Posts Tagged ‘Metadata’
Author Contributions – A Confusing and Imprecise Science
In Boston on May 16 at Harvard University, The Wellcome Trust hosted the International Workshop on Contributorship and Scholarly Attribution. Several presenters outlined other roles we should probably begin to acknowledge and what those roles are. Over the last two weeks I reported on some of the talks made at the workshop. This is the final summary from that meeting.
Ginny Barbour is the chief editor of PLOS Medicine for the well-known Public Library of Science (PLoS). Her talk was on “PLOS: Big science and medicine and the attribution of authorship.” She pointed out that past solutions for author attribution do not work. Big science and the accompanying data sets create new attribution problems. “We have been trying to solve the wrong problem” she said.
Read MoreConference on Ethics This Month
Time is almost running out to register for the 2nd Milwaukee Conference on the Ethics of Information Organization. If you are interested in “a different view on taxonomies” this might be the educational event you should attend.
Read MoreMetadata 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.
Read MoreMetadata 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.
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.
Read MoreU.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.
Read MorePingar 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.
Read MoreWebinar 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.
Read MoreNew Partnership Aims to Improve Findability
Cable One is partnering with Synacor for the launch of its TV Everywhere services and customer Web portal.
Read MoreTEMIS 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.
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