Posts Tagged ‘Metadata’
Metadata Analyst Position Available at Penguin Random House
To be as helpful as possible to those in the fields of taxonomy, indexing, semantic technology, and information science, we are sharing career opportunities that we find with our readers. 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 MoreAvoiding Data Breaches
Data breaches are a constant worry for most organizations. Recently, the ecommerce provider, Shopify, had a close encounter of the uncomfortable kind with their potential data breach. This interesting news came to us from eWeek in their article, “How Shopify Avoided a Data Breach, Thanks to a Bug Bounty.” Breaches occur way too frequently for…
Read MoreAge and Security Concerns
How safe is your personal data? Do you even know all the locations that holds your data? Work, home, social media? Don’t worry, few people do. I often hear some variation of the claim that “young people today just don’t care about privacy.” This is something that people widely seem to believe is “just true.” Protecting…
Read MoreMeta and Data
We talk a lot about metadata – its uses, benefits and role. Metadata often provides the key for businesses when integrating multiple software applications to determine how data from multiple systems relate to each other. Formtek brought this interesting topic to us in their blog post, “Metadata: Fuel that Powers System Integrations and AI Context Recognition.” Metadata…
Read MoreMaking the Content Richer
Intelligent content doesn’t mean multi-syllabic words that you need a dictionary to decipher. It is an “approach to the management of content as a business asset that includes content that is modular, structured, reusable, format-free, and semantically rich.” The result is discoverable content that is reconfigurable and adaptable for its creators. CMS Wire brought this…
Read MoreThe Original Metadata
Card catalogs have long been the map for finding materials in libraries. They were the original form of metadata. This interesting topic came to us from DATAVERSITY in their article, “Disrupting Metadata Management with Metadata Automation.” Metadata is “data about data”, in context. It supplies the “what, where, when, why, and how” of data. Metadata…
Read MoreMetadata and Business Intelligence
Business in changing and the world of data management is changing right along with it. Data warehousing and analytics are driving the push to modernize metadata management. This interesting information came to us from Transforming Data With Intelligence (TWDI) in their article, “How Modern Metadata Management Can Boost BI Productivity.” Why change? Why modernize metadata and…
Read MoreDigital Operations in Publishing Opportunity
To be as helpful as possible to those in the fields of taxonomy, indexing, semantic technology, ontology, etc., we are sharing career opportunities that we find with our readers. 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 are evolving.…
Read MoreDifferent Data, Different Needs
Unstructured data is information in many different forms that doesn’t fit conventional data models and therefore typically isn’t a good fit for a mainstream relational database. It’s the black sheep of data. Datanami brought this interesting information to our attention in their article, “5 Critical Steps for Identifying the Value in Your Unstructured Information.” Thanks to the…
Read MoreDigital Asset Librarian Opportunity
To be as helpful as possible to those in the fields of taxonomy, indexing, semantic technology, ontology, etc., we are sharing career opportunities that we find with our readers. 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 are evolving.…
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