By Melody Smith|May 15th, 2012|metadata, News|Comments Off on Metadata Limitations
OpenSFS is a non-profit organization committed to maintaining the Lustre file system as a viable, open technology for the entire high performance computing (HPC) community. Three Lustre vendors were asked about the future of this open source file system.
By Melody Smith|May 11th, 2012|metadata, News|Comments Off on Metadata Learning Opportunity
If you have ever wondered how metadata relates to your work as an LIS professional, this course will give you a sound introduction to the concepts behind metadata, demonstrate ways in which it is used in the LIS field and provide a practical opportunity to try creating and using metadata. This course is interactive and gives a good grounding for a variety of situations including: academic libraries, research institutions, digital repositories, records centres, and public sector web sites.
By Melody Smith|May 8th, 2012|metadata, News|Comments Off on Retail Social Media
Walmart has acquired a social start-up, OneRiot, for their Walmart Labs unit where they join another kindred spirit, Kosmix, Both of these acquisitions were done in an effort to analyze and understand the massive amounts of data coming in from social networks and sites.
By Melody Smith|April 18th, 2012|metadata, News, semantic|Comments Off on U.S. Navy Embraces Semantic Technology
The U.S. Navy believes the semantic Web will connect data in new ways and lay the foundation for further advances in their world. Their objective is to manage a global network that delivers instant integration of military data across a number of separate specializations such as geographic, intelligence, logistics and manpower, as well as provide information about red or blue forces. The semantic Web will be the engine needed to power the effort.
By Melody Smith|April 10th, 2012|metadata, News, search|Comments Off on Pingar Receives SharePoint Idol Honor
Pingar has received the honor of being named SharePoint Idol at the 2012 Australia SharePoint Conference held in Melbourne last month. Pingar demonstrated its patent-pending API components to augment SharePoint's capabilities by automatically adding metadata to documents, thus giving organizations the ability to search, share and summarize previously unstructured data.
By Melody Smith|April 6th, 2012|metadata, News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Webinar Series Continues
Earley & Associates have been running their Spring Jumpstart Webinar program: Get Dynamic with Digital Assets, for the past month. The four-part program finishes up on April 11, 2012.
By Melody Smith|April 4th, 2012|metadata, News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on New Partnership Aims to Improve Findability
Cable One is partnering with Synacor for the launch of its TV Everywhere services and customer Web portal.
By Melody Smith|April 3rd, 2012|metadata, News, semantic|Comments Off on TEMIS and Agence France-Presse Expand Partnership
TEMIS and Agence France-Presse have announced that they are expanding their strategic partnership to deploy semantic enrichment on Agence France-Presse’s future editorial console.
By Melody Smith|March 21st, 2012|indexing, metadata, News|Comments Off on NFAIS Releases Draft on Discovery Services
The National Federation of Advanced Information Services (NFAIS) released a draft code of practice for discovery services. The draft does make progress toward documenting the facing challenges, but falls short when it comes to handling the underlying reasons for those challenges.
By Melody Smith|March 20th, 2012|metadata, News|Comments Off on Pingar and SharePoint Working Together
Pingar is offering several new resources to help SharePoint information technology professionals, business managers, analysts and developers extend the capabilities of their SharePoint systems to better manage unstructured data.