By Melody Smith|April 22nd, 2013|metadata, News|Comments Off on Managing Information and Data
Shabbir Dahod, TraceLink’s President and CEO, will be speaking at LogiPharma Europe this week in Geneva, Switzerland. LogiPharma is the world’s largest life sciences and pharmaceutical supply chain management conference with a special focus this year on supply chain performance, pharmaceutical integrity and emerging markets strategy.
By Melody Smith|April 18th, 2013|metadata, News|Comments Off on Data About Data
Metadata are the breadcrumbs we leave behind on photos, files, documents, etc. that tells us about the content, where it was created, and where we can find it again.
By Melody Smith|April 15th, 2013|metadata, News, search|Comments Off on Seeking Findability
As a member of Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN), Silwood Technology Limited was thrilled to announce they achieved Oracle Validated Integration of Safyr version 6.0 with Oracle’s JD Edwards EnterpriseOne 9.1.
By Melody Smith|April 9th, 2013|metadata, News, ontology|Comments Off on Solutions for Big Data
Human beings supposedly produce 2.5 quintillion bytes of data every day, according to IBM. Adding to that bit of trivia, 90 percent of the data in the world today was created in the past two years. The result is why we have the challenge of “big data” today. Enormous data sets that most relational database management systems (Oracle, IBM, Microsoft, etc.) find difficult to process. “Ontologies for Information Integration” (OI2), an April 18 workshop at the University at Buffalo, will address this challenge and offer some non-traditional solutions.
By Melody Smith|April 4th, 2013|metadata, News|Comments Off on Finding the Tunes
Metadata is not limited to documents and photos, it can also be part of digital music to assist in searching and ultimately locating. So the innaugural Music Industry Metadata Summit organized by the National Association of Recording Merchandisers (NARM) and digitalmusic.org, is a timely event. The long-expected event is scheduled in Los Angeles on May 6-7, 2013 and is part of NARM's Music Biz 2013 conference.
By Melody Smith|April 3rd, 2013|metadata, search|Comments Off on What Trails To Leave Behind
Debating the approach of spreading documents over varioius document libraries versus focusing on one singular library, this author lifts up a pros and cons list that could bring some insight to your work.
By Melody Smith|April 2nd, 2013|metadata, News|Comments Off on Metadata and Open Standards
Colectica has announced that Statistics Denmark is adopting Colectica metadata software to support managing and describing their data all using open standards.
By Melody Smith|March 22nd, 2013|metadata, News|Comments Off on Image Metadata Revisited
Google recently announced a plan to change the way it displays images in Google Image Search. The end result is giving metadata a much more prominent role.
By Melody Smith|March 20th, 2013|metadata, News|Comments Off on Metadata and Security
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) have addressed the successful use of metadata tagging with […]
By Melody Smith|March 18th, 2013|metadata, News|Comments Off on In the Eyes of the Beholder
The MzTEK has coordinated an art commission titled, “Data as Culture.” MzTek’s goal is to provide a learning community in technology and arts for women. The aim of this particular commission was to highlight the use of data in an artistic context and to challenge the perceptions of what defines data.