Posts Tagged ‘Metadata’
Learning Opportunity This Week
Many organizations have content dispersed across multiple independent repositories and often without any metadata consistency. The attention given to enterprise data is often not extended to unstructured content, widening the gap between the two worlds and making it near impossible to provide accurate business intelligence, good user experience, or even basic findability. This very timely…
Read MoreSecure Your Data From Inside
Security with technology is a constant concern for most organizations. It might surprise some, but probably not all, that humans are the weakest link in the security chain. This information came from The Wall Street Journal in their article, “How to Improve Cybersecurity? Just Eliminate the Human Factor.” Training employees to make better decisions can…
Read MoreLibrary Data Open to Access
Helsinki University Library’s open data web service offers the vast majority of the library’s data in easy-to-use JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) format. This interesting news came from the blog post, “Helsinki University Library opens its data for the general public.” Citizens and businesses can retrieve library’s data from the service for personal or commercial purposes. There are…
Read MoreArchiving History
The new year starts differently for everyone. For New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, it begins with the daunting task of computerizing municipal records. Well, he is not personally taking on the task, but his administration is scanning millions of papers that have been stored away in private warehouses throughout the city and in New…
Read MoreMetadata as a Tool
The National Security Agency (NSA) has been given the green light when it comes to collecting telephone metadata after an Appeals Court decided to overrule the original judge. This information came to us from The Hosting News in their article, “NSA Given Permission by Appeals Court to Continue Collecting Metadata.” This comes two and a half…
Read MoreArtist Classified
You know my fascination with unique taxonomies and classifications. This past week, we lost a cultural icon in David Bowie’s death. So I consider this latest find a treasure. Vulture brought this one to us in their article, “A Taxonomy of David Bowie’s Many Personas and Their Many Imitators.” David Bowie’s musical influence has cast a…
Read MoreTechnology Can Be Hip
Technology and the fashion world have come together in one very interesting way. A search engine called Donde Fashion now enables fashionistas around the world to look for clothing, shoe and handbag brands by using artificial intelligence technology. iDigitalTimes brought this interesting news to us in their article, “Donde Fashion’ App Lets You Curate Your Dream Closet Using…
Read MoreWorking Together Produces Results
Alfresco Software has announced their integration with Amazon Aurora. This new partnership will allow Alfresco One Enterprise 5.0 users to benefit from Amazon Web Services (AWS) newest database’s scale, services and cost structure. Business Wire brought this news to us in their article, “Alfresco Supports Integration With Amazon Aurora.” Amazon Aurora is a MySQL-compatible relational database…
Read MoreProper Records Management Practices
There have been some concerns in the Australian government information-handling in the transition to a digital records management system. This interesting topic was brought to us by Lexology in their article, “Records management refresher: Make sure you’re not a paper dinosaur or a digital disaster.” The concerns aren’t limited to just them however. It is typical…
Read MoreManaging the Flow of Data
As more and more apps move to a cloud infrastructure, it becomes difficult to ascertain important information like data acquisition and placement. Tech Target brought this news to us in their article, “How the cloud complicates the data processing pipeline.” Cloud services have given application developers and IT architects an unprecedented level of choice and flexibility when planning…
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