Metadata – Page 77

Be a Metadata Maestro

By Melody Smith | April 29, 2013

Orchestration of metadata is similar to that of a symphony. The ability to see and control the entire production makes a talented maestro very valuable. Metadata orchestration is the ability to see a real-time picture of data through data virtualization and segregation. This could make a maestro out of any organizational leader. To create consolidated intelligences and processes…

Colectica Chosen for Oracle Database

By Melody Smith | April 23, 2013

Digital Journal brought this news to our attention in their article, “Colectica Announces Upcoming Support for Oracle Database 11g in the Colectica Metadata Repository.” Colectica Repository’s architecture can run both distributed and memory-intensive metadata registry operations against an Oracle database.

Managing Information and Data

By Melody Smith | April 22, 2013

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.

Data About Data

By Melody Smith | April 18, 2013

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.

Seeking Findability

By Melody Smith | April 15, 2013

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.

Solutions for Big Data

By Melody Smith | April 9, 2013

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.

Finding the Tunes

By Melody Smith | April 4, 2013

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.

What Trails To Leave Behind

By Melody Smith | April 3, 2013

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.

Metadata and Open Standards

By Melody Smith | April 2, 2013

Colectica has announced that Statistics Denmark is adopting Colectica metadata software to support managing and describing their data all using open standards.

Image Metadata Revisited

By Melody Smith | March 22, 2013

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.