Taxodiary – Findability

The Value of Professionals

By Melody Smith|January 7th, 2015|News|Comments Off on The Value of Professionals

The value of and need for information professionals in a corporate environment is being argued in this interesting discussion from the Answer Maven blog in their post, "Information Professionals: High Value Investments for Corporate Workplaces."

99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall

By Melody Smith|January 5th, 2015|indexing, metadata, News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on 99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall

Taxonomies and classifications are not only helpful, but critical to making your content findable. This is true regardless of the topic or data - even when it is beer.

Bringing It All Together

By Melody Smith|January 1st, 2015|metadata, News, search|Comments Off on Bringing It All Together

The launch of Salesforce Files Connect allows files from on-premises Microsoft SharePoint to be brought into a company's cloud workflow.

e-Discovery Doesn’t Have to Be Scary

By Melody Smith|December 31st, 2014|indexing, metadata, search, Taxonomy, Term lists|Comments Off on e-Discovery Doesn’t Have to Be Scary

The word discovery causes anxiety in some and th term “e-discovery” is even scarier to some. Somehow despite the fact that we use technology on a daily basis, there is still resistance to incorporating digital evidence into a case.

Searching the Clouds

By Melody Smith|December 30th, 2014|metadata, News, search|Comments Off on Searching the Clouds

The cloud storage industry is centered on managing the demands of big data. In this process, cloud technology vendors are moving to better search abilities as well as organizing the vast amount of data collected.

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.