By Melody Smith|May 16th, 2014|indexing, metadata, News|Comments Off on Confetti City
When you hear National Shredding Day do images of Wall Street scandals come to mind? Good, I am not alone. That is what I immediately thought of when I read about the first ever free shredding day in the UK. More than two tons of paper was shredded in Enfield Town in an effort to dispense of unwanted paperwork.
By Melody Smith|May 12th, 2014|metadata, News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on The Other Side of Metadata
The first three days of public hearings on the latest revisions of the Telecommunications Act seemed to focus on the collection of telecommunications metadata without a warrant by government agencies. There were many questioning government intelligence and law enforcement agencies over their warrantless collection of telecommunications metadata under the current legislation.
By Melody Smith|May 2nd, 2014|indexing, metadata, News|Comments Off on Thinking Outside the Data
The Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters has released a preview of ScholarOne Web Services, a holistic approach to integration that will enable publishers to discover connections between shared research and ultimately streamline the publishing process.
By Melody Smith|April 30th, 2014|Access Insights, Autoindexing, indexing, metadata, News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Data Harmony Release Contains Exciting New Features
Last week Access Innovations released Data Harmony 3.9 and all week long we shared some of our own developers' favorite new features. It was nice to see KM World lift up some of the other great new features available in their article, "Content enrichment from Access Innovations."
By Melody Smith|April 24th, 2014|Business Intelligence, metadata, News|Comments Off on Using Metadata to Revisit History
We shared an article here last year about using metadata to find Paul Revere. It was sort of "tongue in cheek" but a good example of how much power metadata possesses and the positive uses for it.
By Melody Smith|April 10th, 2014|indexing, metadata, News|Comments Off on Embracing Knowledge Management
KM Institute (KMI) just offered its first Certified Knowledge Specialist (CKS) 4-day class this week in Reston, VA. Why are we talking about something that has already happened? The CKS is a new Certification by KMI designed to take a deeper focus a specific knowledge management-related topic. In this case, the focus was on Taxonomy and Search Solutions.
By Melody Smith|March 26th, 2014|Access Insights, indexing, metadata, News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Records Management in the Court System
Of course records play a vital role in the litigation process as any records management professional would affirm. But what exactly is their role?
By Melody Smith|March 21st, 2014|metadata, News|Comments Off on Managing the Data
Managing massive amounts of information is not a foreign challenge for any area of business. We have often talked about it from the information technology perspective, but when you narrow it down to specific fields of interests, like insurance providers, the history of dealing with data in that field may prove to be the bigger challenge.
By Melody Smith|March 19th, 2014|metadata, News, semantic|Comments Off on Paving the Way for Better Banking
One scientist sees the technology of semantics as a solution to better understand and manage big-bank risk profiles. Using the compilation of data by the semantic models, banking professionals will be able to better prepare for regulatory issues and internal risk calculations.
By Melody Smith|March 17th, 2014|Access Insights, Featured, indexing, metadata|Comments Off on Release of Data Harmony® Software Version 3.9 Planned for March 31, 2014
Data Harmony, a division of Access Innovations, Inc., has announced that version 3.9 of its suite of software tools will be released on March 31, 2014. Current customers will be the first to receive the new version. “Our recent enhancements provide greater search efficiency while browsing your thesaurus through callouts and hyperlinks to related and narrower terms,” said Allex Lyons, one of the Data Harmony programming team. “Dropdown menus in the search window display subject terms with a type head (autocomplete) function that assists users of any skill or experience level.”