Posts Tagged ‘Metadata’
Governing all the Data
While we are consistently creating data and analyzing it to use in our businesses, we often forget to reflect on the value of the data that is being collected. Businesses are aware of the data quality issues throughout their organizations, but many face the challenge of how to tackle it, unaware of simple steps that can be…
Read MoreFree Webinar Address Metadata
The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) is offering a free webinar titled, “The Metadata Power Hour.” In very practical ways, metadata has different implications for different roles in scholarly communications and like so many topics close to us, it can be hard to sift through the available information to find out what…
Read MoreStructured Taxonomy Designer Opportunity
To be as helpful as possible to those in the fields of taxonomy, indexing, ontology, archiving, etc., we are sharing with our readers any career opportunities that we find. Even if you are not in the market for a career move, it is always good to stay on top of what is available and how the fields…
Read MoreDigital Data Archives
The new decade is here and among others, the media archive landscape is going through significant changes. TV Technology brought this topic to our attention in their article, “Using The Cloud To Unlock The Value Of Your Assets.” Media archive is often referred to as a digital asset management system (DAM). The need and desire to…
Read MoreFindability with Metadata
Metadata has made the news for great things and not so great things. What does the future look like for this informational and findability tool? The answer may be in traditional data warehousing principles. Upside brought this to our attention in their article, “Where Next for Metadata.” Data lakes have a reputation of being the most…
Read MoreProfit from Data
Data is available at enormous scale, driven by billions of interconnected interactions between people, businesses and devices/things. How does an organization move up the information value curve to create client value, unique differentiation, and command higher margins to grow the business without taking advantage of that data? To some, data monetization feels like a dirty…
Read MoreDigital Assets and Taxonomies
An organization’s content is valuable. More and more content is digital-based and protecting it while providing quick access is the challenge. There are solutions and tools to help. Digital assets management (DAM) programs assist with storage, indexing and findability. However, surveys show that only about half of the content gets implemented successfully, which is disappointing because a successful DAM…
Read MoreMetadata, Ontologies and Taxonomies
Ontologies, the study about the existence of things, use a shared vocabulary to describe components of a particular discipline and the relationships among these components. When it comes to computer science and the information sciences in general, an ontology describes a representation of something. This interesting topic came to us from Toolbox in their article, “Does metadata…
Read MoreImproving Data Sharing
Better data sharing. Dare I say, duh? This feels like we are preaching to the choir, but Scholarly Kitchen brought this interesting topic to our attention in their article, “The Need to Simplify Indexing and Data Sharing.” The current system for indexing and sharing content and data has room for improvements. More efficiency and better…
Read MoreThe Data Harmony Users Group 2020 Meeting is Open for Registration
Registration is open for the annual Data Harmony Users Group (DHUG) meeting. Access Innovations, Inc., provider of Data Harmony software solutions, is proud to announce the meeting will be held February 18 and 19, 2020 at the Hotel Andaluz in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The meeting is open to current and prospective clients as well as…
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