By Melody Smith|December 31st, 2012|Access Insights, Featured, metadata|Comments Off on RDF: A Wrapper for Metadata
In information management, a wrapper is a program that translates tagged data into relational form, so that databases can deal with it. We’re interested in this because some of that tagged data includes subject terms, keywords, or whatever you want to call taxonomy terms that have been used to describe documents.
By Melody Smith|December 31st, 2012|metadata, News|1 Comment
Concept Searching recently announced that its core products – conceptSearch and conceptClassifier – are prepared for SharePoint 2013.
By Melody Smith|December 31st, 2012|indexing, metadata, News|Comments Off on Data Has to Be Managed
Nuix is known for their information management technologies and now they have been issued a patent from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on core features of the Nuix unstructured data indexing engine.
By Melody Smith|December 25th, 2012|indexing, metadata, News|Comments Off on Access to Data is Key
Even with the advances in digital medical record data, less than 50% of a patient’s health information is available in an electronic format. One organization is offering an enhancement solution for existing patient information. Integrated Patient Record (IPR) aggregates, shares, and optimizes data for a complete patient-centric view.
By Melody Smith|December 24th, 2012|Access Insights, Featured, metadata|Comments Off on Dublin Core: Sort of a Metadata Standard
The Dublin Core metadata guidelines started in 1995 in Dublin, Ohio which is why they are called the Dublin Core. The beginning was actually in the basement of the OCLC building, in March of 1995. In April of 1996, the Dublin Core advocates went to Warwick, England, where they had another conference. So there are Warwick Conventions for the Dublin Core. So there’s no mystery about the names; these things are just named after the places where they started.
By Melody Smith|December 21st, 2012|metadata, News|Comments Off on Data About Data
Some may say that data modeling is key to the world of data management. We would say that using the proper modeling tool can […]
By Melody Smith|December 20th, 2012|indexing, metadata, News|Comments Off on Getting Organized
Indexing, searching and finding data, files, etc., is not limited to the business world alone. With the demise of film and everyday use of digital cameras, individuals face the challenge of storing, labeling, and finding photos. How many of us have hundreds of images in a folder on a laptop with no identifying factor but “DPC7892”?
By Melody Smith|December 19th, 2012|metadata, News|Comments Off on Data, Data and More Data
New frameworks and the seemingly endless clouds have made it very easy to collect large amounts of data. It has become more affordable, and the data is multiplying faster than rabbits on fertility drugs. Eventually, though, big data is going to have to show some return on investment.
By Melody Smith|December 17th, 2012|Access Insights, Featured, metadata, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Taxonomies and Metadata
Let’s talk about metadata a little bit. This is to give you a broad overview so that you know how to build those taxonomies. Metadata is data about data, which means it is really information about information. If you look at the metadata standards world and especially the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, it has suddenly taken flight again. It’s really interesting. Dublin Core is 10 years old or so and has suddenly become more relevant again.
By Melody Smith|December 17th, 2012|metadata, News, storage|Comments Off on Reaching to the Clouds for Migration
Revevol Apps has been launched as a new subsidiary based in San Francisco. The company is dedicated to developing web-based applications that will help more midsize to large companies migrate to Google Apps.