Posts Tagged ‘Metadata’
Digital Data
New doesn’t last long anymore. Technology and innovation happen so fast that what was new today will indeed be old tomorrow. Publishers Weekly brought this news to us in their article, “Reflections on Metadata.” However, in the digital word, the ability to repurpose content or make it more discoverable or findable has never been more potent.…
Read MoreMetadata in Advertising
The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) has introduced the industry’s first standard for dynamic digital advertising. This interesting information came to us from Ad Exchanger in their article, “The IAB’s Dynamic Ad Standard Will Bridge The Divide Between Data And Creativity.” The IAB Dynamic Content Ad Standard provides a detailed schema for how constituents across the digital ad…
Read MoreNavigating Libraries Shouldn’t Be This Hard
In December of 2015 I took a break from business meetings and conferences and went over to visit the King’s Library at the British Museum. I had not been there in a while, but I knew that the 60,000 book collection of King George III was moved there in 1823. It is in a beautiful…
Read MoreChanges in Publishing
Scholarly publishing as an industry has changed, dare we say evolved, over the last few decades. Some of this was by design and some was forced adaptation to a new reality. The Scholarly Kitchen brought this information to our attention in their article, “A Quick Tour Around the World of Scholarly Journal Publishing.” This reality consists of…
Read MoreNew Concept for Search
Concept Searching recently announced the availability of conceptClassifier for Hybrid Search. This particular utility can auto-classify content in both SharePoint Online and SharePoint on-premises when it is being indexed by Microsoft Online Search. Benzinga brought this news to our attention in their article, “Concept Searching Announces Hybrid Search Capabilities.” The resulting metadata is stored directly in the Microsoft Search…
Read MoreChallenges of Securing Data
Metadata continues to accumulate at an unfathomable rate. Every digital transaction – conversation, purchase, or data transfer – adds to the pile. Techcrunch brought this news to us in their article, “Digital toxic waste (or why metadata shouldn’t live forever).” We have been led to believe that metadata is nothing to worry about. It is only the content that adds up.…
Read MoreA Computer Orders Pizza and the Crowd Explodes
Semantic technology has come a long way, baby. This is illustrated in the recent announcement that Siri’s creators had successfully placed an order for pizza with voice commands. IT ProPortal brought this news to us in their article, “Metadata: How businesses can use it to its fullest.” Granted, pizza alone is worth a celebration, but in…
Read MoreSharePoint Surprises Users with Sneak Peek and Early Delivery
Microsoft is offering a sneak peek of the first Feature Pack for SharePoint Server 2016, which is set to arrive in November. This interesting news came to us from eWeek in their article, “Microsoft Previews SharePoint Server 2016 Feature Pack 1.” When Microsoft released SharePoint Server 2016 in May, it pledged to periodically release Feature Packs…
Read MoreThe Data on Data
Big data is a term that has been thrown around for a while now. And while data is indeed growing exponentially – 90% of the data that currently exists was created in just the last two years – big data is about more than volume. The Guardian brought this interesting information to our attention in their…
Read MoreMetadata’s Role in Big Data
The world seems focused on big data and the perceived power it has to accelerate business success. Ironically one of the biggest challenges in IT today is the underutilization of data. IOT Evolution World brought this information to us in their article, “Leveraging Metadata to Overcome the Challenges of Dark Data in the IoT Era.” Some refer…
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