Category: Taxonomy And Metadata

Darin Stewart, writing on the Gartner blog discusses the ongoing rise in the popularity of taxonomies, in “It’s time for taxonomy“:

“In the early days, my audiences consisted mostly of library science refugees seeking shelter in corporate IT departments.  I considered myself lucky if there were a …

Ruben Verborgh and Seth van Hooland of Free University Brussels (ULB) have launched a demonstration site based on Google Refine that aims to show irregular or imperfect metadata can become more valuable even if released rather than holding on to it in order to ‘perfect’ the data.  They are interviewed …

Makx Dekkers, outgoing Managing Director of DCMI (Dublin Core Metadata Initiative) is interviewed by Friedel Grant in this piece from DublinCore.org site.  It’s interesting to note how DMCI (once a relatively obscure standard only used by public sector organisations) has expanded into a much wider and more encompassing role:

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Earley Associates have written a two part article for CIO Update: “Transforming Information into Knowledge“.  The piece describes a 7 stage ‘recipe’ for breaking down the complex issue of converting disparate sources of corporate information into knowledge (i.e. information which can be acted upon).  The stages are

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Philip Hunter, writing for Broadcast Engineering yesterday, discusses how metadata is likely to be more significant at the forthcoming IBC (International Broadcasting Convention) in the Netherlands in September.  He notes that the majority of metadata activity is associated with Media Asset Management (or Video DAM as some of our readers …

iPhone software vendor, Dear Future Astronaut AB, have recently released Photo Stats – an app that converts EXIF data from photos taken and stored on users’ iPhones.  Although gimmicky, this creative use of EXIF data may perhaps have some practical, real-world uses for digital asset management or similar systems, such …

In this interview, Sarah Berndt, NASA Johnson Space Center Taxonomist & DB Consulting Group, Inc., explains how taxonomy is crucial for successful digital asset management and describes the exciting range of subject matter she encounters working as a metadata consultant for NASA.

“Taxonomy is fundamental to each stage of Digital …

One of our featured DAM vendors, Web DAM Solutions have written an article on some methods for improving searches in DAM systems.  The techniques discussed are:

• Using folder structures
• Having a Controlled Vocabulary
• Allowing file names to be searchable
• Establishing a metadata discovery process
• Using camera settings (especially checking

Kas Thomas, writing on his assertTrue() blog discusses the XMP embedded metadata standard and contends that it is likely to be come ubiquitous and widely adopted due to its inclusion in consumer content generation devices like cell phone cameras.  He also cites its adoption as an ISO standard (ISO/DIS …

European picture agency organisation (CEPIC) has teamed up with the IPTC to produce a new handbook of standards for image metadata.  The handbook, which will be launched at the CEPIC Congress in Istanbul, Turkey on 20th May 2011, provides readers with a legal framework for metadata use, reference charts on …

As part of its initiative to open its metadata for wider use beyond the UK library community, the British Library is offering free data services via access to the Library’s full Integrated Catalogue and the British National Bibliography Z39.50 databases and corresponding datasets (for research purposes only).

“Access to either …

In this article, Mac Slocum outlines why metadata is so vital to the user experience in his critique of the popular ‘ShowYou’ iPad video app.

“The area where metadata is most important, however, is video. That content is locked within formats that are generally inaccessible to search spiders and aggregation …