By Melody Smith|August 26th, 2014|metadata, News|Comments Off on Using Data to the Maximum
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.
By Melody Smith|August 20th, 2014|metadata, News|Comments Off on The Power of Data
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.
By Melody Smith|August 18th, 2014|metadata, News|Comments Off on Recognition of Research Contributions
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.
By Melody Smith|August 15th, 2014|metadata, News|Comments Off on Keeping the Data Secure
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.
By Melody Smith|August 14th, 2014|indexing, metadata, News|Comments Off on Consuming Data is Big Business
Informatica Corporation has been chosen by Forrester Research as a leader in The Forrester Wave™: Data Governance Tools, Q2 2014.
By Melody Smith|August 11th, 2014|Access Insights, Featured, metadata, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Taxonomy in the Pipeline, Part 1: Introduction
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.
By Melody Smith|August 11th, 2014|metadata, News|Comments Off on Useful Metadata
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.
By Melody Smith|August 5th, 2014|indexing, metadata, News|Comments Off on The Size of the Data is the Challenge
Federal agencies manage on average 209 million records, or approximately 8.4 billion records for the entire federal government.
By Melody Smith|August 4th, 2014|indexing, metadata, News|Comments Off on History Just Got Bigger
EBSCO has increased the number of databases that are included in its policy for metadata sharing and technology collaboration partnerships with discovery vendors. A new total of 179 EBSCO full-text databases, as well as all 74 EBSCO full-text historical digital archives and all 550,000+ EBSCO eBooks will be available.
By Melody Smith|August 1st, 2014|metadata, News|Comments Off on Looking Closer at Data
Not all data is the same. We know this to be true. Sometimes there is just more to meet the eye, even if it is simple differences. For example, there is structured data and unstructured data.