essential information on a document or Web page, such as publication date, author, keywords, title, and summary. This information is used by search engines to...
Metadata are simply or not so simply data about data. A library's card catalog is metadata about books in the collection -- for any one book you can find out the name of the author, year it was published, and, perhaps most important, where in the library the...
This paper describes the economic impact of legal metadata and open content in information society. The paper also analyses the challenges that individual digital open licensing poses to collecting societies. The paper first defines open content and the meaning of legal metadata. It then concentrates to the economics of open...
Almost every local authority in UK now has a website and intranet with search facilities that aim to connect enquiries to the right government information point. For online enquiries that fail to produce relevant results, the cause can often be traced back to poor quality metadata. Metadata is useful for...
As MPEG-7 gets extended, DVB systems find the need to transport metadata over MPEG-2. This paper gives a view of a real implementation in an MHP application framework of the amendment ISO/IEC 13818-1:2000/Final Draft Amendment FDAM 1, which standardizes the carriage of MPEG-7 metadata over MPEG-2. The paper focuses mainly...
This paper begins by analyzing the tasks and roles within the broadcast industry and reviews the metadata generated and used at each stage in the broadcast workflow. This paper takes a pragmatic look at the generation and use of metadata within the broadcast field. The paper has used exposure to...
Knowledge Management recently has become popular in enterprises hoping to achieve a competitive advantage. Describing information by metadata allows for performing detailed queries uniformly over information items from different information sources and enables goal-directed search and automatic provision of relevant information. As the manual acquisition of metadata is very costly,...
Metadata is information about information, but more usually it is a selection of useful information about a document, usually electronic, within that document itself. This report focuses on the e-GMS, which means the electronic Government Metadata Standard - the description of how and where metadata must be applied. The report...
This paper presents research results obtained from the project Personal Adaptable Digital Library Environment PADDLE. The main focus of the DFG funded research project is to apply concepts of knowledge management to digital libraries by introducing personalization techniques. The idea is to enable the specific needs, experiences, skills and tasks...
At each step in the production process the metadata to be collected and used has different characteristics. Possible metadata processing is listed for the major steps in TV production with an indication of the benefits and overheads at each point. Some of the metadata formats that are suitable and optimized...
EAST GRINSTEAD, England, July 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Diskeeper Corporation reveals that RAID devices must be kept defragmented to ensure maximum system performance and reliability. On this matter, Microsoft stated: "Just as with a single disk, files stored on RAID arrays can become fragmented, resulting in longer seek...
Covast technology to become available with the debut of R3 and the Advanced B2B Pack ROTTERDAM, Netherlands, July 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Covast today announced that its advanced B2B technology recently acquired by Microsoft Corp. will be delivered with the forthcoming release of BizTalk Server 2006 R3 and...
SchemaLogic Further Distinguishes Itself by Earning a Microsoft Competency in ISV/Software Solutions HOUSTON, July 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Worldwide Microsoft Partner Conference, Booth # 1036, 2008 -- SchemaLogic (http://www.schemalogic.com/), leading provider of Metadata Management software for unstructured content, today announced it has attained Gold Certified Partner status in...
IBM (NYSE: IBM) today unveiled the results of across-industry customer survey indicating that businesses need to betterinventory their information to help reduce risk and derive more value fromtheir business information. According to the 2008 Metadata Market Survey conducted by IBM and GavilanResearch Associates, risk mitigation and data governance are key...
TELECOMWORLDWIRE-3 July 2008-Neptuny to launch ContentWise 2.0C1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD http://www.m2.com Neptuny, a provider of optimization solutions for telecomms operators and IPTV providers, will be launching ContentWise 2.0, the second release of its Content Recommendation Engine for IPTV, Interactive-Cable TV and WebTV, at the IBC2008 conference in Amsterdam,...
CHICAGO -- AMB, a leader in the development and marketing of data profiling and cleansing tools, is introducing AMB-InfoPublish support for IBM DataStage/Information Server ETL tools. AMB-InfoPublish integrates AMB's InfoExpose data profiling/quality metadata into industry standard ETL tools, continuing the enhancement of connectivity between AMB and IBM, directly profiling DB2/400,...
Focus Enhancements, Inc. (NASDAQ: FCSE), aworldwide leader in media management and ultra wideband UWB wirelesstechnology, today announced the general availability of the FS-5 Direct ToEdit® DTE recorder, the fifth generation in the company's award-winningline of DTE recorders. First announced at NAB 2008, the ultra-portable FS-5 introduces thegroundbreaking ability to wirelessly...
ANAHEIM, Calif., June 30 /PRNewswire/ -- ALA ANNUAL CONFERENCE & EXPO -- As a pioneer and the leader in high-speed, nondestructive book digitization, Kirtas Technologies has set the standard for quality in hardware capture systems. Today, the company announced it is taking the lead in setting the standard for...
When in the Course of an increasinglycompetitive global economy it becomes necessary for one data set todissolve its connections to a constraining environment, the separate butinherently unequal station to which the Laws of Whose budget is largerprevails. A decent respect to the opinions of information consumersrequires that data should...
Mimosa to Extend Archived Content Across the eDiscovery Lifecycle to Enable Greater Efficiencies and Reduce Overall Costs SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Mimosa Systems, a leader in live content archiving solutions, today announced its support of an Extensible Markup Language XML standard developed by the Electronic Discovery Reference Model...
TVN® Entertainment Corp., the world's largesttelevision on-demand company, and Anime Network, America's #1 AnimeChannel, today announced a three year, comprehensive VOD servicespartnership. The deal includes industry-wide distribution andasset/metadata management services in support of Anime Network'ssubscription SVOD and free on demand FOD programming services acrossvarious codecs, formats, and other configurations....
