing for content.
Read MoreStrong Taxonomies Improve Findability
Zenya has released multiple updates to their keyword platform, which results in improving the clients control to leverage keyword data and eventually their marketing success. Their approach to keyword generation includes a database of more than 1.4 billion keywords, including 600 million categorized by searcher intent.
Read MoreNew Release from NISO Provides Common XML Format
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has announced the publication of a new American National Standard, JATS: Journal Article Tag Suite, ANSI/NISO Z39.96-2012.
Read MoreDigital Days
Ars Technica brought this topic to our attention in their article, “Digital archivists: technological custodians of human history.” Every business is dealing with data storage issues, but the urgent need is for more secure archives than a mix of external hard drives, cloud storage, and proprietary data tapes.
Read MoreMetadata Standards
Metadata Technology North America has announced that it is working with the Institute of Child Health (ICH) in the United Kingdom on the development of tools to prepare, publish, and maintain data management plans aligned with the DMP Online recommendations. These tools will leverage the Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) metadata specification and the ISO 27001 security standards to capture the necessary information.
Read MoreNISO Release SERU
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has released the new edition of the recommended practice SERU: A Shared Electronic Resource Understanding (NISO RP-7-2012).
Read MoreConference on Ethics This Month
Time is almost running out to register for the 2nd Milwaukee Conference on the Ethics of Information Organization. If you are interested in “a different view on taxonomies” this might be the educational event you should attend.
Read MoreMaintaining a Thesaurus in an Excel Workbook, Part 2
In Part 1, we looked at maintaining a taxonomy in Excel – a set of preferred terms arranged in a hierarchy. This taxonomy structure is a handy way to organize a group of terms and can be used across an industry for benchmarking or reporting requirements (see Strategies for Incorporating Data Exchange Standards in E-Business Taxonomies advocating for the construction industry and The IFRS Taxonomy, including the labels used in the International Financial Reporting Standards). Excel works quite well to create and maintain a taxonomy, but how about a thesaurus?
Read MoreStandardizing Data Integration
There is a lot of talk about big data, what it is, how to manage it and where to store it. At its core, big data is metadata and integrating it requires an experienced professional.
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