New White Paper on Metadata Released
Widen Enterprises has teamed with JohnHorodyski to produce a new white paper titled, "A guide to the lifeblood of DAM: Key concepts and best practices for using metadata in digital asset management systems."
Metadata and the Lack of Clarity
By Melody Smith|August 30th, 2011|metadata, News|Comments Off on Metadata and the Lack of Clarity
You would think on a site as complex and interlinked as the Internet Movie Database, metadata would reign supreme. But it has never been given the respect it deserves. This may change after the International Broadcasting Convention 2011 (IBC2011) next month.
Workshare Point Will Support SharePoint 2010
By Melody Smith|August 26th, 2011|metadata, News|Comments Off on Workshare Point Will Support SharePoint 2010
Workshare has announced support for SharePoint foundation 2010 in the next version of Workshare Point. As a Gold Certified Partner, the new version will allow users to connect to a SharePoint Online Server hosted by Microsoft, part of the cloud-based Microsoft's Office 365, delivering a seamless SharePoint user-experience.
Gathering Intelligence from Unlikely Sources
By Melody Smith|August 10th, 2011|News, semantic|Comments Off on Gathering Intelligence from Unlikely Sources
Asking the experts is the logical approach to gaining knowledge for databases. Insights into consumer behavior and preferences can be surfaced not only from social media conversations but may also be found in an organization’s internal, private data. When building your data management system don’t overlook resources like online conversations within the engineering team, emails between client and customers, and engineering exchanges. Using latent semantic analysis methodology and statistical language modeling technology can reveal new solutions, information, and ideas.
Faceted Search and Open Source
By Melody Smith|August 5th, 2011|metadata, News, search, Taxonomy|Comments Off on Faceted Search and Open Source
The optimal search experience seems to be the new trend. Faceted search is found in intranets and enterprise search applications, as well as other content-heavy sites. However, this takes a budget with enough power to sustain search applications to take you the whole journey. What are the other options?
EBSCO Chosen by Okanagan College
By Melody Smith|August 5th, 2011|metadata, News, search|Comments Off on EBSCO Chosen by Okanagan College
EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) was chosen by Okanagan College in British Columbia, Canada as its discovery service. EDS was selected by the librarians for its simple search process, rich metadata and subject headings.
SkyRiver Chosen By UofC Law Library
By Melody Smith|August 2nd, 2011|metadata, News|Comments Off on SkyRiver Chosen By UofC Law Library
SkyRiver has been chosen by the University of California Davis Mabie Law Library, in Emeryville, CA for its cataloging services.
Time for the Music Ontology
By Melody Smith|August 1st, 2011|Access Insights, Featured, metadata, ontology|1 Comment
At this time in history, there’s so much music to describe. There have been so many compositions, so many recordings, and so many performances. How can we sort through it all? There are music databases that the public can contribute to, but how can we make the data consistent enough to be searchable?
Integration Made Easier with SharePoint and Some Magic
By Melody Smith|July 18th, 2011|metadata, News|Comments Off on Integration Made Easier with SharePoint and Some Magic
Magic Software has announced that Microsoft partners are now eligible for a SpeedTrack Authorization Program to offer the iBOLT integration platform for Microsoft SharePoint 2010. This means companies deploying these systems can use Magic Software's iBOLT Integration for Microsoft SharePoint 2010 to share information through their SharePoint 2010 deployment.
New Partnership Streamlines Content Management
By Melody Smith|June 30th, 2011|metadata, News|Comments Off on New Partnership Streamlines Content Management
Nuxeo and Hippo have formed a partnership of open source, java-based content management providers. Sharing the enterprise content management and web content management tool customers, they have built a CMIS connector to move data between the two systems. This will enable companies with a Hippo website to integrate Nuxeo enterprise content, whether from its Nuxeo Content Management tool or the Nuxeo Digital Asset Management tool.