Metadata News & Articles

Searching through outlying laptops and PCs for data, or data related to rediscovery looks to be rule rather than the exception as Iron Mountain (news, site) releases Connected Classify & Collect, a solution that can search through data in enterprise computers gather it and classify it for eDiscovery.

In two recent articles we walked you through the evolution of document management in SharePoint 2010 (news, site), and a new feature called Document Sets. In a final follow-up article we will look at how those Document Sets can be customized so as to make them more flexible and more adaptable.
 

In a recent article, Adam Harmetz, Lead Program Manager for SharePoint Document and Records Management, explained how new document management features in SharePoint 2010 (news, site) build on SharePoint 2007.

In a follow-up to that article Harmetz and Quentin Christensen, Program Manager for SharePoint 2010 Document and Records Management, outline how a new component called Document Sets will help users organize multi-document worksets.

As social tagging grows increasingly popular on the Web, organizations are curious to see how this trendy Web 2.0 approach can benefit the business world.

Some say that Microsoft hasn't really made many changes to SharePoint 2007's web content management functionality for SharePoint 2010 (news, site). While the underlying architecture may not have changed, there are some improvements that you are bound to like. Here are 8 changes to SharePoint WCM that you need to know about.

It’s always useful to get some kind of insight into the thinking behind the development of features in new software, particularly when it comes to SharePoint 2010 (news, site).

In a recent entry on the Microsoft Enterprise Content Management Team Blog, Adam Harmetz, Lead Program Manager for SharePoint Document and Records Management, explains how new features in SharePoint 2010 build on SharePoint 2007 and what we might expect in the future.

It’s no secret that the new managed metadata service in SharePoint 2010 (news, site) will be a welcomed addition to the product. What may not be apparent is exactly how this service will benefit your end-users. It will. Here's how.

Most of us apply various forms of metadata when we create or manage content. This metadata helps make our brilliant creations findable. But text-based content has life easy -- search engines can also accurately index it. So findability is not so big of a challenge for text assets and parsable documents.

But the content we manage is not all text-based or parsable. We use a lot of opaque assets like video, audio and images. Indexing technologies cannot (yet) effectively crawl these items directly -- they must rely on the explicit application of metadata in order to derive the semantics and context which make the assets findable.

Choosing a great DAM solution is fine, but it's not going to solve all your findability and reuse problems. Thoughtful taxonomy development and the practical application of metadata is critical for such success. Towards this end, Earley & Associates are holding a free webinar -- part of their Digital Asset Management Jumpstart Series -- this Thursday.

Running on January 28 at 2pm ET the Practical Asset Reuse – The Role of Taxonomy and Metadata webinar will walk you through the ins and outs of taxonomies and metadata for digital assets. Stephanie Lemieux, Taxonomy Practice Lead at Earley and Associates and Diane Burley, Industry Specialist working with Nstein Technologies are two of the speakers in this session.

If making DAM work better is a priority in your organization, then head on over and register now.

With ever shrinking budgets, many organizations are finding digital asset reuse a growing organization imperative. Effective use of metadata and taxonomies in the context of a DAM solution can facilitate great reuse patterns. Here's a start down that path.

You can't afford to ignore the issue of Digital Asset Management, or DAM. It's more than a fun acronym. Solid DAM can make your business more efficient. Poor DAM can result in waste, confusion and many lost opportunities.

I finally got around to reading the preliminary SharePoint 2010 taxonomy and metadata info on MSDN. As most of you know, MOSS 2007 had some serious challenges in this regard (e.g., no hierarchical metadata, no sharing controlled vocabularies across site collections, etc.) -- and they caused information architects like me much consternation.

It would appear that SharePoint 2010 includes many new features under the umbrella of Enterprise Metadata Management, and they seem to have addressed some key issues. Here are the highlights.

Enterprise behemoth Oracle (news, site) recently announced its support for OpenCalais (news, site), a semantic Web service from Thomson Reuters. The native support comes within release 2 of Oracle Spatial 11g, giving both users and developers direct access to OpenCalais’ natural language processing capabilities.

Benefits of the new development include enabling users to extract rich semantic metadata about people, places, companies and events.

Managing unstructured data is a daunting task. Good thing Digital Reef is here to help. Today, they emerge from stealth mode after two years of developing their unstructured data management platform, achieving early customer traction under the name of Auraria Networks.

Digital Reef plans to manage unstructured and semi-structured data, that is data not already managed by database management systems, by helping large enterprises deal with key business issues that cannot be properly addressed using traditional solutions. Issues such as eDiscovery, data risk mitigation, knowledge reuse and strategic storage initiatives often require a great degree of scalability and performance. The longer left unchecked, the volume of data expands and thus costs companies both time and money and increases risk.

Digital Reef hopes not only that their new approach will garner interest, but that the current economic climate will help them capitalize on the importance of managing unstructured data as a means of saving money.

When David Girouard, vice president and General Manager of Google enterprise, said the Google Search Appliance has “had a vision to make search inside of business as simple and effective as searching on Google.com” he wasn’t lying.

And with the recent slew of upgrades to GSA, we think it’s safe to say the line between that vision and reality has blurred considerably.

Following Percussion’s recent repositioning of their Web content management solution the company will be holding an open-for-all webcast during which they’ll lift the covers, open the kimono and poke around in the (safe for non-geek) guts of their Rhythmyx Web CMS / WebTrends Analytics integration.

The event, entitled Drive Your Marketing Effectiveness with Tight Integration of Web Content Management & Analytics, is tailored primarily for business folk who are tasked with the success of online marketing efforts.

• When: Thursday, November 1st @ 11:00am EDT / 17:00 GMT
• Where: Um, your nearest web browser

Registration is required (of course), and happens here.