Posts Tagged ‘Metadata’
Metadata and Taxonomies – Same or?
For those not in the information science business, confusion happens around the difference between metadata and a taxonomy. For those in the information science business, this may seem unlikely. To make it as simple as possible – metadata is data about data. Think of metadata as information about an asset beyond the basic filename. Any…
Read MoreTechnology Being Designed to Identify Danger
In this world of angst and anger, how can we detect criminal intentions and hate speech in non-physical places? Bio Med Central brought this interesting information to our attention in their article, “Hate is in the air! But where? Introducing an algorithm to detect hate speech in digital microenvironments.” In a new paper published in Crime Science, researchers define…
Read MoreManaging Data in All Sizes
Managing data can be a challenge for any size of organization. At the rate that data is generated these days, it will only become a larger problem. Inside Big Data brought this topic to our attention in their article, “Overwhelmed by Data? Here’s How to Get Control of It.” In 2017 there were nearly 9 billion…
Read MoreOpen Access Win
A new national open access agreement has been announced with the Austrian Academic Library Consortium (KEMÖ) and the Austrian Science Fund. Through this national agreement, some seventeen Austrian institutions will cover the article processing charges of manuscripts published by eligible corresponding or funded authors in MDPI journals as long as central funds are available. This interesting…
Read MorePublishing Trends Identified
A recent survey of publishers with journals indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) revealed trends in the way that content is published, what types of organizations are publishing the content, how publishing standards are being accepted globally and geographical trends on the uptake of open access. This interesting topic came to us from the DOAJ…
Read MoreThe Good and Bad of Digital Technology
New technologies are not always a good thing. Yes, they often provide life saving and life changing solutions. But sometimes they present great risks and opportunities for humanitarian action. This interesting news came to us from IFEX in their article, “The humanitarian metadata problem – Doing no harm in the digital era.” To ensure that their use…
Read MoreThe Value of Meta Tags
The important role that meta tags play in indexing and making content findable has never been more needed. These pieces of information are added to the code of a web page that describe the page’s content, without actually appearing on the page itself, but act like invisible breadcrumbs for the searchers and queries to find the content for which…
Read MoreManaging the Most Precious Resource – Data
ASG Technologies recently released ASG Data Intelligence 9.8, an updated release of its metadata management, data governance and data catalog solution. Business Wire brought this news to us from their article, “ASG Technologies’ Latest Release of its Data Intelligence Solution Accelerates Automated Identification of Personal Data Across the Enterprise Data Estate.” The latest ASG release has already…
Read MoreData Storage Systems of the Future
Too often data professionals find themselves at a loss when it comes to the rich metadata within large enterprise resource planning (ERP) and customer relationship management (CRM) applications. DATAVERSITY.net brought this interesting information to our attention in their article, “The Value of Strong Metadata Discovery.” It can be an expensive and time-consuming endeavor to pull relevant data…
Read MoreFaceted Search and Controlled Vocabularies
The concept of faceted classification is decades old, and controlled vocabularies go back even further. A faceted classification scheme is actually a special case of what are called controlled vocabularies. This topic came from CMS Wire in their article, “A DAM Glossary of Common Terms.” A controlled vocabulary is an authoritative list of preferred terms used to…
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