Posts Tagged ‘Metadata’
The Value of a Taxonomy in Archiving
Archiving and storing historical records for the future is an admirable task. The North Vancouver Museum and Archives (NVMA) has been doing that since 1971. This interesting news came from the Eloquent blog in their post, “Online Archives promote Community Heritage. The NVMA acquires the records of organizations and individuals whose activities document the historical, social,…
Read MoreSiri-Like Applications Continue to Evolve
Graphics processing units or GPUs in semantic technology are not new. However, despite how mainstream they are and despite the fact that many recognizable applications like Siri use them, research is still being done to further explore deep learning, particularly with a semantic and natural language processing angle. This interesting information came from The Platform in…
Read MoreLearning Opportunity about Sharing Data
The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) is offering a unique webinar titled, “Overcoming Challenges to Sharing Data.” We were taught in kindergarten to share, and that is still a valuable practice today, especially in the world of data. Open source is a prime example of the interest in sharing research data. However, it…
Read MoreSize vs. Brains
Big data has spawned a new term – content intelligence. It is the combination of semantic technology and information science that allows machines to model, analyze, and visualize the human intelligence within an organization. That includes the reasoning processes that hide in e-mails, contracts, technical documents, meeting notes, etc. This interesting information came from DATAVERSITY in…
Read MoreThe Pitfalls of Big Data
What is a data swamp? Well, start with a data lake. It accepts any data, without oversight or governance. Without descriptive metadata and a mechanism to maintain it, the data lake risks turning into a data swamp. DATAVERSITY brought this interesting information to us in their article, “Avoiding Data Swamps with Big Data Governance.” Analysts…
Read MoreClassified Data
Classification influences many parts of our lives. For example, classifying students in special education programs as autistic has increased three hundred percent from 2000 to 2010 in the United States. Perspective is key here, as a huge portion of these students would have been diagnosed with another condition or disorder. In other words, they were…
Read MoreThe Tightening of Data Security
Security in technology and data is rapidly becoming a top priority, and rightly so. The massive hack of background check records at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) recently compromised the data of 21.5 million people. This interesting information came from USA Today in their article, “OPM says second hack affected more than 21M Americans.” As you…
Read MoreWebinar on Content Management
A slightly different but familiar learning opportunity has been announced. Content management tends to get lost in the midst of new technology and analytics. However, good old-fashioned content management still plays a pivotal role in an organization’s ability to manage input and output of information. It can also make the difference in whether the company…
Read MoreMetadata and Findability
When introduced, metadata was basic and easy. It was breadcrumbs that led you to the real data or file. Once you understood the right information to put into it, the concept itself was simple. What was clear has become murky. This interesting topic came from KMWorld in their article, “Dissolution of metadata.” If you think of metadata…
Read MorePaying it Forward
The UC Davis University Library and the California Digital Library are leading a new project to help define the future of open access to scholarship. The Davis Enterprise brought this information to us in their article, “UCD gets grant to look at open access to published research.” “Pay It Forward: Investigating a Sustainable Model of Open…
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