By Melody Smith|November 25th, 2010|metadata, News|Comments Off on Open Source Product Helps Maintain Data Integrity
Esri Geoportal Server is a free, open source product that helps organizations manage and publish metadata for their geospatial resources. With Esri Geoportal Server, users can reduce time and redundancy of data production by connecting geospatial data and service producers with consumers.
By Melody Smith|November 25th, 2010|metadata, News|Comments Off on The Future of Bibliographic Data
The surge in activity around open bibliographic metadata was noted and discussed on the blog, Information Environment Team. The British Library and the CERN library are two notable examples of libraries that have decided to release their bibliographic metadata under an open license. Equally as interesting is websites such as Open library and biblios.net engaging in the collection and reuse of open bibliographic metadata.
By Melody Smith|November 24th, 2010|metadata, News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Digital Asset Management as Curriculum
Matthew Gonnering, CEO of Widen Enterprises, recently spoke to Digital Asset Management (DAM) students at the Columbia University School of Continuing Education about the definitions, growth, advantages and challenges of implementing DAM SaaS solutions in a variety of businesses and organizations.
By Melody Smith|November 24th, 2010|metadata, News|Comments Off on Cloud vs. Cloud
There seems to be cloud computing associations appearing on a daily basis. The two most recent are the Open Data Center Alliance and the Asian Cloud Computing Association. One columnist looks at what they have in common and most importantly, what they don’t.
By Melody Smith|November 23rd, 2010|indexing, metadata, News, storage|Comments Off on Expanding Cloud Computing Strategy
IBM is leading a joint research initiative of 15 European partners to develop a smart cloud storage architecture, which will improve the global delivery of rich data and storage services across boundaries of countries and vendors. Tackling the major challenges facing today's storage clouds, the consortium partners include standards bodies, media companies, telecommunications companies, healthcare companies, academic institutions and more.
By Melody Smith|November 22nd, 2010|metadata, News, ontology|Comments Off on The Future of Collaboration and Transparency
Unstructured information continues to grow and this provides a unique opportunity for government to reach beyond the traditional relational databases. Last week, government employees and industry experts met at the MarkLogic Government Summit to discuss best practices and the importance of implementing technology solutions capable of leveraging unstructured information.
By Melody Smith|November 19th, 2010|metadata, News|Comments Off on Clean Conversion is The Goal
SeeUnity has launched the Conversion Utility for Open Text eDOCS (eDOCS), customized for transferring content, metadata, users and security, from eDOCS 6 to eDOCS 5.
By Melody Smith|November 18th, 2010|indexing, metadata, News, semantic|Comments Off on New Product Release Addresses Content Intelligence
salsaDev SA is releasing its new product, salsaAPI 2.0, leveraging the 2nd generation of its flagship technology. salsaAPI automates text analysis and semantic indexing on large volumes of information, helping organizations reach the next level of content intelligence.
By Melody Smith|November 18th, 2010|indexing, metadata, News|Comments Off on New Partnership Yields Secure, Efficient Electronic Recording
DocVerify has partnered with Ingeo Systems to provide expanded services to its core customers, including electronic recording applications. The company’s flagship products include E-Signatures, an innovation that has ushered signatures into the modern age, and E-Vault, a revolutionary electronic solution designed to protect documents’ authenticity and integrity, thus protecting them against forgery, fraud and theft.
By Melody Smith|November 18th, 2010|metadata, News|Comments Off on Going Digital in Nigerian Libraries
Nigerian Former Minister of Defense, Dr Olu Agunloye is advocating for the introduction of Information Communication Technology (ICT) into the library system in the nation education sector. The fears of loss of jobs by librarians due to the digital library was allayed by Dr. Agunloye at the 30th Annual Seminar of the Nigerian Library Association (cataloguing, classification and indexing section) in Akure.