Taxodiary – Findability

Recording History

By Melody Smith|December 26th, 2014|indexing, metadata, News|Comments Off on Recording History

World War II veterans' average age is roughly 91 years old. So it is past time to record their stories to be sure history is not lost. Officials in a Tennessee county are doing just that.

Findability During Discovery

By Melody Smith|December 25th, 2014|indexing, metadata, News, search|Comments Off on Findability During Discovery

Preservica has recently announced a series of new connectors that make it easy for records managers to securely preserve Microsoft SharePoint content and Microsoft Outlook email and attachments for the long term.

The Value of Taxonomies

By Melody Smith|December 24th, 2014|indexing, News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on The Value of Taxonomies

The release of SemantiCz™ v2.0 with new features can help generate relationships with precise, subject-specific contextual accuracy. Users will be able to manage multiple versions of domain-specific ontologies and vocabularies in various languages, as well as extract relationships from content using advanced text mining algorithms.

Bringing Art Out Into the Open

By Melody Smith|December 22nd, 2014|metadata, News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Bringing Art Out Into the Open

The first Smithsonian museum to digitize their collections calls the project Digital Zero. They have photographed and uploaded the entire collection into a digital asset management (DAM) system. That is more than 40,000 objects and almost double that number in images. This is a great opportunity for scholars and researchers as well as everyday virtual visitors to have 24/7 access to this collection of art.

Beefing Up the Search

By Melody Smith|December 17th, 2014|News, search|Comments Off on Beefing Up the Search

Nuix recently launched version 6.0 of its search, e-discovery, and analytics engine. This new version adds new data formats, languages, and operating systems, as well as new ways to group and filter important data types.

Reference Works Available

By Melody Smith|December 15th, 2014|indexing, metadata, News, reference|Comments Off on Reference Works Available

Information Services & Use, a highly respected journal in the area of information science and technology, is sharing in their latest issue, a selection of papers presented at the 9th conference of Academic Publishing in Europe earlier in 2014, combined with a selection of papers of the 18th International Conference on Electronic Publishing mid-year in Greece.

Strong Records Management is Required

By Melody Smith|December 12th, 2014|indexing, metadata, News|Comments Off on Strong Records Management is Required

One Minnesota county is expecting a new records management system to streamline processes and procedures for all county law enforcement and institute a countywide electronic ticketing system.

Maintaining the Metadata

By Melody Smith|December 9th, 2014|indexing, metadata, News, search|Comments Off on Maintaining the Metadata

The National Archives may be second-guessing its stamp of approval on the plan to destroy e-mail messages sent by CIA non-senior officials. The CIA's plan is raising concerns from other parties as well.

Smart Data

By Melody Smith|December 2nd, 2014|metadata, News|Comments Off on Smart Data

Big data was all the rage in the last few years, but now, it is just data. Big indicated something new, a larger amount of data than ever before. But now the increase is normal. It is still big but the expected size. Information technology leaders are now looking at how to get the most out of the investments they’ve made in the technology to handle such data

Setting Up a Path

By Melody Smith|November 25th, 2014|indexing, metadata, News, search|Comments Off on Setting Up a Path

Digirati and the Semantic Web Company (SWC) are joining together in a new services initiative to deliver semantic publishing solutions for specialist online publishers. The new partnership will bring solutions to managing traditional content managed websites and portals by creating a higher level of content findability.