Taxonomy
Master Data Management and Taxonomies
November 22, 2010 – At the recent Data Content conference in Philadelphia, put on by InfoCommerce Group, Managing Director Scott Taylor gave a presentation on the challenges and opportunities of Master Data Management (MDM). MDM is usually defined as data management that addresses the need to avoid maintaining multiple versions of singular entities within content stores. In practical…
Read MoreAgility Seems to be the Word of the Week
TM Forum’s Management World remained focused on operations this year. Even if their expansion into “specialist streams” might have initially confused some people into thinking TM Forum is “straying” from its core competency.
Read MoreCelebrating 15 Years of Dublin Core
In Pittsburgh, in conjunction with ASIS&T’s recent annual meeting, the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) celebrated the 15th anniversary of the Dublin Core metadata standards. DCMI describes itself as “an open organization engaged in the development of interoperable metadata standards that support a broad range of purposes and business models. DCMI’s activities include work on architecture and modeling, discussions and collaborative work in DCMI Communities and DCMI Task Groups, annual conferences and workshops, standards liaison, and educational efforts to promote widespread acceptance of metadata standards and practices.”
Read MoreContract Management Software Depends on Metadata Library
Dolphin Software has launched the latest version of its contract management software, Dolphin Contract Manager 2.0 for Microsoft SharePoint. This new version enables legacy contracts to be captured and integrated into the current contract management system and also makes contract management more ‘plug and play’ for large organizations.
Read MorePatent Awarded to Guid
The United States Patent and Trademark Office awarded Guid with a patent for its method of helping organizations quickly and efficiently search for data within the corporate universe. This system is better known as EnCase(R) Enterprise.
Read MoreGrant Given to Build Database and Image Library
The LSU AgCenter has been awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation to support developing a database and image library at the Louisiana State Arthropod Museum and consolidating data from five additional arthropod collections.
Read MoreXBRL US Gets New CEO
The national consortium for XML business reporting standards, XBRL US, has announced that Campbell Pryde, the current Chief Standards Officer and head of development, has been named President and CEO.
Read MorePPC Chosen by National Archives and Records Administration
Project Performance Corporation (PPC) has been awarded a contract by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) to support modernization of the Archival Description and Authority Services. PPC will provide expertise in the areas of Application Architecture and Development, Service Oriented Architecture, Taxonomy and Search, Data Management and Modeling, Program and Project Management, and Quality Control.
Read MoreAnother Semantic Technology Release
Newly released Sophia Search, a new solution that uses a semiotic-based linguistic model to identify intrinsic terms, phrases and relationships within unstructured content so that it can be efficiently recovered, consolidated and leveraged, delivers a three-dimensional solution.
Read MoreKnowledge Organization Systems
I attended the 2010 meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) in Pittsburgh. There were quite a few papers and posters I found aligned with taxonomies and the whole area of linked data, semantic implementations and the Dublin Core. The DC-2010 conference, sponsored by the Dublin Core Metadata
Initiative (DCMI), was held immediately prior to ASIS&T in the same hotel so the over lap in participants and programming was spot on for my interests. The ASIS&T annual meeting is the main venue for disseminating research centered on advances in the information sciences and related applications of information technology. It has veered heavily into usability for the last few years and this change back to mainline information science was refreshing!