Metadata – Page 61

Metadata Has Limitless Potential

By Melody Smith | August 28, 2014

Concept Searching released an article, Don’t Enhance SharePoint – Transform it through Metadata, in KMWorld recently. In the article, they point out that metadata is the source of business challenges impacting search, records management, security, and text analytics, among others.

Big Data as a Tool for Historians

By Melody Smith | August 26, 2014

Big data has accumulated quite the reputation. Many possibly exaggerated claims have been made about its potential. Nothing short of saving lives and the universe, of course. But can it rewrite history?

Using Data to the Maximum

By Melody Smith | August 26, 2014

A new partnership of the French IT services group Bull and search and analytics company Sinequa is positioned to provide an appliance based on Bull’s Bullion X86 server and Sinequa’s real-time Big Data search and analysis software platform.

The Power of Data

By Melody Smith | August 20, 2014

Former head of the National Security Agency (NSA) General Michael Hayden shared that information collected by the NSA about phone calls and other communications that does not include content can still tell the government all they need to know for strategic decisions.

Recognition of Research Contributions

By Melody Smith | August 18, 2014

Belated congratulations to the recipients of the 2014 Outstanding Research and Scholarship Awards from Kent State University. The recipients included an internationally recognized social geographer, a metadata expert and a leading researcher in the science of liquid crystals and nanomaterials.

Keeping the Data Secure

By Melody Smith | August 15, 2014

BIO-key International has introduced a new technology that provides large-scale fingerprint matching speeds and outperforms previous fingerprint matching platforms in terms of speed.

Consuming Data is Big Business

By Melody Smith | August 14, 2014

Informatica Corporation has been chosen by Forrester Research as a leader in The Forrester Wave™: Data Governance Tools, Q2 2014.

Taxonomy in the Pipeline, Part 1: Introduction

By Melody Smith | August 11, 2014

It can be tempting to look at a taxonomy and only see it in terms of the search results generated from it. That part of it is very important, no doubt, but taxonomies have far-reaching tendrils that extend deep into many industries, especially publishing. They work subtly and are often invisible to the end user, but the effects can be incredibly powerful.

Useful Metadata

By Melody Smith | August 11, 2014

Metadata is everywhere, whether you are talking about photo files, telephone calls, or books. The fear of metadata is also everywhere. To simplify things, when we’re talking about books, it simply means all the information about your book that isn’t the story itself.