Posts Tagged ‘Metadata’
Metadata and Its Friends
You have heard of metadata, but do you know what it is or why is it so important? This interesting information came to us from Dataconomy in their article, “What is Metadata and Why is it as Important as the Data Itself?” Metadata is explained in a few different ways. Some say it is data that…
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A historian, a librarian and a snowman walked into a bar. What? You have heard this one already? Recently, the American Historical Association (AHA) held its annual conference in Denver, Colorado. The conference started on a Thursday, just like the snow and freezing temperatures. The attendees were from all around the world and not all…
Read MoreMetadata Tells All
Last fall, a federal court ruling revealed that CSIS, Canada’s CIA analog, operated a secret metadata collection program for a decade, collecting metadata in all information—time stamps, locations, names and numbers. This interesting information came from Motherboard in their article, “How Metadata Can Reveal What Your Job Is.” As if metadata didn’t already have a bad…
Read MoreLearning Opportunity That Addresses Indexing
The Association of American Publishers’ (AAP) Professional & Scholarly Publishing (PSP) Division is offering another exciting educational opportunity (in person or via webinar). This time the PSP Books Committee will be hearing from guest speaker Pat Carlson, VP Metadata Standards & Bibliographic Control at Alexander Street, a ProQuest Company, to speak about metadata and indexing data for multimedia collections…
Read MoreImproving Data
Data lakes can transform enterprise decision making by putting far more data in the hands of far more users far more quickly than ever before. This interesting information came to us from Inside Big Data in their article, “Creating a Virtuous Quality Cycle in Your Data Lake.” Data lakes can also improve the quality of…
Read MoreLearning from the Data
Obtaining valuable insights faster from large, diverse data sets seems to be the primary goal in business. Unfortunately, the current options don’t work all that well — the data warehouse and conventional data lake, as well as Hadoop-based point solutions, all have their challenges. This interesting information came to us from the Smart Data Collective in…
Read MoreManaging the Metadata
New open metadata management capabilities are being added to the DMX-h data integration software from Synscort. This information came to us from Database Trends and Applications in their article, “Syncsort Adds Metadata Management Capabilities to its Platform.” This new feature along with its seamless integration with Cloudera Navigator will make big data governance easier. “We want to…
Read MoreDrowning in Data
It is predicted that by 2020 there will be three times as many connected devices in the world as people; thus the growth of the Internet of Things (IoT). This interesting information came to us from MeriTalk in their article, “Metadata Separates Data Lakes From Data Swamps.” Information from all of those devices will feed into…
Read MoreMetadata in Health Data
Reliable metadata is the key to leveraging semantic computing and predictive analytics for better healthcare, including population health management and crisis care. Health IT Analytics brought this interesting information to our attention in their article, “Semantic Computing, Predictive Analytics Need Reliable Metadata.” The healthcare industry is close to the saturation point of electronic health record (EHR) adoption. This doesn’t…
Read MoreUsing Metadata Appropriately
Metadata is used for many things, even in addition to the ones the NSA uses. In publishing, one of the simplest ways online to get more hits for your book is to have good descriptive metadata. Digital Book World brought this news to us in their article, “An Introduction to Effective and Descriptive Metadata.” Descriptive metadata is…
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