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Rules of Records Management

By Melody Smith | July 13, 2015

Records management has become easier and more difficult all because of recent advancements in technology. With the speed of indexing and retrieving comes more rules and more regulations, which are often applied inconsistently. This topic came from ZDNet in their article, “Best practices for corporate data retention.” There are legal ramifications involved in corporate data…

Indexing History

By Melody Smith | June 30, 2015

In what feels timely but was actually an unplanned juxtaposition of events, the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society launches a new project. This comes just days after a gunman claimed nine lives at an historically black church in Charleston, South Carolina. The Emmanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church was built as a result of the abolitionist…

Cataloging the World

By Melody Smith | June 23, 2015

A new initiative of the Ancient World Mapping Center (AWMC) called Benthos aims to catalog and map the waters of the ancient Mediterranean basin. This information came from The Ancient World Online blog in their post, “Benthos: Digital Atlas of Ancient Waters beta version.” The project will incorporate physical landscape data for the ocean floor, coastlines, and…

Generating Data

By admin | June 9, 2015

Journals play a pivotal role in science and academia. Publishing in scholarly periodicals provides a path to disseminate our insights and bolster scientific communities. It can drive careers and foster knowledge. This interesting article was found on Phys.org in their article, “How journals shape science and academia.” But why is the journal the catalyst? There are a…

Watch Out for Karma

By Melody Smith | May 27, 2015

Karma is a free, open source data integration tool that makes it easier to convert data from a variety of formats into linked data. Appropriately, this information came from Open Source in their article, “Open source data integration with Karma.” Karma is a web-based tool that runs both the server and browser right on your machine.…

Flexibility for Users in Classification

By Melody Smith | May 6, 2015

TITUS has released Classification Suite 4. The new version of its data identification and information protection suite uses content and context to automatically classify and protect information as users handle it, and allows manual and guided classification for maximum flexibility and user engagement.

Google Brings Changes

By Melody Smith | May 5, 2015

A couple weeks ago, Google changed its algorithm to give preference to ‘mobile-friendly’ sites when users perform a search on a mobile device. The change was coined as ‘Mobilegeddon’ because of the potential to bury websites that haven’t been optimized to display correctly on various sizes of mobile devices, while also boosting the ranking of mobile-friendly sites.

Managing Your Assets

By Melody Smith | April 29, 2015

Extensis has released their modular digital asset management (DAM) system, Extensis Portfolio, with promises of transforming the user experience.

A Double Decker

By Melody Smith | April 28, 2015

I am a foodie and I write for a taxonomy blog. Of course I am going to share the latest taxonomy, “A Field Guide to the American Sandwich,” found in The New York Times.

Credit Where Credit is Due

By Melody Smith | April 28, 2015

No one will argue how helpful auto-classification or auto-indexing is to the world of making content findable. This interesting topic came from the blog post, “Jet Packs, Cars That Drive Themselves, and Autoclassification” from Earley & Associates.