Metadata in the Music Industry
It’s not exactly the group of people you would expect to be discussing metadata, but this is just another example of how metadata touches […]
Classifying the Classics
By Melody Smith|May 27th, 2016|News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Classifying the Classics
Taxonomy is about naming and classifying. That can be animals, minerals, music or even genres of literature. This interesting information came to us from The […]
Preserving Time and History
By Melody Smith|May 24th, 2016|indexing, News, reference|Comments Off on Preserving Time and History
The Associated Press (AP) has turned to digital preservation specialist Preservica to safeguard its corporate records and news wire services. CMS Wire brought this interesting information […]
Learning More About the Power of Metadata
DATAVERSITY is offering another learning opportunity in the form of a webinar. This time you will learn how to use metadata to not just follow paths, […]
Fighting Cybersecurity with Metadata
By Melody Smith|May 17th, 2016|metadata, News|Comments Off on Fighting Cybersecurity with Metadata
Metadata, the information that describes data, can provide a lot of context to the content itself, without knowing the content. This interesting information came to […]
An Experience in Connections
Last year, the Public Library of Science (PLOS) shared their experience in exploring how they might link PLOS Subject Area terms to related concepts outside […]
Expanded Digital Library Enhances Findings
By Melody Smith|May 10th, 2016|metadata, News, search|Comments Off on Expanded Digital Library Enhances Findings
HathiTrust Research Center has expanded its services to now support computational research of the world’s largest digital library collection housed by HathiTrust. This interesting […]
One More Time With Feeling
In keeping with the music theme from last week’s post about naming music groups, and in light of recent events associated with Prince’s death, as well as the American Libraries Associations Preservation Week, let’s discuss what happens when archival and general search produces bad results. […]
New Additions to EBSCO’s Digital Archives
Digital magazine archives from EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO) are now available for five Time Inc. brands, including the complete, extensive and searchable digital versions […]
Recording History for Future Searchers
By Melody Smith|April 19th, 2016|indexing, News, search|Comments Off on Recording History for Future Searchers
Recording history is just one use of indexing data, but it is a pretty important one. Seventy years after World War II and the […]