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Complex Queries Made Simple

By Melody Smith | March 7, 2012

Oracle has announced it has updated the MySQL Cluster software. The result should make it more attractive to large Web service providers. Two features in particular will help with this. The software now offers a Memcached application programming interface that allows applications to access data directly. MySQL Cluster 7.2 also implements a faster way of…

Managing Data

By Melody Smith | March 6, 2012

Managing information has been an issue since the dawn of time. Juggling rocks, etchings, parchments, paper, floppy disks and now metabytes are really all part of the same challenge. Where to put it, how to find it and what does it mean? The advantage we have today is there are plenty of software options to assist in these tasks. There are also guidelines and standards that allow users to manage their ever precious content with consistency and skill.

Smart Content Framework Announced

By Melody Smith | February 22, 2012

Concept Searching announces formation of the Smart Content Framework, a toolset that provides an enterprise framework to mitigate risk, manage information and address compliancy. This player in semantic metadata generation, auto-classification, and taxonomy management software claims the framework has proven to be a flexible solution to address recurring problems in organizations of any size or in any industry.

Publishing Metadata Becomes More Valuable

By Melody Smith | February 21, 2012

Bowker has been selected by book retailer Books-A-Million to supply metadata related to the print, e- and audio books. Bowker metadata will be used to feed both internal and external systems supporting the firm’s purchasing needs and providing bibliographic and identifier information in stores and on the website.

Leveraging Your Taxonomy – Part 3

By Melody Smith | February 20, 2012

This series of blog posts is exploring how search works. We need to have a basic understanding of search fundamentals in order to know where taxonomies come in. Last week we started talking about search software and today we will continue with that topic. I believe in the data first as you know. Staring in the diagram with your Source Data you can see how the data flows. You need to clean the source data to a uniform format. This is often called the conversion process or the ETL – Extract Transform and Load.

Understanding Linked Data

By Melody Smith | February 20, 2012

Sometimes when you work in an industry or are affiliated with it, you start throwing around terminology and acronyms that not everyone may completely understand. I hope we don’t practice this behavior here at TaxoDiary on a regular basis, but I fear it may have happened on occasion.

Making the Step to Auto-Classification

By Melody Smith | February 17, 2012 |

Many turn to auto-classification systems to find some level of consistency and scalability, especially when (and this is very common) there are more than one indexer tagging content. There seems to be a feeling that moving to auto-classification systems requires a sacrifice of rich and quality indexing.

Leveraging Your Taxonomy – Part 2

By Melody Smith | February 13, 2012

This series of blog posts is exploring how search works. We need to have a basic understanding of search fundamentals in order to know where taxonomies come in. Last week we started with the various modules of search. This week we are addressing the search software itself.

New Merger Benefits EBSCO

By Melody Smith | February 7, 2012

EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) maybe in the perfect spot to benefit from the formal merging of EBSCO A-to-Z® and LinkSource® into EBSCO’s overall discovery solution.

Leveraging Your Taxonomy – Part 1

By Melody Smith | February 6, 2012

This series of blog posts will explore how search works. We need to have a basic understanding of search fundamentals in order to know where taxonomies come in.