Taxodiary – Data

Collective Intelligence

By Melody Smith|April 26th, 2012|metadata, News|Comments Off on Collective 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’.

The Value of Data

By Melody Smith|April 24th, 2012|metadata, News|Comments Off on The 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.

New Venture Uses Semantic Fusion

By Melody Smith|April 20th, 2012|metadata, News, semantic|Comments Off on New Venture Uses Semantic Fusion

Digital Reasoning and Semantic Research have announced their integration solution with Semantic data fusion and analysis software. This solution represents the first time that unstructured text analytics at scale has been combined with visualization and analytical workflow tools. The result will deliver a unique solution for automatically understanding people, places, and hidden relationships in big data.

Security Fears in the Clouds

By Melody Smith|March 27th, 2012|News|Comments Off on Security Fears in the Clouds

Cloud computing is the topic of choice lately, but there are many hurdles preventing its adoption, i.e. privacy fears. This is a particular important issue for potential customers so those in the “biz” are working hard to develop new skills and technologies to relieve their concerns.

Managing Data and Science

By Melody Smith|February 28th, 2012|metadata, News, semantic|Comments Off on Managing Data and Science

Thermo Fisher Scientific releases an updated version of their ProteinCenter software. This product includes more than 223 million protein-protein interactions in its database and direct support for the Cytoscape open source platform. This new version of ProteinCenter includes plug-ins for bioinformatics, social network analysis, and the semantic web.

Standards Can Help Manage Big Data

By Melody Smith|February 24th, 2012|metadata, News, Standards, storage|1 Comment

Between buzzwords like “cloud” and “big data”, it is hard to see through the mirage of mobile devices and social networks let alone analyze or store the data it produces.

What Will 2012 Bring?

By Melody Smith|February 23rd, 2012|News, Technology|Comments Off on What Will 2012 Bring?

Eval-Source has compiled a list of 12 technology trends and predictions that they believe will come to realization this year. They based these on what they see with their customers and their concerns.

Technology vs. Humans

By Melody Smith|February 17th, 2012|metadata, News, Technology|Comments Off on Technology vs. Humans

Many articles have been written about the progress or avalanche (depending on your perspective) of technology and the resulting amount of data that has occurred from that growth. With the move into the clouds, the borders or walls have been removed on the boundaries of data created and accessed. From social media to medical applications, metadata is growing by astronomical numbers. So what new markets or new products are to come to handle this data volume?

Discovery Process Sees Many Changes

By Melody Smith|February 15th, 2012|metadata, News|Comments Off on Discovery Process Sees Many Changes

The latest version of Recommind’s Axcelerate(R) eDiscovery (4.3) has been released. This is the latest update for its unified eDiscovery suite.

Crowning the King of Data

By Melody Smith|February 14th, 2012|metadata, News|Comments Off on Crowning the King of Data

With a term like “Big Data” you almost expect to see a buff surfer dude as their icon. But Big Data isn’t an organization, it is a term that is used to describe advanced data storage and technologies designed to handle high volume or fast moving data.