Metadata – Page 87

The What and Why of Taxonomies

By Melody Smith | February 3, 2012

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.

Data Analysis Competition Announces Winners

By Melody Smith | January 24, 2012

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.

SmartLogic Releases Semaphore 3.3

By Melody Smith | January 23, 2012

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 10, 2012

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 29, 2011

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 27, 2011

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 13, 2011

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 8, 2011

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 28, 2011

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 23, 2011

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.