Taxodiary

December 2013

New Records Management System Reduces Operational Costs

By Melody Smith|December 16th, 20132014-05-13T16:57:17-04:00

A new online system for the Eugene Police Department records recently went live. This was a huge milestone for the City of Eugene as they worked to change the mainframe-based records system that had been in use since the late 60's. Partnering with their sister-city Springfield, Eugene chose SunGard, a multinational IT software and services company, to take them through this journey with their Records Management System/ Computer Aided Dispatch System (RMS/CAD).

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Indexing History, One Year at a Time

By Melody Smith|December 12th, 20132013-12-11T22:44:25-05:00

The North Central Iowa Genealogical Society is embarking on a new project this coming year that includes copying obituaries from the Mason City Globe Gazette and many smaller newspapers in North Central Iowa, and adding them to the society’s website. Indexing of the 2013 obituaries from the Globe Gazette will be ongoing and the index will be available at the genealogy room at the Mason City Public Library.

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Natural Language Processing Can Determine Sentiment

By Melody Smith|December 12th, 20132013-12-11T22:43:08-05:00

Lymba Corporation has partnered with CRM Evangelist to launch PowerAgent for Salesforce. PowerAgent uses artificial intelligence algorithms that learn and improve with use over time.

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Metadata and Semantic Technology

By Melody Smith|December 11th, 20132013-12-10T22:03:21-05:00

The increasing data management challenges that all financial services institutions are facing presents a need for effective data governance built on an appropriate technology base. BankTech brought this news to our attention in their article, “Do You Know Where Your Data Is?”

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Open Access Benefits Many

By Melody Smith|December 11th, 20132013-12-10T21:59:51-05:00

The Academic Senate of the University of California (UC) recently passed an Open Access Policy, ensuring that future research articles authored by faculty at all 10 campuses of UC will be made available to the public at no charge.

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Better Relations

By Melody Smith|December 10th, 20132013-12-09T21:40:53-05:00

Relational databases are the normal choice for most organizations to store their structured data. In the big data era, though, these types of databases don’t cut it anymore. Although they made a huge difference in the database world and have unlocked data for many applications, relational databases miss some important characteristics for the big data era. Smart Data Collective brought this information to our attention in their article, “How the Next Generation of Databases Could Solve Your Problems.”

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The Ghost of Research Past

By Melody Smith|December 9th, 20132013-12-08T20:51:23-05:00

There are a good many professional organizations that take their knowledge organization and dissemination responsibilities seriously. One good example, appropriately enough, is the International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO), which maintains a free online bibliographic service covering knowledge organization literature.

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The Benefits of Metadata

By Melody Smith|December 9th, 20132013-12-08T20:43:23-05:00

Metadata is data about data. It really is that simple. When it comes to security, data can be your most valuable tool. For a network security, it has multiple uses, ranging from real-time incident detection to post-prevention forensic analysis. This interesting topic was found on the CSO blog in their post titled, “Making metadata meaningful for network security.”

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Information Architecture Director Sought

By Melody Smith|December 6th, 20132013-12-05T21:35:39-05:00

We want to be as helpful as possible to those in the fields of taxonomy, indexing, ontology, etc., so we are excited to share career opportunities that we find with our readers. Even if you aren’t in the market for a career move, it is always good to stay on top of what is available.

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Partnering in Semantic Technologies

By Melody Smith|December 6th, 20132013-12-05T21:34:18-05:00

A company known for their cloud and data management solutions based on semantic technologies, fluid Operations, and Stemmer, another firm that provides IT infrastructure, are collaborating in the area of IT transformation and innovation. What does this mean? They plan to offer their customers solutions to the problem of disparate data management in IT, and enable companies to integrate so they can take full advantage of cloud services.

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December 2013

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