SmartLogic Releases Semaphore 3.3
Smartlogic has released their latest version of Semaphore. Version 3.3 offers enhanced enterprise search and organize enterprise metadata as they provide the capability for integration with SharePoint 2010.
Asset Description Metadata Schema Open for Public Comment
By Melody Smith|January 10th, 2012|metadata, News|Comments Off on Asset Description Metadata Schema Open for Public Comment
The European Commission’s ISA program has opened the public comment period for the Asset Description Metadata Schema (ADMS) until February 6, 2012.
Moving Data to SharePoint Just Got Easier
By Melody Smith|December 29th, 2011|metadata, News|Comments Off on Moving Data to SharePoint Just Got Easier
MetaVis Technologies has released a solution for migrating Google Apps to SharePoint or Office 365 - MetaVis Migrator for Google Apps. This new product allows users to migrate Google content to either a hosted or on-premise-based SharePoint solution while preserving metadata required for compliance and governance policies.
New Agreement Shares Content from Who’s Who
By Melody Smith|December 27th, 2011|indexing, metadata, News|Comments Off on New Agreement Shares Content from Who’s Who
EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) will soon contain content from Marquis Who’s Who. The new agreement will add metadata from the Marquis Who’s Who database into the Base Index of EDS and provide seamless access and full text searching for mutual customers.
The Importance of Humans
By Melody Smith|December 13th, 2011|indexing, metadata, News, Taxonomy|Comments Off on The Importance of Humans
Automation is one of the topics a Beyond Search writer has taken issue with recently. The involvement of humans with indexing and taxonomies seems to be a “for or against” issue. Few stand in the arena of neutrality.
Google Books Has Metadata Problem
By Melody Smith|December 8th, 2011|indexing, metadata, News|Comments Off on Google Books Has Metadata Problem
Two years ago, Google Books was called out for their poor indexing and search results by a Berkeley professor. Google Books' fumbling search facility was a real challenge for researchers. Though Google offered to correct any errors that were brought to its attention, the professor doesn’t feel it is any better. Doing his own research, he continues to come across errors similar to those he brought to their attention two years ago.
How Do You Handle Big Data?
By Melody Smith|November 28th, 2011|metadata, News|Comments Off on How Do You Handle Big Data?
One of biggest shifts in the history of technology is the war over information, or big data. Unstructured data is at the center of all work, and play for that matter. But how do we handle it when it doesn’t fit into a typical database? Considering the whole industry is dependent on the rows and columns of the database, finding solutions requires out of the box thinking.
Standards for Dummies
By Melody Smith|November 23rd, 2011|metadata, News, Standards|Comments Off on Standards for Dummies
Metadata is the data that describes data and this metadata map is called Seeing Standards: A Visualisation of the Metadata Universe. It demonstrates the large variety of standards, the communities they serve, their purpose, function and domain.
The Security of Your Image Data
By Melody Smith|November 10th, 2011|metadata, News|Comments Off on The Security of Your Image Data
With the increased ownership and usage of mobile phones with cameras, images have become the new data. Almost as common as text based metadata, visual imagery are potentially valuable digital assets.
Data About Data
By Melody Smith|October 24th, 2011|metadata, News|Comments Off on Data About Data
The FutureGov 2011 award was given to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) for innovation and modernization. The AIHW’s METeOR Metadata Online Registry took the Information Management category, recognizing “excellence in the efficient capture, storage and distribution of citizen information”.