Taxodiary – Technology

Repositioning Information Science

By Melody Smith|November 8th, 2010|Access Insights, Business strategy, Featured, reference, Standards|1 Comment

One of the sessions I attended while at the 2010 meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) in Pittsburgh recently was presented by Michael Buckland, Fidelia Ibekwe-Sanjuan, and Kiersten Latham. This interesting session was actually three coordinated presentations that individually and together questioned the accepted view of information science as an emerging, scientific discipline closely tied with information technology and, mainly, textual data.

Clearwell Speeds Up Discovery

By Melody Smith|November 5th, 2010|metadata, News, Technology|Comments Off on Clearwell Speeds Up Discovery

Homburger, one of Switzerland's premier law firms, has implemented the Clearwell E-Discovery Platform for processing, early case assessment (ECA), review and production of electronically stored information (ESI). Clearwell is being used to streamline the e-discovery process conducted by the investigations team on matters involving compliance, internal and regulatory investigations, and white collar crime.

Online Community Attracts Technology Stars

By Melody Smith|November 4th, 2010|Business Intelligence, Business strategy, News, storage, Technology|Comments Off on Online Community Attracts Technology Stars

Informatica Corporation, provider of data integration software, shares a growing momentum for the Informatica Marketplace - an online community that connects vendors, partners and individual developers to enable them to share data integration solutions within an open and comprehensive ecosystem of more than 120,000 active users.

Oracle Purchases ATG

By Melody Smith|November 3rd, 2010|Business strategy, metadata, News, Technology|Comments Off on Oracle Purchases ATG

Oracle has acquired Art Technology Group, smoothing the path into e-commerce. Art Technology is one of the leading providers of e-commerce software and this deal is expected to close by early 2011.

Legastat LTD Streamlining

By Melody Smith|October 26th, 2010|News, Technology|Comments Off on Legastat LTD Streamlining

The adoption of Equivio technology to sort out near-duplicate documents and email threads. The promise is to ensure accurate and timely processing of large collections of electronically stored information (ESI).

Where Are They Now?

By Melody Smith|October 18th, 2010|Access Insights, Business strategy, Featured, semantic, Standards, Taxonomy, Technology|Comments Off on Where Are They Now?

Tech companies come and go. There are always tech savvy entrepreneurs with big ideas looking to fill a need in the market and investors looking to get the huge returns that only come from investing in tech startups. But tech is risky, markets are volatile, and oftentimes what seems like a good idea is not always as good once implemented in the real world. A good example of this is the dot com boom and subsequent bust in the early 21st century. You could get funding on a back of the envelop business plan. Billions of dollars were invested in tech startups with big ideas and big dreams. Many of these dreams were shattered when investors realized they were not getting the same returns they had hoped.

Publishers Adapting to a Faster Audience

By Melody Smith|October 12th, 2010|indexing, metadata, News, Technology|Comments Off on Publishers Adapting to a Faster Audience

Things have been changing in the global publishing industry. Some are obvious, but many of the underlying trends are more subtle and relate to the changing audience and their behaviors, i.e. usage patterns. This is referred to as "Audience 2.0." Publishers are looking for ways to react to the current changes in the media industry and position themselves as long-term survivors and leaders.

10gen Conference Focused on NoSQL

By Melody Smith|October 8th, 2010|News, Technology|Comments Off on 10gen Conference Focused on NoSQL

10gen is dedicated an entire day event to the high-performance “NoSQL” document-oriented database. If 10gen sounds familiar, they are the company behind the open source MongoDB project. This is the tenth conference 10gen has organized on MongoDB, and will be the largest MongoDB event of the year.

IISEIE Releases New Online Content Catalog

By Melody Smith|October 6th, 2010|News, reference, Taxonomy, Technology|Comments Off on IISEIE Releases New Online Content Catalog

The International Institute of International Software Economies, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Inc (IISEIE) has released their new online Content Catalogue. IISEIE Content and Program Catalogue is an interactive repository designed to execute initiatives in their local software economies.

Former AT&T VP Joins Hewlett-Packard

By Melody Smith|October 6th, 2010|Business strategy, News, Technology|Comments Off on Former AT&T VP Joins Hewlett-Packard

Hewlett-Packard Co. is making headlines with the appointment of new CEO and chairman, Léo Apotheker, but they are also adding staff in other areas. Former cloud evangelist Joe Weinman has joined the cloud development team at the technical superpower.