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SharePoint Fest Names New Sponsor

By Melody Smith | January 7, 2015

As 2015 arrives, the list of conferences, learning opportunities, and networking events continue to line up. Concept Searching just announced they are a Platinum Sponsor of SharePoint Fest in Washington D.C. on April 8-10, 2015.

Techie Terms

By Melody Smith | January 6, 2015

Every year, additional words and phrases are added to our dictionaries. Many of them are technology-driven as evidenced by hashtag, selfie, and big data, which were all added to the Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary in 2014. Among the many new terms added, four specifically fall into the aforementioned technology group.

Webinar Focuses on Metadata

By Melody Smith | December 29, 2014

Concept Searching has opened registration for the ‘Business Critical Metadata’ webinar, co-hosted by Doug Miles, Director of Market Intelligence at AIIM, and Martin Garland, President of Concept Searching. The webinar is scheduled for January 20, 2015 from 11:30 a.m.– 12:15 p.m. EST.

Book on Classification and Data Mining an Interesting Read

By Melody Smith | December 23, 2014

Every once in awhile we discover an interesting read that we think you might find interesting.

Bringing Art Out Into the Open

By Melody Smith | December 22, 2014

The first Smithsonian museum to digitize their collections calls the project Digital Zero. They have photographed and uploaded the entire collection into a digital asset management (DAM) system. That is more than 40,000 objects and almost double that number in images. This is a great opportunity for scholars and researchers as well as everyday virtual visitors to have 24/7 access to this collection of art.

Reference Works Available

By Melody Smith | December 15, 2014

Information Services & Use, a highly respected journal in the area of information science and technology, is sharing in their latest issue, a selection of papers presented at the 9th conference of Academic Publishing in Europe earlier in 2014, combined with a selection of papers of the 18th International Conference on Electronic Publishing mid-year in Greece.

Non-Impressive Word of the Year

By Melody Smith | December 11, 2014

In a sign of the times though I am not entirely certain it is a good one, the word of the year is a term used in electronic cigarette smoking.

Looking for Some Help?

By Melody Smith | November 10, 2014

Most companies have to implement a combination of integration solutions at one time or another. There are resources for application managers heading integration initiatives to use. This helps them in the research process to determine which category of solution is most likely to offer the features and capabilities needed to execute a successful integration strategy.

But No Rudolph

By Melody Smith | October 27, 2014

An interesting find in the world of taxonomies today, Platter-saurus – a thesaurus of 20th century musical styles, artists, and titles. This website is also available in a printed book format (limited quantities available) and CD-ROM. The advantage of the book and CD-ROM is that you can explore Musical Categories and find artists and song titles you may not have heard of before or perhaps have forgotten.

Data Collections

By Melody Smith | October 20, 2014

Researchers at the University of Liverpool’s Institute of Infection and Global Health are building the world’s most comprehensive database describing human and animal pathogens.