Data Deliberations
Big data seems to be on the tongues and minds of many business people. Hands are wringing as folks are unsure what to do […]
Making Content Findable
By Melody Smith|January 24th, 2013|metadata, News|Comments Off on Making Content Findable
ThinkAnalytics has launched two metadata libraries to go with their Recommendations Engine. This new addition is targeted to aid intelligent navigation and personalized discovery.
A Different Approach to Data Storage
By Melody Smith|January 17th, 2013|metadata, News|Comments Off on A Different Approach to Data Storage
Most universities face a growing population of networked devices and in turn, a growing problem with data security. Many have taken on the challenge without investing in a system that is large and oversized (both in physical and technological space). UT Austin and UConn turned to Splunk.
Data, Data, Data
By Melody Smith|January 16th, 2013|metadata, News, storage|Comments Off on Data, Data, Data
Conversations continue to revolve around the rapid growth of data creation and storage. Organizations are looking for ways to process and access data at a faster pace, all the while improving customer service. Part of the challenge includes maneuvering through unstructured data, massive amounts of unstructured data.
Search Engines and Related Tools
By Melody Smith|January 14th, 2013|Access Insights, Featured, metadata, search|1 Comment
A search engine is different from search software. The terms are used interchangeably by people, but they are not the same. Search software is an application – a bunch of codes – and a search engine is a collection of servers with a lot of data on it that is indexing the Internet and delivering it by HTML pages to customers. It is doing that by spidering around to get the information, usually from those metaname headers, and now increasingly from full text and putting that information up and comparing it, searching it. You all have some idea of how Google, Lycos, Bing, and all those other ones work, so you know what happens here. Again, a search engine is different from search software.
Webinar Addresses Metadata
By Melody Smith|January 14th, 2013|metadata, News, semantic|Comments Off on Webinar Addresses Metadata
A webinar is being offered by the Associated Press to those in the publishing world who might have interest rich semantic metadata and more importantly, how they might be able to leverage said data to their benefit.
Paper and Digital Paper
By Melody Smith|January 11th, 2013|metadata, News|Comments Off on Paper and Digital Paper
OCLC WorldShare Metadata collection management functionality has been launched to offer more efficient ways for libraries to manage electronic resources and improve user access.
Entertainment Metadata Agreement Reached
By Melody Smith|January 8th, 2013|metadata, News|Comments Off on Entertainment Metadata Agreement Reached
A recent agreement was made between TMS and Conm Hem for the latter to use TMS's On®Entertainment metadata in its next generation entertainment guides.This will enable Com Hem to offer its subscribers guides with seamless search and discovery of linear and on-demand television programming.
What To Do With All The Data?
By Melody Smith|January 4th, 2013|metadata, News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on What To Do With All The Data?
Metadata is created every moment of every day. Every phone call, every search query, every photo we take creates metadata. It is most likely not something we think of when we create it and certainly we don't think of how and where it is stored. Sure, we have files on thumb drives and data cards, but that is just a drop in the bucket metadata-wise.
Enhancing SharePoint Features
By Melody Smith|January 1st, 2013|metadata, News|Comments Off on Enhancing SharePoint Features
KWizCom announced the release of their new feature for SharePoint. Tagging Feature has customizable settings that make classifying information more accurate and therefore, the search results more comprehensive.