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 […]
Joining the Game
Machine Zone is known as a top-ranked mobile game company, but now it has launched a platform that lets other companies license its cloud technology that […]
Metadata’s Role
By Melody Smith|March 31st, 2016|metadata, News|Comments Off on Metadata’s Role
The word “metadata” has been spoken so many times in news reports over the past few years that it is surely now part of […]
Educational Opportunity on Dealing with Big Data
By Melody Smith|March 30th, 2016|metadata, News|Comments Off on Educational Opportunity on Dealing with Big Data
Sometimes great learning opportunities pass us by because it didn’t fit with our schedule to attend a seminar or even a webinar. This time […]
Utilizing Metadata for Content Recognition
By Melody Smith|March 30th, 2016|metadata, News, Technology|Comments Off on Utilizing Metadata for Content Recognition
Metadata is useful for many things. We rely on properly applied metadata to search at the speed we need to find the data we seek. […]