Looking to the Clouds for Findability
Digitizing documents continues to be a rising trend. With physical space for storage shrinking, organizations are looking to the clouds for storage, and thus need to make their data digital. This is not an easy endeavor, considering the volume of paper any office produces. But it doesn’t have to be totally overwhelming.
Read MoreGovernment Addresses Data Management
The federal government is not much different from other organizations as they are trying for even more efficiency and essentially, more productivity out of its IT investments as well. This is a challenge in any organization, but when you consider the size of government agencies, the volume of data they create and store, and the existing systems that have to conform – it almost seems impossible. This is a perfect opportunity for data virtualization.
Read MoreCollective Intelligence
Big data continues to be a challenge for many. A large EU-funded project has filed for several patents for this sole reason. WeKnowIt is designed to convert large amounts of user-generated content into ‘a new, collective intelligence’.
Read MoreGoing Beyond SharePoint Taxonomies
Since the launch of SharePoint 2010, there are new options for taxonomies. This new version has a more evolved taxonomy management framework, a relatively robust tagging interface, and some functions to leverage the taxonomies in search and navigation.
Read MoreNew Developer Tools Released
Couchbase has released a developer preview of the Couchbase Server 2.0 document-oriented NoSQL database. Combining the elastic data management capabilities of its own Membase Server technology with the distributed indexing and querying capabilities of Apache CouchDB, Couchbase continues to mark its territory as a database specialist. Claiming to have produced the most widely deployed open source document database, Couchbase describes its offering as “bullet-proof” NoSQL database technology.
Read MoreReading Between the Lines
Whether you are merely an individual wondering what your friends and colleagues are saying about you or a major retailer about to launch a new customer retention program, knowing what the word on the street is and more importantly, how to manipulate it is very important.
Read MoreThe Value of Data
Data is everywhere; on the Web, within an enterprise, in both closed and open academic communities, across every technological field or surface available. The Hindu brought this information to our attention in their article, “Connecting the dots, lucratively.” This frequency and availability of data provides an opportunity for analytics and analytics can provide perspective.
Read MoreThe Road to Semantic Technology
Do you long for the time when we can chat with our gadgets like the crew of the USS Enterprise did with its computer on Star Trek? I’m not sure I am ready for that level of intimacy or dependency on a computer, or like Dave Bowman and Frank Poole do in 2001 before HAL went violently bonkers?
Read MoreThe Benefit of Web-Scale Discoveries
Connecting users with the information they seek is one of the central pillars of the librarian profession. The new web-scale discovery services for libraries provide quick searching seamlessly across various components of indexed content.
Read MoreAccess Innovations, Inc. Creates Taxonomy For Iowa Code, Administrative Code, and Acts
Access Innovations, Inc., a leader in the data management industry, has collaborated with the Iowa Legislative Services Agency to build a customized thesaurus that allows the Iowa Legislature General Assembly to easily access its extensive legal body of existing and proposed laws, bills, acts, and regulations by using controlled, vocabulary-driven indexing in addition to published indexing codes.
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