Posts Tagged ‘Metadata’
New and Old Search
Search is not new. Finding the data you seek is not a new challenge. How this happens and the tools used to accomplish it, has changed. Business 2 Community brought this interesting information to us in their article, “Brave New World: The Future of Search.” It’s important to understand the evolution that has happened in search…
Read MoreMachine Learning and Data
Data storage is not a new subject. Granted before today’s massive data issues, organizations primarily stored their data in relational databases and mostly onsite. The late 1980’s brought about different options and most of those were offsite. DATAVERSITY brought this information to us in their article, “Machine Learning is Democratizing Big Data.” Machine learning is now changing…
Read MoreThe Trend in Reading
The popularity of e-books continues to rise and it isn’t surprising that the number of print book readers has dropped from the previous year. What is surprising is that the number of e-book readers has remained flat. Does this mean that book readers in general have decreased in numbers? This interesting information was brought to us…
Read MoreWorking Together Creates New Resources
The Global Academic Division of Oxford University Press (OUP) has entered into an agreement with Silverchair Information Systems to migrate its extensive portfolio of journals and many of its online products to a new publishing platform powered by Silverchair’s SCM technology. PRWeb brought this news to us in the release, “Oxford University Press Announces Agreement with…
Read MoreThe Value of Metadata
Metadata gets a lot of bad press. Between security breaches, snooping, and identity theft, it is no wonder this very valuable tool doesn’t get to show its positive attributes very easily. This interesting information came to our attention by Marketing Profs in their article, “Metadata Helps You Create Better Customer Experiences.” Customer service is a constantly…
Read MoreMake or Buy?
Homemade is often seen as better. It certainly applies to cakes, meatloaf and bread. Notice the baking theme there? But does it apply to homemade metadata management? It certainly has some limitations. Digital Book World brought this news to our attention in their article, “Homebrew Systems: How to Be More Efficient in Your Metadata.” These kinds of…
Read MoreCreative Storage Efforts
The growth of data has taken many by surprise and has impacted how we manage and govern data. We have been seeing new trends like mobile computing, cloud storage, and social media, to name a few. DATAVERSITY brought this news to us in their article, “Smart Data Governance.” According to TopQuadrant co-founder, CMO, and VP of Professional…
Read MoreImproving the Delivery
Amazon Web Services has launched a service to help customers build applications to connect devices through the cloud, the so-called “Internet of Things”. This interesting information came to us from Reuters in their article, “Amazon launches platform to build apps for ‘Internet of Things’.” The service is called AWS IoT and will allow factory floors, vehicles,…
Read MoreCategorizing the Sweets
When someone says Thanksgiving food, most people think turkey. But not everyone. For some, the end of the meal holds the greatest interest and treasures. Thus why this Dessert Taxonomy caught my eye on the blog, Bobulate. Whether it is the cookie classification or the pie category, the ooey gooey sweet treats that keeps the…
Read MoreTackling the Structures
Objectivity is another Silicon Valley firm working with databases and the like. Recently they debuted a new Hadoop-based product that addresses one of the looming challenges in the Internet of Things (IoT), that is “how to handle metadata management of big and fast streaming data.” One of the challenges in tackling big streaming data is…
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