Metadata – Page 81

Taxonomies and Metadata

By Melody Smith | December 17, 2012

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.

Reaching to the Clouds for Migration

By Melody Smith | December 17, 2012

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.

Dynamic Infrastructure Increases Findability

By Melody Smith | December 17, 2012

An effort to develop an information architecture that supports electronic practice-based research networks has been started jointly by the United Staes and Britain. This enables the linking of separate electronic health record systems and provides a foundation for software development.

New Databases Added

By Melody Smith | December 12, 2012

EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) has added three anthropology databases to the EBSCOhost® platform. The three databases are Anthropological Index, Anthropological Literature, and Anthropology Plus, that obviously cover the fields of anthropology, archaeology and related interdisciplinary research.

A Look at Markup Languages

By Melody Smith | December 10, 2012

The most frequently used markup languages these days are those of the SGML family: SGML, HTML, and XML. Information professionals are likely to encounter all three fairly often.

SharePoint and Search

By Melody Smith | December 10, 2012

Concept Searching recently announced that its core products – conceptSearch and conceptClassifier – are prepared for SharePoint 2013.

Managing Our Data

By Melody Smith | November 30, 2012

Each and every day we create metadata in our emails, texts, Word documents, spreadsheets, and more. When you multiply that by the five billion people in the world, well, you get the picture. Human-generated content is growing by the second. How do we manage it? How do we search it?

Data Provides Opportunities

By Melody Smith | November 28, 2012

Data is everywhere: on the Web, within an enterprise, in both closed and open academic communities, across every technological field or surface available. The Hindu brought this information to our attention in their article, “Connecting the dots, lucratively.” The frequency and availability of data provide an opportunity for analytics, and analytics can provide perspective.

Partnering for Powerful Search

By Melody Smith | November 13, 2012

A new partnership between Concept Searching and Triune Group will result in an integrated intelligent search and classification capability. Triune Group has integrated its knowledge management expertise and technology solutions with Concept Searching’s intelligent search and classification capability.