Posts Tagged ‘Metadata’
Metadata Retention Concerns
The proposed changes to telecommunications law in the Austrailian parliament has some worried and others concerned. Metadata retention, online privacy, and telecommunications industry worries are certainly hot topics, but how important are they to the average Australian? What is the impact on their privacy?
Read MoreMaking Digital Content Findable
A National Institutes of Health (NIH) program is planned to consolidate a massive amount of scattered biomedical research data. It was recently announced that the program will include the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine, which received a $9.2 million grant.
Read MoreCall for Papers for IASSIST
There is a call for papers for the next International Association for Social Science Information Services & Technology (IASSIST) conference in June of 2015. IASSIST is an international organization of professionals working in and with information technology and data services to support research and teaching in the social sciences.
Read MoreEnhanced Ways to Find Enhanced Data
Researchers at the University of Liverpool’s Institute of Infection and Global Health are building the world’s most comprehensive database describing human and animal pathogens.
Read MoreCrosses All Trends
Records management is coming out of the closet and embracing technology as it marches into the future. It has been viewed as an administrative requirement, afterthought, and cumbersome task for quite some time.
Read MoreThe Use of Data in Election Cycles
Election Day has once again come and gone. Incumbents are ousted, bills are passed, and the political ads have finally stopped, so now the fallout begins. But regardless of where you fall on the political spectrum, there’s one thing you can be sure of: lobbying groups and political campaigns have utilized Big Data to try to secure your vote and will place an increasing amount of importance on it. On a smaller level, data analysis been happening in this realm for years, but really, it became huge during President Barack Obama’s 2012 reelection campaign.
Read MoreNew Thesaurus, New Resources
The 2014 edition of the CAB Thesaurus was published this summer (July 2014) by CABI, an inter-governmental, not-for-profit organization seeking to improve people’s lives worldwide by providing information and applying scientific expertise to solve problems in agriculture and the environment.
Read MoreSimplifying the Complicated
Instead of the intimidating task of barcoding and physically storing almost 200 years worth of court and land transaction paperwork, a New York county administration chose to invest in a Laserfiche document processing system. In the end it is projected they will save nearly $5.5 million on document management.
Read MoreMetadata Proves Value
CyanLine has released a computer forensic imaging system, the Fast Disk Acquisition System (FDAS), that can provide additional evidence not detected with other technologies. This evidence is vital metadata that reveals how many times a computer device was turned on, and the number of hours that it has been in use.
Read MoreThe Dets on Data
The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) Big Data Working Group recently released the Big Data Taxonomy Report, a report to help decision makers understand and navigate the myriad choices within the big data designation.
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