Metadata – Page 66

Paving the Way for Better Banking

By Melody Smith | March 19, 2014

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.

Release of Data Harmony® Software Version 3.9 Planned for March 31, 2014

By Melody Smith | March 17, 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.”

Better is Better, Right?

By Melody Smith | March 14, 2014

A research collaboration is underway between the ICT giant Fujitsu and the Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI) at NUI Galway. It could very well change the way we look at linked data.

Information Architecture Librarian Position Available

By Melody Smith | March 13, 2014

ASRC Primus Solutions, Inc. is currently seeking a Information Architecture Librarian in Washington, D.C. These type of jobs aren’t posted often, as you know.

Webinar Addresses Migration

By Melody Smith | March 12, 2014

Concept Searching and Portal Solutions are sponsoring the joint webinar “Climbing the Slippery Slope of SharePoint Migration”, on Tuesday, March 25th at 11:30 – 12:30 EST. This interesting webinar addresses the cloud growth and Office 365, as well as migration projects that have a different level of complexity and add to the existing challenges.

The Fear in Migration

By Melody Smith | March 11, 2014

ZL Technologies has expanded its ingestion capabilities to include native migration directly from Symantec EnterpriseVault into the ZL Unified Archive. This approach differs from that of other vendors who must perform migration in several tedious phases by converting data to standard file formats, then importing into the new environment.

Semantic Fingerprinting for Name Disambiguation

By Melody Smith | March 10, 2014

Many institutions and organizations – notably (but not limited to) publishers – have large, or sometimes very very large, lists of names. These names are from member directories, employees and staff, clients and customers, marketing, development, and many other sources; indeed, oftentimes the lists from various departments in the same organization are not connected or resolved with one another in any way.

Metadata Can Be Exciting

By Melody Smith | March 6, 2014

Recordkeeping may be seen as boring and mundane, to most. However, metadata has changed that, at least slightly. While most recordkeeping systems do have similarities, a record is not defined by where it gets stored, but by what it represents.

The Devil is in the Details

By Melody Smith | March 6, 2014

Implementing a digital asset management (DAM) system can be challenging. Many factors pose hurdles of varying degrees: asset ingestion, building the database, relevant and descriptive metadata, to name a few. It is key to make the assets descriptive enough to make them worth the time to search and find them.

Measures to Findability

By Melody Smith | March 5, 2014

Digital asset management (DAM) is one of those things that confuses people, which discourages them from addressing it. Kind of like those tasks we all put off until we can no longer justify ignoring them. DAM brings with it extra policy, added expenses, and more required training for an already overloaded staff. So why do we do it?