Taxodiary – Data

The Value of Data

By Melody Smith|June 5th, 2013|metadata, News, semantic|Comments Off on The Value of Data

The value of data on the web has always been valuable. From blogs to websites to social media, data has enabled companies to make money. Who we are, what we like, what we buy and what we want to buy, are all valuable information (or data). Unfortunately, things are changing now.

Technology in the Sky

By Melody Smith|May 7th, 2013|News, Technology|Comments Off on Technology in the Sky

Algebraix Data Corporation announced its SPARQL Server RDF database successfully executed all 17 of its queries on the SP2 benchmark up to one billion triples on one computer node. This computationally complex testing exceeds all others before it.

Handling the Data

By Melody Smith|April 26th, 2013|indexing, News, Standards|Comments Off on Handling the Data

ProQuest has entered into an expanded agreement with publisher Schattauer GmbH to add to the German-language resources discoverable through the Summon service.

Webinar Series on Big Data

By Melody Smith|April 16th, 2013|metadata, News, semantic|Comments Off on Webinar Series on Big Data

thē Call Center Corporation has partnered with Coginov to present the first in a series of free educational webinars. "Big Data Solutions that have Created Useable Technologies" is the first topic and will be held by executives of both companies on Wednesday, April 24th at 11:00 a.m. MST.

Military is Addressing Big Data

By Melody Smith|April 12th, 2013|metadata, News, ontology, storage|Comments Off on Military is Addressing Big Data

Military intelligence is teaming up with the science and experts of ontology to understand the challenges and solutions for storing big data. An April 18 workshop at the University at Buffalo (UB) will explore this big data conundrum, as well as related topics.

Following the Trends

By Melody Smith|April 11th, 2013|metadata, News|Comments Off on Following the Trends

A group of enterprise architecture experts recently gathered to discuss big data, cloud computing and storage, and how these work best with overall information […]

Solutions for Big Data

By Melody Smith|April 9th, 2013|metadata, News, ontology|Comments Off on Solutions for Big Data

Human beings supposedly produce 2.5 quintillion bytes of data every day, according to IBM. Adding to that bit of trivia, 90 percent of the data in the world today was created in the past two years. The result is why we have the challenge of “big data” today. Enormous data sets that most relational database management systems (Oracle, IBM, Microsoft, etc.) find difficult to process. “Ontologies for Information Integration” (OI2), an April 18 workshop at the University at Buffalo, will address this challenge and offer some non-traditional solutions.

In the Eyes of the Beholder

By Melody Smith|March 18th, 2013|metadata, News|Comments Off on In the Eyes of the Beholder

The MzTEK has coordinated an art commission titled, “Data as Culture.” MzTek’s goal is to provide a learning community in technology and arts for women. The aim of this particular commission was to highlight the use of data in an artistic context and to challenge the perceptions of what defines data.

Integrating the Best Part of Data

By Melody Smith|February 27th, 2013|metadata, News|Comments Off on Integrating the Best Part of Data

Everyone talks about data - the growth of data, the importance of data, and so on. So how does data integrate into our business and actually become products? The process is referred to as "informationalization." The premise is simple: Make existing products and services increasingly important and valuable to customers by building in more data.

Dealing with Data

By Melody Smith|December 26th, 2012|metadata, News|Comments Off on Dealing with Data

WAND has announced their integration with Nintex Workflow. By using the DataFacet Automatic Annotation custom action for Nintex Workflow, users can automatically tag documents […]