By Melody Smith|March 16th, 2012|indexing, metadata, News|Comments Off on New Partnership Gives Users Access to Historical Images
EBSCO Publishing has announced their new partnership with Bridgeman Education. This new joint effort will allow images from Bridgeman Education's extensive collection to be searched within EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS).
By Melody Smith|March 7th, 2012|metadata, News|Comments Off on Access To Asian Research Increases
EBSCO Publishing has partnered with Oriprobe Information Services to allow content from China/Asia On Demand (CAOD) to be accessible within EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS).
By Melody Smith|March 2nd, 2012|Access Insights, metadata, News|Comments Off on Data Without Boundaries Project Launches
Metadata Technology is partnering with the Data Without Boundaries project where they will help design and implement a portal for the search and discovery of datasets held within national archives, statistical offices, and research centers across Europe.
By Melody Smith|March 1st, 2012|metadata, News|Comments Off on Publishers Face Another Hurdle in the Digital World
The publishing industry is undergoing many changes as they enter the world of digital media. eBooks, online material and the paperless world has made a huge dent in their process and pocket books. With these changes, it has never been more important for good public relations and easily accessed reviews of their products, i.e. books, to be part of that digital media. So the move by Goodreads to no longer use Amazon’s book information for their readers, could have some massive impact on Amazon’s retail business.
By Melody Smith|February 22nd, 2012|metadata, News, semantic, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Smart Content Framework Announced
Concept Searching announces formation of the Smart Content Framework, a toolset that provides an enterprise framework to mitigate risk, manage information and address compliancy. This player in semantic metadata generation, auto-classification, and taxonomy management software claims the framework has proven to be a flexible solution to address recurring problems in organizations of any size or in any industry.
By Melody Smith|February 21st, 2012|metadata, News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Publishing Metadata Becomes More Valuable
Bowker has been selected by book retailer Books-A-Million to supply metadata related to the print, e- and audio books. Bowker metadata will be used to feed both internal and external systems supporting the firm’s purchasing needs and providing bibliographic and identifier information in stores and on the website.
By Melody Smith|February 14th, 2012|metadata, News|Comments Off on The What and Why of Metadata
The word metadata is thrown around everywhere these days. But does everyone really know what metadata is and how it is used?
By Melody Smith|February 8th, 2012|metadata, News|Comments Off on University of Delaware Embracing Cloud-Based System
University of Delaware just announced that they have selected OCLC WorldShare Management Services as a Web-based cooperative library management system for metadata management, acquisitions, circulation, discovery, license management and workflow improvements.
By Melody Smith|February 3rd, 2012|metadata, News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on The What and Why of Taxonomies
Stellar taxonomy management and the benefits it brings to the table was the topic of conversation at the recent KMWorld Taxonomy Bootcamp event in Washington D.C. Making searches simple and improving findability was the goal.
By Melody Smith|January 24th, 2012|metadata, News|Comments Off on Data Analysis Competition Announces Winners
The second Digging into Data Challenge competition announced the winners who promoted innovative humanities and social science research using large-scale data analysis. Fourteen teams representing Canada, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the United States were the recipients of grants to investigate how computational techniques can be applied to "big data" to change the nature of humanities and social sciences research.