Semantic Fingerprinting for Name Disambiguation
Many institutions and organizations – notably (but not limited to) publishers – have large, or sometimes very very large, lists of names. These names are from member directories, employees and staff, clients and customers, marketing, development, and many other sources; indeed, oftentimes the lists from various departments in the same organization are not connected or resolved with one another in any way.
Read MoreSemantic Marketing
Parta Dialogue has announced their acquisition of Sense Fab SAS, which has been doing business as MyTwatch. This e-intelligence and social marketing technology company addition will enhance their efforts to support brands’ entire social marketing cycle.
Read MoreThe White Stuff
For most of us snow is a 4-letter word. Winter has lasted longer and been meaner this year than the decade prior. We are all yearning for spring to arrive and personally, I will hurt the first person who complains that they are hot. But seriously, you can’t be surprised that I found a taxonomy of snow. It was inevitable.
Read MoreCapturing the Past
Infolinx System Solutions is implementing Infolinx WEB for a state library and archives managing physical records from cradle to grave.
Read MoreGetty Art and Architecture Thesaurus Available as Linked Open Data
The venerable Getty Art and Architecture Thesaurus (AAT) has just been released in a Linked Open Data format. The Getty AAT was developed starting in the late 1970s for the art library and art journal indexing community. Since then it has undergone periodic revisions, and is well regarded in the controlled vocabulary community.
Read MoreMetadata Can Be Exciting
Recordkeeping may be seen as boring and mundane, to most. However, metadata has changed that, at least slightly. While most recordkeeping systems do have similarities, a record is not defined by where it gets stored, but by what it represents.
Read MoreThe Devil is in the Details
Implementing a digital asset management (DAM) system can be challenging. Many factors pose hurdles of varying degrees: asset ingestion, building the database, relevant and descriptive metadata, to name a few. It is key to make the assets descriptive enough to make them worth the time to search and find them.
Read MoreWell-Built Taxonomies are Core of Knowledge Management
Access Innovations’ CEO, Jay Ven Eman shared his views of taxonomies and their correlation to knowledge management in a recent article feature.
Read MoreMeasures to Findability
Digital asset management (DAM) is one of those things that confuses people, which discourages them from addressing it. Kind of like those tasks we all put off until we can no longer justify ignoring them. DAM brings with it extra policy, added expenses, and more required training for an already overloaded staff. So why do we do it?
Read MoreComic Book Heroes
For those comic book geeks…err…collectors in the audience Marvel Entertainment’s new API allows you to build Marvel Comic apps for your own use. That last part was important. You can’t market them for revenue. The Disney-owned company is opening up the data from its 75-year publishing history, including cover art, characters and comic book crossover events, for developers. This “free for all” gives them access to metadata for more than 30,000 comics and 7,000 series.
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