Managing Multiple Assets
As digital assets continue to grow, a significant percentage of those assets are videos. All too often, users have a hard time finding the content they need and in the proper format. Searching for an asset efficiently and with the assurance that you have the most recent version, can be a challenge. What is the solution?…
Read MoreIn Defense of Taxonomies: In Response to the Recent Scholarly Kitchen Posts about Google Scholar, Indexing, and Content Findability
Several interesting points were raised over the course of the two posts — and, notably, in the resulting comments featuring Anurag Acharya — by John Sack about Google Scholar. Google Scholar is a wonderful tool and resource, and it is not the goal here to disparage or otherwise belittle its importance or contribution to research.…
Read MoreFlexible Data
At KMWorld 2015, they know the importance of being able to respond quickly to changing trends and business challenges. This year’s theme is “Agile Knowledge Sharing and Innovation are in the Spotlight at KMWorld 2015.” Being agile can mean applying an incremental and iterative approach, or evolving through collaboration between self-organizing and cross-functional teams to…
Read MoreClass-ism in Classifications
In the world of classification, how deep do you go? This interesting topic came to us from Robb Wolff’s website in an article titled, “Seven Shades of Paleo.” This article lifted up with humor a common occurrence in any attempt at classifying data. Regardless of whether it is people or products, there is a scale and half…
Read MoreLearning and Networking Opportunity in Chicago
The Data, Strategy & Architecture Analytics conference is being held in Chicago next month. With more than 15 different workshop topics available and four different keynote speakers and topics, there is much to look forward to if you are planning to attend. If you aren’t, well, why not? One of the keynotes speakers is Thomas Redman,…
Read MoreNew Languages
Search is not the same as it was a decade ago, let alone a month ago. The fact that “Google” is used as a verb is just one example. Not only has the grammar changed, the process itself has evolved. No longer is it keyword driven. Semantic technology seeks based on context. The Financial Express brought this…
Read MoreGoverning Metadata Webinar This Week
A unique learning opportunity is available this week called, “Real-World Data Governance Presents: Govern Metadata – Vocabulary, Dictionaries, and Data.” Governance Metadata is easier to understand and simpler to manage when you address it in three easy levels. This webinar will do just that. The levels are 1) semantic, 2) business metadata and 3) technical metadata…
Read MoreMaking All Content Findable
Business emails are subject to many of the same records management requirements as any other office documents. To help with handling the indexing and findability of this data, harmon.ie released a new tool that unifies all email and documents in a single, central repository instead of relegating them to Exchange and SharePoint. Fierce Content Management brought this…
Read MoreChanges in IT Leadership
Information technology (IT) leadership seems to be getting hit hard lately, especially in the government sector. The Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) is the latest agency to make changes to its IT structure. They are losing two-long serving IT executives at a time when cyber, mobile and other capabilities are more vital than ever. Federal News Radio brought…
Read MoreNormal Clouds
Public cloud providers are becoming the norm in many organizations. The traditional corporate data centers are quickly becoming a thing of the past. As technology and functions move to cloud providers, are we losing important transparency? Forbes brought this interesting information to our attention in their article, “I Want My Metadata: A Call For Greater Cloud…
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