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What is Metadata?

By Melody Smith | July 10, 2013

So much talk and news has been around metadata. It has practically become a four letter word. MIT’s Media Lab has developed a new tool – Immersion – to help individuals understand how much personal information their ‘metadata’ reveals about them.

Weather Reporting, Virtually

By Melody Smith | July 9, 2013

The White House administration has launched a new online tool to educate and increase awareness into links between climate change and health. The interagency U.S. Global Change Research Program recently unveiled its Metadata Access Tool for Climate and Health (MATCH) platform. This interesting news was found on E2 Wire, The Hill’s Energy & Environment Blog in their post titled, “Obama officials roll out climate and health data tool.”

Speed is a Luxury

By Melody Smith | July 4, 2013

When you are dealing with data measured in terabytes and petabytes, it is difficult to imagine how you manage such a volume. This size of data has its own ecosystem. Signal Online brought this interesting information our direction in their article, “Dealing with Big Data Takes an Ecosystem.”

Varonis Expands Capabilities

By Melody Smith | July 3, 2013

Varonis Systems has announced full compatibility with NetApp clustered Data ONTAP 8.2. This expands their range of capabilities in accessibility, governance, and retention to NetApp storage systems.

Integrated Management Solutions

By Melody Smith | July 2, 2013

Triveni Digital has released their latest generation of metadata generation platform, GuideBuilder(R) 5. This is the fifth-generation of this technology that delivers key usability and performance. They are demonstrating GuideBuilder 5 for the first time this week at the 2013 NAB (National Association of Broadcasters) Show in Las Vegas. This interesting information was found on TV Technology in their article, “Triveni Digital Announces Next-Generation GuideBuilder(R) 5 Metadata System.”

Semantic Technology Addresses Big Data

By Melody Smith | June 28, 2013

Predixion Software released Predixion Enterprise Insight 3.0, which lets users create, reuse, share, and deploy predictive applications. The latest version introduces a new machine-learning semantic model that makes it possible for non-technical users take advantage of predictive analytics on their data.

Metadata: Friend or Foe?

By Melody Smith | June 26, 2013

Metadata has become a hosuehold word. Whatever news source you use has surely blasted you with all the conspiracy theories and paranoia driven news to make this not only a familiar word, but a terrifying one. But metadata is not new nor is it malevolent or malicious.

EBSCO Adds Databases

By Melody Smith | June 24, 2013

EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) has added content from Arabic content service provider Al Manhal. This includes ebooks, ejournals, e-reports, and e-dissertations databases.

Privacy is the Subject of the Day

By Melody Smith | June 17, 2013

Metadata has always been viewed as an asset, tracking and enabling search, providing breadcrumbs to locate data, and generally being a benefit. However, I wonder: Would the United States military agree with that now?

SharePoint Integration Can Enhance Usability

By Melody Smith | June 6, 2013

TEMIS has launched an integration of the company’s Content Enrichment Platform into SharePoint 2013, This will provide the ability to automatically extract relevant topics, entities, facts, sentiments, or categories from documents and generate rich metadata.