The Pitfalls of Big Data
What is a data swamp? Well, start with a data lake. It accepts any data, without oversight or governance. Without descriptive metadata and a […]
Data Management
By Melody Smith|July 7th, 2015|metadata, News|Comments Off on Data Management
Information governance (IG) has been discussed for several years now. Unfortunately, implementation has proven difficult, due to the scale of the domain. Datamation brought this […]
Smart Data Reveals Value
By Melody Smith|May 29th, 2015|metadata, News, semantic|Comments Off on Smart Data Reveals Value
Data’s future lies in just how smart it is. The properties of smart data are necessary for the massive quantities of big data and […]
The Darker Side of Words
By Melody Smith|May 20th, 2015|metadata, News, reference|Comments Off on The Darker Side of Words
I am a word person. I think you know that about me already. I like origins of words, different meanings, and especially the emotions […]
Governing and Finding Data
By Melody Smith|May 19th, 2015|metadata, News|Comments Off on Governing and Finding Data
Information governance is a term becoming more familiar and frequent with each passing day. Few will argue the point that new sources of information […]
Accessing the Clouds
By Melody Smith|May 12th, 2015|News, storage|Comments Off on Accessing the Clouds
The cloud has become a daily part of our nomenclature. It is the infinite storage location, easy to access archive, and secure hideaway of data. With this kind of prominence comes competition.
Finding Relevance
By Melody Smith|May 7th, 2015|indexing, metadata, News, search|Comments Off on Finding Relevance
Rovi Corporation introduced the industry’s lastest and some say most robust metadata product, Rovi Knowledge Graph.
Securing the Data
By Melody Smith|May 5th, 2015|metadata, News|Comments Off on Securing the Data
Data security breaches have not been limited to one particular type of business. Retailers have been victims, as has the healthcare industry. Ironically, education institutions also suffer data breaches at a rate of just over one per week. But the real victims have been the customers and patients who trusted their most personal information to these organizations while assuming that those organizations’ security measures would be enough.
Referencing the Data
By Melody Smith|May 4th, 2015|metadata, News, reference|Comments Off on Referencing the Data
TopQuadrant has released TopBraid Reference Data Manager™ (TopBraid RDM) to bring consistency and accuracy to reference data management.
Understanding Data
By Melody Smith|April 1st, 2015|metadata, News|Comments Off on Understanding Data
For some enterprises, big data analytics can be intimidating, but it is a refined discipline that delivers tangible insights. A social media approach to analytics could help enterprises get more value from their big data systems.