Posts Tagged ‘Metadata’
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.
Read MoreDepartment 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.
Read MoreResearch and Development Project Might Be Changing the Future
LOD2 (Linked Open Data) is an EU co-funded project comprised of leading Linked Open Data technology researchers, companies, and service providers from across seven European countries. This 4-year collaborative research and development project is tasked with developing additional technology infrastructure and services that address new frontier challenges across government and industry.
Read MoreXBRL Adoption Is a Work in Progress
Despite efforts for industry to use Extensible Business Reporting Language (XRBL) to make financial data more transparent and more easily used, agency use of this software language has not been widely adopted. According to Danny Werfel, controller of the Office of Management and Budget, and director of the Office of Federal Financial Management, the use of XBRL in agency financials is a work in progress.
Read MoreStretching Taxonomy in a Social Way
We read with interest “A Revised Taxonomy of Social Networking Data.” In the last month, the arguments in the article have provided a framework for thinking about the amount of the information flowing through Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and other social media conduits.
Read MoreSpeedy Data Access
Solid-state storage drive maker STEC has introduced a new industrial-strength SSD aimed at enterprises deploying fast and/or continuous read/write workloads that include metadata logging, journaling and database indexing applications.
Read MoreCollaboration with Metadata Editing is Working
The changes happening with how metadata is edited and enhanced continue to create collaboration opportunities. The change we are now seeing is that bibliographic data is being edited more in a wiki-style than in the ways it was in the past and therefore, a big increase in the collaborative editing of shared bibliographic records.
Read MoreFinding Operational Business Intelligence in Unstructured Data
The unregulated growth of unstructured data has left many companies with terabytes of valuable business information locked inside obsolete data sitting idly by sucking up resources instead of providing revenue producing information. Digitiliti, Inc. finds the value of corporate data and transforms it into beneficial, contributing data.
Read MoreLinked Data, DOI, RDF, and Dublin Core
On a quest to reach the holy grail of the Semantic Web.
What started as a straightforward and elegant model by Eric Miller as the Resource Description Framework (RDF) has become incredibly complicated. When I first came upon this model, in the early days of the Dublin Core standard discussions, it was a framework. That is, it was a self describing way to transmit an XML file. The RDF formed a wrapper around the XML by including the XML Schema (DTD) so that whoever received the file would know what the elements, attributes, allowed ranges, etc. were, and be able to use the data included without further hunting for file descriptions, translations of the fields (elements), how they related, etc. RDF has grown up and become embroiled in discussions of triples, Subject-Object-Predicate discussions, and its use as the basis for linked data and even the basis for the final real implementation of the Semantic Web.
Read MoreSeminar Asking Tough Questions About OpenURL and Standards
An upcoming webinar that might be of interest to our readers is the “It’s Only as Good as the Metadata: Improving OpenURL and Knowledgebase Quality” on October 13, 2010.
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