By Melody Smith|October 18th, 2010|metadata, News, storage|Comments Off on The Clouds Have Become Autonomous
Autonomy Corp. has announced that its private cloud computing platform has reached a new data processing milestone of 17 Petabytes of e-mail, multimedia data, and documents stored on 6,500 servers on 8 data centers spread around the world. For the record, one Petabyte is equal to 1,024 Terabytes. Petabytes are used solely to measure the storage space of multiple hard drives.
By Melody Smith|October 18th, 2010|metadata, News, Uncategorized|Comments Off on EBSCO Enables Psychological Association to Be Searchable
EBSCO Publishing and the American Psychological Association (APA) will bring metadata, including full-text searching, for three APA resources to the EDS Base Index allowing the rich APA content to better impact searching through the EDS single search interface.
By Melody Smith|October 15th, 2010|Business Intelligence, Business strategy, indexing, metadata, News|Comments Off on What to do with all this data?
Large institutions have massive amounts of data in this modern age, the question is what to do with all of it. Extracting the right information can help avoid waste, delays, systems failures, even terrorist threats. A perfect example is Toyota’s customer support and repair data. If business intelligence had been applied and management had been looking, they would have noticed that something was going terribly wrong.
By Melody Smith|October 12th, 2010|indexing, metadata, News, Technology|Comments Off on Publishers Adapting to a Faster Audience
Things have been changing in the global publishing industry. Some are obvious, but many of the underlying trends are more subtle and relate to the changing audience and their behaviors, i.e. usage patterns. This is referred to as "Audience 2.0." Publishers are looking for ways to react to the current changes in the media industry and position themselves as long-term survivors and leaders.
By Melody Smith|October 12th, 2010|indexing, metadata, News|Comments Off on Preventing Duplication of Content
Identifying on-site content duplication when you have thousands of pages on your site is not a walk in the park. It isn’t just copy you need to be concerned with, title elements and metatagging should be considered as well.
By Melody Smith|October 11th, 2010|metadata, News|Comments Off on Need High Rankings? Watch Your Use of Keywords
Meta tags have been around since the beginning of this thing we call the Internet. We all know how it works, write an article promoting a business, product, etc. and if the just right amount of keywords are sprinkled throughout, kaboom your page has a high ranking. The higher the better, but there is a fine line.
By Melody Smith|October 6th, 2010|News, reference, Taxonomy, Technology|Comments Off on IISEIE Releases New Online Content Catalog
The International Institute of International Software Economies, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Inc (IISEIE) has released their new online Content Catalogue. IISEIE Content and Program Catalogue is an interactive repository designed to execute initiatives in their local software economies.
By Melody Smith|October 6th, 2010|metadata, News, semantic|Comments Off on Semantic Technology Gets Another User
Trying to filter and make sense of the real-time stream of data that comes from Twitter and other social networks, new start-up Tweetbeat offers something other services can’t - four years’ worth of semantic analysis and taxonomic structure.
By Melody Smith|October 5th, 2010|metadata, News|Comments Off on Managing Data – An ongoing process
Queplix Virtual Data Manager (QVDM) automates application and data integration and provides ongoing data harmonization while enabling a consistent view of customer, product, and financial data so that vital information remains accurate across software systems.
By Melody Smith|October 1st, 2010|metadata, News|Comments Off on Department of Defense Contracts Go To FGM
FGM receives contracts from the Department of Defense (DoD) to design, develop, and maintain the Net-Centric Enterprise Services (NCES) Service Discovery, Metadata Services, and Enterprise Service Management capabilities.