Is the Web Really a Web?
A significant portion of Internet content has a spatial dimension. For instance, a place name within a document or the location of a place referred to within a tweet. However, if we take a look from a geospatial standpoint at the various types of Internet resources and applications used today, there is a different and fragmented picture.
Read MoreTime for the Music Ontology
At this time in history, there’s so much music to describe. There have been so many compositions, so many recordings, and so many performances. How can we sort through it all? There are music databases that the public can contribute to, but how can we make the data consistent enough to be searchable?
Read MoreLogicMelon Improves Hiring Process
LogicMelon has completed the launch of its new hosted CV database platform. MyCVDatabase is an advanced semantic matching system which significantly reduces the time-to-hire process by matching candidates with real-time client vacancies.
Read MoreArchiving Digital Requires Standards
Every business is dealing with data storage issues, but in the world of media and entertainment, the demise of the videotape and the prevalence of digital creates a perfect storm of data volume. Without the tangible backup tape, archiving digital data carries more weight than ever before. The urgent need for more secure archives than a mix of external hard drives, cloud storage and proprietary data tapes is here.
Read MoreArchiving and Backup – Not the Same Thing
Atempo has announced the findings of a new industry analyst research report – Archive Agility: Building Business Resilience Through Active Archiving – that identifies the best technologies and operational processes for successful active archiving align with the key differentiators of Atempo Digital Archive.
Read MorePandora Continues to Grow in Use and Favor
Edison Research has released audience analysis that showcases ratings for Pandora internet radio, and they show that listeners are tuning in Pandora personalized radio more and more.
Read MoreThe Age of Big Cloud Data
There is yet another acronym on the horizon. ABCD – The Age of Big Cloud Data. With the Web accelerating the digitization of all content (digital information was 1% of all information in 1986 but 95% today) and the creation of new digital content (from 4.5 billion gigabytes in 2000 to 1227 billion gigabytes in 2010), there has to be room in the clouds for all this data to transition from physical to virtual.
Read MoreXBRL Taxonomy Search Tool Made Available
CompSci Resources, LLC is making available to the public its XBRL taxonomy search tool in order to assist issuers and mutual funds generate their XBRL submissions to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Read MoreNew Partnership Provides SEC Compliance Solutions
Insight2Infinity and Compliance Xpressware has formed a strategic partnership where the two companies will maintain an ongoing business relationship enabling Insight2Infinity’s customers to meet SEC’s HTML/XBRL compliance requirements.
Read MoreRenting e-Books Could Save a Few Trees
With Amazon’s announcement about the Kindle Textbook Rental program, it makes one wonder how many basement hackers are gearing up to swipe content and begin a new career. It isn’t that I don’t think it is a good idea, I think it is a great idea. Besides the whole saving a tree benefit, textbook costs are a big black hole of which you never get a return. Even reselling books is pennies on the dollar and usually you are stuck with them. Almost everyone has a box of textbooks tucked away in their storage area because you just can’t stand the thought of tossing thousands of dollars worth of books. Instead, you move them from location to location, thinking someday you will find someone who can use them.
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